Should we tolerate predators in Texas schools?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Brandon Darby and Michael Quinn Sullivan.  ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

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Giganic government sucks. Pursuit of happiness. Radio is Dus Liberty and freedom will
make you smile, or a suitof happen and Us on your radio toil,
just as cheeseburg is libery prize atfood. It's not the right music,

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not this weekend. Come on,give me different music. That's what
I'm talking about. That's what I'mtalking about. Is that Less Quite Pool?
Is that Primus tearing it up onfour strings or five, I don't
know whatever kind of base he playsthis weekend at the Woodlands Pavilion. Yours
truly and a small group of myfriends, we're gonna be at Primus.

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It's actually Maynard James Keenan from Tool. He's having his sixtieth birthday party at
the Woodlands Pavilion this weekend. Butstrangely enough, Tool is not performing.
He has three bands. Puss aFirm, which was a fake band that
was created for the TV show APerfect Circle that turned into a real band.
I'm sorry, not a Perfect Circle. Sorry, arrested development. That's
the name of the TV show.A Perfect Circle is his other other band.

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They're performing, and then Primus isgoing to be there. Amazingly They're
all going to be on stage atthe same time. And some of you
guys might think this music is horrible. I don't know. I love it.
I'm really excited about it, moreexcited right now than anybody in the
city of Saint Louis should be foreshadowing. I'm going to talk about that in
a second. But before I getto that, quick reminder, big show

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today, my homeboys. Michael Quinnsullivanof Texas scorecard dot Com stop and buy
in a little bit in Brandon Darbyfrom Breitbar, Texas with the Border Report
and the Weekend Review, plus yourcalls using the iHeartRadio app, voicemail messages
you left for me. I can'twait to get to them. We'll get
to that real soon. Right now, though, let's take a trip to
downtown Saint Louis. There's a strangething happening in America right now, the

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commercial real ta bubble. It's aboutto go pop. Back before the pandemic,
regional banks all over the country madebig investments in office buildings. That's
nothing new, it happens all thetime. But because of the pandemic,
there was the great office building exodus. I don't know if that's what they
call it, but that's what I'mcalling it. And I'm sure you know
what I'm talking about. I betyou know a lot of people that work

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from home now, and they didn'tbefore the pandemic. Now they all do.
As it turns out, a lotof people data analysts, software programmers,
telemarketers, whatever your job is.People figured out you could still be
productive at home. You don't haveto commute, they don't have to pay
for you to have office space.You probably like being at home with your
chihuahua, So why not just letpeople work from home? And so a

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lot of people did that. Allover the country. There are office buildings
that less than fifty percent occupancy,and they've been that way for the last
four years. So pretty soon thisoffice building bubble is going to burst.
There is a nationwide shortage in residentialhousing, that's true. But the office
stuff, somebody will I've said thisbefore and I'll say it again, whoever

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can figure out a good way toturn those offices into apartments and condos.
It's harder than you think. Thosepeople are gonna be billionaires. Strangely,
I mean, it seems like asimple thing to me, but it's not
happening. I mean, I don'twant to say it's not happening, but
for the most part, you don'tsee contractors out turning old office buildings into
apartments and stuff like. I don'tknow why they're not, But Saint Louis

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is in trouble right now. Breitbartdot Com and Wall Street Journal both ran
a report and it details us.It says the office district is empty,
with boarded up towers, copper thieves, and failing retail. Even the Panera
outlets shut down. The city isdesperately trying to reverse the doom loop.
You might think, why would theymention Panera bread. I don't know if

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Panera bread is from Saint Louis,but it's really popular there. In fact,
it used to be. I haven'tbeen there in years, but it
used to be. If you werein Saint Louis, Panera bread was called
the Saint Louis Bread Company. Sowhy is it happening? Well, let's
look at the mayoral history of thedoom looping Saint Louis, shall we.
There hasn't been a Republican mayor inSaint Louis since nineteen forty nine. That
is a that is not a mistakefor your favorite afternoon radio show host.

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Seventy five years, the people ofSaint Louis have voted for more of the
same. So excuse me if Idon't whip out of violin after all this
unavoidable doom looping. Listen to whatit says in the report. Cities such
as San Francisco and Chicago are tryingto save their downtown office districts from spiraling
into the doom loop. Saint Louisis already trapped in one. Hmmm.

