February 25, 2025 • 43 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Apple, Apple Computers, the tech company Apple will create twenty
thousand US jobs. They just announced it. Now, to be fair,
it will mostly be gen Z Apple store employees who
roll their eyes when you can't remember your Apple ID.
But still, a job's a job, and I got to
imagine they're going to get a lot of them from Starbucks.
Starbucks is laying awful eleven one hundred workers. I saw
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a worker at an intersection with a sign that said,
quote will deafen you with the espresso machine for food.
What's really surprising is all the Starbucks employees were fired
by Elon Musk. Okay, that's enough of that. Hi, everybody,
Kenny Webster, great to be here with you. You know who's
going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour.
Brandon Waltons is stopping by. And if you are a
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citizen or a resident of the state of Texas, something
very suspicious, very weird is going on with the lottery
tickets in this state. There's a big investigation that was done,
so hang around for that. In the meantime, the latest
news from the border. It is pretty fascinating what is
going on down at the border. In fact, if I'm
not mistaken, I think we have some border You can't
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get the border music. Please hold on a second here,
I got to queue this up. Stupid computer just crashed
on me, kind of like the illegal immigrants in a
van down at the border. Breipart dot com today reporting
on what was once a well oiled smuggling machine into
the United States has collapsed thanks to President Trump's border
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enforcement and a promise to deport every illegal alien in
the country. So now if they want to make money,
a lot of these human smugglers are taking self deportees
back to Venezuela. What I mean is they're paying the
human smugglers to get them out of the United States
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and back down to South America. How awesome is that.
Here's how we know about this. By the way, we
learn this because of the Associated Press. The far left
AP is reporting on this as though it's a bad thing.
I don't know what they're upset about. I'm sorry we're
supposed to be angry that we no longer have to
pay to keep illegal immigrants in the country. Here's what
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the article says. The AP reports quote, they once braved
the jungles of the Darien Gap trekking days along the
perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple
goal seek asylum in the US. Now, boat by boat,
those migrants have given up after President Donald Trump's crackdown
on asylum and are returning to the countries they once
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sought to escape. Ha ha, Hey, all Trump did was
enforce the law. If people want asylum, there is a
legal way to ask for asylum at a point of entry.
These folks didn't do that. Former President Joe Biden tried
to aid and abet their lawlessness with a smartphone app
that would grant them an asylum hearing. But that's not
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how it works, that's not the law, and Trump killed
the app. So yeah. After explaining that the boats had
until recently been part of a well oiled migrant smuggling machine,
as the Pee put it, that was extremely lucrative for
the smugglers. The smugglers took advantage of a seemingly unending
influx of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants heading into
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the United States. Listen to this other part from the article.
It says, quote, but now that much of the Darien's
migrant smuggling industry has collapsed, some smugglers are taking advantage
of the reverse migration to charge steep cost to migrants
between two and two hundred and fifty dollars per person,
including miners for boat rides. End quote. Let me repeat,
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there is a legal process to ask for asylum. I
have no sympathy for those who violate the process, especially
if they drag their small children along. Nothing is stopping
anyone from legally requesting asylum in the United States. But
if you choose to break into our country, our new
president will follow the law and deport you. Sorry. If
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you break into Disney World, they evict you. If you
break into the Warner Brothers studio a lot, they call security.
If you sneak into CNN headquarters, out you go. What
I love the most about this story is that Trump's
unspoken plan is working, and that's to pressure illegals to
deport themselves self. Deportation saves us a ton of money,
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and it's fairly easy to encourage within the law. You
make life impossible for those here illegally. Employers use everify,
landlords request legal ID. You secure the borders so people
cannot go back and forth. You let every illegal in
the country know they might be next. You do that
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and more, and these illegals will give up and go home.
I've said this before, I will never stop saying it.
It's okay to be a foreigner, it's okay to come
to the United States, just don't do it illegally. We
want immigration. Every illegal immigrant needs to be deported. If
they want to go to the end of the line
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to become a citizen, fine, good luck. Do it correctly
and you will be welcomed. But you gotta want to
be an American and not just want to remit your
illegal payback home while flying the flag of your home country.
And that's the weirdest thing. They have these big public
demonstrations to protest against our unfair illegal immigration laws while
they fly the flag of the country they no longer
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want to live in. I'm confused. Shouldn't you be flying
the American flag if you love it here so much.
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I'm enjoying the music of what is this bad company
the songs called feel like Making Love? No, this is ROBERTA. Flatch.
Rest in peace. She passed away. She is hang on,
let me check. Yeah, she's still dead, Johna. You know
she had a great life. I don't mean any disrespect
to the woman, but but what a long time she
was alive. Eighty eight years ago she was born, and
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that would have been the thirties, and then she just
died yesterday. So quite a career that she had. I
wonder what she would think if she lived long enough
to see well, I guess she did live long enough
to see the news about Luigi Mangione. This white kid
in New York City murdered the United Healthcare CEO. Cold
blooded killer. Purportedly, that's what he's accused of. We don't
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actually know if he's guilty or not, although it certainly
looks that way. It's an interesting court case. They claim.
His lawyers claim that his property was searched without his permission.
There's now a fundraiser for him that received over one
hundred thousand dollars and four days and really twisted fans
coming out to promote and support and defend him. Luigi
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Mangione is asking his twisted fans to stop bombarding him
with so many photos. The accused United Healthcare CEO made
clear on his legal defense fund website that he cannot
keep up with the fan photos flooding his Brooklyn Federal jail.
Sounds like a lot of women want to date him.
As a matter of fact, there was a protest in
his defense recently in New York City, and a comedian
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went out and interviewed people who seem to believe that
Luigi Mangione is a good guy, even sexy infected. Sounds
like some of these white liberals are kind of racist.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Who's hotter Luigi or George Floyd lg Luigi or the
hottest black guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Who's the hottest black guy in the world too? I
honestly like more. I'd like more Caucasian guards. A little
racist there, It seems a little racist. The guy doing
the interviews, his name on Instagram, by the way, is
no cap On God. He's a comedian and he asked
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the organizer of the rally why she put the rally together.
It turns out she's killed a person. What made you
want to organize this protest?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well, I spent twenty six months in prison for Doui
negligent homicide that tham appreciate it. That was after I
was the victim of domestic violence, and so the experience
really taught me that whoever goes to prison is a victim.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
First who was getting abused.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Then you was having a gouple of drinks to deal
with your pain, and then you was driving, and then
someone happened to be in the way. Actually, I hit
a shopping cart at three miles an hour in a
parking lot from the shopping cart, knocked someone over and
he died about a week later.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Man, So it was really this shopping cart that should have.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Been in prison, it's fair to say, or the alcohol
of the two.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, it doesn't sound like she feels real bad about
killing a person. I mean, she high fived a guy
on camera over the fact that she is. These are
Luigi Mangioni's supporters. There. She brought up how she was
a victim of domestic abuse, as if that makes it
okay for her to kill somebody and take their life.
These are not serious people, I mean. One of the
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people interviewed was asked about Eric Adams. Listen to what
she says and why she claims she doesn't like Mayor
of New York City, Eric Adams, or hating on Eric Adams. Adam,
why he's the BBC king?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh my god, I don't care, don't care about BC.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Why why?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
To be honest, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I support these people, do what they say. I
just know the majority of these opinions.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Are right and they don't know. Why. Wait a second,
You're at a protest telling people you hate someone, and
when asked why you hate that person, you don't know.
Oh the answer. You just know that you agree with
the people you're hanging out with. They must be right.
They're never wrong. Isn't it a little strange how we
will make a martyr out of someone just because people
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think he's good looking. Deny, defend, depose. These three words
were allegedly written on bullets found at the murder scene
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Apparently those words
come from a book about the healthcare industry in America.
The healthcare industry in America all revolves around a law
called the Affordable Care Act. We also refer to it
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sometimes as Obamacare. If you don't like the laws, regarding
healthcare and health insurance in America. That means you don't
like Obamacare. We'll get back to that in just a minute.
The slogan began appearing in graffiti, highway banners, t shirts,
Deny defend to pose. People started writing it everywhere. When
the identity of the likely killer was revealed to be
a man named Luigi Mangione. Reason dot Com reports he
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developed a fan base. You just heard some of them
talking in those clips. Jimmy Kimmel, stand up comedian, late
night comedian on ABC, did this real breezy monologue, joking
about his writing staff's adulation of Mangione's physique. He said,
so many men and women are going nuts over how
good looking this killer is. Free Luigi Mangione, explain, exclaimed
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comedian Bill Burr on an episode of his recent broadcast.
