April 29, 2025 • 47 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features State Rep. Steve Toth, journalist Brandon Waltens, and KTRH's Ethan Buchanan. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
At Okay, it's one hundred days of Trump today, Congratulations Trump,
or one hundred days of hell for your non binary
fluid coworker ladies and gentlemen. One hundred days of stress
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wrinkles for Rachel Maddow, Oh, poor Rachel Maddow. For those
that don't know we are, let me fix that camera there.
We're live streaming on x and book Face and Instagram
and actually I don't know if I'm on Instage. We're
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I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for joining us guests
this afternoon, Stay Representative Steve Toath will be shop stopping
by shortly. He is at the state Capitol right now
and there is, oddly enough, a bill is being debated
and voted on today in Texas State. I can't believe
this is a real thing. Dade Falin, the former Texas
House Speaker, wants to outlaw memes. Well, he wants to
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regulate memes. He wants to make it so you can't
have a meme without the government's permission. There's no way
that this is constitutional. There's no way the First Amendment
would allow for a thing. But anyway, it's a thing today.
If you're a Texas state taxpayer, voter, property owner, that's
what you're elected officials are up to today. Among other things,
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even a bill to decide if judges, not you, unless
you're a judge, are allowed to have darker tint on
your windshield and your car. This is ridiculous. Thank you
very much, Texas. With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats,
you know what I mean. Brandon Waltons will be here
as well from texascorecard dot Com. We're going to talk
about all of that, and my buddy Ethan Buchanan is
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stopping by with the latest from the world of cross dressing.
He she's and we'll get into that in a little bit.
Stick around. He's not one, he's our zoomer. He does
a radio show here on the weekends. Before we get
to any of that, we are look well, in a
one hundred days of Trump, one might wonder, how are
things going?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know what? I should have had the border music
prepared already.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can I get a little bit of a Let me
get the illegal immigrant music. If y'all don't mine, crank
it up, crank up the illegal immigrant jams.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Sorry, my computer's going, So here we go. Ah, yes,
muy caliente.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So you remember the Chilean illegal immigrant that was arrested
for our stealing DHS Secretary Christinome, Secretary Haughty, formerly Governor
Hatty's purse.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
She was.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That guy was arrested in New York. Turns out last
month for basically doing the same thing. The funniest part
about that news story that guy did not know that
he was stealing from Christine Nome. Imagine not just stealing
from the head of Ice or the head of the
border patrol, or to I'm a home and the borders
are no. All of those people's bosses, they're hot, female
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boss Christino. It's like unintentionally trying to mug a UFC fighter.
It's so stupid. It's like the punchline to a joke.
It's like a scene out of a movie. Now we
have also learned apparently the DOJ is charged in Iraqi
man for voting illegally in the twenty twenty election. These
things happen regularly, but the media pretends it doesn't, like it's.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Not a real thing, and it goes on regularly.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Illegal immiggration happens pretty frequently, and sadly enough, illegal voting
happens frequently and often is the case those two things
collide together. Meanwhile, we are deporting four thousand people with
student visas who are guilty of criminal Students with visas
foreign students that have been convicted of what were the crimes,
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things like robbery? Assault? Why do these people get to
have a student visa in the first place. There's no
way that's controversial. We're deporting people that came here to
learn to domistry or gender lit and instead they came
here and assaulted someone or rob someone. Yeah, get him
the hell out of here, sorry, get the hell out
of my country and kiss my ass. The first one
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hundred days of Trump so far, of all, whatever you
think of the guy, however you feel about my Man,
Donald J. Trump, and the Jay does stand for genius.
One thing you cannot that is indisputably true. Hiss fixed
the border crisis overnight. You understand, we used to have
something upwards of five thousand illegal immigrants coming over the
border a day, and that's apparently a conservative estimate. So far,
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since Donald Trump took over as president, there have been
nine illegal immigrants that were detained and released at the border,
and apparently, according to Tom Holman, it was all because
they were having health issues, medical issue like they were
bleeding out or something. So the only way you can
get into the country illegally is if you cut your
hand off and show it to the border patrol agents
and then they'll direct you to the hospital. Whatever the
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Spanish word for is for that nobody knows, and they
might not speak Spanish. It could be Portuguese or Arabic.
We have no idea. And anyway, with all that being said,
thank god Donald Trump is now in charge of the
federal government. Things are vastly better. One hundred days in
the border has effectively been closed down to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
This is what promises kept, promises made.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
As of mid afternoon Monday, the forty seventh President signed
one hundred and thirty seven executive orders. According to the
Federal Register, the eight is The orders cover everything from
artificial intelligence to zero based regulatory budgets. But the thing
that was the most effective of all the things that
he's done. So for whatever you think of Ukraine, however
you feel about Israel, one thing that is indisputably true.
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Donald Trump, in the matter of three months, has solved
the illegal immigration crisis. For those that have not looked yet,
and I'm sure a lot of you have seen this.
Everybody's been laughing about this. Yesterday they put up placards
yard signs on the front lawn of the White House,
and they all had pictures of different illegal immigrants on
it who had committed serious, gross disgusting crimes, crimes against children, murder, trafficking, fentanyl,
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human smuggling, the worst dregs of society that had been captured, arrested,
and they're either being detained right now or deported down
to l Salvador. In every one of these cases, these
are terrible people, and they did it in the perfect
place where they set up these placards. They the White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt and her team of people
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at the communications department for the White House set up
these things in the exact place on the front lawn
of the White House where the MSNBC and CNN news
reporters stand, using the White House as the backdrop, making
it impossible not to show it on TV. But Jake
Tapper didn't like it. Rachel Maddow wasn't a fan. So
what did Wolf Blitzer do? They blurred out the MSNBC
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and CNN actually blurred out the posters so you couldn't
see the faces of these dangerous illegal immigrants. Now, I'm
sure I don't have to tell you. They didn't blur
Donald trump smug shot. Why would they? They didn't blur
Steve Bannon's smug shot. Now, they loved that, right, Roger
Stone didn't get his mug shop blurred. They blurred the
faces of illegal immigrants because once again, protecting the worst
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people in society is the most important thing to them.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If you're keeping score at home, and you're a Texas taxpayer,
property owner voter, you might wonder, how is this session
doing compared to previous sessions and the legislative session. Obviously,
the Texas House has new leadership. Date Phalen has gone.
Dustin Burrows is your new guy. And so far this session,
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I guess the biggest news would probably be school choice
passed in the House, so we're waiting for that to
find its way back to Governor Abbott's desk.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Hopefully that happens soon enough.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
In addition to that, I think, what did we passed
Pakistani Day and Muslim Day and that sort of thing.
That's always exciting Compared to the eighty seventh session where
they passed two hundred and eighty four bills and the
eighty eighth session where they passed one hundred and eighty
two bills. Right now in the eighty ninth session, so far,
fifty one bills have passed. We are in the ninety
eighth day of the session. And I always have mixed
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feelings about this stuff. You know, on one hand, you
want to see people in government fix problems for you,
certainly that's the point of it, right, But then on
the other hand, you also wonder if they're not getting
anything done. Maybe there's an advantage to that from a
liberty point of view, here are this take on all
this stay Representative Steve Toath is actually live right now
from the House floor. Steve, I'm just looking at the
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number of bills that they have passed so far down there.
I always wonder is not passing bills? Is that a
victory or a tragedy or how do you analyze this?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The government that governs police governs past. And I'm a
big fan of us not passing stuff. But at the
end of the day, the only crap that's flying right
now is Beyonce and Pakistani Day, which is pretty disappointing.
And so the reality is that Republicans controlled the well wait,
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I'm sorry, we outnumbered the Democrats. I almost said control
the House. Democrats out number the Democrats. Republicans out number
the Democrats eighty eight to sixty two. We do not
control the House though, because twenty one rogue Republicans joined
up with sixty two Democrats to give us Dustin Burrows.
And the crazy thing is that Burrows when he came in,
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voted against Strauss. He's a hardcore conservative, but he just
lost his way. He assimilated unfortunately, and now he's part
of the problem.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I always thought Dustin Burrows had a pretty good voting
record in the past, but people can surprise you.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
People change as you know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know you you've worked with and aligned yourselves with
people that became better lawmakers and worse lawmakers.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
What was Beyonce? There? Beyonce Day? We passed a holiday
for Beyonce.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I didn't know that we passed a Beyonce Day. We
passed a pack of sandy day. We passed all sorts
of crap. You know, it's just it's it's just flat
out stupid, and we've raised expectations. We passed a budget.
I voted against the budget because it offered little to
know property tax relief. And the crazy thing is that
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the day that that budget passed, the Republican Caucus sent
out text message to everyone that voted for it saying
that it contained fifty one billion dollars of property tax rerelea. Well,
think about the messaging on this Kenny. Last session, they
literally passed eighteen billion dollars of property tax releaf about
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seven billion.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
It was new.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Property tax relief, but my taxes went up two thousand dollars.
So if you live in Harris County, you live in
Montgomery County. You saw a property tax increase, even in
spite of the fact that we spent eighteen billion dollars
in property tax release this year. They're saying, you got
fifty one billion dollars of property textually budgeted, and you
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got about three billion dollars of new property tax. Really
so it's like you set people's expectations really high, and
when they don't see the relief come, you think that
they're gonna be a little angry. Of course they will, right.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One thing that I found odd was that Senate Bill
twenty two past the Senate. I found out I don't
know what happened with this bill when it got to
the House, but this was a five hundred million dollar
infusion for film incentives. And wheneverthing's like this past, conservatives
always point out, well, that's money that could have gone
to property tax, and then liberals will say, no, it's
totally different.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's not money for property tax.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But property tax relief is in a sense a subsidy
for film people, because film people need to have property
in order to shoot a film, for example. But a
film subsidy is not property tax relief. It doesn't property
tax relief helps everyone. Film subsidies only help movie production companies.
