Do monsters like Harvey Weinstein still deserve a fair trial?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features comedian Tim Mathis and journalist Michael Quinn Sullivan.  ( @KennethRWebster )

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the police to complain about the sound. I tried the same approach with the
view, but they didn't respond.I just don't like Whoopi Goldberg. Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster, thanks for turningon your radio. Michael Quinn Sullivan
stopping buy from Texas scorecard dot com. Stand up comedian Tim Mathis is going
to be here, and Ken Paxtonis taking over the investigation against Lena Hidalgo.

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People are throwing feces on college campusesall over the country. Travis Scott,
the rapper from Houston, still inquite a bit of trouble for that
thing with Astro World a few yearsback. Remember when children died at a
music festival here in town, amusic festival that was endorsed by local democrats
like Lena Headalgo and Sylvester Turner.We'll get to all of that, but
before we get to any of it, let me start the show off with

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this This was a wild week fornews. A lot of stuff happened this
week so interesting. In a normalworkweek, I would think that Harvey Weinstein,
the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul, havinghis charges dropped in the state of
New York, that would have beenthe biggest news story of the week.
But this week it was a footnotein the news because so many other things
happened. But as Breitbart dot Comreports today, disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein

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got a little legal victory, ahuge legal victory. Just yesterday. New
York's highest court has overturned his twentytwenty conviction for two felony sexual assaults Harvey
seventy one. He was sentenced tosixteen years. He currently resides in a
Rome, New York prison. That'swhere he lives. The New York Times

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says that by a four to threevote, the New York Court of Appeals
ruled the trial judge should not haveallowed prosecutors to call his witnesses, a
series of women who said mister Weinsteinhad assaulted them, but whose accusations were
not part of the charges against him. In other words, they used as
evidence allegations that had been unproven inother cases unrelated to this case. Right,

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It'd be like me saying, soand so is a thief. Well,
how do you know he's a thief? Well, because he stole from
this guy. Okay, do youhave any proof he stole from that guy?
Know? But he did? Right? Like, that can't be evidence,
you give what I'm saying. Theappeals court identified additional errors and decided
that Weinstein had not received a fairtrial, which is true. This should

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have been a seven to zero decisionto overturn. Right Now, Manhattan's District
Attorney Alvin Bragg can choose to eitherretry Weinstein or give up and ship the
infamous Oscar winning producer to California,where he was also set to sixteen years
in prison. I'm guessing from whatI'm told, it's my understanding Alan braggs

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gonna he's gonna retry Weinstein. Ithasn't happened yet, so there's still a
chance it won't, but it's myunderstanding it will. But this whole fiasco
strikes me as a classic case offraming a guilty person. It's beyond outrageous
that the prosecutor was allowed to paradea series of women before the jury to
make unproven claims of sexual misconduct againstHarvey. That goes beyond the way our

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judicial system is supposed to work.It's direct. It's an example of rigging
a trial. I mean, Iwas shocked the judge would allow this.
But in the witch hunt fever ofthe hashtag me too movement, there is
a lot more concern about appeasing themob than honoring the US Constitution or the
basic sense of fairness. So itisn't an interesting that now that a few

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years have passed since the Me Toomovement and a lot of people forgot it
was ever even a thing, suddenlythe system corrected itself. Harvey Weinstein's being
released but well being shipped off toCalifornia at the very least. But he
is still a pig, no question. He's a terrible person. He's a
monster from Hollywood who funded all ofyour least favorite politicians, people like Nancy

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Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, and spenta lot of time with some of the
worst people in Hollywood, folks likeOprah Winfrey, for example. So yeah,
he's a pig, But even apig deserves a fair trial, And
the moment we stop giving pigs fairtrials. The line between rigged trials and
fair trials moves all that much closerto non pigs like you and me.

