Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Giganic government sucks theseuit of habiness. Radio is DeLux. Liberty
and freedom will make you smile of a suit of habbines.
Us on your radio tole justice, cheeseburgers, a liberty rise
at the food.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Breaking news. I cannot believe this is a real scientific study.
Researchers just published a study suggesting that women who don't
have sex are more likely to die sooner. You know,
it's even more disturbing than that. This means your grandma
is gonna live forever. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Don't change
the channel. I know that was a little offensive, but
(00:40):
I'm glad to have you here. Also on the show today,
I'm glad to have Daniel Turner joining us. He is
a climate change skeptic from a group called Power the Future.
With some new information about what the activists are doing
right now to prevent you from traveling before the summer ends.
We'll give you all those details. Plus Brandon Waltons is
stopping by from Texas scorecard dot com. We have information
(01:01):
about the Chinese Communist Party and their ever going execution,
their infiltration of the Texas education system. Plus Attorney General
Ken Paxton going to war with Mark Zuckerberg, and spoiler alert,
he won. We'll give you all that information and how
it could actually be benefiting you very soon, so stick
around for that. But before we get to any of it,
(01:21):
Kamala Harris was in Atlanta yesterday. I did not know.
I always thought Kamala Harris was like an affluent liberal
from up north who hung around academia. But apparently she
grew up a poor black woman from the South.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And you all helped.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Us win in twenty twenty, and we don't do it
again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
When did Kamala Harris start talking like a Southerner? She's
Hillary Clinton now.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far
from where I started from.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And you all have this win in twenty twenty, and
we don't do it again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
She does this other thing sometimes where she talks like
Barack Obama. Have you heard her do that? I won't
bother you with the SoundBite, but it's true and it's amazing.
Kamala actually bragging about her record on immigration yesterday while
she was in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So in this campaign, I will proudly put my record
against his any.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Day of bleen. Okay, here's the facts, guys, as borders are.
Kamala ferried fifteen million illegals directly into our communities. She
thinks illegal immigration is not a crime. That's her exact quote.
She wants to abolish immigration customs enforcement. She thinks you're stupid,
(02:51):
but we know you're not. She's the idiot or is
she just corrupt? Maybe a little of both. Meanwhile, interestingly enough,
on holl dot com today reporting on Vice President Kamala
Harris one step closer to locking up the Democrat nomination.
I know it's not official yet, but boy, at this
point doesn't really seem like there's any chance anybody else
(03:13):
is going to get the nomination. I know most of
us just assume that was true, but still it's worth
pointing out here that she hasn't officially done it yet,
although late last night, the DNC announced that Harris, without
ever winning a presidential primary, had been put on the
ballot as the only candidate for nomination at the party's
as the party's presidential candidate. Thirty nine hundred and twenty
(03:34):
three delegates from across the country petitioned to put her
on the ballot for the Democrat nomination, and Vice President
Harris secured the support of ninety nine percent of the
participating delegates. So the DNC did not say which other
candidates were proposed for the nomination. I'm gonna guess probably none,
But the party said no candidate other than Harris met
(03:55):
the threshold of the three hundred delegates signatures to qualify
for the ballot. Isn't that interesting? They just just put
her on there. Now, yesterday, Donald Trump said something that
put an MSNBC panel into absolute meltdown. Republicans have been
smeared as Nazis by the press. Trump has been called
everything under the sun, beyond the traite neo Nazi troupes
(04:17):
that have long lost its luster among serious voters. Still,
if this word sets you off regarding Kamala Harris, you're
too thin skin to be in the game. Trump has
called the Vice president a bum, a bum, And when
they heard about this on MSNBC, they did not handle it.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Well, you want to talk about a bum? How dare
he speak to her like that? And I can tell
you right now that there are women in this country
who are sick and tired of men mediocre men like
Donald Trump fail in up because of their dad's hand.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Women stand stand for that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They're tired of it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
They're tired of men didn't women's shouldered and taking credit
for it. At the same time.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Too, I'm sorry. So Trump's a Nazi and a rapist
and whatever, an a racist and whatever else. But he
called her a bum. And this is how you, guys react.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I'm telling you, let Trump and Maga keep this up.
Women are looking at this and saying enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You can't call Kamala a bum. I'm sorry, she's running
for president. Guys, you can definitely say she's not good. Frankly,
it's kind of pathetic. It's weird, you might say, it's
weird to react this way. Trump recently dodged an assassination
attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. They don't even seem to care.