Some people might argue those things aren't related, but it
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feels like they are.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
So we're shifting more and more burden tax burden away
from homeowners to business owners. And the reality is that
the reason why Texas has been so strong over the
years coming out of the two thousand and eight recession,
forty percent of the jobs created in the United States
coming out of that recession came from Texas Texas alone,
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which is pretty darn and pressive. The problem, though, is
that we're shifting so much burden of taxation over to
small businesses through property tax burden that I think we're
going to we're going to choke out the Texas miracle
in time. We are, Kenny. It's just it's unavoidable, and
so yeah, we've got to get serious about it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
We're not.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Here's the reality. If we just took if we just
held spending in Texas truly held it to population adjusted
for installation over a ten year period, if you just spent,
you increase spending by population adjusted for inflation, the budget
would grow at about seven percent, while revenue would grow
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at about twelve or thirteen percent, and if you take
the delta between what you spend and what you say,
and you'd use that money to buy down taxes, property taxes,
within ten years, your taxes would go down sixty percent.
I mean, that's impressive. Without creating a brand new tax,
that's what you could achieve. But unfortunately we're just not
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committed to it. Committed to it. I filed bills every
session to do it. You can't get Republicans and Democrats
to lead it, and you can't get the governor to
call for it. They'll joke about it and they'll say, Hey,
what we need to do is end property taxes. And
if you don't, you know, if if you're paying property taxes,
you really don't own your home, you rent your home. Well, guys,
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is quit talking about it, Actually do it. Crap and
it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yesterday a guest on our show was an attorney named
Will moy who is supposed to be speaking to the
House today. I guess apparently, I'm not sure if you
saw him down there about SB thirty, which seeks to
cap damages survivors and loved ones get on catastrophic accidents.
He had made the point that this is really just
something that helps out insurance companies. And the group Texans
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for Lawsuit Reform TLR apparently pumped a bunch of money
into this to try to get the bill to pass.
And you had told me off the air. Apparently they're
changing the bill. Now, what's the latest on this team, so.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
They'd pull the cap off of it. But look, here's
the deal. If it's sick property to I'm sorry, insurance,
the cost to ensure your car, the cost to insure
your home is going through the roof right now. And
you know, I talked with a business owner yesterday that said, Steve,
I spend more money on a monthly basis ensuring my
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fleet of vehicles than I do on the payment.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
For the vehicles.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
That insurance is eclipsing the capital costs of to lease
the vehicles. And so the reality is that we've got
to do something. We have to do something. I mean,
insurance costs are going through the roof. They just are
absolutely going through the roof. You're seeing I've seen something.
I saw a settlement last week that found out about.
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It was a billion dollar settlement for the death of
a of a child and their parent, a billion dollars.
You're like, Wow, that's crazy, and you know the reality
is that the reality is that we all pay for
that in higher insurance rates, So we've got to do something.
I'm not so sure that what this would. SB thirty
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originally wanted to do did that, but they've taken the
cap off of it, and I think that's the concern
that most most of us had with it. But it
do rape. It does rein in the qualifications of how
you qualify pain and suffering, which I think will be
helpful for juries in helping them arrive at at these
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at these verdicts.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I don't know if this is true or not, or
if the you know, I'm not quite sure what to
make of this. But one of the authors at Texas
scorecard dot com, Uh, this would be Brady Brady Gray
did an analysis of SB thirty and said that it
actually will protect the institutions that are mutilating and chemically
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sterilizing kids, making it nearly impossible for families to seek justice.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
This article was posted.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
About a week ago, so possibly before the law was
changed or the bill was changed.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Rather.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You've been one of the biggest critics in the Texas
State House of these hospitals that are doing the so
called gender affirming care on kids, and you know, you
using your you know, your analysis of how the bill was,
do you think it does that. Does it protect hospitals
and those sort of things from uh, you know, getting
sued by parents that maybe had their kid go in
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for gender affirming care.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I don't think it does anything with that. If you
want to, honestly you want to do something to protect
these kids, you got to pass HB. Twenty two fifty eight,
which is my bill that actually calls for civil civil penalties.
And the reality is that nothing, I mean that that
bill is so completely tied up in committee. And this
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is it's part of the deal that Republicans that the
girls cut with the Democrats in order to get the
gabble that that protects these trans kids and these these evil,
fricking evil people, that they should get the freaking death
penalty for what they're doing. To cut the penis off
a little kid, to cut to cut the breast off
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a little girl, to to allow a child and not
tell them and not warrant them. If you go on
estrogen as a boy, you're going to lose your sexual function.
You'll never have an orgasm. You'll never be able to
have an erection. And it's just crazy we actually have
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to have conversations like that on the radio. But yeah,
that's that's how statistic and screwed up our world is.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, I mean, this is the right audience for it, Steve,
someone has to explain this to people.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Stay.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Representative Steve Toth is on the line right now, the
Republican from CONRO. And while we're on the topic of healthcare,
one more question I want to ask you, because I
know you guys got.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
A lot happening in the background there.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
HB eighteen is a bill that you authored that's aimed
at strengthening rural hospitals and expanding access to care across
underserved areas of the state.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Does this pass? What's the latest on that bill? What happened?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yeah, so the bill passed, and what I did is
I amended it. And what the language that I put
in it is basically the language from the language from
twenty two to fifty eight. But it only applies to
rural hospitals, and so it's in no way, you know,
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it's in no way is it all encompassing, but it
does affect rural hospitals and for the very first time
in state state's history. It codifies in law, which is
really key. It codifies the law that you cannot socially
transition a child. And this is the very first, very
first time we've ever done that. And so no, I'm
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not spiking the ball and declaring victory and pat myself
on the back because it only affects such a small
number of kids. But it's finally in law that you
cannot do this, and that's how you that's the beachhead,
if you will.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Stay representative, Steve tellad, Look, I know you guys have
a lot going on right now. There's the legislative session
is never been more involved. You guys are trying to
get a lot done before it's over one thing. I
hear a lot from our list. I've heard a lot
of people ask me this is who can who can
primary Dan Crenshaw? And can we get Steve Toath to
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primary Dan Crenshaw. That's a question I get asked by
listeners on a regular basis. And you know, Steve, I
don't know if you can even comment on that right now,
but what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I knew you were going to do this, so I'm
trying to think of a delicate way to say this,
but Vett and I are considering it. We really are.
It's just what it really comes down to for us
is do we really feel like where where can we
best serve? Is it is it in Austin or is
it is it Washington, DC? And in years past, you know,
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we've we considered doing this. Two years ago. We knew
he was in trouble two years ago because it was
so obvious, you know, based on pulling everything else, he
was in trouble. And someone ran against him and only
got in and they got forty one percent of vote,
and they didn't do anything and they got forty one
percent of the vote, which is crazy, right, right, But
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the problem is Biden was in the White House and
you had little to no opportunity to do anything significant.
But Trump's in the white House now, right, And so
I honestly believe Tnny, over the next twelve years, we're
gonna get to do some really cool things for the
nation and for Texas. And Trump understands federalism. Trump understands
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that the highest and best use of Congress is to
push as much authority back to the states and individuals
for personal individual rights and sovereignty. And if I can
be part of that, I'd love to be part of that.
I just haven't fully decided yet. But Bet and I
haven't fully decided that that's what we should do.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Look, hey, if God calls on you to do it,
I mean, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Stay representative.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Steve Toath truly one of the good guys in Austin,
Texas right now in one of what is probably the
most dysfunctional legislative sessions we have ever seen. I like
all the bills Steve's pushing. I'm grateful for the work
you're doing. Steve, Thanks so much for your time this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Brother. We appreciate you here.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah, bless you. Kenny. Thanks for being a mouth piece
for truth and righteousness.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Hey man, thanks for being here today with us.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Dig it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Many iconic celebrities got their start as dancers. Apparently Paula
Abduell did too. My next guest will not understand that joke.
He's Ethan. You're too young to even know who that is.
You don't know who Paula Abduel is Ethan? Buchanan just
walked in. He is the afternoon He's the Sunday evening
talk show host. We wanted to freshen up our weekend
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broadcast lineup, so on Sunday evenings we now feature state
not State Senator, but Senator Ted Cruz, maybe the most
controversial politician in America other than Donald Trump, certainly in
the Republican Party. Every Sunday night, we have Ted Cruz
live on the radio with us, and then we have
twenty two year old Ethan Buchanan from the k TRH
newsroom down the hall. Ethan, is it what's it like
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being a zoomer and a news reporter? What is that
like for you?
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Well, most of my peers are are not the kind
of people that I want to be my peer. We
all know what the media industry is. We all know
what the vast majority of the news and journalism industry is,
and it's embarrassing for the most part, it really is.
So it's it's a struggle. But thankfully I do what
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I do on AM radio where most people are reasonable. Yeah, okay,
well I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You know, but there's a podcast of your show and
we stream live on social media. KPRC nine to fifty
can be heard on FM radio in Houston on ninety
four five three HD. Obviously nine to fifty is the
oldest radio station in Texas, but we also stream live
on social media where people are leaving comments like Mark said,
trump Stein is putting Israel first ahead of USA always.
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Mark doesn't like Israel or Trump apparently, and then Logan says,
does Kenny read the comments? And Jimmy says not since
their old website was taken down.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Jokes on you guys. I'm reading your comments right now.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You guys could have said something way more interesting than that,
and then hundreds of people, if not thousands, would have
heard you me read your comment, but instead you wasted it.