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You know, a series what dothey call it? A series of women
told the jury Weinstein had victimized them, but that had never proven those allegations
in court. That alone should havestopped the judge from allowing their testimony.
And then also, even if Weinsteinhad been convicted of assaulting those witnesses,
the state has to prove Weinstein isguilty of the charges in question, and

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do so without, you know,prejudicing the jury of past half. And
I'm not defending Harvey Weinstein. I'mnot defending Alec Baldwin. I'm not defending
Woody Allen. I don't like thosepeople. I'm defending their rights, you
know, I am defending their rightsbecause their rights are my rights and their
rights are your rights. We wantthe worst people in the world, people

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we disagree with, to enjoy thefull expression of their God given rights,
both in a court of law andin the court of public opinion, because
if their rights are safe, yourrights are safe and my rights are safe.
And looking the other way or pilingon while their rights are violated,
only hurts my rights or your rights, or the rights of your children or
your children's children, because then thatline moves closer to people like us.

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Harvey won't be free anytime soon.He's not getting out of prison. But
if the fascist election meddler Alvin Braggdecides to retry him, Weinstein will likely
have to remain in prison until thenew trial. If not, he still
has a sentence to serve in California. Either way, a bad man's getting
punished. Quick break, don't goanywhere I got Michael Quinn Sullivan on the
way We're gonna go watch Islamic extremiststhrow poop at people in Austin. kN

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Webstay's Pursuit of Happiness a radio showthat's just as good when you're driving around
Soba as it is when you're drunkat home. Do y'all understand what spaces
is? On X on Twitter?A while back, there was a new

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social media platform called Clubhouse, andit allowed people to have these online chat
rooms. And because sort of likewhat a party line would have been like
back in the eighties, you callup a phone number, you hear a
bunch of voices. It's sort oflike talk radio in the sense that it's
an audio based medium, and onTwitter the X they have these things.
Earlier this week, I was participatingin a space on X. Imagine explaining

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this to your grandpa one hundred yearsago, and none of this would make
any sense to him. I wason X talking about people protesting on college
campuses around the country and has alot of you know, my position on
this is a little different than alot of other conservatives. But one of
the things that I pointed out wasthat probably odds are these leftist extremist agitators
are being funded. And immediately everybodyelse in the space, no, Kenny,

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this isn't this is organic. Theseare grassroots activists. This just happened
spontaneously. Just spontaneously, thousands ofcollege kids around the country got mobilized and
started going out to protest for therights of people in a country most of
them have never even been to.And well, as it turns out,
I was right. George Soros andhis hard laughed accolades are paying agitators who

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are fueling the explosion of radical antiIsrael protests and colleges across the country.
According to a report published early thismorning by Isabelle Vincent at the Post.
Turns out there is a couple differentgroups here a Students for Justice and palaced
is one of the groups, andanother one called US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
These are nngos, non government organizations, and they are fueling the protest.

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Is anybody shocked by this? Whatdid you think? They were?
Just out there protesting for the rightsof hummas ers. It's absurd, right.
I haven't been any of these protestsyet, but mostly because I'm busy
living my life like a lot ofyou. But my friends at Texas Scorecard
they had journalists and reporters out thisweek at the University of Texas at Austin.
There were also protesters at the Universityof Texas at Dallas. And guess

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what These people throw feces, don'tthey? Michael quinn Sullivan, they do.
I'll tell you what you know.I find it funny and look,
I'm like you. I'm a bigprotest guy. I am a First Amendment
guy. I'm an absolute i amas close to an absolutist as you can
get on the First Amendment. I'mexcept for shouting fire and crowded theater.

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That's that's kind of where I tendto draw the line. Sure, but
but but at no point does didour founding fathers envision that you're right to
stand in a public place and expressyour political views. At no point did
they think that that would include takingyour feces and flinging it at people.

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You know that that is that isnot what Thomas Payne was talking about.
That's not what Thomas Jefferson or GeorgeWashington or Benjamin Franklin or John Adams or
any of the guys. That's notwhat they were talking about. And it's
so funny when I hear you know, you know here folks know who are
you know? Otherwise you know,I'm with them on a lot of stuff
when it comes to free speech.Oh well, you know, we shouldn't

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stop these protesters on college campuses.I'm sorry, But if I'm just trying
to get the class, a student, a professor, whatever, and some
jack and ape throws feces at me, I'm going to want to see some
heads cracked, you know. AndI think that that's where when you look
at these protests have happened, whetherut where they were doing this, When

