May 6, 2025 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features authors Austin Petersen and Daniel Turner, plus journalist Brandon Waltens. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
New report economic news today, McDonald's is experiencing a drop
in sales. People not eating much McDonald's these days. Apparently
Ronald McDonald is so hard up for money.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
How hard up for money is he? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ronald is so hard up for money that he's working
nights as Kathy Griffin's stunt double. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster.
Thanks for turning on your radio. We got a lot
going on here this afternoon, so it's great to be
here with you. Uh. The Satanic Ball was last night,
the met Gala. You know who wasn't there, Lebron James.
Apparently there's a story behind that. Purportedly, we're gonna pick
at that scab a little bit. Daniel Turner from Power
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of the Future, we'll be here to tell you about that.
We're gonna make fun of the Alita. They deserve it.
I hope you'll enjoy it. And my buddy Austin Peterson
stopping by from Well from the online store I love
WJ dot com. We got a sale going on right now.
Use promo code Summer twenty to get a discount on
all your favorite WJ gear for Memorial Day. But that's
not why he's here. He was at the Smithsonian this week.
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He got kicked out for having an American flag. I
know that sounds like rage bait. No, that's a real
news story. I mean, you know, news to us, we're
the ones breaking it. We'll tell you about it. Speaking
of breaking news, Brandon Waltons this year from Texas scorecard
dot com. Somebody was escorted out of the Texas State
Capital today. Not just somebody, A top staffer for the
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Texas House Speaker is in trouble right now for going
around killing and crushing bills, corrupting bills that purportedly had
something to do with the Texas with the Texas State
Capitol staffers. Love interest. It is a news story. It
involves scandal and political power and love and romance. Love
is in the air, folks, It's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Radio. Don't go anywhere. It's a full show this afternoon.
Today's show is bought to you by the sixth of May,
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Speaker 4 (02:11):
I'm listening to Pursuit of Happiness Lay.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, you know, I'm playing this music for a reason.
All right, some of our older listeners don't even know
what this is. It's Puff Daddy Sean Diddy Combs. He
was a famous rapper in the nineties. He was a
music producer, he was a fashion mogul, and purportedly a
human trafficker. He is on trial this week. His trial
just started yesterday in New York City. They're picking the
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jury and they're asking the jury weird questions like do
you know who's Saturday Night Live alumni and Hollywood movie
star Mike Myers is Wait what Mike Meyer. They're asking
people if they know who Kanye West is. They're asking
jurors do you like Puff Daddy's music? Were you ever
of a m of human trafficking? You know, things you
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wouldn't normally expect to have someone ask you in a courtroom.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But it's a very unusual case.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And as all that's taking place in Manhattan yesterday in
a federal court, we don't get to your audio of
it because it's a federal court case.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I don't understand that at all.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, if it's a federal court case, you can't have
cameras and microphones. But if it's some you know, municipal court,
you can. Why Why is that? Why is that a rule?
Does that make any sense? I don't get it. Maybe
there's a good answer. Who knows. I don't know everything.
I do know this. One of puff Daddy's friends did
not go out to the Satanist prom last night. Lebron James,
who apparently was a regular attendee of the Puff Daddy freakofs,
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was a no show Monday night at the met Gala
in New York City. Now, normally, you know, you think,
all right, one Hollywood celebrity wasn't there. Who cares? Lebron
James was supposed to be co chair for the event.
He was not only was he not only was he
scheduled to be there, he was supposed to be a focal.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Point of the event.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
And I'm sure sure it's just a coincidence that his
good friend Puff Daddy started his trial yesterday. Lebron James
claims he couldn't make the event because his knee hurt
from playing basketball. Does that make any sense? You don't
go to a Satanist ball because you're no. I don't
think that's what happened in previous years. Puff Daddy was
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supposedly throwing the after hours parties for these things. I
would I have a funny feeling if puff Daddy was
not in prison and he was gonna throw a gay
orgy last night with sex trafficked humans that were brought
in from other states. I'm guessing Lebron James probably would
have attended.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But I don't know. I don't know any of these people.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So I reached out to somebody who was a regular
attendee of the puff Daddy freak ops, Daniel Turner for
Power of the Future.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I was wonder, way you going with that opening?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I was not a regular parties. No, he wasn't. No,
what do you and I?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
We're the kind of guys we don't get invited to
cocktail parties by not only by people, but by political people.
Do you think it's because we're so mean to them?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Probably because you know we're not into their their you know,
satanic ritual and eyes wide shut nightmares? Right? I mean,
there's there's definitely too many people who either participated actively
or just knew what was happening. Whether it's the Puff
Daddy parties, whether it's the Epstein Island, there are too
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many famous people who were just comfortable with a level
of that's not even debauchery. The bauchery, I guess is legal,
Like this is this is drugging and raping people. This
is this is sex slavery, and they just kind of
rolled with it because they're cool and they're powerful, and
they're rich and you know, lightnut Kenny, we're just having fun.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well that's what they claim, right, But I mean, look you,
I'm glad we have a sense of humor about this stuff.
We've been making Epstein jokes for years. But you and
I both agree these really are horrible people. If any
of this stuff is real, do we get justice? I mean, dude,
we here in Houston, Texas, one of the attorneys, local
celebrity attorney Tony Busby was representing some of these people,
and they've gone after him. They've accused him of all
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kinds of crazy things and tried to get him into
trouble and sued him. And all he's doing is representing
sex trafficking victims, purported sex trafficking victims. Do you think
a puff daddy gets incriminated? I know it's hard to
tell this early on. And b do you think there's
more celebrities that get thrown into the mix here?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
You know, if they're guilty, absolutely they should. I mean
it took a little while for Harvey Weinstein to finally
go down, but he did because there were enough people
who came forward and said what he was doing. There's
only one celebrity who seems to have his hands totally clean,
and that's Denzel Washington because the day he went to
his first party, the press reported that he left within
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three minutes, like that guy got out of his car,
walked inside, walked right out. It was like I'm done.
So it looks like Denzel was the only guy who said, yeah,
I'm even going to be in the same room where
this nonsense is happening, even if I say, oh no,
I just I just went to the island because I
wanted to use the pool. I think that's what Bill
Gates is saying about Epstein Island, right, like no, no, no,
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Because you know, Kenny, when you're worth one hundred and
thirty billion dollars. You can't find a good pool anywhere, right,
so you have to go to this sex island in
the Bomas.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And of course his wife left him over it. So
clearly Bill Gates did something wrong. But Hollywood, in the world,
in Silicon Valley, and you know, there's there's all terrible people,
elitists and billionaires and millionaires and beautiful celebrities, and we
expect very little from them in terms of class, at
least people like you and I do. I know, you know,
liberals and people that aren't quite as aware of we
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are as we are probably look up to them and
idolize them. But they shouldn't because these are trashy people.
I didn't know who this was. Lisa is the name
of a pop star. She plays the kind of like
the mousey, seemingly innocent girlfriend of the security guard in
the latest season of White Lotus. For those who know
what I'm talking about, she's a waitress in the resort,
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but in real life she's a pop star and she's
from a group called Black Pink. Last night she attended
the met Gala. Beautiful woman, very attractive. She's wearing lingerie
with Louviton skin tight leggings on. What's weird about her
outfit at the met Gala? And you know, there's a
lot of weird outfits of the Metcala when you zoom
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in on it. Last night at the met Gala, which
was on Sinco de Mayo, so obviously the theme for
the night was African American fashion, she decided to wear
Rosa Parks themed underwear. If you think I'm exaggerating, I'm not.
Rosa Parks's face is on her panties. And apparently some
people have pointed out that this is a woman who
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had a history of Here's a quote from someone criticizing
her on the internet, Rosa Parks on your underwear less
than three months after a compilation of you saying the
N word goes viral. She's an Asian rapper, movie star,
pop star. Can you recover from this? She's wearing Rosa
Parks theme underwear. It feels like, Look, I'm not offended
by much, but I gotta admit, Daniel, that does seem
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like something that would trigger the offence industry.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
It will, without a doubt, but it shouldn't any more
than you know, the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics
in Paris, where they recreated the Last Supper with a
bunch of trans people, right, And there's a lot of
outrage in the world, and so it gets I have
a problem with the selective outrage over what the left
considers to be sacred when the left is constantly skewing
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the right. I don't think Rosa Parks is the left
right issue, but race is certainly the favorite sacred cow
of the left, and so I do agree. I think
Rosa Parks underwear are incredibly poor taste. They're also very confusing, right,
But I can't get angry over that when there is
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just so much diabolical nonsense the Left is shoving down
the throat of Americans, of children, of children, and we're
supposed to quote unquote tolerate it. You know, they're going
to be angry at the fake meme of Donald Trump
as the pope, right than they were about Rosa Parks underwear.
And if we're supposed to laugh at that, and I
did laugh at Donald Trump as the Pope, then I'm
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just gonna shrug my shoulders and say eh about Rosa
Parks underwear.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I know it's not so much offensive to me it's
just stupid. But to your point, you raised an even
more interesting point about the Olympics and the Last Summer
with the Supper with the drag queens, and of course
that goes hand in hand with what we see at
the met Gala. They're conspiracy theorists who think people at
the Met Gala where these you know, their Satanic ball gowns,
and that they've made some kind of deal with the
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devil where they have to low key basically admit to
the world like, yeah, we're part of the Illuminati, we're
part of the New World Order, we worship Satan, we
sold our souls. I don't know if any of that's true.
