September 23, 2024 • 37 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Ethan Bunchanan and Holly Hansen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
A new report about parenting claims the average parent gets
thirty one minutes of me time per day.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't mean me, I mean them.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know the the average parent spends about thirty one
minutes by themselves every day. I gotta think that does
not describe Brad Pitt. Hi, Kenny Webster here, thanks for
stopping by this afternoon. You know who's going to be
here in a little bit. One of our new young
reporters on our sister station, Katie h Ethan Buchanan, is
stopping by to tell us the story of what happened
last weekend when a transgender activist attacked Matt Gates at
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the Woodlands, the Texas Youth Summit Saturday night in the
Woodlands at the Marriott there I was. I was one
of the speakers Saturday morning. I didn't know it got
crazy later in the day. We'll tell the story of
that coming up in a little bit, and Holly Hanson
is going to be here. Holly Hanson from the Texan News.
I don't know if you've heard of her, but she's
a conservative news reporter from southeast Texas. She's got all
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the latest on the property tax hike and Ken Paxton's
suing Harris County over that socialist free money program Lena
Handalgo put together. We'll give you all the details on
that as well, But let's start off the show today
with this lying No, I'm not gonna lie to you,
I'm gonna try to fact check. Somebody remember a little
while back, there was a claim from Kamala Harris about
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how she had worked at McDonald's as a teenager, and
nobody could actually find any proof that this was true.
We couldn't figure out what McDonald she worked at. There's
not been any surfaced records or witnesses or anyone that
could ever claim seeing her at a McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
There's a lot of memes. Memes are always.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good, but that doesn't actually prove she worked there. It
was a point she was trying to make to appeal
to the middle class. They say that the Democrat Party
is very popular with the very rich and the very poor,
but the middle class doesn't really seem to like the
Democrat Party, probably because the Democrat Party is trying to
destroy the middle class. So whether or not she ever
worked at McDonald's, we don't know. Some claim it's a lie,
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some claim it's not. It really just depends on who
you ask. One thing's for sure. Though there's no proof
she did or didn't work there, there is a lot
of evidence that she's lied a lot. We've witnessed her
do it. Usually when Kamala Harris tells a lie, she's
telling a lie about Donald Trump. She'll lie about something
Trump said or did. The Charlottesville thing, for example, very
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fine people on both sides, He praise Nazis, he said
there would be a bloodbath.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They'll take things he said and twist them around and
then explain them out of context so they sound worse
than they actually were. There's no shortage of those examples.
The lie stem from pretty much anything Trump says on
social media. They'll twist it and turn it into something new.
But last week Amala Harris was doing a town hall
with Oprah when she said.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
This, it was so powerful.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
At the convention, when you when you said you have guns,
no at the debate.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
At the debate does a guy know that.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
My house is a getting shot. Yes, yes, I hear that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I hear that.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Probably should not have said that.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
But my staff would deal with that later.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's kind of a page out of the Joe Biden playbook.
Theres Oh yeah, I'm gonna get into trouble for saying this.
I'm being a little too honest with you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
My handlers, they're gonna have to reel me back because
I'm getting too real up here. Okay, Kamala Harris says
she would shoot a home invader if you came to
her house. For the record, I don't want anybody to
break into Kamala Harris's house. I wish no violent on
my political violence on my political opposites. I hope they're
all safe and sound. I hope they sleep comfortably at night.
I have no interest in seeing any of them get harmed.
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But you do have to wonder is she being sincere?
Does she really own a gun? Yesterday on CNN, Kamala
harris spokeswoman said this.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
From a biographical background, What do we know about this
firearm that she owns and when did she get it?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, look, she has made it very clear that she
staunchly supports the Second Amendment.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
She supports strong responsible gun ownership, and she does own
a firearm.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
She doesn't own a firearm. Sounded like she said doesn't. Right,
there's a transcript of this that says doesn't. And some
people are making the point here that no, no, no,
that you're just mishearing her. Kamala Harris's handler said she
does own a gun. Everyone's confused. No, I don't know
what the truth is. I don't know if she owns
a gun or not. It sounded like that woman said
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does not own a gun.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Doesn't. So did Kamala lie about this too?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Whatever the case may be, Kamala Harris is suddenly trying
to act like she's pro Second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Problem is her record shows otherwise. There is no shortage
of clips of Kamala Harris telling people that she wants
an assault weapons ban. Now, I don't know what you
think assault weapons are. It's not really a real term,
but it's a vague.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Term people used to describe fully automatic rifles which are
already illegal or you know, like an average person can't
buy them.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You need a special permit for that. So what is
she talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Is she pro gun why does she say she wants
to ban assault weapons if she says she's not coming
for your guns, because the kind of gun she says
she wants to get rid of are already banned. So
what guns does she want to ban?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I do know that years ago, when Kamala Harris was
the district attorney for San Francisco, she stood in front
of TV cameras and microphones. She stood right next to
the mayor at the time, a guy named Gavin Newsom,
who eventually went on to become the governor of the state,
and she said, just because you legally play possess a
gun and the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean
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that we're not going to walk into your home and
check to see if you're being responsible. Kamala Harris thinks
the government should be able to walk into your house
and look at your firearms to make sure you're not endangering.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Anyone responsible behaviors among everybody in the community. And just
because she legally possess a gun in the sanctity of
your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to
walk into that home and check to see if you're
being responsible.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Now, that's her position.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Her position is she will come into your house and
check on you if you're a legal gun owner. Now,
I ask you, so that's sounding somebody that supports the
Second Amendment. That's a SoundBite of her saying something that
was widely reported on at the time. Does that sound
like somebody that believes in your right to defend yourself?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Probably not.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm sure by now a lot of you probably already heard.
Last week and I moderated a panel at the Texas
Youth Summit. It was early Saturday, with some very smart people,
head of the Harris County Republican Party, Cindy Siegel, Charles
Blaine from Urban Reformed Dot Oregon. Of course, Alex Meeeler,
she was almost County Judge. We won't pick at that scab.
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But I think a lot of you remember what happened.
And after I left, I had to go somewhere. I
had an appointment in a meeting. I had a full
day of stuff to do, very important producer Kenny stuff
often out and about throughout the city of Houston. But
apparently after I left, something very bizarre happened as a
lot of you might know. Matt Gates was one of
the featured speakers last weekend at the Texas Youth Summit
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up in the Woodlands. A lot of interesting, fascinating people
were there. Don Junior Wesley Hunt was booked, Lauren Bobert
was there. So a lot of leading thought leaders, lawmakers,
elected officials in the MAGA political movement, but Matt Gates
probably the most controversial. He was the keynote speaker on Saturday,
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so I think he spoke last. I didn't know this,
but apparently after I left, a transgender individual showed up
at the event and charged the stage. Now, one of
our youngest news reporters here in Houston for KTRHR sister station.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Is Ethan Buchanan. Ethan, how old are you? I am
twenty one and how did you get into this line
of work?
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Well, I grew up listening to KTRH. I grew up
hearing your bits on Michael Barry. So I've been a
fan of AM radio since I was a kid, and so.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
When I since you're a kid like a month ago.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Yeah, basically I've been I've had memories of listening to
AM radio since I was like eight years old. Okay,
I would listen to it with my dad driving with
my granddad. He was a big Michael Berry fan. So
I just kind of grew up in it, and then
when I went into sound engineering, I just kind of
naturally progressed into radio and ended up here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And that's awesome, very cool, because we don't assume a
lot of people your age are even interested in this,
yet here you are.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Yeah, it's I actually saw a tweet that I don't
know if it was real.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It may have been a meme.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
I hope it was real, but somebody was tweeting something
along the lines of I wish there was a podcast
that you could turn in, tune into whenever you wanted
for free, and I was like, that's radio. That's the radio.