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you look at Lumbia, whatever,if you want to be taken seriously as
a protester and be allowed to voiceyour voice, your views. Here's a
pro tip. Don't throw feces atpeople, and then maybe we will listen
to you. But the moment folksstart going feces, that's the moment I
am cheering on, you know,the riot gear clad DPS officers, you

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know, pulling out the you know, the the you know, the batons
and cracking some heads, because thatis not the way to pull me to
your side. Quite frankly, I'mnot entirely sure that George Soros. Hey,
these people actually want us on theirside. All they want is to
disrupt culture, and they wanted todrop people's lives. They don't actually believe
that Hamas is superior. What theywant to do is destroy things. Oh

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yeah, I mean I agree witheverything you just said in that last line.
I want to really focus on thatfor just a minute. It's interesting
to think I don't think George Sorosis an anti Zionist. In fact,
I would. I would be willingto bet a lot of these protests.
The funding is not coming from socalled anti zionists. The point is to
create chaos and to widen the division. So the division, if you will,

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in America, that's all they wantto do. It. You and
Napoleon Bonaparte have both said on thisradio show. Obviously Napoleon Bonapart's never been
on this radio show, but youhave both said, never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.And as I watch what's happening at Harvard
and Colombia and all these other biguniversities, especially the privately operated, privately
funded universities, I gotta tell you, Michael, it doesn't really bother me

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that much. I just four yearsago, I wanted to stop the riots.
I didn't want people destroying small businesses. And it was these college professors
who were fueling the fires figuratively inliterally all over the country. And now
does it kind of feel like thependulum has swung back in their direction?
And now the people at these biguniversities that really created this culture of far

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left extremism around our country, it'sin their backyard. Now it's affecting them
more than it's affecting anyone. Imean, there was something kind of beautiful
about that, isn't there? Oh? I think you're absolutely right, and
I think it's fun to watch theseprofessors who are seeing they who are having
to sit there and deal with theconsequences of this culture that they created,
and and and and like you,I'm I'm kind of okay with it.

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You know, I don't have togo onto the UT campus. I don't
have to go to U. T. D. I certainly have to go
to Harvard or Yale or any ofthose places. And look, if these
clowns want to burn their campuses tothe ground, then hey, look that's
that that becomes kind of their problem. And I don't mean that physically.
I mean, yeah, neil uh, I mean that in kind of a

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philosophic contents, not not practically brandbut you know, to the extent that
that there, you're they are reapingwhat they have sown. That when when
they told these radical leftists a fewyears ago, hey go downtown and burn
down the building of the Man.And all they've done now is create a
culture where, oh, look,the Man is the university that has a

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bigger endowment than any any rich guyon the planet. Let's go attack them.
You know, all all this stuffis coming back to roost, and
it's kind of fun to watch themhave to deal with it. And I
think that what you're going to findis uh, you know, a chatting
last night with a friend of minewhose uh son is finishing his junior year

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being heavily recruited by the Ivy League. They really want this kid coming to
their very schools, brilliant, youknow, perfect SATs the whole nine yards,
disgusting, good looking kid, athleticgods, horrible anyway, And and
and this kid is saying, noway, no how, not going to
go to those places. He's actuallylooking at a small, you know,

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small state school here in Texas becausehe wants to go somewhere where his values
aren't going to be attacked. Youknow, he's Jewish and he doesn't want
to be uh you know, haveto worry about his safety. He didn't
have to worry about having to hidewho he is. And and and I
think that all these folks who areclamoring for this cause, what they're really
doing is destroying, you know,the people who have enabled them. And

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we should all be okay with that. I heard that at USC of all
the universities or this is happening atthey canceled graduation and so and for the
obvious reasons. Right, it's safetyconcerns Palestine activists, too many protests.
Remember, this is the same classof kids that four years ago had their
freshman year canceled for COVID, andthen, of course sophomore year of college,
they're all wearing masks and getting vaccinated, and we remember what happened then.

