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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events that men are to our generation. This is the
Next Gen Report put Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey everybody, how are we? I hope you're doing well.
I'm doing well. We've got a very different episode this Wednesday.
This is something I've never done before, but I took
a shot in the dark at it, so I'm excited
about it. DJ Daniels. He is the young cancer patient
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from here in Houston who was made a Secret Service
agent at the State of the Union by President Trump.
He's now a member of four thousand different law enforcement
agencies around the country. You've for sure seen him before.
His father is running for congress in Congressional District eighteen.
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That's the seat that was held by Sheila Jackson Lee.
Now he's stopped by the iHeart Houston Studios yesterday and
I had a nice long sit down with him. We
talked about a whole bunch of different things, namely his
congressional race, what his priorities are, some of the difficulties
that he's facing in that race. That's really interesting. And
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of course we also talked with DJ about his law
enforcement experience, which was really cool. I'm really excited for
y'all to hear that. That will be the next three
segments after this first one, so basically the rest of
the show. Now, Unfortunately, I was not able to get
the cameras in their setup, so it's gonna be audio only,
all right. So if you're here watching the video right
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now on YouTube or on Excent, I want to encourage
you keep listening. It's really good stuff. It's really good content.
But unfortunately I just was not able to get the
videos up and running for that. Now, before we dig
into all of that, I want to talk about something
else really important that happened yesterday. Charlie Kirk was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We knew this was going
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to happen. This was announced, I believe, at his memorial service.
So yesterday was Charlie's birthday, or would have been Charlie's birthday.
So on Charlie's birthday, President Trump signed a proclamation that
made October fourteenth the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie
Kirk and also awarded Charlie a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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I want to play you a little bit of that ceremony.
His wife, Erica, accepted that award on his behalf. So
here is President Trump giving that award to Charlie Kirk's wife.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Charles James Kirk.
Accepting on behalf of Charlie is his wife, missus Erica Kirk.
Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential American political
figures of his generation. At just eighteen years old, he
founded Turning Point USA and grew it into the largest
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conservative youth organization in the nation. For over a decade,
he tirelessly traveled the country, leading a movement to restore
respect for our founding principles, reawaken our national identity, and
inspire a renewed spirit of religious devotion. He was one
of the great debaters and communicators of his time. Despite
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receiving repeated threats, he remained undeterred and modeled courage, logic, humor,
and grace to the next generation. On September tenth, twenty
twenty five, at age thirty one, Charlie Kirk was assassinated
while addressing a group of students, the United States honors
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him of a martyr for truth and freedom.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And now and Trump hands the medal and it's a
nice fancy box to Erica, and there we go. Something
about Charlie's medal that I thought was very interesting. There's
actually a cross engraved on the back of it. It's
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my understanding. I don't know how accurate that is, but
it's my understanding that this is the first time in
United States history and the history of the award that
across has been engraven on the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I don't know if that's real, but I read that.
I believe Bennie Johnson said that, and Benny Johnson seems
like a reliable source on those sort of things. So
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there we go. Now, I also want to play you
right before that, Donald Trump actually spoke about Charlie. And
of course Trump and Charlie knew each other very well.
Charlie was a key part of the Trump movement. So
it's not surprising that that Trump went through this trouble
to honor Charlie, and it's not so pricing that Trump
spoke at this ceremony. I want to play you this
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one clip because it really is very telling. It's Trump
talking about what we've seen in the aftermath of Charlie's assassination,
and he talks about the fact that Charlie's assassination is
exactly why we needed people like Charlie. The fact that
you know, you can't disagree anymore without being abled a
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bad guy, without being abled a fascist, without people trying
to assassinate you. That's exactly what Charlie was trying to prevent,
and they killed him for it. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Days since Charlie's killing, we've seen exactly why our country
so dearly needed his example. We've watched legions of far
left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence and terror
because they know that their ideas and arguments are persuading
no one. They know that they're failing. They have the
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devil's ideology and they're failing, and they know it, they
feel it, and they become violent. They seem to become
very violent on the left. They've rammed vehicles into federal
law enforcement, fired sniper rifles at ice agents.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And He's right, the left has gotten incredibly violent. They
weren't overly peaceful before, but it has gotten measurably worse
since Charlie's assassination. And I think that's just because the
gloves have come off, right. They're not playing the games anymore.