Nice job, Nice job, Jimmy, Jimmy Eat Jimmy Eat Dirt. No,
that's a band, Jimmy World. I'm I'm happier here right now, Ethan,
because your generation does something my generation does not often do,
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and that is this cut off our penises and participate
in sporting events. Now, I don't mean to pick on
the Zoomers because Zoomers didn't invent this, right, Zoomers did
not invent so called gender affirming care.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, we got it from you guys.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
No, you're right, exactly, like when our generation makes funny
you guys for spending too much money at Starbucks. I
always like to remind the other millennials and Gen xers
and baby boomers, like we built the Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It's really our fault that you're going on walk so
that we could run. Yeah, that's it, exactly what run.
But it's the same thing here.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Trans Identified male swimmer dominates women's event at the US
Masters Spring Championships. This happened in Texas over the weekend
in a cauledis formerly known as Hugo calledus is a
middle aged competitive swimmer, and she has never been good.
He has never been good at swimming. When he was
a guy, he lost all the time, never came in,
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never got any accolades, never won any events. Last weekend,
call just entered five individual events for women, the fifty,
the one hundred yard bread stroke, the fifty and one
hundred yard freestyle, the one hundred yard individual medley.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Guess how many of them he won?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Ethan, I'm gonna go for a clean sweep. That's where
I would put my money.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You are correct, even amazingly this cross dressing weirdo has.
I don't know what it is about having a third
leg that makes women swim so much faster.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I will say I have never wanted legalized sports betting
in Texas more than now. I mean, if we had
legalized sports, we'd all be rich.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, the worst part about the trans in sports. And
I'd say this reluctantly, begrudgingly, if you will. Having men
compete in women's sports does make women's sports more entertaining,
does it not?
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
I mean, listen, we all love to rag on the WNBA,
but it really is the perfect example.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I don't know what I do know what it is.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Men are just naturally more athletic on average, right, And
so if you're watching as a man, to be like,
oh my gosh, that's so cool, I wish I could
do that. You know, the same reason we watch action movies.
Most guys don't think they could single handedly rescue the
president from an airplane, but we all like to think
that we could, and that's why we watch movies.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It's the same with sports. Most guys know.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
That they can't catch an eighty one yard pass from
downfield and then run it in for a touchdown. We
know we can't do that, sure, but it's cool to
be like, what if I could? And so that's why
we watch sports. But then if you're watching the WNBA
and you see a bunch of women miss a three pointer,
I could miss a three pointer. I'm a white guy
with asthma. I missed three pointers all day. I would
(27:06):
need to watch TV to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
You know what, Ethan, I believe you.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I also believe that women's sports generally not as entertaining
as men's sports are. It's sad, it's not fair. But
there is news today in the world of what was
the word? You came into my studio earlier and used
what's the word either?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Oh gosh, I don't know if I just say it.
It's an abbreviation. It comes, I believe, from the Latin
root word training.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Training.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
No, you could say training. No, you had another word.
It was a new buzzword. It wasn't training. We've all
heard trainy before that, you know, we've heard that. What
was the other word used? When you came in? What
was it you were going to tell me about?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I don't know, you've lost.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You had a story we were doing transgender stuff for
a reason. You had a story involving the train. What
was the point of the segment? Oh the British people.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Okay, so the Brits England recently decided in their own
Supreme court. Yes, they apparently the British people have a
Supreme court as well. Apparently it may even be more
conservative than ours because they shut down. Maybe they The
recent rulings in British Supreme Court have made it so
that transgender people are maybe less welcome there than they
are here. Shockingly, this was not what most of us expected,
(28:12):
especially when it came to things like sports. Tell me
about this transgender social media influencer.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah, so it's this U. It's it's a dude. He
really wants us to pretend that he is a lady. Sure,
I'll give him credit. From a distance, you might make
a mistake and have to do a double take. But
he had the bright idea of filming with the cameras
close to his face as possible, so you can really tell,
you can see the Adams apple. But his whole thing
was I'm transgender and I can't stand to live in
(28:41):
America anymore because it's just not safe.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
For transgender people? Is this the video right here that
that's the one? Is this the guy? Is this clean
for radio airplay? I guess we'll figure that out.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
I believe everybody who I mean, I know what's going
on with me. I've decided to leave the country, and
after deliberating on a few different plans and figuring out
where things may be.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Bat by the way, do I even have to point
out the obvious thing here? No matter how much surgery
they get, no matter how many hormones they take, no
matter how much they look like a girl.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
They never sound like one. Never. It's always the guys.
I'm a girl now, this is how I talk. No,
you sound like a muppet.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Decided to come to the United Kingdom, which has been
a huge mistake, I must say, not only the April
sixteenth twelve that passed in validating transferal's genders in the
twenty ten Quality Act has transpired. When I first got here,
things seemed pretty okay and the warm welcoming and a
lot of support. But something about the United Kingdom I've
(29:38):
noticed sam from speaking to other people, as well as
what's happened with Brexit, tensions ship very quickly in wait.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I'm sorry to pause on the stupidest thing that this
person just said, But there is no way that that
an American who just moved to England.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Is affected by Brexit.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Brexit, it was a thing that happened several years ago
at twenty sixteen, where England left the European Union. There's
no you've never lived in England before it left the
European Union. How does that affect you? The United States
wasn't part of the European Union. That's what you're mad about. No,
you're just saying buzzwords. You have liberal turets change.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
And yeah, I've been found myself not welcome in places
I was welcoming. This on my inito reveling very quickly.
It's been by Arrify quite term plesent.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Literally, this person is so unwelcome in England that they're
allowed to freely walk around and talk about their gender. Look,
I don't I think the laws in England are crazy.
You can get arrested there for doing journalism. But there's
no way that they're hurting trans people by not letting
them compete in women's sports.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Just start your own sports league.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
About an hour ago, was assaulted by three men on
Ondon underground and prepared to seal my pound.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Does this look like a person that was assaulted three
hours ago?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We saw this.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
It was a similar claim made in a Charlie Kirk video.
Somebody claimed that they had experienced some just terrible form
of racism. They always make this claim and then when
you ask them, well, okay, this terrible thing happened to you,
I agree. If it did happen, it's terrible and bad.
We should do something about it. Did you go to
the police.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
No.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Can you describe in any detail what exactly happened or
when or what they said. No, it just occurred, and
you didn't feel the need to tell anybody about this
until it became convenient politically.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, it's an ideology that they're forcing down our throats
figuratively and maybe even literally as well. Here in the
Greater Houston area. It was like a decade ago. You
were a kid when this happened, and we had the
first lesbian mayor of a big city in America. Her
name was a Nice Parker, and we had some mean
names for her, not us other people. Other people called
(31:55):
her a niece Porker and Anus Porker. And I don't
prove of any of that. I don't think that. No, never,
that's not funny. Don't laugh at that, Ethan. But this
woman was embraced by local Democrats, Christian Black Democrats elected
this person, made her our mayor, and then right as
she was walking out the door finishing up her last
term as mayor, we have term limits, thank god, she
tried to pass something called the Hero Ordinance. The Hero
(32:18):
Ordinance was a law that basically allowed men to use
the bathroom with little girls. And we've seen this happen
all over the country at this point, so but at
the time it was new. This was a decade ago. Shocking, Wait,
what in Texas we're going to have that. They had
a vote on it. It was one of those prop
votes or what. It got crushed in a city where
a nice Parker won by a wide margin. They were
(32:39):
happy to have a lesbian mayor. Local liberals Democrats in Houston,
Black Christian Democrats did not want men to use the
bathroom with little girls. So this bill lost like eighty
to twenty or something, I don't remember what the numbers
where it was a lot. It was way more than
the ten point margin that would make it even worth
having a second vote. That guy crushed out with the
old in came the new. In came a new county judge.
(33:02):
It's kind of like the mayor of the county, not
the mayor of the city, the executive in charge of
the county. That was Lena Hidalgo. And the first thing
she did was make it so trainees could use the bathroom.
He was when the Now, when you go into the
men's room at the park right down the street from here,
they have little garbage cans in there.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Ethans.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
You know why the men's bathroom stalls have little garbage cans?
They never had him before. Could you guess? Tampons that's correct. Tampons,
that's correct. And then they changed the signs on the
bathroom doors so that it's a man sign a woman sign,
and then like a half man half woman. It's almost
like they're making fun of trainees with the sign that
(33:39):
they put up. And I run in the park a lot,
so I see this person a lot. There's a dude
who's like six foot five, muscular, overweight, giant Adam's apple
and he wears little tennis skirts he's trying to look
like a woman jogging. I see him there all the time,
and I'll watch this man walk into the women's room,
and I see women leave when he enters the bathroom.
(34:00):
It's clearly an unpopular idea. No matter how much the
medical industry, no matter how much the mental health industry
tries to force feed this to us, the vast majority
of people still don't like it.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Yeah, And the ironic thing is it actually goes back
to the argument that they were using, probably ten or
fifteen years ago, which is, you know, privacy. You know,
that's how they kind of push the gay marriage thing,
was like, hey, we just want people to do whatever
they want and have their privacy and whatever. And I
think most people are kind of on board with that.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Fair enough.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
I'm a libertarian, go for it, do what you want,
I don't care. But the moment you start trying to
encroach on other people's privacies, which, whether you like it
or not, even a public restroom, you expect some degree
of privacy there. The moment you say, hey, by the way,
we're going to put this person of the opposite gender
in there with you, and you can't say no, okay, Well,
that's an encroachment of my privacy in the same way
(34:51):
that you said you want your privacy, I want mine.
Do what you want at home. We're not at home.