So young people are interested in older things more than
we give them credit for. Not that AM radio is
necessarily old.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But I mean it's all, yeah, it's over one hundred
years old.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Day it kind of is, I guess, but yeah, young
people are interested in it, and they're interested in conservative
ideas and uh yeah, so that's just kind of how
I got into it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Talk radio is so big in Texas that iHeartMedia owns
two news talk stations in Houston, and right now you're
on the edgier.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Of the two. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Yeah, it's it's fun, but it's kind of challenging because
just just walking that line of you know, being conservative
but also trying to be honest on one of the
biggest platforms in the city of Houston.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
It's an interesting adventure.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, don't worry. You don't have to be honest.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm very flexible with the factor around here, all right,
So paint the picture for me. Wesley Hunt speaks, Lauren talks,
Riley gains a lot of speakers, and then Matt Gates
goes on last. We're at the Marriott in the Woodlands.
Matt Gates is on stage talking. What's he talking about
at the time, You know, I can't even really remember.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
It was very much a kind of general conservative speech.
He hit his talking points about what conservatism is, what
it should be.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
To be honest, the incident.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Kind of took me so far out of it it
was hard to remember anything other than that, just because
it was so crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So he's on stage talking and all of a sudden,
a crazy person in the crowd across dressing weirdo, would
you say.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
So I'm sitting there watching the speech.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I'm in the front row, and I hear out of
the corner to my left, somebody just screams out no,
and I look.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Over and there's this.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Gender confused, gender confused, probably wearing a wig.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Biological mail or biological woman.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Biological mail wear clothes, wearing women's clothes, very skimpy mini skirt.
This is a horizontally inclined person. I think it's the
politically correct term. Very very fat.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, that would be another one, A big fat ob slob,
somebody that clearly does not care about their health right
and you I want you to pay for their healthcare.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
I would assume, so very very revealing MIDI skirt like
I see through crop top that was not flattering, and
he just goes bolting across the room screaming no, Matt Gates,
take me. And the video is on Twitter, So if
you really want to see it, it's you might need
to wash your eyes out with bleach because it's difficult
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to watch. But it's it's there, and it's it was
something to witness. Just being that close to it, I
could almost smell the guy.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
It wasn't a pleasant rolemo.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So there's footage, there's video of this on social media.
Here we go, h yeah, Texas Youth Summit. Hang on,
I got a little audio of this.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Dude, this is.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Are what if? Is it a comedian or is this
a real person?
Speaker 9 (12:27):
It looks like a real person. You can hear Matt
Gates say in the video. This person follows me around.
So it looks like someone that's just like crazy obsessed
with Matt Gates for whatever reason and just.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Follows him around the country. Okay, So it's a chubby,
pale white guy wearing what looks like a schoolgirl skirt,
like a plaid skirt, black knee high socks like you
described the crowd, and then a very ugly looking wig. Yeah,
it did not suit him well. And this is a
real person, I mean, not a person. If you told
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me this was someone doing a comedy, I would have
believed you.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
But guess what I thought it was When I originally looked,
I was like, this is probably like some plant or
something that mary.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, it looks like a like a transgender versional is Cheney?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah that's what Mat Gates literally said. He's like, is
that lose?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Cheney and then the kids in the audience think it's
hilarious because it's mostly high school and college kids in
the audience there.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Yeah, yeah, mostly high school college kid. It's a few
kind of older folks that are just politically minded. But yeah,
that's that's the great thing about this kind of younger generation.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Gen Z loves to mock and ridicule people.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And look, there's you. You're right in the front row
of the video. I could see you right here.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, my little ponytail flowing in the wind.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You had great seats. You were right in the front
row all day. Yeah, it was. It was a great,
great view, great class.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I kind of got nervous of the sparklers because Christian Collins,
the showman that he is, had the big sparklers up
for the for the grand entrances, and he had sparkling
kind of back the way.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Did you not see the sparklers?
Speaker 8 (13:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I miss that.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
So during the big keynote speakers, he would light the
stage up with sparklers, and I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
You saw the room. It was not a super tall building.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I mean it's a convention center at the Marriott in
the Woodlands, so it's a big room. But it's not
like it's not like you're it's not like an ERG
station ceilings. Yeah, yeah, reliant or whatever we're calling it now.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, it was OK. It's crazy how many people were
there all weekend? Twelve hundred?
Speaker 9 (14:19):
Yeah, that's I think that was the official number that
I saw somebody tweet out.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
It looked like about twelve hundred.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You're in that window here, you're twenty one, yeah, where
you're not really a kid anymore, but you're not really
an adult yet. Yeah, Like, but you work here at
a news radio station, you have an adult job. Was
that kind of weird for you to go to an event?
It's a Texas youth summit and here you're sort of
in an age group where you've you've sort of graduated
from the demo to the people that are there to
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cover the event.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Ethan, You're you know, you've come of age right before
our very eyes.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
It was, you know, it's a neat perspective, cause I
can see a lot of myself in younger people, because
I was the weird kid who was conservative when most
kids weren't. So it's good to go there and see
now that I'm kind of moving out of that age group.
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I'm not leaving an empty place. There's there's people that
are coming in behind me and sort of filling that
spot of being younger people that are conservative. Uh So,
it's good to see that as I age out and
kind of go into the adult portion of society, there's
still conservative young people. There's still people that think right
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and are interested in these things.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
All right, I want people to follow you on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You're you're at is Underscore Ethan Buchanan, Underscore Ethan Buchanan,
and you you've got an account, You're posting news and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I think people that listen to this radio shoot need
to find you. Ethan.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Yeah, at Ethan Buchanan or at Underscore Ethan Buchanan on Twitter.
I'm also on Instagram the Dot Ethan Buchanan and I
have a podcast also here on A nine fifty, The
Next hyphen Gen Report.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And is that on our radio station's website, I believe, don't. Yeah,
does it air on the weekends or is it just
a podcast?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, it's just a podcast. Well that's okay, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Ethan Buchanan, one of the young conservatives trying to save
Harris County.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Give him a follow.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics and government and Nawice Hit and
co guts in this show. Hit ain't your average this podcast.
You gotta get told Dan, we can this just push
you harp.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Kamala, Kamala, kama law.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's three different ways to say the same name, and
apparently you're a racist if you mispronounce it. And then
amazing Bill Clinton gets Kamala Harris's name wrong, Joe Biden
gets Kamala Harris's name wrong. But they're Democrats, so it's okay.
It doesn't matter when they do it, but if you
do it, it's racist. Kamala, kamala commila, Oh no, I'm sorry,
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it's not commila, it's kamala. Okay, that's a little different. Anyway,
you're not supposed to say it wrong. It's very offensive.
People get really mad when you do that, but don't
you think at the end of the day, they're really
just pretending to get mad so they can shift the
conversation to a topic that isn't her flip flopping on
major issues and her abysmal policy positions. Me too brightpart
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Dot com today reporting on how Kama Law did not
get the Teamsters union to back her, first time this
has happened in decades. The Teamsters, the union, the mob
bosses didn't endorse Comma Law.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Why is that? I don't know, But you know who? Did?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You know who did just endorse her? The IRS? Oh,
it's hilarious. The National Treasury Employees Union should be outlawed.