They're not bothering to try and hide it. They're just
being honest. They're showing us who they kind of were
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the entire time. Trump calls it the devil's ideology, and
I think that's right from a religious perspective. When you
kind of zoom out a little bit, you don't think
about politics just politically, but you also add religion to it,
because religion is a factor here. I've said it before.
Leftism is essentially worship of the state. It is a religon.
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They just substitute God for the state and for politics,
and that is frankly satanic. It is the devil's ideology.
The things they're pushing aren't just politically left wing, they're
religiously anti Christ. And I think it's important that we
acknowledge that. And I think it's fascinating that Trump maybe
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not on purpose, but he definitely did very subtly acknowledge that.
So it's just very fascinating. All Right, That's all I've
got on this. Stay tuned the next three segments. We're
gonna be talking with congressional candidate Theotis Daniels. It's a
very interesting conversation. I can't wait for you to hear it.
There won't be any video, but I encourage you to listen.
We'll be right back after this quick little break with
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that interview. Thank you very much. All righty, welcome back
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to the Next Gen Report. We now go to my
interview yesterday with Theotis and DJ Daniels. I apologize again
if you're watching on video, you won't see any video,
but it's really good audio. I encourage you to take
a listen. So with that, I'll I'll let the recording play.
Thank you very much. I am joined in studio by
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the DJ Daniels and his father, Theotis Daniels, who is
now running for Congress in the eighteenth congressional district. And DJ,
you're now a member of forgive me five lost a count,
but how many different law enforcement agencies have you now
been sworn into? Over four thousand? Over four thousand? Let
me ask you this, which one is your favorite? Be honest,
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I don't think I had a favorite yet.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
No favorite.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, I got to say your your journey has been
very inspiring, and yours as well, mister Daniels. It's something
that people have really needed recently. It's it's something where
you're showing people, hey, there's actually hope and there's actually
enjoyment in life despite the fact that you can be
mad about any number of things, but you can also
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look and see there's still good in the world. There's
still things to enjoy in life. Let me ask you this,
where do you think that kind of comes from. That's
kind of an open question to both of y'all, because
a lot of people something will happen to them and
they'll throw up their hands. How do you find that
drive to keep looking for positive things and doing positive things?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Well, first of all, I mean I pray a lot.
I used to not be like that, but I mean,
I mean we all evolved through time. My dad kind
of like he kind of beat it into me, almost
not literally, but I mean mentally. He would tell me,
you know, you got if you want to give, if
you get frustrating things that nature, you don't want to
just take your hands off the wheel and throw your
hands up if you're gonna rake, And so sometimes you
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got to learn how to give in and don't give out.
He says, if you give in, you can always take
a break and come back. But if you give out,
that means it's all over for you. So that's why
I run on it. And the thing is, people fail
to realize that when when God gives you the ability
to wake up the next morning, have breath of your
body and heartbeating, feet able to touch the floor. Here,
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He's given you the opportunity to make something happen. Most
people today after COVID, they forgot that they're off for themselves.
They don't want to think about each other. They think
the worst out of everything. But the thing is people
fail to realize it's a classroom of life. This is
a classroom of life because at the end you're gonna
get questioned. You know, you're supposed to go out and
do something good. I don't care if you just do
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for one person, You've done a plenty, but for us
with him getting this cancer, and I don't know if
you're were, but you know it's cancer came from the environment.
So even with me running for Congress and stuff, it's
a personal deal with me.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
It is not about money. I could care less about money.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I wanted to kind of give back to everyone, because
if the prayers weren't there and the support weren't there,
if it won't for all the meetings of all his
that he's rubbed and all the ladies that he's ugged,
we wouldn't be here and having this conversation. I don't
know where I would be, you know. I mean it's
a lot of weight to handle. I wouldn't put this,
put this responsibility or this journey on any other person.
My worst enemy to deal with this cancer. I mean,
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it is absolutely the worst thing you could think about.