We're in a public space. Leave me alone, get out
of the bathroom.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I think the real lesson here too.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
As I'm running around the park down the street from
the radio station. Everything is bigger in Texas, even the
Adams Apple on the transgender.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Please, if
you're offended by anything you heard, to get a piece
of paper, write down a detailed description of what bothered
you and fects it to one eight eight eight.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Nobody gives a fun.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Isn't it amazing when someone passes a law to try
to protect themselves from something they're uniquely affected by.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like JB.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, if he tried to pass
a bill making it illegal to make fat jokes. You
would probably think that was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Wouldn't you. I mean that would be pretty funny, guys,
wouldn't it. How about this one?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
What if AOC tried to pass a bill making it
illegal for comedian Alex Stein to comment on how she
had it was a big booty Latina. I don't approve
of it. I think that's inappropriate. But we've all seen
that video on the That would be funny, wouldn't it.
Here in Texas we have state represent Dade Falin previously
he was the House Speaker, and I can't think of
(36:05):
a person in Texas state government that has been memed
made fun of with memes more more than Dade Falin has. Amazingly,
Dade Falen had what was it a House spell three
sixty six would make it a crime to distribute altered media,
including political memes, without government approval. Some people, some people
(36:26):
Dave fail and said, we're all misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
What the law does.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But we've had people on the show, policy analysts, lawyers
look at how the law was written and say, yeah,
this actually seems a lot like he's trying to outlaw
political memes. Here right now with his analysis and the
latest on the meme law, my buddy Brandon Waltins is
here this afternoon from Texas scorecard dot com. Brandon, this
is a two part question. Let's start with the obvious thing.
(36:50):
Is this really what it sounds like? And does this pass?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
So yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
This is wild.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
I mean, we talked about this bill a couple months
ago when it was going through committee, and honestly, I'm
surprised that they've allowed it to get this far. The
House is actually scheduled to take a vote on the
bill today. And essentially what it says is, okay, well,
if you alter any you know, pictures.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Or videos or whatever of.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
A lawmaker or a candidate in a campaign, and you
don't put the right disclosure right saying that no, this
is this is an edited picture whatever, you could go
to jail and you know, this is absolutely bizarre. And
this is also very much in reaction to, you know,
what Dade Feeling saw in an own campaign. Okay, this
(37:39):
actually started when a mailer went out by I think
it was Club for Growth, one of those organizations, sent
out a mailer that you know, had a picture of
Daid Feeling with Nancy Pelosi. Pretty tame stuff as far
as political mailers go.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
He loses it and now is.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Trying to essentially smoke people who wanted to make pictures
with him. Anybody in Jay lawyers have looked at this,
they said it's unconstitutional. I think that you know, if
it passes today and get sent over to the Senate.
My hope is that it is dead on arrival there.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
But you know, the real.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Sad thing is not only that are these things being
debated and talked about, but you know, we're at a point
in the session now where it's becoming a real zero
sum game. What I mean by that is with deadlines
coming up. Any time that they're spending talking and debating
a bill like this is time that they're not talking
about passing a priority like you know, property tax relief
(38:37):
for you know, ending in state tuition for legals, or
any any number of these these these priorities. So it's
it's a sad thing that this is what they're spending
their time on.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I am amazed at it.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
But hey, look there from what I could tell, you know,
we had State Representative Steve Tothier a little earlier in
the show. It doesn't sound like there's anything going on
today that's a priority. These are all people pet projects,
where bills that someone has some personal involvement in. Nothing
that the grassroots Republicans at our last state convention asked for,
Nothing that conservative activists or voters are acting. These are all,
(39:13):
it seems to me, like everything they're working on today
is something that some political donor wanted. Maybe I'm just
not getting it.
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Yeah, it's it's bizarre because there are a lot of bills, right, Okay,
I'm looking at the calendar today. There's you know, like
I think it looks like two hundred bills on here,
but you know, like eighty two of them are by Democrats,
and none of them are things that anybody campaigned on, right,
They're not things like that. Instead, you know, I'm looking
at you look at like a bill passed yesterday that
(39:43):
they're voting on again today allowing judges to be able
to tint their windows, you know, beyond the legal limits
just judges, right, regular people not allowed to, but we're
gonna allow judges to have better car tinting. I mean,
this is the kind of stuff that they're debating.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, that's amazing. There's no way that benefits me. You know,
I'm still gonna know.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I mean, yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
There's a safety issue for judges. Well if okay, if
that's the case, then just allow everybody to tint throw indow.
I think it's cool whatever, but don't carve out certain classes.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, I mean I think we all have safety issues, right,
What about somebody that's been stalked by an ex lover
or something. Okay, certainly here's something I do get behind.
And I understand our libertarian listeners. This will they'll roll
their eyes at this. They don't like this. Liberals don't
like this. But state Representative Leo Wilson is proposing a
law that would require state authorities to work with federal
(40:38):
law enforcement to do DNA testing at the border, and
this makes people very uncomfortable. But as far as stopping
child trafficking goes, I don't really know that there's a
way around this. To me, this always seemed like something
that eventually would have to happen. If the government has
a DNA database for citizens, which apparently they do, why
(40:59):
would we not try to keep DNA records of what
undocumented children are coming over our border. There's almost no
other way to keep track of it. And when you
consider the fact that these kids are getting forced into sex, slavery,
and worse, this seems like the only deterrened what's your
take on this.
Speaker 7 (41:15):
Brandon, Well, this is interesting. I mean this build that
they had a hearing recently. How still two fifty six
I think it is explicitly prohibits creating a database. Okay,
so they say they won't create a database of this. Now,
of course, you know, like you said, libertarians and certainly
people who are skeptical of the government probably have reason
to be maybe even skeptical of that claim. But if
(41:38):
you assume that if you take them what they were,
they're not going to create a database. The problem that
this is trying to solve is I think a very
important one, which is that you have groups coming across
the border. You have miners that are with adults that
they claim our relatives, right, they'll say, this is my son,
this is my nephew, whatever. This would essentially give some
(41:59):
tools to be able to verify that, because what we
actually see happen is that in many cases that's actually
those are smugglers coming across with children and they lie
about being family units. And so, you know, I this
particular bill, maybe there's some work to be done on
it to strengthen some of the concerns. I certainly understand that,
(42:20):
but it is a problem that we do need to
address that you know, hopefully Texas can help address, and
hopefully what we'll see, you know, I think we'll see
as well some action on the federal level as well.
Ye know.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
On that note, they say today is one hundred days
of the Trump administration. And whatever people think of his policies,
his negotiation of trying to end Ukraine or Israeli war,
whatever's happening in Yemen, one thing that is indisputably true
of this administration, and you know, going hand in hand
with the work they're doing with the State of Texas,
is that we have stopped the border crisis. We had
(42:51):
thousands of illegal immigrants coming over the border a day.
I saw a number today that this baffled me, Brandon
and they said nine There have been nine a immigrants
captured and released so far since Trump took over.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
I don't mean a day total.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
And it was because they were having medical emergencies, which
isn't I think most of us would probably agree, Okay,
someone's bleeding out, let them go to the hospital. That's
one thing, right, But apparently the group of people that
that does not apply to are pregnant people. Pregnant women
are not being allowed into the country. You got to
admit things are looking up. They're not perfect, but boy,
(43:25):
that's a vast improvement.
Speaker 7 (43:28):
No, absolutely, I think that you know, of all the
things on the what did Trump say, just you just
needed to just needed a different president to get this
stuff done. I think that that shows that the federal
government and border patrol, et cetera, you know, have a
lot of tools to be able to stop this. Certainly,
I think that they could have more, and we need
to be doing more. But you know, they have a
(43:49):
lot of tools at their disposal already. But if the
administration doesn't want to see it happen, then it's not
going to. And so you know, it's amazing to see
what a difference, What a difference one hundred day.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Hey, let's step away from Austin for just a minute
and head over to college station. Texas A and M
is a focal point of your news website today at
Texas scorecard dot com because of DEI policies. Now, I
was under the impression this stuff had been outlawed. It
was supposed to go in the state of Texas. It
was all supposed to be removed. But now we learned
that the Texas A and M President Mark Welsh has elevated,
(44:25):
apparently promoted a person an academic on his campus who
initiated the failed twenty twenty three hiring of DEI advocates
to help a program focused on cultivating future civic leaders.
It sounds an awful lot like DEI, which I thought
wasn't allowed anymore.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Brandon, can you explain this.
Speaker 7 (44:45):
Well, yeah, this goes all the way back to twenty
twenty three, when you had the university set to hire
essentially a Kathleen Kathleen mcelroyd to run Texas AA. Then
university's journalism program was uncovered that she was a big
DEI person, had a lot of fringe beliefs, and she
(45:08):
ultimately decided to back out from that offer. But what
we have here is that Mark Welsh, who is the
president of Texas A and M University, is essentially promoting
now this this advocate of the e I now to
lead the university civics initiative. And you know, this is
(45:31):
a real issue because the legislation that the Universe that
the the that passed last session, so I think it
went into effect last year banning de I on campuses.
There are a number of exceptions, and what we're seeing
is that universities are trying to take advantage of that
to either rename departments or move people around, but ultimately
accomplish the same tasks. The university says that they are,
(45:56):
you know, committed to following state law and banning de I.