Over on the left, It's not shocking, though, it's yet
another example of how the norms haven't returned under Biden.
(05:36):
The worst is that some in the media tried to
make the July thirteenth attempt on the former president's life
about the media worrying about more attacks on the press.
Trump got shot, but the duns crew at MSNBC is
worried about the band of liars. Wow, I I feel
like you guys have really missed the mark on this one.
Pun intended, but that is.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
The question in jen. In fact, we've already seen the
finger pointing begins, some people even blaming President Biden. We
heard that very forceful condemnation by President Biden of what happened.
As someone who used to work with the president, what
are you anticipating in terms of He's obviously pulled his
(06:17):
political ads forward, But as Carol said, the question is
how long does this moment last?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh my god, the rhetoric from Trump is just terrible,
and he's actually blaming liberals like Biden. Did you guys
know that? Earlier this week, Joe Biden was standing on
the tarmac when a journalist asked him about his plans
for Supreme Court reform and how Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson said that the bill was already dead on arrival,
and Joe told the journalist, Mike Johnson is dead on arrival.
(06:45):
Whoa excuse me? You know one of your political adversaries
just almost got killed the other day. Are you sure
you want to talk like that, Joe, Yeah, he does.
So things are not the same on the left first
the right, And I can't think of a better example
of it than this. Senator John Kennedy was recently on
TV with Neil Cavudo, one of the liberals on Fox News,
(07:06):
and Neil told John, if you call Kamala Harris at
ding dong, you're being sexist and racist.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well, the polls that I have seen, the most recent polls,
you can't just look at the top lines, Neil, You've
got to look at the crosstabs and if you look
at the cross tabs and really drill down and see
what people think.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Let me say the game.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
The polling that I've seen shows that many Americans think
that the vice president is not a serious person. As
I said, that she's a bit of a ding dong,
and number two, that she is a member of the
loon wing of the Democratic Party. She's a San Francisco Democrat.
She's just like Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez, except without the bartending experience.
(07:50):
She is not mainstream. And the point I was trying
to make was that by making her first policy position
known on abortion, the idea that we should have a
law that says you can have an abortion at any point,
no questions asked, even up until the moment of birth.
(08:11):
I think for most Americans is a is a a
moon wing position. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
And if that's also what the no, you're you're you're
you're at the fair game to make it. I'm just
wondering how you think that will resonate with women when
you know, if she is called naskying, crazy and ding
dong and all and disrespectful between you and the president
what has been said about her. I'm just wondering, do
you worry how that comes across And maybe you've drained
(08:39):
no distinction between a female can of male and then
that's fair game, but that this could could could hurt
you with with female voters with these type of comments.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well, let me let me say it again. Uh, the
vice president is a candidate for president of the United States.
I don't care about her gender, Neil, maybe you do,
but I don't. I don't don't care about a race.
I care about her.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I call her a ding dong, then I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, because she's a ding dong, guys, is this seriously,
we can't criticize Kamala at all, or we're racist and sexist.
It's two thousand and eight all over again, and frankly,
this time it's even dumber.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Some radio shows are so hot they'll literally burn your eyes.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Fortunately, this is it one of those shows.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I feel like I never listening to you all again.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
We are all living and I'm Mary. I'm Mary one.
We're all living and I'm Mary. I'm every we are
all living.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Oh oh this country. Yeah, it's the United States of
Gay as my friend Jesse sometimes calls it. Thanks turning
on the radio, I always think it's a as a
resident of the energy capital of the frickin' world, to
find out what's going on with our liberal overlords and
how they plan to take away our life sustaining energy
(10:11):
from us. Yesterday on the show, we spent a lot
of time talking about Center Point Energy here in Houston,
Texas and the terrible job they did handling the recent
hurricane Category one power outage. For over a week, people died.
They make millions of dollars, I mean their salaries. I
don't have the company's worth billions, and interestingly enough, they
(10:32):
plan to raise rates on us. Now. I don't like that.
