January 15, 2025 • 38 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Daniel Turner. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
One in five members of gen Z claim they cannot
change a light bulb, but four out of five boomers
can't change a vape cartridge.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So who's the idiot? Now? Huh? You know what?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Before we even get into the show, can I just
get something off my chest? I've been having a going
back and forth with a person that works at my company,
and what I'm about to do is very unprofessional, but
I'm gonna do it anyway because it makes an interesting point.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Have you ever noticed how in.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
An email people will spout off and act disrespectful in
a way they would never act in person.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Have you ever noticed that?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think what it is is we we tend to
be pessimistic when we're reading text on a screen. I
don't know if this is all human or if it
just has something to do with the office environment, but
when we're reading words on a screen, we often interpret
it to mean the worst possible thing. I don't know why.
I don't know why we do that. I know I've
done it before. I know others do it. I got
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an email from somebody in our network, is someone that
works at our company. As you know, this is radio,
we're really What we do is advertising. That's what we
do for a living. If you own a small business,
we're happy to help promote your small business. We love
branding with local businesses and promoting them across the region.
Believe it or not, it's a lot more affordable than
you'd think. And our radio show is very popular. If
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you run a business that sells people food or fixes
their home, or you have an online thing or whatever
it is, I bet radio advertising and work great for you.
And so someone in the sales department reached out to
me recently and they asked me, Kenny, can you guys
record a commercial for us? So me and Steve and
Billy d and the boys record the commercial and I
send it off to the guy and he tells me
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to rename the file.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Rename the file.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What do you mean We recorded audio and we sent
him an audio recording and he said, I don't like
how what you named the file. Change the name of
the file. Now some of you are probably scratching your
heads confused at this, and some of you aren't. You
get where I'm going with this. But you can name
a file whatever you want. Download the file right click,
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change name right. It's very easy to do. So I
assumed this guy was messing with me. I really thought
he was messing with me. Kenny, change the name of
the file. Email it back. It was like, this has
got to be a joke. Name the file whatever you want, dude,
I don't care. He emails me back. He says, please,
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I'm very busy today. Rename the file for me.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This goes, This process repeats itself three or four times.
I'm speechless. You're too busy to rename the file yourself,
but you keep emailing me. Finally, someone else from the
sales department emails me and they go, you know, he's
he's really old. Oh, now I get it. And then
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I just felt bad afterwards. I was like, he doesn't know.
And I'm forty two years old, so I'm not really young.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm not old. I'm right in the middle. Most of
you would probably agree, I hope.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So I've been using computers since nineteen eighty eight, since
I was a six year old. Renaming a File's never
been hard for me. But I guess at the end
of the day, the point of this little story is
you never really know who's at the other end of
the email.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You know what I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
If you can email me five times, why can't you
just change the file name and someone calls me and
they goes Kenny. He really doesn't know how. It's like, oh, well,
now I just feel bad. I feel like I've been
picking on the guy in the email. I even renamed
the file call the file whatever you want and send
it back.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
To him because I thought he was joking. He wasn't joking.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
People sometimes are given jobs that you know they're they're
good enough at the job, but that they don't understand
the the ends, the the little details, you know, the
ins and outs. It's like, all right, you could do
you know, maybe you can drive a car, but you
don't know how to work the trunk.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's weird right anyway. It reminded me of what's going
on today in a place called Washington, d C. Pam Bondi,
President elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney General has earned
a major last minute endorsement heading into her Senate confirmation hearing,
Pam bondis not controversial. She was already the Attorney General
of Florida. She was the less controversial alternative to Matt Gates.
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Maybe you've heard, and so she's been endorsed by all
these law enforcement agencies. The Border Patrol Union fully supports
and endorses or it's a good endorsement. Her hearing today
so far, as far as we could tell, has been controversial,
not because of her, but because of her friendship with
another guy named Cash Pattel. As you know, if she's
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the attorney General, that would mean she'd be in part
of the Department of Justice, the head of it and
the head of the FBI would work under her jurisdiction.
It's part of the FBI is part of the DOJ.
So during the hearing, now, Cash Battel is very qualified
for his job. Pam Bondi is very qualified for her job,
but kind of like me with the sales guy, dealing
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with the sales guy that doesn't understand how a computer works.
There are people in the Senate that couldn't understand why
Pam Bondi supports Cash Battel. Cash Battel is a guy
who has called out corruption at the FBI before. There
are people in the Senate that look at the FBI
after decades being in government and think of there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wrong with the FBI. It's fine. I don't see a problem.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Senator, to cut to the chase, you're clearly talking about
Cash Battel. I don't believe he has an enemy's list.
He made a quote on TV which I have not heard.
I saw your sign or Senator Darvin sign about Cash.
But I know that Cash Battel has had sixty jury
trials as a public defense as a prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He has great.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Experience in the Intel Department, Department of Defense. I have
known Cash, and I believe that Cash is the right
person at this time for this job. You'll have the
ability to question mister.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Patel about whether you will enforce an enemy's list that
he announced publicly on television.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh, Senator, I'm sorry. There will never be an enemies
list within the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, So for the record, I got to correct her
on one thing. There there was an enemy's list at
the apartment at the Department of Justice a long time ago,
when a guy named Jay Edgar Hoover was.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
In charge of the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But even still, Pambody is not controversial, and she's making
the point here that Cash Patel, he's an outsider. Maybe
you don't like his ways of doing things, but he
can fix a broken system and he knows how to
rename a file. Imagine that. Anyway, the back and forth
went on here a little bit with Amy klobachark.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
House will plain no role in cases investigated or brought Senator.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It will be my job, if confirmed as Attorney General,
to make those decisions. Politics will not play a part.
I've demonstrated that my entire career as a prosecutor as
Attorney General, and I will continue to do that if
you confirm me as the eighty seventh Attorney General of
the United States of America.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
And in earlier question with some of my colleagues talked
about China and the risk. Yet you have a nominee
from this incoming administration Cashptel to pick tohead the FBI.
Have serious concerns about him. Has referred to the FBI's
Intel Division, which is responsible for protecting US from foreign
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adversaries like China, as quote the biggest problem the FBI
has had, and he said that he wants to quote
break that component out of the FBI. Do you agree.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I have not seen in those comments from mister Patel.
I would review them, but we have to do everything
we can to protect our country. Again, mister Patel would
fall under me and the Department of Justice, and I will.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
In this crazy Pattel has been on Capitol Hill in
recent weeks meeting with Senators ahead of a confirmation hearing.
Data has not been set yet but is expected to
be on the calendar soon. They don't like cash Patel
because he has been a loud, outspoken critic of all
the corrupt things the FBI has done in recent years.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And he knows how to write, click on a file
and rename it. Imagine that. Stop it government, Get out
of my life. You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness
Radio Portland, Maine.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Portland, Maine, has been ranked the most livable city in
America according to new research pulling data. Coming in last
place is raging wildfire California. I gotta think, you know,
they just can't help themselves, blaming the wildfire on climate change.
I was looking at data the other day that said,
in the nineteenth century, in an average year, millions of
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acres of land in California would be burned down by wildfire.
And then in the twentieth century it was more like
thousands of acres every year in California would be burned
down because of wildfire. And then in the twenty first century,
and this is the kicker back to millions of acres
every year. Well, what happened a lot of weird regulations,
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that whole thing about the Delta smelt and protecting some
weird lettuce or something. You know, you've heard these allegations,
and some of them appear to be true. I think
most of them are odds are they're not doing wild
they're not doing the controlled fires in southern California because
they know that environmentalists will be upset if they do
something reasonable and protecting some obscure fish also had something
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to do with why there wasn't any water there, And
if you don't believe me, there's lawsuits. Jesse Waters and
Fox News came with the receipts. He's posted this stuff.
