Will the Texas power grid fail this summer?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens and Daniel Turner from Power the Future.  ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

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Jack gannon government sucks. Suit ofHappiness radio is deluxe. Liberty and freedom
will make you smile for Suit ofHappiness on your radio to hel just as
Jeez Burg just a liberty rise atfood Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden says he

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thinks his dad, Joe should stayin the race despite last week's debate performance.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I mean, you'd have to
be smoking crack to think something likethat. So yeah, that does check
out. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. So much on the show today.
The latest on yesterday's big ruling fromthe Supreme Court about Donald Trump having immunity,
well, President's having immunity for officialacts. We'll talk about that,

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Uh the president. By the way, Joe Biden just came out with announcements
new rules for workers working in extremeheat, and how this is going to
affect the election, and how probablyit's not actually gonna shift the narrative of
the liberal media, but they're goingto try anyway. We'll get to all
that. Daniel Turner stopping by fromPower the Future. You know Rudy Giuliani,
you remember him, America's mayor ofNew York City after nine to eleven

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they just disbarred him because he's aDonald Trump supporter. So we'll be getting
to that as well. Speaking ofthe climate world of climate change and energy
and that sort of thing, GovernorAbbot, Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick said
they expect the power grid to failthis summer because of extreme heat, and
we have the latest news from Texassquarecard dot com on what that might mean,

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how it could affect your life tostick around for all that. But
before we get to any of that, could we talk a little bit more
about the Supreme Court ruling from Fridayherring fishermen in Rhode Island and New Jersey
challenging regulatory fees. They said,we're never authorized by Congress and winning it's
that Chevron defference. I had alot of people reach out to me and

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ask me questions about what that.I know it's confused, So I just
figured i'd start to show today witha really simple explanation. Spike Cohen recently
wrote about this, and I thoughthe explained it quite well. If you
don't understand what Chevron deference is andwhy the Supreme Court ended it, here's
the long and short of it.Basically, there's this company called Loper Bright
Enterprises. It's a family fishing company, and they were being driven out of

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business in part because they said theycouldn't afford a seven hundred dollars per day
fee they were being charged by theNational Marine Fishery Service to monitor their company
seven hundred dollars per Could you imaginehaving to pay seven hundred dollars per day
in order to do your job.That's a lot of money. I have
a friend who recently got hired fora job over in the Texas Medical Center

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and was complaining to me that it'sninety dollars a month to park over there.
Yeah, that's a lot, butit's not seven hundred dollars a day
a lot. The thing is,federal law does not authorize the National Marine
Fisheries Service to charge businesses seven hundreddollars per day. They just decided to
start doing that back in twenty thirteen. You're probably thinking, well, why

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did they think they could get awaywith charging people without any legal authorization.
Well, the ANSWER's pretty simple.Way back in nineteen eighty four, there
was this court case. This SupremeCourt decided, in what was called the
Chevron Decision, that regulatory agencies werethe experts in their field, and the
courts should just defer to their interpretationof the law whenever they see fit.

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So for the past forty years,roughly most of my adult most of my
life, federal agencies have been ableto interpret laws to mean whatever they want,
and the courts just had to goalong with it. Until Friday.
That was called the Chevron deference,and it put bureaucrats in charge of the
country. It was very Unamerican.People that call themselves democrats, who think

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that democracy is at risk of beingdestroyed right now, will tell you that
elections shouldn't determine the rules. Expertsshould the sh Chevron defference, and it's
how OSHA was able to decide that, or the National Marine Fishery Service,
for example, that everyone who workedfor a large company had to do what

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they were For example, OHSH justsaid everybody that worked at a big company
had to get the COVID JEB orbe fired. No law gave them the
authority to do that. They justmade it up. It's also how the
ATF was able to decide a pieceof plastic is a machine gun, and
not surprisingly, it is how theNCRS was able to decide that a small
puddle was a protected wetland. It'show out of control agencies had been able

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to create rules out of thin airand force you to comply, and the
courts had to simply defer to thembecause they were the experts. I want
you to imagine if your local policecould just arrest you for any reason,
and no judge or jury was allowedto determine if you'd actually committed a crime
or not, you just go offto jail. That's what the Chevron difference.