Public union that represents a number of federal agencies, including
the IRS, just said they are us that Comma Law
is a strong advocate for the issues that matter most
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to federal employees. Fair pay, paid family leave, adequate agency
funding and staffing, robust collective bargaining rights. I'm sorry, we're
supposed to like her. We're supposed to want to vote
for her because IRS agents like her. Don't you just
love it when those whose salaries we pay through our
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tax dollars enjoy more employee benefits than we will ever
see in the private sector. Yeah, more of that, please,
That's great. Listen to this from the statement from the
report here, Harris's commitment to sign the twenty twenty four
bipartisan Border Bill and increase staffing so our members at
Customs and Border Protection could do their jobs. Securing the
border at the ports of entry are examples of her
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commitment to ensuring federal agencies are properly funded. I'm sorry,
now we're supposed to leave the border patrol likes Kamala.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I think that what they mean is that Harris's commitment
to a border bill that will allow five thousand illegal
aliens to enter the country per day and ensure a
permanent Democrat Party majority as these aliens are flown first
class into swing states and given free housing and healthcare
and a five thousand dollars per month stipend is one
of the many reasons Americans should vote for Kamala.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Why wouldn't the IRS love her? The Irs despises Republicans,
and just as Obama did, she will let these bureaucrats
lose on us. She will let them go, let them
just pick away at your bank accounts and investigate any
average person that probably didn't do anything wrong. You know,
that phony Inflation Reduction Act, by the way, didn't reduce
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any kind of inflation at all. Groceries are more expensive
than ever, but that increased the IRS's budget by eighty
billion dollars that's eighty with a b. Oh, you didn't
think the IRS was getting paid enough, don't worry, everybody.
More of your money is going to go towards the IRS.
Kamala was the tie breaking vote for that bill. That
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was a bill that allows the IRS to track and
tax people's tips. I'm gonna repeat that because it bears repeating.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Kamala says that we shouldn't we shouldn't audit people or
tax people that could paid in tips. But she was
the tie breaking vote on a bill that actually ordered
the IRS to go out and investigate service industry workers.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Of course, now that she's running on her pro gun,
pro fracking, pro border wall, pro tax cut, pro Israel
Republican platform, she says tips should not be taxed.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Wow, sounds like a liar. The goal of the IRS
is no longer to collect taxes. The goal of the
Justice Department isn't to enforce the law. The whole idea
of the IRS or the Justice Department is to weaponize
these institutions to terrorize average people like you, especially if
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you're conservative, especially if you're Christian. They will silence you,
They will threat they will threaten to or possibly will
send you to prison, and so along with endorsements from
Vladimir Putin and Iran and Dick Cheney. They told us
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Dick Cheney as Hitler vice president, word Salad has earned
the endorsement of the IRS the Team series not so much, no,
but she did get the IRS also today. Speaking of
something else, they're reporting at Breitbart dot com, it's this
issue in Pennsylvania. Fracking is a big deal in Pennsylvania.
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Kamala Harris has said for years she wants to outlaw fracking,
but now that she wants to be president, she suddenly
doesn't want to do that anymore because she says that
fracking is great. Fracking is the bee's knees. Fracking, Oh,
it's super awesome. You know, there's a senator from Pennsylvania
who also flip flopped on fracking. That man's name is
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John Fetterman. John Fetterman admitted that Donald Trump has created
a special kind of a hold on Pennsylvania voters after
remaking the Republican Party, and that this hold only deepened
after that first assassination attempt. The first assassination attempt, of course,
occurred in Pennsylvania, Butler Pennsylvania, more specifically, back in mid
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July that resulted in the president, the former president, taking
a bullet to the head, which actually actually ripped a
hole through his ear, caused him to bleed all over
the place. Over the weekend, John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania,
was at the Atlantic Festival, and he said, quote, well,
he said what I just told you. He said, Trump
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has created a special kind of hold on the state
of Pennsylvania. He's remade the party, and he has a
special kind of hold in a place in Pennsylvania. And
I think that only deepened after the assassination attempt. He
goes on to say, I also want people to understand, quote,
there's energy and there's kinds of anger on the ground
in Pennsylvania, and people are very committed and strong here.
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Trump is going to be strong, and we have to
respect that.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
End quote. Hmm. It's not what you'd expect him to say,
but okay, maybe he's just being honest. When asked what
advice he would give to Kamala excuse me, Kamala, Fetterman
wisely back down. Fearing an accusation of mansplaining. He said
he would never want a man's plain to Kamala. Kamala
said quote, I'm not going to sit down with a
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sitting vice president and tell her or say hey, no, no,
you better do this, or that. I'm certainly not going
to mansplain that to the vice president. Wow, the quote
ends there. That's amazing. This guy's afraid to tell a
woman who's running for president who needs his state to win,
what you should do to win the state because he
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doesn't want to get accused of man'splaining. Wow. Liberals are
just comical, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
The polling in Pennsylvania, by the way, the state that
will likely decide the election, is all over the place.
In the foemost recent polls, the race is tied or
Trump is up by one or two. The real question
Fetterman answered here is why after the second assassination attempt
on Trump's life, the corporate media didn't take a single
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moment to express concern for Trump. Instead, these monsters jumped
right into blaming him for almost getting murdered. In the
immediate aftermath of a second assassination attempt, in a single summer,
the coverage was ninety five percent negative against Trump. The
corporate media have left no doubt they want Trump murdered.
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That's why for round two of these assassination attempts. The
media had their talking points fully prepared to tell the
country if Trump gets assassinated, its his fault.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Don't believe me. Listen to the recording of Dana.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Bash on CNN right after the second assassination attempt.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
He doesn't.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Indeed, I want to get to the parent assassination attack
the second time against President Trump. He just waited in
in an interview with Fox News Digital, blaming both President
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the second attempt
on his life.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Well, everything is political right now. Look, they have each separately.
President Biden today when he came out and spoke to
reporters on his way out to the helicopter, said that
he is very glad that the Secret Service was able
to do their job, that he's very glad that former
President Trump wasn't hurt. And Kamala Harris said the same thing.
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Everything is politicized in this environment, so it's not surprising
that that is what he said. There's absolutely, again, no
basis in fact that they were behind this at all.
We don't know much about this guy yet at all,
other than red no somebody who was trying to find
a way in his mid to late fifties go and
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serve on the front lines of Ukraine. And he obviously
had some anti Trump posts, but that has nothing to
do with Kamala Harrison John.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, and it has nothing to do with Kamala. He's
just a huge supporter of hers. So the media are
both encouraging Trump's assassination and have laid the groundwork to
blame him if it happens. But according to Fetterman, that
backfired some in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Whoopsie, do.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Stop at government, get out of my life.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I feel like it's as good a time as any
to take a look back on some of the news
stories from last week that we didn't have a lot
of time to focus on. There was so much happening
at national, state, and local politics last week that there
are plenty issues and topics and subjects we just didn't
dive that deeply into. I got to think for those
of you that live here in Harris County. I know
not everybody listening lives in Harris County, but there's a
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good lesson to be learned no matter where you live
about how local elected officials can screw you in the
keyster when you're not looking. Last week, commissioners approved a
property tax increase of nearly ten percent and cut funding
for the District Attorney's office. Now, I don't know if
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you've heard, but we have a crime problem in Houston,
and I got to think that of all the issues
here in town that we probably shouldn't stop funding. I
would think that investigating dangerous criminals that's something we might
want to keep spending money on. Turns out, no, right,
they want more of your money, They just don't want
it to go towards public safety. Imagine that defunding the
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District Attorney's office isn't really that different from defunding the police.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
This is one of Lena Hidalgo's policies.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But something in the wake of all that happening that
I know a lot of people were confused about is
why it happened the disaster loophole. What is the disaster
loophole and how did it affect property tax hikes and
funding for the.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
District Attorney's office.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Here with the answer to that question is Holly Hansen
of Vtexan Dot News.