You know, hopefully we'll see that. But when you are
promoting the same people who are pushing those policies just
a couple of years ago certainly gives a lot of pause.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Brandon Walton's texascorecard dot Com is the website. If you
haven't already done so, follow Brandon on x He is
a good follow on social media. He is regularly reporting
from the state capitol with honest news, cutting through the
dirt the grit of the political propaganda that's being pushed
in your face constantly by the Houston Chronicle and the
(46:30):
Texas Tribune. Brandon Waltons texascorecard dot COM's the website. Check
it out. To the rest of you. I love you
so much. Drive safe out there. We'll be back brain
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At Okay, it's one hundred days of Trump today, Congratulations Trump,
or one hundred days of hell for your non binary
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(00:55):
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for joining us guests
this afternoon, Stay Representative Steve Toath will be shop stopping
by shortly. He is at the state Capitol right now
and there is, oddly enough, a bill is being debated
and voted on today in Texas State. I can't believe
this is a real thing. Dade Falin, the former Texas
House Speaker, wants to outlaw memes. Well, he wants to
(01:16):
regulate memes. He wants to make it so you can't
have a meme without the government's permission. There's no way
that this is constitutional. There's no way the First Amendment
would allow for a thing. But anyway, it's a thing today.
If you're a Texas state taxpayer, voter, property owner, that's
what you're elected officials are up to today. Among other things,
(01:36):
even a bill to decide if judges, not you, unless
you're a judge, are allowed to have darker tint on
your windshield and your car. This is ridiculous. Thank you
very much, Texas. With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats,
you know what I mean. Brandon Waltons will be here
as well from texascorecard dot Com. We're going to talk
about all of that, and my buddy Ethan Buchanan is
(01:57):
stopping by with the latest from the world of cross dressing.
He she's and we'll get into that in a little bit.
Stick around. He's not one, he's our zoomer. He does
a radio show here on the weekends. Before we get
to any of that, we are look well, in a
one hundred days of Trump, one might wonder, how are
things going?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know what? I should have had the border music
prepared already.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can I get a little bit of a Let me
get the illegal immigrant music. If y'all don't mine, crank
it up, crank up the illegal immigrant jams.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Sorry, my computer's going, So here we go. Ah, yes,
muy caliente.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So you remember the Chilean illegal immigrant that was arrested
for our stealing DHS Secretary Christinome, Secretary Haughty, formerly Governor
Hatty's purse.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
She was.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That guy was arrested in New York. Turns out last
month for basically doing the same thing. The funniest part
about that news story that guy did not know that
he was stealing from Christine Nome. Imagine not just stealing
from the head of Ice or the head of the
border patrol, or to I'm a home and the borders
are no. All of those people's bosses, they're hot, female
(03:05):
boss Christino. It's like unintentionally trying to mug a UFC fighter.
It's so stupid. It's like the punchline to a joke.
It's like a scene out of a movie. Now we
have also learned apparently the DOJ is charged in Iraqi
man for voting illegally in the twenty twenty election. These
things happen regularly, but the media pretends it doesn't, like it's.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Not a real thing, and it goes on regularly.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Illegal immiggration happens pretty frequently, and sadly enough, illegal voting
happens frequently and often is the case those two things
collide together. Meanwhile, we are deporting four thousand people with
student visas who are guilty of criminal Students with visas
foreign students that have been convicted of what were the crimes,
(03:50):
things like robbery? Assault? Why do these people get to
have a student visa in the first place. There's no
way that's controversial. We're deporting people that came here to
learn to domistry or gender lit and instead they came
here and assaulted someone or rob someone. Yeah, get him
the hell out of here, sorry, get the hell out
of my country and kiss my ass. The first one
(04:10):
hundred days of Trump so far, of all, whatever you
think of the guy, however you feel about my Man,
Donald J. Trump, and the Jay does stand for genius.
One thing you cannot that is indisputably true. Hiss fixed
the border crisis overnight. You understand, we used to have
something upwards of five thousand illegal immigrants coming over the
border a day, and that's apparently a conservative estimate. So far,
(04:34):
since Donald Trump took over as president, there have been
nine illegal immigrants that were detained and released at the border,
and apparently, according to Tom Holman, it was all because
they were having health issues, medical issue like they were
bleeding out or something. So the only way you can
get into the country illegally is if you cut your
hand off and show it to the border patrol agents
and then they'll direct you to the hospital. Whatever the
(04:55):
Spanish word for is for that nobody knows, and they
might not speak Spanish. It could be Portuguese or Arabic.
We have no idea. And anyway, with all that being said,
thank god Donald Trump is now in charge of the
federal government. Things are vastly better. One hundred days in
the border has effectively been closed down to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
This is what promises kept, promises made.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
As of mid afternoon Monday, the forty seventh President signed
one hundred and thirty seven executive orders. According to the
Federal Register, the eight is The orders cover everything from
artificial intelligence to zero based regulatory budgets. But the thing
that was the most effective of all the things that
he's done. So for whatever you think of Ukraine, however
you feel about Israel, one thing that is indisputably true.
(05:40):
Donald Trump, in the matter of three months, has solved
the illegal immigration crisis. For those that have not looked yet,
and I'm sure a lot of you have seen this.
Everybody's been laughing about this. Yesterday they put up placards
yard signs on the front lawn of the White House,
and they all had pictures of different illegal immigrants on
it who had committed serious, gross disgusting crimes, crimes against children, murder, trafficking, fentanyl,
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human smuggling, the worst dregs of society that had been captured, arrested,
and they're either being detained right now or deported down
to l Salvador. In every one of these cases, these
are terrible people, and they did it in the perfect
place where they set up these placards. They the White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt and her team of people
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at the communications department for the White House set up
these things in the exact place on the front lawn
of the White House where the MSNBC and CNN news
reporters stand, using the White House as the backdrop, making
it impossible not to show it on TV. But Jake
Tapper didn't like it. Rachel Maddow wasn't a fan. So
what did Wolf Blitzer do? They blurred out the MSNBC
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and CNN actually blurred out the posters so you couldn't
see the faces of these dangerous illegal immigrants. Now, I'm
sure I don't have to tell you. They didn't blur
Donald trump smug shot. Why would they? They didn't blur
Steve Bannon's smug shot. Now, they loved that, right, Roger
Stone didn't get his mug shop blurred. They blurred the
faces of illegal immigrants because once again, protecting the worst
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people in society is the most important thing to them.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If you're keeping score at home, and you're a Texas taxpayer,
property owner voter, you might wonder, how is this session
doing compared to previous sessions and the legislative session. Obviously,
the Texas House has new leadership. Date Phalen has gone.
Dustin Burrows is your new guy. And so far this session,
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I guess the biggest news would probably be school choice
passed in the House, so we're waiting for that to
find its way back to Governor Abbott's desk.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Hopefully that happens soon enough.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
In addition to that, I think, what did we passed
Pakistani Day and Muslim Day and that sort of thing.
That's always exciting Compared to the eighty seventh session where
they passed two hundred and eighty four bills and the
eighty eighth session where they passed one hundred and eighty
two bills. Right now in the eighty ninth session, so far,
fifty one bills have passed. We are in the ninety
eighth day of the session. And I always have mixed
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feelings about this stuff. You know, on one hand, you
want to see people in government fix problems for you,
certainly that's the point of it, right, But then on
the other hand, you also wonder if they're not getting
anything done. Maybe there's an advantage to that from a
liberty point of view, here are this take on all
this stay Representative Steve Toath is actually live right now
from the House floor. Steve, I'm just looking at the
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number of bills that they have passed so far down there.
I always wonder is not passing bills? Is that a
victory or a tragedy or how do you analyze this?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The government that governs police governs past. And I'm a
big fan of us not passing stuff. But at the
end of the day, the only crap that's flying right
now is Beyonce and Pakistani Day, which is pretty disappointing.
And so the reality is that Republicans controlled the well wait,
(09:09):
I'm sorry, we outnumbered the Democrats. I almost said control
the House. Democrats out number the Democrats. Republicans out number
the Democrats eighty eight to sixty two. We do not
control the House though, because twenty one rogue Republicans joined
up with sixty two Democrats to give us Dustin Burrows.
And the crazy thing is that Burrows when he came in,
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voted against Strauss. He's a hardcore conservative, but he just
lost his way. He assimilated unfortunately, and now he's part
of the problem.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I always thought Dustin Burrows had a pretty good voting
record in the past, but people can surprise you.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
People change as you know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know you you've worked with and aligned yourselves with
people that became better lawmakers and worse lawmakers.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
What was Beyonce? There? Beyonce Day? We passed a holiday
for Beyonce.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I didn't know that we passed a Beyonce Day. We
passed a pack of sandy day. We passed all sorts
of crap. You know, it's just it's it's just flat
out stupid, and we've raised expectations. We passed a budget.
I voted against the budget because it offered little to
know property tax relief. And the crazy thing is that
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the day that that budget passed, the Republican Caucus sent
out text message to everyone that voted for it saying
that it contained fifty one billion dollars of property tax rerelea. Well,
think about the messaging on this Kenny. Last session, they
literally passed eighteen billion dollars of property tax releaf about
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seven billion.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
It was new.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Property tax relief, but my taxes went up two thousand dollars.
So if you live in Harris County, you live in
Montgomery County. You saw a property tax increase, even in
spite of the fact that we spent eighteen billion dollars
in property tax release this year. They're saying, you got
fifty one billion dollars of property textually budgeted, and you
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got about three billion dollars of new property tax. Really
so it's like you set people's expectations really high, and
when they don't see the relief come, you think that
they're gonna be a little angry. Of course they will, right.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One thing that I found odd was that Senate Bill
twenty two past the Senate. I found out I don't
know what happened with this bill when it got to
the House, but this was a five hundred million dollar
infusion for film incentives. And wheneverthing's like this past, conservatives
always point out, well, that's money that could have gone
to property tax, and then liberals will say, no, it's
totally different.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's not money for property tax.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But property tax relief is in a sense a subsidy
for film people, because film people need to have property
in order to shoot a film, for example. But a
film subsidy is not property tax relief. It doesn't property
tax relief helps everyone. Film subsidies only help movie production companies.