And you know he's having seizures now, so it's he
can't do you know, four KTVs or nothing like that,
and I have to watch him a little more. But
you know, we're blessed, definitely. But like I said, you
have to have a strong will, and you have to
be a kind person.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You have to be thoughtful.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
You have to think about other people regardless of what
storm you're in. And that's the thing for us. A
lot of people tell me, how do you think about
other people? I said, well, I know I'm going through
all this stuff. I said, but jo your joy is
my pain, so let me suffer for it. You fail
to realize for you to sit here today and that
amazing body of yours with their great mind, somebody suffered
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for all of us to be here today. And I
don't think I have to remind people who that is. Yeah,
I know who that is.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, amen to that. Let me ask you a little
bit about the congressional race. I understand you're having some
polling difficulties. And by polling difficulties, I don't mean you're
not performing on the polls. I mean they're not putting
you in the polls. They're not even you know, listing
you as a candidate, despite you are on the ballot.
You are running. It is official. You definitely have name recognition.
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I mean, it's not like people don't know who y'all are. Yes,
and yet they're almost pretending you don't exist in.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
This race exactly. Yeah, we've had an uphill battle. I
don't know anything about any debates. I mean I look
for them. I don't get any emails. The Harris kind
of GOP president Cindy Siegel is bounded by her bylaws
to be unbiased and help all the candidates. So well,
that's not what's happening, Okay, And my deal is there's
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other things that's involved, and I literally have to find
ethics complain against her because she wants me to drop
out to endorse one of her friends. And I'm not
going to mention a friend's name because I don't. I
don't think it's her fault, you know. But still yet
and still she's she's still violated, and that's not that's
not fair to me. You know, people in the eighteenth
district in Harris County that has been under a microscope
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or scrutiny of corruptive behaviors, ballid stuffing, election interference has
been there, and this is the time that it's it's
going to change, It will change, And I don't I
don't understand. You know, if you're going to be representing
one party but you want to put the benefits to
the other party, then you need to be over and
representing the party that you need to be with. Right,
There's no need in somebody running as let's say a
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Republican and then turn around to get in and say, oh,
well I was a Democrat. Now you know, you see
what the great divide is going to come? Tenure water
it in the Grand Canyon. And people don't People are
tired of that. You know, they want a genuine honesty.
They want a person that they know that they can
get in there and going to try to fix the
problems of all. You know, the grassroots of folks. But
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a lot of these folks are out for themselves, are
the constituents. Like I said, I don't care about the money.
I don't you know. I've been working for the county
in Harris County for free for the last three years.
I can show you my contract. I charged the county
no money. You tell me who's got a contract to
the county that's that has a zero dollar amount on
the contract. I don't think you'll find anybody. And I
did that because I felt like everybody in Harris County
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in Houston has prayed for my son, and that's the
most valuable thing that you have is God's time.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
So I gave it back to you.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
It's not always about money, Like I say, This is
all coming from within myself, cause I appreciate it and
I want to give back to people. And that's what
we're trying to do. Even when we just raised two
hundred thousand dollars with Jason Aldin and gave away every dollar.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
We didn't keep one dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's almost kind of like that sort of uniparty that
you know, the grassroots has been complaining about this for
a long time. I'm a gen Z. That's one of
the big reasons that kind of pushed gen Z voters
to Trump in such a big way is because we thought, Okay,
both the Republican establishment and the Democrat establishment, they seem
to be more interested than fighting with each other or
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looking like they're fighting with each other, than actually achieving anything.
And this is a kind of a both sides issue
with the Harris County GOP trying to from what it
sounds like, push you out almost it seems like an
example of that is that kind of how it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Feels it is they need a new president. I'm sorry,
the meet's been marinating too long. God a little too comfortable.
God didn't put us here to be comfortable. That's why
you have ups and downs, good days and bad days.
But that president over there needs somebody run against. I'm
gonna look like I'm gonna have to run against her
to get her out of there so we can get
things done properly and equally. Yeah, but yeah, I mean,
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that's pretty much what they're doing. I just want to
be a to debate these folks. I want to debate Menafee.
I want to debate Edwards. I want to debate Jolanda Jones.
I want to be debate Isaiah Martin if he gets
on there. Carmen, Olie Knox, George Foreman. You know he's
a good man. He's a pasting he's a good dude too.
