What is Third Coast Bank?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features State Rep Steve Toth.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, LA still on fire. We're gonna talk. That's got
to be the biggest story of the day. I mean,
there's so much happening in America right now. One week
till President Trump comes back to office and Steve Toath
will be joining us in a little bit. That state Representative,
Steve Toath of the North Houston area local lawmaker to
react to Blackrock trying to influence political have a political

(00:47):
influence on the state of Texas because I don't know
if you've heard, but our house speaker race in Austin,
Texas as contentious as ever.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
We'll get to all of that.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Suit, but yeah, I gotta think before we get to
any of that, let's start off with this mel Gips
house in southern California burned down and you'll never guess
who he's blaming.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm just kidding. Turns out the most lethal weapon is fire.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
My friends, Jennifer Garner says she lost a friend in
the LA fires.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
To make matters even worse. It wasn't Ben Affleck.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I know Netflix delayed Megan Markle's new lifestyle series because
of the LA wildfires. What's that saying about silver linings?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Anyone know?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I don't know why they're involved in this thing like
disaster tourism. Harry and Meghan they claim they open their
home to friends in the wildfires. Wow, that's really generous,
you know, to assume Harry and Megan had friends. And
Gavin Newsom is inviting Donald Trump to visit Los Angeles
and check out the fire zones. Probably also exchanged some
hair care tips. I gotta think people, I cannot stress

(01:45):
this enough. The worst, the worst possible people are in
charge of LA right now, as that portion of the
country burns down. It's almost like we looked around and
we said, how do we get the air? Angri is
dumbest lesbians. And I don't think all lesbians are angry.
I don't think they're all dumb, but boy, these angry

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lesbians listen to this one. This is a fire chief
Assistant Fire Chief Christine Larson of Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
You want to see somebody that responds to your house,
your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire
call that looks like you. It gives that person a
little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their
situation better.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is a woman saying it's important to have a
firefighter that looks like you, a chubby, black lesbian.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Is she strong enough to do this?

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire,
which my response is, he got himself from the wrong place.
If I have to carry him out of a.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Fire, what.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Lady, Oh, I'm sorry your husband needs to be carried
out of the fire.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well why was he in the fire in the first place.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
If he's so smart, maybe he shouldn't have gone into
the fire Last week. Mayor Karen Bass literally just read
the words you arel off her script during a press
conference instead of reading the emergency website to the victims
of the.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Fire, build stronger than ever right now. If you need help,
emergency information, resources and shelter is available. All of this
can be found at URL Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Together is how.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
We will get paspause pause, pause, How could anyone be
that stupid?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
How could it be this bad? Oh? No, guys, it
is this bad.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It is this bad, and it is worse brightprit dot
com reporting today on Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. She
knew the grave fire risk to her city before she
abandoned it for a taxpayer funded diplomatic trip to Ghana
in Western Africa.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
This is getting a lot of attention.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Even local Los Angeles talk radio stations are calling for
her resignation.

Speaker 7 (03:45):
Arigently call for the immediate recalled Mayor Karen Bass due
to her grossnessmanagement, and failure to effectively respond to the
devastating twenty twenty fires. In the wake of these catastrophic fires,
our city has been left in crisis. Water supplies have
been severely strained, Billions of taxpayer dollars have been misallocated

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or left unaccounted for, and countless wives have been lost.
Families have been displaced, homes destroyed, livelihood shattered. Yet Mayor
Bass has been absent from the front lines, choosing to
travel abroad while her constituents suffered.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Y'all remember when we had a hurricane last year, the
beginning of hurricane season. Where was Lena Hidalgo. She was
on vacation. Lena, Lena did this, guys. The thing that
everyone in America's mad at Karen Bass for doing right now.
Lena Hidalgo also did it. How come she's not in
any trouble. So yeah, we do have multiple reports that
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass knew of the gravefire risk

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to her city before she abandoned it, before she went
on a diplomatic trip to Ghana in West Africa. Why
does she need to be in Ghana. There's a timeline
here that was published by a journalist named Lee Fang
and details all the things that happened leading up to
these fires. Thursday, January second, the National Weather Service explicitly
warned Los Angeles about extreme fire conditions over the next week.