Speaker 11 (28:17):
Hey, Kenny, Yeah, you know Texas has this cap on
the amount you can increase your property tax every year.
It's three and a half percent. But they have this
disaster declaration loophole. And since the Harris County in the
city of Houston experienced a hurricane last year and we
had this nasty Dracho storm last May, we have these
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disaster declarations that allows county officials to increase that property
tax eight percent without getting voter approval. So they increased
part of the property tax by eight percent, and then
they also increased the debt portion of the tax that
covers the interest and so forth a little bit more.
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And so we're looking at a tax increase of nine
point five three percent for those property taxes going to
the county. We're also going to pay more for the
hospital district, and voters will have a chance to vote
on an increase for the Harris County Flood Control District,
even though they approved a bond for that district last year.
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And so, you know, we're looking at these giant tax
types and you know, Harris County doesn't even have a
list of you know, spending priorities that all this extra
money is going to go to. So they're going to
get about another two hundred and sixty four million dollars
in the general fund. But at the same time, they're
also cutting the budget to the District Attorney's office, which
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is considered the top law enforcement agency in the county. Uh,
they have prosecutors that prosecute the crimes. I mean, it's
not doing a lot of good if you have your
law enforcement officers bringing in suspects and they don't get
tried right away. So, you know, we always throw that
term around here in Harris County. Thing. You know, justice
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delayed is justice denied, not just for the victims of crime,
but those who may be innocent who are awaiting trial.
We already have an overcrowding population at the overcrowding at
the jail, and so we're paying gosh over fifty million
dollars a year to send a lot of the inmates
to other facilities in Texas and in Louisiana. But you know,
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they did cut the District Attorney's office, and the incumbent
district attorney, who will be leaving at the end of
the year, warned that this could really jeopardize the Homicide Division,
which is responsible for prosecuting those worst crimes that we
have in the area. Those a lot of those positions
right now are funded by temporary federal COVID relief funds
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from the American Rescue Plan Act. So a lot of
concerns about what they did here. Year. To know, Montgomery County,
which is a Republican run county, also jacked up their
tax property tax rates this year too, using that disaster loophole.
So residents who are already coping with inflation and storm
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damage and these things are also going to be paying
a lot more when they get their tax bill next year.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
This is going to sound like a weird question, but
it's a valid one. I think I want to know
the answer to this, and I don't know if you know,
but I'm still going to ask, does Houston her Do
we still have a poet laureate? Is that was that
the City of Houston or was that Harris County.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That did that?
Speaker 11 (31:39):
Yeah, no, you're right in good question. I remember under
the previous mayor we had a poet laureate. I don't
know what that costs, but I don't know if there's
new poet laureate in Houston. But that's you know, that's
the interesting thing. I'm a big support of the arts.
I love culture and art, but we do have these
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government entities spending a lot of money on these murals,
and we've got all the stuff at the airport, We've
got these art fixtures around the city, some of which
quite frankly or just ugly. But then you know, when
we ask for more money for public safety, we're told
that's not available. Interestingly enough, at Harris County Commissioner's Court
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last week when they voted to approve these things, it
seems like they had organized quite a few of these
people who come from these activist groups, the Texas Organizing Project,
who are very much against incarcerating suspects, even violent suspects,
and they were all out there saying they don't want
any extra money being spent on public safety. They want
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more social services, which they say will will reduce crime.
But we know it's you've got to have prosecution of
these suspects, especially these violent suspects, which we've talked about
over the past few years. You know, we're often releasing
them on bond, even if they're repeat violent offenders. We've
seen people with you know, six seven, eight nine bonds
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out in the community committing new crimes and it's a
real problem. All right, I'll just for another Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I'll accept that the poet Laureate is probably the City
of Houston's budget, But what about bands at the airport?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Isn't that Harris County who's paying for that?
Speaker 11 (33:25):
Well, I think that's the City of Houston too, And
you know, full disclosure, I'm not actually in Houston right now.
I'm up in the mountains near the Canadian border. But
I flew last week, went through the Houston airport and
some other airports, and you know, I know the bands
are kind of cool and everything, but you know, when
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you're at a crowded airport, it's a lot. I think I
like the quieter airports that don't have live bands. To
be honest, I.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Don't get what why do we need a band at
the airport. It's it's it's you're frustrating, You're you're in
a hurry, there's a crowd, and now we need noise.
We need a loud musician to add to the chaos
of this. It makes sense.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
Yeah, that's I find that a little grading too, And
I'm just trying to get through the airport.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
You know.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Another thing to talk about Yeah, just a shift back
to Harris County. At the same time we're arguing over
these budget issues, the county leaders, County Judge Lena Hidalgo,
and Democrats Sun Commissioner's Court have also introduced what they
call guaranteed Basic Income program, where they are selecting some
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residents of the county to get these five hundred dollars
monthly stipends pretty much with no strings attached. They did
revamp the program after the state Supreme Court said this
doesn't look constitutional, so they relaunched that program to trying
to get it going again. But last week the Attorney
General Ken Paxton announced that he was filing a lawsuit
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to try to stop that. Leaders like Paxton don't believe
that's constitutional, don't believe that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
So we're continuing to fight about that. But I think
that's frustrating too. So you're looking at twenty one million
dollars the county is spending that does come from those
federal COVID relief funds, and Judge Alena Hidalgo has said that,
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you know, we're starting all these these new social programs
in Harris County with those federal dollars that are temporary,
and they will be looking for ways to continue them
using local taxpayer dollars in the future. I would suggest
this big tax hike is going to help try to
cover those things and keep them going in perpetuity.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
All Right, what if I don't want to fund socialism?
What if I just don't want to do that.
Speaker 11 (35:45):
Yeah, try not paying your property taxes and see how
secure your property ownership is. Yeah, you got to pay
those taxes. I'm going to get that.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I'm going to pay my taxes. I'm just not going
to be happy about it. So take that, Lina, how
do you like that? I'll write a text to the county.
I'll write the check go ahead, but I will frown
when I do it. You're not getting a smiley face.
I'm not going to put a little heart above any
of the eyes. You're not getting a star in the nothing,
none of that.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
He who knows you may even write a strongly worded letter,
but maybe more importantly, you should probably vote.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
It's tersely worded, I believe, is what the tersely worded letter. Holly,
You're not as much of a Karen as me, but
you are a good journalist, and I won't hold that
against you because we hate journalists around here.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
But Holly is a cool one. Hey.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
You know what you should do, radio listener. You should
follow Holly on social media. Go to Thetextant News, subscribe
to it. It's a good website with lots of information
that'll make your life better. Oh, I love you all,
Heaven off some afternoon. We'll be back right ne early
tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
A new report about parenting claims the average parent gets
thirty one minutes of me time per day.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't mean me, I mean them.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know the the average parent spends about thirty one
minutes by themselves every day. I gotta think that does
not describe Brad Pitt. Hi, Kenny Webster here, thanks for
stopping by this afternoon. You know who's going to be
here in a little bit. One of our new young
reporters on our sister station, Katie h Ethan Buchanan, is
stopping by to tell us the story of what happened
last weekend when a transgender activist attacked Matt Gates at
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the Woodlands, the Texas Youth Summit Saturday night in the
Woodlands at the Marriott there I was. I was one
of the speakers Saturday morning. I didn't know it got
crazy later in the day. We'll tell the story of
that coming up in a little bit, and Holly Hanson
is going to be here. Holly Hanson from the Texan News.