Vince Duncan. I can just go down on the line
and I can remember all these names. I wonder if
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they can do that, you see what I mean? Yeah,
And so the people in eighteen you have to understand
God's working. Why did God pick two people out of
the same district, out of four hundred different Congress folks,
and they both died of the same thing, which is cancer.
Cancer is a big thing. Why did he pick Harrison County?
How's that possible? That's like you were shooting in there,
hidding fish. And then I come along with my son,
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and magically, deliciously, it manifests itself to where I didn't
even know President Trump was gonna make him a cigaret
service officer, and I just that blew my mind. But
the energy inside of that room was. It's almost to
where I can't find the words and even tell you
how that felt, because I could feel it through my skin.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It went into my soul.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I could feel it, the vibrations of the DJ's chatting there, clapping,
everything else, all the while one side of the room
refused to stand up.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Already, everyone, it is at this juncture, we're going to
take a quick break. I've had to cut this interview
up so it fits in the format of the show.
A lot of interesting stuff here from THEOTIS and DJ.
We've got a lot more coming up in the next
segment of the interview that I'm gonna play for y'all.
We talked a lot about the state of the Union,
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where DJ was sworn in as a member of the
Secret Service, if that's something you want to hear more about,
and the Democrats reaction to that, which again, it was
very disgusting to me, just being someone who's you know,
from this district. I've been affected my family with cancer
as well, so seeing the Democrats not being able to
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stand and cheer for DJ, especially now that I've met myself,
it was really disgusting. But we're gonna be talking a
lot more about this with DJ and Theotis. So stay
tuned for the next segment. We'll be back in just
a second with a whole lot more of this. All righty,
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welcome back to the next General Report Again. My guests
are DJ Daniels and his father, Theotis Daniels, who was
running for Congress here in the city of Houston. That
is what we are talking with him about, just his race,
everything going on there, and a little bit in this
segment about his son being sworn in as a Secret
Service agent at the State of the Union address. So
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tune in, take a listen. This is a great interview.
I can't wait for you to hear it. I do
want to ask you about that, not to pull away
from the congression race, because I do think it's very important,
but that moment I watched that live and I grew
up in Congressional District eighteen before I moved here into
the city. It really was something really inspiring just within me.
To see y'all from my home district and having this
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amazing moment, it really is indescribable. I want to ask
you a little bit more about you know, that that
moment and how it felt. But I I know for
sure for y'all, it's got to be impossible to put
words to that.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Oh it was. I was.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
I was literally speechless. I mean I didn't think that.
I thought we were just there to just you know,
see that the joint session. I didn't know it was
going to be all that we were sitting behind. Well,
we were visiting with the first Lady, Miss Malania Trump,
and then we were sitting inside of her. That's a
section there. Elon was immediately like I could touch him.
He's to my left. You've got mister cash Hotel's over
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my right shoulder. Everybody was all in the areas there
with Lincoln Raley's family, Jocelyn Ungray's mother, Alexis and her father.
You got Jason whose father got a California State trooper
that killed in the line of duty. You got mister
Orts that I had to shoot out with the cartail.
You've got the the mother that was ninety four years
old waiting for her son as a Hosses get freed.
You've got that girl that's got permanentve brain damage for
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playing volleyball. What they transgender do to hit the ball
so hard that she got brain damage. I mean, everybody
was there There was even a gentleman that Prison Trump
got to where he got his job back. He's working
at like a steel meal or a car place, and
he got his job back and stuff. But I would
have never thought of being there with all these folks.
We were all confused. I asked him what are we
doing here? He never told us anything, but we did
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some amazing sandwiches. Ain't gonna have had the best sandwich?
Oh yeah, yeah. So long story short. We saw Prison
Trump coming in and I noticed one side of the
room wasn't standing up, making boots and all kinds of bullcrn.
And I was like, I didn't know what. I didn't
know the process. So one side of the room that
was closer to us was stood up and applauded, So
I said, well, maybe.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
That's the way they do stuff.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
He got up to started speaking, and then that same
left side of the room was booing, putting up signs,
uh saying falls and taking off shirts. You didn't see
them taking off shirts, turning their backs. And then you
got JAZZM. Crockett got up and took a little cronies
out to the cameras and she blines to the camera
talk about my son like a dog, and people are saying, well,
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that's not Look.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I was there.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I know what happened. First of all, I don't make
up stuff on folks. But for her to come after
my thirteen year old and bully a child that's balance cancer,
he's still balance country to this day, not knowing that
he is one of the main children that was used
for the most important medicine that was approoved to FDA.