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Thursday January second, Jonathan O'Brien, a meteorologist with the US
Forest Service, spoke to the officials and posted openly about
the incoming threat. That same day, O'Brien noted that weather
models for southern California showed a strong extreme Santa and
a wind event starting Tuesday, the seventh of January now

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January third. Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist from the National Weather
Service in La gave a briefing that warned that the
lack of rain this winter season, coupled with forecasted strong
wind post an a media threat. Saturday January fourth, Fire
weather watches and high wind watches are in effect Tuesday
through Friday of next week. Saturday January fourth, Kring Bass

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leaves for Africa to attend the inauguration of Ghana's President,
John Dromani Mohamma. Why does she need to be there
for that? Why does that even matter? At Monday, a
couple days later, Gavin newsom again's emergency preparation for expected
fire danger. He expected brutal winds would create wildfires that
same day, Karen Bass remains in Ghana.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Why isn't she coming back?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Hours later, the Los Angeles Times warns of unusual, life
threatening and destructive winds, bringing risk of winter fires. Karen
remains in Africa. The National Weather Service knows that it
is about to happen and fires off a warning heads up,
life threatening, destructive widespread windstorm expected Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday.
Karen remains in Africa. On Tuesday, Los Angeles was hit

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with multiple deadly fires. Thousands of homes of businesses burned,
Tens of thousands were forced to evacuate. Fire hydrants were
found to be absent of any water. Karen Bass remains
in Ghana. Wednesday, January eighth, the wildfires got worse. Los
Angeles looked like they've been hit with a nuclear bomb.
The city lacked manpower, water, evacuations were happening. Mayor Karen

(06:59):
bass final He says, all right, fine, I'll fly home.
Fine you losers, I gotta save you from everything.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
You oh, citizens, and apology for being absent while their
homes were burning. Karen, you gotta rent coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars. Not in there.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
She's not answering the questions.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
She just say today she won't answer. Have you absolutely
nothing to say to the citizens today? She's just standing
Mosque says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
The richest guy in the world says you're incompetent, Lady, unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
You're dealing with this disaster. She's just standing there in silence.
Before a press conference happens. This guy's asking her questions
with the camera in her face. She's standing there doing nothing.
You know, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Staid Farm Insurance knew this was going to happen last March,
so they stopped insuring people in the region. You're telling
me months ago we knew this was going to happen.
Certainly looks that way.

Speaker 8 (08:01):
According to a new report, exaggerated statements are up by
like a billion percent and now more. Of the highest
rated show on radio, Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, He says they're fact
checkers were biased. I guess he's upset that the fact
checkers favored humans over robots.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I can see why that would upset you. I'm one
of these people that I saw this coming years ago.
I think most of you did too. Facebook is supposed
to be a platform that's slightly more popular with older
people because it's been around for a while, so, you know,
a more conservative user base. And yet those are the
exact people that seem to get censored the most on

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the platform. Remember the users of the platform, those are
basically the customers, right, Okay, technically no, the customers are
the advertisers.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
The users are the product.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
You never thought about it that way before, did you.
But it's true.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
People are advertising to be on Facebook so that they're
paying money to Facebook. That's a customer, that's a client
who is well, then what's the product? The product is
the consumer. Look, I I'm sure most you realize this
is how all of communication and media works. At New
York Times, they have subscribers, right, people that buy a

(09:25):
magazine or a newspaper. But somebody that pays for a
subscription to The New York Times, what are they spending
twenty bucks a month at most right, not very much.
Somebody that spends thousands of dollars a month in advertising.
Those people are really important in New York Times. So
if one of those advertisers was, oh, I don't know,
Peiser or Maderna, and a journalist the New York Times

(09:47):
wanted to publish a story about why the vaccines were dangerous,
Peiser's not going to be okay with that. And that's
your most important customer. Obviously, things work a little differently
here at KPRC Radio because most of our advertise users
or local small business owners. So we can report on
national corruption and people you know, would probably believe we're

(10:07):
telling the truth because you know, I'm behold into a
steam cleaning company or a roofing company. I'm not Pfizer
doesn't tell me what I can and can't say on
the radio. But getting back to Facebook here for just
a minute. Miranda Devine recently talked about this. She made
a very good point. The columnist of The New York
Post Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan's podcast and pretended

(10:29):
he's a free speech champion. He did this as if
there was nothing he could have done to stop the
censorship at Facebook. Facebook tried to rig the twenty twenty
election and probably cost people's lives during the pandemic. The
problem is everybody sees him for what he's worth here.
He's a liar. This makeover can't hide his sins. Remember

(10:53):
the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story. Facebook tried
to bury it. It was before the twenty twenty election.
That was before the attempt to deplatform Donald Trump or
suppress COVID nineteen dissenters. No matter how many ironneck workouts
Mark Zuckerberg does in an attempt to de nerd himself,
he's still a spineless coward and his company is a monopoly.