Conspiracy theorists have interesting ideas. It's interesting to listen to.
I don't know if it's true. I do know this though,
There is a program apparently publicly fund in the UK
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by a bunch of scientists, reported on by MT Technology Review,
to block out the Sun and Daniel. The program is
called Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation. I'm gonna say it
one more time and I want everybody to spell it
out like it's an acronym in their head. Stratospheric Aerosol
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Transport and Nucleation SATAN. It's a balloon system to block
out the sun. I thought this was a joke when
I heard Russell Brand talking about it. I mean, Daniel,
you can't blame Alex Jones and people like that for
going crazy when you see things like that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
This looks evil.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You're telling me they want to block out the sun
and they're calling the program SATAN.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's a little on the nose, don't you think.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Well, I think what's funny is that we're also investing
in solar panels, right, so maybe those two should sit
down and have a conversation. Right, the block out the
sun people and the buy more solar panel people, they
need to sit down and talk. Also, why does the
UK get to block out the sun for the rest
of us? They're just gonna block it out over the UK, right,
Are they going to somehow have like a big umbrella
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over their little island or the rest of us have
to deal with the consequences of UK's SATAN projects. So
you know, but those are the people who attend the
met ball, Those are the people who go to Epstein's Island.
There is this class That's what's so funny Kenny about
Bernie Sanders' end oligarchy tour. That is the oligarchy. He
thinks oligarchy is Elon Musk because he's worth four hundred
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billion dollars. The oligarchy are not necessarily the rich. They're
the weird Satanic Illuminati. People who dress up in Rosa
Parks underwear, who block out the sun, who tell you
to eat bugs right, and then don't have to get
the vaccine themselves, and if they get caught, they go
with Lebron James to some sex island and claim they
have a bum knee. Right, that is the oligarchy. But
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where was Bernie Sanders last night? Right? No one's blasting
them for their Satan projects. They all get because they're
on his side. They're the good oligarchy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Well, you know AOC got into trouble for attending the
met Gala in the past when she had a dress
on that said heath the Ritch and it was a
five thousand dollars dress. But hey, before we run out
of time here, Daniel Turner, you're always good at picking
on these people and they deserve it. What is the
carbon footprint of the met Gala? I mean, this is a.
This is a social gathering where these people apparently are
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all environmentalists, but they all flew there in a private jet.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, and they all spend you know, gobs of fossil
fuels and the creation of their fashion in the event itself.
It's just where the hypocrisy of the climate movement never ends,
because if there really was this crisis, things like the
met Gala, which is totally frivolous, would be canceled. Things
like Taylor Swift's Eras concert, which is totally frivolous, would
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be concert. Right. They're cool events for the people who
go to them, but we don't need them to survive.
In fact, according to their logic of the environmental left,
these are the things that are killing the planet. And
yet no one is ever trying to cancel Falas Swift,
no one's ever trying to cancel and met Gala. No
one's going to cancel the next COP thirty conference in
the in the Brazil, where forty thousand climate activists will
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gather in a couple of months. So again it's like
the illuminati. Their side is good, but when anyone else
tries to do it, it's bad, and it has to
be outlawed my.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Brother from another The website is Powerthefuture dot com. His
name is Daniel Turner. You can find him on x
He's on the social media platform for the time being.
As you can tell, he seems to say a lot
of things that probably upset the Illuminati, and if he
disappears tomorrow, I just want to remind them Daniel Turner
was never my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Skype is now officially dead. Rest in peace to Skype.
I can't wait to see what inappropriately colored suit President Trump?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Where's to its funeral? I'm kidding. I remember people got
mad about that.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
They said Trump wore an inappropriate suit to the Pope's funeral.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It is fake news, it turns out not real.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But sometimes people do wear inappropriate things to places, really
offensive stuff like maga hats.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
All right, I'm being facetious. Back in September, Steve and I.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Took a trip with a bunch of our radio listeners
to Boston and we did the historic Boston tours. Fascinating, right,
you go look at where Paul Revere went and where
you know, Ben Franklin and all these different American heroes,
the founding fathers, what happened, where they were when different
things happened. And while we were there, our tour guide
seemed like a good guy. He seemed like a very
patriotic American. Told us he was a history teacher at
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a local public school, doing tours for the you know,
the Boston Commons on the weekend. And so we asked
him at the end of the tour to take a
photo with us, and he said he wouldn't do it
because some of us were wearing Maga stuff. Now, this
was a pretty big tour group. There were a lot
of us there. A couple of women in the group
had on hats, but they weren't even real mac It
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was like a pink Maga hat, and it was a
photo of dozens of us. We just wanted him to
stand there with us. He didn't want to do it,
and apparently the reason why is because you know, he said, oh, no,
I don't want to be associated with that, Like, dude,
f you seriously, but whatever, it's his choice not to
do it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
We were a little offended. We were miffed.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
After you know, we thought we're cool, right, we love America,
You love America. Turns out no. Now, in his defense,
he's a private citizen. He has every right not to
wear it, to be associated with people wearing a MAGA hat,
not to be photographed. I think it makes him a pussy,
But that's besides the point. Turns out he's not the
only person that's like that's out doing so. Almost the
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exact same thing happened to our buddy Austin Peterson. But weirdly,
he wasn't on the streets of Boston. He was at
the Smithsonian. If you don't know Austin Peterson, he is
the author of the Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto, of which I
happened to be one. He is the creator of the
Libertarian Republic former Missouri State Missouri Senate candidate, Libertarian Political
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Party presidential candidate. But he's also a Maga Republican, and
he's on the line right now. Austin, are you back now?
You're back in Missouri? You were in Washington, d C.
Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Yes, I made it out of the swamps, Kenny, thank
you for having me here. Yet I took a tour
of some of my friends to Washington, d C. And
we call it the AP d C Liberty Tour. So
it's basically, you know what I would do if I
was going to tour Washington, d C. So you know,
we go to the Jefferson Memorial. I made like an artist.
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I used AI to like recreate Thomas Jefferson's personality so
like all the kids on the tour could like talk
to him, ask him questions, YadA, YadA, YadA. But we
went to the the History Museum, the American History Museum,
And while I was there, I was using a small
American flag to kind of guide the tour around so
people could find me because there's tons of crowds and
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get this, Kenny. At one point during the tour, I'm
standing there with in the first Ladies exhibit and the
the guard told me that I needed to put my
American flag away, and I was like, I was confused.
I was like, wait, what are you talking about? And
there's you know, there's several witnesses to this, and I said,
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you know is this She says you have to take
that flag and fur it and put it away. And
we're talking about We're not talking about like a giant
flag or anything. We're talking about a little small, you know,
hand sized flag that I used to identify myself. And
I said, is it the problem that it's this flag
or just any flag? And she looked at me and
she goes, some people may find it offensive. And I
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was so shocked. I was so shocked. I didn't know
what to think or what to do. So, I mean,
I just I put it away and I thought about
it for a few minutes. I mean, I can't, like
cause a ruckus. I got twenty two people and my own, like,
you know, nine month old baby right there with me.
So I just took a photograph and posted it online
and you know, and of course the backlash began and
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everything unfolded. But the American flag might be offensive to people, Kenny.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Wow, that's absolutely amazing. And of course I don't know.
I got to wonder, in an alternate universe if you
had a Biden hat on. Nobody anywhere owns a Biden hat.
We've never really seen a Biden hat. But if you
had a Biden hat on and the American flag, I
wonder if they would have had the same reaction.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
You know, I had forgotten that even I was wearing it.
It was the you know, the Elon Musk Dark Maga
hat which you can get at I love WJ dot
com by.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now that's very cool.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But the but this, I know it had to be
because of that, because there were so many protesters who
are out in Washington, DC. And you know what the
number one thing that they of course they hate Trump,
but you know who they hate Trump more than they
hate who they hate when they hate Trump, Elon Musk.
They hate Elon Musk more than anything. I mean, they
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have just got some kind of weird fetish for this guy.
It's it's the weirdest thing ever. You see all these
protest signs in it's a all about Elon, Elon Elon.
But it makes sense. He's coming for their jobs, he's
firing them. He's causing you pain and suffering, and quite frankly,
I was drinking their liberal tears while we were there.
So I mean, but I mean again, we can't allow
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stuff like this to happen in our country. I mean,
it's ridiculous that you would go to the same museum
that has the Francis Scott Key star spangled banner from
this literal song that's there at that museum, and that
they would tell you that you can't fly an American
flag because it might be offensive. Kenny, Like, this is
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what we elected Trump for. I don't know what's going
on over the White House, but I hope they hear
about this, and I hope that something gets done.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I mean, that is just remarkable. Yeah, I've been to
the museum exhibit that you're talking about it. It's really
fascinating to be in there. And if I'm not mistaken,
vandals have gone in there and tried to do damage before.
They've gone to great lengths to protect that flag. I
think they even have specialighting in there. It's real dim
lighting so the light doesn't damage the fabric, if I'm
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not mistaken. But to your point about Elon Musk Austin,
I love this today we learned well, I guess this
information was already out there, but thirty one percent of
the IRS's tax auditors quit their job after Doge started downsizing.
