April 4, 2025 • 37 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Daniel Turner, journalist Michael Quinn Sullivan, and Crystal from Wheelchairs for Warriors. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Giganic government sucks. Suit of habiness. Radio is DeLux Liberty
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
This just and a new report claim San Francisco is
America's healthiest city, probably because dodging all the tweaker poop
covering the streets will keep you fit. I would imagine, Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. It's Friday. You've reached the end of
the week. Congratulations on the show this afternoon. Lots of
guests and excitement, and I don't even know if I'm
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We have guests coming up. I'll just leave it at that,
and you'll love hearing from them, so stick around. But
before we get to any of that, I guess I'll
start the afternoon broadcast with a quick visit to one
of the worst places in America.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's just a spoiled, peppered narciss stick Hollywood bratt or.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What pray burn dot com today reporting on what Meryl
Streep is doing. You know, Meryl Streep probably not politically
aligned with you. Hollywood hates you. They hate you more
than they love money. So Meryl Streep is in talks
to play Aslon in netflix upcoming Narnia movie. I don't
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know if you're aware of this or not, but Narnia
series is kind of a Christian thing. Did you know
that Christian author C. S. Lewis made no secret of
the fact that Aslon, the talking Lion in his Timeless
Narnia series was meant to be a symbolic of Jesus.
Netflix being Netflix, you'd expect Aslon the Lion to become
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Aslon the Black Panther. Of course you'd be wrong. You know.
Nobody could blame you for thinking that, but they really
hate Christians and they want to alienate you, especially when
they could do it for their own pandering narrative. So
we shouldn't be too shocked to learn that they have
gone out and hired at Thunberg to play the role
of Asthen. No, I'm just kidding. That's not know. Meryl Streep,
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as a matter of fact, will be in the role.
It's not who I would have picked, but the girl
in this case, Meryl Streep is going to be playing
the role of Jesus. The author is not yet signed
or sealed, but once a casting story makes it to
the entertainment rag of like Deadline, for example, it's pretty
much a thing. So it sounds like this is going
to happen. They're moving forward with it. And this is
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nothing more or less than Netflix and the creator of
the film, Greta Gerwig, trolling Christians. You know who she is.
She's the one that did Barbie. It's kind of a
childish few that says we hate you so much, We're
gonna spend three hundred million dollars saying we hate you.
There's no artistic reason to make this choice. In fact,
it's very anti art. Great stories become great through subtext,
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and one of the pleasures of Narnia is looking again
and again for Lewis's Christian and biblical subtext. What Lewis
wanted to explain to us about God and his and
your relationship with Christ, how it all tied in with
our fallible humanity. Once you make a girl God, the
story becomes something else, doesn't it. Aslan isn't really the
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Christian version of Jesus without that Christian thread to pull
on your left with three hundred million dollars in computer graphics.
In the Walden Media Narnia trilogy, that was released back
in two thousand and five. Liam Neeson voiced as long,
But that's because Walden Media respects the source material and
its fans. So here we go again, right, a beloved
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franchise handed over to a liberal feminist who hates the
source material and especially hates those who love the source material,
so she can't wait to spit in your face by
turning something sacred into something profane. Gerwig was an uncredited
screenwiter for Hollywood's most recent f You Snow White? Did
you know that? Now you do? And are you shocked?
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Not even a little bit. Disney and their grooming syndicate
Kathleen Kennedy did the same thing with Star Wars. They
did the same thing with Anyana Jonees. Now they're gonna
do it with Narnia. Amazon actually had Jen salk ruin
Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So you may wonder why Greta Gerwig, the Barbie producer,
would spend two years of her life bringing something to
life she has no respect for. Why would she spend
so much time? Why would shep focus so much attention
trying to produce something that's completely ideologically the opposite of
what she claims to believe, well, it's a neat it's
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a chance for her to spend millions of dollars antagonizing Christians.
We see this all the time. These people are childish babies.
They're driven by bigotry, they're driven by hate, and so
that's exactly what this is. Is anyone surprised, don't be surprised.
Are you excited about the film? You probably shouldn't be.
You're not going to go see it. I mean, okay,
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so that's on Netflix, which means you might see it
if you're already paying for Netflix. But now that you
know what it is, I don't understand why it's so
important for people and Hollywood to absolutely defecate on things
that we love. By the way, a teaser just dropped
yesterday for the Naked Gun movie, speaking of Liam Neeson.
Liam Neeson is the son of Lieutenant Frank Dreben. Originally
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Leslie Nielsen was the star of Naked Gun, but he's
passed away, so they're gonna do another Naked Gun movie,
and this time instead of having Oj Simpson, they have
bust to Rhymes. The film is very unpopular, with one
specific credit critic that's David Zucker David Zucker is one
of the geniuses behind the original Naked Gun movie. He
was their director. He watched the clip and he said,
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I'm not planning on seeing the Naked Gun remake. I
regret having seen the trailer. I can't unsee it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He says.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
By the way, if you're curious what it sounds like,
I've got a.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Little audio you. Who are you, Frank Dreben, please squad
the new version the film.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The trailer ends with a pite gag reference to Oj Simpson, who,
as you know, is in the original. And the movie
will open August first. Honestly, I probably will see it,
even if it's not gonna be as good as the original,
because I love Naked Gun. You can't help but wonder
if David Zucker would have liked it more if they'd
asked him to direct it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress, take another vacation,
Why don't you Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
All right, trade war is real. It's happening. Don't be surprised.
We all knew the tariffs were coming. I will say this,
I'm for it as long as this is what we
originally were sold on as a bartering chip. Look, I'm
a free market guy. I'm an Austrian economics guy. I'm
a Misis guy. I'm a Milton Friedman guy. I'm a
Thomas Sewell guy. If you're telling me that these tariffs
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are a bartering chip, that it's a hold your breath contest.
If we're supposed to find out if we can have
reciprocal tariffs with our trade partners, as has been suggested
so many times, then great, I'm all for that. If
the tariffs are permanent, if they're supposed to stick, I'm
not cool with that. So we wonder where we're going
with this next. Liberty Republicans have defended the idea as
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long as it's what I just described. There are some
people on in the Maga movement I'm gonna call them
Maga leftists who are now saying the tariffs should stick
forever and they're good for the I don't agree with that.
I think that's silly. I'm sure most people would think.
I don't know. All that being said, this is causing
a little bit of a rift with some of our
trade allies, and by the way. Wasn't that the point?
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We have worse trade deals with our allies than the
people that supposedly are.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Not our allies.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's frustrating. Why why do we have to hoo ourselves
out to countries that already use us and exploit us
for free military gain national defense of the European Union.
We're spending all this money protecting the Suez Canal from
the Houthi Rebels. Two percent of our trade goes through there,
European Union forty percent of their trade. I feel like
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French President Emmanuel Macran should be the one to go
in and defend the Suez Canal. But this isn't about
playing world police. This is about the trade deal. Apparently
he wants European companies to end all American investments. Here's
a little bit of him. Hang on a second president
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key so as you can see it's clear as day
what he's saying there. I'm sure everybody here speaks French.
