Will Hollywood regret making JD Vance rich and famous?

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

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Giganic government sucks. Suit of Habinessradio is deluxe. Liberty and freedom will
make you smile. A suit ofhabbiness on your radio toil, just as
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seventy three cents, which is actuallyvery appropriate if you think about it,
considering seventy three is also the averageage of anyone who still uses the postal
Service. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. You turned on your radio and we're
happy to be here with you,so thanks for joining us. My guests
over the next hour will be DanielTurner from Power the Future. We're going
to take a look at what's goingon today with Senator Bob Menendez of New

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Jersey. He's in a little bitof trouble, just got convicted for being
a foreign agent. I wonder whatpolitical party he is in. Oh And
also, for some reason, windturbines are showing up on the beaches of
Nantucket. White liberals on the UpperEast Coast are not happy about this.
We'll get to that soon. Hangaround. Plus, Brandon Waltons is stopping
by from Texas scorecard dot Com.It is an interesting time right now at

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the Republican National Convention for the Texasdelegates who apparently have something like a two
hour commute from their hotel to theconvention. That sounds like a little bit
of an exaggeration, but it's notmuch. But before we get to any
of that, let's talk a littlebit about what has happened under the umbrella
of news stories related to last weekend'sbotched assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And

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it is just fascinating. By now, you've all learned that the head of
the Secret Service is an advocate forDEI diversity, equity and inclusion. She
was a close personal friend of theCheneese, she's a close personal friend to
Joe Biden, and she says she'snot going to step down and resign after

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a laundry list of incidents last Saturdaythat never should have taken place but did
helped lead to the incident in whichDonald Trump ended up getting shot in the
year, two innocent people ended upat the hospital and one innocent person ended
up dead. Well interestingly enough,Congress wants to ask her some questions.

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The Republicans are right to want toknow what happened as the Establishment the deep
state basically let the number one pollingpolitical candidate in America right now almost die.
Oddly enough, may Orcus isn't downwith that. Oh yeah, you
remember him. The head of theDepartment of Homeland Security, Alejandro maiorcis it

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is the same guy that they wantedto impeach because of the open borders and
the massive crime wave happening all overthe country. Well, the Department of
Homeland Security has opened an investigation afterthe Secret Service catastrophically failed to protect Trump
at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last week. But oddly enough is

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blocking the Secret Service director from testifyingin front of Congress. Doesn't want her
talking. Trump escaped death after abullet went through his ear while he was
speaking. The shooter was positioned onan unsecured roof one hundred and forty yards
away from the stage. The DHSInspector General also opened an investigation, and

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Republicans and Democrats have been asking alot of questions. They've launched separate investigations
called on the Secret Service director KimberleyCheedle to testify. No relation to don
by the way, and that's supposedto go down Monday, supposed to happen
next week. House Speaker Mike Johnsonsays that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis is attempting

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to block Cheetle from testifying. Johnson'scalling on Cheetle to resign, and I
happen to agree with him. MikeJohnson's correct. Johnson says he will call
on USSS Director Cheatle to resign.Johnson says he is hearing rumblings that Cheetle
may not testify. His claim isbacked up by reporting from Tuesday. Spencer

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Brown reports Biden's Department of Homeland Security, led by impeached Secretary Alejandro Majorcis just
stepped in to block the Secret Servicefrom providing a previously agreed to briefing to
lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee.If this isn't a cause for a Congressional
hearing, the previous and probably thenext leader of the free world almost dying

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due in part to negligence from ourSecret Service, what what exactly would qualify
for testifying? Here's Speaker Mike Johnson. The House is conducting an immediate and
thorough investigation of these tragic events,and that work has already begun. The

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American people deserve to know the truth, and we will ensure accountability. I
promise you that. I promise youthat. Yeah, with Mike Johnson,
something very odd about all this,isn't there. Meanwhile, failed RNC chair
turned Democrat you remember him, MichaelSteele just floated a debunked conspiracy theory that
a shard of glass injured Trump,not a bullet. He was speaking on

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MSNBC. Michael Steele, another oneof these turncoats so called conservatives, said
no medical reports have been released,and he questioned the extent the year was
injured. Now, despite left leaningfact checkers like Snopes giving a false rating
to these claims, even Snopes didn'tbelieve it that glass from a teleprompter hit
Trump's ear and not a bullet.The commentator Michael Steele floated the theory anyway.