You can go look for yourself, do the research. It's
out there. It exists. I've seen it. So those aren't
fire fetched claims. There appears to be a lot of
evidence to prove that that's true.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And if you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Have taken a good long look at what the California
Coastal Commission does, Basically it's their job to make sure
nobody ever builds anything along the coastline. Interestingly enough, the
California Coastal Commission didn't exist till the mid seventies, and
a lot of these mansions and houses in places like
the Palisades or Malibu they were built before that. So
you got to think, unless Gavin Newsom or somebody comes
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and steps in, something needs to be done so that
these people can get their homes rebuilt. And of course
first they got to put out the fire. Now, at
the opposite end of the country, at the same exact time,
people in southern California are blaming their solvable, preventable problem
on climate change. A guy named Chris Wright, an oil
industry CEO from a Colorado based company called Liberty Energy,
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is being confirmed he's doing his hearing today to determine
whether or not he can be Trump's nominee.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, he's Trump's nominee.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Whether or not he can assume the role of Energy secretary,
I'm sure to those of you that work in oil
and gas. You realize there's a lot of parallels between
these news stories. So I brought on somebody who I
think is probably the most knowledgeable person I know about
the energy industry, much less fake climate change pseudoscience. Daniel
Turner is here from Power of the Future. Daniel, you
must be amused at all this stuff. I mean not
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maybe amused isn't the right word, but it's always interesting
when people blame their problem, Like someone punches themselves in
the stomach and then says they're having abdominal pain because
of Donald Trump and climate change.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
What do you think of all this?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well, you know, climate change is the easiest excuse to
blame so that you don't have to do the difficult
part of governing. It absolves you of the difficult part
of running the state. And quite frankly, no one runs
for governor to do forest management or or fire, hydrants
or electric grid and so all the problems they're having
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are not surprising because they're boring, right. I mean when
you think of if you could go back and look
at Karen bass as Los Angeles mayoral run, did she
ever talk about sewers or water or no? She talked
about justice and equity and of course abortion because nothing
is more important than abortion. So then when things go wrong,
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and they always go wrong, well, climate change, and that's great.
Now you're absolved. Right, it's not my fault. There's no
water in the fire hydrants, it's climate change. It's not
my fault the reservoirs are empty. It's climate change. And
I think in the past it may have worked, but
we've really woken up to the lies of the media,
even the media itself has woken up to their own lives,
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and I don't think it's going to work this time.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I want to ask you some questions about Christopher Wright,
the Energy Secretary nominee. Apparently that's his hearing's not being
televised today. But before we get to any of that,
I guess just taking a look at what's going on
on in the West Coast here, it's safe to assume
the wild fires would be happening regardless of policy and
that sort of thing, but it certainly has had an
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effect on things.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, that's a brilliant point you're raising. And if we
could go to the thirty thousand foot level, the fires
that are happening are nature, right, just like tornadoes are
nature and hurricanes are nature. Nature is brutal, and it
is freezing cold and wind and rain, as you saw
in Texas a couple of years ago. That is nature.
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What fossil fuels allow us to do. What humanity is
able to do, is to coexist and overcome nature, and
fossil fuels are tools that allow us to do so effectively.
But if you let nature run its course, if you
let the forests be as California has done. Remember two
years ago we saw the consequences of Canada when they
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have decided under Trudeau to let their forests alone, and
suddenly they were huge forest fires and all of New
York was complaining about the smoke. That's what happens when
you leave nature to its own course. Nature left alone
is vicious, and so the forest fires. Could you say
it's climate change, No, but the fires in California are
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absolutely nature doing what nature does. That's why we are
told to overcome nature. As am I going to be
confused for being a Christian nationalist if I say the
Bible says that God told us in Genesis to subdue
the earth, right, That's what it means when you take
control of nature. Doesn't mean you poison it, doesn't mean
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you disrespect it, you trample on it, but you put
it in its place, just like you have to put
a really and unruly little child in his place. That's
why i'm you know, and I'm glad you're making a
full connection here. Why I'm excited about Chris right because
if anyone who has seen him speak, and I've been
at a number of conferences where he's been the king notote,
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and I've been you know, ballroom twenty seven d at
breakfast time, but I've heard him speak at a number
of events, and this is the philosophy he carries with him.
Nature exists, climate change is happening. Whether or not Maine
is involved, who knows. But fossil fuels allow us to
have all of the tools to live with dignity and
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prosperity despite the ruthlessness of nature. So it's a really
an inspired pick by President Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Trump's last pick for Energy secretary, you know, eight years
ago was Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, and I
think most people would agree he did a pretty good job.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Here's the new guy.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
This is Energy Secretary or nominee for Energy Secretary Christopher
Wright dispelling the climate propaganda. This is basically al Gore's
worst nightmare.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So energy matters.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
It matters for human lives, it matters for human well being,
It matters for low income people and social mobility low
income people to come up. When you hear crazy stuff today,
check it out.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Dig a little deeper.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Hurricanes are not growing, that's in the IPCC report. Tornadoes
are actually on the decline. Floods, droughts, all of these
things you hear ceaselessly, they just simply aren't.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
So it isn't even controversial that they're not.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So wow, I mean, and that goes on.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But I'll post that clip on the Walton Johnson instagram
if people want to hear what else he has to say.
But Daniel, do you think we get any resistance to
this guy? I mean, they're all considered to be controversial
picks according to MSNBC, But Chris Ray doesn't seem that
controversial to me compared to some of the other nominations.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well, he is because he is the first nominee for
this position in its history who actually comes from the
oil and gas industry. And I put on the power
of the Future Instagram a little video talking about this. Historically,
every energy secretary has been one of two things. Normally
Democrats whose professors academics thinkers to be the Department of
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Energy secretary. Normally Republicans choose governors. So Rick Perry a
great example. He understands the role of government with coexisting
with the fossil fuel industry allowing for energy development, etc.
Makes a lot of sense. But no one has ever
picked an energy secretary who has actually had to produce
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energy before, and it kind of hits that like maybe
a new direction for our government. Right, we would be
amiss if we constantly picked act secretaries who have never
stepped foot on a farm. We would be remiss if
we picked treasury secretary, excuse me, transportation secretaries whose only
qualification was getting engaged to his boyfriend at the airport.
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We did, right, We did with Pete Boudhaje. Edge had
no transportation background, but that was his sole qualification. He
got confirmed, no problem. So I think you're going to
see huge pushback on Chris Wright because he is from
oil and gas, and I mean, you know this canny
better than anyone, especially as a Texan. The left hates
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oil and gas more than they hate Iran, more than
they hate putin. The oil and gas is their number
one nemesis because it's everything they hate. It's prosperity, it's freedom,
it's wealth, it's human it's individual rights. So they're gonna
come hard at Chris right because he's the package deal
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and they have to keep someone like.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That out of power.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Daniel, can you hang and do one more segment with us?
Because I got to ask you. I feel like I
don't know if you're aware of this. You've just touched
on something that is part of a very popular little
slice of pop culture right now across the country, a
TV show called Landman. I'd love to get Can you
hang with us or do you need to run?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I would be honored, Kenny, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Daniel Turner here right now from Power of the Future
talking about Trump's nominee for the Energy secretary position, Chris Right.
And obviously you can't have a conversation without quote unquote
climate change without talking about what's happening in South k
California right now.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Don't change the channel. We'll be right back.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics? And government and nice hit and
co Gutchan this show hit, ain't you averabage this podcast?
You gotta get you told Dan we can this this
push you happiness.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Talking about the energy industry.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And if you're new to the radio show, you may
not be aware of this, but there's a lot of
people listening to us talker right now who work in
oil and gas, or solar or wind or isn't it crazy.
The most practical solution to all of our energy needs
nuclear power, and that's the one thing we're not building
more of. Of course, we're not really building more coal power
plants either, But I don't want to get off topic here.
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There's this guy today who is being questioned in front
of the Senate. His name is Chris Wright, and he
is an actual CEO from the energy industry.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Here's a little hymn, and I'll end.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
With one last fact, because anxiety is growing among kids.