Emmanuel Macron said very clearly he doesn't like Donald Trump,
he thinks we should stop investing in America. And his
wife is not a transgender. As you can clearly hear
from that SoundBite we just played. Here was his reaction
to this, My good friend Daniel Turner from Power of
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the Future. Daniel is Emmanuel mccrn's wife a tranny. What's
the truth about that?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
That's one of those fun conspiracy theorists. And certainly there
are some images of her that are are are give pause,
let's put it that way, Kenny.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
They give pause, Yeah, they get pause. Yeah. Exactly what
are we to do about this? I mean, he says
he wants Europe to stop investing in the United States
because we're asking for reciprocal tariffs. Reciprocal that can't be controversial.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
No, it's not. And I agree with you. As long
as these are used as part of a negotiation to
get better trade deals, I think they are good and
can be effective. What I'm particularly angry about with Monsieur
Macron is that the You know, we have huge systemic problems,
huge structural problems in America that are undoing our economy,
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our society. People call it the deep state. Here's an
example of a structural problem. We have the XM Bank,
the Export Import Bank. No one knows even what the
hell it is, but it's an enormous globalist entity of
the taxpayers. The XM Bank just gave Emmanuel Macron a
five billion dollar loan so that one of his French
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companies could build a natural gas pipeline in Mozambique, in Africa.
Now you may scratch your head and say, why would
the American taxpayers give a French company five billion dollars
to build a natural gas pipeline which is going to
compete with the American natural gas industry. And that's why
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I said that we have structural problems. These are these
globalist agencies that exist, like USAID, like many others that
kind of had extra governmental powers. You know, President Trump
didn't approve this, the American taxpayers didn't approve it, but
the XM Bank has this slush fund. So here's Macron
who got five billion dollars of our money to build
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his pipeline in another country to compete with Houston's great
natural gas industry. And now he's saying we should in
trade with America. Screw you, your little frog. Why are
we funding this country for anything? We can get good
in Wisconsin. I don't need your crappy wine. I don't
need your obnoxious, stinky people. And I am a Francophile.
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I love France. I speak the language. I've been to France,
but you know what, screw you. I am sick and
tired of these European nations that hate us as long
as we are bowing before their majesty. Screw Macron, Screw France.
This thing has me so angry I can't even see straight.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean, Daniel, you're exactly correct. I don't know how
many people remember this, but what has it been a
month now since we had that awkward meeting with Zolensky
where he showed up and some reporter insulted Zelensky's clothes,
and then the liberal media reported it as if it
was jd Vance that made that remark, and that's not
what happened, obviously. But in the aftermath of that weird
meeting with Zolensky, where Trump and Zolensky couldn't agree on
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whether or not we should give him anything and whether
or not he should give us mineral role rights, Emmanuel
Macron was one of the people that came out and
said the United States needs to do more for Ukraine.
And in the meantime, I can't because I just looked
it up. France is still importing oil and gas from Russia,
though the extent of these imports has shifted in the
last year or two, it's still happening, which means France
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is still giving money to Russia, which means, whether people
want to agree with me or not, it certainly means
France is funding Russia's side of the war. So France
is mad at us for not giving more money to
Ukraine in a military conflict in which they're funding the opposition.
I don't understand Emmanuel Macron. Is he an idiot? Is
he an evil genius? What are we to make of this?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I think this is just about forty to fifty sixty
years of Europeans thinking that America exists for their benefit.
As you said, we protect the Suez Canal, we protect
the Atlantic Ocean, we protect the North Sea, we protect
them from Russian incursion through NATO. We have our military
bases all across Europe to protect them from enemies. How
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much more are we supposed to do for Europe? Right?
How much more? Heck when now we're financing their foreign
infrastructure project.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I don't mind that a French company wants to build
a natural gas pipeline in Mozambique, But why in the
hell do the American taxpayers have to float the money
for it, especially when it competes with America's energy industry.
But you know, if someone said we're going to give
money to build an orphanage in Mozambique, even that you
could have a debate and say, you know, how much
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money should the American taxpayers? Are we building more schools
and digging more wells. But this isn't philanthropy, this isn't charity.
This is business. And we're financing a French company who's
going to build a natural gas that's going to compete
on the global market with America. Why why is this happening?
I put this on Twitter. I was thrilled to see
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Rick Grennell retweet it and say I'm going to talk
to the president about this. I was like, I got
very excited, Like good, I'm glad things are happening because
this is the type of nonsense that Donald Trump has inherited.
And it's not all Joe Biden's fault. Yeah, forty years,
it's fifty years of terrible decisions, policies, a vision of
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what America is. America is not Europe's little puppet anymore.
And by god, Kenny, like these tariffs are just the
scratching of the surface of the structural changes we need
for America to flourish.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Here on the home front, I've noticed with the tariff war,
Donald Trump is doing a lot of things right now
that the Democrats have claimed they wanted to do for decades.
I found a SoundBite earlier this morning of Charles Schumer
in nineteen ninety six on c SPAN, back before he
thought I guess he thought rebranding as Chuck Schumer would
soft in his image. But back in nineteen ninety six,
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he was Charles Schumer, and he was basically saying all
the same things that Donald Trump is saying right now
about immigration and the trade deals we have with China.
But even more interesting than that, because that was decades ago,
here's Chuck Schumer in twenty eighteen, Daniel Turner talking about
the trade deals that we have with China.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Look, I think the President's doing the right thing. China
has been taking advantage of us for two decades. They're
stealing our intellectual property, which means stealing our good paying jobs.
And I, frankly am closer on this issue, not on
many but on this issue with President Trump than I
was with president's Bush or Obama because they did nothing
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to tell China off. Now, China, of course will respond,
but if they know we're strong and we're not going
to back off, they will back off. They have far
more to lose than we do. They have a three
hundred billion dollar trade surplus with US.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Okay, I do wonder about this that the can we?
First of all, isn't that fascinating, Daniel that even in
twenty eighteen Chuck Schumer had a vastly different opinion about
this than what he has today, now that his internal
polling numbers indicate Democrats want him gone. But isn't that
interesting too that he thinks we can win a trade
war with China? Can we win a trade war with
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a country that doesn't care about the well being of
their own citizens.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
That's a big problem is that you know, eventually the
pain of a trade war will cause any president to
buckle because they don't want to inflict pain on their people.
But China is not America, and China is not even
the European Union. China is one hundred million party activists
and leaders and loyalists, and they're the ones you run
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into at the louver and they're the ones you run
into a Times square and then the other one point
three billion people don't even speak Mandarin, right, they speak
some odd dialect. They're illiterate. They're absolutely starving, and they're
working in slave labors at factories that used to live
in Toledo and an Akron and in Rochester. Right. So
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I don't think Jijin Ping will care if those people suffer. Heck,
maose Dung killed one hundred million of them in his
Great Leap forward, and Democrats applaud him as a political genius.
So that's going to be the problem with how long
the trade war lasts, if he lasts at all. China
doesn't care if its people suffer and die. Quite frankly,
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it wants to get rid of half its population anyway,
and it's trying to through abortion or through COVID. So
if they'll be happy to see their people suffer, but
Americans won't. The problem though, Kenny, as I said earlier,
forty fifty years of bad decisions, If we had forty
fifty years of good decisions, China would still look a
lot like Nepal, right, it would still be a poor
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peasant in society we've built China. We've built China by
allowing our great industries to move there because companies would
rather use nine year old girls to make nikes than
forty five year old men who want weekends off in healthcare.
And we call that global trade.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And it's not all right, real quick, one more question
for you, and this is totally anecdotal. We don't know.
I'm not a professional stock trader for legal reasons. Either's
Daniel Turner. So this is just our opinion. We have
no idea. But Daniel, the stock market's down right now,
and it's yeah, and that's to be expected. For the record,
I'm not shocked. Nobody is. But if you buy and
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sell stock, if you're an investor, this isn't necessarily the
worst thing on earth. If you were going to buy
a new corvette, it would be a good idea to
buy it on a day when you know there were
more corvettes on the market, because the price would come
down on them. Right So, right now the price is
down on all these stocks. If you were going to
go out and buy a bunch of stocks, you know,
buy the dip, they call it, right, you know, ye,
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safe stocks, predictable, Apple, Microsoft, that's sort of thing. Would
you wait, would you do it today? Would you do
it next week? I know it's just a guess what
do you think?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I would absolutely and I am taking advantage of that.