To that show begs the question how did a man
who allegedly executed a married father of two at dawn
on a New York City sidewalk become a hero? Liberalism
is looking at a murder and asking yourself, is there
any reason I can be happy about this? Deny defend Depose?
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Those three bullets with words inscribed on them explain not
just why the alleged killer did it, but why he
received so much adulation. Now to be fair, still innocent
until proven guilty, YadA, YadA, YadA. What's odd is, as
you ask yourself that question, it's not for the reason
most people think. It seemed like the perfect American tragedy.
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A handsome valedictorian with a promising future suffers a back
injury and a botched surgery, robbed of life's pleasures at
his physical peak, no surfing, no travel, no sex. The
personal became political, so the story goes, when the health
insurance industry rejected his claim for treatment denied, Defend Depose
was likely a reference to a fifteen year old book.
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The author of the book is a guy named Jay Feynman,
and in the book he talks about how health insurance
companies don't pay routine claims. That's what he claims. Mangione
supposedly wrote in his manifesto of the words, Frankly, these
parasites simply had it coming. Luigi Mangione's fans embraced him
as quote our shooter. The media made him a symbol
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of American rage towards a system that denies basic treatments
with an eye toward the bottom line. Taylor Lorenz, a
former Washington Post and New York Times reporter, defended the
celebrations of Thompson's murder, writing that in a nation with
a quote barbaric healthcare system where the people at the
top rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering, and death
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on millions of innocent people, it's natural to wish that
people like Brian Thompson suffer the same fate. According to
journalist Taylor Lorenz, Lorenz actually told Pierce Morgan, quote, I felt,
alongside so many other Americans joy. Unfortunately, maybe not joy,
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but certainly empathy, she said end quote. Interestingly enough, forty
one percent of poll respondence under the age of thirty
say the killing of Brian Thompson was acceptable, perfectly, okay.
More young people polled admitted to viewing the killer favorably
than unfavorably. The thing is, these poll numbers don't actually
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tell us very much about the popular disfat satisfaction with
health insurance. It sounds like people are just romanticizing murder.
Most people under thirty are healthy and don't interact much
with the healthcare industry. In fact, despite its problems, two
thirds of Americans say they are personally satisfied with their
own insurance coverage. Huh, Yet to deny delay defend inscribed
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on bullets do explain Mangioni's popularity. Equating words with weapons
as a reflection of how our culture increasingly treats language
and violence as morally indistinguishable. So a lot of us
first encountered claims that speech equaled violence a decade or
so ago, when we learned about college students and their
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microaggressions and their trigger warnings, deplatforming mobs cancel culture. That
notion actually traces back to the sixties. There were a
group of intellectuals who were part of something called the
Frankfurt School. Back in nineteen sixty five, a German American
philosopher named Abert Marcuse, who was once branded the father
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of the New Left, called into question the value of
free speech in a quote manipulated society, arguing that we
need to quote re examine the traditional distinction between violent
and nonviolent action and recognize a difference between quote revolutionary
and reactionary violence, between violence practiced by the oppressed and
the oppressors. Sounds an awful lot like armchair Marxism to me.
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AOC is one of the people that defends this. She
says people experience denied claims as an act of violence
against them. Really, if I'm not willing to pay for
your cancer treatment when you're already on death's door, I'm
committing violence against you, understand people. My attachment to this
topic is very personal. My father died of brain cancer.
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Six months before his death, we were desperate to find
a treatment for him. Glioblastoma was my father's condition. We
went around the country talking to different cancer treatment clinics, hospitals, doctors, researchers,
experimental treatments. We couldn't find anybody that would give my
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dad treatment or cover it. But let's pretend hypothetically we did.
Let's pretend hypothetically we found all the most advanced treatments,
all the most all the experimental medicines and operations and surgeries.
And despite all of that, let's pretend hypothetically my father
still died. Would that justify me going out and murdering someone, No,
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that would be crazy. Last summer, I attended a similar
funeral for a little girl named Nova. Nova died of
brain cancer. A different kind, not glioblastoma, pino blastoma. It's
a very personal situation to me. That was the saddest
funeral I ever attended in my life. You're never quite
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the same after you see them wheel out the casket
of a tiny little girl, purple and pink. If my
memory serves me correctly, we all sat there in that
church that day crying. When I went home, I thought
about it, not just for hours, but days afterwards. I
still think about it regularly. It was months ago. There's
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no cure for pinal blastoma. There's no cure for glioblastoma.
Health insurance companies have to decide if they're going to
treat these conditions, despite the fact that we don't necessarily
know how to cure them. It can be very expensive,
very time consuming. A lot of people and resources are
involved in treating things like the brain cancer for my father,
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and despite all of that, still very unlikely you're going
to survive. Does any of that justify murder? Maybe it's
possible to reverse the cultural shift that made the murder
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson into something to celebrate.
Combine the moral outrage and the increasingly blurred lines between
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political speech and violence long enough, and the outcome is
always predictable more violence. And I might remind you again,
if you don't like the healthcare laws in this country
and you voted for Barack Obama in two thousand and
eight or twenty twelve, instead of lashing out at healthcare CEOs,
maybe you should be lashing out at yourself that I
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look you just such a pie hole and keep working
back to the pursuit of happiness radio.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
If the happiness dioting liberty and how frustrating it must
be to google the greatest song you ever wrote, Killing
Me Softly with his song and finding out that the
person that gets credit for it is the person that
covered it.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's not even you. The person that wrote this song
died yesterday and it wasn't Lauren Hill. Apparently somebody else
what was her name, Rita or something I don't know,
shows that I know Roberta ROBERTA Flack died, Rest in
peace to her. But when you google Killing Me Softly, ROBERTA.
Flack doesn't pop up. It's Lauren Hill and the Refugee
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All Stars. Guess the point is, sometimes the person that
gets credit for things isn't the person that deserves it.
It's just as true in music, and it is as
it is with the lottery. There's your segue, folks. Somebody
keeps winning lottery tickets at a very specific location in
the Austin, Texas area, and they're starting to wonder, why
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is it that it's always the same place where someone
keeps winning the lottery. Dan Patrick, that's your lieutenant governor,
has done an investigation. He issued a statement calling on
Governor Greg Abbott to expand the investigation into a commission,
and so the State Fairs Committee got into it. The
lottery commissioners. People are smelling Shenanigan's foolery. Mallarkey, something's going
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on here. I don't know what it is. Hopefully Brandon
Waltons of Texas scorecard dot Com will be able to
explain it to me, because Brandon, I'm just a caveman.
Those lottery tickets they're selling to people frightened and confuse me.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Uh yeah, this is a really crazy story. It's actually
something we've been following quite a bit, which has been
some of this corruption we've seen out of the lottery.
When people think of lottery winners, they think of maybe
you know, the person who went to a gas station
and bought a couple of tickets and you know, in
one of the lottery that way. But what we're finding
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more and more is that these jackpots are being won
by so called courier services now essentially a courier service
as they as they say it, you know, makes it
seem like okay, well it's you know, they'll they'll say
they're like uber eats. You know, you can like pay
someone you know on an app to go get your
lottery ticket for you, which you know, may you know,
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may or may not be good even if that was
the case. But what it actually is, and what we're
seeing here and what Lieutenant Gover Dan Patrick has helped
expose over the last couple of weeks, is that what
you actually have are these warehouses that are just printing
machines behind these fake storefronts. And you've had a couple
of situations where these these stores are are printing all
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these tickets, they're winning the you know, the winning tickets
being found there. You had a case a couple of
years ago where you know, some some group came in
and bought up every possible number combination and then actually
had the help of the Lottery Commission to sort through
them all and to be able to print them all out.
You've had a couple of these very concerning cases, and
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so Lieutenant Gover Dan Patrick's been sounding the alarm on
that the Senate just passed a bill yesterday out of committee.
They'll probably vot it out of the Senate here later
this week that would actually ban these online services because
they're bad for a number of reasons. One, it erodes
a lot of trust, and you know, whether the lottery
is even fair, which you know it's its own discussion,
but but but also you know, you're opening yourselves up
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to you know, kids could buy tickets, you can buy
tickets with a credit card, which is which is against
the law and something that we would obviously not want.
And so a lot of interesting stuff. It was a
very bad day for the lottery yesterday, especially as Governor
Greg Abbott at the same time announced that, you know,
he was launching a called on an investigation by the
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Texas Rangers into the Texas Lottery Commission.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Okay, so it's a courier service sort of like door
Dash or Uber eats, but that's not what it is.
It's something else and they're using it to buy lottery tickets.
I have so many questions, and I assume you're not
going to know all of the answers. But what is
the courier service? And how are people finding out about it?