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Snopes pointed to photographs of the telepromptersperfectly intact following the shooting. Wasn't
no bullet ever hit the teleprompter?And a very powerful image captured by the
New York Times journalist of the bulletwhizzing past Trump's ear. Have you seen
that it's a He had one ofthose fancy cameras s HD camera picks up

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stuff in high definition. Trump saidit was a bullet that pierced the upper
part of his right ear. MichaelSteele didn't believe it. He said,
there's a lot of questions around thatear. Are there you guys? I'm
sorry, you guys actually think Trump'slying about this? Isn't it just silly?
There is a somewhat silver lining toall of this. I mean,

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what happened was awful. But thewidow of the volunteer firefighter who was fatally
shot at the Trump rally said shereceived a phone call from Trump. Trump
called her to share his condolences.She said he was very kind. He
said he would continue to call herin the days and weeks ahead. He
told her the same thing he toldeveryone else. She said, I told

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him the same thing I told everyoneelse. Her husband, Corey left this
world a hero, and God welcomedmen. He did not die in vain
that day. The father of twodied protecting his family when shots rang out,
ordering them to get down, andthen shielding their bodies with his own.
That is, I mean, wow, just powerful stuff. God bless

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America. We are at a strangemoment in history right now where we are
separating the lions from the sheep,the men from the boys, and we're
really seeing with people like Donald Trumpand Michael Steele a hunch contrast between one
group and the other. Aren't weSo we're supposed to live within our income

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so we can afford to pay taxesto a government they can't live within its
income. Yeah, that Kenny Webster'spursuit of happiness. Really, that's fascinating.
Aren't aliens supposed to probe us?Wait a second, No, all
right, Hi, we're back frombreak everybody. I'm Kenny Webster. You
turned on your radio. That meansyou get to listen to me talk to

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people, and hopefully it'll be interesting. I have a funny feeling it will.
I was just looking at this thinggoing on right now in Nantucket.
There once was a girl from Nantucketand she was gonna go swimming, but
she couldn't because there was too muchdebris on the beach. Debris on the
beach Annual Turner from Power of theFuture. This must really be upsetting environmentalists.
What sort of debris is washing upon the beach of Nantucket? Yeah,

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the the wind turbines are not strongerthan the storm, and it looks
like a strong breeze came through andblew them off their foundation and blew them
into the water and shattered them intothousands of plastic shards. I mean so
much so that they had to closethe beaches as they try to do clean

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up. Terrible story. Right.I don't wish for any destruction of anyone's
property, public or private. Butbut you know, this is the larger
conversation as to what are the drawbacksof these silly solar farms and should we
be building them across all of ourshorelines? Wind wind farms? You mean,
not solar farms, right me,wind farms, Yeah, that's okay.

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Yeah, weorking with solar farms,as we saw in Texas with that
hailstorm though, same thing. Right, Well, here's my question. So
it's wind farms, they're wind turbines. You're telling me these wind turbines were
destroyed by wind. Yeah, Iknow that's shocking, right, I know
that is very hard. And ofcourse they're trying to blame this on a

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hurricane Beryl, and they're saying,you know, the same hurricane that the
Houston area just faced, this isthe remnants of it. But what you
all faced and what the Gulf ofMexico faced is not the same storm after
it traversed continental America and ended upoff the coast of Massachusetts. Right now.
It's not a hurricane. It wasn'teven a tropical storm. It was
it was wind, and obviously itwas strong enough to knock these things over.