You know, And this is not more than a dip.
This is it's not a crash, but these are some
This is a serious hit in the down in the NASDAC.
But if you have surplus cash, now's the time to buy.
Right the stock market is still above a year ago levels,
which means in a year from now it could be
back up to forty four hundred and you will have
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a good return on your investment. I will say this
about the stock market crash. Our thoughts and prayers, of
course go out to all the members of Congress. They're
in secure meetings right now figuring out how to keep
their portfolios afloat, and I hope that they recover. Because
most members of Congress only exist to do stock trades.
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Half of Congress has a better portfolio than Warren Buffett.
They have much better in the stock investment tips than
the best in Wall Street. And so you know, our
heartbreaks for our members of Congress who are really struggling
right now. But I'm hanging there boys. You know, next election,
hopefully things will turn around for you.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Daniel Turner, Powerthefuture dot Com check it out.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Ladies and gentlemen in Pursuit of Happiness, Radio You and
Now and two to the Sound.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
We lost Mel Kilmer this week and val Kilmer was
in a lot of good movies, True Romance, Tombstone, obviously.
He played Jim Morrison in the That was Amazed. In fact,
some of these movies were shot in Texas. Tombstone, for example,
was shot here, and in the movie Tombstone he plays
Doc Holiday. Doc Holliday does a little bit of gambling.
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I don't know if you're familiar with this. He's a
poker playing guy, kind of a troublemaker if i'm and
he really didn't like Johnny Ringo, remember Johnny Wild Buildings?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Say what do you think, dollam?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Should I hate him?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You don't even know him, that's.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
True, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
There's just something about him, something around the house. Uh oh,
I don't know, reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Me. No, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I hate him. I'm sure that I hate him. Nobody
likes a crook, Nobody likes a thief, Nobody likes a criminal.
You know, we do have gambling in the state of Texas. Oh,
we don't have casinos here. I don't know. Maybe then
there's there one at the Native American Reservation. I'm not sure,
but I do know we have the Texas Lottery and
that has been quite controversial lately. In fact, I am
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told this almost sounds like something out of an old
Western film. The Texas Lottery Commissioner has fled the state.
Is that a real news story? I don't know. That's
why I talked to one of the most trusted, one
of the most controversial, one of the most dangerous men
in political news media in the Lone Star State, Michael
Quinn Sullivan. For those that haven't been keeping up with
this because everything else happening, what the heck is going
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on with the Texas Lottery Commission.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, I'll be your huckleberry. Yes, So here here's Gary Grief,
longtime executive director of the Lottery Commission. He abruptly resigned
last year. Sources of folks in Austin, I've been talking
about this for a week that no one can find him,
No one knows where he is. That you're saying allegations
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he's fled the state. Maybe he went to Mexico, maybe
he went somewhere else. Couldn't find him. So so we thought, well,
we'll try to track him down. How hard could that be. Well,
it turns out, Kenny, it was kind of hard. We
started asking questions, We kept reaching out to his civil lawyer,
learning civil matters. Oh, I should note that mister Grief
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is in a lot of trouble right now because a
lot of questions made. No, he's in trouble. He's got
a lot of questions because while he was the lottery commissioner,
he authorized these illicit courier services to resell tickets outside
of the boundaries of law. You know where all this
kind of controversy has come up recently. He also authorized
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a foreign gambling syndicate to work with commissioned staff to
rig a twenty twenty three ninety five million dollar jackpot.
That way they could get ninety these these foreign gamblers
could get ninety five million dollars out of out of
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the Texas Lottery. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Wow, Yeah, a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Members of the Texas House and Texas Senate have referred
to that as a money laundering operation. So what a surprise.
Last year, he resigned and has now gone kind of
radio silent. Uh you know, we we called around, couldn't
find him. His lawyer wouldn't turn our phone call. So
we post a story. Then late yesterday, his his criminal lawyer.
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You know, I mean, I'm sure all of us just
have a criminal lawyer hanging around, you know, in our
family monthly Ayrol, his criminal lawyer reached out and said, no, no, no,
I'm not going to tell you anything, but this is
a lie. He didn't flee anywhere. He's at home. Well
we're not sure that that's actually true, but you know,
that's what the lawyer says. Uh So, so there's this
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still this big question about where is this guy. Is
he going to is he going to answer questions? He's
so far hasn't been answering questions because you when you
start talking about foreign gambling syndicates and rigging state lotteries,
that's all kind of a big deal, and for whatever reason,
he's not one to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, the thing with the courier services has confused some people.
We touched on that on our morning show not long ago.
How that's been a bit controversial and some people think
it has caused some fraud, and you know the Shenanigan's
tom Foolery malarkey, and our listeners were really divided on it.
A lot of people. Some people out there agreed to
with it. Some people out there were upset that the
courier services might get cut off from the ability to
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sell these lottery tickets. For those that don't get it.
And I'll tell you I do not gamble, Michael. I'll
admit I have some bad habits. I curse a bit,
and you know, I don't mind going out and having
a margarita or two, but I've never been that excited
about gambling, much less lottery tickets. What is the deal
with the courier services? Why is that so controversial?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, so you're the deal. Under state law, the lottery
is supposed to be an in person game. That's how
the lottery is described. Tickets are sold in person. That
you receive a ticket in person, you go. You know
that you have to go to a to an establishment.
That's what's called creating friction, which is to say, it
makes it a little hard right that you you can't
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just be sitting in your underwear on your couch, uh,
playing playing the lottery game. They want to put friction
in making you at least put on some pants and
going to the convenience store and buying either a scratch
off ticket or you know, picking your numbers you know,
for you know, three days hints or whatever when they
when they do the drawings. That's again, that's called friction
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in the system, and it's purposeful and by design. What
Gary grief and the Lottery Commission did is they started
taking away the friction under the excuse of wait for it, COVID.
Because of COVID, you know, the the your your alien
masters wouldn't let you get off of your couch and
put on your pants and go to the convenience store.
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So ticket sales are dropping. So uh, the the mission
under Gary Greuse leadership, decided they would make it easier
for folks if they because the law said to this
is how it should be done, but nothing in the
law said how it couldn't be done. So they took
a permissive reading and allowed these illicit courier services to exist.
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They're not allowed under law. The law describes how the
game is supposed to be played. They now added this
the commission, without legislative approval added in this other way
to play the game, which is you know, letting someone
you know buy a ticket for you and somehow you
trust that they're really telling you whether not you won.