I don't like the Centerpoint Energy doing that, but we
have bigger problems than that. It's not just about a
local government created monopoly. Centerpoint Energy should be the least
of our concerns. Although certainly people are calling for the
CEO to step down on a national level right now,
on a grand scale, the people that currently occupy the
(10:52):
White House and hope to continue to occupy it after
November have some fascinating plans for what they want to
do with things like the fracking industry. Here's Kamala Harris,
in her own words, doing a cameo appearance on The
Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, talking about how much she
(11:12):
loves the Green New Deal and how she wants to
get rid of fracking. But issues that we could touch out.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But what's the first thing we need to do to
give us all some relief? Well, let me start by
saying this climate change is the single greatest threat facing
our world today. That's why I am committed to passing
a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs, and finally putting
an end to fracking once and for.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
All Mama La Kamla just don't give a frack all right,
So that was Kamala Harris in twenty twenty. I'm curious,
Daniel Turner of Power of the Future, does Kamala still
think we should ban fracking and support the Green New Deal.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
It's a great question. Before I even add, I just
want to point out how nauseating it is that these
late night talk show hosts try to be cool and political, right,
I mean, Jimmy, I can't stand them, and it makes
me sad because I grew up listening to my dad
kicking me out of the room when Johnny Carson came
on because it was way past my bedtime. Late night
(12:19):
is just awful now. And Jimmy Allen, I mean, so
here he is trying to be cool and all hip
hop with Mama La Kamala. I just hate all that crap.
But no, Kamala. Suddenly her campaign came out. On Friday
of last week at around six pm, an anonymous campaign
official announced she no longer supports a fracking band.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Now.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
My organization, Power of the Future has put out a
number of statements. I've done a lot of media on this.
I'm thrilled to talk to you, and you're great listeners
about it. I say, I don't believe you because you
cannot hold a position such a very clear policy position,
a big policy position, and then have an anonymous staffer
(13:02):
come out and say, yeah, we actually changed course. Like
she personally needs to tell us what she thinks. If
Trump came out at five pm on a Friday after
a bad poll and said he no longer supports the
Dobbs decision, he would uphold row. But but it was
an anonymous campaign official and made that announcement, you'd be
(13:23):
a little skeptical, right right, And that's where we are
with fracking. So she's a liar. I don't believe her
campaign at all when she said she changed position. She
supports a fracking band one hundred.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Percent, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
As a senator, Kamala was one of the only people
who supported the Green New Deal, I mean, and looking
back on it, that was just a blip on the radar,
But at the time it was very controversial what it
meant to what it entailed. You know, they wanted to
get rid of red meat and everybody would have to
defecate into a bucket because carbon pollution. I mean, it
was I'm exaggerating a bit, but it was crazy. What
(13:57):
was actually of the bill. It was just insane, you know,
no more our commercial air travel, and just insane ideas
that they seem to have. And none of that ever
actually ended up being in the final version of the bill,
but in early versions of the bill it was so
radical it was comical. It was hard to even believe.
Now it's important to look at this, Daniel, because we
want to know, if President Kamala actually becomes a thing,
(14:19):
how does that affect the life of oil and gas workers.
We have so many of them listening to us right now.
And here's an interesting report today in the New York
Post from the border disaster all the way down to
the small stuff. Presumptive dem nominee Kamala Harris's record, like
that at President Biden, is one of spectacular failure. The
latest case in point, Daniel, what was the green school
bus boondoggle? What was that?
Speaker 10 (14:41):
Yeah? This was do you remember her very creepy rant
about yellow school buses. I love a yellow school bus.
Who doesn't love a yellow school bus? Raise your hand
if you love yellow school buses? And everyone was wondering,
what the hell is with this lady in yellow school buses.
When Kamala is nervous and she's so awkward and front
of people, her biggest undoing will be herself because she's
(15:04):
a terrible public speaker. She's a vapid, brainless public speaker.
But she went on this crazy rampage about yellow school
buses and how she wanted a green yellow school bus
program because yellow school buses, yellow school buses. She had
five billion dollars from the Infrastructure Bill to create gas
powered or natural gas or electric school buses, green yellow
(15:28):
school buses. And after three plus years and five billion dollars,
we've produced about sixty of them, which, if you're doing
the math, is around ninety million dollars a school bus.
Someone loves the green yellow school bus. It's just not
the taxpayers, right, they're the ones getting fleeced. But we're
supposed to consider this a green success.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, she wanted the school buses to have Wi Fi
and USB outlets and it was supposed to be super magical, right,
Comala out deep thoughts by Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, because think about it, yellow school buses are our
nation's largest form of mass transit.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
How about that?
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Every day?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So yes, and let's applod because it gets somewhere they
need to go and every day. Then think about this
in terms of the numbers. Every day in our country,
more than twenty five million children ride to and from
school on our nation's fleet school buses.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Wow, every day every day. That's really something? Is that it?