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It was not just blatantly unconstitutional,blatantly on American it caused immeasurable amounts
of harm to everyone. And thankfullynow it's gone. We haven't even begun
to feel the effects of this decisionin courts. It will be used for
years to come to roll back federalagencies, and we're all going to be
better off because of it. Andthat's why politicians and corporate media are freaking

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out right now. The authoritarians whocall themselves democrats lost a lot of power
on Friday, and they're very madabout it now. More to the point
here, the end of the ChevronDeference doesn't just get rid of these regulatory
agencies. It also gets rid ofthings like this. Listen to this comment
from the CDC director explaining how quotescience works. So I would call probably

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the person I called most was theSecretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts.
She worked for a publican governor,just to but you know when she
was like, are you are yougoing to let them have professional football?
And I was like nope, andshe's like, okay, neither are we
near? Are we? So youknow, it was like conversations like that.

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So or I'd be like, so, when are you gonna think about
lightening up a mess? Or likeit like next Monday. I'm like,
okay, next. That's how scienceworks, guys. One politician, one
bureaucrat calls another pure bureaucrat and says, hey, should we uh, during
the pandemic, should we let peopleplay football? Nah? I don't think
so. Oh okay, well yeah. To those who think that now corporations

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will be able to put radioactive shrapnelin our milk, you should know two
things. Number one, negligence lawsstill exist, right, And number two,
you're an idiot. There is nonumber two pursuit of happiness radio If
you are a resident or a taxpayeror a property owner in the state of

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Texas, and I know a lotof you are. Governor Abbott, Greg
Abbott and Dan Patrick, that's yourlieutenant Governor, just put out a statement
saying they are very concerned about thepower grid going offline this summer. Brandon
Waltons will be here a little laterin the show to talk about that.
But the grid failure is what they'retalking about. Gets hot outside. And
look, we've had this discussion before. We've gone through it over and over

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again. The people on the left, even a lot of Republicans will tell
you, Yeah, the solution iswind farms, more wind farms. Well,
New Jersey has dabbled a little bitin the world of wind farms.
In fact, the US just gavekey approval to Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm
in New Jersey. I think thisis the eighth if I'm not mistaken.

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There's more than one wind farm outthere now. I don't know how many
of you guys keep up with thenews from that part of the country,
but you remember a little while back, and I mean it wasn't that long
ago. It was during Biden's timein office. All these dead whales started
showing up on the beaches in NewJersey or the Upper East Coast. He
said, well, what's causing this? An environment nalists came out and said
it's actually the wind farms. Environmentalistssaid, these wind farms have got to

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stop. Wait a second, you'reenvironmentalists. You're the ones that told us
we had to build more wind farmsbecause coal and nuclear power were the problem.
Now you suddenly acknowledge maybe wind farmsaren't as great for the environment as
you previously told us. Anyway,they're coming, whether we like it or
not. They're gonna be building moreof them, and you do get a
little nervous wondering if they're going totry this here in Texas. I think

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there were some proposals to do it. I don't know where we're at on
that right now. It's certainly somethingthat's been discussed here with some key input
from the world of energy and energyindustry expert Daniel Turner from Power the Future,
Daniel good, Good, afternoon,my brother, wind farms are coming
to New Jersey. They're going tohave even more of them. Not good
news if you're a sperm whale.Apparently, no, it's not, and

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not long ago at Ordsted, theworld's largest wind turbine company. They canceled
their New Jersey plans because they realizedit was not profitable. So it's kind
of funny that Governor Fee, thegovernor of New Jersey, was devastated to
see that his wind dreams were canceledfor market reasons, so that now they're

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resurrecting it. And the reason whyis, of course, the inflation or
the one point two trillion dollars estimatedby the Wall Street Journal of green spending.
And suddenly it is profitable when thegovernment has to prop it up,
and Texas has experienced that for fouryears now, so it's it's great on

