September 20, 2024 • 38 mins
This episode of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Brandon Darby and Michael Quinn Sullivan. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The Teamsters decline to endorse presidential candidate. Hasn't happened in decades.
They also declined to reveal what they did with Jimmy
Hoffer's body. Verdicts still out on that. Michael Quinn Sullivan
for Texas Scorecard will be here next segment for your
weekend review. And my friend Alexandre Mieler, remember her, alex
Miheler ran for county judge, basically had it stolen from
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her from Lena Hidalgo. Well, she's gonna be here today
with a whole bunch of other people running for judicial positions.
County judge, as you know, isn't really a judge. If
you're from Texas, you already know that. It's like the
executive in charge the county. But we're gonna have actual
candidates trying to get a circuit court judge position. Stopping
buying a little bit very important for the future of
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the republic.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But before we get to any of it, I want
to I want to air a little personal grievance on
this show. For a long time, I've had beef with
a comedian. I don't know if he has be I
don't know if he knows he has beef with me.
Michael Ian Black many years ago, went on a book
tour with Megan McCain, that's John McCain's daughter, and I
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had pointed out at the time how she was a
Rhino and he was a liberal, and they were, you know,
they belonged together. I even made a joke that maybe
they were sleeping together because the two of them were
on a book tour together, probably was in poor taste.
They didn't like it. They both blocked me on Twitter
for that wasn't funny. I guess, you know. I just
you're warhawks and you seem to have a very suspiciously
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close relationship to get But it doesn't matter, you know,
what two adults do in the privacy of their own
bedroom at any rate. I got blocked, and I kind
of forgot Michael Ian Black even existed until this weekend.
He was on CNN. There's a report about it today
at Breitbart dot Com. CNN panelist and former comedian Michael
ian Black told a lie about President Trump on CNN.
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Michael ian Black got caught. After he got caught, he apologized,
then he deleted the apology from social media. Huh, you
all remember the corporate media's Abdul hoax? Or maybe you don't,
because these days the media hoaxes come by the fire
hout hose. There's just so many different there's tons of
there's tons of media hoaxes all the time. Anyway, during
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the presidential debate, Trump relayed a threat he made as
president to a Taliban leader named Abdul. Trump said, quote,
I got involved, and Abdulla is the head of the Taliban.
He is still the head of the Taliban. And I
told Abdul, don't do it anymore. You don't do it anymore,
you're going to have problems. And he said, why do
you send me a picture of my house? I said,
you're going to have to figure that out, Abdul. And
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for eighteen months, we had nobody killed. It was from
there that the media launched countless reports accusing Trump of racism.
The hoax claims Trump couldn't remember the Taliban leader's name.
So like the clansman he is, he inserted the common
Arab name Abdul, in the same way President Joe Biden
is known to call every black man he meets George Jefferson.
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You get the idea, except per no less than ABC
News quote. Trump spoke to Abdul Ghani Baradar, who serves
as the group's chief negotiator and also goes by Mullah Baradar.
According to the militant group spokesperson who said he the
call lasted thirty five minutes. So what do you know,
A few minutes with the Google machine reveals the dude's
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name really is Abdul. But our media doesn't use Google
because apparently they feel like that would be too much journalism.
So on Saturday, CNN launched a left wing comedy show
called Have I Got News for You, which I'm sure
will light up the ratings and change pop culture forever,
because if there's anything America's lacking, it's left wing comedy shows.
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And who better to entertain us with jokes than CNN.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So I know it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So to set the proper tone of what's to come,
the debut episode of Have I Got News for You?
Spread the Abdul hoax courtesy of Michael Ian Black. Michael
ian Black said, he's such a hack, like he picked
the most obvious name to make up as the head
of the Taliban Abdul. CNN was so proud of Michael
Ian Black spreading this lie that the moment was highlighted
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on its website actually wrote an article about it later
in the week. Thanks to Twitter, which is now called
x and using an ABC News story, someone informed Michael
Ian Black that he got it wrong. To everyone's surprise,
I was surprised, Michael Ian Black actually admitted it was true,
he was wrong, and then he said I'm so Then,
to no one's surprised, he deleted his admission and his apology.
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He said, I accept your apology on behalf of a
grateful nation. Michael said, my friend Jerry Dunlevy, he's not
really a friend of mine. He's a guy I follow
on Twitter. He's interesting. And then Michael Liam Black deleted
the tweet. Jerry called him out. Jerry's a conservative journalist.
Why did you delete your apology to the American people,
Michael Liam Black. CNN can't have its people retracting misinformation.
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That would just be a little too much journalism, wouldn't it. Yeah,
I think so. And much like comedy, if there's one
thing CNN sucks at, it's well everything.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
We're not passive aggressive like some people we know. Yes,
is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Or are we?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Usually once a week, usually right around this time, I
call a good friend of mine. I often say he's
one of the smartest, if not the smartest person in
Texas political media.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He's very dangerous.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He's destroyed the careers of both Rhino Republican politicians and
liberal Democrats alike.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Although now I'm being redundant.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Runs one of my favorite websites, Texas scorecard dot com,
and Michael Quinn, Sullen, and Sullivan and I will have
a conversation reviewing the week's news on the radio, usually
right before we go on the air, a little behind
the scenes baseball stuff here. We talk about what are
some stories that are kind of vaguely connected together, and
this week it's it was just such a weird week
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between the thing with Mark Robinson and the and the
tax hikes and all the weird stuff going on around
the country, around the world, around the state. Right now,
border problems, p Diddy, so many bizarre things happening here.
I gotta think, and I know it's not supposed to
be funny, but you've got to admit, Michael quinn Sullivan
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exploding pagers is definitely unique.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've never heard anything like this before.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh oh, Kenny, it is my favorite story of twin
twenty four. Right now, it might be my favorite story
of twenty twenty four when you get to the end
of the year, it might be my favorite story of
the decade at some point.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I just absolutely I love.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Every aspect the I love the planning that it went
into it, the fact someone we don't know who, since
no one's claimed responsibility. Nudge nudge, wink wink, Israel, you
managed to intercept thousands of pagers and then walkie talkies
and insert these tiny little bobs in them and then
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send them on their way so that they can make
them all blow up at one time. I mean, I
just it's just so glorious. I mean, think of where
people typically keep pagers, right, they keep them in their pockets,
and so here are a bunch of these you know,
has bloss secret warriors having their junk blown off at
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the at the market square or at work or whatever.
It really does send a nice little message to you.
Do you really want to screw this pal? Are you
feeling lucky about the electronic device you've got in your pocket?
I think it's a hats off to have organize that.
That is the That's a wonderful story. I I love it.
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It's the feel good story that we all needed.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I thought it was funny. Look it's and it happens
at the other end of the world. It involves war.
War is unpleasant, but it's it's so bizarre, and I
know it confused a lot of people. One thing that
confused people is why were they using pagers? And the
answer is obviously pretty simple. You probably know this that
they had to scale down their tech because they were
getting hacked. People were able to figure out where they
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were by tracking their cell phones. Also fascinating, Michael, the
Iranian ambassador had one of the pagers.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
The Iranian ambassador.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Now, I know some people have a secret membership in Hesbela,
other ones are more public. I gotta think most people
probably didn't realize he was in the group.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Yeah, you know what was great about this? I think
this is even weird or you know, again, whoever planned
it in a judge wink wink, you know, they didn't
know who this pagrits are going to specifically. And so
this was a great outing of the of the members
of Hesbelot and and and and it's really became one
of those undeniable moments because, uh, you know, you know,
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it's not like you accidentally have a pager in your pocket.