I love that they self deported themselves.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Oh my god, I love it. I'm not tired of winning, Kenny.
I saw Stephen Miller out up there saying that that
they're gonna they're working on shutting down the Department of Education,
and they said, but if there's any tax dollars that
they have to that has to go out, they said
that it's going to be it's going to be a
mandate that they cannot teach these kids to hate their country,
or to hate America or to hate the flag, that
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they can't teach communism there. I mean, this is what
we would have what I would have done if I
had won the presidency. Kenny. So there's you know, patriotism.
A lot of the returns are kind of like, I
don't care about the flag patriotism to pledge of Legiance
and all that kind of stuff. But I'm really you know,
as a libertarian nationalist, I really kind of reject that
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when people talk smack about the founding fathers, like Thomas
Jefferson when he owned Slayers. My brother was saying, it's
on the tour. It's like, that's like talking smack about Grandpa. Okay,
you know, is Grandpa perfect? No, but he's without our grandfather.
We're not here today. We need to you know, any
kind of movement now, like movement against statues, national symbols,
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our flags, or anything like that, it has to be
suppressed with the extreme prejudice. I think it's important for
us to maintain our national symbols and a sense of
profound respect for the men and the women who built
this country and left it for us, for our posterity.
They sacrificed everything, many of them gave their lives. And
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I'm sick and tired of this attack on patriotism. And
it comes from left and it comes from the right
in many ways. And so after this incident happened week
of the Sithsonian, I mean, I'm getting every American flag
thing that I can. I'm going to I love WJ
dot com. I'm getting a champion jacket with the USA
flag on it. I'm gonna be the most flagged out
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libertarian you've ever seen after this week, Kenny, just wait,
this is gonna be the biggest Fourth of July two
hundred and fiftieth celebration of the United States of America. Baby,
I'm going to the Gulf of America with all my merk.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But why why stop there? Why not prepare for it
for a Memorial Day. You can go to I LOVEWJ
dot com get the ten percenter Crew Texas shirt, the
Louisiana shirt, the ten percenter Mississippi shirt. We got the
Trump flags. We got the Walton Johnson coffee mugs, Maga
hats with bullet holes in them, the Caucasian Men's baseball jersey.
I love that, the God better than government base trucker hats,
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really cool Mexican t shirts.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Arrest Fauci.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
If only there was a twenty percent off sale to
prepare us for Memorial Day.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Hey, I love it. We've got the twenty percent off
sale going on right now, Kenny. Everybody needs to go
to I LOVEWJ dot com. They're gonna think that the
like people didn't believe me that this happened at the
Smithsonian because it just sounds too It's just too incredible,
the kind of thing that somebody would make up in
order to like just get people angry and do rage baiting.
But I kid you not, the left sees our national
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flag as a symbol of offense. I imagine what it
does if ilhan Omar touches the American flag, does she
melt like the wicked witch from the Wizard Box? And
you know what, and you know what, Kenny, you know
is this. Maybe this isn't very libertarian to me, but
I actually think I think we need to amend the Constitution, Kenny,
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And and this is this is very not libertarian. But
I think that the natural born citizenship clause that applies
to president, I think that needs to go to the Congress.
I actually think we need to we need to file
an amendment to the US Constitution, whatever it needs to
be done. I don't think people who aren't born in
this country should be allowed to be uh congressman right? Us?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I agree as well.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Hey, if people want to get that twenty percent off,
is there a promo code?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
There is?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
But I forgot it, Kenny, Summer.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Twenty's It's okay, it's Summer twenty. It's funny that you
don't remember because you picked it. But Austin, I love
you man. You're my brother from another I hope you
had fun in DC, even with all the insanity. Folks,
if you want to be part of Austin's future trips
and the other crazy stuff he does, find him on
X the name AP for Liberty.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's also his website.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You could find the He runs the Waldenon Johnson online
store for US, among other things. AP for Liberty on X.
He created came up the Libertarian Republic. He's a libertarian Republican,
of which I am one as well. So if you
hate him, you hate me. That's all I'm saying. We
got a run, quick break, We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Houston started the Catholic Church, and then from that came,
you know, they broke off. There was the Protestants, the Lutherans,
the Methodists, YadA, YadA, YadA. Next thing you know, there's
a televangelist in the suburbs of Chicago somewhere selling you
Christianity for you know, a call now and subscribe to
(26:15):
christian You get what I'm saying. It's a carbon copy
of a carbon copy of a carbon copy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
You understand that, right.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Dustin Burrows is a carbon copy of a carbon copy
of a carbon copy of a carbon copy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He is.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Dustin Burrows is kind of like the inept version of
Dade Falin, who is the inept version of Dennis Bonnen.
I'm talking about the Texas House Speakers. Of course, these
are Rhino Republicans. The way they get elected to be
the Texas House Speaker is they collude with the Democrats,
the moderate Republicans, in the House in the Texas House
never team up with the conservatives in their party. No,
(26:48):
they always team up with the Democrats. Why, you know,
why to the uniparty. So this new guy, Dustin Burroughs,
differs a little bit from Dade Falin. When Dade fail
in the l asked Texas House Speaker was in charge,
he was passing a lot of bills, well, at least
more bills were getting passed than not, I mean, compared
to the current guy. Whatever your opinions are in that,
(27:09):
that's a you know, that's subjective. Fine, but Dade Phalon
got more accomplished than Dustin Burrows did. He wasn't necessarily
trying to get things done that you or I would want,
at least not most of the time. Along comes Dustin Burrows.
Dustin Burrows is still evil in my opinion, like Dade
Fhalon was, but he's also inept, which means to some extent,
maybe he's not as bad or worse, depending on how
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you look at that. And then we learn this a
couple hours ago earlier. This morning, news breaks from our
friends at Texas scorecard dot Com. Speaker Dustin Burrow's office
has fired and escorted from the Capitol by DPS a
senior staffer. We have rumor of who the staffer is,
but it's not someone you ever would have heard of,
so I won't out him on the air, at least
(27:53):
not yet. Dustin Burrows directed apparently this staffer directed shares
to move and kill bills under the guys that it
was directioned from Dustin Burroughs. Basically, what that means is,
as they're whipping the votes and lobbying for things, and
you know there's this legislative sessions happening right now, when
will we vote on this bill? What's going on with
that bill? A guy walking around the state Capitol, claiming
(28:15):
he was instructed by Dustin Burrows is telling people, now,
we're not going to vote on that kill this bill,
omit that item from the bill.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's no good.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Basically, some kids somewhere with a job, some twenty something
in the building. It sounds like some twenty something in
the building. He's walking around telling people things that the
leader of the Texas Republican Party should have been telling people.
He has now been kicked out of the Capitol. It
actually is crazier than it sounds here with all the details.
One of the men that broke this news story, Brandon
(28:45):
Waltons of Texas squarecard dot com. Brandon, lots of drama
today at the Texas State Capitol.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
It is a day that ends in a y, so
it did get a little bit of drama right.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
This time.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
It's coming from the Speaker's office at self. So you've
got this guy who you know, and and Speaker Borrows
office is confirmed to us that they fired there. They've dismissed,
i should say, their general counsel and policy director this week.
And it's interesting because this person is married to a
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a lobbyist in Austin. The accusation that that some sources
are are telling us is essentially that he was moving
or killing different pieces of legislation in order to benefit
her clients, which you know, is maybe not too shocking
in the grand scheme of things, and you look at,
you know, all the corruption that that happens in Austin
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and in politics in general, but you know, it is
it is interesting the timing of this, right, I mean,
we're we're less than four weeks away from the end
of session. You know, obviously this if if this is true,
if this was you know, really happened. I think it's
it's a you know, good good move to have him
out of the office. But of course some people are wondering, well,
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is this person a fall guy?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Is there more here?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
That's kind of Those are the questions that are being
asked right now.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Okay, I didn't want to reveal who it was because I,
you know, for legal reasons. But it looks like that
information has already been made public on social media, supposedly,
purportedly allegedly it's General Counsel and Policy Director Jimmy Skipton.
If that's true, he appears to be a young staffer
in the Texas State Capitol. It looks like he's locked
(30:29):
up his ex account. If it's the same person as
what I'm looking at online, I may be wrong, and
I apologize. If I am graduated from Texas Law School
in twenty twenty two, graduated from Tulane in twenty sixteen,
you know, young guy, not old, but old enough to
know how to try to corrupt the system. If that's
the case, does this appear to be the same person.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, that would that would certainly follow what the reports
we had heard as we were investigating this this morning.
And like I said Speaker Burroughs offices has confirmed that
this person was to missed this week. Obviously, they're not
going to get into details, right of of of of
the why wouldn't expect that, but uh, you know, it
does certainly line up.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Okay, is what he did illegal? Purportedly is what he's
allegedly doing illegal. You know, let's let's be careful here, obviously.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, yeah, I think you'd certainly call it unethical. Right.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
By the way, it's storming here in Central Texas. Power
just went out in the building.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Oh, I was wondering what you're I was going to
say my question was edgy, but it wasn't that edgy.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
It wasn't that bad, now, Yeah, yeah, No, I mean
I think it's certainly unethical, right, I mean, I think
anybody would say that if you're trying to benefit lobbyists
under the guise of representing yourself as somebody who's speaking
for the Speaker of the House, uh, and telling chairmen
or different people in the House whether or not they
should pass or kill different pieces of legislation, that's certainly
(31:56):
an issue. And so you know, it's a big deal
whether or not it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I don't know, okay, so is do we blame Dustin
Burroughs for this? I mean it was his staffer. If this,
let's put it this way, take off your journalism hat
for a minute, Brandon, just be branding the person. If
this was a politician, you probably didn't already dislike I'm
assuming you don't. You don't you know, Dustin Burrow's not
real popular with people in our wing of the party here.