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your part, and thank you formaking a correlation between wind farms in Jersey
and what you're doing in Texas andyour governor saying they're worried about the grid.
Wind only works when there's government cashpumped into it. Maybe it is
the worrying of the of the theprinting of the US tax dollars that moves

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the wind turbines, because clearly theenergy industry itself would not survive if we're
dependent upon wind, right exactly,Solar panels and wind they tell you all
the time, these are so affordable, they're so much cheaper than the alternative,
than oil or you know, coalor nuclear, And suddenly you realize,
all right, well, the windturbine companies, the solar panel companies

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are getting tons of subsidies. Ifoil and gas, if coal, if
fossil fuels were getting those kinds ofsubsidies, if you know, if nuclear
was getting those kinds of subsidies,suddenly those would be the things that would
be cheaper. Subsidies make everything cheaper. Maybe the real argument is just the
taxes are too high. The problemwith wind and solar is that we cannot

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ever predict what the wind and thesun do tomorrow. And farmers know that
best. They don't know if it'sgoing to rain next month. They don't
know if it's going to have sunnext month. They hope it will right
those planting crops, they hope,but they don't know for sure. So
if you have a solar panel companyor a wind power company, you're a
guaranteed or you're proposing to provide xamount of electricity to your customers this month,

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but you have no idea if ifyou have enough wind or sun coming
in to provide that electricity. That'sa huge problem in the marketplace, and
that's why wind and solar will alwaysbe inefficient and quite frankly inferior electricity production
capability. Perfectly explain my man,all right. Another bizarre talking point from
the climate change activists, from theclimate change industry now, is that all

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these problems we've been having lately onairplanes with Boeing airplanes and their parts are
falling from the sky and all thesemechanical issues, it's not DEI. It's
not diversity, equity and inclusion.It's not egalitarianism. It's not because we
fired all the older white guys andhired a bunch of very important black lesbians
to do their job. It's becauseof climate change. Climate change apparently is

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the problem here, is your transportationsecretary, mayor peat booty jig. The
reality is the effects of climate changeare already upon us in terms of our
transportation. We've seen that in theform of everything from heat waves that shouldn't
statistically even be possible threatening to meltthe cables of transit systems in the Pacific
Northwest, to hurricane seasons becoming moreand more extreme, and indications that turbulence

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is up by about fifteen percent.Okay, turbulence is up by fifteen percent.
What is so interesting about all thisis, technically he's not lying,
right, We're calculating the Earth's temperaturein places we've never calculated it before.
We're calculating turbulence more than ever beforebecause there's more airplanes in the sky.
But does that actually mean that climatechange is calculating is causing all of these

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problems or is it just because we'renow more aware of it. No,
this is just typical Mayor Pete,our favorite little cubscale who is just desperate
to blame every problem on something outsideof his control. This is kind of
the standard mantra now of leftists,right when you think about it, they're
a pretty beta group of of ofindividuals. Right. They desire power,

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they want power, but they're incapableof actually executing or governing effectively. So
when things, you know, goto go to crap, what do they
do? They blame climate change.Mayor pot Pete is incapable of being transportation
secretary. He has no background inthe transportation industry, but he fit the
diversity box. He got the job, and when he fails at the job,

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he can say, well, youknow what, this is all the
effect of climate change. So youknow, it's ridiculous to even have this
conversation because what you introduced is exactlythe right criteria. We have more planes
in the sky now than ever before. Of course, we're going to have
more incidences of turbulence because it's aquality, quantitative number. The number is

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only going to go up. Similarly, we're going to have more hurricane damage
in Florida this year than last yearbecause one hundred thousand more people now live
in Florida, so the number isonly going to go up. Right,
So this is the stupidity of theclimate argument. It's just a bunch of
number games to wash their hands ofthe actual hard job of being in charge.