This has been deep thoughts by Kamala Harris. Oh, thank
you deep thoughts. Yeah, boy, she did really love those
school buses. Now. Not to be outdone, Kamala Harrish isn't
the only person connected to the Biden administration with skept
sketchy climate change policies at best. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen,
(16:54):
who once traveled to China during her current time in
her current position and took psychedelic my mishos now has
a plan for how to combat climate change. Could you
tell us a little bit about that, Daniel, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
This is Janet. The inflation will be transitory, Yellen, right.
And so now she's making another bold prediction or bold request.
Janet Yelling, a Treasury secretary, wants three trillion dollars annually annually,
three trillion dollars to of course combat climate change. Climate
change is the only problem where the solution is just money, right,
(17:29):
it's the solution. The only solution to climate change is
stealing from the taxpayers. To give you one idea of
how absurd three trillion dollars annually is, is that just
a mere decade ago. All of your listeners can remember
the Obama administration. A decade ago, three trillion dollars was
(17:50):
our annual federal budget. And now three trillion dollars is
a program. Right, Our budget's well over six trillion dollars.
Of course, we don't need to spend six trillion. We
piss it away. Our budget should be two trillion dollars.
But government steals left and right. Most of it's going
to Ukraine. But three trillion dollars, and you say that
(18:12):
is such a ridiculous amount of money. And these are
the bold proclamations you make, of course, for the climate.
And where will that money go? No doubt. Kamala's yellow
school bus program is an example of it. No one
knows where the money's going to go. It will just
get spent on programs. Many people are going to get rich.
The climate's not going to get any better, America is
(18:34):
not going to get any safer. Everything is going to
be more expensive, as we've already seen from three and
a half years of Kamala Harris, Biden Harris. But this
is the type of absurdity when it comes to the
green movement. You just throw out figures and you expect
the American people to cough up the money.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now, glad you picked up on this, Daniel, because I
don't think most people did. Jenny Yellen made this announcement
during a speech she recently gave in Brazil. We could
see why people would have missed this, and by the
way it was tucked away at the end of the speech,
she spoke for a long time about the Amazon and
climate change, and Lord knows we all love the Amazon
rainforest or Amazon Prime. Nobody knows which Amazon she was
(19:13):
talking about. But then at the end of the speech
she says, three million, three trillion dollars in new capital
each year between now and twenty fifty. Now, I know
math is racist, but I'm gonna do some on the radio.
Between between now and twenty fifty would be twenty six years.
At three trillion dollars per year for twenty six years,
that is seventy eight trillion dollars. Jenny Allen wants us
(19:35):
to spend on climate change. Daniel, I mean, holy sniky,
that is batsup crazy.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
It is. It's absolutely insanity. And that's where none of
these numbers make any sense. They're all just pulled out
of thin air. It's the same numbers as Joe Biden
saying by the year twenty thirty, half of cars have
to be electric. Where did that number come from? I
don't know. Why is it half? Why is it twenty thirty?
I don't know. Ask Kenneth Yellen really to break down
(20:03):
the three trillion? Why is it not two point seventy
five trillion?
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Like?
Speaker 10 (20:06):
What can you? Can you walk me through the delta?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
No?
Speaker 10 (20:09):
But if you know this was a business, Kenny, if
you had to present numbers to your to your station
and you were like, by the year twenty twenty five,
I want seven hundred million listeners, Where did that number
come from?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
I just made it up. They would laugh at you.
You can't just take up numbers. But when you are
in government, you can make up number And why, Kenny,
why is the US Treasury secretary in Brazil?
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Every time you look at a cabinet, right, the only
cabinet member who should be on the road is the
Secretary of State. Every time you turn around, Jennifer Granholme,
the Energy Secretary, is in Saudi Arabia. Pete Buddha Judge
is doing a transportation conference in Spain. All these idiots
are traveling all the time because the American taxpayers are
(20:57):
picking up the time. And you know, I don't think
she's saying it the Brazilian equivalent of the Super eight.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
No.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
You know, she's staying at the Four Seasons in Rio,
and she's bringing forty people with her. Why are you
in Brazil? Like your job is the US economy, which
by the way, is in the tank. Why are you there? Because?