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No one person should be wielding historically unprecedented power to
censor political thought and speech, least of all, a socially
inept tech bro, the Facebook founder whose meta group Behemoth
owns Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. He was on the
Joe Rogan Show last weekend and he actually complained. He said,
these people from the Biden administration would call up our

(11:40):
team and scream and curse at us to make us
take down posts. Okay, so hang up the phone on them.
You don't work for the government. Why did he stay
quiet when the landmark censorship case Missouri versus Biden or
Murphy versus Missouri was being heard by the Supreme Court?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Do you remember what that was?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Mark Zuckerberg's testimony would have changed everything, and it would
have shown conclusively that the Biden administration had systematically illegally
subverted the First Amendment. The government's not supposed to go
out and tell people in the media what they can
and can't say, and social media is believe it or
not media. It was only when House Judiciary Committee Chairman

(12:20):
Jim Jordan of Ohio started issuing subpoenas to people like
Mark Zuckerberg that they fessed up that Facebook censorship of
things like The New York Post or k PIERC Radio
or Kenny Webster or The Walton and Johnson Show was
prompted by a specific warning from the FBI about quote
up the potential of Russian disinformation. Remember that Russian They

(12:43):
said Barisma. Barisma didn't do anything wrong, that's just Russian disinformation.
What turns out, Barisma was an energy company that put
Hunter Biden on their board even though he didn't know
anything about energy, nuclear, coal, whatever, but he had access
to the Vice president back in the day, and eventually
the president. Brisma was away for white collar criminals in

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Eastern Europe to take bribes and scam the taxpayer influence
international policy. So Mark Zuckerberg has actually been on the
Joe Rogan Show before, back in twenty twenty two. He
said he did not remember specifically what the FBI warning was,
but said it was basically it fit the pattern of

(13:29):
the New York Post story. That's weird. So in twenty
twenty two, you didn't know the FBI was trying to
suppress speech. But now you know, because all this stuff
happened before twenty twenty two, Mark Zuckerberg's PR people explicitly
rolled out the Hunter Biden connection. No, we don't know
anything about that. So until Mark Zuckerberg gets rid of

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all the Democratic operatives and sensors and CIAFBI moles in
his company until he opens up the books like Elon
Musk did with the Twitter files and shows everybody what
actually happens at Facebook.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
There's no reason for us to trust this guy.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
J'all remember when he spent four hundred and fifty million
dollars to influence elections.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
They were called zuckerbucks.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
He claims he donated them for election integrity back in
twenty twenty, but he gave them all to Democrats around
that same time. He censored a lot of stories in
the news on his platform. It's multiple times Mark Zuckerberg
has interfered with an election and likely changed the course
of history. Okay, now he's hiring some of Trump's allies.

(14:37):
What Dana White, he flew to mar A Lago to
kiss the ring. That's not good enough. Mark Zuckerberg's shameless
efforts to worm his way into the Trump world are embarrassing.
Axios published a story over the weekend that detailed what
he's doing. Is seven steps strategy to win over Trump.

(15:00):
It's a method docal like is basically a strip tease.
Here's how it works. Put Trump's friend on the board,
that would be UFC CEO Dana White. Then promote prominent
Republican former Bush operative Joel Kaplan as the chief Global
Affairs Officer. Then align his philosophy with Trump on free

(15:21):
speech by ending the fact checking. We're not going to
do fact checks anymore. We'll have the same kind of
community notes they have on X will no longer let
people at Politico or the Hill fact check your your
your social media posts. Then he announced his philosophical change
on Fox and Friends, knowing Trump is watching. Then he
took a big public step on his favorite MAGA issue,

(15:42):
ending DEI oh great, Okay. Then he went on the
Joe Rogan podcast and he blamed the Biden administration. The
only thing missing here is Zuck's one million dollar donation
to the president Alexe inaugural Fund. Could he be any
more obvious? The answer shockingly is yeah.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
To complete his toady routine. The day his latest soft
soap Rogan interview aired, when he did the Joe Rogan interview,
Mark Zuckerberg flew to Palm Beach wearing a suit and
a red tie, no really a red tie. Like Trump,
He parked his private jet next to Trump's. He groveled
over to mar A Lago for a second time since November.