(32:21):
If this was a different House speaker, if this was
Texas House Speaker Steve Toath or you know, somebody that's
politically more aligned with us, would you blame the Texas
House Speaker for this for one bad staffer or do
you put the blame on the staffer?
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Well, I think, like any of these situations, it's it's
sort of shared, right, I mean, personnel's policy. That's certainly true,
and it's very true in politics and in the Texas
capital in particular. Ultimately, though, the buck stops with Speaker Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
A lot of I posted about this news moments ago
when it broke right before you join me on the air.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
A lot of our listeners think he's just the fall guy.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
They think it is Dustin Burroughs and that this kid's
just being blamed because Dustin Burrows doesn't want to get blamed.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Maybe maybe who knows.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, okay, that's wild. It sounds like there's some excitement
happened in the background down there. Everything okay with the
power and stuff.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Oh yeah, oh my gosh, yes, I get tell you
it is. It is just a storm as ripick through
here right now.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Did you guys get hailballs over there? The size of
golf balls? Did you see that.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Today or yesterday?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yesterday they were in the suburbs of Houston. We didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Of course, I live in a high rise and I'm
not on the top floor, so if it, if they
were the size of golf balls, I didn't notice it.
But people were telling me that they were damaging people's
Spanish tile on their roof, damaging their vehicles. And you know, now,
for once, someone's done damage to a Tesla car dealership
and we can't blame Antifa.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Oh that's it, It's exactly it. We haven't seen hail yet,
but it was a tornado. A tornado watch I think
going on right now. So wouldn't that be at a
fitting into the legislative session?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, what an odd thing?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
To have have Mother Nature show up and says, oh,
you think it's a dramatic day at the capitol take this?
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
So in the meantime, Texas Rangers, the law enforcement department,
not the baseball team, have arrested a Boss County tax
assessor collector, the assessor that allegedly targeted someone who campaigned
against her. This sounds a lot like what the Obama
administration did back in twenty thirteen with the Irst Party scandal.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Using the lewis lerner remember her, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Is that what this is? But you know, again purportedly allegedly.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Right, Yeah, it's similar. I mean the accusations are similar, right, Essentially,
that someone campaigned against her and so she tried to
make their lives tell as tax assessor, you know, with
all sorts of sony trumped up you know, tax requests
and increase in things like that. Texas Rangers are investigating.
Thank you for the clarification. This is the law enforcement
(34:51):
agency and not the baseball team. Always wanted to remind
people that. But you know, that's just another example of
some of the corruption that we see happen even down
at the local levels of government.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
A little feud yesterday between State Representative Ken King, a Republican.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
We have a town in Texas called Canadian is that true?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
We do?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
We do?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
And he's feuding with Tony Tinderholt of Arlington. What are
those two gentlemen sparring over?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Well?
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Ken King is the chairman of the State Affairs Committee,
which is a really powerful committee in the Texas House,
and right now they've been sitting all session long on
some conservative priorities like, you know, everify for for legal
aliens protecting you know, women's restrooms and private spaces, and
banning taxpayer funded lobbing, which is a priority of the
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Republican Party of Texas. The last one. He actually reportedly
told a member last week that he wouldn't even hold
a hearing on it this session. And so, you know,
Ken King's one of the most liberal Republicans. He's got
called out on the floor yesterday by Representative Tony Tinderholt,
who is a conservative member from from Arlington, who's basically,
(36:07):
you know, said, look, why aren't we hearing you know,
any of this legislation. He of course, you know, didn't
really have any answer, but you know, it just it
just goes to show some of the priorities that we
see in these final weeks. We've got less than four
weeks in the legislative session in Austin, and there are
you know, there are number of priorities that have been
held up right now in the Texas House.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Okay, So in the meantime, the Texas State Lottery has
never been more controversial. For years, there's been a discussion
over whether or not we'd bring casinos to Texas, and
that stuff pretty much always gets buried either by lobbyists
for casinos in Louisiana or the more conservative members of
the Republican State Party. But now there's talk about getting
rid of the Texas State Lottery. We've talked about this
(36:50):
at length. We won't bore everybody with a long winded explanation,
but it looks like the Texas State Lottery organization itself
has helped third parties basically cheat in participating in buying
and selling lottery tickets. And somebody won a lottery ticket
that probably shouldn't have won the lottery. What they were
selling lottery tickets in foreign countries sounds illegal. Right Along
(37:10):
come State Senator Bob Hall, and he is arguing before
his colleagues that the whole thing needs to go away.
I gotta tell you, Brandon, mixed feelings about this. I'm
not a gambler. I find lottery. I find it to
be boring. I don't gamble in general, much less play
the lottery, which just seems like gambling for geriatrics to me.
No offense some of our listeners. But at the same time,
(37:31):
you know, the libertarian in me combined with the person
that advocates for veterans' rights says, you know, do we
get rid of this just because of one bad news story?
And then similarly, a lot of money from the Texas
State lottery does go to help out disabled veteran nonprofit groups.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Okay, is there a better solution? I don't know. What
do you think, Brandon? What's am I misunderstanding the news story?
What's happening here?
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Well? I think the biggest thing that I certainly there
are calls to end the lottery altogether. And that's something
that you know they had hearing on yesterday in the
Texas Senate. You know, keeping in mind that the state
can do things like support schools and support veterans without
the lottery. I mean the state has a three hundred
and forty billion dollar budget we spend on I think
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when you look at in public schools, in particular the lottery,
which was originally pitched as a way to fund public
education funds, about like a day and a half or something.
So it's not it's a drop in the bucket of
the budget. There could easily be made up for. But
what actually seems to maybe be the more really the
(38:34):
more likely outcome, I should say, is it really does
appear like the Texas Lottery Commission, which is the board
that oversees the lottery, looks like they may get dissolved
and the lottery may just move to a different agency,
maybe the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, in large
part because of some of the corruption allegations of members
(38:55):
of the Lottery Commission.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Okay, so I like, I'm just I just asked Rock,
so you know, grain AsSalt on this. It could be wrong,
but it says more that's that's AI Elon Musk's AI.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
For those that don't know what Gronk is.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
It says more than ninety percent of the revenue contributed
to the Texas Veterans Commission fund for veterans assistance comes
from the Texas Lottery Veterans Games. I didn't know what
that was, but it says it's something called the Veterans
Cash Scratch ticket, and last year, in the fiscal year
twenty twenty four, they transferred twenty six point eight million
dollars to the FVA. It's a lot of money, Brandon.
(39:29):
I mean, you're right, there are other ways to do this.
But considering who's in charge right now, considering how we
started this conversation with Dustin Bert Burrows and his corrupt
staff members, how long would it take to find a
better solution to fund veterans nonprofit groups? I mean to say,
wheelchairs for warriors for example.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
I mean, sure, sure, but you say you said twenty
six million, right, twenty six billion, So it says, yeah, yeah,
we're looking at potentially funding you know, and this is
out of you, out of the Senate, actually the Senate,
you know, his pastor proposal to to give two and
a half billion dollars to you know, movie companies to
come and film in Texas. Right, just the other day
(40:08):
at the Texas House, they were talking about, you know,
moving some money out of the Ray Day Fund five
billion dollars for some investments in different things. So the
twenty six million dollars is a lot of money. But
you know, when you look at a three hundred and
forty billion dollar budget that's filled with waste, I think,
you know, I think that money could be could be
found somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I mean, you're absolutely right about that. It's just crazy.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
When you look at little drops and trinkles of funding
here and there and where it comes from, it seems
like a lot. But in the big picture, it's really not.
Brian and it's scary day.
Speaker 7 (40:40):
It's crazy to say it's just twenty six million dollars, right.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, you know, Texas is tech.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
It's one state in the Union, but it's one of
the biggest economies in the world. Same with California. I mean,
if California and Texas were their own countries, we'd be
able to compete with most of the European Union. It's
pretty wild to think. But Brandon, you guys always do
awesome work. Congratulations on breaking this insane news story today.
I don't know what to think of it. You know what,
(41:06):
do Let's sprinkle in one more if we have time.
Can we make this real quick while we're on the topic.
While we're on the topic of gambling, real quick, explain
this to us. In Irving, Texas. Up there in the Metroplex,
they added a casino opponent to their city council and
there is there actually does anyone actually think casinos are
coming to the Metroplex? I'm surprised.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
Well, it's been an interesting thing recently. The Irving City
Council has considered essentially setting up the zoning so that
the site of the former Cowboys Stadium and Irving could
be used for casinos, despite the fact that casinos haven't
been you know, legalized yet in Texas. They want to
like get the work done ahead of time. Those people
(41:47):
have faced a lot of pushback, and then the local
elections on Saturday, a lot of the proponents for casinos
were either lost or headed to runoffs. So, you know,
has certainly been a motivating issue up there.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
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New report economic news today, McDonald's is experiencing a drop
in sales. People not eating much McDonald's these days. Apparently
Ronald McDonald is so hard up for money.