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Isn't it interesting that their college experiencewas basically ruined by far left activists,
by far left authoritarians. Do youthink they see that? Do you
think they know that? I mean, it's right there in front of our
faces. I'm sure you and Isee it. I think they do know
it. But again, let towhat we were saying a moment ago.
I think that you and I arelooking at schoot Man. This must be

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a bug, and what they weredoing, I actually think it's what they
consider a feature. Yeah, theirintention is to destroy and destroy and to
make miserable. There are people whothey, for whatever horrible reasons, have
miserable lives, and they want toengage in behaviors that make everyone else miserable.
Rather than get healthy themselves, theyjust want to make everyone around them

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miserable. That is the that isthe outcome of leftist ideology. Is that
I'm I'm going to make myself miserablemy bi ideology, and therefore'm going to
share the misery. Winston Churchill saidthat, you know that socialism is the
sharing of misery, and I thinkthat that's where what what you see living
out practically on these college campuses arethese folks are so miserable themselves. They

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just want to make you miserable.And it really doesn't matter the cause,
you know, there's no other there'sno rational way to explain why the lgbt
Q whatever activist is out there demandingjustice for Palestine and Hamas. You know,
they will take you and throw youoff the nearest building. They will
stone you, they will chop offyour body parts, you know. But

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but digital logic or reason here.These people just want to make others miserable.
That's very sad. It's a sadway Delivereral Michael, can you hang
and do another segment with us,because there's somewhere I want to ask you
about this. I would love to. All right, so, folks,
if you're just getting caught up onthe news today here in Texas, Attorney
General Ken Paxton is taking over theinvestigation against Lena Headalgo's staff members, our

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Harris County judge who purportedly probably didrig a bid scheme, a bid rigging
scheme involving COVID vaccine outreach. Youmay remember that, speaking of COVID vaccines,
doctor Mary Bowden is involved in alawsuit with the state of Texas.
Frankly, history will remember this womanas a hero. We're going to tell
you the story right after this.Don't go anywhere quick break, We'll be
right back. Our doctor told usthe pills we took were just a placebo,

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but he must not know what he'stalking about, because, man,
those suckers worked. This is KennyWebster's pursuit of happiness. In the last
segment, we detailed how some ofthese college kids right now that are having

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their graduation ceremony canceled because of thefar left extremist protesters on their college campus
really had their entire college experience crushedby far left authoritarianism. Because remember,
this class of kids finishing up collegeright now, I mean, assuming they're
graduating on time, started college withthe COVID twenty twenty pandemic. Now they're

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ending it with people rioting on campus, throwing feces at cops, that sort
of thing. And obviously, likeI pointed out to Michael, you know,
sometimes things are so much more obviouswhen you're looking at them from the
outside looking in. But these kidscollege experience was crushed, it was ruined,
it was destroyed by far left authoritarianism, whether you're talking about the communist

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flu or anti Israel activist basically Islamicterrorists running around on campus having Communist Coachella.
Well, as it turns out,that problem we had four years ago
with the government looking with baited breathand frothing at the mouth over how great
it was in communist China and tryingto do that to America. Well,
here in Texas we were not immuneto that pun intended. There's a woman

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named doctor Barry Mary Bowden. She'sbeen on this show before, she's been
on our morning show before, andshe is a doctor who challenged the narrative.
She challenged the initiative. Things likeivermectin work, things like COVID vaccines
don't necessarily work. Everybody's body isdifferent. I can't be told that medicine
is bad if I'm using the medicineand it's working for me. Well.

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As it turns out, this puther at odds with the state of Texas.
A very popular doctor got into sometrouble, had her license revoked or
threatened to revoke her license after receivingcomplaints that she refused to follow government mandated
treatment protocols during the twenty twenty COVIDnineteen pandemic. And as my friend and
Michael Quinn Salivan's website reports today atTexas scorecard dot com, this feud is

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still going on. Michael, what'sthe latest here and what's your take on
it? Look doesn't it? Yousaid it quickly? Doctor Mary Tally Bowden
is a hero, someone who adoctor who actually believes she should be treating
the patients and not simply administering thepolitical propaganda of the you know, the

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administrative state, actually taking care ofher patients as human beings rather than as
you know, recipients of government authorizedcare. So, you know, one
that's pretty radical. They first startedmaking noise about how horrible and evil this
this amazing doctor was back back duringtwenty twenty saying, oh wait, she's
not doing what we tell her todo. Yeah, but it's working.