I'm sure everyone's seen that twenty percent of kids go
to bed at night worried about climate change. Your chance
of dying from extreme weather today is greater than ninety
five It has been reduced by more than ninety seven
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percent over the last century.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Over the last century, the odds of you dying from
hurricanes and tornadoes and mudslides and tsunamis you get the
idea has decreased by ninety seven percent, and yet twenty
percent of children in America, according to recent polling data,
go to bed at night worrying about climate change killing them.
Whose fault is that, Daniel Turner from Power of the Future.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, isn't that awful? And that shows the sickness of
the environmental left. And it's why I started my organization
because I had to go after these people with no
ability to be canceled, with no ability to be fired.
You have to call these people out because they are
genuinely evil and they have poisoned an entire generation of
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young people with climate anxiety. Kamala Harris talks about it.
The number one sickness and mental health of young people
is climate anxiety. I don't think she's lying, but you
know why that's the number one sickness because you've done
this to them deliberately, because you want them to be afraid,
because you have an agenda to push. And it is
genuinely evil that we will do this to people. You
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know how many people died in the Great Galveston Hurricane
of nineteen oh three or four, whenever it was the answer,
nobody knows because it came. You know, there was no forecasting,
There were no satellite radars, there was no weather channel.
People said, oh, storms are coming. Well it was a
category five storm in all likelihood, and thousands upon thousands
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of people died because there was no preparedness. You have
just as bad storms hit now and there are still casualties,
and that's always tragic. But what Chris Wright was saying,
it's ninety seven percent fewer. Why does fossil fuels have
given us the ability to build structures, to build weather
systems that prevent death, and we overcome death. We have
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subdued the violent part of nature with these amazing tools
that brilliant men have conceived and built in and extracted
from the Earth. And it's something to celebrate, not something
to denigrate. And I'm excited to see a champion for
the fossil fuel industry because he's a true believer that
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these are great products that make us better and healthier
and more prosperous, and more free and more dignified. There's
nothing dignified about having a little child afraid of climate change,
and there's nothing dignified about letting the poor freeze to
death because Joe Biden and Jennifer Damn Grandholm have decided
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that they don't like what hot water heater they have
in their house. There's no dignity in condemning poor people
to misery because Jennifer Damn grand Holme, our current energy secretary,
doesn't think that you have the right asked stove or
you have the right vehicle. These are evil damn people. Oh, Kenny,
I'm getting so mad. They're evil damn people, and their
rule is coming to an end, and it cannot come
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fast enough.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
If you just turned it on the radio.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
One of the things Daniel explained in the last segment
about the nominee for Energy Secretary, Chris Right, the CEO
of Colorado based Liberty Energy, is that Chris is apparently
the first ever CEO of an oil and gas company
to get the nomination for Energy Secretary. He pointed out
how Democrats like to pick college professors and Republicans like
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to pick governors. I'm not saying that what. It's hard
for me to believe that, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I believe you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm sure you're not lying what would you gain from lying?
Is he the first person that's actually from the energy
industry or just the first person.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
From oil and gas? No, first person from energy industry.
And I'm sure there are people. I'm sure. I'm sure
Rick Perry knows a lot about the energy industry. He
may own energy stocks. But no pick governors and we
pick academics. But we do that across the board. Look
at the current Biden administration. Jennifer Granholms, Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
She was a.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Governor of Michigan. Right, She's wasn't even governor of an
energy state. She was governor of Michigan. Secretary of Energy.
Pete budajetg mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Secretary of Transportation,
No energy industry. Javier Bessra, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He was Attorney General of Los Angeles. No background in
health of human services? Health and human services secretary. And
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you can go across the board. Gina Raimundo, Secretary of Commerce.
She was the governor of Rhode Island. What commerce background
does she have? What multi million dollar international trade company?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
None?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
She was a governor, she's the secretary. None of these
people had opposition, None of these people had protesters. None
of these people had MSNBC apoplectic rending their garments that
Joe Biden nominated them because we expect the fact that
you get a bunch of idiot politicians with fancy law
degrees and they know how to organize society for us. Yeah,
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So the fact that we finally have an energy secretary
who has produced energy, Holy cow, it's revolutionary.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's a new hit TV show on Paramount starring Billy
Bob Thornton, John Hamm and Courtney Cox, and I gotta
tell you I heard it was a good show.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
It's called Landman.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
People that work in oil and gas will tell you, well,
it's not really like that in oil and gas, that's
not The scenarios that they're describing are hyperbolic.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Obviously it's TV.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
But basically a bunch of guys in Texas doing a
job that's physically dangerous, getting paid a lot of money
to work out in the desert on an oil patch.
That's what the show's about. So to some extent, it's
certainly inspired by realistic scenarios. But one of the things
I really enjoy is how Landman is basically a TV
show where Billy Bob Thornton gives these based lectures to
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a left wing white woman.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
You can throw your phone away and try to Mercedes
in for a bicycle or a horse and start hunting
for your own food and living in a tent. But
you'll be the only one and it won't make a
damn bit of difference. Plus, I hear the moral high
ground gets real windy at night.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Why new pumps?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
What's wrong with these? You mean? Whales too shallow?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
How deep do they need to be?
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Dale out between ten and thirteen thousand feet? But you
gotta drill out an angle and then you gotta frack
it fracket on a salt water down hole, and you
squeeze all that oil out of the fractures. Then you
pump it up, separate the water technology.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It changed the game out here.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, isn't this the technology that's causing earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
There were earthquakes in Oklahoma before fracking. Ma'am.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, hang on, I'm gonna meet it right there because
there's some language in the clip. But you know, I
noticed something Daniel recently. This is a new hit show
where oil and gas guys explain common sense to white liberals. Now,
at the same time that this is happening, Black Rock
just said that they're going to abandon ESG and Meta
and Amazon or scaling back their DEI spending. Starbucks just
(26:57):
announced you can no longer vape and do heroin in
the Facebook in the bathroom there, and Facebook said they're
going to stop censoring people.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I know these things come in waves, but for at
least the time being, for the next five minutes, does
it feel like things are getting better?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
And it's pretty remarkable, right. I think what we have
witnessed in the last year is the full exposure of
the failure of leftisc governments. Of course, they are always
going to be left ease, there's going to be lefty beliefs.
You know, universities have been a bastion of le Leftiism,
teaching leftism for decades now. But they suddenly had power,
(27:38):
and they had really uncontrolled power. And how did it
work out for them?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Right?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I talked clearly about the green agenda, but you know
they pushed Leftiism on the Fire Department of Los Angeles. Right,
everyone has seen those viral videos of the three lesbian
women who run the fire department talking about wealth. I
can't lift up the man. I guess my question is
why did he get stuck in the fire to be
in with? Right people looking at that and saying, wait
a second, like I have no problem with lesbian women
(28:05):
being firemen, but if you're not able to pick people
up and drag them out of the building, maybe you
shouldn't be a fireman. Right, How did leslism work when
California when it comes to the fact that the fire
hydrants aren't connected to water supplies, and you say, well,
it is historic that Karen bass is a black woman.
I don't care that she's a black woman. There's lots
of black women who are qualified to be mayors. But
(28:27):
her only qualification was her race and her gender, and
she's incapable of managing her city. Well, we got a
huge problem, right, And we see that across the board
with the entire Biden administration. You know, in just the
last couple of days of his administration, just look at
what he's done. Besides punishing oil and gas, taking land offline,
(28:48):
stopping offshore drilling, Key has pardoned or commuted descendants of
dozens of child molesters and rapists, and he took Cuba
off the terrorist list, right, that's the ending legacy going
to give some speech tonight, that evil, little senile old man.
He's going to give some speech tonight and try to
convince us we're in a better safe place we are
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right now, there were just photos shown of China building
landing craft similar to D Day in World War Two
as they prepared to invade Taiwan. Iran has more money
than they've had in decades, and they're launching terrorist attacks
across the world. We have ices cells operating in America.