I have the publications to that, and the White House
has it and everybody else has it.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
But for a congress person to go out there and
make fun of a child and then come to find
out these are Democrats sitting there, and I'm thinking to myself,
wait a minute. I was a political all the way
up to this point, I said, but in this instance,
I said, man, you bullying a thirteen year old kid.
You couldn't stand up your Democratic party. And it sucks
for the other good Democrats that's back down in their states.
The majority rules you misrepresented your party, and they should
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be mad they did not stand up for two mothers
that lost their daughters in the worst way possible by
legal immigrants. I mean, you got to think about that.
You wouldn't even stand up and recognize just hearing their
daughter's names. You wouldn't stand up for the two fallen
officers families that died in the line of duty when
they were in present trouble recognizing them. You couldn't even
stand up for me and my son. And we had
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no grief for no one. I do no one thing.
I pulled a lean out of my pocket. I went
and sold all the hogs I had, whatever I had,
I sold to get him to all these events, whether
it was mostly Democrats and Republicans, which didn't matter to me,
because you're doing something for my son. So even if
I have a personal difference, I have to put it
aside to get make sure it's done for the better
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mother people to make a good impression. They didn't do that.
And the funny thing is the crazy part of this
is we was on the plane, the United plane with Turner.
So when we got on the plane, mister Tronelle's saw
she was in the first class in the front, and
he got up and took the hug and all that
other stuff. As the world going up, everyone was waving
to us, and we get to this one row and
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I'm looking there and it's got a great little beanie
looking thing on.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I said, oh, I said, what's going on, young man?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
That was you know, Turner and Jeff was sitting by
the window and DJ I don't know how the hell
he ended up getting a seat next to him, but
I'm sitting right behind himoking Sylvester through the seat there
and trying to, you know, talk to him. And uh,
he wasn't really like itself. It was a little a
little off that day.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
And so when he was leaving, I was like, well,
I'll see you up in the see it, you know,
in there up in there later on.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
He was like okay, and so then they laughed and
then everything was happening. So all the while in the
joint session, I'm standing up there behind Miss Millennia and
he takes his glasses there, he's just it his legs crossed,
you know, and he pulls his glasses down. He looked,
he pointed up. I was like, I looked around, I
said me, and he was like you. I started laughing.
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I laughed at him. He laughed back at me. All
the wild out green was getting thrown out. So I'm
saying to myself, oh my god, al Green, I said, dude,
you're sitting down. You're embarrassing the hell out of Harris County.
And then when he threw him, I said, out Jesus Christ,
there he goes man. Hembarsed, texts all God, oh my God.
So that that's where I was at. But it's the
crazy part of it is because when Walder wallet that,
mister Green was pointing his cane the first time, and
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mister Mike Johnson kept telling him, you know, sit down
or whatever. He would actually, if you look at the video,
he actually turned to the left and put his cane down.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Was Finn sit down?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
But he looked around at all his little constituents and
then he put his head down litterly, he picked the
back of me, turned around and started doing his cane again.
See so I was just like, man, it's kind of
made to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It's performative.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
It is.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I think that's that's what a lot of people are
so upset about when it comes to modern politics. They
look at it and it is performative. It's performative outrage.
A lot they almost look for more issues just so
that they can have the issues than look for solutions,
and it's a both sides issue, but I think it's
clear that the left does that way more. That's all
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they've got to campaign on, so that's what they do.
And yeah, that State of the Union was an eye
opener for a lot of people. I'm sure for you
as well.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yeah, we became the most loved and hated at one time.