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Over the course of several years,she treated some six thousand COVID patients,
six thousand not following the dictates ofthe aid of the government bureaucracies and instead
treating the patients the way that theyneeded to be treated to get them to
the outcomes. And she has hadof six thousand patients zero deaths. Yet

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she was complained about by folks inthe medical community who didn't like the fact
that she was having success in flauntingthe government rules. So the Texas Medical
Board began investigating her. They announcedthey were going to begin proceedings back in
twenty twenty three to revoke her medicallicense that has now continued for a year.

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They were supposed to have a hearingthis coming week and it's now been
postponed again, maybe to September orOctober. And all of this has had
real serious consequences for doctor Bowden.She's revealed recently that she has spent upwards
of one hundred thousand dollars in defendingherself against the State of Texas. Meanwhile,

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the State of Texas says that they'veonly spent seventeen thousand dollars going after
her, But of course it's theState of Texas right going after her and
it's a It's a good reminder Kenneythat you know, when the government is
weaponized against the citizenry, it doesn'treally matter to the government if they if
they are quote unquote successful or not, because the punishment is the process,

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you know, having to have tolive through the process is the punishment that
whether or not they take away hermedical license. She spent one hundred thousand
dollars that she'll never get back.It's it's incredible, right, And I
mean, you know, you mightthink, well, she's a doctor,
she'll be fine. No, that'sa lot of money. And that's a
lot of money to punish somebody fordoing their job correctly. Now. I
don't know how many people remember thestory of doctor Mary Bowden and how it

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started, but it started off withHouston Methodist, right as a very popular
hospital here in the Houston area.A lot of people have been to Houston
Methodists. And I think, ifI'm not mistaken, she she actually got
fired from there. They let hergo. She's a former doctor, she
was. And all this had todo with things like COVID vaccine mandates.
I have a friend who's allergic todairy, gluten and shellfish, right,

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like I could go into any restaurantin America, I could eat anything on
the menu. I wouldn't bat andI or think twice about it. I
have a friend who could literally dieif one wrong ingredient is put in food.
Now, if everybody knows, itworks that way for somebody with food
allergies. But for some reason,with this COVID vaccine, it was one
size fits all for a chemical wejust invented five minutes ago. And if

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anybody questioned that you should be excommunicatedfrom polite society, you shouldn't be allowed
to hold a job, you shouldn'tbe allowed to have children in public schools.
Isn't it insane? How quickly thatbecame the narrative that was government and
corporate sponsored. And here this woman'sthe bad guy for questioning it. And

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there's more and more evident pointing towhat you just said, that there are
lots of folks who cannot take,who should not take, of these vaccines.
And yet you know they have tobe you know, stone out onto
the end of the wilderness or something. You know there there is no rational
reason for this except political ideology.The only way the government's response on all

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this stuff, whether it's you know, with the with the vaccine, the
attempted vaccine mandates, or it's theattacks on doctors like doctor Bowden. All
of that has nothing to do withhealth and one hundred percent to do with
compliance with you know, big brother, compliance with government. And you sound
crazy when you say that, Buttry explaining this in any other way,

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because we have so many exceptions foreverything on the planet, so many exceptions
for every shot, every pill youask about, every sort you know,
every drug, interdiction, everything else, and yet but but for some reason,
we can't do it here. Whybecause because it's not about health,
it's about insuring compliance. That's it. It was about it. Remember they
went door to door collecting blood samples. Could you imagine giving blood samples to

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someone that knocks on your door.Hi, I'm with the guy, I'm
here to get your blood. Andpeople did that, Michael. And speaking
of Lena Hidalgo, we can't talkabout COVID and Harris County without talking about
Lena Hidalgo, basically the Darth Vaderof Harris County. And I guess Kim
Ogg would be I don't know,Princess Leah. And now Ken Paxton is
obi wan Kenobi, because everybody knowsKim Ogg, our district attorney's going away

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in November. She wasn't George Sorosenough for the George Soros crowd. So
he came in and spent a bunchof money to get this skuy Sean tier
to take away her job, andhe will win in November. I don't
think anybody thinks the Republican candidate's gonnawin the DA position. But even still,
Kim Ogg just did the right thing. We all know what Lena Hidalgo
did. Everybody listening to my voiceright now knows that there was a bid