Some people might argue those things aren't related, but it
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feels like they are.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
So we're shifting more and more burden tax burden away
from homeowners to business owners. And the reality is that
the reason why Texas has been so strong over the
years coming out of the two thousand and eight recession,
forty percent of the jobs created in the United States
coming out of that recession came from Texas Texas alone,
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which is pretty darn and pressive. The problem, though, is
that we're shifting so much burden of taxation over to
small businesses through property tax burden that I think we're
going to we're going to choke out the Texas miracle
in time. We are, Kenny. It's just it's unavoidable, and
so yeah, we've got to get serious about it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
We're not.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Here's the reality. If we just took if we just
held spending in Texas truly held it to population adjusted
for installation over a ten year period, if you just spent,
you increase spending by population adjusted for inflation, the budget
would grow at about seven percent, while revenue would grow
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at about twelve or thirteen percent, and if you take
the delta between what you spend and what you say,
and you'd use that money to buy down taxes, property taxes,
within ten years, your taxes would go down sixty percent.
I mean, that's impressive. Without creating a brand new tax,
that's what you could achieve. But unfortunately we're just not
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committed to it. Committed to it. I filed bills every
session to do it. You can't get Republicans and Democrats
to lead it, and you can't get the governor to
call for it. They'll joke about it and they'll say, Hey,
what we need to do is end property taxes. And
if you don't, you know, if if you're paying property taxes,
you really don't own your home, you rent your home. Well, guys,
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is quit talking about it, Actually do it. Crap and
it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yesterday a guest on our show was an attorney named
Will moy who is supposed to be speaking to the
House today. I guess apparently, I'm not sure if you
saw him down there about SB thirty, which seeks to
cap damages survivors and loved ones get on catastrophic accidents.
He had made the point that this is really just
something that helps out insurance companies. And the group Texans
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for Lawsuit Reform TLR apparently pumped a bunch of money
into this to try to get the bill to pass.
And you had told me off the air. Apparently they're
changing the bill. Now, what's the latest on this team, so.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
They'd pull the cap off of it. But look, here's
the deal. If it's sick property to I'm sorry, insurance,
the cost to ensure your car, the cost to insure
your home is going through the roof right now. And
you know, I talked with a business owner yesterday that said, Steve,
I spend more money on a monthly basis ensuring my
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fleet of vehicles than I do on the payment.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
For the vehicles.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
That insurance is eclipsing the capital costs of to lease
the vehicles. And so the reality is that we've got
to do something. We have to do something. I mean,
insurance costs are going through the roof. They just are
absolutely going through the roof. You're seeing I've seen something.
I saw a settlement last week that found out about.
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It was a billion dollar settlement for the death of
a of a child and their parent, a billion dollars.
You're like, Wow, that's crazy, and you know the reality
is that the reality is that we all pay for
that in higher insurance rates, So we've got to do something.
I'm not so sure that what this would. SB thirty
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originally wanted to do did that, but they've taken the
cap off of it, and I think that's the concern
that most most of us had with it. But it
do rape. It does rein in the qualifications of how
you qualify pain and suffering, which I think will be
helpful for juries in helping them arrive at at these
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at these verdicts.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I don't know if this is true or not, or
if the you know, I'm not quite sure what to
make of this. But one of the authors at Texas
scorecard dot com, Uh, this would be Brady Brady Gray
did an analysis of SB thirty and said that it
actually will protect the institutions that are mutilating and chemically
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sterilizing kids, making it nearly impossible for families to seek justice.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
This article was posted.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
About a week ago, so possibly before the law was
changed or the bill was changed.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Rather.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You've been one of the biggest critics in the Texas
State House of these hospitals that are doing the so
called gender affirming care on kids, and you know, you
using your you know, your analysis of how the bill was,
do you think it does that. Does it protect hospitals
and those sort of things from uh, you know, getting
sued by parents that maybe had their kid go in
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for gender affirming care.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I don't think it does anything with that. If you
want to, honestly you want to do something to protect
these kids, you got to pass HB. Twenty two fifty eight,
which is my bill that actually calls for civil civil penalties.
And the reality is that nothing, I mean that that
bill is so completely tied up in committee. And this
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is it's part of the deal that Republicans that the
girls cut with the Democrats in order to get the
gabble that that protects these trans kids and these these evil,
fricking evil people, that they should get the freaking death
penalty for what they're doing. To cut the penis off
a little kid, to cut to cut the breast off
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a little girl, to to allow a child and not
tell them and not warrant them. If you go on
estrogen as a boy, you're going to lose your sexual function.
You'll never have an orgasm. You'll never be able to
have an erection. And it's just crazy we actually have
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to have conversations like that on the radio. But yeah,
that's that's how statistic and screwed up our world is.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, I mean, this is the right audience for it, Steve,
someone has to explain this to people.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Stay.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Representative Steve Toth is on the line right now, the
Republican from CONRO. And while we're on the topic of healthcare,
one more question I want to ask you, because I
know you guys got.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
A lot happening in the background there.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
HB eighteen is a bill that you authored that's aimed
at strengthening rural hospitals and expanding access to care across
underserved areas of the state.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Does this pass? What's the latest on that bill? What happened?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yeah, so the bill passed, and what I did is
I amended it. And what the language that I put
in it is basically the language from the language from
twenty two to fifty eight. But it only applies to
rural hospitals, and so it's in no way, you know,
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it's in no way is it all encompassing, but it
does affect rural hospitals and for the very first time
in state state's history. It codifies in law, which is
really key. It codifies the law that you cannot socially
transition a child. And this is the very first, very
first time we've ever done that. And so no, I'm
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not spiking the ball and declaring victory and pat myself
on the back because it only affects such a small
number of kids. But it's finally in law that you
cannot do this, and that's how you that's the beachhead,
if you will.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Stay representative, Steve tellad, Look, I know you guys have
a lot going on right now. There's the legislative session
is never been more involved. You guys are trying to
get a lot done before it's over one thing. I
hear a lot from our list. I've heard a lot
of people ask me this is who can who can
primary Dan Crenshaw? And can we get Steve Toath to
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primary Dan Crenshaw. That's a question I get asked by
listeners on a regular basis. And you know, Steve, I
don't know if you can even comment on that right now,
but what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I knew you were going to do this, so I'm
trying to think of a delicate way to say this,
but Vett and I are considering it. We really are.
It's just what it really comes down to for us
is do we really feel like where where can we
best serve? Is it is it in Austin or is
it is it Washington, DC? And in years past, you know,
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we've we considered doing this. Two years ago. We knew
he was in trouble two years ago because it was
so obvious, you know, based on pulling everything else, he
was in trouble. And someone ran against him and only
got in and they got forty one percent of vote,
and they didn't do anything and they got forty one
percent of the vote, which is crazy, right, right, But
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the problem is Biden was in the White House and
you had little to no opportunity to do anything significant.
But Trump's in the white House now, right, And so
I honestly believe Tnny, over the next twelve years, we're
gonna get to do some really cool things for the
nation and for Texas. And Trump understands federalism. Trump understands
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that the highest and best use of Congress is to
push as much authority back to the states and individuals
for personal individual rights and sovereignty. And if I can
be part of that, I'd love to be part of that.
I just haven't fully decided yet. But Bet and I
haven't fully decided that that's what we should do.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Look, hey, if God calls on you to do it,
I mean, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Stay representative.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Steve Toath truly one of the good guys in Austin,
Texas right now in one of what is probably the
most dysfunctional legislative sessions we have ever seen. I like
all the bills Steve's pushing. I'm grateful for the work
you're doing. Steve, Thanks so much for your time this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Brother. We appreciate you here.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah, bless you. Kenny. Thanks for being a mouth piece
for truth and righteousness.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Hey man, thanks for being here today with us.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Dig it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Many iconic celebrities got their start as dancers. Apparently Paula
Abduell did too. My next guest will not understand that joke.
He's Ethan. You're too young to even know who that is.
You don't know who Paula Abduel is Ethan? Buchanan just
walked in. He is the afternoon He's the Sunday evening
talk show host. We wanted to freshen up our weekend
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broadcast lineup, so on Sunday evenings we now feature state
not State Senator, but Senator Ted Cruz, maybe the most
controversial politician in America other than Donald Trump, certainly in
the Republican Party. Every Sunday night, we have Ted Cruz
live on the radio with us, and then we have
twenty two year old Ethan Buchanan from the k TRH
newsroom down the hall. Ethan, is it what's it like
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being a zoomer and a news reporter? What is that
like for you?
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Well, most of my peers are are not the kind
of people that I want to be my peer. We
all know what the media industry is. We all know
what the vast majority of the news and journalism industry is,
and it's embarrassing for the most part, it really is.
So it's it's a struggle. But thankfully I do what
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I do on AM radio where most people are reasonable. Yeah, okay,
well I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You know, but there's a podcast of your show and
we stream live on social media. KPRC nine to fifty
can be heard on FM radio in Houston on ninety
four five three HD. Obviously nine to fifty is the
oldest radio station in Texas, but we also stream live
on social media where people are leaving comments like Mark said,
trump Stein is putting Israel first ahead of USA always.
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Mark doesn't like Israel or Trump apparently, and then Logan says,
does Kenny read the comments? And Jimmy says not since
their old website was taken down.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Jokes on you guys. I'm reading your comments right now.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You guys could have said something way more interesting than that,
and then hundreds of people, if not thousands, would have
heard you me read your comment, but instead you wasted it.