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It goes on as offices sit,empty, shops and restaurants closed, and
abandoned buildings become voids that suck thelife out of the streets around them.
Vocals often find boarded up buildings depressingan empty sidewalk scary, so even fewer
people commute downtown. This self reinforcingcycle accelerated in recent years as the pandemic

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emptied offices. Saint Louis's central businessdistrict had the steepest drop in foot traffic
of sixty six major North Americans citiesbetween the start of the pandemic and last
summer Wow and the immortal words ofJerry Seinfeld, Yeah that's a shame back.
In two thousand and six, Downtown'sAT and T Tower building sold for

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two hundred and five million dollars.In twenty twenty two sold for four million.
Interestingly enough, the tallest building indowntown Saint Louis just sold for and
if I'm not mistaken, it sayshere, yep, three point five million
dollars in two thousand and six,the tallest office building in downtown area.

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They're sold for over two hundred Butthat's that's incredible. Now, for the
record, a lot of people area lot of people are misreporting why that
happened, that why the value wentdown so much. Every post, every
news story about this fails to mension. The new owner assumes the debt,
which is quite high, but evenstill it doesn't change the brevity of the
report. Crime naturally a problem here. The Wall Street Journal describes a barbecue

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joint, smoker pierced with bullet holes. Business is already struggling, forced to
pay for private security, broken windows, graffiti, violent crime, empty roads
filled with reckless drivers, otherwise emptyroads, right buildings destroyed by the homeless,
and copper thieves. The city's tryingto regroup with fifty thousand dollars cash

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payouts to small businesses that open updowntown. Interesting. I wonder how that's
going to work out. So Iguess the idea is to put more people.
They say, put more people onthe street doing positive things. That's
what Kurt Weigel of Greater Saint Louistold The Wall Street Journal. Democrats can
either do something about reducing crime,taxes and regulations, or they won't.
And they won't. And that's whatit comes down to, y'all. Bike

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lanes in a city where people drivelike maniacs and get in drive by shitting
doesn't really make a lot of sense, does it. Screen doors on a
submarine, that's what That's what thatis. I lived in a Midwest downtown
city for many years in my life. It is interesting. It wasn't safe.
I'm glad I got out of there. This didn't have to happen to

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Saint Louis or San Francisco or Chicago. Over the past century, Americans learned
how to govern modern cities and reducecrimes. The reversal of those policies was
a deliberate decision. And guess whomade that decision. It wasn't the Republicans.
The fact that those Democrats remain inoffice is a deliberate decision made by
the voters. None of them,and I repeat, none of them deserve

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I know, I know you're allsad about oj Simpson, and of course
you are, who wouldn't be.It's really sad news. But somehow I'm

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asking you to carry on and focuson some of the other problems we're having
right now. I know, look, you're gonna miss him, but he's
gone. Now. All that beingsaid, you know what's not gone yet?
American cities. I mean, it'sgetting close here if you're just turning
on your radio. In the lastsegment, we were talking about Saint Louis.
Saint Louis is a dying city andit's been that way for a long

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time. It's hard to believe thereused to be millions of people there and
now there's hundreds of thousands of peoplethere in the near future. Who knows
fifty thousand dollars is what they're payingpeople to go to downtown Saint Louis.
That's how bad it is there.The roads are empty, it's dangerous,
it's violent. And when people thinkabout cities in Texas other than maybe Beaumont,

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you don't always think about it thatway. But you know, you
don't assume Beaumont's as bad as certainlynot as bad as you know. Texas
cities aren't as bad as as SaintLouis right, or are they? Here's
an interesting report today for my friendsat Texas scorecard dot com. Dallas,
Dallas. We often think of itas being like the other Houston. It's

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not. It's part of the Metroplex. But Dallas is smaller than San Antonio.
It's not. Houston's much bigger thanDallas as a standalone municipal government.
And Dallas is currently six point ninebillion dollars in debt. That's a lot
of money when you consider that that'sreally only like what a third of the
Metroplex. Unbelievable. Well, sinceit's Friday and it's time for our week

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in review, I'd like to knowhow it got so bad in Dallas.
My buddy Michael Quinn Sullivan is onthe line right now. Michael, I
noticed that they recently got a Republicanmayor in Dallas. But that being said,
he was a Democrat, he waselected as a Democrat, he switched
parties to become a Republican. Doyou think the liberal media will still blame
this problem on Republicans. Of course, of course they will, and in

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many ways they're going to be rightto blame Republicans for the massive debt that
Dallas has taken on, Houston hastaken on, all these cities have taken
on because, quite honestly, Kenny, the problem is that too many Republican
voters, too many conservative voters,have for decades set out local elections,

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don't participate in local elections. Andso, yeah, you know it's going
to be the far left Democrats whovoted for the spending that caused the debt.
But you know how many conservatives,how many Republicans participate. Now you
know that they're going to be rightfor the wrong reasons when they blame Republicans
for Dallas's debt. But the factof the matter is that I think you
and I have to own the factthat too many of our friends just set