Russia has more money than they've had before, and we
know what's going on in Ukraine. And this this idiot
(29:30):
tonight is going to give us a speech how his
diversity has made us strong. So you're right. I think
the tide is turning on DEI on esg on Green
because it hasn't worked. And not only has it not worked,
it has brought us misery. And the American people don't
want to be miserable. Nobody does. And it's it's people
(29:52):
are starting to wake up to it, and it's a glorious,
glorious thing.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
My brother Daniel Turner Power of the Future. Check out
his website follow him on ext you're listening to Keen
Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Very spicy lady.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
A little bit of news from across the Pond. Say
that's how they describe London. That's an old expression, you've
heard it before. Across the Pond means British people. There's
this guy dressed up as Spider Man in England and
he's in trouble because he's been walking around stalking people.
It's making people really uncomfortable. I know, police say he
(30:28):
is armed and extremely virgin. You know, there's two British
people I'd like to send back to.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
England.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Brakbeart dot com today reporting on something that shouldn't shock anyone.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
This isn't a big surprise.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Prince Harry and Megan Megan d List actors Markle, two
of the most insufferable grifters on the planet, are adamantly
opposed to Facebook's decision to restore free speech. They've been
in the news a lot lately because they've been out
doing what we call disaster tourism. The two of them,
since they're already in southern California, are walking around talking
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to fire ours.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Well, it's probably an arsonist.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
We think that this fire was intentionally created by real
homeless people, some of them presume to be illegal immigrants.
But you know, we'll learn soon enough when the investigations concluded.
At any rate, until then, Prince Harry and Megan they're
out pretending to do an investigation, walking around talking to people,
taking photos. You know they're not going to administer AID, right,
(31:38):
what do you think they're doing. They're out doing press
for their brand. They're out trying to market Prince Harry
and Megan Merkle, nothing more, nothing less. And last week
kind of a stunning reversal as a lot of you know,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ended years of denying Facebook censorship
to admit, finally, okay, we are censoring and it's a
(31:58):
little too much.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
We're sorry.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
We're going to backtrack on the censorship. We have yet
to see if he keeps that promise. It looks like
for the time being, when I scroll through Facebook, I
see tons of fake news, and it's fake news. It's
very critical of Elon Musk. So there's a part of
me that wonders if Mark Zuckerberg just reversed the rule
so people could post a lot of fake news on
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his website about Elon but whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I don't know. I don't know what the case is.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
But he says no more bands except in egregious cases
or lawbreaking. Most people won't be punished on Facebook for
violating truthiness rules or whatever. And this reversal will affect
other Meta social media companies as well, Threads, Instagram, WhatsApp.
I guess anyway, four years ago Mark Zuckerberg blacklisted Trump.
So Trump's not allowed on Facebook. He's not allowed on
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Instagram anymore. So this is kind of a bombshell in
a statement that reads like it was written by AI
programming set on quote unquote smug or virtuous or orwellian.
The Harry Meg claim that if zucker end censorship that
they say it's gonna hurt free speech. Listen to what
they said here quote it doesn't matter whether your views
are left right or somewhere in between. The latest news
(33:09):
from Meta about changes to their policies directly undermines free speech.
This should deeply concern us. All contrary to the company's
talking points, Allowing more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves
to silence speech and expression, not foster it. Guys, this
is fascism. It goes on for eleven more paragraphs. It
(33:29):
boils down to this commoners, gross, how dare we let
them say whatever they want?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Ew ichy.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You know, even in their dishonest interpretation of Meta's censorship reversal,
their argument still fails to pass a logic test. Allowing
more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves to silence speech
and expression, not foster it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
They say, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Obviously that is not what Zuckerberg is doing.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
But even if the new Meta rules said we're allowing
more abuse and normalizing hate speech, that would not silence speech.
It certainly wouldn't silence free speech. That's the opposite of
silencing free speech. So, Harry Meg, assume every pansy ass
what generally every pansy as will they say They're going
to flee the internet forever if faced with speech that
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hurts their wittle feelings. Oh that's sad, they assume what
that every offended Nancy boy will walk away from their
computer forever. There's an entire wide world web out there.
All the prissy pants offended by free speech on Twitter
ran over to a website called blue Sky.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Do you know anyone that uses Blue Sky.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Do you hear anything about Blue Sky if you're upset
at the fact that Elon Musk now runs Twitter x
and people don't get censored there. They have a website
just for you and nobody interesting is using it, but
it exists. And by the way, that's how free speech
is supposed to work. If you don't like Facebook, find
a safe space where you're comfortable expressing yourself. Nobody cares,
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you See, that's the difference between us and them. They
want us silenced, they want you radio listener blacklisted.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Rare as.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
We think it's great that America's weakling, limp wristed losers
have a place where they can say whatever they want,
a website called Blue Sky.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
That's great. Go ahead, talk, do whatever you want there.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
No one in the political right is calling for Blue
Sky to be shut down or censored. I don't care.
Prince Harry and Megan Merkle once again proved themselves to
be royal fascists, because that's all they are, just awful.
There is news today out of southern California regarding the
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wildfires and say it's going to get worse before it
gets better.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I do like that.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Actress Justine base. Bateman is mocking Harry and Megan. We
talked about this earlier in the week. The former Family
tie star Justine Bateman actually seems a lot more more
like Alex P. Keaton in real life than Michael J.
Fox does. Would you have thought, after all these years
Michael J. Fox would be kind of a liberal and
his older sister on the TV show would be a conservative.
(36:10):
That's Jason Bateman's sister, by the way. Another report today
at Breitbart dot Com details how Harry and Meg decided
to head out to Pasadena, California to spend time with
wildfire victims. They toured the devastation and pretended to care
about commoners. Bateman was having none of it. She took
to Twitter and said, Megan, Markle and Harry are no
(36:32):
better than ambulance chasers. What a repulsive photo op they achieved.
They're touring the damage? Are they politicians?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Now? They don't live here, They're tourists, disaster tourists. Boy,
She's right.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
There's more to what Justine Bateman is doing than just
spouting off on social media, although that is technically what
she did. Because on top of being a pop culture
icon for gen X, she's an author, she's a filmmaker.
Her sudden blast of outspokenness is blazing a trail for
others to speak their minds. She has this Twitter thing
down in a way that beautifully mixes intelligence and thoughtfulness
(37:05):
and belligerence and humor. If you're not following her on X,
you should. There's nothing political or partisan about her. She's
expressing simple common sense about free speech and individual liberty
and competent governing. And the only thing that's right wing
about it is that she happens to be criticizing liberals.
But she's not talking about policy. She's just calling them
out for being hypocritical. She's telling others it's okay to
(37:28):
speak their minds. It's the bottom line, and that's a
good thing. We should acknowledge it. We should celebrate it
in the same way we have celebrated other people for
doing the same. Dennis Miller, for example, James Woods, another
guy that lost his home recently. Actress Victoria Jackson. I
guess she's a comedian. John Voight, perhaps you know him,
Robert Donby. There's a lot of us out there. Something
(37:52):
feels very different about the moment we're living in right now.
Trump and Elon Musk, even Mark Zuckerberg and Russell Brand,
Dave Chappelle and Joe Wrote and Justine Baman, all saying
things that you and I have been saying for years.
And I know a lot of you are thinking, well, Kenny,
that doesn't mean we've won the battle. No, it doesn't. Well,
I mean, actually it does. It means although we didn't
win the war, we are winning a battle. And a
(38:15):
dou wu's a w I say, it's a good thing.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
One in five members of gen Z claim they cannot
change a light bulb, but four out of five boomers
can't change a vape cartridge.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So who's the idiot? Now? Huh? You know what?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Before we even get into the show, can I just
get something off my chest? I've been having a going
back and forth with a person that works at my company,
and what I'm about to do is very unprofessional, but
I'm gonna do it anyway because it makes an interesting point.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Have you ever noticed how in.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
An email people will spout off and act disrespectful in
a way they would never act in person.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Have you ever noticed that?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think what it is is we we tend to
be pessimistic when we're reading text on a screen. I
don't know if this is all human or if it
just has something to do with the office environment, but
when we're reading words on a screen, we often interpret
it to mean the worst possible thing. I don't know why.