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Wow, when you say it likethat, Daniel, it makes it
sound like these wind turbines are abad idea, but environmentalists told us to
put them there, so how couldthey be mad about it? Yeah,
that's kind of a joke, andit's you know, it's just a little
bit of irony that had happened inNantucket, where John Kerry and his and
his ketchup wife have multimillion dollar homesand compounds. I don't know if it

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was there part of the beach thathas suffered this. Nintucket's a large island.
But these are the people who aretelling us that we need to be
pushing wind, we need to bepushing solar. And you know, there's
this quote by Thomas sol and Imentioned it all the time when I talk
about these issues. It's a brilliantquote from a brilliant economist and a brilliant
American, And he says that therearen't solutions, there are trade offs.

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Right, Wind and solar are beingpositive to us, that these are a
solution to our problems. One wedon't have a problem. But even if
they are a solution, they're nota solution. They bring with them a
whole host of new problems. Right. You say, well, we can't
have coal because it burns things.Well, this is what happens when you
have wind. It kills whales andit shatters into thousands of shards, and

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fish are going to eat it anddie, and swimming is now canceled on
This is the trade off. Soit's not a solution, it's a trade
off. Swimming is canceled. Youcan't, sorry, guys, you can't
when the environment's too important. Allright, let's talk about Wyoming for a
minute. You're calling on the governorof Wyoming, Mark Gordon, to declare
his state a sanctuary state for energy. What is an energy sanctuary state and

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why are you asking him to dothat? Well, the Biden Eta is
passing new and more stringent rules oncoal because they hate coal, because they
hate fossil fuels, and they hateAmerica and so suddenly, in their waning
months of power, they are passingthese crazy new regulations on the coal industry.
Wyoming is the nation's largest coal producer. I believe it's almost more than

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half of our coal comes from thestate of Wyoming. Wyoming. The entire
economy of Wyoming is coal. Acouple of billionaires in Jackson Hole and their
skiing industry and ranchers, that's theeconomy of Wyoming. But Wyoming, the
bulk of Wyoming's economy is fossil fuelsand particularly coal. You know, there's

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a precedent that's been sent by byblue state governors for decades now, and
they do it when it comes toimmigration rules, and they call it sanctuary
states, right California, New York, And of course we could question how
well is it working. But allof these sanctuary states, we don't have
to obey federal law because it isbad for my constituents, and I,
as the governor, declare we area sanctuary state. We are not obeying

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immigration law. Well, none ofthem went to jail for it, right,
No DA went after the Attorney General, never went out, and not
just in the Biden administration and theTrump administration and the Bush administration. Everyone
ignored governors who declare themselves a sanctuary. So I'm asking the governor, protect
your constituents, protect your state's economy, protect this vital resource, vital for

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the entire nation, right, anddeclare yourself an energy sanctuary state. I
don't have to follow the Biden EPAanymore than Gavin Newsom has to follow the
Biden VHS. And so if theyken Kenny, why can't wait? Right?
That's a good question. All right, let's talk a little bit about
Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey.Now, I gotta tell you what happened

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to him. It is a goodexample of how timing of a tragedy,
of a scandal will often really distractthe media from another scandal or a tragedy.
In any normal news cycle, youwould think that a senator in Washington,
DC being convicted of being a foreignagent this never happened before, would
be a pretty big news story,and strangely enough, and it is.

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I mean, it's out there,everybody's covered it. But if you turn
on cable news right now, that'snot what they're talking about. They're not
talking about Senator Bob Menendez. Oddlyenough, back in was it twenty eighteen
years ago? Be like years ago, he was accused of galvanizing with underage
prostitutes, which I don't think youcould be an underage prostitute sex slaves,

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I think would be a better wayof describing that, and that did not
hurt his political career. I wonderif this, I mean, you know,
it doesn't look good. I don'tknow if he's going to prison or
not. But if he doesn't goto prison, I don't see a reason
why he can't stay in the Senate. Nobody cared when he was banging underage
sex slaves. Yeah, well,clarification, he was engaging in this conduct