Nice job, Nice job, Jimmy, Jimmy Eat Jimmy Eat Dirt. No,
that's a band, Jimmy World. I'm I'm happier here right now, Ethan,
because your generation does something my generation does not often do,
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and that is this cut off our penises and participate
in sporting events. Now, I don't mean to pick on
the Zoomers because Zoomers didn't invent this, right, Zoomers did
not invent so called gender affirming care.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, we got it from you guys.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
No, you're right, exactly, like when our generation makes funny
you guys for spending too much money at Starbucks. I
always like to remind the other millennials and Gen xers
and baby boomers, like we built the Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It's really our fault that you're going on walk so
that we could run. Yeah, that's it, exactly what run.
But it's the same thing here.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Trans Identified male swimmer dominates women's event at the US
Masters Spring Championships. This happened in Texas over the weekend
in a cauledis formerly known as Hugo calledus is a
middle aged competitive swimmer, and she has never been good.
He has never been good at swimming. When he was
a guy, he lost all the time, never came in,
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never got any accolades, never won any events. Last weekend,
call just entered five individual events for women, the fifty,
the one hundred yard bread stroke, the fifty and one
hundred yard freestyle, the one hundred yard individual medley.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Guess how many of them he won?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Ethan, I'm gonna go for a clean sweep. That's where
I would put my money.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You are correct, even amazingly this cross dressing weirdo has.
I don't know what it is about having a third
leg that makes women swim so much faster.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I will say I have never wanted legalized sports betting
in Texas more than now. I mean, if we had
legalized sports, we'd all be rich.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, the worst part about the trans in sports. And
I'd say this reluctantly, begrudgingly, if you will. Having men
compete in women's sports does make women's sports more entertaining,
does it not?
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
I mean, listen, we all love to rag on the WNBA,
but it really is the perfect example.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I don't know what I do know what it is.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Men are just naturally more athletic on average, right, And
so if you're watching as a man, to be like,
oh my gosh, that's so cool, I wish I could
do that. You know, the same reason we watch action movies.
Most guys don't think they could single handedly rescue the
president from an airplane, but we all like to think
that we could, and that's why we watch movies.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It's the same with sports. Most guys know.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
That they can't catch an eighty one yard pass from
downfield and then run it in for a touchdown. We
know we can't do that, sure, but it's cool to
be like, what if I could? And so that's why
we watch sports. But then if you're watching the WNBA
and you see a bunch of women miss a three pointer,
I could miss a three pointer. I'm a white guy
with asthma. I missed three pointers all day. I would
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need to watch TV to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
You know what, Ethan, I believe you.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I also believe that women's sports generally not as entertaining
as men's sports are. It's sad, it's not fair. But
there is news today in the world of what was
the word? You came into my studio earlier and used
what's the word either?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Oh gosh, I don't know if I just say it.
It's an abbreviation. It comes, I believe, from the Latin
root word training.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Training.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
No, you could say training. No, you had another word.
It was a new buzzword. It wasn't training. We've all
heard trainy before that, you know, we've heard that. What
was the other word used? When you came in? What
was it you were going to tell me about?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I don't know, you've lost.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You had a story we were doing transgender stuff for
a reason. You had a story involving the train. What
was the point of the segment? Oh the British people.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Okay, so the Brits England recently decided in their own
Supreme court. Yes, they apparently the British people have a
Supreme court as well. Apparently it may even be more
conservative than ours because they shut down. Maybe they The
recent rulings in British Supreme Court have made it so
that transgender people are maybe less welcome there than they
are here. Shockingly, this was not what most of us expected,
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especially when it came to things like sports. Tell me
about this transgender social media influencer.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah, so it's this U. It's it's a dude. He
really wants us to pretend that he is a lady. Sure,
I'll give him credit. From a distance, you might make
a mistake and have to do a double take. But
he had the bright idea of filming with the cameras
close to his face as possible, so you can really tell,
you can see the Adams apple. But his whole thing
was I'm transgender and I can't stand to live in
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America anymore because it's just not safe.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
For transgender people? Is this the video right here that
that's the one? Is this the guy? Is this clean
for radio airplay? I guess we'll figure that out.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
I believe everybody who I mean, I know what's going
on with me. I've decided to leave the country, and
after deliberating on a few different plans and figuring out
where things may be.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Bat by the way, do I even have to point
out the obvious thing here? No matter how much surgery
they get, no matter how many hormones they take, no
matter how much they look like a girl.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
They never sound like one. Never. It's always the guys.
I'm a girl now, this is how I talk. No,
you sound like a muppet.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Decided to come to the United Kingdom, which has been
a huge mistake, I must say, not only the April
sixteenth twelve that passed in validating transferal's genders in the
twenty ten Quality Act has transpired. When I first got here,
things seemed pretty okay and the warm welcoming and a
lot of support. But something about the United Kingdom I've
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noticed sam from speaking to other people, as well as
what's happened with Brexit, tensions ship very quickly in wait.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I'm sorry to pause on the stupidest thing that this
person just said, But there is no way that that
an American who just moved to England.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Is affected by Brexit.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Brexit, it was a thing that happened several years ago
at twenty sixteen, where England left the European Union. There's
no you've never lived in England before it left the
European Union. How does that affect you? The United States
wasn't part of the European Union. That's what you're mad about. No,
you're just saying buzzwords. You have liberal turets change.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
And yeah, I've been found myself not welcome in places
I was welcoming. This on my inito reveling very quickly.
It's been by Arrify quite term plesent.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Literally, this person is so unwelcome in England that they're
allowed to freely walk around and talk about their gender. Look,
I don't I think the laws in England are crazy.
You can get arrested there for doing journalism. But there's
no way that they're hurting trans people by not letting
them compete in women's sports.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Just start your own sports league.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
About an hour ago, was assaulted by three men on
Ondon underground and prepared to seal my pound.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Does this look like a person that was assaulted three
hours ago?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We saw this.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
It was a similar claim made in a Charlie Kirk video.
Somebody claimed that they had experienced some just terrible form
of racism. They always make this claim and then when
you ask them, well, okay, this terrible thing happened to you,
I agree. If it did happen, it's terrible and bad.
We should do something about it. Did you go to
the police.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
No.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Can you describe in any detail what exactly happened or
when or what they said. No, it just occurred, and
you didn't feel the need to tell anybody about this
until it became convenient politically.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, it's an ideology that they're forcing down our throats
figuratively and maybe even literally as well. Here in the
Greater Houston area. It was like a decade ago. You
were a kid when this happened, and we had the
first lesbian mayor of a big city in America. Her
name was a Nice Parker, and we had some mean
names for her, not us other people. Other people called
(31:55):
her a niece Porker and Anus Porker. And I don't
prove of any of that. I don't think that. No, never,
that's not funny. Don't laugh at that, Ethan. But this
woman was embraced by local Democrats, Christian Black Democrats elected
this person, made her our mayor, and then right as
she was walking out the door finishing up her last
term as mayor, we have term limits, thank god, she
tried to pass something called the Hero Ordinance. The Hero
(32:18):
Ordinance was a law that basically allowed men to use
the bathroom with little girls. And we've seen this happen
all over the country at this point, so but at
the time it was new. This was a decade ago. Shocking, Wait,
what in Texas we're going to have that. They had
a vote on it. It was one of those prop
votes or what. It got crushed in a city where
a nice Parker won by a wide margin. They were
(32:39):
happy to have a lesbian mayor. Local liberals Democrats in Houston,
Black Christian Democrats did not want men to use the
bathroom with little girls. So this bill lost like eighty
to twenty or something, I don't remember what the numbers
where it was a lot. It was way more than
the ten point margin that would make it even worth
having a second vote. That guy crushed out with the
old in came the new. In came a new county judge.
(33:02):
It's kind of like the mayor of the county, not
the mayor of the city, the executive in charge of
the county. That was Lena Hidalgo. And the first thing
she did was make it so trainees could use the bathroom.
He was when the Now, when you go into the
men's room at the park right down the street from here,
they have little garbage cans in there.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Ethans.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
You know why the men's bathroom stalls have little garbage cans?
They never had him before. Could you guess? Tampons that's correct. Tampons,
that's correct. And then they changed the signs on the
bathroom doors so that it's a man sign a woman sign,
and then like a half man half woman. It's almost
like they're making fun of trainees with the sign that
(33:39):
they put up. And I run in the park a lot,
so I see this person a lot. There's a dude
who's like six foot five, muscular, overweight, giant Adam's apple
and he wears little tennis skirts he's trying to look
like a woman jogging. I see him there all the time,
and I'll watch this man walk into the women's room,
and I see women leave when he enters the bathroom.
(34:00):
It's clearly an unpopular idea. No matter how much the
medical industry, no matter how much the mental health industry
tries to force feed this to us, the vast majority
of people still don't like it.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Yeah, And the ironic thing is it actually goes back
to the argument that they were using, probably ten or
fifteen years ago, which is, you know, privacy. You know,
that's how they kind of push the gay marriage thing,
was like, hey, we just want people to do whatever
they want and have their privacy and whatever. And I
think most people are kind of on board with that.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Fair enough.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
I'm a libertarian, go for it, do what you want,
I don't care. But the moment you start trying to
encroach on other people's privacies, which, whether you like it
or not, even a public restroom, you expect some degree
of privacy there. The moment you say, hey, by the way,
we're going to put this person of the opposite gender
in there with you, and you can't say no, okay, Well,
that's an encroachment of my privacy in the same way
(34:51):
that you said you want your privacy, I want mine.
Do what you want at home. We're not at home.