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How hard up for money is he? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ronald is so hard up for money that he's working
nights as Kathy Griffin's stunt double. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster.
Thanks for turning on your radio. We got a lot
going on here this afternoon, so it's great to be
here with you. Uh. The Satanic Ball was last night,
the met Gala. You know who wasn't there, Lebron James.
Apparently there's a story behind that. Purportedly, we're gonna pick
at that scab a little bit. Daniel Turner from Power
(00:56):
of the Future, we'll be here to tell you about that.
We're gonna make fun of the Alita. They deserve it.
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He got kicked out for having an American flag. I
know that sounds like rage bait. No, that's a real
news story. I mean, you know, news to us, we're
the ones breaking it. We'll tell you about it. Speaking
of breaking news, Brandon Waltons this year from Texas scorecard
dot com. Somebody was escorted out of the Texas State
Capital today. Not just somebody, A top staffer for the
(01:38):
Texas House Speaker is in trouble right now for going
around killing and crushing bills, corrupting bills that purportedly had
something to do with the Texas with the Texas State
Capitol staffers. Love interest. It is a news story. It
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This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
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Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, you know, I'm playing this music for a reason.
All right, some of our older listeners don't even know
what this is. It's Puff Daddy Sean Diddy Combs. He
was a famous rapper in the nineties. He was a
music producer, he was a fashion mogul, and purportedly a
human trafficker. He is on trial this week. His trial
just started yesterday in New York City. They're picking the
(02:42):
jury and they're asking the jury weird questions like do
you know who's Saturday Night Live alumni and Hollywood movie
star Mike Myers is Wait what Mike Meyer. They're asking
people if they know who Kanye West is. They're asking
jurors do you like Puff Daddy's music? Were you ever
of a m of human trafficking? You know, things you
(03:02):
wouldn't normally expect to have someone ask you in a courtroom.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But it's a very unusual case.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And as all that's taking place in Manhattan yesterday in
a federal court, we don't get to your audio of
it because it's a federal court case.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I don't understand that at all.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, if it's a federal court case, you can't have
cameras and microphones. But if it's some you know, municipal court,
you can. Why Why is that? Why is that a rule?
Does that make any sense? I don't get it. Maybe
there's a good answer. Who knows. I don't know everything.
I do know this. One of puff Daddy's friends did
not go out to the Satanist prom last night. Lebron James,
who apparently was a regular attendee of the Puff Daddy freakofs,
(03:41):
was a no show Monday night at the met Gala
in New York City. Now, normally, you know, you think,
all right, one Hollywood celebrity wasn't there. Who cares? Lebron
James was supposed to be co chair for the event.
He was not only was he not only was he
scheduled to be there, he was supposed to be a focal.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Point of the event.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
And I'm sure sure it's just a coincidence that his
good friend Puff Daddy started his trial yesterday. Lebron James
claims he couldn't make the event because his knee hurt
from playing basketball. Does that make any sense? You don't
go to a Satanist ball because you're no. I don't
think that's what happened in previous years. Puff Daddy was
(04:19):
supposedly throwing the after hours parties for these things. I
would I have a funny feeling if puff Daddy was
not in prison and he was gonna throw a gay
orgy last night with sex trafficked humans that were brought
in from other states. I'm guessing Lebron James probably would
have attended.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But I don't know. I don't know any of these people.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So I reached out to somebody who was a regular
attendee of the puff Daddy freak ops, Daniel Turner for
Power of the Future.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I was wonder, way you going with that opening?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I was not a regular parties. No, he wasn't. No,
what do you and I?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
We're the kind of guys we don't get invited to
cocktail parties by not only by people, but by political people.
Do you think it's because we're so mean to them?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Probably because you know we're not into their their you know,
satanic ritual and eyes wide shut nightmares? Right? I mean,
there's there's definitely too many people who either participated actively
or just knew what was happening. Whether it's the Puff
Daddy parties, whether it's the Epstein Island, there are too
(05:28):
many famous people who were just comfortable with a level
of that's not even debauchery. The bauchery, I guess is legal,
Like this is this is drugging and raping people. This
is this is sex slavery, and they just kind of
rolled with it because they're cool and they're powerful, and
they're rich and you know, lightnut Kenny, we're just having fun.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well that's what they claim, right, But I mean, look you,
I'm glad we have a sense of humor about this stuff.
We've been making Epstein jokes for years. But you and
I both agree these really are horrible people. If any
of this stuff is real, do we get justice? I mean, dude,
we here in Houston, Texas, one of the attorneys, local
celebrity attorney Tony Busby was representing some of these people,
and they've gone after him. They've accused him of all
(06:10):
kinds of crazy things and tried to get him into
trouble and sued him. And all he's doing is representing
sex trafficking victims, purported sex trafficking victims. Do you think
a puff daddy gets incriminated? I know it's hard to
tell this early on. And b do you think there's
more celebrities that get thrown into the mix here?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
You know, if they're guilty, absolutely they should. I mean
it took a little while for Harvey Weinstein to finally
go down, but he did because there were enough people
who came forward and said what he was doing. There's
only one celebrity who seems to have his hands totally clean,
and that's Denzel Washington because the day he went to
his first party, the press reported that he left within
(06:52):
three minutes, like that guy got out of his car,
walked inside, walked right out. It was like I'm done.
So it looks like Denzel was the only guy who said, yeah,
I'm even going to be in the same room where
this nonsense is happening, even if I say, oh no,
I just I just went to the island because I
wanted to use the pool. I think that's what Bill
Gates is saying about Epstein Island, right, like no, no, no,
(07:12):
Because you know, Kenny, when you're worth one hundred and
thirty billion dollars. You can't find a good pool anywhere, right,
so you have to go to this sex island in
the Bomas.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And of course his wife left him over it. So
clearly Bill Gates did something wrong. But Hollywood, in the world,
in Silicon Valley, and you know, there's there's all terrible people,
elitists and billionaires and millionaires and beautiful celebrities, and we
expect very little from them in terms of class, at
least people like you and I do. I know, you know,
liberals and people that aren't quite as aware of we
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are as we are probably look up to them and
idolize them. But they shouldn't because these are trashy people.
I didn't know who this was. Lisa is the name
of a pop star. She plays the kind of like
the mousey, seemingly innocent girlfriend of the security guard in
the latest season of White Lotus. For those who know
what I'm talking about, she's a waitress in the resort,
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but in real life she's a pop star and she's
from a group called Black Pink. Last night she attended
the met Gala. Beautiful woman, very attractive. She's wearing lingerie
with Louviton skin tight leggings on. What's weird about her
outfit at the met Gala? And you know, there's a
lot of weird outfits of the Metcala when you zoom
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in on it. Last night at the met Gala, which
was on Sinco de Mayo, so obviously the theme for
the night was African American fashion, she decided to wear
Rosa Parks themed underwear. If you think I'm exaggerating, I'm not.
Rosa Parks's face is on her panties. And apparently some
people have pointed out that this is a woman who
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had a history of Here's a quote from someone criticizing
her on the internet, Rosa Parks on your underwear less
than three months after a compilation of you saying the
N word goes viral. She's an Asian rapper, movie star,
pop star. Can you recover from this? She's wearing Rosa
Parks theme underwear. It feels like, Look, I'm not offended
by much, but I gotta admit, Daniel, that does seem
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like something that would trigger the offence industry.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
It will, without a doubt, but it shouldn't any more
than you know, the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics
in Paris, where they recreated the Last Supper with a
bunch of trans people, right, And there's a lot of
outrage in the world, and so it gets I have
a problem with the selective outrage over what the left
considers to be sacred when the left is constantly skewing
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the right. I don't think Rosa Parks is the left
right issue, but race is certainly the favorite sacred cow
of the left, and so I do agree. I think
Rosa Parks underwear are incredibly poor taste. They're also very confusing, right,
But I can't get angry over that when there is
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just so much diabolical nonsense the Left is shoving down
the throat of Americans, of children, of children, and we're
supposed to quote unquote tolerate it. You know, they're going
to be angry at the fake meme of Donald Trump
as the pope, right than they were about Rosa Parks underwear.
And if we're supposed to laugh at that, and I
did laugh at Donald Trump as the Pope, then I'm
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just gonna shrug my shoulders and say eh about Rosa
Parks underwear.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I know it's not so much offensive to me it's
just stupid. But to your point, you raised an even
more interesting point about the Olympics and the Last Summer
with the Supper with the drag queens, and of course
that goes hand in hand with what we see at
the met Gala. They're conspiracy theorists who think people at
the Met Gala where these you know, their Satanic ball gowns,
and that they've made some kind of deal with the
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devil where they have to low key basically admit to
the world like, yeah, we're part of the Illuminati, we're
part of the New World Order, we worship Satan, we
sold our souls. I don't know if any of that's true.
Conspiracy theorists have interesting ideas. It's interesting to listen to.