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in the Dominican Republic, and asyou well know, the rules against underage
sex trafficking only apply to continental UnitedStates. If he didn't break any laws
because it happened overseas. That's whyI do all of my cocaine use and
all of my underage sex work inforeign countries, because it's not illegal,

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right if I do it in anothercountry, no laws have been broken.
But yeah, in a normal newscycle, what happened to Senator Menendez would
lead every single newspaper front front page. He's the head of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. He was yeah lastyear he was yeah yeah, So,
I mean that's a pretty darn bigjob. He was also little did you

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know he was also the head lobbyistfor the country of Egypt. So it's
kind of wore multiple hats and yeah. So here he is brokering deals on
behalf of the Egyptian government, gettinglegislation passed, turning a blind eye to
what his committee should be doing,whether it's sanctions violations. You know,
there are countries who'd be in troubleif the Senate Farm Relations Committee are doing

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its job because they continue to buyoil from Iran. Right, we have
in theory a certain level of sanctionagainst Iran and their oil exports, but
we just don't enforce it anymore.But that's what the Senate Farm Relations Committee
is supposed to do, is say, hey, wait a second, they're
country X, You're not allowed todo this, and so now you're going
to pay a price. Menendez turneda blind dial. That took some kickbacks,

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not nearly enough, right, Imean, if I'm going to go
corrupt, Kenny, I gotta thinkif I'm going to sell out my country
and my soul four hundred thousand dollarsin some gold bars, right, Like,
I feel like he aimed a littlelow. It's a little disappointed.
He should sit down with Hunter Bidenand say, let me tell you how
to really sell out your country andyour soul, because we're talking tens of

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millions. I mean, I wasjust thinking of the same thing, like,
look at what Hunter did, andand his dad, you know,
when his dad did. His dadwas a vice president. But really that's
just one vote in the Senate.The vice president and Bob Menendez basically have
the same political authority if you thinkabout it now, US Senator Bob Menendez
being the chair of the Foreign RelationsCommittee. That didn't just happen. I

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know, you know that, ButI just want to make sure everybody listening
understands him getting put in this position, this high ranking, a leadership role
in the Senate for Foreign Relations didn't. It can't have been a surprise to
his cohorts, to his to hiscolleagues, to his peers in the Senate
when he suddenly got into trouble.I got to think they all knew he
was up to something, and theyput him in charge of the Foreign Relations

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Committee anyway. Yeah, and thisis what to show how vile members of
Congress tend to be. What hypocritesthey are. You know, Chuck Schumer
has called for him to resign.He said he is not going to resign,
and we wash our hands of it. Right, George Santos lied on
his resume, and his lives wereegregious and they were silly and they were

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almost comical. But they kicked himout of Congress for lying on his resume.
Here is a guy who had literallysold out his country for a couple
hundred grand has been found guilty ofit. And where is the one senator
where is you know what? Wherewhere are the people like Dan Crenshaw who

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will stand on principle and say itis a Greek No one is calling for
him to resign. They're like,ah, that's just bob for you,
right, the George Santos, wehad to die on our sword to protect
the integrity of Congress. And hereis a man who is indicted for bribery
and selling a borderline treasonous behavior,and not one member of the Senate is

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like, yeah, buddy, yougotta go. They just accept it as
the way it is. Vile people, Kenny, vile people. We keep
electing them, and that's why we'rein the state we are as a nation.
Boy, it's an interesting point.Hey, before we hang up the
phone, here one more quick questionfor you. I've never asked you this
before. Would you say that youidentify as a supporter of the Mega Movement?