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out these local elections and you stillhave to pay for the government you ignore.
You still have to pay for thegovernment that you that you decide to
not participate in the election of.And in Dallas, this is decades.
It's not just Eric Johnson, youknow, the Democrat who turned Republican to
become, you know, after beingmayor. You know, it's not just

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Eric Jackson, It's not just thethe current members of the city Council.
This is the six point nine billiondollars in debt that Dallas has. That's
eighteen thousand dollars per person that theyhave that's built up over time. It's
just like the you know, theguy who gets angry because his credit card

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bill is suddenly one hundred thousand dollars. Well, you know it didn't suddenly
become one thousand dollars. Is probablybecause he, you know, had his
Netflix subscription on there for five yearsand all the different things he spent money
on, he didn't pay attention toit. You know, we have to
do a better job desorder. It'spaying attention to these things before they get
out of hand like they have inDallas. What Michael just said is the
gospel truth. Republicans often set outimportant elections. Michael, forgive me if

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I've told you this before, butthe way that they recently got a Republican
governor, Jeff Landry elected in thestate of Louisiana, where they do what's
called a jungle primary with no offright, the first Republican to be elected
in multiple I mean in years,right, in over a decade as governor,
they went out and they built whatyou and I would probably call digital
infrastructure. They made a database ofall the hunters in the state, hunters

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generally pro gun, pro family,generally lean conservative right, and what they
figured out was hundreds of thousands ofthem were not vote. Hundreds of thousands
of them weren't voting. All Republicanvoters. They went out and they contacted
these people one at a time,and they pushed them real hard. We
need you guys to vote for governor. And in a state where they almost
always have a runoff, not onlydid they not have a runoff, a
Republican got more than half a conservativeRepublican, a Maga Republican got more than

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half the vote in a jungle primaryand was able to win. You guys
have a person on your team atTexas Scorecard, Charles Blaine, who specializes
in fiscally conservative solutions to urban innercity problems, and frankly, Michael,
I think it's genius, Like,we need to be more like these guys
over in Louisia in our big bluecities here in Texas, and I see

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your team as being one of theonly groups of people that seem to understand
that. Yeah, well, look, I'm I appreciate the compliment Charles does
amazing work, and that the onlyway we're ever going to change things is
when we engage more of our fellowcitizens. You know, the solution to
bad government is good citizens standing upand demanding better. You know, it's

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when the reason we are not subjectsto the British throne, the reason that
we are not sitting under the throneof Santa Anna the ninth or whatever,
is because people said enough is enough. I'm going to get involved. I'm
not waiting for someone's invold. I'mgoing to get involved, and I'm gonna
start cajoling my neighbors on both sidesof me, and my weird cousin and

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the brother in law I don't like, and I'm to get all of us
together and we're going to do somethingabout this. And we have to take
that same kind of ownership. Youknow, those folks took radical ownership of
their government, they took radical ownershipof their lives. And that's why Texas
is free. That's one of theUnited States I'm is no longer, you

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know, just the colonies of GreatBritain. It's because they took radical ownership.
And unless we want to be enslavedto government debt unless we want to
be you know, see most ofour income and you know, thrown off
and we're a week away from thedays away now rather from April fifteenth.
The average American sends over their lifetimemore than half a million dollars to the

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to the federal government processes. Ithought it was a lot amount of money.
I thought that was low, Michael, I don't. I mean,
that's high, but I always Ithink it's higher than that. It's low
because it's the average taxpayer. Yeah, because a lot of people, a
lot of people aren't paying taxes becausethey are existing on welfare and other things.

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So you know, this is aninsane amount of money, and it's
because too many of us don't say, I'm mad as heck, and I'm
not going to take it anymore.You know, until we're willing to take
ownership, we're going to be serving, you know, the whims of whatever
politician we tolerate holding offense. Yeah, I agree with everything you just said,
and my only point in adding thatwas I think the real number might

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even be higher than that. Isinsane as half a million dollars is.
But all that being said, lookStalinism, the Democrat Party has become a
bunch of communists. And like Stalinonce said, the revolution doesn't end with
one institution, or with one geographicrevolution or a geographic region. It's never
ending. It keeps going. Andso you look at what's going on in
this state with educational institutions, it'sno wonder people like the CEO of HB

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don't want you to have school choice. They want the government to educate your
kids. And what does that mean? What does it entail when the government
educates our kids? As it turnsout, North Texas teacher charged for inappropriate
relationship with a student Mesquite school administratorsknown as Czari and yemen As. I
think I'm saying his name rights inappropriatebehavior notified law enforcement. Here's another one
of those stories. Alan ISD teacheraccused of inappropriate interactions with students. But