(16:23):
Nothing subtle about this, isn't that embarrassing? Zuckerberg is one
of the worst people in the American media. He had
the biggest platform, and he went out of his way
to try to crush the truth. Remember what he did
to the laptop story. Remember what he did with anything
involving the pandemic. This guy has been dead wrong on everything.

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He lacks the judgment to make powerful decisions, and yet
he's one of the most powerful tech CEOs in America.
Zuckerberg pretends he's always been pro speech, but he buckled
at the first sign of bullying from Democrats. This goes
back farther than the pandemic. Way back in twenty sixteen,
when the Brexit referendum was happening in the UK, British

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Conservatives were complaining about being censored on social media.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Guess who was doing it.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
A lot of Conservatives were banned from Facebook in November
of twenty twenty. Those who didn't get banned got a
shadow ban. Sure we could post things, but nobody could
see it. The incoming Attorney General is a woman named
Pam Bondi of Florida. I would like to see her
investigate Mark Zuckerberg. He knows it's coming, that's why he's

(17:35):
doing all this. We should be investigating these big tech
monopolies in the same way that President Teddy Roosevelt broke
up the railroad transportation monopoly in nineteen oh one. Roosevelt
in his trust busting actions, they were very popular with
the public and ultimately were a boon. Things that were

(17:55):
a complete boon to the economy. They fostered a competition prices,
they improve services. There's this AI revolution happening right now,
and you got to ask yourself. With elites like Mark Zuckerberg, meglomaniac,
low empathy, high tech elites like Mark Zuckerberg and artificial

(18:18):
intelligence revolution about to take place, it's probably time for
a serious America First agenda. And I got to think
it's influence at Silicon Valley is just as important as
the influence of the border.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
We're not passive aggressive like some people.

Speaker 8 (18:35):
We know this is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh yeah, we're back.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Greetings kids, I'm back in Texas this week, and look,
I enjoy my time away as a lot of you know,
we were skiing last week and things have been a
little strange around here at KPRC Radio. Sometimes I feel
like if I take my eye off the ball for
a few days, a lot of strange stuff goes down.
To put it bluntly, we are people that pay attention

(19:04):
to things. We notice stuff. We've noticed that some of
these big hedge funds seem to have a big influence
on the Texas Republican Party. I know that's an understatement,
but there's a guy outgoing House Speaker, Dade Falin, who
is supposedly controlled by some banking interests, and now you
have two gentlemen trying to fight for his position. Perhaps

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you've Burrows, Dustin Burrows and David Cook. If you look
around on X Today, one of the only platforms where
you can get real news from, there are a lot
of claims being made about a place called Third Coast
Bank and how they supposedly have an influence over people
like Dad Falen. Dave Faalen claims it's not true. Dan Patrick,

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your Lieutenant governor, tweeted out how five business partners control
the operations of the Texas House. Dennis Bond and Greg
Bonn and Dustin Burrows, Cody Harris, and Dade Falin, and
they're all in business together with banks a bank specifically,
he tweeted this out and then Dade Falen, the outgoing
house speaker. So this is ridiculous. This is completely disingenuous.

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It's not true. I have no connection to this bank whatsoever.
Third Coast Bank, never even heard of it. I do
not own any part of it. Along comes a friend
of the show, Brandon Walton's a journalist. Trump Texas scorecard
posted here. Dade Falen's twenty twenty four personal financial statement
shows that he did, in fact have an ownership in

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Third Coast Bank. Now keep in mind, the report filed
in twenty twenty four covers the twenty twenty three calendar year,
so he could have dumped all his stock over the
last several months, technically making it a true statement. I
wonder why you would do that. Now, A lot of
you might be thinking, boy, Kenny, this is awfully convoluted
and confusing. I wish there was an insider that could
help explain to us what the truth is and why

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it matters.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, you're in luck. I have such a guy.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Stay representative Steve Toathe has become kind of like the
litmus test for when there's a lie in Austin. We
bring Steve on the show and he tells us what's
really going on. So Steve, let's start off with the
first of all them, insur your time today, stay representative.
Steve Toe is always a good guy, good friend of
the show.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
On the line. Right now, Steve, what is this true
and why does it matter?