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On? All right? How botheredare you? I'm just asking because
of a Newsweek headline I just readas a MAGA supporter. How upset are
you that? Hang on, letme read it again that jd Vance's wife
is Indian? Does that bother you? Yeah? I mean, that's just
it's so ridiculous, And I feellike there are a couple of lunatics who

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will say something like that. Isaw Anne Kolder, whom I used to
have a lot more respect for.She made a comment about how she could
never really support the vik Ramaswami becausehe's Indian. Yeah, there are people
who say things like that that Ithink is really shameful and embarrassing. Again,
clearly racist and offensive, but it'salso embarrassed. But those are a

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very very very small minority of people. And so Newsweek, yeah, is
going to find the one or twoand they're going to say jd Vance's wife
is Indian. That's it, Ican't vote. Well, you know,
you're an idiot, brother. Andthere are only two positions to play in
this election. And I say thisto any of your wonderful listeners who are
still on the fence. The twopositions are principal and power. And if

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you say, my principles do notallow me to vote for Donald Trump,
well then what you are saying isthat I am giving the power to our
enemies. And there is no principlein giving power to Biden, to the
Democrats, to this vile movement ofradical progressivism that has destroyed the country.
So if you want to die onyour principle, that's great, But the

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consequences you are giving power to badpeople. And that's it. The choice
is binary. It is completely binary, just like gender. It is one
of two options. And if youwant to die on your principle, then
then you really have none. Yeah. I never understood the thing with Ann
Coulter. I mean telling the vigto his face, I don't want you

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to be president because you're an Indianguy. But didn't she date actor James
Walker, who played JJ on GoodTimes. I do not know the answer
to that. She did the answersyes, she did before. I don't
know if most people know that thatguy is very black. I mean,
I don't know if I'm allowed tosay that, But I just feel like

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as a racist, dating one ofthe cast members of Good Times doesn't really
seem like something you would do.You know, yeah, yeah, I
just you know, we are,we do have, and we continue to
have immigrants to our country. Thebest thing we could do is is embrace
them into our movement and say,this is the principles of America. These

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are the principles of freedom. Theseare the principles of our founding fathers,
and they can become your founding fatherstoo. I know there are people like
Anne Calder who can say I tracemy ancestors to Mayflower, and that's pretty
cool. I can't, right,I can tace my family to America from
the early eighteen hundreds, but that'sas far as I can go, and
from there we go to some dirtfarm in Ireland where they were starvingtaim I

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can trace my family back to theMayflower like she can. But you know
what, you're a very small numberof people who can, and we don't
live in a country where it belongsto you because of your bloodline. The
best we can do is say,if you're going to come here, follow
the principles of freedom, the principlesof our constitution, and join us on
our side. Otherwise, again,you're giving power to the bad guys,

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and I don't want them to haveany more power. Daniel Turner the website
is Powerthefuture dot com. You shouldfind him on exsocial media. Give him
a follow if you work in oiland gas. He is a wealth of
extremely useful information. We could certainlyslow the aging process if aging had to
pass its way through slow ass.Congress, take another vacation, why don't
you Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.Germany's navy still relies on floppy disk drives

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floppy discs. For those who don'tremember, a floppy disk is just like
a hard disk, except it's tiredafter a long day at work. We're
about to take a trip to Hollywood, but before we go there, we're
gonna visit New Jersey, where SenatorBob Menendez has just been found guilty of
being a foreign agent. Yeah,he's a Democrat, who you reach the

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office of Senator Bob Menendez, aDemocrat from Jersey. If you're calling to
leave the senator at bribe, pressone. If this is a phone call
about underage hookers. Press two.If you're calling to figure out why Bob
always looks like he's constipated and hedoesn't have a chin. Hey, we'd
like to know the answer to thatquestion. Two. All right, get

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out of here, forget about it. It's from Jersey, they call me.
I'm thinking up a bumpy. Isthis a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic
Hollywood brat or what? Or what? Yes, it's Today's Hollywood Report,
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but check it out. A lotof it's really cool and a low
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or you can just go to ILove WJ dot com gets you a
shortcut right to our online store.I just heard this report at Breitbart dot
com because I don't normally read Variety, and they were, you know,