You know why? Because the idiot taxpayers will pick up
the bill.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, I got to assume Tom Bodette and Motel six
aren't accommodating our Treasury secretary while she's in Brazil. But
apparently JD. Vance is providing a space for climate change
activists outside of his office this week. He's still technically
a senator. I mean, he's obviously a senator, but people
forget that he's still has an office at the Senate
(21:38):
and eight protesters were arrested during a climate change protest
outside the vice presidential candidate's office Monday. The group is
called Sunrise Movement. I don't know anything about these people,
do you, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
They are the Sunrise Movements, a bunch of idiot young
people who have been taught since they were born that
the world's going to end on climate change, and they
get paid to disrupt. I believe in freedom of speech.
I believe in freedom of assembly right. I believe deeply
in the First Amendment. I have a problem that Kenny
Webster can pay people to disrupt, to break laws, to
(22:16):
lay down in traffic without ever blowing back on Kenny Webster.
I'm just using you as an example. I know you
wouldn't do that. And that's the problem with these with
these green movements, is that they are paid to block traffic.
They are paid to throw Campbell's soup on artwork right,
They are paid to sit outside of congressional offices and
get arrested. And at a certain point, it's not about
(22:40):
free speech or freedom of assembly. At a certain point,
it is paid for anarchy, and that has to come
to an end. I cannot imagine the founder's thought when
they wrote that. Madison, when he wrote the First Amendment
thought it was a good idea that rich people are
allowed to pay minions to do whatever their their heart's
desire is, knowing that a paycheck or a blank check
(23:02):
will we'll get them out of jail. So I have
a huge problem with the paid activism, the violent activism
of the left. Remember our beloved Vice President Kamala Harris,
she tweeted to raise money for them back in twenty
twenty in Minnesota. Right, we need these these warriors who
are getting arrested by the police for burning down cities
(23:22):
in Minnesota. Here's their jail fund. Yeah, there's something diabolical
about that attitude that has to end in this country.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
All right, one more question for you. The Spectator as
an article today penned by Dave Seminara, and the title is,
and this is fascinating, don't let climate activists stop you
from traveling. I've seen videos of these people at the airport,
sitting in front of the TSA checkpoints, and you think, yeah,
an obnoxious a bunch of leftists at the TSA checkpoint
(23:52):
interrupted my trip. But you would assume that man a
federal agent molesting your wife. It's actually might refer to
these people.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Huh, yeah, exactly. And you know, the climate left, the
radical left, they want certain behavior for the rest of us,
but they of course want exemption. And you will see
them all around the world. You'll see them at their
global summits, You'll see them at their beach houses, and
most of them are traveling on private jet. So we
(24:19):
have to take it with a grain of salt when
they say we need to really curb our carbon footprint,
and we need to travel less and we need to
eat less red meat. You know, we published some of
the menus from the last UN Climate Summit that was
held in Dubai. You know, they ate pretty damn good.
They didn't curb their cimate their carbon footprint. And you know,
(24:41):
in case you don't know Dubai, not a whole hell
of a lot grows there, right, I mean, it's the desert.
So maybe they got some maybe they got some fish
out of the out of the nearby Persian Gulf, but
everything is carted in and and they're not curbing there.
For we shouldn't curb hours. I once flew back from
from Dallas to d c and it was the day
that the Supreme Court was making a decision on abortion
(25:05):
and my whole plane was nothing but twenty five to
forty five year old, very obese wearing vulgar T shirt,
women all about hands off my this and don't touch
my that. And I thought, wow, this is I've never
cheered for myself to go down on a plane, but
if any plane was going to go down, lord, you
(25:26):
can take me with this group of misscreens. So we
actually landed okay though, and they made it to their protest.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I have a weird power. I have a weird superpower
where I can remember all the stupid political catchphrases that
they put on bumper stickers. And my favorite one from
that group of people you just described is and I'm
paraphrasing here because there's a lot of versions of this,
but they'll say, I wish women had as many rights
as guns do. I was like, what are you talking about?
(25:52):
What in what world does a gun have more rights
than a what? Huh? No, They're like, I wish it
was a It's easy to vote as it is to
buy a gun. It's much easier to vote than it
is to buy a gun. Have you ever bought a gun? Anyway?
We've gone way over on this interview we're running out
of time. I got a break. It's Daniel Turner. Find
him Powerthfuture dot com. Follow him on social media. You're
(26:14):
gonna love it if you work in oil and gas.