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The legislature told them to stop, and they didn't stop,
and now they're telling them again you better stop. And
because of Dan Patrick getting involved, now it looks like
they are going to stop these courier services. If you
like the courier services, if you if you want to
be sitting in your underwear on your couch playing the lottery,
then what you need to do put on your pants,
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drive to off and convince the legislators to add that
into the law. But what we should not allow our
state agencies just deciding to make up the law. That
is what you call tyranny. We don't like that in
our country. So the problem is that these courier services
are operating outside the law.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You know, you lost me to put your pants on, Michael,
I don't know if I have to do that, if
I had to do that much work, I'm not. Hey,
while I have you on the phone here, I had
to ask you about two real things, real quick. Dozens
of suspected trendy Aragua members were arrested in Austin this week,
and we cover this on the Morning show. I'm sure
you saw this fine, good arrest criminals. The thing about
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this that I thought was so odd a dozen maybe
two dozen baby boomer It's like older, geriatric aged hippie
protesters standing in front of the ICE facility after the arrest,
demanding they be released. I just feel like I'm speaking
the obvious here. Do these people not understand and who's
getting arrested? It's not cleaning ladies and people that work
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in soup kitchens. Literally face tattooed gang members crime had
they were arrested with weapons and guns? Why would we
let these people go?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Look the whenever you see the boomer esque protesters steaming
at ICE facilities saying, you know, let the very nice
face tatted guy go, which after unerstanding is they're paid
to be there? These are you know, this is rent
a mob, rent a protest that they could not care
less about these guys. All they're doing is cashing their
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nineteen dollars an hour check from George Soros. You know,
we we I think all have to do a better
job of not legitimizing these kind of you know, you know, fake, fake,
fake protesters that we're seeing. No rational human being puts,
you know, goes buy his poster board, writes a free
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hymn slogan, and goes outside and says, yeah, let the
guy with the facetat who was caught, you know, with
guns and drugs and you know, children being trafficked, let
him go. No normal person does that. You only do
that if being paid. And I think we need to
start calling that kind of stuff for what it is.
And actually we can't use those words on the radio.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
No we can't. But I get your point.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
But those are the kind of words we should use
to describe.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Isn't it an interesting We have one of these protests
in Houston this weekend and it's they want a protest
against or for Medicaid, Medicare, social Security, NATO, clean energy.
They put a list of all the things that the
protest entails. It's being organized by another local radio station,
a liberal talk station, KPFT. One of the things they
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included on the list was more if you're mad about
immigrants and LGBTQ rights and more, join us Saturday, April fifth.
I find it fascinating, Michael how and I don't know
if it's because of trump support of bitcoin and crypto,
or because he's friends with a lot of rappers. I
don't know why it is, but when you show up
at these events, a lot of the younger activists at
these events seem to be pro Trump, and the older
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activists seem to be anti Trump. Would you have ever
guessed in twenty twenty five, the conservative movement would be
skewing younger, the liberal progressive movement would be the older activist.
I mean, I got admit even I'm a little surprised
about that.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, it is exciting, but at the same time, I
think that you've got a lot of young people who
have they're watching their futures evaporate. Yeah, the under the
the thuggish antics of the left, and my kids are
you know, kind of that millennial kind of age range.
And they talked, what's all them? Their friends? Their friends
(30:44):
are far more conservative maybe libertarian maybe a better way
to say it, observative libertarian than anyone you know, your age,
my age and older. And it's just because they were
promised liberty, they were prom freedom, and instead they were
told they had to memorize you know, you know, lists
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of pronouns that would be changing next week. They have
to re memorize they were told that, you know, all
these crazy things that they're told to believe that the
climate's getting hotter and it's getting colder, and it's all
because it's hotter, but it's really colder, and you know,
all these all this crazy nonsense, and they're tired of it.
They just want to live, live their lives free. And
I think that's where why you see those folks. On
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the other hand, you know, the left is full of
a bunch of angry people yelling and screaming at a
cloud because it looks like a bunny instead of a horse.
You know, they are. You're full of geriatric left days
who have done so much drugs. They have, you know,
got so many venereal diseases. They don't know which way
is up. They're just angry and mad at life. And
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it's very sad. And I think we should have cameras
on those people all the time. Every time you take
a picture of one of those lucky protesters, someone else
starts voting conservative. I love it.
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Speaker 7 (33:27):
He joined the military because it was kind of like
a family business and so like a lot of boys,
they want to follow in their father's footsteps. He was
They found a blood plot in his arm. He was
sent you know, one one thing after another. Anyway, he
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And so he is one of our recipients and he,
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Speaker 2 (34:00):
And tell me a little more about him. He was
into basketball and he injured himself parachuting. Is that what happened?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Yeah, he was. He joined in twenty twenty and he
served for four years. He was deployed to Afghanistan. He
sustained an injury in twenty twenty four jumping out of
an airplane. So he was injured in the line of duty.
And you know, he's just had one complication after another complication,
and you know, blood cloths aren't aren't good things.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
No, Yeah, that's so sad, Crystal, but you but the
good news is there's a happy ending to the story.
You're able to give him some help.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Yes, So we were giving him a daily living wheelchair,
and we're also giving him a basketball wheelchair. So we're
hoping that, you know, he'll be able to train and
play basketball and get out there with his with his
a new brotherhood. Right.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And Landing seems like a cool guy. He's just a
very down to earth person. Certainly some of the it's
very deserving of this, they all are, but it's always
you know, it's so much more personal when you get
to meet them and see what kind of person they are,
and you can learn a lot about the recipients at
Wheelchairs for Warriors dot org. Obviously there's a long waiting
list right now. There's not enough people receiving these wheelchairs.
The federal government SATALIE does not always have the resources.
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It's not managed well enough to handle the number of
people that need help, which is why you guys exist
in the first place. But the good news is one
of our radio listeners made a thirty thousand dollars donation.
Is that true?
Speaker 7 (35:31):
That is true? And he happens to be the assistant
a fire marshall in Houston, Texas. Can I say his
name on the air?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I wish you would? Yeah, please, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
John Hawford. Yes, it's just an angel. His family has
a IRA and they were going to make a donor directed,
you know, contribution, and they were deciding who to who
to make that contribution to, and the family was just
kind of having a conversation and he said, wheelchairs for warriors,
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to the Walton and Johnson Show. I listened to the
Pursuit of Happiness with Kenny Webster, and he always has
wheelchairs warriors on there, and that's who we're going to
donate to them. And it was just his wife said,
that's the quickest decision I've ever had. I've ever known
him to make.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
And so is he a military event? I mean the
fact that he's a firefighter makes him a hero already.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Yes, Yes, he is a first responder.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
What a beautiful story, Crystal, You're such a beautiful person.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I'm so proud to be your friend, and I'm proud
to play a small role, a very small role, in
helping to improve the lives of these people. And you
do so much, you and Heidi and everybody else at
your organization. So I thank you for that. How you
doing otherwise? Everything going okay with you?
Speaker 7 (36:44):
Everything's quite fantastic. It was a really good day yesterday.
When somebody calls and wants to donate enough money for
three wheelchairs, It's like, yes, thank you, appreciate that. Christ
having a good day.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I hope you and John and Landon and everybody out
there has a really awesome weekend. What are you doing
this weekend?
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Awesome? Actually going to to an awards ceremony on Saturday night.
We're delivering a wheelchair to another recipient in Conrod, Texas
on Sunday, JP Lane. He lost both of his legs
in a rack and he's a basketball guy, and yeah,
so we're just doing all the good.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Christal, I'm so proud to be your friend. Will you
give my best to everybody at that event this weekend?
I really hope you will.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
I will.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
This just and a new report claim San Francisco is
America's healthiest city, probably because dodging all the tweaker poop
covering the streets will keep you fit. I would imagine, Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. It's Friday. You've reached the end of
the week. Congratulations on the show this afternoon. Lots of
guests and excitement, and I don't even know if I'm
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We have guests coming up. I'll just leave it at that,
and you'll love hearing from them, so stick around. But
before we get to any of that, I guess I'll
start the afternoon broadcast with a quick visit to one
of the worst places in America.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's just a spoiled, peppered narciss stick Hollywood bratt or.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What pray burn dot com today reporting on what Meryl
Streep is doing. You know, Meryl Streep probably not politically
aligned with you. Hollywood hates you. They hate you more
than they love money. So Meryl Streep is in talks
to play Aslon in netflix upcoming Narnia movie. I don't
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know if you're aware of this or not, but Narnia
series is kind of a Christian thing. Did you know
that Christian author C. S. Lewis made no secret of
the fact that Aslon, the talking Lion in his Timeless
Narnia series was meant to be a symbolic of Jesus.