It's not like you accidentally are walking up a pager,
you know, one of your bells. Uh, you know, these
are people. They weren't in the wrong place at the
wrong time because they well, the Iranian ambassador, you know,
he just happened to be shopping, you know, at that
supermarket at that time. He wasn't you know, he's not
a bad guy. Oh no, he had the pager. He
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was a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, certainly is the case. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The other thing that gets me about this is people
will say, well, now Lebanon, now Hesbela is going to retaliate.
This had nothing Hesbola, has nothing to do with Hamas,
This has nothing to do with October seventh. How naive
are people, Michael? Do people actually believe that? Apparently they do.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Well, I'm not sure that they believe it, but they
hope that if they say it, they will make other
people believe it. At the end of the day, Hesblah
and Hamas are just you know, two sides of the
same anti Semitic, anti West movement, and and the idea
that they're going to respond. Maybe they will eventually respond.
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I remember, they're not going to respond, not trusting any
piece of electronic equipment that they have anywhere near them.
To pair this with the with the explosion now a
month ago where we found out today senior ranking member
of Hamas was killed that and that bomb had been
planted like four months earlier. You know, the the Israelis
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are playing a long game here, and I think that
a lot of us aren't used to that. In the West,
we've gotten very used to you know, Uh, do something
that feels good right now and then and then the
story phages in the distance. You may not remember this, kinny,
but the republic presdential candidate has now twice been almost assassinated.
You know, we forget these stories, right, and then Israel
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is demonstrating them. Maybe I shouldn't forget about this stuff.
Maybe you should take a long review of history, all.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Right, So there's a lot of bizarre news stories this week.
The Donald Trump, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, P Diddy,
the rap mogul getting arrested. Sometimes these weird news stories
come colliding together. I'll give you an example. Back in
twenty eighteen, this guy got arrested. He was taken into
custody for taking a gun to Trump's golf course in Florida.
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Most people don't probably remember this. His name was Jonathan Odie.
We now have a newly surfaced video showing this guy.
Jonathan Odie is apparently an ex gay porn star arrested
in twenty eighteen for allegedly shooting up one of Donald
Trump's Florida golf courses. Told police in his interrogation that
he had allegedly been Sean Diddy Combs his sex slave.
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Now this video is surfaced online again. This guy, uh,
just a weird guy that tried to kill Donald Trump.
Also enslaved by puff Daddy Michael. I know you didn't
know I was going to bring up this story. Does
this even sound real? It's in the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
You know, if you had if you had said those
sentences to me three weeks ago, I would have ask myself, wonder,
what Kenny is drinking this early in the afternoon. It
must be something nice. But but today absolutely the sounds legit.
Absolutely yeah, So many of the things that we would
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have written off those crazy, goofy conspiracy theories, you know
a couple of years ago. Today, that's just the world
we live in, man.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So absolutely, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Like it's like the writers are running out of ideas
here in this fictitious movie, Like, hey, let's talk about
Texas for a minute. This week we learned Lena had
Dalgo's raising property taxes here in Houston, some of the
highest property taxes in the country. She wore a two
thousand dollars dress to the Commissioner's Court hearing to.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Make that announcement.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Meanwhile, here's another similar news story of somebody that probably
gets paid a little too much. Harleigen school board paid
their superintendent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to resign
a Texas school board. A Texas school superintendent was making
a quarter of a million dollars to step down from
his job.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Michael, how, how how do they have the budget for this? Well?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I mean, as it turns out when you can just
reach into people's pocket and steal their money, like government
schools are doing, You've got all sorts of unlimited funds
to play games with.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It's not like this guy with some long.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Serving superintendent who you know, just kind of getting a
little little out there or something. He'd only worked for
them for a year, and then the school board has
been completely silent on the reasons why, except one of
their committees announced this week when they're they're looking at
some budget irregularities from the past year. You know that
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that should if it's a word year is familiar in
context here, maybe you should play along. You know, money
being spent on things that weren't budgeted, money being spent
being communicated to the board, things like that. So you know,
for normal people like you and me, that says maybe
this guy was spending money recklessly and doing financially disastrous
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things for Harlingen. In the real world, Kenney, your boss,
my board, they would fire me and they would probably
prosecute you, right, I mean, that's when that's the path
that would happen in the real world. If you're misappropriating
funds in public schools where the money is free and
flowing constantly. Instead, they just pay the guy to let
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him resign, and now he can go to another school
district and pull the same stunt.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
All right, you're the only people I see reporting on
this at Texas scorecard dot com right now. Citizens testified
to Texas senators this week that despite the legislature's passage
of a law prohibiting sexually explicit books and public school
libraries for pre pubescent kids, the materials are still present.
We all House Spell nine hundred was supposed to get
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rid of this. Apparently it's still happening around the state.
I've heard I didn't quite dive too deep into this,
but I've heard of courts just told Florida they have
to put these books back into public school libraries. I
I just wonder, how how is it we're moving backwards
on this. It feels like this is a pretty easy
thing we all agree on, don't show gay porno to
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kids if they're not even in middle school yet. Yet,
oddly enough, there's resistance to this.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Look, I mean, this is this is the the insanity
of the left, where it was not that long ago
when you had the Vice President of the United States
and his wife al and Tipper Gore who who were
fighting to get you know, nasty lyrics labeled on records,
on you know, on on rap records and things that way,
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parents should know, hey, there's there, there is you know,
obnoxious you know, bad language, bad memes, whatever, contanduct with a.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Movie warning label.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Now, and you know that was kind of a mainstream
position of Democrats even and now today, uh that that
party has shifted so far and radically to the left.
They're so intent on destroying Western civilization, their their intent
on destroying childhood, their intent on destroying the concepts of morality.
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And so therefore, you know what, you know what what
what would have been just a couple of years ago,
a normal position don't give porn to children, don't let
children have access to porn, is suddenly, you know, a
hill they want to fight and die on is giving
porn to children, And and and there's and the real
practical outlaw of that then is even up in with
teachers who think it's their job to give porn to children,
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to make porn available to children. This is a world
that you know, mom and dad, no longer can we
just send kids to school and think everything is going
to be Okay, we have to paint be paying a
lot more attention. Maybe you know, we probably all we
should have been, but especially now, especially today.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, you raised an interesting point. One more quick question
I want to ask you about. I got to think
here in the state of Texas right now, getting into November,
other than the presidential election, I don't think there's any
race that's as important to me or our listeners than
Ted Cruz versus Colin Alrid. Ted Cruz one of the
greatest statesmen in the twenty first century. I find him
to be somebody with a fantastic voting record. He's a
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good guy. We've had him on the show before. I
like his voting record, I like his philosophy. I think
Ted Cruz is a brilliant person and we're lucky to
have him as a senator. And Colin Alred, on the
other hand, by comparison, he's basically concussion Beto. He's Beto
O'Rourke with a bunch of NFL concussions. Not a brilliant guy. Well,
this week NBC News comes out this week they said
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Colin Alrid's a head by one percent, one percent.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think, boy, that's hard to believe. In the state
of Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
And then similarly, right around the same day, you see
Colin Alrid popping off on social media going after Ken
Paxton for trying to intimidate Texas voters. Now, Michael, I
follow the news pretty closely. I know you do as well.
The only thing I could think of that he's talking
about here is Ken Paxton taking dead people and non
citizens off the voter roll.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What's your take on all of this?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah, so, look, the only way Colin Allred gets to
be the next US Senator is if every dead person
buried in Texas is suddenly allowed to vote. So so
Colin is defintely right. Ken Paxton is absolutely a threat
to the dead voter block, and that is a key
constituency for Colin ali Red. In fact, if you right
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now go and pull all the cemeteries in Texas, what
you will the answer you'll get back is that Colin
Alred is winning by one percent. That is Colin Allreds.