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All right, Apparently our fearless leaderhis fraudulency, Joe Biden is unveiling
a long awaited proposal to protect workersfrom extreme temperatures. Either it's too hot
or it's too cold, and that'smy fault because I had to fly Economy
plus for the extra leg room insteadof just doing regular economy. It's all
my fault. Apparently, have youhad a chance to look at this yet?

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New rules for extreme what if somebodywants to work in the heat.
What if we're willing to pay someonemore to work on a hot day and
they're willing to take the job.What exactly is Joe saying? Here the
funny thing of the punitive measures hehas in place, and right now,
every you know I would have,certainly every thirteen year old son is looking
at their dad saying, get ready, make me mow this long again.

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In August, I'm coming after youwith the full force of the Biden White
House. This is just pure,you know, a pandering in a campaign
season. People who work in thisindustry know the temperatures they face, whether
they work indoors or outdoors in youknow, I've been on the North Slope
in the middle of winter. Thoseguys know exactly what they're doing. They

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took the job voluntarily. This isalso a very blatant, without saying the
word, a very blatant outreach tothe illegal community who is picking most of
the fruits and vegetables right now.Biden has has welcomed them with open arms.
He doesn't want them to have realjobs, he doesn't want them to
pay taxes. He wants them todo menial labor. But he needs their

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support, so he's going to say, hey, look, I know we
snuck you across the border. Nowyou're working somewhere in you know, the
planes picking fruit, and we're goingto make this hollow gesture to pretend that
we actually care about you. Thisis every single effort of Joe Biden to
not talk about his horrible debate performanceor his very bizarre orange coloring. Last

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night in his hostile remarks of theSupreme Court, suddenly he got a tan.
So Biden wants to talk about anythingother than his lousy performance, So
let's talk about extreme heat. Didyou see that? Apparently, according to
Politico, at the big meeting lastweekend with Biden's family, Joe, excuse
me, Jill and Hunter wanted themakeup artists fired, and then suddenly Joe

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shows up with an orange tan?Are they trying to make him look more
like Trump? When he walked outon stage last Thursday, my first reaction
was, boy does he look pale? And then when he walked out on
stage last night, my first reactionwas, boy does he look orange?
So yeah, they don't get hiscoloring right, but you know what,
he has the coloring of someone whoisn't outside. Joe Biden doesn't golf,

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he pretends he does. We sawhim ride a bike one and he fell
over. We haven't seen that since. Right, He's only awake from four
to six, so they told uswe're ten to four. I should say,
yeah, So he's not outside,he's not getting any sun. And
when he's in Delaware, he's clearlyin some sort of plastic bubble being injected

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with all sorts of oxygen and chemicals. So he looks very, very unhealthy
because he is very unhealthy. Yeah. It's interesting too because they're blaming everybody
but Joe. They're saying that hisaids spent too much time prepping him for
that debate. Even Jen Psase,even former White House Press secretary turned MSNBC

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liberal talking show Jen Psase, isnot buying it. Even Shoe seems to
think Joe's the problem here. Yeah. Do you remember the Macedonian server farms
that Hillary Clinton blamed for her electionloss? That was my all time favorite.
This is very, very similar tothat, Right, this is Joe

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Biden trying to find an excuse toblame absolutely anybody for his terrible performance.
I think it was the great MarkStein who came up with a list for
Hillary back in sixteen, and Ithink at top twenty, and so Biden's
at about four or five now,right, he's overprepared, he's underprepared.
He had a cold right that didn'tlast very long. So this is again

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anything to deflect from the fact thatthis is a man who should not be
president, is incapable of being president, and boy, we're all feeling the
effects of that, because life inAmerica right now is pretty darn miserable.
One more question for you before wego today. You are a New Yorker,
or at least you used to be. You don't live there anymore.