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rigging scheme. We could have hadthe University of Texas do the COVID vaccine
outreach program. It would have beena lot more affordable for the taxpayers.
It would have made a lot moresense, it would have been done more
efficiently. Yet for some reason,we needed somebody that lived in a bong
shop above in Montrose with no employeesto handle this thing. They've stole money.
Hopefully these people go to prison.And now I guess the latest is

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Kim Ogg's handed over the investigation toKen Paxton. Michael, I for one,
think this was this is awesome newsand I applaud Kim Ogg for doing
it. And look, I meanas as Kim Ogg knowed this or press
conference this week. Uh, thisSean Terry, guy who's going to be
the next district attorney. You knowit was out on the campaign trail,

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uh, saying at various points,oh these you know, the staffers through
Hildalgo. You know, they shouldn'thave been charged. They shouldn't have any
consequences. You know, what kindof prosecution was there going to be?
You know, when this guy didn'thave all the facts, didn't have all
the information, and yet he'd alreadydecided that he wasn't going to he wasn't
going to prosecute them. You know, this is what happens when you let

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children have access to to cars andalcohol. You don't let government have that
stuff or don't give them power.And you know, I'm sure probably mister
Terry is a nice enough person tohave a cup of coffee with, but
the sounds wholly unqualified to protect theinterests of the people of Harris County.

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And Kim A you know, likeyou said she was a she was a
Soros backed district attorney. No,no, no, not by the stretched
the imagination a conservative. Yet somehowshe kind of backed her way into figuring
out that maybe we shouldn't be stealingmillions of dollars from the taxpayers, and
maybe the taxpayers that I get somevalue for for the money spent rather than

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being used for political payback systems,and that that's that's that's striking that for
that sin she had to be takenout. I would have thought that everyone
would agree that the political payback systemsare bad things. But apparently in the
modern era of Democrat Party funded byGeorge Soros, Uh, you're supposed to,
you know, be all about politicalkickbacks or something. I don't know.

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I always loved to remind people anytimeKen Paxton does anything. Remember it
was Dade Fallon who tried to stophim from doing it. But all that
being said, do you think anythingcomes from this? I mean, I
I like to be an optimist,which is very uncommon in my line of
work, Michael, but Ken Paxtontake it over the lawsuit and of course
the Texas Rangers the ones who collectedthe evidence here, I think something could

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come of this. Oh? Absolutely, Look, you know, to be
very clear, this this is afantastic result because it does mean it's actually
going to be prosecuted. You knowthat the facts are going to come to
life. There is going to actuallybe some accountability here. That that is
the good news. And you know, it would have been very easy for

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distri Attorney Ogg to say, well, I'm leaving, who cares, it's
somebody else's problem and just walk away. Instead, she's actually doing her job
and saying, hey, this caseneeds to be thoroughly and professionally prosecuted.
So hopefully we're going to see seethe facts come out and hopefully that a
message will be sent far and widein the lone Star state. Don't play

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kickback games. If you're going tospend money, spend it wisely. Yeah,
and hopefully none of those feces throwingPalestine activists show up at Lena Hidalgo's
office, right, Michael, Hopefullydon't go protest there. That wouldn't get
a lot of media attention. Winkwink, Hey, Michael Quinnsullivan Texas scorecard

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dot com. I'm a huge fanof what they do. You should be
as well. Subscribed to their emaillist, follow Michael on social media.
You won't regret it. So radioshows are so hot you'll literally burn your
eyes. Fortunately this isn't one ofthose shows. I feel like never listening
to you all again. But shuitof Happiness Radio. There's a new documentary

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about Muppets creator Jim Henson. Iguess the documentary details how he was living
an uneventful life until a simple fistof fate happened. Nute, Is this
a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywoodbrat or what did it? Because his
hand goes in a puppet? Nevermind? Hi, it's time for your

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weekly Hollywood news report, and there'sa lot to talk about this week.
It was a wacky week filled withups and downs and twists and turns in
the world of Hollywood, and mostpeople didn't even notice because activists all over
the country were throwing feces at copson college campuses while multiple wars happen around
the world. But there is goodnews. Apparently Disney is suffering, and