Netflix being Netflix, you'd expect Aslon the Lion to become
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Aslon the Black Panther. Of course you'd be wrong. You know.
Nobody could blame you for thinking that, but they really
hate Christians and they want to alienate you, especially when
they could do it for their own pandering narrative. So
we shouldn't be too shocked to learn that they have
gone out and hired at Thunberg to play the role
of Asthen. No, I'm just kidding. That's not know. Meryl Streep,
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as a matter of fact, will be in the role.
It's not who I would have picked, but the girl
in this case, Meryl Streep is going to be playing
the role of Jesus. The author is not yet signed
or sealed, but once a casting story makes it to
the entertainment rag of like Deadline, for example, it's pretty
much a thing. So it sounds like this is going
to happen. They're moving forward with it. And this is
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nothing more or less than Netflix and the creator of
the film, Greta Gerwig, trolling Christians. You know who she is.
She's the one that did Barbie. It's kind of a
childish few that says we hate you so much, We're
gonna spend three hundred million dollars saying we hate you.
There's no artistic reason to make this choice. In fact,
it's very anti art. Great stories become great through subtext,
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and one of the pleasures of Narnia is looking again
and again for Lewis's Christian and biblical subtext. What Lewis
wanted to explain to us about God and his and
your relationship with Christ, how it all tied in with
our fallible humanity. Once you make a girl God, the
story becomes something else, doesn't it. Aslan isn't really the
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Christian version of Jesus without that Christian thread to pull
on your left with three hundred million dollars in computer graphics.
In the Walden Media Narnia trilogy, that was released back
in two thousand and five. Liam Neeson voiced as long,
But that's because Walden Media respects the source material and
its fans. So here we go again, right, a beloved
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franchise handed over to a liberal feminist who hates the
source material and especially hates those who love the source material,
so she can't wait to spit in your face by
turning something sacred into something profane. Gerwig was an uncredited
screenwiter for Hollywood's most recent f You Snow White? Did
you know that? Now you do? And are you shocked?
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Not even a little bit. Disney and their grooming syndicate
Kathleen Kennedy did the same thing with Star Wars. They
did the same thing with Anyana Jonees. Now they're gonna
do it with Narnia. Amazon actually had Jen salk ruin
Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So you may wonder why Greta Gerwig, the Barbie producer,
would spend two years of her life bringing something to
life she has no respect for. Why would she spend
so much time? Why would shep focus so much attention
trying to produce something that's completely ideologically the opposite of
what she claims to believe, well, it's a neat it's
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a chance for her to spend millions of dollars antagonizing Christians.
We see this all the time. These people are childish babies.
They're driven by bigotry, they're driven by hate, and so
that's exactly what this is. Is anyone surprised, don't be surprised.
Are you excited about the film? You probably shouldn't be.
You're not going to go see it. I mean, okay,
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so that's on Netflix, which means you might see it
if you're already paying for Netflix. But now that you
know what it is, I don't understand why it's so
important for people and Hollywood to absolutely defecate on things
that we love. By the way, a teaser just dropped
yesterday for the Naked Gun movie, speaking of Liam Neeson.
Liam Neeson is the son of Lieutenant Frank Dreben. Originally
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Leslie Nielsen was the star of Naked Gun, but he's
passed away, so they're gonna do another Naked Gun movie,
and this time instead of having Oj Simpson, they have
bust to Rhymes. The film is very unpopular, with one
specific credit critic that's David Zucker David Zucker is one
of the geniuses behind the original Naked Gun movie. He
was their director. He watched the clip and he said,
(05:35):
I'm not planning on seeing the Naked Gun remake. I
regret having seen the trailer. I can't unsee it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He says.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
By the way, if you're curious what it sounds like,
I've got a.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Little audio you. Who are you, Frank Dreben, please squad
the new version the film.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The trailer ends with a pite gag reference to Oj Simpson, who,
as you know, is in the original. And the movie
will open August first. Honestly, I probably will see it,
even if it's not gonna be as good as the original,
because I love Naked Gun. You can't help but wonder
if David Zucker would have liked it more if they'd
asked him to direct it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress, take another vacation,
Why don't you Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
All right, trade war is real. It's happening. Don't be surprised.
We all knew the tariffs were coming. I will say this,
I'm for it as long as this is what we
originally were sold on as a bartering chip. Look, I'm
a free market guy. I'm an Austrian economics guy. I'm
a Misis guy. I'm a Milton Friedman guy. I'm a
Thomas Sewell guy. If you're telling me that these tariffs
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are a bartering chip, that it's a hold your breath contest.
If we're supposed to find out if we can have
reciprocal tariffs with our trade partners, as has been suggested
so many times, then great, I'm all for that. If
the tariffs are permanent, if they're supposed to stick, I'm
not cool with that. So we wonder where we're going
with this next. Liberty Republicans have defended the idea as
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long as it's what I just described. There are some
people on in the Maga movement I'm gonna call them
Maga leftists who are now saying the tariffs should stick
forever and they're good for the I don't agree with that.
I think that's silly. I'm sure most people would think.
I don't know. All that being said, this is causing
a little bit of a rift with some of our
trade allies, and by the way. Wasn't that the point?
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We have worse trade deals with our allies than the
people that supposedly are.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Not our allies.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's frustrating. Why why do we have to hoo ourselves
out to countries that already use us and exploit us
for free military gain national defense of the European Union.
We're spending all this money protecting the Suez Canal from
the Houthi Rebels. Two percent of our trade goes through there,
European Union forty percent of their trade. I feel like
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French President Emmanuel Macran should be the one to go
in and defend the Suez Canal. But this isn't about
playing world police. This is about the trade deal. Apparently
he wants European companies to end all American investments. Here's
a little bit of him. Hang on a second president
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key so as you can see it's clear as day
what he's saying there. I'm sure everybody here speaks French.
Emmanuel Macron said very clearly he doesn't like Donald Trump,
he thinks we should stop investing in America. And his
wife is not a transgender. As you can clearly hear
from that SoundBite we just played. Here was his reaction
to this, My good friend Daniel Turner from Power of
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the Future. Daniel is Emmanuel mccrn's wife a tranny. What's
the truth about that?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
That's one of those fun conspiracy theorists. And certainly there
are some images of her that are are are give pause,
let's put it that way, Kenny.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
They give pause, Yeah, they get pause. Yeah. Exactly what
are we to do about this? I mean, he says
he wants Europe to stop investing in the United States
because we're asking for reciprocal tariffs. Reciprocal that can't be controversial.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
No, it's not. And I agree with you. As long
as these are used as part of a negotiation to
get better trade deals, I think they are good and
can be effective. What I'm particularly angry about with Monsieur
Macron is that the You know, we have huge systemic problems,
huge structural problems in America that are undoing our economy,
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our society. People call it the deep state. Here's an
example of a structural problem. We have the XM Bank,
the Export Import Bank. No one knows even what the
hell it is, but it's an enormous globalist entity of
the taxpayers. The XM Bank just gave Emmanuel Macron a
five billion dollar loan so that one of his French
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companies could build a natural gas pipeline in Mozambique, in Africa.
Now you may scratch your head and say, why would
the American taxpayers give a French company five billion dollars
to build a natural gas pipeline which is going to
compete with the American natural gas industry. And that's why
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I said that we have structural problems. These are these
globalist agencies that exist, like USAID, like many others that
kind of had extra governmental powers. You know, President Trump
didn't approve this, the American taxpayers didn't approve it, but
the XM Bank has this slush fund. So here's Macron
who got five billion dollars of our money to build
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his pipeline in another country to compete with Houston's great
natural gas industry. And now he's saying we should in
trade with America. Screw you, your little frog. Why are
we funding this country for anything? We can get good
in Wisconsin. I don't need your crappy wine. I don't
need your obnoxious, stinky people. And I am a Francophile.