That is Colin Allred's constituency are dead people and illegal aliens.
That that's his constituency.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So of course he's upset.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
That Ken Paxton is taking taking axton to stop dead
people and not on citizens from voting in our election.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That you know that.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
That is literally if you walked into Colin Alirich's office
and you open the file that says super secret plan
to get call and elected. You know, bullet point one,
get the dead people to vote, bullet point true, get
the non citizens to vote, and that's it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
That's that's all they got.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
You know, when MSNBC says, you know that, you know
this shock poll, you know Ted Cruz losing by one percent,
and it sounds a little crazy, that's because it is crazy.
When you enter this time of the year, any poll
you see written about of the news you just have
to assume is total bs. There's nothing true about it.
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None of the polls reported are true or accurate. Every
single pole that's reported from now until the election day
is there is meant as a pr tool by the
campaign that's issuing it. So take every one of those
polls with a grain of salt. Just go do your thing.
Vote for your candidate. You know, tell your friends and
family to vote, to vote for your candidate. You know,
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dig up your great grandmother, get heard of, vote for
your candidate. Whatever it takes, you know, go vote and
don't be dissuaded by you know, the popularity games from
the from the left wing media.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
When you look at a guy like Ken Paxton er
Ted Cruz, they are are sid Miller to that point,
they're so different than all the other elected officials that
won statewide elections. You look at Kentucky, Mitch McConnell and
Ran Paul might be in the same party. That's about
the only thing they have in common. How does that happen?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Michael, Yeah, you know, it happens in some ways because
you look look at the times when people are elected.
You know, McConnell was elected at a very different point
in time in the Republican Party in Kentucky as compared
to Tran Paul voters. You know, we all tend to
treat politicians the way we treat cars. None of us
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want to admit that we bought a lemon, and we
tend to hold on the car until it stops working
for us. And that's kind of what the voter seem
to have done with Mitch McConnell is you know, well,
you know, we kind of regret having hired him, but
we're want of keeping because you're to keeping than to firing.
You know kind of a mindset pot And you know,
we as voters tend to keep our our politicians around
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until they get too far out of hand. And that's
where no Mitch McConnell has benefited from that. And and
and that is a that's a negative reflection on on
our on the work we do as citizens, where we think, well,
I'd rather just keep the guide than try to do
something different. You know, we should be more involved and engaged,
and therefore we need to be holding all our elected
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officials accountable the same way we're doing this is no one,
none of us who run a business, who hire and
fire people, None of us treat our our employees at
our at our work the way we treat our employees
that we hire through the ballot box. We need to
do a better job of you know, don't don't treat
them worse, but we need to treat them the same
as we treat our employees at work.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Michael quinn Sullivan the wisdom's wisdom and brilliance of one
of the smartest people in the Texas political media scene.
I am grateful that you are on our side. It
is refreshing to hear some of your thoughts on what
has been a very bizarre week in the news. Follow
my friend Michael Quinn Sullivan on social media, and while
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Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's a smart idea.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know, you are just looking at fake news and
bad political media all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Why not actually put some truth in your news feed.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
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. It is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We'll be right back probably.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Maybe something I have learned is that when terrible people
show you who they are, you should believe them.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Something we haven't spent a lot of time on this show.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Talking about because you know, I mostly do local and
state stuff and it's a little bit of national I do.
Don't do a lot of international news on the show. Okay,
we talked about Israel in the last segment, but you know,
you get the idea, right, I don't. I don't have
to talk about politics in Brazil, but I like Elon Musk.
I think what Elon Musk is done to defend free
speeches worthy of acknowledgment. As it turns out, x, Twitter
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and Starlink have both been banned from Brazil. Apparently the
nation of Brazil, the political rulers in charge of Brazil,
decided Musk and his businesses ought not come here. What
they're doing is spreading disinformation online, very dangerous. We don't
want that. We don't want people to be able to
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say whatever they want without any consequences. His company x
is now facing steep daily fines in Brazil for allegedly
evading a ban on the service there. According to a
statement from the companies from the country of Brazil's Supreme Court,
the finds imposed on Brazil's Supreme Court amount to about
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five million dollars in Brazilian reels. That's their money. It's
actually nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars a day. The
court said it will continue to impose joint liability on Starlink.
That's the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX,
which is, as you know, also a company owned by
Elon Musk, even though the two companies are technically separate.
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And this is just another example of the globalists going
after free speech.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
JD.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Tussi put it pretty well when he recently said. An
example of a rooting support for free speech around the
world can be seen in a recent public letter by academics,
tenured college professors, and liberal authors from several countries supporting
Brazil's government in its battle to ban free speech from
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their country, to ban X, the social media platform, and
punish anybody in Brazil who evades the restrictions. It's not
really surprising to see intellectuals endorse authoritarianism. So called intellectuals
often aren't really that intellectual at all. They're just control freaks,
power hungary, politically insane. Many do so more often than not,
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but it's disappointing to see their ranks include prominent individuals,
including one who has a reputation as a civil libertarian.
For those who haven't followed the drama, X and Elon
Musk have been locked in a dispute with Brazil's Supreme Court,
especially this guy, Justice Alexandre da Morase, over the degree
to which the social media platform should censor disinformation. So
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demand for virtual private network software sored by sixteen hundred
percent in Brazil following the ban, presumably to evade the
government impost blockade and so apparently X then reworked its
servers in a way that makes the service accessible again
to Brazilians. So Elon Musk and X reworked their servers
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in a way that makes the service to get around
the legal loopholes here. So all these different intellectuals wrote
a letter saying that they support brazil on their attack
on free speech. Pretty disgusting thing to do. Unfortunately, free
speech is under siege around the world, including in supposedly
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free countries. This dramatic erosion of freedoms of expression and
democracies are not isolated events. They are part of a
broader and global free speech recession that has afflicted the
hard and of free expression and open democracies, and which
threatens to roll back hard won freedoms. I know that
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sounded pretty smart, right. I got that from the Free
Speech Recession Hits Home Report. It actually was published last
year The Future of free Speech, This article they published
at Reason dot com. I thought it was brilliant, and
I say, hey, we have to defend free speech technological sovereignty.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
It's kind of crazy how bad things are right now.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
This erosion of individual fundamental rights to free speech proceeds
to the applause of entirely. Too many supposed thinkers, too
many people. And you know why the doing it right,
it's a lobbyists. It's the people that fund these institutions,
people that write for the Guardian, people that work at
Harvard University. These are the very people calling for censorship
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right now. It's remarkable. How did they get so confused
about the very ideology that they claim to spend their
life protecting.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I'll tell you what it was. It was money.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Look, I'm a capitalist, but you can't help. But notice
sometimes in these so called intellectual institutions, money corrupts. It's
sad when power and politics come before principles, but these
days it seems to happen all too often.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Keen 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.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Okay, so they claim, they claim that it's not clear
who manufactured the exploding pagers that went off in Levinon,
but for whoever made them, business is booming.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. We still got one more to go.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, it's the end of the week and you
know I haven't talked to in a while one of
my best buddies from conservative media.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
It sounds like some Texas justice to me. And now
live from the border. It's Bright Bart's Brandon Darby with
the Cartel Chronicles only on KPRC Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Everybody knows about Springfield, Ohio at this point, and by
this point you probably already heard that there probably weren't examples,
proven examples of people eating cats and dogs. Then again,
there's no proof that it didn't happen either. It's just
something people in the town claimed and somehow it found
its way to a presidential debate. But whatever the truth
is about that, doesn't it bother you that they kind
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of turned this quiet, sleepy, little small town in Ohio
into a Third World refugee camp for Haitian migrants. I
mean the veig Ramaswami went there yesterday. He said he
actually feels bad of the residents and the migrants because
they didn't ask for any of this. Here was his
take on it, My buddy Brandon Darby for Break Bart Texas. Brandon,
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you there, I am.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Here, buddy, how you jim here? I didn't know that
was mark? You apologize. That's my that's my take on
it nothing, and you said, look, come on, like like
like here, here's what's basically happening, right, is what's basically
happening is people brought in a bunch of migrants. Again,
very sympathetic to migrants. I understand why people want to
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come to the United States. I get it. I wish
there were a more of a legal mechanism that people
followed and and that this administration and other previous administrations
UH with usually with these after their name, did not
just skirt the rules instead of changing the rules to
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allow people to come. But let's be clear, right, if
you take people from Haiti and you bring in three
people from Haiti into a town of one hundred thousand,
that is great for that town probably, and it's great
for those people from Haiti. However, if you have a
town of one hundred thousand and you bring in ten
thousand people from Haiti, now we have a problem because
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instead of assimilating and joining a community, people tend to
communities tend to get very insular. And what you end
up with is real simple. If you took everyone from
Haiti and put them in the middle of you know,
put them in the middle of Flower country, then wherever
you put them is going to become just where those
people came from. Right, that's what's going to happen. That's true.