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the most insane story today about teachershaving sex with their students at a public
school Klein ISD. How did thishappen? This is right in our backyard
over here. Reports have been madeapparently that Klein id has a teacher and
her son were sex trafficking students.The details of this are insane. Can

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you explain what happened. Yeah,look, I mean I wish I could
explain what happened. I could tellyou what yeah right, yeah, well
yeah, you know, look,these apparently this this accredited teacher in a
public school. She and her neardo will son, who's been in Harris
Kenny jail since twenty twenty two.As it turns out, she was sex

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trafficking children to her son, whowas in I guess, then pimpinging them
out or whatever. You know.Three kids fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years
old, all students of hers.We correctly, because these are miners.
We don't know a whole lot ofdetails of this, but what we know
is horrifying enough. For example,it's it is since this came to light

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earlier in the week, we've nowlearned that people in the school district knew
this was going on, They raisedred flags, and nothing was done about
it. The administrators didn't do anythingabout Oh you know, it's we don't
need to look into that. Whatevertheir excuse are, their excuses are evil.
Whatever their excuses are, their excusesare evil. They were allowing this

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teacher to abuse her role as ateacher to victimize these What are have been
called by the Harris County Sheriff troubledteams. You know what, whatever whatever
trouble was in their life, thisteacher made it worse. And you know
they're all the folks from the CEOof HGB Foods, you know, down

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to your local you know, thirdgrade teacher you think is just so cute
and fun. Every single one ofthem say that tough. You know,
it doesn't matter that they're predators tellingour schools you're has to be stuck here,
and that's a that's a horrible messagethat we're sending to those kids.
I got to assume the only solutionto this problem in the big picture is
school choice. The look, Iwish I could say, there's some match

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weight, Kenny. It is alreadyillegal, Believe it or not, this
is going to talk. It iscurtly illegal to sex traffic children. It's
illegal to sex traffic your own children. It's illegal to sex traffic other people's
children. It's illegal for teachers tosex traffic their students. And yet somehow
this is going on. It's illegalfor an adult to rape and you know,

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take me to statutorily rape a child, and that that's happening in our
schools. The only way you getaway from it is by being able to
remove children from that area. Solet the market work. What's really amazing
to me, Kenny, is asthese stories come up and we write about
them, and we put them onour website and put them on Twitter x
or whatever, so it's called now, you know, we we have to

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And usually there's nothing but silence comingfrom public ad silence coming from the griment
schools. The few who will speakup what they engage in is this horrific?
What about ism? Oh but whatabout Catholic priests? Okay, look
I'm not Catholic, but look ifsome Catholic priests is diddling the kids,

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the parents can take the kid andgo find a different Catholic church. They
can go find a Protestant church.They you know, all sorts of options,
right, They can't Most parents can'ttake their kids out of the public
school. Oh you can just move. Well, that's stupid, that's the
you know that, that's a moronicresponse that comes from the advocates of the
monopolistic public education system. We haveto change that. Hey, one more

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quick question for you, unrelated anythingwe were talking about. This is since
Michael and I off to do aweek in review together. I gotta bring
this up. Sheila Jackson Lee earlierthis week made headlines after looking at the
eclipse. I posted this video onlineand boy had had legs. Fox News
picked it up. New York postall the big accounts online of Sheila Jackson

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Lee saying the moon is made outof gas and it's pretty and we can
almost walk on the sun. Andjust I've sure everybody seen this video and
heard the audio by this point.Just now, as you and I were
sitting here on the radio talking,I noticed the Houston Chronicle published a story
about Sheila Jackson Lee. Boy gosh, how do you the timing on this?
Michael Quinn Sullivan US representative. SheilaJackson Lee has served residents of the

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eighteenth Congressional District since nineteen ninety five, headline, who is Sheila Jackson Lee?
Learn about the Houston legislator. Andas just as I'm sitting here listening
to you speak, I'm scanning overthe article. It's a fluff piece about
how wonderful and awesome she is.Michael, isn't this really the reason why
you and I have jobs? Thatthe embarrassing example of journalism that the Houston

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Chronicle pukes out on us every morning. This is the whole reason Texas Scorecard
and conservative talk radio exists. Yeah, what, I personally appreciate the Houston
Comical doing their their their occasional puffpieces for Sheila Jackson Lee because there are
those times and I wonder am Ireally doing something important? They do that

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it reminds me that, oh goodness, I do serve a purpose on this
planet, like you know, thehere's the good news. I know.
I know it's fashionable for a lotof our friends to refer to like the
Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning Newsand all those as the mainstream media.
There is nothing mainstream, maybe inthe past that remains stream right, but
there's nothing mainstream about them. Theyexist on at charitably the far left bank