He's got so much information to share with you. He'll
give you the intellectual ammunition you need to stop the
Left at your office. Follow him. Our doctor told us
the pills we took were just a placebo. But he
must not know what he's talking about, because man, those
suckers worked. This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Breipart
(26:46):
dot com today reporting on Francis Ford Coppola. You know,
the Oscar winning director that created Goodfellas? Did you know
they tried to meet to him? The me too accusations
against the legendary director have been exposed as a lie
and a hoax and a phony attack from the far
(27:06):
lefts hashtag me two fascists. But the story really starts
back in May. You guys know what the Guardian is.
It's a leftist news outlet. They went really hard on
the eighty five year old director with an unsourced attack.
Let me read a little of it to you. Quote.
Several sources felt that Coppola could be old school in
his behavior around women. He allegedly pulled women to sit
(27:28):
on his lap, for example, and during one night club
scene being shot for the film, witnesses say Coppola came
onto the set and tried to kiss some of the
topless and scantily clad female extras. He apparently claimed he
was trying to get them in the mood wow end
to quote. Last week, The Despicable Variety claimed it had
(27:50):
video proving the recently widowed director of the Good Father
a Godfather saga was on set and it was a
sex pest. Now it turns out this is all untrue.
There's no video, The video revealed nothing, nothing that backed
up any of the report. You can watch it yourself
at brightbart dot com if you want. The video story
(28:11):
was so stupid there was no reason to report on
it at the time. Why give something so poorly reported,
so absurd, any kind of speculation, lacking in any reporting,
any context, Why even talk about it? Well, I'm bringing
it up now to prove a point, because it turns
out it was all fake news. The extras name by
(28:31):
the way, Rayna Mends. Here's what she told Deadline, The
Hollywood gossip news outlet. She said, quote, he did nothing
to make me, or for that matter, anyone else on
set feel uncomfortable. I felt disgusted. I was blindsided by
the report because it was a close set. She said
(28:51):
that someone had video, and it's just ridiculous. It's super unprofessional.
It's gross because he only ever spoke about how wonderful
his wife was. She went on to say that Coppola's
wife was on set with us most days. It feels
gross seeing that video and the way they were trying
to convey a message that they're trying to make him
look bad on video. The woman that they claim was
(29:12):
the victim doesn't even agree that she was a victim.
You know, Francis Ford Coppola was married for sixty years.
He's been making movies even longer than that. I'm not
aware of even a single allegation of sexual misconduct against him,
not even during the studio fifty four seventies or the
Go Go eighties. But then just days ago, days ago,
after all these years, he loses his beloved wife, and
(29:36):
these despicable people invent this nonsense just to punish him
for becoming a legend outside the studio system and for
daring to hire people like John Voyd or Dustin Hoffman
or Shia b. Labouf for his new independent film, the
one hundred and twenty million dollar plus self financed Megaopolis.
Magalopolis is how what it's called? Anyway? Even if Copola
(29:57):
at eighty five did kiss a pretty girl on the cheek,
do we really want to live in a society that
would punish someone rather than playfully just you know, for
doing such a seemingly innocent thing. It's McCarthyism, that's all
that is, guys, and it's ridiculous. In other news, also
reported by the same outlet, Nora O'Donnell is leaving the
(30:19):
CBS Evening News anchor desk after five years of mostly
being in third place. The once venerable Evening newscast, anchored
by Walter Cronkite for twenty years and then Dan Rather
for fourteen years, never really recovered from the black eye
of what became known as Rathergate. Dan Rather had a
big scandal back in two thousand and four during the
(30:41):
election with Senator John Kerry and the incumbent President, George W. Bush.
Dan Rather and CBS News used phony documents to claim
Bush had gone a wall from his time with the
Texas Air National Guard. Turns out it was all fake.
It was a debunked story. Dan Rather was asked to
leave the CB News anchor chair former Faced the Nation
(31:03):
anchor Bob Schaefer stepped in for a while. Then Katie
Kurk that was disastrous. Harry Smith not great, Scott Pelley,
Anthony Mason, Jeff Glore, you don't even remember Jeff Right.
Who's that? Finally, O'Donnell. O'Donnell will stay with CBS doing
some other stuff, but she'll no longer be on that
show like it matters. The new boss is always the
(31:24):
same as the old boss at CBS. Everyone bends over
to accept the Democrat Party talking points. Everyone lies. The
song always remains the same, telling lie after lie. You know,
Kamala was never really Borders are Russian collusion. That was
a real thing. Hands up, don't shoot, that existed. Jesse
Smollett was a victim. Kyle Rittenhouse is a bad guy.