I don't know if it's true. I do know this though,
There is a program apparently publicly fund in the UK
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by a bunch of scientists, reported on by MT Technology Review,
to block out the Sun and Daniel. The program is
called Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation. I'm gonna say it
one more time and I want everybody to spell it
out like it's an acronym in their head. Stratospheric Aerosol
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Transport and Nucleation SATAN. It's a balloon system to block
out the sun. I thought this was a joke when
I heard Russell Brand talking about it. I mean, Daniel,
you can't blame Alex Jones and people like that for
going crazy when you see things like that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
This looks evil.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You're telling me they want to block out the sun
and they're calling the program SATAN.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's a little on the nose, don't you think.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Well, I think what's funny is that we're also investing
in solar panels, right, so maybe those two should sit
down and have a conversation. Right, the block out the
sun people and the buy more solar panel people, they
need to sit down and talk. Also, why does the
UK get to block out the sun for the rest
of us? They're just gonna block it out over the UK, right,
Are they going to somehow have like a big umbrella
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over their little island or the rest of us have
to deal with the consequences of UK's SATAN projects. So
you know, but those are the people who attend the
met ball, Those are the people who go to Epstein's Island.
There is this class That's what's so funny Kenny about
Bernie Sanders' end oligarchy tour. That is the oligarchy. He
thinks oligarchy is Elon Musk because he's worth four hundred
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billion dollars. The oligarchy are not necessarily the rich. They're
the weird Satanic Illuminati. People who dress up in Rosa
Parks underwear, who block out the sun, who tell you
to eat bugs right, and then don't have to get
the vaccine themselves, and if they get caught, they go
with Lebron James to some sex island and claim they
have a bum knee. Right, that is the oligarchy. But
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where was Bernie Sanders last night? Right? No one's blasting
them for their Satan projects. They all get because they're
on his side. They're the good oligarchy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Well, you know AOC got into trouble for attending the
met Gala in the past when she had a dress
on that said heath the Ritch and it was a
five thousand dollars dress. But hey, before we run out
of time here, Daniel Turner, you're always good at picking
on these people and they deserve it. What is the
carbon footprint of the met Gala? I mean, this is a.
This is a social gathering where these people apparently are
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all environmentalists, but they all flew there in a private jet.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, and they all spend you know, gobs of fossil
fuels and the creation of their fashion in the event itself.
It's just where the hypocrisy of the climate movement never ends,
because if there really was this crisis, things like the
met Gala, which is totally frivolous, would be canceled. Things
like Taylor Swift's Eras concert, which is totally frivolous, would
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be concert. Right. They're cool events for the people who
go to them, but we don't need them to survive.
In fact, according to their logic of the environmental left,
these are the things that are killing the planet. And
yet no one is ever trying to cancel Falas Swift,
no one's ever trying to cancel and met Gala. No
one's going to cancel the next COP thirty conference in
the in the Brazil, where forty thousand climate activists will
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gather in a couple of months. So again it's like
the illuminati. Their side is good, but when anyone else
tries to do it, it's bad, and it has to
be outlawed my.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Brother from another The website is Powerthefuture dot com. His
name is Daniel Turner. You can find him on x
He's on the social media platform for the time being.
As you can tell, he seems to say a lot
of things that probably upset the Illuminati, and if he
disappears tomorrow, I just want to remind them Daniel Turner
was never my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Skype is now officially dead. Rest in peace to Skype.
I can't wait to see what inappropriately colored suit President Trump?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Where's to its funeral? I'm kidding. I remember people got
mad about that.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
They said Trump wore an inappropriate suit to the Pope's funeral.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It is fake news, it turns out not real.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But sometimes people do wear inappropriate things to places, really
offensive stuff like maga hats.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
All right, I'm being facetious. Back in September, Steve and I.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Took a trip with a bunch of our radio listeners
to Boston and we did the historic Boston tours. Fascinating, right,
you go look at where Paul Revere went and where
you know, Ben Franklin and all these different American heroes,
the founding fathers, what happened, where they were when different
things happened. And while we were there, our tour guide
seemed like a good guy. He seemed like a very
patriotic American. Told us he was a history teacher at
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a local public school, doing tours for the you know,
the Boston Commons on the weekend. And so we asked
him at the end of the tour to take a
photo with us, and he said he wouldn't do it
because some of us were wearing Maga stuff. Now, this
was a pretty big tour group. There were a lot
of us there. A couple of women in the group
had on hats, but they weren't even real mac It
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was like a pink Maga hat, and it was a
photo of dozens of us. We just wanted him to
stand there with us. He didn't want to do it,
and apparently the reason why is because you know, he said, oh, no,
I don't want to be associated with that, Like, dude,
f you seriously, but whatever, it's his choice not to
do it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
We were a little offended. We were miffed.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
After you know, we thought we're cool, right, we love America,
You love America. Turns out no. Now, in his defense,
he's a private citizen. He has every right not to
wear it, to be associated with people wearing a MAGA hat,
not to be photographed. I think it makes him a pussy,
But that's besides the point. Turns out he's not the
only person that's like that's out doing so. Almost the
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exact same thing happened to our buddy Austin Peterson. But weirdly,
he wasn't on the streets of Boston. He was at
the Smithsonian. If you don't know Austin Peterson, he is
the author of the Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto, of which I
happened to be one. He is the creator of the
Libertarian Republic former Missouri State Missouri Senate candidate, Libertarian Political
(17:00):
Party presidential candidate. But he's also a Maga Republican, and
he's on the line right now. Austin, are you back now?
You're back in Missouri? You were in Washington, d C.
Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Yes, I made it out of the swamps, Kenny, thank
you for having me here. Yet I took a tour
of some of my friends to Washington, d C. And
we call it the AP d C Liberty Tour. So
it's basically, you know what I would do if I
was going to tour Washington, d C. So you know,
we go to the Jefferson Memorial. I made like an artist.
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I used AI to like recreate Thomas Jefferson's personality so
like all the kids on the tour could like talk
to him, ask him questions, YadA, YadA, YadA. But we
went to the the History Museum, the American History Museum,
And while I was there, I was using a small
American flag to kind of guide the tour around so
people could find me because there's tons of crowds and
(17:53):
get this, Kenny. At one point during the tour, I'm
standing there with in the first Ladies exhibit and the
the guard told me that I needed to put my
American flag away, and I was like, I was confused.
I was like, wait, what are you talking about? And
there's you know, there's several witnesses to this, and I said,
(18:15):
you know is this She says you have to take
that flag and fur it and put it away. And
we're talking about We're not talking about like a giant
flag or anything. We're talking about a little small, you know,
hand sized flag that I used to identify myself. And
I said, is it the problem that it's this flag
or just any flag? And she looked at me and
she goes, some people may find it offensive. And I
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was so shocked. I was so shocked. I didn't know
what to think or what to do. So, I mean,
I just I put it away and I thought about
it for a few minutes. I mean, I can't, like
cause a ruckus. I got twenty two people and my own, like,
you know, nine month old baby right there with me.
So I just took a photograph and posted it online
and you know, and of course the backlash began and
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everything unfolded. But the American flag might be offensive to people, Kenny.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Wow, that's absolutely amazing. And of course I don't know.
I got to wonder, in an alternate universe if you
had a Biden hat on. Nobody anywhere owns a Biden hat.
We've never really seen a Biden hat. But if you
had a Biden hat on and the American flag, I
wonder if they would have had the same reaction.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
You know, I had forgotten that even I was wearing it.
It was the you know, the Elon Musk Dark Maga
hat which you can get at I love WJ dot
com by.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now that's very cool.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But the but this, I know it had to be
because of that, because there were so many protesters who
are out in Washington, DC. And you know what the
number one thing that they of course they hate Trump,
but you know who they hate Trump more than they
hate who they hate when they hate Trump, Elon Musk.
They hate Elon Musk more than anything. I mean, they
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have just got some kind of weird fetish for this guy.
It's it's the weirdest thing ever. You see all these
protest signs in it's a all about Elon, Elon Elon.
But it makes sense. He's coming for their jobs, he's
firing them. He's causing you pain and suffering, and quite frankly,
I was drinking their liberal tears while we were there.
So I mean, but I mean again, we can't allow
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stuff like this to happen in our country. I mean,
it's ridiculous that you would go to the same museum
that has the Francis Scott Key star spangled banner from
this literal song that's there at that museum, and that
they would tell you that you can't fly an American
flag because it might be offensive. Kenny, Like, this is
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what we elected Trump for. I don't know what's going
on over the White House, but I hope they hear
about this, and I hope that something gets done.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I mean, that is just remarkable. Yeah, I've been to
the museum exhibit that you're talking about it. It's really
fascinating to be in there. And if I'm not mistaken,
vandals have gone in there and tried to do damage before.
They've gone to great lengths to protect that flag. I
think they even have specialighting in there. It's real dim
lighting so the light doesn't damage the fabric, if I'm
(21:04):
not mistaken. But to your point about Elon Musk Austin,
I love this today we learned well, I guess this
information was already out there, but thirty one percent of
the IRS's tax auditors quit their job after Doge started downsizing.
I love that they self deported themselves.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Oh my god, I love it. I'm not tired of winning, Kenny.
I saw Stephen Miller out up there saying that that
they're gonna they're working on shutting down the Department of Education,
and they said, but if there's any tax dollars that
they have to that has to go out, they said
that it's going to be it's going to be a
mandate that they cannot teach these kids to hate their country,
or to hate America or to hate the flag, that
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they can't teach communism there. I mean, this is what
we would have what I would have done if I
had won the presidency. Kenny. So there's you know, patriotism.