Is it publicly advertised somewhere? Who's hiring them?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Yeah? These are These are websites and app operators on
the phone, and so you might see I think I've seen,
you know, some TV commercials or you see advertisement online
for these services. They're the ones that are doing it.
It's very interesting because you know, state law is very
specific about you know, retailers. You know what you need
to do to be a lottery retailer. This place that
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Dan Patrick went into that was really just a front
for a big warehouse that was printing these lottery tickets
from online. Had a storefront where they were selling They
had like a few board games essentially, you know, for
people to buy. But I don't think anybody actually goes
in there to buy the games. That was just kind
of their loophole to get the license to be able
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to print tickets.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Okay, here's my question. Everyone in the studio was laughing
because I just turned the mic on and off with
my shoe, which had nothing to do with what you
and I are talking about, Britt, But I'm so proud
of what I just did. It was so I have
my feet up on the counter, off the coach, I know,
and someone walked in and they wanted to hear what
you were talking about. So I turned the mic off
with my foot so that they could hear you out
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of the speakers. And then when it was my turn anyway,
what were we talking about?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, is it possible? Look, you know, I hate to
be the one to harsh everybody's buzz here, but is
it possible? And obviously using a credit card to hire
the courier service, that's not okay. You can't buy you
can't buy lottery tickets with a credit card, But is
it possible. The only reason why this location in Austin
and this courier service keeps being the group of people
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involved in the winning lottery tickets is because so many
people are buying lottery tickets through it. It's like law
of averages. Someone's eventually going to win and they're selling
thousands of lottery tickets and other people aren't, So they're
the ones that keep getting it.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Certainly. But I think you know, if you look at
exactly what the Lottery Commission has said, and you look
at what some of these investigations have uncovered, there's a
lot of a lot of questions about First of all,
these these places are operating, you know, in contradiction to
the state law. You know, this is not how the
lot is supposed to be set up. It's not. It's
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very specific actual law saying you can't buy tickets, you know,
over the telephone. That's you know, back when it was
passed in the early nineties, that was the technology they
were talking about. You know, Okay, you can't buy lottery
tickets over the phone. But now we have this situation
where you can buy lottery tickets online. I think it
goes very much against the spirit of the law. And
that's where you've seen. I mean, it was a bipartisan
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group of senators. It passed unanimously out of committee, which
is very you know, very difficult to do on some
of these hot button issues. But I think that when
it does come out of Senate, you're going to see
unanimous or nearly unanimous support for cracking down all these
online retailers.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay, So all that being said, isn't it odd how
in the state of Texas you can't go to a casino,
but you can gamble if you do it directly with
the government. I mean, it's just I know, this is
the most obvious thing, the most obvious observation. But we're
not supposed to have casinos in the state of Texas,
but you can do this. I mean, it always seemed
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a little hypocritical to me.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Well, I think that you know, as you're talking about,
you know, other forms of game. But I think they're
all going to have a tough time in the legislature
this session. But it is an interesting thing where, you know,
in a state like Texas where gambling is illegal, and
you know, there's certainly people can have conversations about that,
why is the state become like the largest bookie right now?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Right exactly? Here's another thing I can't wrap my mind around.
And I don't even know if there's a bill in
Austin to deal with this right now. But several years ago,
several years ago, people discovered the way the laws were
written in the state of Texas that ban gambling. We're
written in such a way that it was supposed to
apply specifically to a casino. The house can't be involved
in the bet. And somebody figured out one game does
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not involve the house, It involves a group of players.
That game is poker. And you've probably noticed this before, Brandon.
You're a journalist, you're a reporter. You travel all over
the state of Texas. We have poker rooms around the state,
and it's kind of a grayer over whether or not
it's legal. Is there any Is there any policy or
bill being proposed in Austin right now that would deal
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with that?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You know, I haven't seen anything for that, but I
think that you're right. You have seen a lot of
those rooms open up, especially the last ye I don't know,
four or five years or so. I think the Attorney
General can pack some held an event at one actually
relatively recently within the last year or two. So I
guess that sort of gives you a signal of where
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they think the law is on that. I know.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Look, I'm just a guy that looks at what the
government's doing and I ask myself, is this doing anything helpful?
And in this case, I see you. The state of
Texas as a whole has decided gambling is in moral,
So don't gamble. But a lot of our politicians get
money from casinos in Louisiana and Oklahoma. That's neither here
nor there. Don't look behind the drape. That doesn't matter.
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Gambling is still remaining immoral. But for some reason, you
can go to a poker room, or you can buy
a lottery ticket, but not if you have someone pick
up the lottery ticket for you, like a courier service,
because that would be immoral. Brandon, I'm not smart enough
to understand any of this.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Well, I think that when you, I think you do understand.
The thing is that the way the state's laws are
written about this, and this is why every time gambling
expansions talked about, you really do have to look at
the details. Nobody is talking. There's no bill being talked
about in the legislature now or in any time that
I've ever seen that would say gambling is legal. You
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can open up a casino. We could go open up
our own little casino together tomorrow. Instead, all of it's
about helping a very small select group of people, whether
it's the contractors in the lottery commission working together, or
whether it's you know, some of the casino proposals where
it's you know, basically two or three well connected groups
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or you know, billionaires that get to open up a
casino and it all creates a bunch of government regulation
on with it too. And so you know, just far
away even a separate from the moral you know sort
of argument that you know, you can you can have
about it. None of the proposals that we've seen have
actually been you know, legalizing gambling. It's all about helping
someone who's who's you know, a small group of people,
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well connected people, at the expense of I would say,
the majority of Texan's One.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
More question for you before you leave, Brandon. Latest news
from Dan Crenshaw. There's a video of him. I think
he's at sea pack. He just did an interview with
some British guy and as he's getting up and walking
away from the table, Representative Dan Crenshaw District two here
in Texas says that he talks to Tucker Carlson a
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lot and he wants to eff and kill him. And
you think this is a question about Dan Crenshaw, but
it's actually about his primary opponent, who is now out
telling people this is a reason Dan Crenshaw shouldn't be
allowed to be a lawmaker anymore. But she told one
of her supporters they should they should kick my ass
if they see me in the street. I'm just curious,
if you were voting in District two, which of those
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two candidates would you pick?
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Oh gosh, what.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Now you didn't like this question? No, it seems like
I'm being a little petty. He doesn't.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I don't know. I think we're gonna have I think
you were gonna see a lot of candidates end of
the race.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'll say that the latest one. We all thought this chick,
Valentina Gomez, who is a carpetbagger from New Jersey originally
born in Columbia. We all thought she was gonna go
challenge Crenshaw. Now she's running in your district, Brandon. I
think it's District thirty two.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Heady sent her up. You sent her up north here? Yeah,
that's to Central Texas. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I am taking full credit for that. She decided not
to primary Crenshaw after I called her out for being
a carpetbagger. But now you guys have to deal with
this woman who calls people how do I say this
on the radio, the F word that rhymes with bag
at and like, she posts videos of herself jogging on
the Upper East Coast and she claims to be in Texas.
(31:01):
Doesn't this bother people? These carpetbagging politicians are all coming
to Texas right now to get elected, but they're not
even from here.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
You certainly do see it. I'll say, anytime you have
a especially an open congressional seat, whenever you have that,
I know you've seen it. I mean, it is amazing
the people who will file. I mean, you should have
ten twenty candidates sometimes filing for these races. And it
costs money, by the way to file. Yeah, you know
you're talking. I think at least a few thousand dollars
for the filing fee, if I recall. And so, you know,
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it's always interesting. But I don't think. I don't think
I like her chances up here. But we'll see if
she moves maybe before then somewhere else. I ever shook
up to Dallas or something.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I know you and I have talked about this before.
But what we're witnessing with these young women on social
media or men to that matter, who campaign on Twitter,
they campaign on TikTok, but they don't actually go to
the district where they're running for office. It's a new
kind of grift. I don't think they want to be
congressmen or congresswomen, Brandon. I think they just want people
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on social media to think they're doing it so they
can accumulate more followers and get more clout. If they
actually wanted to run for Congress, spending all day long
on Twitter is the one thing they wouldn't be doing.
They'd be in District two or District thirty two knocking
on doors. It doesn't seem like either of these candidates
is doing that.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
No, and there certainly does seem to be a little
industry there for that.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Huh. It's like a new kind I wouldn't even thought
to do this. That woman Valentina Gomez whose real name
is Noriega by the way, who's running in your district.
You know, she sells merch online, Like that's her whole
shtick is she wants you to buy a hoodie and
a T shirt and it says like get Gomez or whatever.