It's amazing. I come home and drive my car, go
down the road. I got almost to almost the same area,
and all of a sudden, all my lugs missing, he said,
one on my car.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
So it was from that point that we've just been
watching our bags. I mean, we have to take ten
routes home. I mean, you name it, it's done. I've
got people watching my house. Anything funny is going on, packages, whatever,
it don't matter. Everything is looked through now and it
has to be that way because I just can't believe
these people are mad at us because they got the
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wool pulled from over everyone's eyes.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I didn't do this. You want to be madisone to
be mad at God?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Because he made it possible people eat with their eyes
and guess what Thatno, you got to see exactly what
you was getting. And like I say, for all the
Democrats that were sitting at home that are good, good people, generally,
god fearing, praying and faithful. When your constituents did not
want to stand up for us, that means they didn't
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care about you either, Because everybody don't matter what party
side that you're on. Cancers touched somebody in your life,
and you're telling me that your party couldn't stand up
for a child that's balance cancer. His dad is a
single dad with three kids. Plus he's a veteran, a
service connected veteran. I mean, I've tried to do all
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this other stuff and you couldn't even stand up for
me at all.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
So basically, you spit in the face of veterans.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
You spin in the face of single parents, You spit
in the face of cancer patients, you spend in the
face of falling officers families, you spit in the face
of people who've been sexually assaulted and or killed by someone.
It's all this stuff is like, why would you want
to support them? Why would you want that They always
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making noise. They don't know when to shut the hell up.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
My daddy said, you know, sometime you're gonna learn how
to clamb it up. They're always running on people's pain.
That's what they do. That's how they do control controls.
When you start making people in chaos, I say the
three seeds. Confusion creates chaos, and chaos creates casualties. Those
are my three seeds. And that's all they do. They
keep bringing up race, they keep bringing up anything else
that's painful to keep the control and the narrative running.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
But why are y'all getting free paychecks?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Maybe do understand that you as a congress person, why
haven't you passed one resolution? Why you as a congress
person you're cutting people out and call them m efforts.
And then you go out to the world and you
see people behaving the same way. When you can't blame
the people because they only emmulate leadership.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, that's a good point. You know, it so often
starts at the top, and that's at every level. You know,
these are who we look to as our leaders in
our society. These are supposed to be the best of us,
the smartest, the most noble. That's why we chose them
to lead, right. Yes, and then the example that we're
getting is Jasmine Crockett's It makes no attempt. Even though
she used to be a professional person to be an
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actual leader. Now she goes out and, like you point out,
her whole campaign now is look at all these mean
things I can say about Ronald Trump. Look at how
many times I can squeeze in a cust for word
in my minute and a half video about how terrible
the Republicans are. You're not doing anything. So that kind
of leads me around about way to circle back to
kind of your election. We see this a lot with Paulitics,
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since we see them talk the talk and we see
them talk a big game. So let me ask you this,
What are some of the issues that you're looking at.
I know, the issue with the environmental quality in District
eighteen that led to DJ's cancer. I know that's probably
top of mind for you for sure, that's up there.
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What are some of the top items that you're looking at? Like,
if I get nothing done, I'll do one term two years,
push this as hard as I can and call it
a day already. And hey, in the next segment, we
are going to hear theotis's answer to that question. It's
really good. We ended up talking a lot about violent
crime and some of the things that go into that
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and the criminal justice system. You're gonna want to hear it.
Stay tuned. We've got one more segment of the Next
Gen Report coming up with Theotis Daniels, who is running
for Congress in the eighteenth congressional district here in Texas,
and his son DJ Daniels. Stay tune, We will be
right back and we're back in this final segment of
(29:08):
our interview with Theotis Daniel. He'll talk to us a
little bit about what his top priorities are going to
be if he gets into Congress. He's running in the
eighteenth congressional district. Take it away, mister Daniel.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You know you got to make sure that people are safe,
and you can't shortchange the beach cheap on public safety.
But you also have to allow them to do their job.
Can't be out there just doing whatever the hell you want.
This doesn't work this way. We live in an incorporated
area and if you notice, if you go to some
areas that you drive out of townis says unincorporated. That's
because they don't have the amenities running water, trash pick
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up and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
So you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Out there now when you come to the corporated area,
that's what they call bylaws.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Laws.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
You have to follow them. And if you don't want
to follow them, well, you know what, you can go
on over there. But there's some repercussions for that HPD
density population for officers to be there to answer calls
and come is two point two to three per a
thousand residents.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
How and the hell is that going to help you out?
There's only two point two to.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Three officers available for one thousand residents and the populist
in density of Chicago. Chicago has like ten thousand officers.