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You live there now. I thinkyou live on a farm in Virginia,
which is nothing like living in NewYork. But you were probably in New
York during nine to eleven. Youprobably remember Rudy giulianium America's mayor, rolling
up his sleeves there and trying tohelp people out. Now, apparently,
after getting sued for defamation, hehas to pay one hundred and forty eight

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million dollars, so he's declared bankruptcy. And the latest on this is he's
just been disbarred, even though he'seighty years old, he could no longer
earn a living as a lawyer.What do you think about that? Yeah,
I actually wasn't in New York onnine to eleven. I was overseas.
Actually I was still a kid,And I remember I felt a little
bit like less than New Yorker becauseall of my my brothers, my dad

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were all in evacuation mode, right, they were all They all worked on
the island of Manhattan, even thoughwe lived in different boroughs, and so,
you know, watched it all froma long distance. Phones were cut
off internationally. So went some timebefore I knew the status of my enormous
Irish Italian family in New York.So horrible times, and Rudy pulled us

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through all that, you know,and even before that, he was cleaning
up the city that, after decadesof Democrat rule, was just a dirty
hellhole. I left New York becauseI remember at eighteen thinking I don't want
to live in this god forsaken placeof fear and filth and crime. And

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I never went back. So Ihave a love for Rudy, for Rudy
Giuliani because of what he did innine to eleven and what he did beyond.
But it shows, you know,Kenny, I will give this to
our enemies. They are tenacious andrelentless, and they you know, they
don't look at Rudy Giuliani as thehero of New York City. They see

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him as a Trump ally and theyare gonna make his life flipping miserable to
the day they die, because they'reevil, evil people and they have to
be defeated. And so tragic whatthey're doing to Rudy. Tragic what they've
done to Trump. But you knowwhat, you and I are on the
list. Brother. They'll come afterus soon enough. Yeah, I sleep
better and I knowing I'll soon besleeping in a FEMA camp bunk bed.

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I just hope I can bring mymy pillow. Promo CODWJ Daniel Turner,
Power the Future. Find him atPower Thefuture dot com. Follow him on
social media. If you work inthe oil and gas industry, Daniel Turner
is probably a person you should keepin touch with. It's never too early
to learn that the government is agreedy piglet that suckles on a taxpayer's teat

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until they have sore, chapped nipples. The Pursuit of Happiness Radio on AM
nine point fifty KPRC. All right, so apparently Biden's family is urging him
to stay in the race because they'drather have him in the White House than
at their house. Yeah, thatchecks out. I mean, I guess

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I feel the same way, right. You know, I was looking at
the situation right now in our countrywith the children of very influential people.
Nepo babies is a term that's commonlybeing used right now to describe people like
Lebron James Son, for example,who is now going to play on the

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same basketball team as his dad.People are pretty mad about this. Well,
look, it's not a new concept. It's just a new term.
Nepo baby. It means nepotism.Life's a lot easier when your parents are
celebrities. You know, there arejust some places you and I'll never be
able to go, Like this hotnew night club. I don't think we're
allowed inside. Ronnie James, youwere just drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers

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because of who your dad is.Where will you celebrate love? Nepo?
We're the only idea you need toget in is your parents. Come party
with Dakota Johnson mom, actress,dad director. When at altro Mom actress
Dad producer Jaden Smith Mom bald DadTemperamental with music by Sean Lennon Dad Beatles,

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Mom killed the Beatles and Miley CyrusDad punchline. Yeah that sounds like
fun. Can I kill it?Who's your mom? Well, she's a
librarian. It's Alma love. Becauseit's not who you know, it's who
you came from. It's time onceagain for voicemail messages from you. The

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date. Does that make sense.I am never gonna listen to your station
again. I'm turning it off everysingle time I listen to Bartesian commercials.
I can't take it anymore. Idon't drink. I can't drink, and
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on my wrap. It's supposed tobe directed to the in No man,
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Who cares about Lena Abdogles staff?Why don't they take the put charges on
her like they did Trump. Idon't care about Lena Abdogle stat he's the
one that started all this mess.Hear and rodnyills Okay, I don't know
if you could understand that, gentleman, because it's kind of loud in the