But that's not even her name. Her name's Noriega.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Well I might have to get you a sweatshirt then.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I mean, all I'm saying to this. Did it ever
occur to you that you and I are doing this
the hard way. You're a journalist write articles and edit stories,
and I sit here all day long researching stories that
I can discuss on the radio and doing interviews, and
I make a fair amount of money. I'm sure you
do as well. But these people are working much less
than we are, Brandon, and it seems like the payoffs
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much better for them. Why do we work so hard?
We must be suckers.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I know, well, I think I don't think this stuff
works out for them long term.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
So Brandon, I will tell you. Over the past week,
I have learned that both our federal government and our
state government spends a lot of our tax dollars subscribing
to news websites like the Quorum Report or the Houston Chronicle,
or politico dot com or something called politicopro that costs
ten thousand dollars. I didn't even know that existed. If
I wanted to go to texascorecard dot com, how many
(33:47):
dollars from taxpayers would I need to steal to get
a subscription.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Well, it would be it would be zero. We're a nonprofit,
We're a donor driven We don't take money from the
state like most every other news source in Texas, and
so it's all free of texascorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I hear you. I hear that that's the more noble
way to go. You have principles, you know you stand
for something. It's not immoral. But have you ever considered
not doing it that way and then getting more money
in a dishonest way. Have you ever thought about that?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I can't say. I can't say we've ever thought about that.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
If I was a radio listener this show, I would
think about following Brandon Waltons and also subscribing at Texas
scorecard dot com. It's free. What is Pursuit of Happiness radio?
Basically political memes in audio format? Happy the Frog, Eat
your heart Out. A Canadian coffee shop changed the Americano
(34:46):
on their menu, you know, the coffee drink to the
Canada Dino or Canadinion. I don't know. It doesn't make
any sense. To those who say Canada has no response
to us bullying, you are correct. This is embarrassed. I
respect them even less now. In other news, Lester Holt
is leaving NBC News. This gives your racist grandma a
(35:07):
few more weeks to figure out who or what he
was supposed to be. She doesn't know. And finally Hooters
is heading to bankruptcy. It's actually refreshing to hear news
involving big boobs and it has nothing to do with
the women that Elon Musk got pregnant. That's great, absolutely fantastic. Hey,
let's talk a little bit about the media for a minute,
shall we. A report today at town hall dot com
(35:29):
details how Hakim Jefferies Hakim Jefferies had yet another bad
Sunday show appearance. You know who that is, right, He's
the leader of the House Minorities, the Democrats in the
House of Congress. Last week we talked about how House
Minority Leader Hakim Jefferys, a Democrat from New York, had
a very tough time on a Sunday show appearance on
(35:49):
ABC News. He was doing an interview with Jonathan Carl
and Jeffries kept ranting about prices and Carl asked him,
you know, in an interesting Trump's got a high approval
and all the things you say cost a lot of money.
You know, Joe Biden couldn't solve that. He had four
years to solve that problem. Never happened. Jeffrey spoke to
Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union over the weekend,
(36:12):
and it was kind of the same conversation. Tapper confronted
him with remarks from a fellow Democrat governor Josh Shapiro,
about the swing state of Pennsylvania, and they brought up
comments about how someone who works very close to Jeffries
pointed out that the cost of living is very high,
but it was also very high under Joe Biden. Tapper
(36:34):
quoted Josh Shapiro saying, quote, Democrats are failing to address
the real concerns that people have. They're failing to do
what is their fundamental responsibility constitutionally to be a check
check in a balance. It's a pretty harsh assessment of Democrats.
What's your response. Jeffrey's response was a non answer of sorts.
(36:55):
Didn't really have an answer to the question. Here. I'll
let you listen to the Republicans.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
They've been on the run. They are feeling the pressure
of the fact that their policies are deeply unpopular with
the American people, and we've seen that play out this
past week all across the country. And Democrats are going
to continue to make clear that we will stand against
the effort to end medicaid as we know it, stand
(37:19):
against the effort to detonate social security of medicare certainly
stand against the effort to undermine veterans' benefits on nutritional
assistance to children and families.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
So it may.
Speaker 8 (37:29):
Certainly true the President Trump's poll numbers are not in
a great place, although they're higher than they ever were
in his first term. But Congressional Republicans polling is about
forty percent, Congressional Democrats polling is about twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
So that's an issue for you, right, Jerre's Jake Tapper
and CNN telling you, Hakeim, you're saying the Republicans are unpopular.
You're twice as unpopular as they are according to polling data.
Meritocracy is never on their side. When they're actually held
accountable for the failures of their policies, they don't know
(38:03):
what to say. It's just as true as the Democrat
Party as it is with the liberal media. Joy Reid's
show is canceled on Sunday, not because she's a communist,
not because she's a racist, not because she's a conspiracy theorist,
not because She constantly says things that aren't true. Her
show got canceled on MSNBC because the ratings were abysmal.
(38:26):
She did not take it lightly. She cried when she
found out she was losing her job. Cried on social media.
My show had value and that I'm sorry that what
I was doing had value. It got canceled because it
didn't have any value. Nobody was watching. Do you think
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that show would have got canceled if the ratings were good.
There are people chiming in on this, people like Jamal Bowman,
former Representative Jamal Bowman. He was the guy that pulled
the fire alarm during a budget hearing lost his primary
last June, not to a Republican, to another Democrat. He
(39:09):
claims Joy Reid was fired because of racism. MSNBC is racist,
and he's not the only one to make that point.
Ben Crump, the BLM attorney, made the same point. I'm
not really sure what to tell you guys here. If
racism is the reason her show got canceled, what that
would imply is that liberal cable TV news viewers who
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are also liberal voters are the racist. The people that
support you are the people you're calling a racist. This
is exactly like the WNBA. The reason Joy Reid is
unpopular is because you didn't watch her show. It's not
on us. We're conservative news media consumers. People listen to
talk radio all day, people watch cable, Fox News, the Blaze.
(39:55):
People are watching that. What they're not doing is watching
MSNBC or CE. That's your fault. The WNBA loses millions
of something like last year they lost forty million dollars.
It was financially it was their best year ever and
they lost forty million dollars. The WNBA is subsidized by
the NBA. The reason the WNBA is so unpopular is
(40:18):
because women don't want to watch basketball. That's not our fault,
that's your fault. And it's the same exact thing with
Joy Reid. You're the liberals that were supposed to be
watching her show. You didn't put it on. Now you
got Ben Crump and Jamal Bowman and people like Rocanna
screaming racism. Rocanna is another one of these members of
(40:39):
the liberal media. Uh what exactly does he do? I
don't know. Some leftist from Washington, DC said, Joy Reid
is one of the boldest voices speaking truth to power.
She speaks out for justice at home and abroad. MSNBC
should not have fired her, he said, isn't that amazing?
You didn't watch her show. That's why it's gone. You
(41:00):
remember when they fired Tucker Carlson. It was the number
one rated cable news show on any network, beating everyone out,
even on Fox News. It was they had more viewers
than anyone else on Fox. That was a surprise. Why
did you cancel the most popular thing on cable news?
It's an interesting question. Stacy Abrams doesn't understand why Joy
(41:22):
Reid got canceled Because, Stacy Abrams, you didn't watch her show.
I don't understand these tweets. She said that Joy Reid
was a trusted member, a trusted voice who holds power accountable. Again,
who is she trusted by? Exactly? It's not about silencing people,
but likely rather about distancing the network from such a
toxic host who had poor ratings. The final step is
(41:46):
to watch Reid's last show, which I guess aired last night.
I didn't put it on. I don't know anyone who did,
but I know Jasmine Crockett was mad to see her go.
Jasmine Crockett was among those reposting Stacy Abrams support for
Joy Reid. The congresswoman has herself made had some concerning
comments regarding race, white men, white tears, And that's exactly
the kind of thing that Joy Reed does on a
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regular basis, And amazingly, that brand of far left racism
is no longer palatable in the mainstream media. I always
loved leaving the show with a little bit of good news.
Do you guys like good news? Just sprinkle a little
bit in before we get out of here, if you
don't mind. An entire Cracker Barrel restaurant made an army
vet with Alzheimer's cry tears of joy. The other day.
(42:29):
This happened in Flagstaff, Arizona, where all the customers in
the Cracker Barrel restaurant sang Happy Birthday to an eighty
nine year old army vet who happens to suffer from dementia.
The guy started crying. Cracker Barrel commented on social media
that they had so much love in one room. Here's
a little bit. It's a beautiful sentiment. I love you
(42:53):
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Apple, Apple Computers, the tech company Apple will create twenty
thousand US jobs. They just announced it. Now, to be fair,
it will mostly be gen Z Apple store employees who
roll their eyes when you can't remember your Apple ID.