What the hell's Houston's problem. Obviously there's there's a problem
within within the administration. It doesn't have nothing to do
with the fact that they can't get anybody they would
love to work. There's something that you're doing wrong. They're
they're they're keeping it the old school way. You need
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to come to come to the age and and get
this thing up to date. This is ridiculous. The officers
don't they have to pay for every stinking thing that
they got. These these uh these vehicles that they drive,
Plastic falls off. You can't find the parts you got.
Lazy workers dragging it out. Don't take a week to
change no control arm. I'm sorry, I got people that
can do that. Well, there's easy to fix. Whatn't your contract?
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Little shops, a mom and pops or something. Go get
some kids that's graduated from mechanics school to hire them
on in and get it done. You've got one vehicle
over here that's got a bad transmission. This one has
a bad engine. Well, i'll tell you what. Take the
bad trans take that engine, put it off. It's called
k bawling. You have to take one to make one.
But they don't do that. But the thing is, you know,
people are getting robbed and also we need accountability as
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well as well. The DA's in the county attorneys, they
and the judges are there. They're they're the most important
thing when it comes to law and order and keeping
the peace. But they have failed and dropped the ball
for decades and it's gotten worse progressively since the last
eight years, it's been worse. They've been letting murders out
bond after bond after bonding. Now that didn't happen before
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they went into that bond reform. When they did the
bond reform, that means that that meant that the bonding
companies is out of it. Now you have to pay
the money to the municipality. The municipality figured out it
was a cash cow. You have to pay cash to
get out, so they pay them, you default, they keep
your money.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
You have to do it again. So that's why they
keep revolving it over and over again. It's like playing.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
It's like a bad savings account that you're not gonna
get nothing out of. But my thing is if a
judge is supposed to make a conscients decision to do
what's in the best innswerts of other people and protect people,
but murders should not be let out of jail. I'm
sorry if you if you sit there and you clear
your name, will compensate you for that. But other than that,
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the punishment shall fit the crime, which means that if
you kill somebody, I'll tell you what why don't excuse me.
We'll do it like this, bailiff, Can you take can
you take the mister so and so down to the morgue,
and I like you to walk.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
In with the victim.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
If he does walk in there with the victim, by
all means, will will allow him to go home and
enjoy life, because it's unfair to the person that's laying
in that freezer that you decided to have fun to
go kill and you get to get out and do
whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Hug your loved ones. What about them?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Right?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
What about them? It doesn't work right? But the judges
keep doing it.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
They have what they call it absolute immunity, absolute immunity,
even even God's law him self, nobody's got absolute immunity.
You're gonna pay for whatever you do and say. But
with them, with that responsibility, you need to make the
right decision for the people. And they're the ones that's
sitting there keeping the keeping the streets unsafe, and things
of that nature, because they don't want to do what
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they need to do. Keep the violent ones in there,
the minor infinergy that we can work with them. But
other than that, the violent ones, we don't need them out.
I ain't gonna lie to you. I mean the ones
that murder, rape and do and can they supreme acts
of violence on people repetitively. They can now be Ugandans,
or they can be all Salvadorians. Take your pig, brother,
because that's the only way is because you can't act
right out here. We can't have you out here hurting
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and killing folks, raping kids and babies and old people
and stuff like that. We can have that. So, yeah,
you're rid of them. They need to go. We are
We are in great country. Everybody wants the most. A
lot of people they don't understand that. They'll die to
get here. But the thing is now, you have people
in place that's never worked for nothing right and given
everything handed to them, never experienced nothing. They're on the
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delusionality of the internet, well world and social media to
where it's so unreal, to the point that they think
it's real.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
But I guess what the pain is real? Yeah, I'm
looking at look at this.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
My mother was murdered the cold case forty six out
of one hundred and three cold cases. She was stabbed
in the throat, she was stabbing in the palms and hands,
stabbed in the chest, left breast and right breast.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
That's how.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
That's how they found my mother stripped butt naked and
threw on a pool table with My dad said that
her face, she had this look on her face like
if you stub your toe. And I was twelve years old.
My son, my fifteen year old at home. He got
shot here in Houston by a grown man. You know,
I've been to countless officer's funerals. I've seen some kids
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today and they got shot in their apartment that night.