I don't know why we do that. I know I've
done it before. I know others do it. I got
(01:13):
an email from somebody in our network, is someone that
works at our company. As you know, this is radio,
we're really What we do is advertising. That's what we
do for a living. If you own a small business,
we're happy to help promote your small business. We love
branding with local businesses and promoting them across the region.
Believe it or not, it's a lot more affordable than
you'd think. And our radio show is very popular. If
(01:35):
you run a business that sells people food or fixes
their home, or you have an online thing or whatever
it is, I bet radio advertising and work great for you.
And so someone in the sales department reached out to
me recently and they asked me, Kenny, can you guys
record a commercial for us? So me and Steve and
Billy d and the boys record the commercial and I
send it off to the guy and he tells me
(01:57):
to rename the file.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Rename the file.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What do you mean We recorded audio and we sent
him an audio recording and he said, I don't like
how what you named the file. Change the name of
the file. Now some of you are probably scratching your
heads confused at this, and some of you aren't. You
get where I'm going with this. But you can name
a file whatever you want. Download the file right click,
(02:21):
change name right. It's very easy to do. So I
assumed this guy was messing with me. I really thought
he was messing with me. Kenny, change the name of
the file. Email it back. It was like, this has
got to be a joke. Name the file whatever you want, dude,
I don't care. He emails me back. He says, please,
(02:41):
I'm very busy today. Rename the file for me.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This goes, This process repeats itself three or four times.
I'm speechless. You're too busy to rename the file yourself,
but you keep emailing me. Finally, someone else from the
sales department emails me and they go, you know, he's
he's really old. Oh, now I get it. And then
(03:07):
I just felt bad afterwards. I was like, he doesn't know.
And I'm forty two years old, so I'm not really young.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm not old. I'm right in the middle. Most of
you would probably agree, I hope.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So I've been using computers since nineteen eighty eight, since
I was a six year old. Renaming a File's never
been hard for me. But I guess at the end
of the day, the point of this little story is
you never really know who's at the other end of
the email.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You know what I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
If you can email me five times, why can't you
just change the file name and someone calls me and
they goes Kenny. He really doesn't know how. It's like, oh, well,
now I just feel bad. I feel like I've been
picking on the guy in the email. I even renamed
the file call the file whatever you want and send
it back.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
To him because I thought he was joking. He wasn't joking.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
People sometimes are given jobs that you know they're they're
good enough at the job, but that they don't understand
the the ends, the the little details, you know, the
ins and outs. It's like, all right, you could do
you know, maybe you can drive a car, but you
don't know how to work the trunk.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's weird right anyway. It reminded me of what's going
on today in a place called Washington, d C. Pam Bondi,
President elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney General has earned
a major last minute endorsement heading into her Senate confirmation hearing,
Pam bondis not controversial. She was already the Attorney General
of Florida. She was the less controversial alternative to Matt Gates.
(04:35):
Maybe you've heard, and so she's been endorsed by all
these law enforcement agencies. The Border Patrol Union fully supports
and endorses or it's a good endorsement. Her hearing today
so far, as far as we could tell, has been controversial,
not because of her, but because of her friendship with
another guy named Cash Pattel. As you know, if she's
(04:55):
the attorney General, that would mean she'd be in part
of the Department of Justice, the head of it and
the head of the FBI would work under her jurisdiction.
It's part of the FBI is part of the DOJ.
So during the hearing, now, Cash Battel is very qualified
for his job. Pam Bondi is very qualified for her job,
but kind of like me with the sales guy, dealing
(05:17):
with the sales guy that doesn't understand how a computer works.
There are people in the Senate that couldn't understand why
Pam Bondi supports Cash Battel. Cash Battel is a guy
who has called out corruption at the FBI before. There
are people in the Senate that look at the FBI
after decades being in government and think of there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wrong with the FBI. It's fine. I don't see a problem.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Senator, to cut to the chase, you're clearly talking about
Cash Battel. I don't believe he has an enemy's list.
He made a quote on TV which I have not heard.
I saw your sign or Senator Darvin sign about Cash.
But I know that Cash Battel has had sixty jury
trials as a public defense as a prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He has great.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Experience in the Intel Department, Department of Defense. I have
known Cash, and I believe that Cash is the right
person at this time for this job. You'll have the
ability to question mister.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Patel about whether you will enforce an enemy's list that
he announced publicly on television.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh, Senator, I'm sorry. There will never be an enemies
list within the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, So for the record, I got to correct her
on one thing. There there was an enemy's list at
the apartment at the Department of Justice a long time ago,
when a guy named Jay Edgar Hoover was.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
In charge of the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But even still, Pambody is not controversial, and she's making
the point here that Cash Patel, he's an outsider. Maybe
you don't like his ways of doing things, but he
can fix a broken system and he knows how to
rename a file. Imagine that. Anyway, the back and forth
went on here a little bit with Amy klobachark.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
House will plain no role in cases investigated or brought Senator.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It will be my job, if confirmed as Attorney General,
to make those decisions. Politics will not play a part.
I've demonstrated that my entire career as a prosecutor as
Attorney General, and I will continue to do that if
you confirm me as the eighty seventh Attorney General of
the United States of America.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
And in earlier question with some of my colleagues talked
about China and the risk. Yet you have a nominee
from this incoming administration Cashptel to pick tohead the FBI.
Have serious concerns about him. Has referred to the FBI's
Intel Division, which is responsible for protecting US from foreign
(07:46):
adversaries like China, as quote the biggest problem the FBI
has had, and he said that he wants to quote
break that component out of the FBI. Do you agree.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I have not seen in those comments from mister Patel.
I would review them, but we have to do everything
we can to protect our country. Again, mister Patel would
fall under me and the Department of Justice, and I will.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
In this crazy Pattel has been on Capitol Hill in
recent weeks meeting with Senators ahead of a confirmation hearing.
Data has not been set yet but is expected to
be on the calendar soon. They don't like cash Patel
because he has been a loud, outspoken critic of all
the corrupt things the FBI has done in recent years.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And he knows how to write, click on a file
and rename it. Imagine that. Stop it government, Get out
of my life. You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness
Radio Portland, Maine.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Portland, Maine, has been ranked the most livable city in
America according to new research pulling data. Coming in last
place is raging wildfire California. I gotta think, you know,
they just can't help themselves, blaming the wildfire on climate change.
I was looking at data the other day that said,
in the nineteenth century, in an average year, millions of
(09:05):
acres of land in California would be burned down by wildfire.
And then in the twentieth century it was more like
thousands of acres every year in California would be burned
down because of wildfire. And then in the twenty first century,
and this is the kicker back to millions of acres
every year. Well, what happened a lot of weird regulations,
(09:26):
that whole thing about the Delta smelt and protecting some
weird lettuce or something. You know, you've heard these allegations,
and some of them appear to be true. I think
most of them are odds are they're not doing wild
they're not doing the controlled fires in southern California because
they know that environmentalists will be upset if they do
something reasonable and protecting some obscure fish also had something
(09:51):
to do with why there wasn't any water there, And
if you don't believe me, there's lawsuits. Jesse Waters and
Fox News came with the receipts. He's posted this stuff.