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Variety, the Hollywood News outlet.They're detailing how the far left fascists at
Variety have at long last figured outhow Republican vice presidential candidate JD. Vance
managed to outsmart the Hollywood elite.How did he do it? You really
got to enjoy watching this. SinceVance ran for the US Senate as a
Trump Republican two years ago, lot'schanged since then. But we've been waiting,

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many of us, have been waitingfor someone in Hollywood to say something.
I mean, after all, RonHoward produced a biopic about the early
part of his life, a movieabout being a how he went from being
a hillbilly to a high ranking memberof the Republican party. Listen to this,
Listen to this. I guess thisis what is this Variety dot Com

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quote. Unlike so many of thebooks published in the lead up to someone's
political candidacy and then they list off, like Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope
or Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold, Hill Billy Elegy wasn't written for readers
of Vance's political persuasion. It servedto explain to liberals why Trump would get
elected that fall, inspiring waves ofparachute journalism as reporters rushed to such communities

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to make sense of the strange turnnational politics was taken. And then it
goes on to talk about how confusedthey are that director Ron Howard and producer
Brian Grazer, both self avowed liberals, who may have created a monster by
legitimizing JDV. Vance's origin story,are just terrible people. Hollywood loves a
Horatio Alger story, they say,that's what the article says, and Vance's

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poor kid makes Good arc fits squarelyinto Howard and Grazier's sweet spot. Guys,
this is what happened. Vance wrote, Hillbilly Elogy. It's a book.
You can read it. Corporate media, still in shock over Trump's upset
from twenty sixteen, decided that hillBilly Elogy would help them figure out who

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these exotic Maga people are, youknow, white people from middle American small
towns. What followed was a gazillionthexample of her journalism. They all glombed
onto the memoir, but not withan open hearted sense of humility or humanity
for that matter. Instead, theyremain true to the awful people they really

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are deep down inside, and theydid so in the most condescending of ways,
like nineteenth century British colonialists studying asavage tribe of African headhunters. But
the key, and this is veryimportant, the key to media and Hollywood
elites validating who they are was tocivilize the tribal leader, in this case

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JD. Vance. So, justlike they have succeeded at doing with most
everyone else, the corporate media andHollywood laid before Vance a vast banquet of
wealth, of acceptance, of status. They made Hillbilly Elogy a best seller.
They made it into a motion picturedirected by an Oscar winner. They

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made Vance a thought leader on theirnews and current affairs programs. Along the
way, Vance boosted his public profile, He boosted his bank account, he
boosted his name recognition. The onlyprice for a lifetime pass, you must
become one of us. We accepthim, We accept him, one of
us, one of us, GoogleGobble, Google Gobble. We accept him.

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And then JD. Vance took alltheir prizes and gifts and he turned
around and he shoved it right uptheir collective asses to become the number two
man in the movement of MAGA,the movement they hate the most make America
great again. It really is kindof glorious when you think about it.
This was the last guy on earththat they thought was going to go and
and join the people, the politicalmovement, the ideology driven by a theological

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belief that God is our creator,joined that political movement and rejected Hollywood with
all their paganism and atheism and satanicchild rituals. Weird. Why didn't JD.
Vance want to join us for aneternity in hell? I guess we
just answered that question on our own, didn't we. The only thing that

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hurts more than paying taxes not payingtaxes. Here're Ky Webster's pursuit of pay
your taxes. Don't let them getyou. We'll be right back pay your
taxes. A new study just cameout. Crane as salt on this stuff,
because there's a study to tell youanything. Right. Earlier today,
a friend of mine texted me astudy that said men who smoke weed have

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an increase of sperm production. AndI thought to myself, well that it's
gonna be really easy for me tofind a study that says they have a
decrease of sperm reduction. I searchfor it on the internet. Sure enough,
there it is. But anyway,there's a new study it says Texas
is the state with the poorest qualityof life. I just got to ask
the people that do these studies.Have you never been to New Jersey?