I don't know if you've heard of her, but she's
a conservative news reporter from southeast Texas. She's got all
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the latest on the property tax hike and Ken Paxton's
suing Harris County over that socialist free money program Lena
Handalgo put together. We'll give you all the details on
that as well, But let's start off the show today
with this lying No, I'm not gonna lie to you,
I'm gonna try to fact check. Somebody remember a little
while back, there was a claim from Kamala Harris about
(01:38):
how she had worked at McDonald's as a teenager, and
nobody could actually find any proof that this was true.
We couldn't figure out what McDonald she worked at. There's
not been any surfaced records or witnesses or anyone that
could ever claim seeing her at a McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
There's a lot of memes. Memes are always.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good, but that doesn't actually prove she worked there. It
was a point she was trying to make to appeal
to the middle class. They say that the Democrat Party
is very popular with the very rich and the very poor,
but the middle class doesn't really seem to like the
Democrat Party, probably because the Democrat Party is trying to
destroy the middle class. So whether or not she ever
worked at McDonald's, we don't know. Some claim it's a lie,
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some claim it's not. It really just depends on who
you ask. One thing's for sure. Though there's no proof
she did or didn't work there, there is a lot
of evidence that she's lied a lot. We've witnessed her
do it. Usually when Kamala Harris tells a lie, she's
telling a lie about Donald Trump. She'll lie about something
Trump said or did. The Charlottesville thing, for example, very
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fine people on both sides, He praise Nazis, he said
there would be a bloodbath.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They'll take things he said and twist them around and
then explain them out of context so they sound worse
than they actually were. There's no shortage of those examples.
The lie stem from pretty much anything Trump says on
social media. They'll twist it and turn it into something new.
But last week Amala Harris was doing a town hall
with Oprah when she said.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
This, it was so powerful.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
At the convention, when you when you said you have guns,
no at the debate.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
At the debate does a guy know that.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
My house is a getting shot. Yes, yes, I hear that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I hear that.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Probably should not have said that.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
But my staff would deal with that later.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's kind of a page out of the Joe Biden playbook.
Theres Oh yeah, I'm gonna get into trouble for saying this.
I'm being a little too honest with you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
My handlers, they're gonna have to reel me back because
I'm getting too real up here. Okay, Kamala Harris says
she would shoot a home invader if you came to
her house. For the record, I don't want anybody to
break into Kamala Harris's house. I wish no violent on
my political violence on my political opposites. I hope they're
all safe and sound. I hope they sleep comfortably at night.
I have no interest in seeing any of them get harmed.
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But you do have to wonder is she being sincere?
Does she really own a gun? Yesterday on CNN, Kamala
harris spokeswoman said this.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
From a biographical background, What do we know about this
firearm that she owns and when did she get it?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, look, she has made it very clear that she
staunchly supports the Second Amendment.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
She supports strong responsible gun ownership, and she does own
a firearm.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
She doesn't own a firearm. Sounded like she said doesn't. Right,
there's a transcript of this that says doesn't. And some
people are making the point here that no, no, no,
that you're just mishearing her. Kamala Harris's handler said she
does own a gun. Everyone's confused. No, I don't know
what the truth is. I don't know if she owns
a gun or not. It sounded like that woman said
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does not own a gun.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Doesn't. So did Kamala lie about this too?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Whatever the case may be, Kamala Harris is suddenly trying
to act like she's pro Second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Problem is her record shows otherwise. There is no shortage
of clips of Kamala Harris telling people that she wants
an assault weapons ban. Now, I don't know what you
think assault weapons are. It's not really a real term,
but it's a vague.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Term people used to describe fully automatic rifles which are
already illegal or you know, like an average person can't
buy them.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You need a special permit for that. So what is
she talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Is she pro gun why does she say she wants
to ban assault weapons if she says she's not coming
for your guns, because the kind of gun she says
she wants to get rid of are already banned. So
what guns does she want to ban?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I do know that years ago, when Kamala Harris was
the district attorney for San Francisco, she stood in front
of TV cameras and microphones. She stood right next to
the mayor at the time, a guy named Gavin Newsom,
who eventually went on to become the governor of the state,
and she said, just because you legally play possess a
gun and the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean
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that we're not going to walk into your home and
check to see if you're being responsible. Kamala Harris thinks
the government should be able to walk into your house
and look at your firearms to make sure you're not endangering.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Anyone responsible behaviors among everybody in the community. And just
because she legally possess a gun in the sanctity of
your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to
walk into that home and check to see if you're
being responsible.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Now, that's her position.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Her position is she will come into your house and
check on you if you're a legal gun owner. Now,
I ask you, so that's sounding somebody that supports the
Second Amendment. That's a SoundBite of her saying something that
was widely reported on at the time. Does that sound
like somebody that believes in your right to defend yourself?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Probably not.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm sure by now a lot of you probably already heard.
Last week and I moderated a panel at the Texas
Youth Summit. It was early Saturday, with some very smart people,
head of the Harris County Republican Party, Cindy Siegel, Charles
Blaine from Urban Reformed Dot Oregon. Of course, Alex Meeeler,
she was almost County Judge. We won't pick at that scab.
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But I think a lot of you remember what happened.
And after I left, I had to go somewhere. I
had an appointment in a meeting. I had a full
day of stuff to do, very important producer Kenny stuff
often out and about throughout the city of Houston. But
apparently after I left, something very bizarre happened as a
lot of you might know. Matt Gates was one of
the featured speakers last weekend at the Texas Youth Summit
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up in the Woodlands. A lot of interesting, fascinating people
were there. Don Junior Wesley Hunt was booked, Lauren Bobert
was there. So a lot of leading thought leaders, lawmakers,
elected officials in the MAGA political movement, but Matt Gates
probably the most controversial. He was the keynote speaker on Saturday,
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so I think he spoke last. I didn't know this,
but apparently after I left, a transgender individual showed up
at the event and charged the stage. Now, one of
our youngest news reporters here in Houston for KTRHR sister station.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Is Ethan Buchanan. Ethan, how old are you? I am
twenty one and how did you get into this line
of work?
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Well, I grew up listening to KTRH. I grew up
hearing your bits on Michael Barry. So I've been a
fan of AM radio since I was a kid, and so.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
When I since you're a kid like a month ago.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Yeah, basically I've been I've had memories of listening to
AM radio since I was like eight years old. Okay,
I would listen to it with my dad driving with
my granddad. He was a big Michael Berry fan. So
I just kind of grew up in it, and then
when I went into sound engineering, I just kind of
naturally progressed into radio and ended up here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And that's awesome, very cool, because we don't assume a
lot of people your age are even interested in this,
yet here you are.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Yeah, it's I actually saw a tweet that I don't
know if it was real.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It may have been a meme.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
I hope it was real, but somebody was tweeting something
along the lines of I wish there was a podcast
that you could turn in, tune into whenever you wanted
for free, and I was like, that's radio. That's the radio.