Speaker 9 (21:15):
Yeah, it's true. And think of Kenny. Think about this
a second. If you look at that personal financial statement,
it says it asks you like zero to one hundred chares,
one hundred to five hundred chares, five hundred, two thousand,
one thousand to ten thousand shares, right, and he has
the box checked ten thousand shares a lot. I'm sorry, yeah,

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it's a lot, right. So at times thirty dollars Yeah, yeah,
I'm thirty thirty dollars a share. That's a buttload of money.
But we don't even know it. For all we know,
he could have one hundred thousand or a million shares
in a bank. Think about this. In a bank, the
major stockholder is Blackrock and Vanguard. Now ask yourself a question.

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Blackrock is the biggest investor in the stock market in
the United maybe one of the biggest ones in the world.
They are a sixteen trillion dollar fund. Why would Blackrock
have any interest in a little teeny regional bank.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Why because it would affect the outcome of the speaker
race in the state of Texas, would effect.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
Outcome on the speaker race, and it could affect future
legislation that might impact who Blackrock. Why does that matter? Well, Blackrock.
You know last session there was a lot of legislation meeting,
one of them that carried legislation to ban the state
of Texas from putting any money into Blackrock funds. Why. Well,

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because Blackrock is against all things Texas. Blackrock is a
big believer in EESG, environmental social governance. What does that
have to do with Texas? Well? Where does Texas The
major form of our revenue tax revenue is oil and
gas severance funds. It's pumping oil, it's pumping gas, and
Blackrock wants to put an end to that. Blackrock is

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against all of it, in favor the energy. Blackrock is
the epitome of DEI diversity, equity inclusion. They are the
epitome of wokeness and we are the eighth largest economy
in the world. Blackrock, Blackrock wants to bring us down.
That's the only fit way I can look at it.
And why is it again that they are invested in

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a little teeny tiny bank called Third Coast Dennis Bonnen,
Dustin Burrows, and Dade Feelin had an ownership interest in
And Okay, so maybe Day did sell his shares last
year for this year. Well, the reality is that you
still found a way. You still found a way to

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to pull money out out of this thing that you're
only supposed to be taking six hundred dollars a month for.
That's how we're supposed to get out of this. But
somehow he found a way, obviously, and and is capitalized
on it to monetize his seat in the Texas House. Yeah,

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and now he owns he owes these people.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
And you're in politics, like you get how this works.
It's the Paul Pelosi business model. Just because the politician
doesn't have the investment in her name or his name
doesn't mean that a family member doesn't. Right, it seems
very unlikely that he would have had hundreds of thousands
of dollars invested in this bank and then suddenly, right
when it becomes became very valuable to a politician in

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the State of Texas, suddenly that's when he doesn't own
it anymore. I look, I got to imagine, Dave Fahlin
has family members that probably own commodities. Should there be
a law that says we could see the commodities of
family members.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
If it's of politicians.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
If it's so important that a politician not be involved
in this sort of business practice, but they could still
do it by proxy through their family member, what's to
stop them from doing it?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Steve, you should not.

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Be able to invest in anything that has business before
the State of Texas leg Slatively, you should not be
able to invest in anything that the State of Texas
has banned the Comptroller's office for any entity, any subdivision
of the State of Texas from investing in it.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
You shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, I noticed one person that seems to disagree with
that notion is Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who actually I think
he's actually he was on the list recently. I think
he's in the top twenty investors in Congress. Not shockingly,
Nancy Pelosi also on the list. Their names were right
near each other. On the list.

Speaker 9 (25:58):
Yeah, no, Dan would tell you that he doesn't have
a pot to piss in or winnow to throw it
out of that. He's a poor, poor person that you know,
basically just lives on beans and rice and rice and bean.
That's the way else people want, right, Yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Let's let's get back to Blackrock for a second here.
There's been talk ever since the pandemic of a Texas
stock exchange, especially with what happened to Donald Trump. A
lot of people don't feel safe investing in the New
York Stock Exchange, so there's been some talk of tx
SE Group announcing plans to officially file registration papers with
the Security and Exchange Commission to create the Texas Stock

(26:36):
Exchange and not shockingly, one hundred and twenty million dollar
investment here from Blackrock. It's hard to imagine this wouldn't
affect the Texas speakers race. Steve, what are your thoughts?