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Have you never been to West Virginia? You never even hurt? No,
you never? You never even heardof West I don't believe you. But
fine, okay, you never.You never been to Wiscansin. You never
been to a Scanson. There's apolitic. I don't know if you've heard.
There's a convention happening right now ina city called Milwaukee. In fact,
I believe Alice Cooper explained it quitearticulately in the movie Wayne's World when

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he said the natives actually referred toit as Mille Walk and it was the
first city to ever have a communistmayor. Did you know that? Do
these guys know how to party orwhat? Well, it turns out the
Republicans do know how to party,or do they? If you were going
to a party and it was outof town, and you needed to book
a hotel room near the party,knowing full well you might be consuming alcoholic

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beverages, wouldn't you try to booka hotel room close to the party,
you know, so as to decreasethe cost of your uber ride or you
know, the chances of you drivingdrunk. Well, apparently the Texas Republican
Party delegates didn't think of that,or they didn't have a choice. This
might be lost on some of you. I bet a lot of you will
know about this, but most ofyou have probably never driven from Madison,

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Wisconsin to Milwaukee. So let meput this in different terms. Imagine driving
from Houston to College Station. Imaginedriving from I don't know, Katie,
Texas to Lake Charles. It's apretty far drive, right, That's about
how far Wisconsin is from Milwaukee.But excuse me, Madison is from Milwaukee.
But for some reason, the Texasdelegates that the Republican National Convention are

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staying in Madison, Wisconsin. Brandon, I've been talking to people about this
on social media. They all toact like I'm crazy, because I think
that's weird. Give us the skinnymy man, oh bro. By the
way, Brandon Walton's Texas scorecard dotCom. I don't think I explained that.
Yeah, now I've seen that.I've guys, some friends list and

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folks who are delegates up there andyeah, the Texas delegation is has been
put in Madison. You know,it's interesting every time they do these conventions.
You can imagine it's a lot ofpeople coming in, right, You've
got thousands and thousands of people comingin. Fifty thousands, I think.
Yeah, you get a lot ofthe preferential treatment for hotels and where they're
seated on the floor, for likethe swing states, and unfortunately sometimes the

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states like Texas sort of get hosebecause reliably Republican. All right, well
we'll stick you in Madison. Thatthe good news is is that they do
have they do have a bus,So they've got a bus. Nobody's driving,
nobody should be driving anyway, andso at least they've got that figured
out. And the good news toois you know, I was reading through

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the Republican National Conventions preparations for this. One thing they wanted to do was
make sure that no delegates were stayingin Chicago, so they I guess Madison.
It was. Yeah, I guessChicago would have been just slightly further,
but not much right in it twothat's two hours from Chicago to Milwaukee,

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Madison probably ninety minutes. Still thatyour explanation. I'm still I still
am suspicious of it, and I'mnot suspicious of you, Bran, and
I just I can't imagine the kindof people going to the Republican National Convention
are going to switch parties because theydidn't get a good hotel room last time.
Well maybe it motivates them to worka little harder. I don't know.

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I'm not in the I'm not inthe party. I don't know,
but I do know it's been quitethe trek for folks, and you know,
I guess that's just how it is. Milwaukee has about sixteen hundred convention
hotel rooms. Huh that only sixteenhundred. I'm just I'm googling this here.

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There are six thousand plus rooms inthe downtown area. Fifty thousand people
attended the convention. I don't thinkMilwaukee's big enough to host this thing.
Yeah, that's why, you know, not everybody can stay in the city
itself. But it was important tohave it in a swing state. Yeah,

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exactly. No, I think it'sin I could be wrong on this,
but I think it's going to bein Houston in twenty twenty eight.
That's correct. Yeah, here's whatand which makes sense, right, Houston's
massive, We definitely have enough hotelrooms. I do wonder this, though,
do you think that having the conventionin your state actually affect the election?
Like, do you think hosting thisI feel like it's just one of