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Whether it's from El Salvador, it's true. Whether regardless of
where it's from, it's true. And that's what happens. So
you have a community who had tons of people imported.
It's changing the dynamic. Not talking about race, I'm talking
about a number of other ways that's changing the dynamic
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in that community. People are upset, and there's rumors that
some of them have eaten cats and dogs, and now
people think anytime their cats or dogs are missing, that
the migrants about their dogs or cats, and they're talking
about it and things are going crazy. It's kind of
like the whole ramen noodle saying on TikTok. It's they're
having to be news stories saying no, ramen noodles are
(31:26):
not killing people. No, there's not a recall on ramen noodles,
right because someone on TikTok said it and everybody's freaking
out burning their ramen noodles or whatever. It's the same
kind of thing. And you know, Trump heard all that,
he thought it was true. He said it. It could
be true. I don't know, but there's no evidence that
it is true, and he said it. So now that's
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what rather than talking about the economy or the fact
that I'm paying what I'm paying for eggs at the store,
or for milk, or for beef, my dear god, the
cost of beef, like the inflation on everything. Even my
chief eckage sausage that was five something is now ten something.
You know, those big family pacts that I love so much.
(32:14):
Everything costs a lot more now. And rather than talking
about that, rather than talking about the fact that Democrats
have led us very close to World War three and
to nuclear war with Russia, rather than talk about all
these factors we could be talking about, rather than talk
about the estimated and in fact not estimated, the twelve
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million people who have shown up at our border and
gotten into our country, most of them like since Biden
took office, Rather than talking about all of that, he
made a comment about people eating cats and dogs. And
that's what the media chooses to focus on, is though
that somehow impacts our lives more than the fact that
(32:59):
you know, ninety percent of us can't afford to go
to the Dame grocery store. Now you know what I mean.
Pretty soon we're going to be like the daughters were
going to be like, you know, like boiling our leather
shoes to eat or something, and and they think that's
a bigger deal. So that's what happened in Springfield. Trump
sets some stuff. There's not evidence to back up what
he said at this time, and everyone's focusing and on
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mathe that's what they do. Have you figured that out yet, though,
Like when there's really substantive issues, you know, like it's
like the homeschool thing, right, I'm a homeschool dad, you know,
I'm in a very happy relationships for my biological daughter's homeschooled.
The woman i'm with her three children are in public
school in a small town, right, and which is great
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in this small town. I don't know that it would
be so great if it was in an urban area,
but it's great in this small town. And but I'm
very big on parental rights when it comes to children's
educations and parents taking a greater role. I'm very big
on if people want to go to public school, go
to public school. But you ought to be able to
homeschool too. So there are some very legitimate issues I'm
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in news, I write about or I assign people at
this point to write about. To be honest, you know,
the multiple issues every month of public school teachers in
Texas doing inappropriate things with teenagers all the way from
texting sexteing all the way up to having intercourse. Right, Like,
there are legitimate reasons why a lot of people do
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not want to go to public school have their kids
in public school. And when people are successful at that,
and when people are successful talking about the issues, they
go dig in their past and they pull up something stupid,
like they did this. Coridangelis guy, the guy by all
accounts from everyone who knows him as a good dude.
(34:51):
He does great work, you know, when it comes to this,
and you know, they pull up something from his past
when he was in college and did some stupid whatever,
you know, video with a bunch of people, and that's
what they want to talk about, right, So that somehow,
that somehow takes away all the points that he makes
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and all the hard work he's done for parental rights
right and education, and that somehow takes away all of
it because he did something stupid in college.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
All right, I got, I got to expose what they do.
I got to explain that one.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Brandon made a lot of interesting points there, but the
part at the end is probably confusing to a few people.
There's this guy named Corey DeAngelis. He's been on this
show before. He's an advocate for school choice. He's an
ally of Governor Abbott and a lot of other people.
He's being attacked on social media right now because back
when he was in college, apparently he did what could
really only be described as nude modeling, I think is
(35:44):
the best way to describe it, and now people are
attacking him for that. Similarly, Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor
of North Carolina, is being publicly attacked right now because
about twenty years ago, he had an account on a
porno website message board where he said some racist thing
and looked at porn. And I got to tell you, guys,
I'd I'd rather have the guy be governor who watched
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porn and said racist things twenty years ago, then have
my hometown get turned into a Haitian refugee resettlement under
Governor Josh Stein.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
But you know, what, do I know? Brandon?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
You make a lot of interesting points, my man. How
are you doing? How are things over at Breitbart. How
are things up at the Panhandle?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
My man, things are going well.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Man, I'm just you know, living life and and doing
at work.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm I'm uh.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
You know, Breitbart has some new initiatives. I'm not going
to announce it, but pretty big deals and focused in
on helping get those going. So a lot of Breitbart
work right now. We're we're still rocking our you know,
our cartel chronicles. Our border coverage is is bar none
the best, and I believe and you know, I think
(36:51):
it's the gold standard, uh for you know, when these
kind of things happen about the border of immigration, about
dogs and or whatever else people are saying. You know,
people come to us and say, is Breitbart reporting it?
Is Brivebart reporting it? And if Briitbart isn't, then people,
you know, most informed people go, well, I'm not going
(37:12):
to share that story yet until I see it there,
right And and I think that's a great position that
we're in, so a great role that we play when
it comes to border and immigration. So we're doing great.
Everything's good. I'm loving it up up near Lovedock, Texas.
The people are great and it's nice to not be
(37:34):
on the populated side of Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
All right, but yeah, but yes or no? Have you
ever attended a p did he freak off?
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Just yes or no? Brandon? No, Okay, Well, that's good
that we cleared the record on that.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I'm Kenny Webster. Follow my good buddy Brandon Darby on Twitter. X.
You know what it is Breitbart dot com. That's where
you can find all the latest news from the border.
They are the most accurate news source for what is
going on and the immigration crisis around the country. To
the rest of you, I say, have an awesome weekend.
If you run into me this weekend at the Texas
Youth Summit, come say hi to me. I don't bite,
I've had all my vaccinations. I'm happy to hear from you.
(38:13):
Go to church, don't drive drunk. Be nice to old people.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell the
government to kiss your ass when you listen
Speaker 2 (38:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The Teamsters decline to endorse presidential candidate. Hasn't happened in decades.
They also declined to reveal what they did with Jimmy
Hoffer's body. Verdicts still out on that. Michael Quinn Sullivan
for Texas Scorecard will be here next segment for your
weekend review. And my friend Alexandre Mieler, remember her, alex
Miheler ran for county judge, basically had it stolen from
(00:46):
her from Lena Hidalgo. Well, she's gonna be here today
with a whole bunch of other people running for judicial positions.