You can go look for yourself, do the research. It's
out there. It exists. I've seen it. So those aren't
fire fetched claims. There appears to be a lot of
evidence to prove that that's true.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And if you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Have taken a good long look at what the California
Coastal Commission does, Basically it's their job to make sure
nobody ever builds anything along the coastline. Interestingly enough, the
California Coastal Commission didn't exist till the mid seventies, and
a lot of these mansions and houses in places like
the Palisades or Malibu they were built before that. So
you got to think, unless Gavin Newsom or somebody comes
(10:31):
and steps in, something needs to be done so that
these people can get their homes rebuilt. And of course
first they got to put out the fire. Now, at
the opposite end of the country, at the same exact time,
people in southern California are blaming their solvable, preventable problem
on climate change. A guy named Chris Wright, an oil
industry CEO from a Colorado based company called Liberty Energy,
(10:55):
is being confirmed he's doing his hearing today to determine
whether or not he can be Trump's nominee.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, he's Trump's nominee.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Whether or not he can assume the role of Energy secretary,
I'm sure to those of you that work in oil
and gas. You realize there's a lot of parallels between
these news stories. So I brought on somebody who I
think is probably the most knowledgeable person I know about
the energy industry, much less fake climate change pseudoscience. Daniel
Turner is here from Power of the Future. Daniel, you
must be amused at all this stuff. I mean not
(11:24):
maybe amused isn't the right word, but it's always interesting
when people blame their problem, Like someone punches themselves in
the stomach and then says they're having abdominal pain because
of Donald Trump and climate change.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
What do you think of all this?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well, you know, climate change is the easiest excuse to
blame so that you don't have to do the difficult
part of governing. It absolves you of the difficult part
of running the state. And quite frankly, no one runs
for governor to do forest management or or fire, hydrants
or electric grid and so all the problems they're having
(11:57):
are not surprising because they're boring, right. I mean when
you think of if you could go back and look
at Karen bass as Los Angeles mayoral run, did she
ever talk about sewers or water or no? She talked
about justice and equity and of course abortion because nothing
is more important than abortion. So then when things go wrong,
(12:20):
and they always go wrong, well, climate change, and that's great.
Now you're absolved. Right, it's not my fault. There's no
water in the fire hydrants, it's climate change. It's not
my fault the reservoirs are empty. It's climate change. And
I think in the past it may have worked, but
we've really woken up to the lies of the media,
even the media itself has woken up to their own lives,
(12:42):
and I don't think it's going to work this time.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I want to ask you some questions about Christopher Wright,
the Energy Secretary nominee. Apparently that's his hearing's not being
televised today. But before we get to any of that,
I guess just taking a look at what's going on
on in the West Coast here, it's safe to assume
the wild fires would be happening regardless of policy and
that sort of thing, but it certainly has had an
(13:05):
effect on things.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, that's a brilliant point you're raising. And if we
could go to the thirty thousand foot level, the fires
that are happening are nature, right, just like tornadoes are
nature and hurricanes are nature. Nature is brutal, and it
is freezing cold and wind and rain, as you saw
in Texas a couple of years ago. That is nature.
(13:29):
What fossil fuels allow us to do. What humanity is
able to do, is to coexist and overcome nature, and
fossil fuels are tools that allow us to do so effectively.
But if you let nature run its course, if you
let the forests be as California has done. Remember two
years ago we saw the consequences of Canada when they
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have decided under Trudeau to let their forests alone, and
suddenly they were huge forest fires and all of New
York was complaining about the smoke. That's what happens when
you leave nature to its own course. Nature left alone
is vicious, and so the forest fires. Could you say
it's climate change, No, but the fires in California are
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absolutely nature doing what nature does. That's why we are
told to overcome nature. As am I going to be
confused for being a Christian nationalist if I say the
Bible says that God told us in Genesis to subdue
the earth, right, That's what it means when you take
control of nature. Doesn't mean you poison it, doesn't mean
(14:36):
you disrespect it, you trample on it, but you put
it in its place, just like you have to put
a really and unruly little child in his place. That's
why i'm you know, and I'm glad you're making a
full connection here. Why I'm excited about Chris right because
if anyone who has seen him speak, and I've been
at a number of conferences where he's been the king notote,
(14:57):
and I've been you know, ballroom twenty seven d at
breakfast time, but I've heard him speak at a number
of events, and this is the philosophy he carries with him.
Nature exists, climate change is happening. Whether or not Maine
is involved, who knows. But fossil fuels allow us to
have all of the tools to live with dignity and
(15:19):
prosperity despite the ruthlessness of nature. So it's a really
an inspired pick by President Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Trump's last pick for Energy secretary, you know, eight years
ago was Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, and I
think most people would agree he did a pretty good job.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Here's the new guy.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
This is Energy Secretary or nominee for Energy Secretary Christopher
Wright dispelling the climate propaganda. This is basically al Gore's
worst nightmare.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So energy matters.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
It matters for human lives, it matters for human well being,
It matters for low income people and social mobility low
income people to come up. When you hear crazy stuff today,
check it out.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Dig a little deeper.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Hurricanes are not growing, that's in the IPCC report. Tornadoes
are actually on the decline. Floods, droughts, all of these
things you hear ceaselessly, they just simply aren't.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
So it isn't even controversial that they're not.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So wow, I mean, and that goes on.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But I'll post that clip on the Walton Johnson instagram
if people want to hear what else he has to say.
But Daniel, do you think we get any resistance to
this guy? I mean, they're all considered to be controversial
picks according to MSNBC, But Chris Ray doesn't seem that
controversial to me compared to some of the other nominations.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well, he is because he is the first nominee for
this position in its history who actually comes from the
oil and gas industry. And I put on the power
of the Future Instagram a little video talking about this. Historically,
every energy secretary has been one of two things. Normally
Democrats whose professors academics thinkers to be the Department of
(16:57):
Energy secretary. Normally Republicans choose governors. So Rick Perry a
great example. He understands the role of government with coexisting
with the fossil fuel industry allowing for energy development, etc.
Makes a lot of sense. But no one has ever
picked an energy secretary who has actually had to produce
(17:18):
energy before, and it kind of hits that like maybe
a new direction for our government. Right, we would be
amiss if we constantly picked act secretaries who have never
stepped foot on a farm. We would be remiss if
we picked treasury secretary, excuse me, transportation secretaries whose only
qualification was getting engaged to his boyfriend at the airport.
(17:39):
We did, right, We did with Pete Boudhaje. Edge had
no transportation background, but that was his sole qualification. He
got confirmed, no problem. So I think you're going to
see huge pushback on Chris Wright because he is from
oil and gas, and I mean, you know this canny
better than anyone, especially as a Texan. The left hates
(18:01):
oil and gas more than they hate Iran, more than
they hate putin. The oil and gas is their number
one nemesis because it's everything they hate. It's prosperity, it's freedom,
it's wealth, it's human it's individual rights. So they're gonna
come hard at Chris right because he's the package deal
(18:23):
and they have to keep someone like.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That out of power.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Daniel, can you hang and do one more segment with us?
Because I got to ask you. I feel like I
don't know if you're aware of this. You've just touched
on something that is part of a very popular little
slice of pop culture right now across the country, a
TV show called Landman. I'd love to get Can you
hang with us or do you need to run?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I would be honored, Kenny, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Daniel Turner here right now from Power of the Future
talking about Trump's nominee for the Energy secretary position, Chris Right.
And obviously you can't have a conversation without quote unquote
climate change without talking about what's happening in South k
California right now.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Don't change the channel. We'll be right back.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics? And government and nice hit and
co Gutchan this show hit, ain't you averabage this podcast?
You gotta get you told Dan we can this this
push you happiness.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Talking about the energy industry.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And if you're new to the radio show, you may
not be aware of this, but there's a lot of
people listening to us talker right now who work in
oil and gas, or solar or wind or isn't it crazy.
The most practical solution to all of our energy needs
nuclear power, and that's the one thing we're not building
more of. Of course, we're not really building more coal power
plants either, But I don't want to get off topic here.
(19:44):
There's this guy today who is being questioned in front
of the Senate. His name is Chris Wright, and he
is an actual CEO from the energy industry.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Here's a little hymn, and I'll end.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
With one last fact, because anxiety is growing among kids.