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Yeah, I think I think it's you know, I don't
know what the ramifications are other than to say I'm
gonna say I'm not I'm not for anything that the
state of Texas should be invested in in this. If
this is something that a private entity can set up,
then I'm fine with that. But if the state of

(27:10):
Texas or the Speaker of the House is any any
any kind of involvement in I'm completely against it.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, but independently a black rock and all that stuff.
What do you think about Texas hypothetically getting its own
stock exchange?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Good?

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Bad?

Speaker 9 (27:28):
I don't know, Kenny. It scares me, honestly, it scares me.
If look, we're we're the eighth large economy in the
world right now, and there's part of something about that
that excites me. But I need to study it more
because at the end of the day, it seems like
it will bring more bottom dwellers to the state of

(27:51):
Texas to manipulate what's already going on. I mean, Ted
Cruz talks about the Washington cartel and little states like Louisiana, Oklahoma, Callao.
You know, they're tiny states, right, so they don't have
a lot of involvement. Bye, by the lobby are our

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tex Texas Austin cartel is every bit as big as
the Washington cartel because we're the eighth lars economy. Part
of me, part of me is fearful that if we
do set up a sock exchange in Texas that will
even have more involvement by the lobby. Yeah, go on here.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Sure, And it seems like, I mean, it seems like
that's probably true. I guess, like anything, there's got to
be pros and cons with it, Steve, we appreciate your honesty.
State Representative Steve Toth on the line. On a lighter note,
unrelated to this, Ted Cruz. You and Ted do a
lot of speaking events together. You guys seem to be
friendly with each other. He is a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is supporting Donald Trump's pitch

(28:55):
to acquire Greenland. Any thoughts on that, Steve toath.

Speaker 9 (29:01):
Greenland has plenty of minerals that would absolutely benefit the
United States, And uh, well, I don't support any kind
of US I'll take over of Greenland. I would love
to see the United States acchoir Greenland if if, if
that were possible, I think it'd be a really cool thing.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Do they even have a military?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean that seems like if we were doing vade
invade Greenland, it doesn't seem like it'd be much of
a fire.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
You know, probably get it done for Game of Buker,
you know, I don't. I still think it'd be all
that difficult. But in fact, I mean, here's the reality.
If if if there ever was a foreign edity that
were to threaten Greenland, it would probably be the United
States that would come to the rescue. That's that's the

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crazy thing, you know, That's always how it is. Everything
falls on us. Wants to help us to pay for it.
No one wants to pay for the security nut that Greenland,
not not Canada. I mean, it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
My brother state Representative, Steve Toath, one of the reasonable people.
It's it's always blows my mind that that part of
the city up in the North suburbs there Dan Crenshaw
and Steve Toath his guys, there is like like bubblegum
and Cashews, like they have nothing in common with each other.
And I mean that as an insult to Crenshaw and
not Steve Tooth. Hey follow him on Twitter, You'll be
glad you did.

Speaker 10 (30:30):
Listening to a pursuit of this is Kenny Webster's Pursuit
of Happiness on KPRC Houston.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
The All American half concur let us Tomato.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, it sounds like it's a song. It's a song
where it sounds like someone's changing the radio station, but
you're not changing the radio station.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
You're listening to me. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. We're not
done yet.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Let's go to the worst place on the West Coast now,
not San Francisco, the other place?

Speaker 3 (31:06):
No, No, not Portland, now the other place.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood bratt or what?

Speaker 9 (31:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Okay, so obviously Malibu's on fire, but Hollywood's still out
doing their thing. Kevin Costner and Jennifer Lopez have been
reportedly talking every day. Why is Kevin Costner talking to
j Lo? Apparently it's only because he wants to sell
off her engagement rings to finance his next crappy western movie.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Would you believe I used to be on a radio
show with Todd Bridges? Yeah, Todd Bridges. He opened up
about his life as a teenage TV star. It was
one of the more fascinating chats I've ever had with
a valet. It was really interesting. Meanwhile, the weekend, the
R and B singer had a mental breakdown. It's more
proof that Britney Spears continues to be a pioneer in
the music industry, and Christen Stewart plays a robot in

(31:59):
Hernet Movie to prepare for her role as an emotionless automation.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
She did nothing.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Breitbart dot Com Today reporting in the Year of Our
Lord twenty twenty four, guess how much money we spent
at the box office. It sounds like a lot of money,
but it's not. Eight hundred and seventeen million dollars in
domestic movie tickets were sold. Sounds like a lot of money,
it's not. Go back five years, it was one point