So young people are interested in older things more than
we give them credit for. Not that AM radio is
necessarily old.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But I mean it's all, yeah, it's over one hundred
years old.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Day it kind of is, I guess, but yeah, young
people are interested in it, and they're interested in conservative
ideas and uh yeah, so that's just kind of how
I got into it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Talk radio is so big in Texas that iHeartMedia owns
two news talk stations in Houston, and right now you're
on the edgier.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Of the two. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Yeah, it's it's fun, but it's kind of challenging because
just just walking that line of you know, being conservative
but also trying to be honest on one of the
biggest platforms in the city of Houston.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
It's an interesting adventure.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, don't worry. You don't have to be honest.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm very flexible with the factor around here, all right,
So paint the picture for me. Wesley Hunt speaks, Lauren talks,
Riley gains a lot of speakers, and then Matt Gates
goes on last. We're at the Marriott in the Woodlands.
Matt Gates is on stage talking. What's he talking about
at the time, You know, I can't even really remember.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
It was very much a kind of general conservative speech.
He hit his talking points about what conservatism is, what
it should be.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
To be honest, the incident.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Kind of took me so far out of it it
was hard to remember anything other than that, just because
it was so crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So he's on stage talking and all of a sudden,
a crazy person in the crowd across dressing weirdo, would
you say.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
So I'm sitting there watching the speech.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I'm in the front row, and I hear out of
the corner to my left, somebody just screams out no,
and I look.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Over and there's this.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Gender confused, gender confused, probably wearing a wig.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Biological mail or biological woman.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Biological mail wear clothes, wearing women's clothes, very skimpy mini skirt.
This is a horizontally inclined person. I think it's the
politically correct term. Very very fat.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, that would be another one, A big fat ob slob,
somebody that clearly does not care about their health right
and you I want you to pay for their healthcare.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
I would assume, so very very revealing MIDI skirt like
I see through crop top that was not flattering, and
he just goes bolting across the room screaming no, Matt Gates,
take me. And the video is on Twitter, So if
you really want to see it, it's you might need
to wash your eyes out with bleach because it's difficult
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to watch. But it's it's there, and it's it was
something to witness. Just being that close to it, I
could almost smell the guy.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
It wasn't a pleasant rolemo.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So there's footage, there's video of this on social media.
Here we go, h yeah, Texas Youth Summit. Hang on,
I got a little audio of this.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Dude, this is.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Are what if? Is it a comedian or is this
a real person?
Speaker 9 (12:27):
It looks like a real person. You can hear Matt
Gates say in the video. This person follows me around.
So it looks like someone that's just like crazy obsessed
with Matt Gates for whatever reason and just.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Follows him around the country. Okay, So it's a chubby,
pale white guy wearing what looks like a schoolgirl skirt,
like a plaid skirt, black knee high socks like you
described the crowd, and then a very ugly looking wig. Yeah,
it did not suit him well. And this is a
real person, I mean, not a person. If you told
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me this was someone doing a comedy, I would have
believed you.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
But guess what I thought it was When I originally looked,
I was like, this is probably like some plant or
something that mary.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, it looks like a like a transgender versional is Cheney?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah that's what Mat Gates literally said. He's like, is
that lose?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Cheney and then the kids in the audience think it's
hilarious because it's mostly high school and college kids in
the audience there.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Yeah, yeah, mostly high school college kid. It's a few
kind of older folks that are just politically minded. But yeah,
that's that's the great thing about this kind of younger generation.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Gen Z loves to mock and ridicule people.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And look, there's you. You're right in the front row
of the video. I could see you right here.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, my little ponytail flowing in the wind.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You had great seats. You were right in the front
row all day. Yeah, it was. It was a great,
great view, great class.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I kind of got nervous of the sparklers because Christian Collins,
the showman that he is, had the big sparklers up
for the for the grand entrances, and he had sparkling
kind of back the way.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Did you not see the sparklers?
Speaker 8 (13:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I miss that.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
So during the big keynote speakers, he would light the
stage up with sparklers, and I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
You saw the room. It was not a super tall building.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I mean it's a convention center at the Marriott in
the Woodlands, so it's a big room. But it's not
like it's not like you're it's not like an ERG
station ceilings. Yeah, yeah, reliant or whatever we're calling it now.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, it was OK. It's crazy how many people were
there all weekend? Twelve hundred?
Speaker 9 (14:19):
Yeah, that's I think that was the official number that
I saw somebody tweet out.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
It looked like about twelve hundred.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You're in that window here, you're twenty one, yeah, where
you're not really a kid anymore, but you're not really
an adult yet. Yeah, Like, but you work here at
a news radio station, you have an adult job. Was
that kind of weird for you to go to an event?
It's a Texas youth summit and here you're sort of
in an age group where you've you've sort of graduated
from the demo to the people that are there to
(14:45):
cover the event.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Ethan, You're you know, you've come of age right before
our very eyes.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
It was, you know, it's a neat perspective, cause I
can see a lot of myself in younger people, because
I was the weird kid who was conservative when most
kids weren't. So it's good to go there and see
now that I'm kind of moving out of that age group.
(15:10):
I'm not leaving an empty place. There's there's people that
are coming in behind me and sort of filling that
spot of being younger people that are conservative. Uh So,
it's good to see that as I age out and
kind of go into the adult portion of society, there's
still conservative young people. There's still people that think right
(15:33):
and are interested in these things.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
All right, I want people to follow you on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You're you're at is Underscore Ethan Buchanan, Underscore Ethan Buchanan,
and you you've got an account, You're posting news and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I think people that listen to this radio shoot need
to find you. Ethan.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Yeah, at Ethan Buchanan or at Underscore Ethan Buchanan on Twitter.
I'm also on Instagram the Dot Ethan Buchanan and I
have a podcast also here on A nine fifty, The
Next hyphen Gen Report.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And is that on our radio station's website, I believe, don't. Yeah,
does it air on the weekends or is it just
a podcast?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, it's just a podcast. Well that's okay, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Ethan Buchanan, one of the young conservatives trying to save
Harris County.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Give him a follow.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics and government and Nawice Hit and
co guts in this show. Hit ain't your average this podcast.
You gotta get told Dan, we can this just push
you harp.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Kamala, Kamala, kama law.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's three different ways to say the same name, and
apparently you're a racist if you mispronounce it. And then
amazing Bill Clinton gets Kamala Harris's name wrong, Joe Biden
gets Kamala Harris's name wrong. But they're Democrats, so it's okay.
It doesn't matter when they do it, but if you
do it, it's racist. Kamala, kamala commila, Oh no, I'm sorry,
(17:08):
it's not commila, it's kamala. Okay, that's a little different. Anyway,
you're not supposed to say it wrong. It's very offensive.
People get really mad when you do that, but don't
you think at the end of the day, they're really
just pretending to get mad so they can shift the
conversation to a topic that isn't her flip flopping on
major issues and her abysmal policy positions. Me too brightpart
(17:31):
Dot com today reporting on how Kama Law did not
get the Teamsters union to back her, first time this
has happened in decades. The Teamsters, the union, the mob
bosses didn't endorse Comma Law.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Why is that? I don't know, But you know who? Did?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You know who did just endorse her? The IRS? Oh,
it's hilarious. The National Treasury Employees Union should be outlawed.