(31:46):
The Covington Catholic school kids were in the KKK. The
Russian Bounty hooks, the eating while black hooks, the border
agents whipping illegal immigrants hoax, the NASCAR News hoax. It
goes on and on. Guys, I have to tell the
truth if you work at CBS News. So whoever replaces
Nora O'Donnell's probably gonna be just as bad as she was.
(32:08):
Ken Webster's Pursuit of Happiness a radio show that's just
as good when you're driving around Soba as it is
when you're drunk at home. In any normal newsweek, most
people probably would have known that an illegal immigrant shot
a comp in San Antonio, or that meta Facebook Mark
(32:34):
Zuckerberg's company owes the state of Texas one point four
billion dollars because of a lawsuit, or news about Senator
Ted Cruz and the Trace Act, which actually involves the
Confucius Institutes and the Communist Chinese Party. But it's not
a normal news cycle. Everything's upside down right now because
it's presidential election season and this is I mean, it's
(32:55):
hard to believe this is true after twenty twenty, but
this is one of the most bizarre presidential election cycles
we've ever been in. So why don't we talk about
some of the news stories I just mentioned. I think
they're worthy of some acknowledgment. Let's start off with this.
Brandon Waltons of Texas scorecard dot com. Why does Mark
Zuckerberg's company own, oh, the state of Texas one point
(33:16):
four billion dollars. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Dude, It is a lot of money. This is actually
the largest settlement that an attorney general assention has ever gotten,
and certainly from a tech company, I mean one point
four billion dollars. And the reason is is because Facebook,
going back I mean ten plus years, you know, created
a feature that essentially scanned and used biometric data, so
(33:41):
you know, people faces all of that without the express
authorization of uses, and it was storing that and it
is stored that on all their users. And you see
this play out whenever, you know, pictures recommend maybe that
somebody detagged, but Texas law specifically says that the things
have to be done with authorization. And so followed the
(34:02):
lawsuit a couple of years ago. This week an announcement
that is going to be settled for one point four
billion dollars. They're going to pay that out over five years,
and you know, it's it's certainly good news. Of course,
the question we've gotten with a lot of folks is, well,
you know what happens to that one point four billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, what will happen to it? Do we know yet?
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Yeah, So speaking with the Attorney General's office today, essentially,
you know, at one point four billion dollars is going
to be paid out over five years. It goes to
the general revenue fund for the state. That's essentially, you know,
where the budget gets made. So how it actually gets
paid out. First, the you know, attorneys will be paid
right as they always are, the outside council that was
(34:43):
drought in for the case. But the vast majority of it,
it's going to be up to the legislature to decide,
you know, whether that money goes back to tax payers,
maybe we put it towards property tax relief, or whether
or not it's used, like so much other money to
just grow govern.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, interesting stuff, Brandon, Facebook stealing biometric data from Texans
and presumably people in other states, but Attorney General Ken
Paxton wasn't having it. So now Meta has to pay
us one point four billion dollars. I'm curious, all right,
do you know are there any other states doing anything
about this? Or is this Texas the only place?
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Yeah? I don't know, Texas was bleeding on. This is
specific to a Texas law as well. So I don't know,
you know this this does come after, you know, you
had a coalition of four estates before that we're suing
Google for similar In that case, it was about location
tracking and received a like three hundred or four hundred
million dollars settlement. This, of course massively towards that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
And once again I have to point out this is
the same Attorney General that Dade Falen tried to remove
from office last year. Texas House Speaker Dade Falen, you
might say that he was on the side of Meta
in this case, wasn't he.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
I mean, you might say that. I mean, literally, to
go back to that case, they're you know, quibbling over
three million dollars, which seems pretty small compared to the
one point four billion dollars that's being brought in from
just this one case.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, it's fascinating, all right, So let's talk a little
bit about this. The Chinese Communist Party probably a friend
of Meta, but that's besides the point, has for a
long time been investing in education institutions in the United States,
and they expect something in return generally when they open
up one of these Confucius Institute offices, which for the record,
they've rebranded. They're starting to call them something else now
(36:33):
I understand, But even still, the business model's the same.
The Chinese Communist Party gives money to local college or
high school, and in return, they don't want any conservatives
or libertarians or even moderates or really anybody that's critical
of Communism to be hired at the school in any capacity,
much less as an educator. This is obviously a problem,
and Senator Ted Cruz is calling attention to it, isn't he.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Absolutely? I mean, this is a massive issue, and and
to your point, this is an issue that's been called out.