County judge, as you know, isn't really a judge. If
you're from Texas, you already know that. It's like the
executive in charge the county. But we're gonna have actual
candidates trying to get a circuit court judge position. Stopping
buying a little bit very important for the future of
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the republic.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But before we get to any of it, I want
to I want to air a little personal grievance on
this show. For a long time, I've had beef with
a comedian. I don't know if he has be I
don't know if he knows he has beef with me.
Michael Ian Black many years ago, went on a book
tour with Megan McCain, that's John McCain's daughter, and I
(01:33):
had pointed out at the time how she was a
Rhino and he was a liberal, and they were, you know,
they belonged together. I even made a joke that maybe
they were sleeping together because the two of them were
on a book tour together, probably was in poor taste.
They didn't like it. They both blocked me on Twitter
for that wasn't funny. I guess, you know. I just
you're warhawks and you seem to have a very suspiciously
(01:55):
close relationship to get But it doesn't matter, you know,
what two adults do in the privacy of their own
bedroom at any rate. I got blocked, and I kind
of forgot Michael Ian Black even existed until this weekend.
He was on CNN. There's a report about it today
at Breitbart dot Com. CNN panelist and former comedian Michael
ian Black told a lie about President Trump on CNN.
(02:20):
Michael ian Black got caught. After he got caught, he apologized,
then he deleted the apology from social media. Huh, you
all remember the corporate media's Abdul hoax? Or maybe you don't,
because these days the media hoaxes come by the fire
hout hose. There's just so many different there's tons of
there's tons of media hoaxes all the time. Anyway, during
(02:42):
the presidential debate, Trump relayed a threat he made as
president to a Taliban leader named Abdul. Trump said, quote,
I got involved, and Abdulla is the head of the Taliban.
He is still the head of the Taliban. And I
told Abdul, don't do it anymore. You don't do it anymore,
you're going to have problems. And he said, why do
you send me a picture of my house? I said,
you're going to have to figure that out, Abdul. And
(03:04):
for eighteen months, we had nobody killed. It was from
there that the media launched countless reports accusing Trump of racism.
The hoax claims Trump couldn't remember the Taliban leader's name.
So like the clansman he is, he inserted the common
Arab name Abdul, in the same way President Joe Biden
is known to call every black man he meets George Jefferson.
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You get the idea, except per no less than ABC
News quote. Trump spoke to Abdul Ghani Baradar, who serves
as the group's chief negotiator and also goes by Mullah Baradar.
According to the militant group spokesperson who said he the
call lasted thirty five minutes. So what do you know,
A few minutes with the Google machine reveals the dude's
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name really is Abdul. But our media doesn't use Google
because apparently they feel like that would be too much journalism.
So on Saturday, CNN launched a left wing comedy show
called Have I Got News for You, which I'm sure
will light up the ratings and change pop culture forever,
because if there's anything America's lacking, it's left wing comedy shows.
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And who better to entertain us with jokes than CNN.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So I know it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So to set the proper tone of what's to come,
the debut episode of Have I Got News for You?
Spread the Abdul hoax courtesy of Michael Ian Black. Michael
ian Black said, he's such a hack, like he picked
the most obvious name to make up as the head
of the Taliban Abdul. CNN was so proud of Michael
Ian Black spreading this lie that the moment was highlighted
(04:41):
on its website actually wrote an article about it later
in the week. Thanks to Twitter, which is now called
x and using an ABC News story, someone informed Michael
Ian Black that he got it wrong. To everyone's surprise,
I was surprised, Michael Ian Black actually admitted it was true,
he was wrong, and then he said I'm so Then,
to no one's surprised, he deleted his admission and his apology.
(05:05):
He said, I accept your apology on behalf of a
grateful nation. Michael said, my friend Jerry Dunlevy, he's not
really a friend of mine. He's a guy I follow
on Twitter. He's interesting. And then Michael Liam Black deleted
the tweet. Jerry called him out. Jerry's a conservative journalist.
Why did you delete your apology to the American people,
Michael Liam Black. CNN can't have its people retracting misinformation.
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That would just be a little too much journalism, wouldn't it. Yeah,
I think so. And much like comedy, if there's one
thing CNN sucks at, it's well everything.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
We're not passive aggressive like some people we know. Yes,
is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Or are we?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Usually once a week, usually right around this time, I
call a good friend of mine. I often say he's
one of the smartest, if not the smartest person in
Texas political media.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He's very dangerous.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He's destroyed the careers of both Rhino Republican politicians and
liberal Democrats alike.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Although now I'm being redundant.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Runs one of my favorite websites, Texas scorecard dot com,
and Michael Quinn, Sullen, and Sullivan and I will have
a conversation reviewing the week's news on the radio, usually
right before we go on the air, a little behind
the scenes baseball stuff here. We talk about what are
some stories that are kind of vaguely connected together, and
this week it's it was just such a weird week
(06:27):
between the thing with Mark Robinson and the and the
tax hikes and all the weird stuff going on around
the country, around the world, around the state. Right now,
border problems, p Diddy, so many bizarre things happening here.
I gotta think, and I know it's not supposed to
be funny, but you've got to admit, Michael quinn Sullivan
(06:50):
exploding pagers is definitely unique.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've never heard anything like this before.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh oh, Kenny, it is my favorite story of twin
twenty four. Right now, it might be my favorite story
of twenty twenty four when you get to the end
of the year, it might be my favorite story of
the decade at some point.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I just absolutely I love.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Every aspect the I love the planning that it went
into it, the fact someone we don't know who, since
no one's claimed responsibility. Nudge nudge, wink wink, Israel, you
managed to intercept thousands of pagers and then walkie talkies
and insert these tiny little bobs in them and then
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send them on their way so that they can make
them all blow up at one time. I mean, I
just it's just so glorious. I mean, think of where
people typically keep pagers, right, they keep them in their pockets,
and so here are a bunch of these you know,
has bloss secret warriors having their junk blown off at
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the at the market square or at work or whatever.
It really does send a nice little message to you.
Do you really want to screw this pal? Are you
feeling lucky about the electronic device you've got in your pocket?
I think it's a hats off to have organize that.
That is the That's a wonderful story. I I love it.
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It's the feel good story that we all needed.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I thought it was funny. Look it's and it happens
at the other end of the world. It involves war.
War is unpleasant, but it's it's so bizarre, and I
know it confused a lot of people. One thing that
confused people is why were they using pagers? And the
answer is obviously pretty simple. You probably know this that
they had to scale down their tech because they were
getting hacked. People were able to figure out where they
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were by tracking their cell phones. Also fascinating, Michael, the
Iranian ambassador had one of the pagers.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
The Iranian ambassador.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Now, I know some people have a secret membership in Hesbela,
other ones are more public. I gotta think most people
probably didn't realize he was in the group.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Yeah, you know what was great about this? I think
this is even weird or you know, again, whoever planned
it in a judge wink wink, you know, they didn't
know who this pagrits are going to specifically. And so
this was a great outing of the of the members
of Hesbelot and and and and it's really became one
of those undeniable moments because, uh, you know, you know,
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it's not like you accidentally have a pager in your pocket.
It's not like you accidentally are walking up a pager,
you know, one of your bells. Uh, you know, these
are people. They weren't in the wrong place at the
wrong time because they well, the Iranian ambassador, you know,
he just happened to be shopping, you know, at that
supermarket at that time. He wasn't you know, he's not
a bad guy. Oh no, he had the pager. He
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was a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, certainly is the case. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The other thing that gets me about this is people
will say, well, now Lebanon, now Hesbela is going to retaliate.