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background. He's asking why is itthat the charges are going towards Harris County
Judge Lena had Dalgo's staff were indicted, not recently, by the way,
this happened over a year ago.At this point. They were indicted because
they were involved in a bid riggingscheme for COVID vaccine outreach. Remember,
it was supposed to go to theUniversity of Texas, and they rigged the
bid process so that it would goto some woman that lives in a bong

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shop in Montrose. That isn't exactlywhy what happened, but you know is
somebody that was clearly underqualified. Theanswer to the question, sir, why
is it happening to her staff andnot her, is because they're taking the
fall. They're the ones that gotarrested. When the Texas Rangers and Harris
County District Attorney Kim Ogg conducted theirinvestigation, they found evidence of the fact

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that these people broke the law.They didn't find evidence of Lena Hadalgo breaking
the law. Now it's probably prettyobvious who they take their marching orders from
and if they're given immunity in thiscase to testify against her. Look,
all I'm saying is the case againstLena Hidalgo isn't over yet, but for
the time being, it's sitting inlimbo. And yes, her staff members

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are the ones that are in legaltrouble at the moment, not her.
I hope that answers your question.Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, let's be
said, Mitch McConnell. Wouldn't freezeup in the heat. You never been
to Autumn Zoom and you see theturtles when it's real hot. They just
sit there and they don't move.I love you, Kenny. Thanks,
I love you too. I don'tquite understand the reference, but I still

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loved listening to it. Salute fromAppalachia Maxine Waters is still saying white folks
are up here in Hill Country trainingto massacred democracy. I live in the
reddest county and the reddest district andour Republic. We're just chilling, and
I suggest the commedi's do sane.We ain't looking for no trouble. But
I guarantee you if a man comeshere looking for it, he won't have

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to be looking far transmission. Thankyou, Dale, I appreciate the voicemail.
Yeah. Maxine Waters says that rightwingers are preparing our militias to go
storm the Capitol a second time.I kind of feel like that's what she
wants to be true. At theend of the day, Democrats will just
tell you the reality they want toexist, not necessarily the one that does

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exist. And I guess at theend of the day that's the best way
to understand how liberals think. Hello, my name is Pedro. My favorite
things to do are smuggle drugs,pro create like a rabbit, and listen
to Pursuit of Happiness Radio with producerKini Peace Stupi. The Supreme Court has

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blocked President Biden's air pollution rules.Biden was at a loss for words.
Then he found out about the SupremeCourt blocking his air pollution rules. Thanks
for turning on the radio. I'mKenny Webster. We still got one more
segment to go this afternoon. Infact, if you are a resident of
Texas, this is kind of aTexas News themed segment. Kind of.
I mean literally, that's exactly whatit is. Here in the state of

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Texas. You got this guy namedAbbott maybe you've heard of him. He's
the governor. And then you gotthis other guy named dan Patrick, maybe
you've heard of him. He's thelieutenant governor. And combined together they're probably
the two most powerful people in thestate minus the attorney general. And they
are sounding the alarm, so tospeak, on the power grid. Brandon
Waltons of Texas scorecard dot Com ishere. Brandon. I thought we were
past this already. They think Aircot'sgoing to have issues again. Well,

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it's more looking into the very nearfuture. I mean what you had recently
is the head of Urkott testified thatTexas might need one hundred and fifty thousand
megawatts of power to support the gridby the year of twenty thirty. That's
just six years away. So that'sone hundred and fifty thousand megauats that's what
he's saying Texas might need. Well, currently Texas has around eighty five thousand

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megawatts of capacity. That's about whatwe can provide, so almost double.
Right, Texas is going to needto double its power sources between now in
the next six years, and ifthat is the actual case, and if
those numbers two hold out, GovernorAbbott Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick are saying we
need to have an immediate review ofall policies concerning the grid because this is

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going to be a real problem.You know, there was a poll done
recently. Texans don't have faith init. Most Texans, the majority of
Texans think that they'll probably be apower grid failure this summer. And so
whether or not that happens, infact that people are left feeling concerned every
time the temperatures get high or low, and Texas is a problem. Yeah,
there's something to be said about that. Quick reminder, folks, Generator
supercenter dot com. You don't haveto let this affect you generat generators a