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I love France. I speak the language. I've been to France,
but you know what, screw you. I am sick and
tired of these European nations that hate us as long
as we are bowing before their majesty. Screw Macron, Screw France.
This thing has me so angry I can't even see straight.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean, Daniel, you're exactly correct. I don't know how
many people remember this, but what has it been a
month now since we had that awkward meeting with Zolensky
where he showed up and some reporter insulted Zelensky's clothes,
and then the liberal media reported it as if it
was jd Vance that made that remark, and that's not
what happened, obviously. But in the aftermath of that weird
meeting with Zolensky, where Trump and Zolensky couldn't agree on
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whether or not we should give him anything and whether
or not he should give us mineral role rights, Emmanuel
Macron was one of the people that came out and
said the United States needs to do more for Ukraine.
And in the meantime, I can't because I just looked
it up. France is still importing oil and gas from Russia,
though the extent of these imports has shifted in the
last year or two, it's still happening, which means France
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is still giving money to Russia, which means, whether people
want to agree with me or not, it certainly means
France is funding Russia's side of the war. So France
is mad at us for not giving more money to
Ukraine in a military conflict in which they're funding the opposition.
I don't understand Emmanuel Macron. Is he an idiot? Is
he an evil genius? What are we to make of this?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I think this is just about forty to fifty sixty
years of Europeans thinking that America exists for their benefit.
As you said, we protect the Suez Canal, we protect
the Atlantic Ocean, we protect the North Sea, we protect
them from Russian incursion through NATO. We have our military
bases all across Europe to protect them from enemies. How
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much more are we supposed to do for Europe? Right?
How much more? Heck when now we're financing their foreign
infrastructure project.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I don't mind that a French company wants to build
a natural gas pipeline in Mozambique, But why in the
hell do the American taxpayers have to float the money
for it, especially when it competes with America's energy industry.
But you know, if someone said we're going to give
money to build an orphanage in Mozambique, even that you
could have a debate and say, you know, how much
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money should the American taxpayers? Are we building more schools
and digging more wells. But this isn't philanthropy, this isn't charity.
This is business. And we're financing a French company who's
going to build a natural gas that's going to compete
on the global market with America. Why why is this happening?
I put this on Twitter. I was thrilled to see
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Rick Grennell retweet it and say I'm going to talk
to the president about this. I was like, I got
very excited, Like good, I'm glad things are happening because
this is the type of nonsense that Donald Trump has inherited.
And it's not all Joe Biden's fault. Yeah, forty years,
it's fifty years of terrible decisions, policies, a vision of
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what America is. America is not Europe's little puppet anymore.
And by god, Kenny, like these tariffs are just the
scratching of the surface of the structural changes we need
for America to flourish.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Here on the home front, I've noticed with the tariff war,
Donald Trump is doing a lot of things right now
that the Democrats have claimed they wanted to do for decades.
I found a SoundBite earlier this morning of Charles Schumer
in nineteen ninety six on c SPAN, back before he
thought I guess he thought rebranding as Chuck Schumer would
soft in his image. But back in nineteen ninety six,
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he was Charles Schumer, and he was basically saying all
the same things that Donald Trump is saying right now
about immigration and the trade deals we have with China.
But even more interesting than that, because that was decades ago,
here's Chuck Schumer in twenty eighteen, Daniel Turner talking about
the trade deals that we have with China.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Look, I think the President's doing the right thing. China
has been taking advantage of us for two decades. They're
stealing our intellectual property, which means stealing our good paying jobs.
And I, frankly am closer on this issue, not on
many but on this issue with President Trump than I
was with president's Bush or Obama because they did nothing
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to tell China off. Now, China, of course will respond,
but if they know we're strong and we're not going
to back off, they will back off. They have far
more to lose than we do. They have a three
hundred billion dollar trade surplus with US.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Okay, I do wonder about this that the can we?
First of all, isn't that fascinating, Daniel that even in
twenty eighteen Chuck Schumer had a vastly different opinion about
this than what he has today, now that his internal
polling numbers indicate Democrats want him gone. But isn't that
interesting too that he thinks we can win a trade
war with China? Can we win a trade war with
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a country that doesn't care about the well being of
their own citizens.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
That's a big problem is that you know, eventually the
pain of a trade war will cause any president to
buckle because they don't want to inflict pain on their people.
But China is not America, and China is not even
the European Union. China is one hundred million party activists
and leaders and loyalists, and they're the ones you run
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into at the louver and they're the ones you run
into a Times square and then the other one point
three billion people don't even speak Mandarin, right, they speak
some odd dialect. They're illiterate. They're absolutely starving, and they're
working in slave labors at factories that used to live
in Toledo and an Akron and in Rochester. Right. So
(16:43):
I don't think Jijin Ping will care if those people suffer. Heck,
maose Dung killed one hundred million of them in his
Great Leap forward, and Democrats applaud him as a political genius.
So that's going to be the problem with how long
the trade war lasts, if he lasts at all. China
doesn't care if its people suffer and die. Quite frankly,
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it wants to get rid of half its population anyway,
and it's trying to through abortion or through COVID. So
if they'll be happy to see their people suffer, but
Americans won't. The problem though, Kenny, as I said earlier,
forty fifty years of bad decisions, If we had forty
fifty years of good decisions, China would still look a
lot like Nepal, right, it would still be a poor
(17:27):
peasant in society we've built China. We've built China by
allowing our great industries to move there because companies would
rather use nine year old girls to make nikes than
forty five year old men who want weekends off in healthcare.
And we call that global trade.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And it's not all right, real quick, one more question
for you, and this is totally anecdotal. We don't know.
I'm not a professional stock trader for legal reasons. Either's
Daniel Turner. So this is just our opinion. We have
no idea. But Daniel, the stock market's down right now,
and it's yeah, and that's to be expected. For the record,
I'm not shocked. Nobody is. But if you buy and
(18:05):
sell stock, if you're an investor, this isn't necessarily the
worst thing on earth. If you were going to buy
a new corvette, it would be a good idea to
buy it on a day when you know there were
more corvettes on the market, because the price would come
down on them. Right So, right now the price is
down on all these stocks. If you were going to
go out and buy a bunch of stocks, you know,
buy the dip, they call it, right, you know, ye,
(18:27):
safe stocks, predictable, Apple, Microsoft, that's sort of thing. Would
you wait, would you do it today? Would you do
it next week? I know it's just a guess what
do you think?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I would absolutely and I am taking advantage of that.
You know, And this is not more than a dip.
This is it's not a crash, but these are some
This is a serious hit in the down in the NASDAC.
But if you have surplus cash, now's the time to buy.
Right the stock market is still above a year ago levels,
which means in a year from now it could be
back up to forty four hundred and you will have
(18:59):
a good return on your investment. I will say this
about the stock market crash. Our thoughts and prayers, of
course go out to all the members of Congress. They're
in secure meetings right now figuring out how to keep
their portfolios afloat, and I hope that they recover. Because
most members of Congress only exist to do stock trades.
(19:19):
Half of Congress has a better portfolio than Warren Buffett.