This had nothing Hesbola, has nothing to do with Hamas,
This has nothing to do with October seventh. How naive
are people, Michael? Do people actually believe that? Apparently they do.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Well, I'm not sure that they believe it, but they
hope that if they say it, they will make other
people believe it. At the end of the day, Hesblah
and Hamas are just you know, two sides of the
same anti Semitic, anti West movement, and and the idea
that they're going to respond. Maybe they will eventually respond.
(10:23):
I remember, they're not going to respond, not trusting any
piece of electronic equipment that they have anywhere near them.
To pair this with the with the explosion now a
month ago where we found out today senior ranking member
of Hamas was killed that and that bomb had been
planted like four months earlier. You know, the the Israelis
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are playing a long game here, and I think that
a lot of us aren't used to that. In the West,
we've gotten very used to you know, Uh, do something
that feels good right now and then and then the
story phages in the distance. You may not remember this, kinny,
but the republic presdential candidate has now twice been almost assassinated.
You know, we forget these stories, right, and then Israel
(11:09):
is demonstrating them. Maybe I shouldn't forget about this stuff.
Maybe you should take a long review of history, all.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Right, So there's a lot of bizarre news stories this week.
The Donald Trump, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, P Diddy,
the rap mogul getting arrested. Sometimes these weird news stories
come colliding together. I'll give you an example. Back in
twenty eighteen, this guy got arrested. He was taken into
custody for taking a gun to Trump's golf course in Florida.
(11:35):
Most people don't probably remember this. His name was Jonathan Odie.
We now have a newly surfaced video showing this guy.
Jonathan Odie is apparently an ex gay porn star arrested
in twenty eighteen for allegedly shooting up one of Donald
Trump's Florida golf courses. Told police in his interrogation that
he had allegedly been Sean Diddy Combs his sex slave.
(11:57):
Now this video is surfaced online again. This guy, uh,
just a weird guy that tried to kill Donald Trump.
Also enslaved by puff Daddy Michael. I know you didn't
know I was going to bring up this story. Does
this even sound real? It's in the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
You know, if you had if you had said those
sentences to me three weeks ago, I would have ask myself, wonder,
what Kenny is drinking this early in the afternoon. It
must be something nice. But but today absolutely the sounds legit.
Absolutely yeah, So many of the things that we would
(12:34):
have written off those crazy, goofy conspiracy theories, you know
a couple of years ago. Today, that's just the world
we live in, man.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So absolutely, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Like it's like the writers are running out of ideas
here in this fictitious movie, Like, hey, let's talk about
Texas for a minute. This week we learned Lena had
Dalgo's raising property taxes here in Houston, some of the
highest property taxes in the country. She wore a two
thousand dollars dress to the Commissioner's Court hearing to.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Make that announcement.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Meanwhile, here's another similar news story of somebody that probably
gets paid a little too much. Harleigen school board paid
their superintendent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to resign
a Texas school board. A Texas school superintendent was making
a quarter of a million dollars to step down from
his job.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Michael, how, how how do they have the budget for this? Well?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I mean, as it turns out when you can just
reach into people's pocket and steal their money, like government
schools are doing, You've got all sorts of unlimited funds
to play games with.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It's not like this guy with some long.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Serving superintendent who you know, just kind of getting a
little little out there or something. He'd only worked for
them for a year, and then the school board has
been completely silent on the reasons why, except one of
their committees announced this week when they're they're looking at
some budget irregularities from the past year. You know that
(13:58):
that should if it's a word year is familiar in
context here, maybe you should play along. You know, money
being spent on things that weren't budgeted, money being spent
being communicated to the board, things like that. So you know,
for normal people like you and me, that says maybe
this guy was spending money recklessly and doing financially disastrous
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things for Harlingen. In the real world, Kenney, your boss,
my board, they would fire me and they would probably
prosecute you, right, I mean, that's when that's the path
that would happen in the real world. If you're misappropriating
funds in public schools where the money is free and
flowing constantly. Instead, they just pay the guy to let
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him resign, and now he can go to another school
district and pull the same stunt.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
All right, you're the only people I see reporting on
this at Texas scorecard dot com right now. Citizens testified
to Texas senators this week that despite the legislature's passage
of a law prohibiting sexually explicit books and public school
libraries for pre pubescent kids, the materials are still present.
We all House Spell nine hundred was supposed to get
(15:07):
rid of this. Apparently it's still happening around the state.
I've heard I didn't quite dive too deep into this,
but I've heard of courts just told Florida they have
to put these books back into public school libraries. I
I just wonder, how how is it we're moving backwards
on this. It feels like this is a pretty easy
thing we all agree on, don't show gay porno to
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kids if they're not even in middle school yet. Yet,
oddly enough, there's resistance to this.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Look, I mean, this is this is the the insanity
of the left, where it was not that long ago
when you had the Vice President of the United States
and his wife al and Tipper Gore who who were
fighting to get you know, nasty lyrics labeled on records,
on you know, on on rap records and things that way,
(15:54):
parents should know, hey, there's there, there is you know,
obnoxious you know, bad language, bad memes, whatever, contanduct with a.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Movie warning label.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Now, and you know that was kind of a mainstream
position of Democrats even and now today, uh that that
party has shifted so far and radically to the left.
They're so intent on destroying Western civilization, their their intent
on destroying childhood, their intent on destroying the concepts of morality.
(16:23):
And so therefore, you know what, you know what what
what would have been just a couple of years ago,
a normal position don't give porn to children, don't let
children have access to porn, is suddenly, you know, a
hill they want to fight and die on is giving
porn to children, And and and there's and the real
practical outlaw of that then is even up in with
teachers who think it's their job to give porn to children,
(16:47):
to make porn available to children. This is a world
that you know, mom and dad, no longer can we
just send kids to school and think everything is going
to be Okay, we have to paint be paying a
lot more attention. Maybe you know, we probably all we
should have been, but especially now, especially today.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, you raised an interesting point. One more quick question
I want to ask you about. I got to think
here in the state of Texas right now, getting into November,
other than the presidential election, I don't think there's any
race that's as important to me or our listeners than
Ted Cruz versus Colin Alrid. Ted Cruz one of the
greatest statesmen in the twenty first century. I find him
to be somebody with a fantastic voting record. He's a
(17:25):
good guy. We've had him on the show before. I
like his voting record, I like his philosophy. I think
Ted Cruz is a brilliant person and we're lucky to
have him as a senator. And Colin Alred, on the
other hand, by comparison, he's basically concussion Beto. He's Beto
O'Rourke with a bunch of NFL concussions. Not a brilliant guy. Well,
this week NBC News comes out this week they said
(17:45):
Colin Alrid's a head by one percent, one percent.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think, boy, that's hard to believe. In the state
of Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
And then similarly, right around the same day, you see
Colin Alrid popping off on social media going after Ken
Paxton for trying to intimidate Texas voters. Now, Michael, I
follow the news pretty closely. I know you do as well.
The only thing I could think of that he's talking
about here is Ken Paxton taking dead people and non
citizens off the voter roll.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What's your take on all of this?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah, so, look, the only way Colin Allred gets to
be the next US Senator is if every dead person
buried in Texas is suddenly allowed to vote. So so
Colin is defintely right. Ken Paxton is absolutely a threat
to the dead voter block, and that is a key
constituency for Colin ali Red. In fact, if you right
(18:36):
now go and pull all the cemeteries in Texas, what
you will the answer you'll get back is that Colin
Alred is winning by one percent. That is Colin Allreds.
That is Colin Allred's constituency are dead people and illegal aliens.