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those things people say, like whenthey talk about the vice president and where
they're from and all that. Idon't know that any of that makes a
difference. I think what matters iswho's on the ticket, who's on the
top of the ticket. I don'tknow that people are remembering where the convention
was out and then historically. Imean, I know you're into history like
I am, Brandon, because we'vetalked about this before. If you were
organizing the Democrat National Convention, whywould you do it in Chicago. Chicago's

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worse now than it was decades agowhen they had a massive riot at the
Chicago Democrat National Convention. That's agood point. I think actually the fact
that they're having at Chicago underscores onething, and that is that despite the
fact that Joe Biden as president andI guess will be their nominee again this

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time, it looks like Barack Obamais still the leader of the Democrat party.
Well, there you go. Yeah, that's a pretty good answer.
All right, let's talk a littlebit about this. You guys have a
story today about water in Mexico andthere's a water crisis. So US Representative
de la Cruz is urging Mexico tohonor the water Treaty of nineteen forty four.

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What the heck is the nineteen fortyfour water treaty. Yeah, basically,
there's this tree going back to nineteenforty four where Mexico agreed to supply
about three hundred and fifty thousand acrefeet. That's the measurement of water annually
to the US over a five yearcycle, and surprise, surprise, they're

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actually overdue on it. They oweus about a million acre feet of water
now based on this treaty, andthey haven't done it. So now you
actually have a representative Monica de laCruz who's saying she wants to meet with
the incoming president of Mexico, thisClaudia Shinbaum, you know, to talk

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about it. All right. WhenI hear the we're trying to get more
water from Mexico, Brandon, thefirst thing I think of is Montezuma's revenge,
which is a t when you're going. It's a slang term for traveler's
diarrhea, usually a self limiting episodeof diarrhea that results from it, isn't
it? Usually because there's ice cubesin a cocktail you got, maybe maybe

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we should request that it come bottled. Bro, what is happening here?
My man? Okay, all right, so we're gonna get more water from
Mexico. Lucky us, I guessspeaking of issues with the public services and
that sort of thing, Governor Abbottis pledging to analyze centerpoints, preparedness and

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priorities. Dude, we are soscrewed. Have you seen all the videos
of the linemen that came down toHouston from other cities talking about how they
got robbed, beat up, attacked. I just watched a video of a
dude out on Route fifty nine.It's right down the road from here,
in front of Joel Olstein's church.It's a big old freeway with like ten
lanes, and some guy gets outof his car in the middle of traffic.

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I mean, I would have wouldhave we even been bold enough to
do, knowing you could get hitby a car and die. He gets
out of the car to do whatto attack the truck of alignment parked on
the side of the freeway. Whywhy are we doing this? Yeah,
that'll get it done faster, right, I mean, you feel for it
because I mean, on one hand, the situation is bad. I think
I think everybody agrees Centerpoint should havebeen more prepared. That's what you have

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the governor, the Pinnic governor callingfor, essentially some accountability. They want
to see some more preparedness from Centerpoint. Everybody gets that. On the same
token, when you've got people outof power and you know you still had
like a week after the storm,like a million folks that without power going
and like jumping the guys that aretrying to fix it, probably is not

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going to speed the process along.Yeah. I don't understand it either're Brandon,
But as always, I'm glad youguys. There's a lot going on
in Texas today. When we're aboutrun out of time here on this segment,
Brandon, what would I do ifI wanted to find out about all
the stories that we didn't have timeto get to today. No, Yeah,
they're up at Texas scorecard dot com. Texas scorecard dot Com. Isn't

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that the news website you work atit happens to be. It happens to
be. Can I subscribe to youremail list and donate to your fantastic group?
You absolutely can, And you canfollow us on all social media platforms
as well, even x where conservativesare very rarely censored, even x formerly
known as Twitter. Wow. Thiscandid, improv improvised conversation really was full

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of useful information. My buddy BrandonWaltins is a fantastic journalist and he's one
of the good guys. Do followhim on social media. Do check out
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