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anytime Disney suffers, I got toassume America succeeds. Here with the details
is stand up comedian Tim mathis currentlyliving in Hollywood, but he's from Texas.
Tim, what happened with Disney.Well, first let me just say
yeah, shout out to Jim Henson. Most people they get fisted in Hollywood
never even get a movie deal.That's right, thank you. Yeah,

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Disney is finally experiencing what we liketo call market reality. Disney had all
those hits, they were every moviewas making a billion dollars, billion dollars,
billion dollars. And now because inPhase four and five they put out
nothing but trash. They were doingbait and switched stuff such as calling shows

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Hawkeye and then of course featuring thenew Hawkeye not the old Hawkeye, and
and things like that. So theaudience is left folks like me who were
died hard comic book NERD we lefta long time ago. And now the
rest of the audience is looking atit and saying, well, they're just
putting out craps. So, asof yesterday, they have canceled the Turnals

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two, Captain Marvel three, antMan and the Lost four, she Holp
Season two, Monica Rambo, Photonand all special presentations. Yeah Monica Rambo,
it's a different spelling. No theyhaven't. They haven't bought Rambo yet.
Once Slide dies though, I soonthe next day his estate will sell

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it. Okay, so Hawkeye wasthe the actor that got crushed by a
snowplower or whatever. But now there'sa new Hawkeye and it's a diverse woman
of color. Right. Oh no, well it's a it's a woman.
She's the white gal. That's see. That's the loophole that white women have.
They count as diversity. Oh eventhough they're the majority. Yeah,

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makes perfect sense. Okay, Yeah, well even though they're the majority,
they're also the minority. It's ait's a very interesting concept, all right.
Moving along to another story. TheHarvey Weinstein was the guy from Hollywood
that Tom Cruise does an impersonation ofin the movie Tropic Thunder. He's a
mean guy, he rapes. We'retold a lot of women have accused him

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of sexual misconduct, and in Hollywoodit's a gray area between just blatant rape
and some woman. Look, weknow what people do in Hollywood. I'm
sure some of these people were raped, and I'm sure that some of them
probably were promised things by Harvey Weinsteinin exchange for and then they didn't get
those things. And look, thisis a difference between those two things.

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Believe it still Harvey's clearly a badguy. And as bad as Harvey is,
that's also how bad the judicial systemis in New York. It turns
out he was sentenced to sixteen years. That's all been dropped now because they
figured out that during the trial someof the stuff they were using as evidence
against him was just allegations about otheralleged crimes that hadn't been proven yet.

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So if they screwed up this highprofile case, how are we supposed to
trust them to handle the Trump casecorrectly or any of the Trump cases?
Tim Well, And that's that's abig question. If you can't convict Harvey
Weinstein of rape and have it standup to the appeals process. And I
don't see how they're going to getTrump on, you know, mislabeling a

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business expense. So apparently now wineStine is still convicted in California, But
you know, I wouldn't put itpast California to have the rules the same
way New York did just to geta conviction. If you remember, of
course, the Weinstein thing was heended up being the big target of the

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me too because they missed Trump onit, because there just wasn't as much
stuff about Trump Ben and now sothey ended up going for Weinstein, and
now that seems to just be unravelingas well. And now he in my
opinion, he's clearly guilty of alot of the stuff they accused him of.
But yeah, they just rushed toofast and bent too many rules.

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It looked like to convict him becausethey needed a scalp. And unfortunately,
rogue prosecutors are are very prevalent todayand they're going to let people like Weinstein
for lack of a better term,get off again. Yeah, well put
tim. You know, it's interestingto think Harvey Weinstein was famous in Hollywood

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for exploiting talented people in order toget ahead, and he would have really
been great at using AI to becauseAI is all about exploiting talent. Pop
Star and actress Jennifer Lopez has anew Netflix thriller out called Atlas. I
have not seen it, but apparentlythe description is it's a movie about how
she has to trust AI to helpher save humanity, and it's being referred

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to as AI propaganda that Hollywood's pushingto make AI more popular. I don't
know if that's true, but Ido know At the same time, There's
another interesting story. Rapper Drake,who lives here in Houston, is in
a little bit of trouble right now. He used an AI generated voice mimicking
rapper Tupac. Tupac's been dead foryears, but amazingly Tupac is in a