That that's his constituency.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So of course he's upset.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
That Ken Paxton is taking taking axton to stop dead
people and not on citizens from voting in our election.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That you know that.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
That is literally if you walked into Colin Alirich's office
and you open the file that says super secret plan
to get call and elected. You know, bullet point one,
get the dead people to vote, bullet point true, get
the non citizens to vote, and that's it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
That's that's all they got.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
You know, when MSNBC says, you know that, you know
this shock poll, you know Ted Cruz losing by one percent,
and it sounds a little crazy, that's because it is crazy.
When you enter this time of the year, any poll
you see written about of the news you just have
to assume is total bs. There's nothing true about it.
(19:39):
None of the polls reported are true or accurate. Every
single pole that's reported from now until the election day
is there is meant as a pr tool by the
campaign that's issuing it. So take every one of those
polls with a grain of salt. Just go do your thing.
Vote for your candidate. You know, tell your friends and
family to vote, to vote for your candidate. You know,
(20:00):
dig up your great grandmother, get heard of, vote for
your candidate. Whatever it takes, you know, go vote and
don't be dissuaded by you know, the popularity games from
the from the left wing media.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
When you look at a guy like Ken Paxton er
Ted Cruz, they are are sid Miller to that point,
they're so different than all the other elected officials that
won statewide elections. You look at Kentucky, Mitch McConnell and
Ran Paul might be in the same party. That's about
the only thing they have in common. How does that happen?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Michael, Yeah, you know, it happens in some ways because
you look look at the times when people are elected.
You know, McConnell was elected at a very different point
in time in the Republican Party in Kentucky as compared
to Tran Paul voters. You know, we all tend to
treat politicians the way we treat cars. None of us
(20:47):
want to admit that we bought a lemon, and we
tend to hold on the car until it stops working
for us. And that's kind of what the voter seem
to have done with Mitch McConnell is you know, well,
you know, we kind of regret having hired him, but
we're want of keeping because you're to keeping than to firing.
You know kind of a mindset pot And you know,
we as voters tend to keep our our politicians around
(21:07):
until they get too far out of hand. And that's
where no Mitch McConnell has benefited from that. And and
and that is a that's a negative reflection on on
our on the work we do as citizens, where we think, well,
I'd rather just keep the guide than try to do
something different. You know, we should be more involved and engaged,
and therefore we need to be holding all our elected
(21:29):
officials accountable the same way we're doing this is no one,
none of us who run a business, who hire and
fire people, None of us treat our our employees at
our at our work the way we treat our employees
that we hire through the ballot box. We need to
do a better job of you know, don't don't treat
them worse, but we need to treat them the same
as we treat our employees at work.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Michael quinn Sullivan the wisdom's wisdom and brilliance of one
of the smartest people in the Texas political media scene.
I am grateful that you are on our side. It
is refreshing to hear some of your thoughts on what
has been a very bizarre week in the news. Follow
my friend Michael Quinn Sullivan on social media, and while
you're at it, go to Texas scorecard dot com subscribe
to their email list.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's a smart idea.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know, you are just looking at fake news and
bad political media all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Why not actually put some truth in your news feed.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
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. It is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We'll be right back probably.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Maybe something I have learned is that when terrible people
show you who they are, you should believe them.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Something we haven't spent a lot of time on this show.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Talking about because you know, I mostly do local and
state stuff and it's a little bit of national I do.
Don't do a lot of international news on the show. Okay,
we talked about Israel in the last segment, but you know,
you get the idea, right, I don't. I don't have
to talk about politics in Brazil, but I like Elon Musk.
I think what Elon Musk is done to defend free
speeches worthy of acknowledgment. As it turns out, x, Twitter
(23:06):
and Starlink have both been banned from Brazil. Apparently the
nation of Brazil, the political rulers in charge of Brazil,
decided Musk and his businesses ought not come here. What
they're doing is spreading disinformation online, very dangerous. We don't
want that. We don't want people to be able to
(23:27):
say whatever they want without any consequences. His company x
is now facing steep daily fines in Brazil for allegedly
evading a ban on the service there. According to a
statement from the companies from the country of Brazil's Supreme Court,
the finds imposed on Brazil's Supreme Court amount to about
(23:48):
five million dollars in Brazilian reels. That's their money. It's
actually nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars a day. The
court said it will continue to impose joint liability on Starlink.
That's the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX,
which is, as you know, also a company owned by
Elon Musk, even though the two companies are technically separate.
(24:09):
And this is just another example of the globalists going
after free speech.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
JD.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Tussi put it pretty well when he recently said. An
example of a rooting support for free speech around the
world can be seen in a recent public letter by academics,
tenured college professors, and liberal authors from several countries supporting
Brazil's government in its battle to ban free speech from
(24:37):
their country, to ban X, the social media platform, and
punish anybody in Brazil who evades the restrictions. It's not
really surprising to see intellectuals endorse authoritarianism. So called intellectuals
often aren't really that intellectual at all. They're just control freaks,
power hungary, politically insane. Many do so more often than not,
(25:00):
but it's disappointing to see their ranks include prominent individuals,
including one who has a reputation as a civil libertarian.
For those who haven't followed the drama, X and Elon
Musk have been locked in a dispute with Brazil's Supreme Court,
especially this guy, Justice Alexandre da Morase, over the degree
to which the social media platform should censor disinformation. So
(25:25):
demand for virtual private network software sored by sixteen hundred
percent in Brazil following the ban, presumably to evade the
government impost blockade and so apparently X then reworked its
servers in a way that makes the service accessible again
to Brazilians. So Elon Musk and X reworked their servers
(25:46):
in a way that makes the service to get around
the legal loopholes here. So all these different intellectuals wrote
a letter saying that they support brazil on their attack
on free speech. Pretty disgusting thing to do. Unfortunately, free
speech is under siege around the world, including in supposedly
(26:06):
free countries. This dramatic erosion of freedoms of expression and
democracies are not isolated events. They are part of a
broader and global free speech recession that has afflicted the
hard and of free expression and open democracies, and which
threatens to roll back hard won freedoms. I know that
(26:27):
sounded pretty smart, right. I got that from the Free
Speech Recession Hits Home Report. It actually was published last
year The Future of free Speech, This article they published
at Reason dot com. I thought it was brilliant, and
I say, hey, we have to defend free speech technological sovereignty.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
It's kind of crazy how bad things are right now.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
This erosion of individual fundamental rights to free speech proceeds
to the applause of entirely. Too many supposed thinkers, too
many people. And you know why the doing it right,
it's a lobbyists. It's the people that fund these institutions,
people that write for the Guardian, people that work at
Harvard University. These are the very people calling for censorship
(27:11):
right now. It's remarkable. How did they get so confused
about the very ideology that they claim to spend their
life protecting.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I'll tell you what it was. It was money.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Look, I'm a capitalist, but you can't help. But notice
sometimes in these so called intellectual institutions, money corrupts. It's
sad when power and politics come before principles, but these
days it seems to happen all too often.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Keen 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.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Okay, so they claim, they claim that it's not clear
who manufactured the exploding pagers that went off in Levinon,
but for whoever made them, business is booming.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. We still got one more to go.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, it's the end of the week and you
know I haven't talked to in a while one of
my best buddies from conservative media.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
It sounds like some Texas justice to me. And now
live from the border. It's Bright Bart's Brandon Darby with
the Cartel Chronicles only on KPRC Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Everybody knows about Springfield, Ohio at this point, and by
this point you probably already heard that there probably weren't examples,
proven examples of people eating cats and dogs. Then again,
there's no proof that it didn't happen either. It's just
something people in the town claimed and somehow it found
its way to a presidential debate. But whatever the truth
is about that, doesn't it bother you that they kind
(28:48):
of turned this quiet, sleepy, little small town in Ohio
into a Third World refugee camp for Haitian migrants. I
mean the veig Ramaswami went there yesterday. He said he
actually feels bad of the residents and the migrants because
they didn't ask for any of this. Here was his
take on it, My buddy Brandon Darby for Break Bart Texas. Brandon,
(29:12):
you there, I am.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Here, buddy, how you jim here? I didn't know that
was mark? You apologize. That's my that's my take on
it nothing, and you said, look, come on, like like
like here, here's what's basically happening, right, is what's basically
happening is people brought in a bunch of migrants. Again,
very sympathetic to migrants. I understand why people want to
(29:36):
come to the United States. I get it. I wish
there were a more of a legal mechanism that people
followed and and that this administration and other previous administrations
UH with usually with these after their name, did not
just skirt the rules instead of changing the rules to
(29:57):
allow people to come. But let's be clear, right, if
you take people from Haiti and you bring in three
people from Haiti into a town of one hundred thousand,
that is great for that town probably, and it's great
for those people from Haiti. However, if you have a
town of one hundred thousand and you bring in ten
thousand people from Haiti, now we have a problem because
(30:20):
instead of assimilating and joining a community, people tend to
communities tend to get very insular. And what you end
up with is real simple. If you took everyone from
Haiti and put them in the middle of you know,
put them in the middle of Flower country, then wherever
you put them is going to become just where those
people came from. Right, that's what's going to happen. That's true.