Public union that represents a number of federal agencies, including
the IRS, just said they are us that Comma Law
is a strong advocate for the issues that matter most
(18:10):
to federal employees. Fair pay, paid family leave, adequate agency
funding and staffing, robust collective bargaining rights. I'm sorry, we're
supposed to like her. We're supposed to want to vote
for her because IRS agents like her. Don't you just
love it when those whose salaries we pay through our
(18:31):
tax dollars enjoy more employee benefits than we will ever
see in the private sector. Yeah, more of that, please,
That's great. Listen to this from the statement from the
report here, Harris's commitment to sign the twenty twenty four
bipartisan Border Bill and increase staffing so our members at
Customs and Border Protection could do their jobs. Securing the
border at the ports of entry are examples of her
(18:53):
commitment to ensuring federal agencies are properly funded. I'm sorry,
now we're supposed to leave the border patrol likes Kamala.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I think that what they mean is that Harris's commitment
to a border bill that will allow five thousand illegal
aliens to enter the country per day and ensure a
permanent Democrat Party majority as these aliens are flown first
class into swing states and given free housing and healthcare
and a five thousand dollars per month stipend is one
of the many reasons Americans should vote for Kamala.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Why wouldn't the IRS love her? The Irs despises Republicans,
and just as Obama did, she will let these bureaucrats
lose on us. She will let them go, let them
just pick away at your bank accounts and investigate any
average person that probably didn't do anything wrong. You know,
that phony Inflation Reduction Act, by the way, didn't reduce
(19:48):
any kind of inflation at all. Groceries are more expensive
than ever, but that increased the IRS's budget by eighty
billion dollars that's eighty with a b. Oh, you didn't
think the IRS was getting paid enough, don't worry, everybody.
More of your money is going to go towards the IRS.
Kamala was the tie breaking vote for that bill. That
(20:09):
was a bill that allows the IRS to track and
tax people's tips. I'm gonna repeat that because it bears repeating.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Kamala says that we shouldn't we shouldn't audit people or
tax people that could paid in tips. But she was
the tie breaking vote on a bill that actually ordered
the IRS to go out and investigate service industry workers.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Of course, now that she's running on her pro gun,
pro fracking, pro border wall, pro tax cut, pro Israel
Republican platform, she says tips should not be taxed.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Wow, sounds like a liar. The goal of the IRS
is no longer to collect taxes. The goal of the
Justice Department isn't to enforce the law. The whole idea
of the IRS or the Justice Department is to weaponize
these institutions to terrorize average people like you, especially if
(21:07):
you're conservative, especially if you're Christian. They will silence you,
They will threat they will threaten to or possibly will
send you to prison, and so along with endorsements from
Vladimir Putin and Iran and Dick Cheney. They told us
(21:27):
Dick Cheney as Hitler vice president, word Salad has earned
the endorsement of the IRS the Team series not so much, no,
but she did get the IRS also today. Speaking of
something else, they're reporting at Breitbart dot com, it's this
issue in Pennsylvania. Fracking is a big deal in Pennsylvania.
(21:48):
Kamala Harris has said for years she wants to outlaw fracking,
but now that she wants to be president, she suddenly
doesn't want to do that anymore because she says that
fracking is great. Fracking is the bee's knees. Fracking, Oh,
it's super awesome. You know, there's a senator from Pennsylvania
who also flip flopped on fracking. That man's name is
(22:09):
John Fetterman. John Fetterman admitted that Donald Trump has created
a special kind of a hold on Pennsylvania voters after
remaking the Republican Party, and that this hold only deepened
after that first assassination attempt. The first assassination attempt, of course,
occurred in Pennsylvania, Butler Pennsylvania, more specifically, back in mid
(22:31):
July that resulted in the president, the former president, taking
a bullet to the head, which actually actually ripped a
hole through his ear, caused him to bleed all over
the place. Over the weekend, John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania,
was at the Atlantic Festival, and he said, quote, well,
he said what I just told you. He said, Trump
(22:53):
has created a special kind of hold on the state
of Pennsylvania. He's remade the party, and he has a
special kind of hold in a place in Pennsylvania. And
I think that only deepened after the assassination attempt. He
goes on to say, I also want people to understand, quote,
there's energy and there's kinds of anger on the ground
in Pennsylvania, and people are very committed and strong here.
(23:15):
Trump is going to be strong, and we have to
respect that.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
End quote. Hmm. It's not what you'd expect him to say,
but okay, maybe he's just being honest. When asked what
advice he would give to Kamala excuse me, Kamala, Fetterman
wisely back down. Fearing an accusation of mansplaining. He said
he would never want a man's plain to Kamala. Kamala
said quote, I'm not going to sit down with a
(23:40):
sitting vice president and tell her or say hey, no, no,
you better do this, or that. I'm certainly not going
to mansplain that to the vice president. Wow, the quote
ends there. That's amazing. This guy's afraid to tell a
woman who's running for president who needs his state to win,
what you should do to win the state because he
(24:01):
doesn't want to get accused of man'splaining. Wow. Liberals are
just comical, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
The polling in Pennsylvania, by the way, the state that
will likely decide the election, is all over the place.
In the foemost recent polls, the race is tied or
Trump is up by one or two. The real question
Fetterman answered here is why after the second assassination attempt
on Trump's life, the corporate media didn't take a single
(24:28):
moment to express concern for Trump. Instead, these monsters jumped
right into blaming him for almost getting murdered. In the
immediate aftermath of a second assassination attempt, in a single summer,
the coverage was ninety five percent negative against Trump. The
corporate media have left no doubt they want Trump murdered.
(24:51):
That's why for round two of these assassination attempts. The
media had their talking points fully prepared to tell the
country if Trump gets assassinated, its his fault.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Don't believe me. Listen to the recording of Dana.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Bash on CNN right after the second assassination attempt.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
He doesn't.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Indeed, I want to get to the parent assassination attack
the second time against President Trump. He just waited in
in an interview with Fox News Digital, blaming both President
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the second attempt
on his life.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Well, everything is political right now. Look, they have each separately.
President Biden today when he came out and spoke to
reporters on his way out to the helicopter, said that
he is very glad that the Secret Service was able
to do their job, that he's very glad that former
President Trump wasn't hurt. And Kamala Harris said the same thing.
(25:49):
Everything is politicized in this environment, so it's not surprising
that that is what he said. There's absolutely, again, no
basis in fact that they were behind this at all.
We don't know much about this guy yet at all,
other than red no somebody who was trying to find
a way in his mid to late fifties go and
(26:12):
serve on the front lines of Ukraine. And he obviously
had some anti Trump posts, but that has nothing to
do with Kamala Harrison John.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, and it has nothing to do with Kamala. He's
just a huge supporter of hers. So the media are
both encouraging Trump's assassination and have laid the groundwork to
blame him if it happens. But according to Fetterman, that
backfired some in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Whoopsie, do.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Stop at government, get out of my life.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I feel like it's as good a time as any
to take a look back on some of the news
stories from last week that we didn't have a lot
of time to focus on. There was so much happening
at national, state, and local politics last week that there
are plenty issues and topics and subjects we just didn't
dive that deeply into. I got to think for those
of you that live here in Harris County. I know
not everybody listening lives in Harris County, but there's a
(27:09):
good lesson to be learned no matter where you live
about how local elected officials can screw you in the
keyster when you're not looking. Last week, commissioners approved a
property tax increase of nearly ten percent and cut funding
for the District Attorney's office. Now, I don't know if
(27:30):
you've heard, but we have a crime problem in Houston,
and I got to think that of all the issues
here in town that we probably shouldn't stop funding. I
would think that investigating dangerous criminals that's something we might
want to keep spending money on. Turns out, no, right,
they want more of your money, They just don't want
it to go towards public safety. Imagine that defunding the
(27:51):
District Attorney's office isn't really that different from defunding the police.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
This is one of Lena Hidalgo's policies.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But something in the wake of all that happening that
I know a lot of people were confused about is
why it happened the disaster loophole. What is the disaster
loophole and how did it affect property tax hikes and
funding for the.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
District Attorney's office.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Here with the answer to that question is Holly Hansen
of Vtexan Dot News.