A lot of the returns are kind of like, I
don't care about the flag patriotism to pledge of Legiance
and all that kind of stuff. But I'm really you know,
as a libertarian nationalist, I really kind of reject that
(22:06):
when people talk smack about the founding fathers, like Thomas
Jefferson when he owned Slayers. My brother was saying, it's
on the tour. It's like, that's like talking smack about Grandpa. Okay,
you know, is Grandpa perfect? No, but he's without our grandfather.
We're not here today. We need to you know, any
kind of movement now, like movement against statues, national symbols,
(22:27):
our flags, or anything like that, it has to be
suppressed with the extreme prejudice. I think it's important for
us to maintain our national symbols and a sense of
profound respect for the men and the women who built
this country and left it for us, for our posterity.
They sacrificed everything, many of them gave their lives. And
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I'm sick and tired of this attack on patriotism. And
it comes from left and it comes from the right
in many ways. And so after this incident happened week
of the Sithsonian, I mean, I'm getting every American flag
thing that I can. I'm going to I love WJ
dot com. I'm getting a champion jacket with the USA
flag on it. I'm gonna be the most flagged out
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libertarian you've ever seen after this week, Kenny, just wait,
this is gonna be the biggest Fourth of July two
hundred and fiftieth celebration of the United States of America. Baby,
I'm going to the Gulf of America with all my merk.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But why why stop there? Why not prepare for it
for a Memorial Day. You can go to I LOVEWJ
dot com get the ten percenter Crew Texas shirt, the
Louisiana shirt, the ten percenter Mississippi shirt. We got the
Trump flags. We got the Walton Johnson coffee mugs, Maga
hats with bullet holes in them, the Caucasian Men's baseball jersey.
I love that, the God better than government base trucker hats,
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really cool Mexican t shirts.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Arrest Fauci.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
If only there was a twenty percent off sale to
prepare us for Memorial Day.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Hey, I love it. We've got the twenty percent off
sale going on right now, Kenny. Everybody needs to go
to I LOVEWJ dot com. They're gonna think that the
like people didn't believe me that this happened at the
Smithsonian because it just sounds too It's just too incredible,
the kind of thing that somebody would make up in
order to like just get people angry and do rage baiting.
But I kid you not, the left sees our national
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flag as a symbol of offense. I imagine what it
does if ilhan Omar touches the American flag, does she
melt like the wicked witch from the Wizard Box? And
you know what, and you know what, Kenny, you know
is this. Maybe this isn't very libertarian to me, but
I actually think I think we need to amend the Constitution, Kenny,
(24:38):
And and this is this is very not libertarian. But
I think that the natural born citizenship clause that applies
to president, I think that needs to go to the Congress.
I actually think we need to we need to file
an amendment to the US Constitution, whatever it needs to
be done. I don't think people who aren't born in
this country should be allowed to be uh congressman right? Us?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I agree as well.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Hey, if people want to get that twenty percent off,
is there a promo code?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
There is?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
But I forgot it, Kenny, Summer.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Twenty's It's okay, it's Summer twenty. It's funny that you
don't remember because you picked it. But Austin, I love
you man. You're my brother from another I hope you
had fun in DC, even with all the insanity. Folks,
if you want to be part of Austin's future trips
and the other crazy stuff he does, find him on
X the name AP for Liberty.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's also his website.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You could find the He runs the Waldenon Johnson online
store for US, among other things. AP for Liberty on X.
He created came up the Libertarian Republic. He's a libertarian Republican,
of which I am one as well. So if you
hate him, you hate me. That's all I'm saying. We
got a run, quick break, We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Houston started the Catholic Church, and then from that came,
you know, they broke off. There was the Protestants, the Lutherans,
the Methodists, YadA, YadA, YadA. Next thing you know, there's
a televangelist in the suburbs of Chicago somewhere selling you
Christianity for you know, a call now and subscribe to
(26:15):
christian You get what I'm saying. It's a carbon copy
of a carbon copy of a carbon copy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
You understand that, right.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Dustin Burrows is a carbon copy of a carbon copy
of a carbon copy of a carbon copy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He is.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Dustin Burrows is kind of like the inept version of
Dade Falin, who is the inept version of Dennis Bonnen.
I'm talking about the Texas House Speakers. Of course, these
are Rhino Republicans. The way they get elected to be
the Texas House Speaker is they collude with the Democrats,
the moderate Republicans, in the House in the Texas House
never team up with the conservatives in their party. No,
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they always team up with the Democrats. Why, you know,
why to the uniparty. So this new guy, Dustin Burroughs,
differs a little bit from Dade Falin. When Dade fail
in the l asked Texas House Speaker was in charge,
he was passing a lot of bills, well, at least
more bills were getting passed than not, I mean, compared
to the current guy. Whatever your opinions are in that,
(27:09):
that's a you know, that's subjective. Fine, but Dade Phalon
got more accomplished than Dustin Burrows did. He wasn't necessarily
trying to get things done that you or I would want,
at least not most of the time. Along comes Dustin Burrows.
Dustin Burrows is still evil in my opinion, like Dade
Fhalon was, but he's also inept, which means to some extent,
maybe he's not as bad or worse, depending on how
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you look at that. And then we learn this a
couple hours ago earlier. This morning, news breaks from our
friends at Texas scorecard dot Com. Speaker Dustin Burrow's office
has fired and escorted from the Capitol by DPS a
senior staffer. We have rumor of who the staffer is,
but it's not someone you ever would have heard of,
so I won't out him on the air, at least
(27:53):
not yet. Dustin Burrows directed apparently this staffer directed shares
to move and kill bills under the guys that it
was directioned from Dustin Burroughs. Basically, what that means is,
as they're whipping the votes and lobbying for things, and
you know there's this legislative sessions happening right now, when
will we vote on this bill? What's going on with
that bill? A guy walking around the state Capitol, claiming
(28:15):
he was instructed by Dustin Burrows is telling people, now,
we're not going to vote on that kill this bill,
omit that item from the bill.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's no good.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Basically, some kids somewhere with a job, some twenty something
in the building. It sounds like some twenty something in
the building. He's walking around telling people things that the
leader of the Texas Republican Party should have been telling people.
He has now been kicked out of the Capitol. It
actually is crazier than it sounds here with all the details.
One of the men that broke this news story, Brandon
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Waltons of Texas squarecard dot com. Brandon, lots of drama
today at the Texas State Capitol.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
It is a day that ends in a y, so
it did get a little bit of drama right.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
This time.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
It's coming from the Speaker's office at self. So you've
got this guy who you know, and and Speaker Borrows
office is confirmed to us that they fired there. They've dismissed,
i should say, their general counsel and policy director this week.
And it's interesting because this person is married to a
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a lobbyist in Austin. The accusation that that some sources
are are telling us is essentially that he was moving
or killing different pieces of legislation in order to benefit
her clients, which you know, is maybe not too shocking
in the grand scheme of things, and you look at,
you know, all the corruption that that happens in Austin
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and in politics in general, but you know, it is
it is interesting the timing of this, right, I mean,
we're we're less than four weeks away from the end
of session. You know, obviously this if if this is true,
if this was you know, really happened. I think it's
it's a you know, good good move to have him
out of the office. But of course some people are wondering, well,
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is this person a fall guy?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Is there more here?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
That's kind of Those are the questions that are being
asked right now.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Okay, I didn't want to reveal who it was because I,
you know, for legal reasons. But it looks like that
information has already been made public on social media, supposedly,
purportedly allegedly it's General Counsel and Policy Director Jimmy Skipton.
If that's true, he appears to be a young staffer
in the Texas State Capitol. It looks like he's locked
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up his ex account. If it's the same person as
what I'm looking at online, I may be wrong, and
I apologize. If I am graduated from Texas Law School
in twenty twenty two, graduated from Tulane in twenty sixteen,
you know, young guy, not old, but old enough to
know how to try to corrupt the system. If that's
the case, does this appear to be the same person.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, that would that would certainly follow what the reports
we had heard as we were investigating this this morning.
And like I said Speaker Burroughs offices has confirmed that
this person was to missed this week. Obviously, they're not
going to get into details, right of of of of
the why wouldn't expect that, but uh, you know, it
does certainly line up.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Okay, is what he did illegal? Purportedly is what he's
allegedly doing illegal. You know, let's let's be careful here, obviously.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, yeah, I think you'd certainly call it unethical. Right.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
By the way, it's storming here in Central Texas. Power
just went out in the building.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Oh, I was wondering what you're I was going to
say my question was edgy, but it wasn't that edgy.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
It wasn't that bad, now, Yeah, yeah, No, I mean
I think it's certainly unethical, right, I mean, I think
anybody would say that if you're trying to benefit lobbyists
under the guise of representing yourself as somebody who's speaking
for the Speaker of the House, uh, and telling chairmen
or different people in the House whether or not they
should pass or kill different pieces of legislation, that's certainly
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an issue. And so you know, it's a big deal
whether or not it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I don't know, okay, so is do we blame Dustin
Burroughs for this? I mean it was his staffer. If this,
let's put it this way, take off your journalism hat
for a minute, Brandon, just be branding the person. If
this was a politician, you probably didn't already dislike I'm
assuming you don't. You don't you know, Dustin Burrow's not
real popular with people in our wing of the party here.