But still, a job's a job, and I got to
imagine they're going to get a lot of them from Starbucks.
Starbucks is laying awful eleven one hundred workers. I saw
(00:43):
a worker at an intersection with a sign that said,
quote will deafen you with the espresso machine for food.
What's really surprising is all the Starbucks employees were fired
by Elon Musk. Okay, that's enough of that. Hi, everybody,
Kenny Webster, great to be here with you. You know who's
going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour.
Brandon Waltons is stopping by. And if you are a
(01:04):
citizen or a resident of the state of Texas, something
very suspicious, very weird is going on with the lottery
tickets in this state. There's a big investigation that was done,
so hang around for that. In the meantime, the latest
news from the border. It is pretty fascinating what is
going on down at the border. In fact, if I'm
not mistaken, I think we have some border You can't
(01:26):
get the border music. Please hold on a second here,
I got to queue this up. Stupid computer just crashed
on me, kind of like the illegal immigrants in a
van down at the border. Breipart dot com today reporting
on what was once a well oiled smuggling machine into
the United States has collapsed thanks to President Trump's border
(01:48):
enforcement and a promise to deport every illegal alien in
the country. So now if they want to make money,
a lot of these human smugglers are taking self deportees
back to Venezuela. What I mean is they're paying the
human smugglers to get them out of the United States
(02:09):
and back down to South America. How awesome is that.
Here's how we know about this. By the way, we
learn this because of the Associated Press. The far left
AP is reporting on this as though it's a bad thing.
I don't know what they're upset about. I'm sorry we're
supposed to be angry that we no longer have to
pay to keep illegal immigrants in the country. Here's what
(02:29):
the article says. The AP reports quote, they once braved
the jungles of the Darien Gap trekking days along the
perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple
goal seek asylum in the US. Now, boat by boat,
those migrants have given up after President Donald Trump's crackdown
on asylum and are returning to the countries they once
(02:52):
sought to escape. Ha ha, Hey, all Trump did was
enforce the law. If people want asylum, there is a
legal way to ask for asylum at a point of entry.
These folks didn't do that. Former President Joe Biden tried
to aid and abet their lawlessness with a smartphone app
that would grant them an asylum hearing. But that's not
(03:15):
how it works, that's not the law, and Trump killed
the app. So yeah. After explaining that the boats had
until recently been part of a well oiled migrant smuggling machine,
as the Pee put it, that was extremely lucrative for
the smugglers. The smugglers took advantage of a seemingly unending
influx of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants heading into
(03:37):
the United States. Listen to this other part from the article.
It says, quote, but now that much of the Darien's
migrant smuggling industry has collapsed, some smugglers are taking advantage
of the reverse migration to charge steep cost to migrants
between two and two hundred and fifty dollars per person,
including miners for boat rides. End quote. Let me repeat,
(04:01):
there is a legal process to ask for asylum. I
have no sympathy for those who violate the process, especially
if they drag their small children along. Nothing is stopping
anyone from legally requesting asylum in the United States. But
if you choose to break into our country, our new
president will follow the law and deport you. Sorry. If
(04:23):
you break into Disney World, they evict you. If you
break into the Warner Brothers studio a lot, they call security.
If you sneak into CNN headquarters, out you go. What
I love the most about this story is that Trump's
unspoken plan is working, and that's to pressure illegals to
deport themselves self. Deportation saves us a ton of money,
(04:45):
and it's fairly easy to encourage within the law. You
make life impossible for those here illegally. Employers use everify,
landlords request legal ID. You secure the borders so people
cannot go back and forth. You let every illegal in
the country know they might be next. You do that
(05:05):
and more, and these illegals will give up and go home.
I've said this before, I will never stop saying it.
It's okay to be a foreigner, it's okay to come
to the United States, just don't do it illegally. We
want immigration. Every illegal immigrant needs to be deported. If
they want to go to the end of the line
(05:25):
to become a citizen, fine, good luck. Do it correctly
and you will be welcomed. But you gotta want to
be an American and not just want to remit your
illegal payback home while flying the flag of your home country.
And that's the weirdest thing. They have these big public
demonstrations to protest against our unfair illegal immigration laws while
they fly the flag of the country they no longer
(05:47):
want to live in. I'm confused. Shouldn't you be flying
the American flag if you love it here so much.
(06:11):
I'm enjoying the music of what is this bad company
the songs called feel like Making Love? No, this is ROBERTA. Flatch.
Rest in peace. She passed away. She is hang on,
let me check. Yeah, she's still dead, Johna. You know
she had a great life. I don't mean any disrespect
to the woman, but but what a long time she
was alive. Eighty eight years ago she was born, and
(06:33):
that would have been the thirties, and then she just
died yesterday. So quite a career that she had. I
wonder what she would think if she lived long enough
to see well, I guess she did live long enough
to see the news about Luigi Mangione. This white kid
in New York City murdered the United Healthcare CEO. Cold
blooded killer. Purportedly, that's what he's accused of. We don't
(06:54):
actually know if he's guilty or not, although it certainly
looks that way. It's an interesting court case. They claim.
His lawyers claim that his property was searched without his permission.
There's now a fundraiser for him that received over one
hundred thousand dollars and four days and really twisted fans
coming out to promote and support and defend him. Luigi
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Mangione is asking his twisted fans to stop bombarding him
with so many photos. The accused United Healthcare CEO made
clear on his legal defense fund website that he cannot
keep up with the fan photos flooding his Brooklyn Federal jail.
Sounds like a lot of women want to date him.
As a matter of fact, there was a protest in
his defense recently in New York City, and a comedian
(07:40):
went out and interviewed people who seem to believe that
Luigi Mangione is a good guy, even sexy infected. Sounds
like some of these white liberals are kind of racist.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Who's hotter Luigi or George Floyd lg Luigi or the
hottest black guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Who's the hottest black guy in the world too? I
honestly like more. I'd like more Caucasian guards. A little
racist there, It seems a little racist. The guy doing
the interviews, his name on Instagram, by the way, is
no cap On God. He's a comedian and he asked
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the organizer of the rally why she put the rally together.
It turns out she's killed a person. What made you
want to organize this protest?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well, I spent twenty six months in prison for Doui
negligent homicide that tham appreciate it. That was after I
was the victim of domestic violence, and so the experience
really taught me that whoever goes to prison is a victim.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
First who was getting abused.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Then you was having a gouple of drinks to deal
with your pain, and then you was driving, and then
someone happened to be in the way. Actually, I hit
a shopping cart at three miles an hour in a
parking lot from the shopping cart, knocked someone over and
he died about a week later.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Man, So it was really this shopping cart that should have.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Been in prison, it's fair to say, or the alcohol
of the two.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, it doesn't sound like she feels real bad about
killing a person. I mean, she high fived a guy
on camera over the fact that she is. These are
Luigi Mangioni's supporters. There. She brought up how she was
a victim of domestic abuse, as if that makes it
okay for her to kill somebody and take their life.
These are not serious people, I mean. One of the
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people interviewed was asked about Eric Adams. Listen to what
she says and why she claims she doesn't like Mayor
of New York City, Eric Adams, or hating on Eric Adams. Adam,
why he's the BBC king?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh my god, I don't care, don't care about BC.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Why why?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
To be honest, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I support these people, do what they say. I
just know the majority of these opinions.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Are right and they don't know. Why. Wait a second,
You're at a protest telling people you hate someone, and
when asked why you hate that person, you don't know.
Oh the answer. You just know that you agree with
the people you're hanging out with. They must be right.
They're never wrong. Isn't it a little strange how we
will make a martyr out of someone just because people
(10:13):
think he's good looking. Deny, defend, depose. These three words
were allegedly written on bullets found at the murder scene
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Apparently those words
come from a book about the healthcare industry in America.
The healthcare industry in America all revolves around a law
called the Affordable Care Act. We also refer to it
(10:35):
sometimes as Obamacare. If you don't like the laws, regarding
healthcare and health insurance in America. That means you don't
like Obamacare. We'll get back to that in just a minute.
The slogan began appearing in graffiti, highway banners, t shirts,
Deny defend to pose. People started writing it everywhere. When
the identity of the likely killer was revealed to be
a man named Luigi Mangione. Reason dot Com reports he
(10:59):
developed a fan base. You just heard some of them
talking in those clips. Jimmy Kimmel, stand up comedian, late
night comedian on ABC, did this real breezy monologue, joking
about his writing staff's adulation of Mangione's physique. He said,
so many men and women are going nuts over how
good looking this killer is. Free Luigi Mangione, explain, exclaimed
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comedian Bill Burr on an episode of his recent broadcast.