(30:42):
Whether it's from El Salvador, it's true. Whether regardless of
where it's from, it's true. And that's what happens. So
you have a community who had tons of people imported.
It's changing the dynamic. Not talking about race, I'm talking
about a number of other ways that's changing the dynamic
(31:04):
in that community. People are upset, and there's rumors that
some of them have eaten cats and dogs, and now
people think anytime their cats or dogs are missing, that
the migrants about their dogs or cats, and they're talking
about it and things are going crazy. It's kind of
like the whole ramen noodle saying on TikTok. It's they're
having to be news stories saying no, ramen noodles are
(31:26):
not killing people. No, there's not a recall on ramen noodles,
right because someone on TikTok said it and everybody's freaking
out burning their ramen noodles or whatever. It's the same
kind of thing. And you know, Trump heard all that,
he thought it was true. He said it. It could
be true. I don't know, but there's no evidence that
it is true, and he said it. So now that's
(31:52):
what rather than talking about the economy or the fact
that I'm paying what I'm paying for eggs at the store,
or for milk, or for beef, my dear god, the
cost of beef, like the inflation on everything. Even my
chief eckage sausage that was five something is now ten something.
You know, those big family pacts that I love so much.
(32:14):
Everything costs a lot more now. And rather than talking
about that, rather than talking about the fact that Democrats
have led us very close to World War three and
to nuclear war with Russia, rather than talk about all
these factors we could be talking about, rather than talk
about the estimated and in fact not estimated, the twelve
(32:36):
million people who have shown up at our border and
gotten into our country, most of them like since Biden
took office, Rather than talking about all of that, he
made a comment about people eating cats and dogs. And
that's what the media chooses to focus on, is though
that somehow impacts our lives more than the fact that
(32:59):
you know, ninety percent of us can't afford to go
to the Dame grocery store. Now you know what I mean.
Pretty soon we're going to be like the daughters were
going to be like, you know, like boiling our leather
shoes to eat or something, and and they think that's
a bigger deal. So that's what happened in Springfield. Trump
sets some stuff. There's not evidence to back up what
he said at this time, and everyone's focusing and on
(33:21):
mathe that's what they do. Have you figured that out yet, though,
Like when there's really substantive issues, you know, like it's
like the homeschool thing, right, I'm a homeschool dad, you know,
I'm in a very happy relationships for my biological daughter's homeschooled.
The woman i'm with her three children are in public
school in a small town, right, and which is great
(33:45):
in this small town. I don't know that it would
be so great if it was in an urban area,
but it's great in this small town. And but I'm
very big on parental rights when it comes to children's
educations and parents taking a greater role. I'm very big
on if people want to go to public school, go
to public school. But you ought to be able to
homeschool too. So there are some very legitimate issues I'm
(34:09):
in news, I write about or I assign people at
this point to write about. To be honest, you know,
the multiple issues every month of public school teachers in
Texas doing inappropriate things with teenagers all the way from
texting sexteing all the way up to having intercourse. Right, Like,
there are legitimate reasons why a lot of people do
(34:31):
not want to go to public school have their kids
in public school. And when people are successful at that,
and when people are successful talking about the issues, they
go dig in their past and they pull up something stupid,
like they did this. Coridangelis guy, the guy by all
accounts from everyone who knows him as a good dude.
(34:51):
He does great work, you know, when it comes to this,
and you know, they pull up something from his past
when he was in college and did some stupid whatever,
you know, video with a bunch of people, and that's
what they want to talk about, right, So that somehow,
that somehow takes away all the points that he makes
(35:11):
and all the hard work he's done for parental rights
right and education, and that somehow takes away all of
it because he did something stupid in college.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
All right, I got, I got to expose what they do.
I got to explain that one.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Brandon made a lot of interesting points there, but the
part at the end is probably confusing to a few people.
There's this guy named Corey DeAngelis. He's been on this
show before. He's an advocate for school choice. He's an
ally of Governor Abbott and a lot of other people.
He's being attacked on social media right now because back
when he was in college, apparently he did what could
really only be described as nude modeling, I think is
(35:44):
the best way to describe it, and now people are
attacking him for that. Similarly, Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor
of North Carolina, is being publicly attacked right now because
about twenty years ago, he had an account on a
porno website message board where he said some racist thing
and looked at porn. And I got to tell you, guys,
I'd I'd rather have the guy be governor who watched
(36:05):
porn and said racist things twenty years ago, then have
my hometown get turned into a Haitian refugee resettlement under
Governor Josh Stein.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
But you know, what, do I know? Brandon?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
You make a lot of interesting points, my man. How
are you doing? How are things over at Breitbart. How
are things up at the Panhandle?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
My man, things are going well.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Man, I'm just you know, living life and and doing
at work.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm I'm uh.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
You know, Breitbart has some new initiatives. I'm not going
to announce it, but pretty big deals and focused in
on helping get those going. So a lot of Breitbart
work right now. We're we're still rocking our you know,
our cartel chronicles. Our border coverage is is bar none
the best, and I believe and you know, I think
(36:51):
it's the gold standard, uh for you know, when these
kind of things happen about the border of immigration, about
dogs and or whatever else people are saying. You know,
people come to us and say, is Breitbart reporting it?
Is Brivebart reporting it? And if Briitbart isn't, then people,
you know, most informed people go, well, I'm not going
(37:12):
to share that story yet until I see it there,
right And and I think that's a great position that
we're in, so a great role that we play when
it comes to border and immigration. So we're doing great.
Everything's good. I'm loving it up up near Lovedock, Texas.
The people are great and it's nice to not be
(37:34):
on the populated side of Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
All right, but yeah, but yes or no? Have you
ever attended a p did he freak off?
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Just yes or no? Brandon? No, Okay, Well, that's good
that we cleared the record on that.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I'm Kenny Webster. Follow my good buddy Brandon Darby on Twitter. X.
You know what it is Breitbart dot com. That's where
you can find all the latest news from the border.
They are the most accurate news source for what is
going on and the immigration crisis around the country. To
the rest of you, I say, have an awesome weekend.
If you run into me this weekend at the Texas
Youth Summit, come say hi to me. I don't bite,
I've had all my vaccinations. I'm happy to hear from you.
(38:13):
Go to church, don't drive drunk. Be nice to old people.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell the
government to kiss your ass when you listen
Speaker 2 (38:27):
To this show.
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