(32:21):
If this was a different House speaker, if this was
Texas House Speaker Steve Toath or you know, somebody that's
politically more aligned with us, would you blame the Texas
House Speaker for this for one bad staffer or do
you put the blame on the staffer?
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Well, I think, like any of these situations, it's it's
sort of shared, right, I mean, personnel's policy. That's certainly true,
and it's very true in politics and in the Texas
capital in particular. Ultimately, though, the buck stops with Speaker Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
A lot of I posted about this news moments ago
when it broke right before you join me on the air.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
A lot of our listeners think he's just the fall guy.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
They think it is Dustin Burroughs and that this kid's
just being blamed because Dustin Burrows doesn't want to get blamed.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Maybe maybe who knows.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, okay, that's wild. It sounds like there's some excitement
happened in the background down there. Everything okay with the
power and stuff.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Oh yeah, oh my gosh, yes, I get tell you
it is. It is just a storm as ripick through
here right now.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Did you guys get hailballs over there? The size of
golf balls? Did you see that.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Today or yesterday?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yesterday they were in the suburbs of Houston. We didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Of course, I live in a high rise and I'm
not on the top floor, so if it, if they
were the size of golf balls, I didn't notice it.
But people were telling me that they were damaging people's
Spanish tile on their roof, damaging their vehicles. And you know, now,
for once, someone's done damage to a Tesla car dealership
and we can't blame Antifa.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Oh that's it, It's exactly it. We haven't seen hail yet,
but it was a tornado. A tornado watch I think
going on right now. So wouldn't that be at a
fitting into the legislative session?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, what an odd thing?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
To have have Mother Nature show up and says, oh,
you think it's a dramatic day at the capitol take this?
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
So in the meantime, Texas Rangers, the law enforcement department,
not the baseball team, have arrested a Boss County tax
assessor collector, the assessor that allegedly targeted someone who campaigned
against her. This sounds a lot like what the Obama
administration did back in twenty thirteen with the Irst Party scandal.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Using the lewis lerner remember her, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Is that what this is? But you know, again purportedly allegedly.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Right, Yeah, it's similar. I mean the accusations are similar, right, Essentially,
that someone campaigned against her and so she tried to
make their lives tell as tax assessor, you know, with
all sorts of sony trumped up you know, tax requests
and increase in things like that. Texas Rangers are investigating.
Thank you for the clarification. This is the law enforcement
(34:51):
agency and not the baseball team. Always wanted to remind
people that. But you know, that's just another example of
some of the corruption that we see happen even down
at the local levels of government.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
A little feud yesterday between State Representative Ken King, a Republican.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
We have a town in Texas called Canadian is that true?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
We do?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
We do?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
And he's feuding with Tony Tinderholt of Arlington. What are
those two gentlemen sparring over?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Well?
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Ken King is the chairman of the State Affairs Committee,
which is a really powerful committee in the Texas House,
and right now they've been sitting all session long on
some conservative priorities like, you know, everify for for legal
aliens protecting you know, women's restrooms and private spaces, and
banning taxpayer funded lobbing, which is a priority of the
(35:46):
Republican Party of Texas. The last one. He actually reportedly
told a member last week that he wouldn't even hold
a hearing on it this session. And so, you know,
Ken King's one of the most liberal Republicans. He's got
called out on the floor yesterday by Representative Tony Tinderholt,
who is a conservative member from from Arlington, who's basically,
(36:07):
you know, said, look, why aren't we hearing you know,
any of this legislation. He of course, you know, didn't
really have any answer, but you know, it just it
just goes to show some of the priorities that we
see in these final weeks. We've got less than four
weeks in the legislative session in Austin, and there are
you know, there are number of priorities that have been
held up right now in the Texas House.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Okay, So in the meantime, the Texas State Lottery has
never been more controversial. For years, there's been a discussion
over whether or not we'd bring casinos to Texas, and
that stuff pretty much always gets buried either by lobbyists
for casinos in Louisiana or the more conservative members of
the Republican State Party. But now there's talk about getting
rid of the Texas State Lottery. We've talked about this
(36:50):
at length. We won't bore everybody with a long winded explanation,
but it looks like the Texas State Lottery organization itself
has helped third parties basically cheat in participating in buying
and selling lottery tickets. And somebody won a lottery ticket
that probably shouldn't have won the lottery. What they were
selling lottery tickets in foreign countries sounds illegal. Right Along
(37:10):
come State Senator Bob Hall, and he is arguing before
his colleagues that the whole thing needs to go away.
I gotta tell you, Brandon, mixed feelings about this. I'm
not a gambler. I find lottery. I find it to
be boring. I don't gamble in general, much less play
the lottery, which just seems like gambling for geriatrics to me.
No offense some of our listeners. But at the same time,
(37:31):
you know, the libertarian in me combined with the person
that advocates for veterans' rights says, you know, do we
get rid of this just because of one bad news story?
And then similarly, a lot of money from the Texas
State lottery does go to help out disabled veteran nonprofit groups.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Okay, is there a better solution? I don't know. What
do you think, Brandon? What's am I misunderstanding the news story?
What's happening here?
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Well? I think the biggest thing that I certainly there
are calls to end the lottery altogether. And that's something
that you know they had hearing on yesterday in the
Texas Senate. You know, keeping in mind that the state
can do things like support schools and support veterans without
the lottery. I mean the state has a three hundred
and forty billion dollar budget we spend on I think
(38:14):
when you look at in public schools, in particular the lottery,
which was originally pitched as a way to fund public
education funds, about like a day and a half or something.
So it's not it's a drop in the bucket of
the budget. There could easily be made up for. But
what actually seems to maybe be the more really the
(38:34):
more likely outcome, I should say, is it really does
appear like the Texas Lottery Commission, which is the board
that oversees the lottery, looks like they may get dissolved
and the lottery may just move to a different agency,
maybe the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, in large
part because of some of the corruption allegations of members
(38:55):
of the Lottery Commission.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Okay, so I like, I'm just I just asked Rock,
so you know, grain AsSalt on this. It could be wrong,
but it says more that's that's AI Elon Musk's AI.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
For those that don't know what Gronk is.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
It says more than ninety percent of the revenue contributed
to the Texas Veterans Commission fund for veterans assistance comes
from the Texas Lottery Veterans Games. I didn't know what
that was, but it says it's something called the Veterans
Cash Scratch ticket, and last year, in the fiscal year
twenty twenty four, they transferred twenty six point eight million
dollars to the FVA. It's a lot of money, Brandon.
(39:29):
I mean, you're right, there are other ways to do this.
But considering who's in charge right now, considering how we
started this conversation with Dustin Bert Burrows and his corrupt
staff members, how long would it take to find a
better solution to fund veterans nonprofit groups? I mean to say,
wheelchairs for warriors for example.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
I mean, sure, sure, but you say you said twenty
six million, right, twenty six billion, So it says, yeah, yeah,
we're looking at potentially funding you know, and this is
out of you, out of the Senate, actually the Senate,
you know, his pastor proposal to to give two and
a half billion dollars to you know, movie companies to
come and film in Texas. Right, just the other day
(40:08):
at the Texas House, they were talking about, you know,
moving some money out of the Ray Day Fund five
billion dollars for some investments in different things. So the
twenty six million dollars is a lot of money. But
you know, when you look at a three hundred and
forty billion dollar budget that's filled with waste, I think,
you know, I think that money could be could be
found somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I mean, you're absolutely right about that. It's just crazy.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
When you look at little drops and trinkles of funding
here and there and where it comes from, it seems
like a lot. But in the big picture, it's really not.
Brian and it's scary day.
Speaker 7 (40:40):
It's crazy to say it's just twenty six million dollars, right.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, you know, Texas is tech.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
It's one state in the Union, but it's one of
the biggest economies in the world. Same with California. I mean,
if California and Texas were their own countries, we'd be
able to compete with most of the European Union. It's
pretty wild to think. But Brandon, you guys always do
awesome work. Congratulations on breaking this insane news story today.
I don't know what to think of it. You know what,
(41:06):
do Let's sprinkle in one more if we have time.
Can we make this real quick while we're on the topic.
While we're on the topic of gambling, real quick, explain
this to us. In Irving, Texas. Up there in the Metroplex,
they added a casino opponent to their city council and
there is there actually does anyone actually think casinos are
coming to the Metroplex? I'm surprised.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
Well, it's been an interesting thing recently. The Irving City
Council has considered essentially setting up the zoning so that
the site of the former Cowboys Stadium and Irving could
be used for casinos, despite the fact that casinos haven't
been you know, legalized yet in Texas. They want to
like get the work done ahead of time. Those people
(41:47):
have faced a lot of pushback, and then the local
elections on Saturday, a lot of the proponents for casinos
were either lost or headed to runoffs. So, you know,
has certainly been a motivating issue up there.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
My brother Brandon Waltons the website texasscorecard dot com. Go
take a gander at it today, subscribe to their email list,
follow Brandon on X.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I mean, if you're on social media and.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
You're not following Brandon and you care about Texas political news,
your newsfeed could be a lot better.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Check out Brandon Walton's in the work he does. I'm
Kenny Webster. I love you all. We'll be back bright
and early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought
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