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generator supercenter dot com. You know, all that being said, if people
can't afford a generator, it's understandable. You know, it's a it's an
expense. Not everybody could purchase that. They do offer financing. But I
have an idea. I have anotheridea too, Brandon, And I know
that you're a journalist and a reporter. You're not anybody in a position of
authorities. So saying this to youis about as useful as saying into somebody

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that lives under a bridge across thestreet from the radio station. But what
if we built one more nuclear powerplant out in West Texas somewhere. We'd
create a few jobs. We wouldn'thave to have this conversation once every six
months. Is that is anybody proposingthat? I mean, that seems like
a reasonable thing to do, right, Well, it seems reasonable to me.

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I mean, I'm not an experton energy policy, but that sounds
a lot more reasonable than what thestate has done in the past, which
is, unfortunately, spend billions oftaxpayer dollars subsidizing wind and solar, which
are the first to go seemingly whenevera problem strikes. And so you know,
it's time that the state actually startencouraging and traps even investing in reliable

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sources of power rather than unreliable energy. Yeah, and everybody always brings up
February twenty twenty one, the timewe had that winter storm and the grid
went offline, as an example ofhow we're not prepared for this stuff.
And I can't help but notice,because I have a long memory, Brandon
that same month that that happened.That happened right after Abbott was given an
award for his efforts to promote windand solar energy in the state of Texas.

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Why are we giving him awards ifwe can't get the grid right?
Yeah, And I think that that'swhy. I mean that that was part
of it, right. I mean, nobody can forget the pictures of the
frozen wind turbines that sort of saidit all right. I mean, if
pictures worth a thousand words, thosepictures really set it all. And so
you know, this is somethings.The Republican Party of Texas has made a

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legislative priority, as part of theirpriority to say, we need to protect
the grid. But in order tohave a grid to protect, we need
to protect it by making sure thatwe're supplying it with reliable energy sources.
And that's hopefully what the state's goingto come in and do. But you
know, when you look at thetimeline of this, I mean, building
these plants takes time, and ifthese numbers pan out, Texas doesn't have

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a lot of time to get thisright. And didn't there Republican leadership with
the last time we talked about thishave some weird, convoluted idea about how
they wanted to bring cryptos to thestate. These guys are gonna mine for
bitcoin and then when the grid's gettingweak, we'll call them on the phone
and we'll ask them to take abreak for a few hours from mining for
cryptocurrency so we could get enough energy. Like, how could that possibly be

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the solution? Yeah, you know, I don't understand that. I mean,
I think you know, I've heardthat that sort of discussion. To
me, it just comes down toit as simple as let's make sure that
we're getting more you know, naturalgas plants, more things like that,
more things that are actually reliable,rather than coming up with these schemes where
okay, we're going to do youknow, a crypto this, or we're

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going to do this or that.Let let's just make sure we're allowing these
to be built. We're standing uphere. In many cases, federal government
is unfortunately a can be a hindranceto building some of these plants. Like
to make sure that that sort ofregulation gets out of the way and that
we're able to do this all right. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is also in

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the middle of another news story todayand this I'm if this is something I
support him big time. On Joscelyn'sLaw. Twelve year old Joscelyn Unger a
a young woman, a little girlthat was murdered here in our community.
We were the first people to breakthis story on this radio, the Well
on our morning show. When thisnews story happened, my first thought was,
I bet it was illegal immigrants,and I bet she was sexually assaulted.