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of political and cultural thought in theUnited States. They are, but they're
actually on dry land on the leftbank. They're no longer eaving about water,
not even the same stream that therest of us her in. And
that we do a disservice when wetry to legitimize the illegitimate by calling the
mainstream. They're not mainstream. Andarticles like this one and the Houston Chronicle

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make it incredibly clear that the HoustonChronicle is completely totally out of touch with
what real people care about and evenwith just like basic things like facts.
Sheila Jackson Lee has been in officelonger than most people own cars, and
yet you know they're having to suddenlyremake her into something because she's a complete

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bonafide moron who is doing a disserviceto the people of her district. But
hey, if we gaslight them enough, maybe they'll forget that she thinks the
moon is made out of cheese inthe sun, Yeah, and the sun
is a big flashlight or whatever itis. I mean, it's just insane.
And this is why we have tomake sure that we're engaged talking to
our friends and family informing them aboutthe reality of Sila Jackson Lee and the

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misinformation they find in the left wingmedia. Love it, Michael, You
and I are smart asses with microphonesand pens, and somehow we have bigger
platforms than the Houston Chronicle and Thedayl Morning, and good. It's good
that we do. By the way, Fox, I encourage Michael and I
want his brand to grow. Michael'sa good friend. If you're not following
him on social media. Do ifyou're not subscribed to their email list.

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It doesn't cost anything. Go totexascorecard dot com. They send you a
short, simple, concise email everyday with links to stories that the Houston
comical doesn't want you to know about, and he supplies you with that information.
He makes it so simple texas scorecarddot Com. I am a loyal
brand evangelist. You will be too. Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks.

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They could make you shoot at textcollectors. Yep, and miss don't do
that is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Don't on KPRC nine fifty Cston,
don't do that, pay your taxes, and don't don't shoot a government employee.
That's our official position, and we'resticking to it, all right.

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We don't have a lot of timehere because I got to get to my
next guest in the next segment.But real quick, OJ died and I
want to listen to your voicemail messages. So let's get to both of those
details right now. Hello, Helloman, where am i? OJ?
You are in purgatory? I amHow did I get here? OJ?

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You died? Does this mean I'mgoing to heaven. Well, OJ,
you did lots of terrible things whenyou were alive, that's true, but
I regret him. OJ. Doyou remember when you went to prison for
stealing sports memorabilia? That's true too. And then you wrote a book called
If I Did It? What's wrongwith written a book? It was a

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book about what you would have doneif you had hypothetically murdered your wife.
I'm sorry. I knew that wasa bad idea at the time. But
your worst crime of all I know. I know what you're going to say,
the thing that is absolutely unforgivable.Go ahead, say you starred in
a movie called Towering Inferno. Itwas an abomination, one of the worst

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movies ever made. And now youmust be punished. Does this mean I'm
going to hell? No, youwill be reincarnated as something embarrassing, like
a bug or a rat or something. Reincarnation. Wait, Christians don't believe
in reincarnation. I know that isbecause Christianity was not the right religion.

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Wait, then, which religion iscorrect? Religion? Hinduism. It turns
out the Indians got it right.Oh oh yeah, thank you come again.
No, no, that's not true. It's Catholicism. That's not true.
Everyone knows it's catholicism. Obviously,it's time once again for voicemail messages

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from you. Oh. The followingvoicemail messages were sent from listeners just like
you using the ihard radio app.Okay, if you want to send us
a voicemail, just download the iHeartRadiosmartphone app and push the talk back button.
Okay, you can send us athirty second audio recording that we will
play on the show at a futuredate. So what are you waiting for?
Download the app and leave us amessage today. All right. I

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love when you guys leave me voicemails. We listen to these once or twice
a week. Just make sure youdon't swear and try to make it quiet
in the background. That's really theonly catch, you know, because someone's
going to listen to these. Youdon't want the radio in the You get
the idea, all right, Kennyis Gavin Kevin? I want to thank
you for showing the world or shouldI stay reminding the world just how stupid
she Jack actually is? Right?Furthermore, Booker T. Washington, as

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you said, named after the wrestlerof course, and hid is a science
and math magnet school. So thefact that nobody corrected her really shows us
what the future holds. Don't forgetUnfortunately all those kids and everybody around her
gets to vote. Unbelievable, Anddon't forget folks. School choice. That's
what my Queenn Sullivan and I weretalking about in the last segment divorce.