I'm sure everyone's seen that twenty percent of kids go
to bed at night worried about climate change. Your chance
of dying from extreme weather today is greater than ninety
five It has been reduced by more than ninety seven
(20:15):
percent over the last century.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Over the last century, the odds of you dying from
hurricanes and tornadoes and mudslides and tsunamis you get the
idea has decreased by ninety seven percent, and yet twenty
percent of children in America, according to recent polling data,
go to bed at night worrying about climate change killing them.
Whose fault is that, Daniel Turner from Power of the Future.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, isn't that awful? And that shows the sickness of
the environmental left. And it's why I started my organization
because I had to go after these people with no
ability to be canceled, with no ability to be fired.
You have to call these people out because they are
genuinely evil and they have poisoned an entire generation of
(20:59):
young people with climate anxiety. Kamala Harris talks about it.
The number one sickness and mental health of young people
is climate anxiety. I don't think she's lying, but you
know why that's the number one sickness because you've done
this to them deliberately, because you want them to be afraid,
because you have an agenda to push. And it is
genuinely evil that we will do this to people. You
(21:21):
know how many people died in the Great Galveston Hurricane
of nineteen oh three or four, whenever it was the answer,
nobody knows because it came. You know, there was no forecasting,
There were no satellite radars, there was no weather channel.
People said, oh, storms are coming. Well it was a
category five storm in all likelihood, and thousands upon thousands
(21:43):
of people died because there was no preparedness. You have
just as bad storms hit now and there are still casualties,
and that's always tragic. But what Chris Wright was saying,
it's ninety seven percent fewer. Why does fossil fuels have
given us the ability to build structures, to build weather
systems that prevent death, and we overcome death. We have
(22:05):
subdued the violent part of nature with these amazing tools
that brilliant men have conceived and built in and extracted
from the Earth. And it's something to celebrate, not something
to denigrate. And I'm excited to see a champion for
the fossil fuel industry because he's a true believer that
(22:26):
these are great products that make us better and healthier
and more prosperous, and more free and more dignified. There's
nothing dignified about having a little child afraid of climate change,
and there's nothing dignified about letting the poor freeze to
death because Joe Biden and Jennifer Damn Grandholm have decided
(22:47):
that they don't like what hot water heater they have
in their house. There's no dignity in condemning poor people
to misery because Jennifer Damn grand Holme, our current energy secretary,
doesn't think that you have the right asked stove or
you have the right vehicle. These are evil damn people. Oh, Kenny,
I'm getting so mad. They're evil damn people, and their
rule is coming to an end, and it cannot come
(23:09):
fast enough.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
If you just turned it on the radio.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
One of the things Daniel explained in the last segment
about the nominee for Energy Secretary, Chris Right, the CEO
of Colorado based Liberty Energy, is that Chris is apparently
the first ever CEO of an oil and gas company
to get the nomination for Energy Secretary. He pointed out
how Democrats like to pick college professors and Republicans like
(23:34):
to pick governors. I'm not saying that what. It's hard
for me to believe that, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I believe you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm sure you're not lying what would you gain from lying?
Is he the first person that's actually from the energy
industry or just the first person.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
From oil and gas? No, first person from energy industry.
And I'm sure there are people. I'm sure. I'm sure
Rick Perry knows a lot about the energy industry. He
may own energy stocks. But no pick governors and we
pick academics. But we do that across the board. Look
at the current Biden administration. Jennifer Granholms, Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
She was a.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Governor of Michigan. Right, She's wasn't even governor of an
energy state. She was governor of Michigan. Secretary of Energy.
Pete budajetg mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Secretary of Transportation,
No energy industry. Javier Bessra, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He was Attorney General of Los Angeles. No background in
health of human services? Health and human services secretary. And
(24:31):
you can go across the board. Gina Raimundo, Secretary of Commerce.
She was the governor of Rhode Island. What commerce background
does she have? What multi million dollar international trade company?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
None?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
She was a governor, she's the secretary. None of these
people had opposition, None of these people had protesters. None
of these people had MSNBC apoplectic rending their garments that
Joe Biden nominated them because we expect the fact that
you get a bunch of idiot politicians with fancy law
degrees and they know how to organize society for us. Yeah,
(25:03):
So the fact that we finally have an energy secretary
who has produced energy, Holy cow, it's revolutionary.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's a new hit TV show on Paramount starring Billy
Bob Thornton, John Hamm and Courtney Cox, and I gotta
tell you I heard it was a good show.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
It's called Landman.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
People that work in oil and gas will tell you, well,
it's not really like that in oil and gas, that's
not The scenarios that they're describing are hyperbolic.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Obviously it's TV.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
But basically a bunch of guys in Texas doing a
job that's physically dangerous, getting paid a lot of money
to work out in the desert on an oil patch.
That's what the show's about. So to some extent, it's
certainly inspired by realistic scenarios. But one of the things
I really enjoy is how Landman is basically a TV
show where Billy Bob Thornton gives these based lectures to
(25:51):
a left wing white woman.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
You can throw your phone away and try to Mercedes
in for a bicycle or a horse and start hunting
for your own food and living in a tent. But
you'll be the only one and it won't make a
damn bit of difference. Plus, I hear the moral high
ground gets real windy at night.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Why new pumps?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
What's wrong with these? You mean? Whales too shallow?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
How deep do they need to be?
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Dale out between ten and thirteen thousand feet? But you
gotta drill out an angle and then you gotta frack
it fracket on a salt water down hole, and you
squeeze all that oil out of the fractures. Then you
pump it up, separate the water technology.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It changed the game out here.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, isn't this the technology that's causing earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
There were earthquakes in Oklahoma before fracking. Ma'am.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, hang on, I'm gonna meet it right there because
there's some language in the clip. But you know, I
noticed something Daniel recently. This is a new hit show
where oil and gas guys explain common sense to white liberals. Now,
at the same time that this is happening, Black Rock
just said that they're going to abandon ESG and Meta
and Amazon or scaling back their DEI spending. Starbucks just
(26:57):
announced you can no longer vape and do heroin in
the Facebook in the bathroom there, and Facebook said they're
going to stop censoring people.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I know these things come in waves, but for at
least the time being, for the next five minutes, does
it feel like things are getting better?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
And it's pretty remarkable, right. I think what we have
witnessed in the last year is the full exposure of
the failure of leftisc governments. Of course, they are always
going to be left ease, there's going to be lefty beliefs.
You know, universities have been a bastion of le Leftiism,
teaching leftism for decades now. But they suddenly had power,
(27:38):
and they had really uncontrolled power. And how did it
work out for them?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Right?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I talked clearly about the green agenda, but you know
they pushed Leftiism on the Fire Department of Los Angeles. Right,
everyone has seen those viral videos of the three lesbian
women who run the fire department talking about wealth. I
can't lift up the man. I guess my question is
why did he get stuck in the fire to be
in with? Right people looking at that and saying, wait
a second, like I have no problem with lesbian women
(28:05):
being firemen, but if you're not able to pick people
up and drag them out of the building, maybe you
shouldn't be a fireman. Right, How did leslism work when
California when it comes to the fact that the fire
hydrants aren't connected to water supplies, and you say, well,
it is historic that Karen bass is a black woman.
I don't care that she's a black woman. There's lots
of black women who are qualified to be mayors. But
(28:27):
her only qualification was her race and her gender, and
she's incapable of managing her city. Well, we got a
huge problem, right, And we see that across the board
with the entire Biden administration. You know, in just the
last couple of days of his administration, just look at
what he's done. Besides punishing oil and gas, taking land offline,
(28:48):
stopping offshore drilling, Key has pardoned or commuted descendants of
dozens of child molesters and rapists, and he took Cuba
off the terrorist list, right, that's the ending legacy going
to give some speech tonight, that evil, little senile old man.