(32:26):
two billion with a B. That's a thirty four percent
collapse in just five years. If you go back twenty years,
ticket sales have dropped from one point five billion to
eight hundred million. It's a forty six percent drop. Now,
Hollywood and its little minions in the entertainment media, they
blame everything except the crappy product. Oh no, no, it's

(32:47):
not because the movie sucked. No, it was the pandemic.
The pandemic was four years ago.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
No, no, it's not because movie sucked. It's because of
streaming services. Streaming services have been around for a decade.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Guys longer.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh no, it's not because of bad movies. It's racism
and sexism and toxic fandom and everything, but our crappy product.
It's not our fault. Here's a question for you, kids,
penske corrupt media monopoly and studio butt smoochers.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Riddle me this.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
If streaming is stealing movie theater customers, why did the
average American cut their streaming costs by twenty three percent
last year? Let me guess why. It's that's the pandemic's
fault too. Oh no, it must have been the writer's strike.
Was it the writer's strike?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Could that have been?

Speaker 10 (33:33):
What did it?

Speaker 3 (33:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
No, it must be that movie theaters are stealing streaming customers.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
That must be it.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Wait, I don't make any sense. Streaming customers are stealing streaming.
Streaming customers are stealing streaming customers. No, that can't be right.
What else could it be? Could it be because your
product sucks? If the dogs refuse the dog food the
only problem? Would it couldn't possibly be the dog food's fault.
It's like look we talked about this last week. The

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theaters are like carnivals. Each theater is its own attraction.
If you offer ten attractions and three break attendance, records,
while no one lines up for the other seven. The
problem is not that people have stopped attending carnivals. The
problem is that you have seven attractions that sucked. Look
at all the big movies over the past year. Oppenheimer

(34:20):
Barbie that was a big deal. I guess that was
over a year ago, Inside Out two, Top Gun, Maverick
that was two years ago, Deadpool and Wolverine that was
last year. Malana two that was a big hit, Sonic three,
Wicked that was a big deal, Dune, Super Mario Brothers,
John Wick, Sound of Freedom, Avatar.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
You know what all those movies have in common.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
They prove people will still go to the movies or
the carnival or whatever to see the attraction. If it's appealing,
people will still go. This is the reason why people
are spending less on streaming. We all know why people
cancel a streaming service. They decide it's not worth what,
it's not worth the cost. This isn't rocket science other

(35:04):
than Amazon Prime, because with Amazon Prime and you get
free shipping. Most of the streaming services offer nothing more
than what's available on the platform. You don't like the movies,
you don't like the TV shows, you don't have to
subscribe to it. You could pay zero for TV if
you watch streaming. It's the plentitude of free streaming options

(35:25):
like two b YouTube, free v Pluto. There's plenty of
free streaming services. There's so much free streaming TV out there,
you wouldn't even believe it. You spend fifty bucks for
a Roku player and you're all set now. Granted, it's
kind of like this the radio. There's ads. That's how
it's paid for advertising. That's okay, right, You don't mind

(35:46):
listening to a few minutes of ads to get you know,
you listen to four minutes ads, you get eleven or
twelve minutes of content every fifteen minutes. The popularity of
Netflix proves people will pay for streaming for the record,
the quality of the content is good, people will pay
for it.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
People want what.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
They have wanted since mankind first achieved self awareness. They
want compelling stories. They want relatable characters. They want to
see compelling stories about relatable characters who overcome seemingly impossible
odds and come out the other end to better person.
That's basically the general gist of storytelling.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Right.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Nobody wants DEI driven anti human grooming, preachy, anti masculine,
anti individualism, smug, predictable nonsense. No one wants it. A
guy in address is not a hero, He's weird. That's
the bottom line. I'm Kenny Webster qriick reminder, kids, you
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Why would anyone want that? We just spent a ton
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While we make a lot of cool merchandise that is
topical that relates to that. Right now, we have in
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Speaker 3 (37:03):
Look really cool too.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
The price is right, and a substantial portion of the
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the way, now that we're here in the new year, yeah,
we're going to try to do more for them. What
are your new Year's resolutions? I'd love to hear him.
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(37:25):
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a lot this year. Twenty twenty five is going to
be a big year for us. We just added Dallas
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Speaker 10 (37:52):
For you listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radial til
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the show.