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I gave my ex every chance tobetter herself, go to school, stayed
at home even as the kids weregrowing in at school, didn't do anything,
and she wanted the divorce. Still, so divorce is weird. But
I think the spouse that wants thedivorce sees greener pastures and they're not there

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because I'm way better off. Yeah, it's weird how that turns out,
isn't it. I have a lotto say about that, but I'm going
to keep it to myself. Divorceis unfortunate. It's very sad. I
don't recommend it, but it existsfor a reason. I'll leave it at
that. Producer, Kenny, that'sme. I was just listening to your
report about the cicada opolis or whatever. Yes, there's a lot of misinformation

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out there. When cicadas emerged fromthe ground, they do not eat anything.
All they do is find the mate, do the deal, and then
die. It's locusts or gigantic grasshoppersthat eat everything in sight. Cicadas don't
have mouth. Yeah, I getwhat you're driving out. His voicemail got

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caught off there because you only getthirty seconds, but he was making a
good point. He's reacting to theSoundBite from earlier this week about the ladies
on the View thinking that cicadas cicadas, they called him. That's how much
the what the sonny whatever sunny hostinor whatever her name is, said that
cicadas and earthquakes and the eclipse areall proof of climate change, just ridiculously

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stupid. And then she was makingit sound as though cicadas were going to
eat all the crops. But obviously, as that caller just explained, not
true. Kenny, Yeah, stayfrom Cleveland from the sandbox of course.
Hey man, the thing about cicadasis they have no mouth parts. Oh,
they do not eat anything. Yeah, therefore no, they will not

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be bad for the crops. Iknow, it's amazing. It's just incredible,
isn't it. Thank you. I'mglad more than one person called about
that because I want to make.I mean, we know, you know
you're if you're at least moderately educated. I mean, cicadas are like the
Olympics. It happens every once ina while. Cicadas are like an eclipse.
It happens every once in a while. It just it happens, right,
and it's not a once in alifetime thing. And these things come

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up. And I saw a SoundBiteearlier. Let me see if I could
find it real quick. Here wego. Here's a woman talking about what
would happened if the eclipse took placeduring Trump's presidency. So could you imagine
if Trump was in office right nowthe eclipse. Stop it it's illegal,
it's coming from Mexico, and it'sgoing to blind everyone. It was to

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blind people. Now, this issome idiot on social media with a big
following on TikTok. Guys, therewas an eclipse during Trump's presidency. The
thing that she's talking about hypothetically couldhappen. It did happen. Trump was
president during an eclipse and none ofthat. In fact, not only was
he not afraid of the eclipse blinding, he actually looked at the eclipse.
I don't know how many of youguys remember that, and he was fine.

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I'm not telling you to looking ata clips I'm just saying hyperbole is
so much more common nowadays than theproblems that the left are showing out.
Is that blue Jean chart A vendiagram chart? I don't remember. I'm
not sure what he's reacting to onthat note. I will say this,

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as much as I love ven diagrams, I love my next guest even more.
Stick around, We'll be right back. You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit
of Happiness yep, where everyone iswelcome, even scum sucking, maggot swallowing
socialist bastards you used to refer toas Mom. Hey, that's my mom.
I love my mom. We'll beright back, I tell myself.

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I was only going to play Primusand music by Maynard James Keenan today because
I'm going to the concert tomorrow nightin the Woodlands. But my next guest
loves eighties music, so I putthis on. Can we hit that again?
Please? I'm very excited to hearfrom my next guest. He's one
of my best friends. He's alsoone of the leading authority hees on news
from the border, and I gottahear him react to this. Alejandro Mierkis,

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your secretary of the Department of HomelandSecurity has finally admitted something we've been
asking him to admit for four years. It's something that we already knew.
You already knew this. Is therea crisis at the border, said the
border, and I certainly don't dancearound them as a matter of fact.
Would you call it a crisis?Yes, I wouldn't. Wait, wait,
yes he would. He's finally he'sadmitted. At Senator John Kennedy,

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one of the funniest people in politics, reacting to the news. If the
Majority leader and my Democratic colleagues tableor dismiss these charges and destroy Senate precedent,
precedent that we've established to conduct fulland fair impeachment trials, they will

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regret it. They will regret itwell, they Senate Democrats. If they
do, that will show the worldthat their proclamations about rule of law and
protecting democracy are just tools of theirown political experience and arrogance. Okay,

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but hang on, Senate Democrats willlet the people, American people know that
they endorse the lawlessness and the miserythe Biden administration's broken border has brought to
this country. Sounds like some Texasjustice to me Locker and now live from
the border. It's bright Bark's BrandonDarby with the Cartel chronicles only on KPRC

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Radio. I'm sure we all agreeit's bad. I mean, it's bad
at the border in Mayorcis is amess. But as my next guest has
explained on this show before, theproblem isn't Mayorcis, is it Brandon Derby?
No, not at all. Imean, obviously the symbol of the
problem. But Mayorcis works for anadministration and administration we call them Biden administration,