Speaker 11 (28:17):
Hey, Kenny, Yeah, you know Texas has this cap on
the amount you can increase your property tax every year.
It's three and a half percent. But they have this
disaster declaration loophole. And since the Harris County in the
city of Houston experienced a hurricane last year and we
had this nasty Dracho storm last May, we have these
(28:39):
disaster declarations that allows county officials to increase that property
tax eight percent without getting voter approval. So they increased
part of the property tax by eight percent, and then
they also increased the debt portion of the tax that
covers the interest and so forth a little bit more.
(29:01):
And so we're looking at a tax increase of nine
point five three percent for those property taxes going to
the county. We're also going to pay more for the
hospital district, and voters will have a chance to vote
on an increase for the Harris County Flood Control District,
even though they approved a bond for that district last year.
(29:23):
And so, you know, we're looking at these giant tax
types and you know, Harris County doesn't even have a
list of you know, spending priorities that all this extra
money is going to go to. So they're going to
get about another two hundred and sixty four million dollars
in the general fund. But at the same time, they're
also cutting the budget to the District Attorney's office, which
(29:47):
is considered the top law enforcement agency in the county. Uh,
they have prosecutors that prosecute the crimes. I mean, it's
not doing a lot of good if you have your
law enforcement officers bringing in suspects and they don't get
tried right away. So, you know, we always throw that
term around here in Harris County. Thing. You know, justice
(30:08):
delayed is justice denied, not just for the victims of crime,
but those who may be innocent who are awaiting trial.
We already have an overcrowding population at the overcrowding at
the jail, and so we're paying gosh over fifty million
dollars a year to send a lot of the inmates
to other facilities in Texas and in Louisiana. But you know,
(30:31):
they did cut the District Attorney's office, and the incumbent
district attorney, who will be leaving at the end of
the year, warned that this could really jeopardize the Homicide Division,
which is responsible for prosecuting those worst crimes that we
have in the area. Those a lot of those positions
right now are funded by temporary federal COVID relief funds
(30:54):
from the American Rescue Plan Act. So a lot of
concerns about what they did here. Year. To know, Montgomery County,
which is a Republican run county, also jacked up their
tax property tax rates this year too, using that disaster loophole.
So residents who are already coping with inflation and storm
(31:18):
damage and these things are also going to be paying
a lot more when they get their tax bill next year.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
This is going to sound like a weird question, but
it's a valid one. I think I want to know
the answer to this, and I don't know if you know,
but I'm still going to ask, does Houston her Do
we still have a poet laureate? Is that was that
the City of Houston or was that Harris County.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That did that?
Speaker 11 (31:39):
Yeah, no, you're right in good question. I remember under
the previous mayor we had a poet laureate. I don't
know what that costs, but I don't know if there's
new poet laureate in Houston. But that's you know, that's
the interesting thing. I'm a big support of the arts.
I love culture and art, but we do have these
(32:00):
government entities spending a lot of money on these murals,
and we've got all the stuff at the airport, We've
got these art fixtures around the city, some of which
quite frankly or just ugly. But then you know, when
we ask for more money for public safety, we're told
that's not available. Interestingly enough, at Harris County Commissioner's Court
(32:23):
last week when they voted to approve these things, it
seems like they had organized quite a few of these
people who come from these activist groups, the Texas Organizing Project,
who are very much against incarcerating suspects, even violent suspects,
and they were all out there saying they don't want
any extra money being spent on public safety. They want
(32:46):
more social services, which they say will will reduce crime.
But we know it's you've got to have prosecution of
these suspects, especially these violent suspects, which we've talked about
over the past few years. You know, we're often releasing
them on bond, even if they're repeat violent offenders. We've
seen people with you know, six seven, eight nine bonds
(33:09):
out in the community committing new crimes and it's a
real problem. All right, I'll just for another Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I'll accept that the poet Laureate is probably the City
of Houston's budget, But what about bands at the airport?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Isn't that Harris County who's paying for that?
Speaker 11 (33:25):
Well, I think that's the City of Houston too, And
you know, full disclosure, I'm not actually in Houston right now.
I'm up in the mountains near the Canadian border. But
I flew last week, went through the Houston airport and
some other airports, and you know, I know the bands
are kind of cool and everything, but you know, when
(33:45):
you're at a crowded airport, it's a lot. I think I
like the quieter airports that don't have live bands. To
be honest, I.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Don't get what why do we need a band at
the airport. It's it's it's you're frustrating, You're you're in
a hurry, there's a crowd, and now we need noise.
We need a loud musician to add to the chaos
of this. It makes sense.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
Yeah, that's I find that a little grading too, And
I'm just trying to get through the airport.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
You know.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Another thing to talk about Yeah, just a shift back
to Harris County. At the same time we're arguing over
these budget issues, the county leaders, County Judge Lena Hidalgo,
and Democrats Sun Commissioner's Court have also introduced what they
call guaranteed Basic Income program, where they are selecting some
(34:35):
residents of the county to get these five hundred dollars
monthly stipends pretty much with no strings attached. They did
revamp the program after the state Supreme Court said this
doesn't look constitutional, so they relaunched that program to trying
to get it going again. But last week the Attorney
General Ken Paxton announced that he was filing a lawsuit
(34:57):
to try to stop that. Leaders like Paxton don't believe
that's constitutional, don't believe that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
So we're continuing to fight about that. But I think
that's frustrating too. So you're looking at twenty one million
dollars the county is spending that does come from those
federal COVID relief funds, and Judge Alena Hidalgo has said that,
(35:21):
you know, we're starting all these these new social programs
in Harris County with those federal dollars that are temporary,
and they will be looking for ways to continue them
using local taxpayer dollars in the future. I would suggest
this big tax hike is going to help try to
cover those things and keep them going in perpetuity.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
All Right, what if I don't want to fund socialism?
What if I just don't want to do that.
Speaker 11 (35:45):
Yeah, try not paying your property taxes and see how
secure your property ownership is. Yeah, you got to pay
those taxes. I'm going to get that.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I'm going to pay my taxes. I'm just not going
to be happy about it. So take that, Lina, how
do you like that? I'll write a text to the county.
I'll write the check go ahead, but I will frown
when I do it. You're not getting a smiley face.
I'm not going to put a little heart above any
of the eyes. You're not getting a star in the nothing,
none of that.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
He who knows you may even write a strongly worded letter,
but maybe more importantly, you should probably vote.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
It's tersely worded, I believe, is what the tersely worded letter. Holly,
You're not as much of a Karen as me, but
you are a good journalist, and I won't hold that
against you because we hate journalists around here.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
But Holly is a cool one. Hey.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
You know what you should do, radio listener. You should
follow Holly on social media. Go to Thetextant News, subscribe
to it. It's a good website with lots of information
that'll make your life better. Oh, I love you all,
Heaven off some afternoon. We'll be back right ne early
tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Miss Radio. Tell
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