To that show begs the question how did a man
who allegedly executed a married father of two at dawn
on a New York City sidewalk become a hero? Liberalism
is looking at a murder and asking yourself, is there
any reason I can be happy about this? Deny defend Depose?
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Those three bullets with words inscribed on them explain not
just why the alleged killer did it, but why he
received so much adulation. Now to be fair, still innocent
until proven guilty, YadA, YadA, YadA. What's odd is, as
you ask yourself that question, it's not for the reason
most people think. It seemed like the perfect American tragedy.
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A handsome valedictorian with a promising future suffers a back
injury and a botched surgery, robbed of life's pleasures at
his physical peak, no surfing, no travel, no sex. The
personal became political, so the story goes, when the health
insurance industry rejected his claim for treatment denied, Defend Depose
was likely a reference to a fifteen year old book.
(12:31):
The author of the book is a guy named Jay Feynman,
and in the book he talks about how health insurance
companies don't pay routine claims. That's what he claims. Mangione
supposedly wrote in his manifesto of the words, Frankly, these
parasites simply had it coming. Luigi Mangione's fans embraced him
as quote our shooter. The media made him a symbol
(12:54):
of American rage towards a system that denies basic treatments
with an eye toward the bottom line. Taylor Lorenz, a
former Washington Post and New York Times reporter, defended the
celebrations of Thompson's murder, writing that in a nation with
a quote barbaric healthcare system where the people at the
top rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering, and death
(13:16):
on millions of innocent people, it's natural to wish that
people like Brian Thompson suffer the same fate. According to
journalist Taylor Lorenz, Lorenz actually told Pierce Morgan, quote, I felt,
alongside so many other Americans joy. Unfortunately, maybe not joy,
(13:37):
but certainly empathy, she said end quote. Interestingly enough, forty
one percent of poll respondence under the age of thirty
say the killing of Brian Thompson was acceptable, perfectly, okay.
More young people polled admitted to viewing the killer favorably
than unfavorably. The thing is, these poll numbers don't actually
(13:58):
tell us very much about the popular disfat satisfaction with
health insurance. It sounds like people are just romanticizing murder.
Most people under thirty are healthy and don't interact much
with the healthcare industry. In fact, despite its problems, two
thirds of Americans say they are personally satisfied with their
own insurance coverage. Huh, Yet to deny delay defend inscribed
(14:21):
on bullets do explain Mangioni's popularity. Equating words with weapons
as a reflection of how our culture increasingly treats language
and violence as morally indistinguishable. So a lot of us
first encountered claims that speech equaled violence a decade or
so ago, when we learned about college students and their
(14:42):
microaggressions and their trigger warnings, deplatforming mobs cancel culture. That
notion actually traces back to the sixties. There were a
group of intellectuals who were part of something called the
Frankfurt School. Back in nineteen sixty five, a German American
philosopher named Abert Marcuse, who was once branded the father
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of the New Left, called into question the value of
free speech in a quote manipulated society, arguing that we
need to quote re examine the traditional distinction between violent
and nonviolent action and recognize a difference between quote revolutionary
and reactionary violence, between violence practiced by the oppressed and
the oppressors. Sounds an awful lot like armchair Marxism to me.
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AOC is one of the people that defends this. She
says people experience denied claims as an act of violence
against them. Really, if I'm not willing to pay for
your cancer treatment when you're already on death's door, I'm
committing violence against you, understand people. My attachment to this
topic is very personal. My father died of brain cancer.
(15:52):
Six months before his death, we were desperate to find
a treatment for him. Glioblastoma was my father's condition. We
went around the country talking to different cancer treatment clinics, hospitals, doctors, researchers,
experimental treatments. We couldn't find anybody that would give my
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dad treatment or cover it. But let's pretend hypothetically we did.
Let's pretend hypothetically we found all the most advanced treatments,
all the most all the experimental medicines and operations and surgeries.
And despite all of that, let's pretend hypothetically my father
still died. Would that justify me going out and murdering someone, No,
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that would be crazy. Last summer, I attended a similar
funeral for a little girl named Nova. Nova died of
brain cancer. A different kind, not glioblastoma, pino blastoma. It's
a very personal situation to me. That was the saddest
funeral I ever attended in my life. You're never quite
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the same after you see them wheel out the casket
of a tiny little girl, purple and pink. If my
memory serves me correctly, we all sat there in that
church that day crying. When I went home, I thought
about it, not just for hours, but days afterwards. I
still think about it regularly. It was months ago. There's
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no cure for pinal blastoma. There's no cure for glioblastoma.
Health insurance companies have to decide if they're going to
treat these conditions, despite the fact that we don't necessarily
know how to cure them. It can be very expensive,
very time consuming. A lot of people and resources are
involved in treating things like the brain cancer for my father,
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and despite all of that, still very unlikely you're going
to survive. Does any of that justify murder? Maybe it's
possible to reverse the cultural shift that made the murder
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson into something to celebrate.
Combine the moral outrage and the increasingly blurred lines between
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political speech and violence long enough, and the outcome is
always predictable more violence. And I might remind you again,
if you don't like the healthcare laws in this country
and you voted for Barack Obama in two thousand and
eight or twenty twelve, instead of lashing out at healthcare CEOs,
maybe you should be lashing out at yourself that I
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look you just such a pie hole and keep working
back to the pursuit of happiness radio.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
If the happiness dioting liberty and how frustrating it must
be to google the greatest song you ever wrote, Killing
Me Softly with his song and finding out that the
person that gets credit for it is the person that
covered it.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's not even you. The person that wrote this song
died yesterday and it wasn't Lauren Hill. Apparently somebody else
what was her name, Rita or something I don't know,
shows that I know Roberta ROBERTA Flack died, Rest in
peace to her. But when you google Killing Me Softly, ROBERTA.
Flack doesn't pop up. It's Lauren Hill and the Refugee
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All Stars. Guess the point is, sometimes the person that
gets credit for things isn't the person that deserves it.
It's just as true in music, and it is as
it is with the lottery. There's your segue, folks. Somebody
keeps winning lottery tickets at a very specific location in
the Austin, Texas area, and they're starting to wonder, why
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is it that it's always the same place where someone
keeps winning the lottery. Dan Patrick, that's your lieutenant governor,
has done an investigation. He issued a statement calling on
Governor Greg Abbott to expand the investigation into a commission,
and so the State Fairs Committee got into it. The
lottery commissioners. People are smelling Shenanigan's foolery. Mallarkey, something's going
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on here. I don't know what it is. Hopefully Brandon
Waltons of Texas scorecard dot Com will be able to
explain it to me, because Brandon, I'm just a caveman.
Those lottery tickets they're selling to people frightened and confuse me.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Uh yeah, this is a really crazy story. It's actually
something we've been following quite a bit, which has been
some of this corruption we've seen out of the lottery.
When people think of lottery winners, they think of maybe
you know, the person who went to a gas station
and bought a couple of tickets and you know, in
one of the lottery that way. But what we're finding
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more and more is that these jackpots are being won
by so called courier services now essentially a courier service
as they as they say it, you know, makes it
seem like okay, well it's you know, they'll they'll say
they're like uber eats. You know, you can like pay
someone you know on an app to go get your
lottery ticket for you, which you know, may you know,
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may or may not be good even if that was
the case. But what it actually is, and what we're
seeing here and what Lieutenant Gover Dan Patrick has helped
expose over the last couple of weeks, is that what
you actually have are these warehouses that are just printing
machines behind these fake storefronts. And you've had a couple
of situations where these these stores are are printing all
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these tickets, they're winning the you know, the winning tickets
being found there. You had a case a couple of
years ago where you know, some some group came in
and bought up every possible number combination and then actually
had the help of the Lottery Commission to sort through
them all and to be able to print them all out.
You've had a couple of these very concerning cases, and
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so Lieutenant Gover Dan Patrick's been sounding the alarm on
that the Senate just passed a bill yesterday out of committee.
They'll probably vot it out of the Senate here later
this week that would actually ban these online services because
they're bad for a number of reasons. One, it erodes
a lot of trust, and you know, whether the lottery
is even fair, which you know it's its own discussion,
but but but also you know, you're opening yourselves up
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to you know, kids could buy tickets, you can buy
tickets with a credit card, which is which is against
the law and something that we would obviously not want.
And so a lot of interesting stuff. It was a
very bad day for the lottery yesterday, especially as Governor
Greg Abbott at the same time announced that, you know,
he was launching a called on an investigation by the
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Texas Rangers into the Texas Lottery Commission.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Okay, so it's a courier service sort of like door
Dash or Uber eats, but that's not what it is.