Like Sir Romeo, little boy was at his grandma's house
and ray red Pookie after acting a fool, bullet comes
to and hits him. Now he's in the hospital trying
to figure it out. You have old ladies that get
killed for no reason because they want to pump gas
and they want to steal a little.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Old pocket book. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Do you know that elderly folks when they're ac go
out in the summertime, do you know they refuse to
open their windows at their house because they're afraid that
some youngsters are going to come in there and rob
them and or kill them. It's ridiculous. They shouldn't have
to they shouldn't have to live like that.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
It kind of reminds me of that old saying of
you know, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
And the throwaway line that is always used by light
on crime folks is the socioeconomic factors They didn't have
any choice because they were poor, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. We
hear that line all the time. I think most people
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want to be able to say, Okay, let's look at
the people where life put them in a bad situation,
and let's see if we can help those people. But
too often that's all they think about. And the reality is, sure,
there are a lot of folks that, you know, maybe
they were in a bad spot and they felt like
the only way I'm going to be able to get
from day to days if I rob someone. That doesn't
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make it okay, it's still wrong. It's tough that you
were in that spot where you felt like you had
to do that. You still have to, you know, do
the time for that. You can reform yourself and become
a good person after you get out of prison, but
there's a debt to society that you owe because you
committed a crime that's got to be paid. And then
on top of that, it's not popular to say this,
but there are people that are just evil. They do
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just need to be in prison for life, or they
do need to face the death penalty if those are
the crimes that they have committed. But it doesn't sound
nice for people to hear that. They don't like to
hear it. It's a harsh reality that people don't want
to deal with, so it doesn't get talked about.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
And it's like me, I don't have sympathy for anybody
that kills. I went through it, and my mother didn't
deserve that. We're not here to God didn't give me
instructing to judge anyone. I can have opinions about you,
but at the ultimate, at the end of the day,
ultimate at least going to be between you and God,
not me. But you got to make your decisions. Everybody's
growing around here. You make your bed, you're lay in.
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I don't care what it looked like, right, But I
don't watch other people's underwear for them either. That's you know,
you saw your draws. You watch yourself. I'm not finna
do it for you. Yeah, grown for that.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
That's a good point. Yeah, well we're just about out
of time here. But real quick, if if people want
to go and support you, if they want to get
behind your campaign, they want to know what they can
do to help work, and they.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
Go, Yeah, they can go to Team Daniel for Congress
dot US as Team Daniel and for spelled at four
Congress dot US and they could say a website connect
that can call us ask us questions. You will get
the answers back that day. We don't mess around. Hopefully
you can. You can deal with the answers because I'm
gonna give it to you pretty row. And another thing,
whenever we get a chance, we can talk about medicines
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and stuff like that, because you know the var just
medicines two hundred thousand a month, so I know what
that feels like, dealing with social security and all that
other stuff. So there's a lot of things that we
could work on. But you need somebody that's been pained
to fix the problem. Right, you got another system, you
got to you got to. I mean this country, remember,
this country's great country of ours came together, not with
politicians and the four or fives of creams about parties, right,
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they always cramsy about it, and look look what happened.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Now they're all divided.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
But the thing is it was started by just some
folks having a conversation said let's.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Go do something. That's what it started.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
It won't about politicians now it is, but the less
need to grow up and do what's in the best
interest for the voters and the people. I don't care
about your donors because the power has always been with
the people, and some of them forgot that. And there's
nigga bad and good on both sides. So I'm not
going to get that. I mean, it's the truth. But
the thing is, I don't take money from no big companies.
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I haven't taken that. All my little money that we've
raised for the campaign's coming from just record folks, because
that's who has a power. That's who I owe my
work to. Now, if somebody else want to donate that,
there has to be no strings attached. Otherwise I don't
need it because OV run and the principle, what would
God do us so little? I've done with more with
very little than I've done with a lot. If I
can just reach out there and just tell folks down here,
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that's listening on your viewers, and I need you to
go vote, Go register to vote. You have one vote
and a voice today. You may not have that tomorrow,
So use the time that God gave you. It's your
time to change everything, and we need you. I don't
care if you don't vote for me. You go vote
for somebody and just do that. And you know, God
bless Texas, Harris County, the United States of America, and
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like I said, you know, we'll pray for everyone in
the stat