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and you know he does the biddingof the Biden administration. So you
know, when you know, iffolks will just go back in time,
go back in time when Biden wascompeting with Kamala Harris and others to be
the Democratic Party, you know,presidential nominee. If we'd go back in

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time and remember that they were trippingover themselves during the debate to show that
they were going to give the mostbenefits to people who showed up in our
country illegally or in between ports ofentry, that everyone was going to get
health care didn't matter if they camein the country legally or not. That
everyone who came. And remember,they were trying to show that Trump was

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bad and they were good, andso they made all of these promises,
and they said that people who camewould get to stay. They were going
to decriminalize illegal entries in between portsof entry, right, people who are
not even showing up at at ourdoors, at our gates, but people
who just show up in some randomarea along our border from another country.

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And consequently we saw a massive influxof people. Remember, it's horrible to
live in some of the places wherepeople live around the world. The majority
of the world is actually pretty horrible. If you're honest with yourself about it
and educate yourself and inform yourself,the majority of the world's pretty horrible.
So when you say that everybody whocomes going to get to stay, and

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it's going to be decriminalized, andthey're all going to get free health care
and they're all going to get whatever, well, then everyone in the world
who has a health care problem thatcan't be treated in El Salvador or Guatemala
or anywhere else in the world,they show up and they try to come
in and do that, and that'swhat we see. That's what the Bidy
and administration has done. You know, there's a lot of reasons people want

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to come here, regardless of theadministration, just because we are the United
States and we do have a lotof benefits to being here. Life is
nice to here from most people.But they specifically encouraged it, whether intentionally
or unintentional. They encouraged it byincreasing what we call pull factors, and

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people came, and that's what thisadministration has done. Now, Mayorcis is
just doing the bidding of his boss, right doing the bidding of this administration.
And we talked about last time.It's obviously impeaching him, going after
him is very symbolic. But Mayorcishimself is not the problem. It is,

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in fact, Biden and the peoplewho are making decisions around Biden as
he eats his oatmeal or whatever hedoes in the morning. Okay, So
to anybody in Houston, just aquick reminder, this problem is right in
our own backyard. One of yourjournalists at Bria bart Texas, Bob Price,
just published a story of four migrantsheld hostage in Houston in a Houston

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smuggling stash house. This is threehundred and fifty miles from the border.
This is in Houston. They're beingheld hostage. What does that even mean?
I mean, are these and youguys call them migrants because sometimes we
don't know if they're here illegally ornot. And you've pointed out that sometimes
the people we think are illegals aren'treally illegals because they've been given permission to
be in the country. But atany rate, you know, there's really

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this news story you guys just publishedabout the FBI raid here in Houston and
people being held hostage points to thefact that this is just as bad for
the migrants, if you will,as it is for American citizens, this
whole crisis at the border exactly.So in this context, it probably would
have been appropriate to use the wordillegal, aliens, illegally, immigrants,

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whatever that terminology, because you know, one of the things that happens then
is, you know, people tendto forget, and we've talked about this
for many years, is that alot of the cartels along our border,
right there's not the cartel. Ifanybody starts talking about d cartel, and
it's not so good because it meansthey don't recognize nuanced, They don't know

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enough das to actually have a greatconversation. There are you know, probably
thousands of distinct criminal groups, definitelyhundreds that would be classified as cartels on
their own right. Right, Solike on the Texas border, you have
you know, if you go fromBrownsville or Boca Chica Beach right which is

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the Gulf of Mexico and Texas meetin Mexico, you have the Golf Cartel
and that's broken into multiple factions.You have the Matamoris faction of the Golf
Cartel. Then as you go closerto Harlingen and McAllen, Texas, across
from Renosa, Mexico, you havethe Renosa faction. They're really the same
cartel, but they're actually two distinctcriminal groups which are really their own cartel.

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And you kind of go up andyou get to about Zapata, Texas,
and then it becomes Los Zettos,which changed your name to CDN,
but there's still lose at the carteland they really control all the way to
about Piedros Megas. You know,you know Egle Path see that, you
know Acuna del Rio, and thenafter that it starts to be kind of

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a mixed match of cartels all theway across Big Bend until you get to
El Paso, and then you haveyou know, you have La Linia or
the war As Cartel, and thenI mean we could go down the whole
US Mexico border and there's all thesedifferent criminal groups. Well, some of
these criminal groups, specifically various factionsof the golf Cartel and Lozettas, are

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in a position now where they're makingas much or more and they have been
for many years from these people cominghere as they do from drugs. So
it would be more fair to callthem asylum cartels or illegal alien cars,
illegal alien cartels, right, illegalimmigration cartels, because they make a lot
of money from this, and peoplehave to pay them to come here.