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new Drake song and now Drake's introuble. He's been told by the Tupaca
States lawyers he is twenty four hoursto get Tupac's song out of a song,
Tupac's voice out of a song heproduced. We're gonna see more and
more of this in the coming monthsand years, aren't we, tim We
are, And first of all,shout out to Tupac the State, glad

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that they've they've jumped on this andtold them to cut it out, because
you know, a lot of familiesand relatives of these deceased famous people they
just want to cash in. Butgood for them for standing up for Tupac's
legacy and telling Drake, you know, hey, you didn't have permission to
use that. Unfortunately, a lotof celebrities are selling their likeness, selling

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their voices. I believe Harrison Fordhas already done it. A couple of
other people, so Yeah, we'regoing to see this a lot. Unfortunately,
and hopefully the people that don't wantto be involved in it, because
I think it's something that shouldn't behappening. Hopefully they'll sue and and hopefully
they'll cause things like cease and desist. All right, Speaking of rappers from

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Houston, Travis Scott is famous amongnon rap enthusiasts and Houston for being the
guy behind the Astro World music festivalwhere children die. Now, this happened
a little while back twenty twenty one, big music festival in Houston. Ten
people were killed. At the timeMayor Sylvester Turner endorsed it, he wanted
Astro World to be an annual holidayin Houston. I don't think he feels

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that way anymore. After kids werekilled and there were reports that people were
being injected with drugs. Some peoplehave cast a doubt on those reports,
but of course nothing good happened atthis festival. A judge has declined to
dismiss hundreds of lawsuits filed against rapstar Travis Scott over his role in organizing
that festival. And I got tothink if Travis Scott is responsible at least

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a couple of local politicians, includingMayor Turner and Lena Hidalgo, are responsible
as well. District Judge Kristen Hawkinsissued a one page order denying Scot's request
that he and his touring production companyXX Global should be dropped from the case.
Tim, what do you think aboutthis? I agree, I mean,
not knowing all the facts in theends and outs, I mean,

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if you're of the promoter of agiant music festival or film festival or whatever
kind of festival you're doing, it'sincumbent on you to ensure at least a
modicum of safety. And from everythingI've heard about it, it seems like
it was a total disaster. Soyeah, somebody has to bear the brunt

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of the cost for the loss oflife, for the injuries and stuff like
that. So if that falls onTravis Scott, and if they find out
anybody else was involved and negligent inany way, then it is what it
is. I mean, that's that'sthe risk you take when you put on
these large events. So I'm sureTravis, I don't know, I've never
heard of Travis Scott's song that I'maware of. I'm you know, sure,

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he sure people he has a lotof fans, and I'm sure he
does good stuff for the city ofHouston and stuff like that, but if
he's financially responsible in any way,I mean, somebody has to bear the
brunt of the cost of this tragedy. Okay, So interestingly enough, you
still see people walking around Houston wearingAstro World hoodies and I just cannot wrap

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my mind or I like, thisis the town where children died, who
would what? And it's always somewhite kid too. It's like some white
person in their twenties with an Astroworldhoodie on, and you can't speak common
sense to these people. But howdumb is that? What do we say
to these people when we see that? Yeah, it's a little tone death.
It's the same way I look atyou know, thirty percent of the

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population out here that's still running aroundwith masks. It's like, you do
you not know what time it is? It's time to let that go.
But yeah, it's just people thatare oblivious to what's going on around them.
Tim, you guys have a showcoming up in June, anything else
you want to promote? What's goingon with that? June fifteenth, We're

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going to be at the lux Theater. That is a big filming for Comedy
Dynamics featuring theo Emmy Taylor. Hegot selected to do that, so it's
going to be at seven pm thatSaturday, June fifteenth. Also have a
show in Bay City on June eighth, so come on out to both of
those. I'll be in town forabout three weeks, going to do some

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TV, some radio and stuff likethat. So I hope to see you
guys in June. Oh, Ilove it. I'm going to be there.
I want to introduce you my man. I will be at that show.
Folks. We'll keep you posted onit. Hey, I'm Kenny Webster.
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