They have much better in the stock investment tips than
the best in Wall Street. And so you know, our
heartbreaks for our members of Congress who are really struggling
right now. But I'm hanging there boys. You know, next election,
hopefully things will turn around for you.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Daniel Turner, Powerthefuture dot Com check it out.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Ladies and gentlemen in Pursuit of Happiness, Radio You and
Now and two to the Sound.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
We lost Mel Kilmer this week and val Kilmer was
in a lot of good movies, True Romance, Tombstone, obviously.
He played Jim Morrison in the That was Amazed. In fact,
some of these movies were shot in Texas. Tombstone, for example,
was shot here, and in the movie Tombstone he plays
Doc Holiday. Doc Holliday does a little bit of gambling.
(20:12):
I don't know if you're familiar with this. He's a
poker playing guy, kind of a troublemaker if i'm and
he really didn't like Johnny Ringo, remember Johnny Wild Buildings?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Say what do you think, dollam?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Should I hate him?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You don't even know him, that's.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
True, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
There's just something about him, something around the house. Uh oh,
I don't know, reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Me. No, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I hate him. I'm sure that I hate him. Nobody
likes a crook, Nobody likes a thief, Nobody likes a criminal.
You know, we do have gambling in the state of Texas. Oh,
we don't have casinos here. I don't know. Maybe then
there's there one at the Native American Reservation. I'm not sure,
but I do know we have the Texas Lottery and
that has been quite controversial lately. In fact, I am
(21:10):
told this almost sounds like something out of an old
Western film. The Texas Lottery Commissioner has fled the state.
Is that a real news story? I don't know. That's
why I talked to one of the most trusted, one
of the most controversial, one of the most dangerous men
in political news media in the Lone Star State, Michael
Quinn Sullivan. For those that haven't been keeping up with
this because everything else happening, what the heck is going
(21:32):
on with the Texas Lottery Commission.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, I'll be your huckleberry. Yes, So here here's Gary Grief,
longtime executive director of the Lottery Commission. He abruptly resigned
last year. Sources of folks in Austin, I've been talking
about this for a week that no one can find him,
No one knows where he is. That you're saying allegations
(21:56):
he's fled the state. Maybe he went to Mexico, maybe
he went somewhere else. Couldn't find him. So so we thought, well,
we'll try to track him down. How hard could that be. Well,
it turns out, Kenny, it was kind of hard. We
started asking questions, We kept reaching out to his civil lawyer,
learning civil matters. Oh, I should note that mister Grief
(22:19):
is in a lot of trouble right now because a
lot of questions made. No, he's in trouble. He's got
a lot of questions because while he was the lottery commissioner,
he authorized these illicit courier services to resell tickets outside
of the boundaries of law. You know where all this
kind of controversy has come up recently. He also authorized
(22:40):
a foreign gambling syndicate to work with commissioned staff to
rig a twenty twenty three ninety five million dollar jackpot.
That way they could get ninety these these foreign gamblers
could get ninety five million dollars out of out of
(23:00):
the Texas Lottery. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Wow, Yeah, a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Members of the Texas House and Texas Senate have referred
to that as a money laundering operation. So what a surprise.
Last year, he resigned and has now gone kind of
radio silent. Uh you know, we we called around, couldn't
find him. His lawyer wouldn't turn our phone call. So
we post a story. Then late yesterday, his his criminal lawyer.
(23:26):
You know, I mean, I'm sure all of us just
have a criminal lawyer hanging around, you know, in our
family monthly Ayrol, his criminal lawyer reached out and said, no, no, no,
I'm not going to tell you anything, but this is
a lie. He didn't flee anywhere. He's at home. Well
we're not sure that that's actually true, but you know,
that's what the lawyer says. Uh So, so there's this
(23:47):
still this big question about where is this guy. Is
he going to is he going to answer questions? He's
so far hasn't been answering questions because you when you
start talking about foreign gambling syndicates and rigging state lotteries,
that's all kind of a big deal, and for whatever reason,
he's not one to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, the thing with the courier services has confused some people.
We touched on that on our morning show not long ago.
How that's been a bit controversial and some people think
it has caused some fraud, and you know the Shenanigan's
tom Foolery malarkey, and our listeners were really divided on it.
A lot of people. Some people out there agreed to
with it. Some people out there were upset that the
courier services might get cut off from the ability to
(24:29):
sell these lottery tickets. For those that don't get it.
And I'll tell you I do not gamble, Michael. I'll
admit I have some bad habits. I curse a bit,
and you know, I don't mind going out and having
a margarita or two, but I've never been that excited
about gambling, much less lottery tickets. What is the deal
with the courier services? Why is that so controversial?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, so you're the deal. Under state law, the lottery
is supposed to be an in person game. That's how
the lottery is described. Tickets are sold in person. That
you receive a ticket in person, you go. You know
that you have to go to a to an establishment.
That's what's called creating friction, which is to say, it
makes it a little hard right that you you can't
(25:11):
just be sitting in your underwear on your couch, uh,
playing playing the lottery game. They want to put friction
in making you at least put on some pants and
going to the convenience store and buying either a scratch
off ticket or you know, picking your numbers you know,
for you know, three days hints or whatever when they
when they do the drawings. That's again, that's called friction
(25:34):
in the system, and it's purposeful and by design. What
Gary grief and the Lottery Commission did is they started
taking away the friction under the excuse of wait for it, COVID.
Because of COVID, you know, the the your your alien
masters wouldn't let you get off of your couch and
put on your pants and go to the convenience store.
(25:56):
So ticket sales are dropping. So uh, the the mission
under Gary Greuse leadership, decided they would make it easier
for folks if they because the law said to this
is how it should be done, but nothing in the
law said how it couldn't be done. So they took
a permissive reading and allowed these illicit courier services to exist.
(26:17):
They're not allowed under law. The law describes how the
game is supposed to be played. They now added this
the commission, without legislative approval added in this other way
to play the game, which is you know, letting someone
you know buy a ticket for you and somehow you
trust that they're really telling you whether not you won.
(26:37):
The legislature told them to stop, and they didn't stop,
and now they're telling them again you better stop. And
because of Dan Patrick getting involved, now it looks like
they are going to stop these courier services. If you
like the courier services, if you if you want to
be sitting in your underwear on your couch playing the lottery,
then what you need to do put on your pants,
(26:59):
drive to off and convince the legislators to add that
into the law. But what we should not allow our
state agencies just deciding to make up the law. That
is what you call tyranny. We don't like that in
our country. So the problem is that these courier services
are operating outside the law.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You know, you lost me to put your pants on, Michael,
I don't know if I have to do that, if
I had to do that much work, I'm not. Hey,
while I have you on the phone here, I had
to ask you about two real things, real quick. Dozens
of suspected trendy Aragua members were arrested in Austin this week,
and we cover this on the Morning show. I'm sure
you saw this fine, good arrest criminals. The thing about
(27:41):
this that I thought was so odd a dozen maybe
two dozen baby boomer It's like older, geriatric aged hippie
protesters standing in front of the ICE facility after the arrest,
demanding they be released. I just feel like I'm speaking
the obvious here. Do these people not understand and who's
getting arrested? It's not cleaning ladies and people that work
(28:03):
in soup kitchens. Literally face tattooed gang members crime had
they were arrested with weapons and guns? Why would we
let these people go?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Look the whenever you see the boomer esque protesters steaming
at ICE facilities saying, you know, let the very nice
face tatted guy go, which after unerstanding is they're paid
to be there? These are you know, this is rent
a mob, rent a protest that they could not care
less about these guys. All they're doing is cashing their
(28:36):
nineteen dollars an hour check from George Soros. You know,
we we I think all have to do a better
job of not legitimizing these kind of you know, you know, fake, fake,
fake protesters that we're seeing. No rational human being puts,
you know, goes buy his poster board, writes a free
(28:58):
hymn slogan, and goes outside and says, yeah, let the
guy with the facetat who was caught, you know, with
guns and drugs and you know, children being trafficked, let
him go. No normal person does that. You only do
that if being paid. And I think we need to
start calling that kind of stuff for what it is.