That's why these Confucius institutes have had to rebrand themselves,
you know, to the two different names, because people are
onto their gain. And now hopefully this TRACE Act that
stands for transparency in reporting of adversarial contributions to education,
(37:18):
we'll hopefully move through and hopefully enhance transparency for you know,
who's exactly funding, what happened, what's happening in education, especially
when it's coming from foreign countries. But this should be
you know, this should be absolutely a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, I would think so too. So is this something
that other lawmakers are on board with Are people anybody
any any opposition to this? Anyone that doesn't like it?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Well, I'm sure there's there will be opposition from from Democrats.
You've already seen similar legislation filed in the Texas House,
or not the Texas House, the US House of Representatives.
You had a representative from order. They're filing it, and
so hopefully we'll see some traction on it.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Okay, let's talk a little bit about illegal immigration for
a minute. Things are particularly bad right now that we've
heard reports that it's calming down a little bit at
the border, and interestingly enough, people in our own border
patrol and immigration's custom enforcement have leaked information to journalists
suggesting that part of the reason why the numbers have
(38:23):
dipped down just a little bit, and I mean just
a little bit, is because, not surprisingly, it's election time.
And so I guess the Biden administration can make a
phone call to our friends in places like Mexico and
ask them, hey, could you stop sending illegals for just
a few moments, But Canada didn't get the call. We've
now learned that there are people crossing over the Canadian
(38:44):
border into the United States who might have ties to
terrorism in the Mideast. Do you have details about that?
Speaker 8 (38:54):
Sorry, sir, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
We have illegal immigrants from Gaza coming over the border.
What are three suspected Palestinian terror suspects caught illegally crossing
the border through California. I've heard there's also some crossing
in through Canada. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (39:11):
Yes? And you know you have Senator Cruz again something
that he's been leading on saying, look, it's time that
we actually pay attention to what's coming across who's coming
across the Canadian border. Now we're not talking about you know, Canadians.
I don't think people are too generally worried about that,
but you do have a situation where Canada is taking
in some of these people they're dangerous people. They're giving
(39:31):
them some sort of legal status in Canada that allows
them to travel, and so they're traveling into the United
States on a legal you know, with legal status, and
this is becoming a major security threat.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah, it's kind of amazing how common this is becoming.
I mean, Kamala Harris told us back when she was
running for president last time that this never happens. But
now we're actually getting this admitted, this information from the
very same federal government, the very same administration she's currently
connected to as vice president, aren't we.
Speaker 8 (40:07):
Exactly? And I think that this is exactly the reason
that people are talking about the fact that this Biden
Harris administration, which is you know what it is now,
especially with Kamala on the ticket there and with her
as Borders are, has absolutely sailed because you know, not
only was it her failure as the Borders are to
ever actually go visit the border, but she's somebody who
(40:29):
has supported these programs that are ultimately eroding the security
at our southern border and our northern border for that
matter too.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
All Right, here's something else that bothers me today. Not
far away from Houston, Texas is San Antonio. I was
just there recently, hop skipping to jump right over there
off I ten. And you guys have a story today
about how an illegal immigrant shot a cop in San Antonio.
How come you're the only news outlet I see reporting
on this?
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Well, this was originally I think I've seen that what's
his name, malusion from Fox News had reported this on Sunday.
I mean, this was a cop in San Antonio that
was shot and it turns out that, you know, surprise, surprise,
but the reports are that this cop was shot by
(41:17):
somebody who is here in the country illegally, an illegal aliens.
This is an illegal alien that had crossed an eagle
path which has been a center point of the illegal
crossings and where a lot of the attention has been.
And you know, this just goes to show we say
it every time you see a crime like this, it's
a reminder that every crime commated by an illegal alien
(41:37):
is a preventable crime.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Amen to that, my brother Brandon Walton's Texas Scorecard dot
com has always incredible work. Great, great job reporting these
stories for us. Brandon, We're grateful for you. Guys. Hey,
I'm a loyal brand evangelist of my friends at Texas Scorecard.
I subscribe to their email list. You should too. Go
to texascorecard dot com and follow Brandon Waltons on X.
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. I hope you
(41:59):
have an awesome app. Drive safe out there. We'll be
back bright and early tomorrow morning for more of what
you bought a radio for.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
You are listening to the pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.