It's something else and they're using it to buy lottery tickets.
I have so many questions, and I assume you're not
going to know all of the answers. But what is
the courier service? And how are people finding out about it?
Is it publicly advertised somewhere? Who's hiring them?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Yeah? These are These are websites and app operators on
the phone, and so you might see I think I've seen,
you know, some TV commercials or you see advertisement online
for these services. They're the ones that are doing it.
It's very interesting because you know, state law is very
specific about you know, retailers. You know what you need
to do to be a lottery retailer. This place that
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Dan Patrick went into that was really just a front
for a big warehouse that was printing these lottery tickets
from online. Had a storefront where they were selling They
had like a few board games essentially, you know, for
people to buy. But I don't think anybody actually goes
in there to buy the games. That was just kind
of their loophole to get the license to be able
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to print tickets.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Okay, here's my question. Everyone in the studio was laughing
because I just turned the mic on and off with
my shoe, which had nothing to do with what you
and I are talking about, Britt, But I'm so proud
of what I just did. It was so I have
my feet up on the counter, off the coach, I know,
and someone walked in and they wanted to hear what
you were talking about. So I turned the mic off
with my foot so that they could hear you out
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of the speakers. And then when it was my turn anyway,
what were we talking about?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, is it possible? Look, you know, I hate to
be the one to harsh everybody's buzz here, but is
it possible? And obviously using a credit card to hire
the courier service, that's not okay. You can't buy you
can't buy lottery tickets with a credit card, But is
it possible. The only reason why this location in Austin
and this courier service keeps being the group of people
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involved in the winning lottery tickets is because so many
people are buying lottery tickets through it. It's like law
of averages. Someone's eventually going to win and they're selling
thousands of lottery tickets and other people aren't, So they're
the ones that keep getting it.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Certainly. But I think you know, if you look at
exactly what the Lottery Commission has said, and you look
at what some of these investigations have uncovered, there's a
lot of a lot of questions about First of all,
these these places are operating, you know, in contradiction to
the state law. You know, this is not how the
lot is supposed to be set up. It's not. It's
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very specific actual law saying you can't buy tickets, you know,
over the telephone. That's you know, back when it was
passed in the early nineties, that was the technology they
were talking about. You know, Okay, you can't buy lottery
tickets over the phone. But now we have this situation
where you can buy lottery tickets online. I think it
goes very much against the spirit of the law. And
that's where you've seen. I mean, it was a bipartisan
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group of senators. It passed unanimously out of committee, which
is very you know, very difficult to do on some
of these hot button issues. But I think that when
it does come out of Senate, you're going to see
unanimous or nearly unanimous support for cracking down all these
online retailers.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay, So all that being said, isn't it odd how
in the state of Texas you can't go to a casino,
but you can gamble if you do it directly with
the government. I mean, it's just I know, this is
the most obvious thing, the most obvious observation. But we're
not supposed to have casinos in the state of Texas,
but you can do this. I mean, it always seemed
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a little hypocritical to me.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Well, I think that you know, as you're talking about,
you know, other forms of game. But I think they're
all going to have a tough time in the legislature
this session. But it is an interesting thing where, you know,
in a state like Texas where gambling is illegal, and
you know, there's certainly people can have conversations about that,
why is the state become like the largest bookie right now?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Right exactly? Here's another thing I can't wrap my mind around.
And I don't even know if there's a bill in
Austin to deal with this right now. But several years ago,
several years ago, people discovered the way the laws were
written in the state of Texas that ban gambling. We're
written in such a way that it was supposed to
apply specifically to a casino. The house can't be involved
in the bet. And somebody figured out one game does
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not involve the house, It involves a group of players.
That game is poker. And you've probably noticed this before, Brandon.
You're a journalist, you're a reporter. You travel all over
the state of Texas. We have poker rooms around the state,
and it's kind of a grayer over whether or not
it's legal. Is there any Is there any policy or
bill being proposed in Austin right now that would deal
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with that?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You know, I haven't seen anything for that, but I
think that you're right. You have seen a lot of
those rooms open up, especially the last ye I don't know,
four or five years or so. I think the Attorney
General can pack some held an event at one actually
relatively recently within the last year or two. So I
guess that sort of gives you a signal of where
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they think the law is on that. I know.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Look, I'm just a guy that looks at what the
government's doing and I ask myself, is this doing anything helpful?
And in this case, I see you. The state of
Texas as a whole has decided gambling is in moral,
So don't gamble. But a lot of our politicians get
money from casinos in Louisiana and Oklahoma. That's neither here
nor there. Don't look behind the drape. That doesn't matter.
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Gambling is still remaining immoral. But for some reason, you
can go to a poker room, or you can buy
a lottery ticket, but not if you have someone pick
up the lottery ticket for you, like a courier service,
because that would be immoral. Brandon, I'm not smart enough
to understand any of this.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Well, I think that when you, I think you do understand.
The thing is that the way the state's laws are
written about this, and this is why every time gambling
expansions talked about, you really do have to look at
the details. Nobody is talking. There's no bill being talked
about in the legislature now or in any time that
I've ever seen that would say gambling is legal. You
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can open up a casino. We could go open up
our own little casino together tomorrow. Instead, all of it's
about helping a very small select group of people, whether
it's the contractors in the lottery commission working together, or
whether it's you know, some of the casino proposals where
it's you know, basically two or three well connected groups
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or you know, billionaires that get to open up a
casino and it all creates a bunch of government regulation
on with it too. And so you know, just far
away even a separate from the moral you know sort
of argument that you know, you can you can have
about it. None of the proposals that we've seen have
actually been you know, legalizing gambling. It's all about helping
someone who's who's you know, a small group of people,
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well connected people, at the expense of I would say,
the majority of Texan's One.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
More question for you before you leave, Brandon. Latest news
from Dan Crenshaw. There's a video of him. I think
he's at sea pack. He just did an interview with
some British guy and as he's getting up and walking
away from the table, Representative Dan Crenshaw District two here
in Texas says that he talks to Tucker Carlson a
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lot and he wants to eff and kill him. And
you think this is a question about Dan Crenshaw, but
it's actually about his primary opponent, who is now out
telling people this is a reason Dan Crenshaw shouldn't be
allowed to be a lawmaker anymore. But she told one
of her supporters they should they should kick my ass
if they see me in the street. I'm just curious,
if you were voting in District two, which of those
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two candidates would you pick?
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Oh gosh, what.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Now you didn't like this question? No, it seems like
I'm being a little petty. He doesn't.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I don't know. I think we're gonna have I think
you were gonna see a lot of candidates end of
the race.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'll say that the latest one. We all thought this chick,
Valentina Gomez, who is a carpetbagger from New Jersey originally
born in Columbia. We all thought she was gonna go
challenge Crenshaw. Now she's running in your district, Brandon. I
think it's District thirty two.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Heady sent her up. You sent her up north here? Yeah,
that's to Central Texas. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I am taking full credit for that. She decided not
to primary Crenshaw after I called her out for being
a carpetbagger. But now you guys have to deal with
this woman who calls people how do I say this
on the radio, the F word that rhymes with bag
at and like, she posts videos of herself jogging on
the Upper East Coast and she claims to be in Texas.
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Doesn't this bother people? These carpetbagging politicians are all coming
to Texas right now to get elected, but they're not
even from here.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
You certainly do see it. I'll say, anytime you have
a especially an open congressional seat, whenever you have that,
I know you've seen it. I mean, it is amazing
the people who will file. I mean, you should have
ten twenty candidates sometimes filing for these races. And it
costs money, by the way to file. Yeah, you know
you're talking. I think at least a few thousand dollars
for the filing fee, if I recall. And so, you know,
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it's always interesting. But I don't think. I don't think
I like her chances up here. But we'll see if
she moves maybe before then somewhere else. I ever shook
up to Dallas or something.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I know you and I have talked about this before.
But what we're witnessing with these young women on social
media or men to that matter, who campaign on Twitter,
they campaign on TikTok, but they don't actually go to
the district where they're running for office. It's a new
kind of grift. I don't think they want to be
congressmen or congresswomen, Brandon. I think they just want people
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on social media to think they're doing it so they
can accumulate more followers and get more clout. If they
actually wanted to run for Congress, spending all day long
on Twitter is the one thing they wouldn't be doing.
They'd be in District two or District thirty two knocking
on doors. It doesn't seem like either of these candidates
is doing that.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
No, and there certainly does seem to be a little
industry there for that.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Huh. It's like a new kind I wouldn't even thought
to do this. That woman Valentina Gomez whose real name
is Noriega by the way, who's running in your district.