He's going to give some speech tonight and try to
convince us we're in a better safe place we are
(29:08):
right now, there were just photos shown of China building
landing craft similar to D Day in World War Two
as they prepared to invade Taiwan. Iran has more money
than they've had in decades, and they're launching terrorist attacks
across the world. We have ices cells operating in America.
Russia has more money than they've had before, and we
know what's going on in Ukraine. And this this idiot
(29:30):
tonight is going to give us a speech how his
diversity has made us strong. So you're right. I think
the tide is turning on DEI on esg on Green
because it hasn't worked. And not only has it not worked,
it has brought us misery. And the American people don't
want to be miserable. Nobody does. And it's it's people
(29:52):
are starting to wake up to it, and it's a glorious,
glorious thing.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
My brother Daniel Turner Power of the Future. Check out
his website follow him on ext you're listening to Keen
Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Very spicy lady.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
A little bit of news from across the Pond. Say
that's how they describe London. That's an old expression, you've
heard it before. Across the Pond means British people. There's
this guy dressed up as Spider Man in England and
he's in trouble because he's been walking around stalking people.
It's making people really uncomfortable. I know, police say he
(30:28):
is armed and extremely virgin. You know, there's two British
people I'd like to send back to.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
England.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Brakbeart dot com today reporting on something that shouldn't shock anyone.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
This isn't a big surprise.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Prince Harry and Megan Megan d List actors Markle, two
of the most insufferable grifters on the planet, are adamantly
opposed to Facebook's decision to restore free speech. They've been
in the news a lot lately because they've been out
doing what we call disaster tourism. The two of them,
since they're already in southern California, are walking around talking
(31:11):
to fire ours.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Well, it's probably an arsonist.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
We think that this fire was intentionally created by real
homeless people, some of them presume to be illegal immigrants.
But you know, we'll learn soon enough when the investigations concluded.
At any rate, until then, Prince Harry and Megan they're
out pretending to do an investigation, walking around talking to people,
taking photos. You know they're not going to administer AID, right,
(31:38):
what do you think they're doing. They're out doing press
for their brand. They're out trying to market Prince Harry
and Megan Merkle, nothing more, nothing less. And last week
kind of a stunning reversal as a lot of you know,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ended years of denying Facebook censorship
to admit, finally, okay, we are censoring and it's a
(31:58):
little too much.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
We're sorry.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
We're going to backtrack on the censorship. We have yet
to see if he keeps that promise. It looks like
for the time being, when I scroll through Facebook, I
see tons of fake news, and it's fake news. It's
very critical of Elon Musk. So there's a part of
me that wonders if Mark Zuckerberg just reversed the rule
so people could post a lot of fake news on
(32:21):
his website about Elon but whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I don't know. I don't know what the case is.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
But he says no more bands except in egregious cases
or lawbreaking. Most people won't be punished on Facebook for
violating truthiness rules or whatever. And this reversal will affect
other Meta social media companies as well, Threads, Instagram, WhatsApp.
I guess anyway, four years ago Mark Zuckerberg blacklisted Trump.
So Trump's not allowed on Facebook. He's not allowed on
(32:46):
Instagram anymore. So this is kind of a bombshell in
a statement that reads like it was written by AI
programming set on quote unquote smug or virtuous or orwellian.
The Harry Meg claim that if zucker end censorship that
they say it's gonna hurt free speech. Listen to what
they said here quote it doesn't matter whether your views
are left right or somewhere in between. The latest news
(33:09):
from Meta about changes to their policies directly undermines free speech.
This should deeply concern us. All contrary to the company's
talking points, Allowing more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves
to silence speech and expression, not foster it. Guys, this
is fascism. It goes on for eleven more paragraphs. It
(33:29):
boils down to this commoners, gross, how dare we let
them say whatever they want?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Ew ichy.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You know, even in their dishonest interpretation of Meta's censorship reversal,
their argument still fails to pass a logic test. Allowing
more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves to silence speech
and expression, not foster it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
They say, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Obviously that is not what Zuckerberg is doing.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
But even if the new Meta rules said we're allowing
more abuse and normalizing hate speech, that would not silence speech.
It certainly wouldn't silence free speech. That's the opposite of
silencing free speech. So, Harry Meg, assume every pansy ass
what generally every pansy as will they say They're going
to flee the internet forever if faced with speech that
(34:22):
hurts their wittle feelings. Oh that's sad, they assume what
that every offended Nancy boy will walk away from their
computer forever. There's an entire wide world web out there.
All the prissy pants offended by free speech on Twitter
ran over to a website called blue Sky.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Do you know anyone that uses Blue Sky.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Do you hear anything about Blue Sky if you're upset
at the fact that Elon Musk now runs Twitter x
and people don't get censored there. They have a website
just for you and nobody interesting is using it, but
it exists. And by the way, that's how free speech
is supposed to work. If you don't like Facebook, find
a safe space where you're comfortable expressing yourself. Nobody cares,
(35:04):
you See, that's the difference between us and them. They
want us silenced, they want you radio listener blacklisted.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Rare as.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
We think it's great that America's weakling, limp wristed losers
have a place where they can say whatever they want,
a website called Blue Sky.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
That's great. Go ahead, talk, do whatever you want there.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
No one in the political right is calling for Blue
Sky to be shut down or censored. I don't care.
Prince Harry and Megan Merkle once again proved themselves to
be royal fascists, because that's all they are, just awful.
There is news today out of southern California regarding the
(35:44):
wildfires and say it's going to get worse before it
gets better.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I do like that.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Actress Justine base. Bateman is mocking Harry and Megan. We
talked about this earlier in the week. The former Family
tie star Justine Bateman actually seems a lot more more
like Alex P. Keaton in real life than Michael J.
Fox does. Would you have thought, after all these years
Michael J. Fox would be kind of a liberal and
his older sister on the TV show would be a conservative.
(36:10):
That's Jason Bateman's sister, by the way. Another report today
at Breitbart dot Com details how Harry and Meg decided
to head out to Pasadena, California to spend time with
wildfire victims. They toured the devastation and pretended to care
about commoners. Bateman was having none of it. She took
to Twitter and said, Megan, Markle and Harry are no
(36:32):
better than ambulance chasers. What a repulsive photo op they achieved.
They're touring the damage? Are they politicians?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Now? They don't live here, They're tourists, disaster tourists. Boy,
She's right.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
There's more to what Justine Bateman is doing than just
spouting off on social media, although that is technically what
she did. Because on top of being a pop culture
icon for gen X, she's an author, she's a filmmaker.
Her sudden blast of outspokenness is blazing a trail for
others to speak their minds. She has this Twitter thing
down in a way that beautifully mixes intelligence and thoughtfulness
(37:05):
and belligerence and humor. If you're not following her on X,
you should. There's nothing political or partisan about her. She's
expressing simple common sense about free speech and individual liberty
and competent governing. And the only thing that's right wing
about it is that she happens to be criticizing liberals.
But she's not talking about policy. She's just calling them
out for being hypocritical. She's telling others it's okay to
(37:28):
speak their minds. It's the bottom line, and that's a
good thing. We should acknowledge it. We should celebrate it
in the same way we have celebrated other people for
doing the same. Dennis Miller, for example, James Woods, another
guy that lost his home recently. Actress Victoria Jackson. I
guess she's a comedian. John Voight, perhaps you know him,
Robert Donby. There's a lot of us out there. Something
(37:52):
feels very different about the moment we're living in right now.
Trump and Elon Musk, even Mark Zuckerberg and Russell Brand,
Dave Chappelle and Joe Wrote and Justine Baman, all saying
things that you and I have been saying for years.
And I know a lot of you are thinking, well, Kenny,
that doesn't mean we've won the battle. No, it doesn't. Well,
I mean, actually it does. It means although we didn't
win the war, we are winning a battle. And a
(38:15):
dou wu's a w I say, it's a good thing.
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