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Some people come and they just turnthemselves in, right, because that's what
Lossettus tells them to do, orthe Golf Cartel tells them to do.
And some people for whatever reason,want to sneak in. Maybe they and
kicked out before and they're not goingto qualify for asylum or for you know,
they're not going to be released,or maybe they have sex offending convictions,
or maybe maybe they're very attractive younggirls and Lossettas says hey, or

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the golf cartel says, you knowwhat, We're not going to let you
turn yourself in. We're going tosmuggle you to a stash house in Houston.
We're going to use you for sexwork, and then after you make
us this much money, we're goingto release you. After you pay us
the ten thousand dollars. And thegirls say, wait a minute, you
said it was five thousand dollars.They're like, well, things change now

(40:34):
it's ten thousand dollars. So onceyou make us ten thousand dollars and pay
us back, you know, havingsex with people, then will release you.
That's what that means by health hostage. They do this with workers.
They do this with you know,with young girls or women and make them
sex workers. And so very quicklya human smuggling effort can very quickly turn

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into a human trafficking right, thoseare the difference in those terms. And
this happens to a lot of people. And yes, all across our country,
specifically across Texas, our cities andtowns have Mexican cartel operations occurring.
Whether we're talking about the Permian Basinand we're talking about the oil boom in

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West Texas, one hundred percent cartelsare involved in supplying women to those guys.
Some of those guys, many ofthose guys mess am stami, cocaine,
and the whole gambit of stuff.Whether you're talking about Houston and it
being workers, construction workers who arebeing supplied, or there's all kinds of
mess. But one thing that's forcertain is our country is divvied up amongst

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various Mexican cartels. Just like theyhave territory in Mexico, they have territory
here. So San Antonio is Lostetto'sterritory. McAllen, Texas is Gulf cartel
territory. You know, Seattle,Washington is largely controlled by criminal groups cartels
from Mitchell Khan and from Jalisco.You know, you have all of these

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different areas in our country that aredivvied up and are actually their territory.
And if you cross them or youstart to intervene in their territory, they'll
kill you, you know, andthey'll kill you here. That's that's not
that's what they do. Right,So, So Americans, I think in
general, US citizens don't realize howexploited. We are, right, they

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don't realize how much we've allowed,Like, like, are eighty percent or
more of the people who come hereillegally horrible people? Know? Are they
people working? Yes? But atsome percentage of them, you know,
a large percentage of them fueling thevery cartels that are law enforcement officers are

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losing their lives to find. Absolutely, we're fueling them. Right. So
it's a really big, gigantic mess. And quite frankly, you know,
people are critical of Republicans of Trumpof They're saying, oh, they're so
hateful to these migrants, And thetruth is, the cruelty to these people
is really being encouraged and committed moreby liberals who think they're helping who really

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aren't. Brother Brandon Darby, fromyour lips to God's ears, my man,
speaking the gospel truth before we go. For those who don't know,
my buddy, Brandon Darby recently injuredhis knee doing Brazilian jiu jitsu. How
you doing, dude, I'm doingfine. You know, I got my
MRI. I'm waiting for their doctorsto call me and go through this whole
gambit of whatever probably going to endup with surgery, depending on the surgery.

(43:38):
You know, I'm looking at anywherefrom two or three months before I'm
doing jiu jitsu again, or maybea year, or maybe it's so jacked
up that I'm not doing jiu jitsuagain. I don't know, but either
way, I'm just trying to staypositive about it. Definitely humbling to have
to walk upstairs one step at atime and limp around everywhere and have people

(44:00):
look at you and go look atthat guy living or whatever they're thinking,
whatever you think they're thinking. Whoknows what they might be thinking I'm handsome
or they like my shoes, butI think they're looking at me like it
with pity, and it's definitely humblingand part of getting older. And really
just whether I was twenty or forty, it doesn't really matter. Doing what
I did in jiu jitsu that injuredIt would have injured anyone's knee. So

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it's just part if you want todo combat sports man, get prepared,
because it's kind of like if youwant to ride a motorcycle, get prepared
because it's not about if you crash, it's about when you crash, right,
And the same thing with jiu jitsu. You start doing weird things and
inversions and sweeps and all these reallytricky interlocked leg things, and you run

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a risk to your knees and someof your joints. And they got me
after years, and now I justgot to deal with it and stay positive.
Well, little Birdie told me thatif you're a single man and you
can't do full contact sports or youknow, weightlifting, a great way to
meet girls is yoga. Brandon Darby, Hey to the rest of you,

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I say, have an awesome weekend. I love you all. Be safe
out there if you're out in thewoodlands. Tomorrow night for Primus in a
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