We're in a public space. Leave me alone, get out
of the bathroom.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I think the real lesson here too.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
As I'm running around the park down the street from
the radio station. Everything is bigger in Texas, even the
Adams Apple on the transgender.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Please, if
you're offended by anything you heard, to get a piece
of paper, write down a detailed description of what bothered
you and fects it to one eight eight eight.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Nobody gives a fun.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Isn't it amazing when someone passes a law to try
to protect themselves from something they're uniquely affected by.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like JB.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, if he tried to pass
a bill making it illegal to make fat jokes. You
would probably think that was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Wouldn't you. I mean that would be pretty funny, guys,
wouldn't it. How about this one?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
What if AOC tried to pass a bill making it
illegal for comedian Alex Stein to comment on how she
had it was a big booty Latina. I don't approve
of it. I think that's inappropriate. But we've all seen
that video on the That would be funny, wouldn't it.
Here in Texas we have state represent Dade Falin previously
he was the House Speaker, and I can't think of
(36:05):
a person in Texas state government that has been memed
made fun of with memes more more than Dade Falin has. Amazingly,
Dade Falen had what was it a House spell three
sixty six would make it a crime to distribute altered media,
including political memes, without government approval. Some people, some people
(36:26):
Dave fail and said, we're all misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
What the law does.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But we've had people on the show, policy analysts, lawyers
look at how the law was written and say, yeah,
this actually seems a lot like he's trying to outlaw
political memes. Here right now with his analysis and the
latest on the meme law, my buddy Brandon Waltins is
here this afternoon from Texas scorecard dot com. Brandon, this
is a two part question. Let's start with the obvious thing.
(36:50):
Is this really what it sounds like? And does this pass?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
So yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
This is wild.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
I mean, we talked about this bill a couple months
ago when it was going through committee, and honestly, I'm
surprised that they've allowed it to get this far. The
House is actually scheduled to take a vote on the
bill today. And essentially what it says is, okay, well,
if you alter any you know, pictures.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Or videos or whatever of.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
A lawmaker or a candidate in a campaign, and you
don't put the right disclosure right saying that no, this
is this is an edited picture whatever, you could go
to jail and you know, this is absolutely bizarre. And
this is also very much in reaction to, you know,
what Dade Feeling saw in an own campaign. Okay, this
(37:39):
actually started when a mailer went out by I think
it was Club for Growth, one of those organizations, sent
out a mailer that you know, had a picture of
Daid Feeling with Nancy Pelosi. Pretty tame stuff as far
as political mailers go.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
He loses it and now is.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Trying to essentially smoke people who wanted to make pictures
with him. Anybody in Jay lawyers have looked at this,
they said it's unconstitutional. I think that you know, if
it passes today and get sent over to the Senate.
My hope is that it is dead on arrival there.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
But you know, the real.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Sad thing is not only that are these things being
debated and talked about, but you know, we're at a point
in the session now where it's becoming a real zero
sum game. What I mean by that is with deadlines
coming up. Any time that they're spending talking and debating
a bill like this is time that they're not talking
about passing a priority like you know, property tax relief
(38:37):
for you know, ending in state tuition for legals, or
any any number of these these these priorities. So it's
it's a sad thing that this is what they're spending
their time on.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I am amazed at it.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
But hey, look there from what I could tell, you know,
we had State Representative Steve Tothier a little earlier in
the show. It doesn't sound like there's anything going on
today that's a priority. These are all people pet projects,
where bills that someone has some personal involvement in. Nothing
that the grassroots Republicans at our last state convention asked for,
Nothing that conservative activists or voters are acting. These are all,
(39:13):
it seems to me, like everything they're working on today
is something that some political donor wanted. Maybe I'm just
not getting it.
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Yeah, it's it's bizarre because there are a lot of bills, right, Okay,
I'm looking at the calendar today. There's you know, like
I think it looks like two hundred bills on here,
but you know, like eighty two of them are by Democrats,
and none of them are things that anybody campaigned on, right,
They're not things like that. Instead, you know, I'm looking
at you look at like a bill passed yesterday that
(39:43):
they're voting on again today allowing judges to be able
to tint their windows, you know, beyond the legal limits
just judges, right, regular people not allowed to, but we're
gonna allow judges to have better car tinting. I mean,
this is the kind of stuff that they're debating.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, that's amazing. There's no way that benefits me. You know,
I'm still gonna know.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I mean, yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
There's a safety issue for judges. Well if okay, if
that's the case, then just allow everybody to tint throw indow.
I think it's cool whatever, but don't carve out certain classes.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, I mean I think we all have safety issues, right,
What about somebody that's been stalked by an ex lover
or something. Okay, certainly here's something I do get behind.
And I understand our libertarian listeners. This will they'll roll
their eyes at this. They don't like this. Liberals don't
like this. But state Representative Leo Wilson is proposing a
law that would require state authorities to work with federal
(40:38):
law enforcement to do DNA testing at the border, and
this makes people very uncomfortable. But as far as stopping
child trafficking goes, I don't really know that there's a
way around this. To me, this always seemed like something
that eventually would have to happen. If the government has
a DNA database for citizens, which apparently they do, why
(40:59):
would we not try to keep DNA records of what
undocumented children are coming over our border. There's almost no
other way to keep track of it. And when you
consider the fact that these kids are getting forced into sex, slavery,
and worse, this seems like the only deterrened what's your
take on this.
Speaker 7 (41:15):
Brandon, Well, this is interesting. I mean this build that
they had a hearing recently. How still two fifty six
I think it is explicitly prohibits creating a database. Okay,
so they say they won't create a database of this. Now,
of course, you know, like you said, libertarians and certainly
people who are skeptical of the government probably have reason
to be maybe even skeptical of that claim. But if
(41:38):
you assume that if you take them what they were,
they're not going to create a database. The problem that
this is trying to solve is I think a very
important one, which is that you have groups coming across
the border. You have miners that are with adults that
they claim our relatives, right, they'll say, this is my son,
this is my nephew, whatever. This would essentially give some
(41:59):
tools to be able to verify that, because what we
actually see happen is that in many cases that's actually
those are smugglers coming across with children and they lie
about being family units. And so, you know, I this
particular bill, maybe there's some work to be done on
it to strengthen some of the concerns. I certainly understand that,
(42:20):
but it is a problem that we do need to
address that you know, hopefully Texas can help address, and
hopefully what we'll see, you know, I think we'll see
as well some action on the federal level as well.
Ye know.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
On that note, they say today is one hundred days
of the Trump administration. And whatever people think of his policies,
his negotiation of trying to end Ukraine or Israeli war,
whatever's happening in Yemen, one thing that is indisputably true
of this administration, and you know, going hand in hand
with the work they're doing with the State of Texas,
is that we have stopped the border crisis. We had
(42:51):
thousands of illegal immigrants coming over the border a day.
I saw a number today that this baffled me, Brandon
and they said nine There have been nine a immigrants
captured and released so far since Trump took over.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
I don't mean a day total.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
And it was because they were having medical emergencies, which
isn't I think most of us would probably agree, Okay,
someone's bleeding out, let them go to the hospital. That's
one thing, right, But apparently the group of people that
that does not apply to are pregnant people. Pregnant women
are not being allowed into the country. You got to
admit things are looking up. They're not perfect, but boy,
(43:25):
that's a vast improvement.
Speaker 7 (43:28):
No, absolutely, I think that you know, of all the
things on the what did Trump say, just you just
needed to just needed a different president to get this
stuff done. I think that that shows that the federal
government and border patrol, et cetera, you know, have a
lot of tools to be able to stop this. Certainly,
I think that they could have more, and we need
to be doing more. But you know, they have a
(43:49):
lot of tools at their disposal already. But if the
administration doesn't want to see it happen, then it's not
going to. And so you know, it's amazing to see
what a difference, What a difference one hundred day.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Hey, let's step away from Austin for just a minute
and head over to college station. Texas A and M
is a focal point of your news website today at
Texas scorecard dot com because of DEI policies. Now, I
was under the impression this stuff had been outlawed. It
was supposed to go in the state of Texas. It
was all supposed to be removed. But now we learned
that the Texas A and M President Mark Welsh has elevated,
(44:25):
apparently promoted a person an academic on his campus who
initiated the failed twenty twenty three hiring of DEI advocates
to help a program focused on cultivating future civic leaders.
It sounds an awful lot like DEI, which I thought
wasn't allowed anymore.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Brandon, can you explain this.
Speaker 7 (44:45):
Well, yeah, this goes all the way back to twenty
twenty three, when you had the university set to hire
essentially a Kathleen Kathleen mcelroyd to run Texas AA. Then
university's journalism program was uncovered that she was a big
DEI person, had a lot of fringe beliefs, and she
(45:08):
ultimately decided to back out from that offer. But what
we have here is that Mark Welsh, who is the
president of Texas A and M University, is essentially promoting
now this this advocate of the e I now to
lead the university civics initiative. And you know, this is
(45:31):
a real issue because the legislation that the Universe that
the the that passed last session, so I think it
went into effect last year banning de I on campuses.
There are a number of exceptions, and what we're seeing
is that universities are trying to take advantage of that
to either rename departments or move people around, but ultimately
accomplish the same tasks. The university says that they are,
(45:56):
you know, committed to following state law and banning de I.
You know, hopefully we'll see that. But when you are
promoting the same people who are pushing those policies just
a couple of years ago certainly gives a lot of pause.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Brandon Walton's texascorecard dot Com is the website. If you
haven't already done so, follow Brandon on x He is
a good follow on social media. He is regularly reporting
from the state capitol with honest news, cutting through the
dirt the grit of the political propaganda that's being pushed
in your face constantly by the Houston Chronicle and the
(46:30):
Texas Tribune. Brandon Waltons texascorecard dot COM's the website. Check
it out. To the rest of you. I love you
so much. Drive safe out there. We'll be back brain
early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a
radio for.
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