You know, she sells merch online, Like that's her whole
shtick is she wants you to buy a hoodie and
a T shirt and it says like get Gomez or whatever.
But that's not even her name. Her name's Noriega.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Well I might have to get you a sweatshirt then.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I mean, all I'm saying to this. Did it ever
occur to you that you and I are doing this
the hard way. You're a journalist write articles and edit stories,
and I sit here all day long researching stories that
I can discuss on the radio and doing interviews, and
I make a fair amount of money. I'm sure you
do as well. But these people are working much less
than we are, Brandon, and it seems like the payoffs
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much better for them. Why do we work so hard?
We must be suckers.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I know, well, I think I don't think this stuff
works out for them long term.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
So Brandon, I will tell you. Over the past week,
I have learned that both our federal government and our
state government spends a lot of our tax dollars subscribing
to news websites like the Quorum Report or the Houston Chronicle,
or politico dot com or something called politicopro that costs
ten thousand dollars. I didn't even know that existed. If
I wanted to go to texascorecard dot com, how many
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dollars from taxpayers would I need to steal to get
a subscription.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Well, it would be it would be zero. We're a nonprofit,
We're a donor driven We don't take money from the
state like most every other news source in Texas, and
so it's all free of texascorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I hear you. I hear that that's the more noble
way to go. You have principles, you know you stand
for something. It's not immoral. But have you ever considered
not doing it that way and then getting more money
in a dishonest way. Have you ever thought about that?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I can't say. I can't say we've ever thought about that.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
If I was a radio listener this show, I would
think about following Brandon Waltons and also subscribing at Texas
scorecard dot com. It's free. What is Pursuit of Happiness radio?
Basically political memes in audio format? Happy the Frog, Eat
your heart Out. A Canadian coffee shop changed the Americano
(34:46):
on their menu, you know, the coffee drink to the
Canada Dino or Canadinion. I don't know. It doesn't make
any sense. To those who say Canada has no response
to us bullying, you are correct. This is embarrassed. I
respect them even less now. In other news, Lester Holt
is leaving NBC News. This gives your racist grandma a
(35:07):
few more weeks to figure out who or what he
was supposed to be. She doesn't know. And finally Hooters
is heading to bankruptcy. It's actually refreshing to hear news
involving big boobs and it has nothing to do with
the women that Elon Musk got pregnant. That's great, absolutely fantastic. Hey,
let's talk a little bit about the media for a minute,
shall we. A report today at town hall dot com
(35:29):
details how Hakim Jefferies Hakim Jefferies had yet another bad
Sunday show appearance. You know who that is, right, He's
the leader of the House Minorities, the Democrats in the
House of Congress. Last week we talked about how House
Minority Leader Hakim Jefferys, a Democrat from New York, had
a very tough time on a Sunday show appearance on
(35:49):
ABC News. He was doing an interview with Jonathan Carl
and Jeffries kept ranting about prices and Carl asked him,
you know, in an interesting Trump's got a high approval
and all the things you say cost a lot of money.
You know, Joe Biden couldn't solve that. He had four
years to solve that problem. Never happened. Jeffrey spoke to
Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union over the weekend,
(36:12):
and it was kind of the same conversation. Tapper confronted
him with remarks from a fellow Democrat governor Josh Shapiro,
about the swing state of Pennsylvania, and they brought up
comments about how someone who works very close to Jeffries
pointed out that the cost of living is very high,
but it was also very high under Joe Biden. Tapper
(36:34):
quoted Josh Shapiro saying, quote, Democrats are failing to address
the real concerns that people have. They're failing to do
what is their fundamental responsibility constitutionally to be a check
check in a balance. It's a pretty harsh assessment of Democrats.
What's your response. Jeffrey's response was a non answer of sorts.
(36:55):
Didn't really have an answer to the question. Here. I'll
let you listen to the Republicans.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
They've been on the run. They are feeling the pressure
of the fact that their policies are deeply unpopular with
the American people, and we've seen that play out this
past week all across the country. And Democrats are going
to continue to make clear that we will stand against
the effort to end medicaid as we know it, stand
(37:19):
against the effort to detonate social security of medicare certainly
stand against the effort to undermine veterans' benefits on nutritional
assistance to children and families.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
So it may.
Speaker 8 (37:29):
Certainly true the President Trump's poll numbers are not in
a great place, although they're higher than they ever were
in his first term. But Congressional Republicans polling is about
forty percent, Congressional Democrats polling is about twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
So that's an issue for you, right, Jerre's Jake Tapper
and CNN telling you, Hakeim, you're saying the Republicans are unpopular.
You're twice as unpopular as they are according to polling data.
Meritocracy is never on their side. When they're actually held
accountable for the failures of their policies, they don't know
(38:03):
what to say. It's just as true as the Democrat
Party as it is with the liberal media. Joy Reid's
show is canceled on Sunday, not because she's a communist,
not because she's a racist, not because she's a conspiracy theorist,
not because She constantly says things that aren't true. Her
show got canceled on MSNBC because the ratings were abysmal.
(38:26):
She did not take it lightly. She cried when she
found out she was losing her job. Cried on social media.
My show had value and that I'm sorry that what
I was doing had value. It got canceled because it
didn't have any value. Nobody was watching. Do you think
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that show would have got canceled if the ratings were good.
There are people chiming in on this, people like Jamal Bowman,
former Representative Jamal Bowman. He was the guy that pulled
the fire alarm during a budget hearing lost his primary
last June, not to a Republican, to another Democrat. He
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claims Joy Reid was fired because of racism. MSNBC is racist,
and he's not the only one to make that point.
Ben Crump, the BLM attorney, made the same point. I'm
not really sure what to tell you guys here. If
racism is the reason her show got canceled, what that
would imply is that liberal cable TV news viewers who
(39:33):
are also liberal voters are the racist. The people that
support you are the people you're calling a racist. This
is exactly like the WNBA. The reason Joy Reid is
unpopular is because you didn't watch her show. It's not
on us. We're conservative news media consumers. People listen to
talk radio all day, people watch cable, Fox News, the Blaze.
(39:55):
People are watching that. What they're not doing is watching
MSNBC or CE. That's your fault. The WNBA loses millions
of something like last year they lost forty million dollars.
It was financially it was their best year ever and
they lost forty million dollars. The WNBA is subsidized by
the NBA. The reason the WNBA is so unpopular is
(40:18):
because women don't want to watch basketball. That's not our fault,
that's your fault. And it's the same exact thing with
Joy Reid. You're the liberals that were supposed to be
watching her show. You didn't put it on. Now you
got Ben Crump and Jamal Bowman and people like Rocanna
screaming racism. Rocanna is another one of these members of
(40:39):
the liberal media. Uh what exactly does he do? I
don't know. Some leftist from Washington, DC said, Joy Reid
is one of the boldest voices speaking truth to power.
She speaks out for justice at home and abroad. MSNBC
should not have fired her, he said, isn't that amazing?
You didn't watch her show. That's why it's gone. You
(41:00):
remember when they fired Tucker Carlson. It was the number
one rated cable news show on any network, beating everyone out,
even on Fox News. It was they had more viewers
than anyone else on Fox. That was a surprise. Why
did you cancel the most popular thing on cable news?
It's an interesting question. Stacy Abrams doesn't understand why Joy
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Reid got canceled Because, Stacy Abrams, you didn't watch her show.
I don't understand these tweets. She said that Joy Reid
was a trusted member, a trusted voice who holds power accountable. Again,
who is she trusted by? Exactly? It's not about silencing people,
but likely rather about distancing the network from such a
toxic host who had poor ratings. The final step is
(41:46):
to watch Reid's last show, which I guess aired last night.
I didn't put it on. I don't know anyone who did,
but I know Jasmine Crockett was mad to see her go.
Jasmine Crockett was among those reposting Stacy Abrams support for
Joy Reid. The congresswoman has herself made had some concerning
comments regarding race, white men, white tears, And that's exactly
the kind of thing that Joy Reed does on a
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regular basis, And amazingly, that brand of far left racism
is no longer palatable in the mainstream media. I always
loved leaving the show with a little bit of good news.
Do you guys like good news? Just sprinkle a little
bit in before we get out of here, if you
don't mind. An entire Cracker Barrel restaurant made an army
vet with Alzheimer's cry tears of joy. The other day.
(42:29):
This happened in Flagstaff, Arizona, where all the customers in
the Cracker Barrel restaurant sang Happy Birthday to an eighty
nine year old army vet who happens to suffer from dementia.
The guy started crying. Cracker Barrel commented on social media
that they had so much love in one room. Here's
a little bit. It's a beautiful sentiment. I love you
(42:53):
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