And actually we can't use those words on the radio.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
No we can't. But I get your point.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
But those are the kind of words we should use
to describe.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Isn't it an interesting We have one of these protests
in Houston this weekend and it's they want a protest
against or for Medicaid, Medicare, social Security, NATO, clean energy.
They put a list of all the things that the
protest entails. It's being organized by another local radio station,
a liberal talk station, KPFT. One of the things they
(29:46):
included on the list was more if you're mad about
immigrants and LGBTQ rights and more, join us Saturday, April fifth.
I find it fascinating, Michael how and I don't know
if it's because of trump support of bitcoin and crypto,
or because he's friends with a lot of rappers. I
don't know why it is, but when you show up
at these events, a lot of the younger activists at
these events seem to be pro Trump, and the older
(30:09):
activists seem to be anti Trump. Would you have ever
guessed in twenty twenty five, the conservative movement would be
skewing younger, the liberal progressive movement would be the older activist.
I mean, I got admit even I'm a little surprised
about that.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, it is exciting, but at the same time, I
think that you've got a lot of young people who
have they're watching their futures evaporate. Yeah, the under the
the thuggish antics of the left, and my kids are
you know, kind of that millennial kind of age range.
And they talked, what's all them? Their friends? Their friends
(30:44):
are far more conservative maybe libertarian maybe a better way
to say it, observative libertarian than anyone you know, your age,
my age and older. And it's just because they were
promised liberty, they were prom freedom, and instead they were
told they had to memorize you know, you know, lists
(31:05):
of pronouns that would be changing next week. They have
to re memorize they were told that, you know, all
these crazy things that they're told to believe that the
climate's getting hotter and it's getting colder, and it's all
because it's hotter, but it's really colder, and you know,
all these all this crazy nonsense, and they're tired of it.
They just want to live, live their lives free. And
I think that's where why you see those folks. On
(31:27):
the other hand, you know, the left is full of
a bunch of angry people yelling and screaming at a
cloud because it looks like a bunny instead of a horse.
You know, they are. You're full of geriatric left days
who have done so much drugs. They have, you know,
got so many venereal diseases. They don't know which way
is up. They're just angry and mad at life. And
(31:49):
it's very sad. And I think we should have cameras
on those people all the time. Every time you take
a picture of one of those lucky protesters, someone else
starts voting conservative. I love it.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
My brother Michael Quinn Sullivan, creator of Texas scorecard dot Com,
of which I am a loyal proud evangelist and supporter.
Go to their website today, subscribe to the email list.
You'll be so glad you did it.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
WHOA, I didn't think you had it in you.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I'm your Hucklebern.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Before we leave this afternoon and for the week, quickerminder. Folks,
First of all, thank you so much for supporting what
we do. I wouldn't have a job if you didn't
listen to this radio show. Subscribe to our podcast, follow
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So thank you for doing that, because this is this
(32:40):
is a great joy of my life. Getting to do
this for a living. I'm very grateful for it. And
because I get to do this for a living, we
really really try to make a difference. We try to
contribute something a little more to the zeitgeist than just
boner jokes about politicians and celebrities we don't like, which
is why it's so important to support Wheelchairs for Warriors
dot org. Yes, you get a tax right off. Obviously
(33:01):
it's less money you have to give to the federal government. Yes,
it feels good to do it, but it's not just
because it makes you feel good. It's not just because
you get a tax right off. It's because it's the
right thing to do. In fact, there's a news story
was a story this week about a new recipient at
wheelchairsfo Warriors dot org. And this person's name's Landon. I
invited Crystal On right now, Crystal, could you tell us
(33:22):
the story of land In from Fort Polk. I can.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
He joined the military because it was kind of like
a family business and so like a lot of boys,
they want to follow in their father's footsteps. He was
They found a blood plot in his arm. He was
sent you know, one one thing after another. Anyway, he
became paralyzed. He could not receive any help from the VA.
(33:50):
And so he is one of our recipients and he,
you know, was one of the ones that was you know,
fell to the cracks.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And tell me a little more about him. He was
into basketball and he injured himself parachuting. Is that what happened?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Yeah, he was. He joined in twenty twenty and he
served for four years. He was deployed to Afghanistan. He
sustained an injury in twenty twenty four jumping out of
an airplane. So he was injured in the line of duty.
And you know, he's just had one complication after another complication,
and you know, blood cloths aren't aren't good things.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
No, Yeah, that's so sad, Crystal, but you but the
good news is there's a happy ending to the story.
You're able to give him some help.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Yes, So we were giving him a daily living wheelchair,
and we're also giving him a basketball wheelchair. So we're
hoping that, you know, he'll be able to train and
play basketball and get out there with his with his
a new brotherhood. Right.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And Landing seems like a cool guy. He's just a
very down to earth person. Certainly some of the it's
very deserving of this, they all are, but it's always
you know, it's so much more personal when you get
to meet them and see what kind of person they are,
and you can learn a lot about the recipients at
Wheelchairs for Warriors dot org. Obviously there's a long waiting
list right now. There's not enough people receiving these wheelchairs.
The federal government SATALIE does not always have the resources.
(35:18):
It's not managed well enough to handle the number of
people that need help, which is why you guys exist
in the first place. But the good news is one
of our radio listeners made a thirty thousand dollars donation.
Is that true?
Speaker 7 (35:31):
That is true? And he happens to be the assistant
a fire marshall in Houston, Texas. Can I say his
name on the air?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I wish you would? Yeah, please, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
John Hawford. Yes, it's just an angel. His family has
a IRA and they were going to make a donor directed,
you know, contribution, and they were deciding who to who
to make that contribution to, and the family was just
kind of having a conversation and he said, wheelchairs for warriors,
(36:01):
that's the one we want to do them. I listened
to the Walton and Johnson Show. I listened to the
Pursuit of Happiness with Kenny Webster, and he always has
wheelchairs warriors on there, and that's who we're going to
donate to them. And it was just his wife said,
that's the quickest decision I've ever had. I've ever known
him to make.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
And so is he a military event? I mean the
fact that he's a firefighter makes him a hero already.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Yes, Yes, he is a first responder.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
What a beautiful story, Crystal, You're such a beautiful person.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I'm so proud to be your friend, and I'm proud
to play a small role, a very small role, in
helping to improve the lives of these people. And you
do so much, you and Heidi and everybody else at
your organization. So I thank you for that. How you
doing otherwise? Everything going okay with you?
Speaker 7 (36:44):
Everything's quite fantastic. It was a really good day yesterday.
When somebody calls and wants to donate enough money for
three wheelchairs, It's like, yes, thank you, appreciate that. Christ
having a good day.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I hope you and John and Landon and everybody out
there has a really awesome weekend. What are you doing
this weekend?
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Awesome? Actually going to to an awards ceremony on Saturday night.
We're delivering a wheelchair to another recipient in Conrod, Texas
on Sunday, JP Lane. He lost both of his legs
in a rack and he's a basketball guy, and yeah,
so we're just doing all the good.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Christal, I'm so proud to be your friend. Will you
give my best to everybody at that event this weekend?
I really hope you will.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
I will.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Thank you so much. Hey to all the listeners out there,
I love you so much. Thank you for listening to
this show. Tell your friends about it. Tune in bright
and early Monday morning. We'll be back for more of
what you bought a radio for.
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You are listening to the pursuit of having this radio.
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To the government to kiss your ass when you listen
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