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And before any news outlet reported onthat, I called local people I
know in law enforcement, and Iasked him what do you guys think,
and they said, yeah, itcertainly looks that way. That's what we
think. Turns out that's the case, and now we learn about a proposed
law being put forward called Joscelyn's Law. This is another example of not only
were these criminals not supposed to bein the country to begin with, but

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they were captured and released right like. There was more than once that we
could have prevented this from happening.Absolutely, and that's part of what makes
the story so tragic, is howpreventable it was, and how repeatedly preventable
it was. Every step along theway was a chance to stop this,
and ultimately protect chosin Tenant covernor DanPatrick out there saying that the Senate will

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once again pass and they've done thisbefore, pass bail reform in a meaningful
way that would automatically deny bail forthose facing capital murder charges. This should
be a no brainer, and yetthis is something that they passed out the
Senate was killed in the House.At the same time, he's talking about
wanting to extend the law as well, to make it so that you can

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have you can put the death penaltyon the table for people who kill children
under the age of fifteen right now. Believe it or not, it's a
death penalty climb. You can getthe death penalty if you killed a child
ten or under, but if they'rebetween ten and fifteen, that's off the
table unless there's another aggravating factor inthis case would apply if the sexual assault

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allegations end up being proven correct,which I think they will be. But
you know, making sure that thatTexas has laws and the ability to where
we can take the hands out ofthese activist judges. But ultimately, this
is something that unfortunately was very preventable. Yeah, it's so obvious that that
little girl, I mean that whatwe think happened to her is certainly what

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how? What else were they doingunder that bridge for two hours? I
don't even want to think about it. But yesterday I had lunch with some
Republican Party establishment insiders, not necessarilypeople that are on our side of a
lot of these arguments, Brandon.And it's my understanding that not only the
establishment, the grassroots guys, theConservatives, the moderates, even a lot

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of Democrats all seem to be supportingthis law. Yeah, and I think
that you're going to see a lotof momentum on this heading into the upcoming
session. Like I said, Ihave no doubt that it'll pass the Senate,
but the House has unfortunately been thehinterrance. All Right, here's an
interesting headline on your website today fromDeborah McClure, Deborah mcluir. Excuse me,

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ICE operation arrests eleven human rights violatorsin Texas and across the US.
Brandon, What is a human rightsviolator in this context? Yeah? So
this was interesting. This was arecent operation that was largely in places Dallas,
El Pasos, Houston, where ICE'sEnforcement and Removal Operations units worked with

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additional agencies to arrest what they havedescribed as human rights violators. What does
that mean. Well, among theseforeign nationals arrested, you had three that
were accused of executions and forced disappearances, collecting intelligence for Violet regime regime regimes.
You had individuals from Africa that weresuspected of similar things, recruiting child

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soldiers. I mean, these aresome of the worst of the worst,
and they're coming across the border.Yeah, okay, so I guess something's
being done about it at the veryleast. Yes, well, they at
least caught them in this operation.They've been arrested. But you know,

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as long as the border is wideopen and as long as these people are
able to come across, we're goingto be able to catch some of them.
But the sad fact is, andyou know this as well as I
do, that there are many ofthese people coming across that we unfortunately are
not arresting. We don't see andthey are getting across and it's not you
know, as this story proves,it's not just people coming across from Mexico.

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They're coming through Mexico, but they'recoming from many other countries, Africa,
Asia, South America, the listgoes on. All right, question
for you about some of these Texasthere's more than one policy. I think
the Texas lawmakers are proposing right nowto secure the border here in the state
of Texas. More that we coulddo theoretically if the federal government doesn't step

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in. But right now, boyBrannon, I mean, knock on wood
here, But it really looks likeif Trump wins in November, as a
state, do we need to keepdoing more or you know, in the
not too distant future, do youthink it's possible the federal government's going to
step up and these are things wewon't have to worry about as a state.
Well, I think if Iff Trumpis elected and gets put into office,

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I think you're going to see avery very big response from the federal
government to crack down on this.I think it is helpful to have state
units and state tools as well tobe able to compliment those federal enforcement I
mean, with bind in office rightnow, we need a state border enforcement
operation just to pick up the slackwhere they're completely advocating the responsibility. But

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it would be very very powerful tohave both the state and the federal government
working together to stop this problem.We could stop it a lot faster.
Brandon, as always, fantastic work. Texascorecard dot com is the website.
You could subscribe to their email list. You could follow my buddy Brandon Walton's
on social media. You autot youought ought yes is the point. I'm

(38:51):
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