All Episodes

May 19, 2025 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Ethan Buchanan and Republican strategist Christian Collins. ( @KennethRWebster )

Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Giganic government sucks. Suit of happiness radio is DeLux.
Liberty and freedom will make you smile. Of a suit
of happiness us on your radio toel just as cheezburgers
a Liby fries at for food.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Ten inmates, ten in inmates, ten dangerous dangerous inmates have
escaped from a New Orleans jail. I'm sure you've all
heard by now. Maybe you didn't know the details.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Though.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
They escape from jail by dismantling a toilet. Police may
never find them because they have nothing to go on. Hi, everybody,
Kenning webs you here, It's Monday, Thanks so much for
tuning in today. Who's here this afternoon? Well? Uh, Ethan
buchanans here from the KTRH newsroom. He'll be stopping by shortly.
He is a young conservative with a well he's the

(00:55):
one of the weekend hosts here on our radio station,
the Zoomer Report. He'll be it'll do worry, it'll be
better than it's sound. Speaking of young people. Christian Collins
from the Texas Youth Smit's stopping by. So much to
talk about this afternoon. I mean, I don't even know
where to start. Actually I do know where to start.
Townhall dot Com today reporting on Biden's incapacity the gas

(01:15):
lighting scandal. Over the weekend, we finally got to hear
audio from the Robert Her tapes to remember who Robert
Her was. Well, interestingly enough, he was the guy that
conducted an investigation into Joe Biden. Joe Biden was accused
of committing all the same crimes that he had accused
Donald Trump of back in twenty twenty three and twenty
twenty four. They said Donald Trump had all these classified

(01:37):
documents hidden in a bathroom at Mar A Lago, and
he wasn't supposed to have him they were confidential, and
so they sent in a swat team to rifle through
Malania's underwear. Droy remember all that in the wake of
that happening, some people noticed Joe Biden had actually committed
the same crimes purportedly. So Joe Biden has classified documents
scattered all over the country, So just sitting around in

(02:00):
offices and places where he'd done business, at colleges where
he'd worked, pretended to work as a professor. Okay, so
what do we do about that? Robert Hurk conducted an investigation.
A special investigator and what he found was that while
Joe Biden did break the law, we couldn't press charges
against Joe Biden because he was just too I want

(02:21):
to use the R word here, but I don't want
to offend you people. Now I'm going to use it.
I'm going to say it. I'm going to say I'm
trigger warning. Joe Biden's brain was just broken to the
point where he was basically retarded, which is alarming because
he was, after all, supposed to be a leader of
the free world. Look, I wish no harm on Joe Biden,
but remember when Joe Biden wished harm on you back

(02:43):
during the pandemic because you didn't get a vaccine. He
said it was going to be a winner of death
for the unvaccinated. Well, now it turns out he has cancer.
And it sounds like he always had cancer. I mean,
sounds like Biden said cancer for a while.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Biden actually made a weird comment about having cancer back
in twenty twenty two. It's a little flashback for you guys.
Here's a SoundBite of Joe Biden three years ago.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
And because it was a four lane highway that was accessible,
my mother drove us and rather than us be able
to walk and guess what the first frost you know
what was happening. You had to put on the windshield
wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window.
That's why I had so damn any other people I

(03:28):
grew up have cancer?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wait what? The White House had to issue a statement
after that happened. He was giving a speech, just riffing
off the cuff, and he accidentally told everyone he had cancer,
and the White House had to address it. He said, no, no,
he doesn't really have cancer. He misspoke. Okay, now we
find out he has pancreatic cancer, which is a very

(03:50):
slow moving, aggressive form of cancer. And odds are considering
how serious this is. He's probably had it for a while.
Let's go back to that conversation about Special Counsel Robert Hurr.
The audio from the twenty twenty innre with Joe Biden
has been released. Joe couldn't remember when Trump got elected.
He couldn't remember when his brother, when his son died,

(04:11):
a lot of big details here in Biden's world that
he'd just forgotten about. Encouraging me to Ron in this
period difficulty with did president difficulty remembering when Bo Biden died.
He just thought that she had a better shot.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But when a president, and.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
So I hadn't.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I hadn't at this point, even on a pan, I
hadn't walked away from the idea that I might run
for office again, A running for president, and.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
And so.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
What was happening though he was fifteen? Okay, there's a
lot of mumbling and murmuring here, So maybe it's a
little hard to hear, but it's Joe Biden saying he
doesn't remember when his son died. He doesn't remember when

(05:13):
he left office, he doesn't remember when Donald Trump got elected,
He doesn't remember any of it. Well, that's pretty alarming
because the guy is, you know, in the middle of
that interview, the leader of the free world. So, no,
we're not going to just get over the Biden incapacity scandal.
How could we? When the transcript of the interviews was

(05:33):
made public at like townhall dot com reports today, it
was confirmed that Biden's livid claim that ben hur had
graciously raised the issue of Bo's death was utterly false.
Biden had, in fact brought it up himself. The transcript
appeared to show confused and be fuddled President struggling with
his general train of thought overall, in addition to major

(05:54):
dates and details about his own life and career. As
much as the transcribed exchange vindicated her in a firm
and his characterization of his subject, the leaked audio is
even more devastating. The man recorded on it was in
no condition to serve as president of the United States
for the next year plus at the time, let alone
four additional years beyond that. Shocking, scary stuff here, guys,

(06:18):
it's painful, it's awkward to listen to, but it's important.
Robert Hurry. If anything understated Biden's feeble state. If anything,
he was kind. Biden rambles and repeatedly seems disoriented. He
very much sounds like a senile old man struggling to
keep up with the questions, to get his arms around
the situation. It's sad because we've all seen the sort

(06:41):
of deterioration in aging members of our own families and
social circles. But the sadness morphs to anger upon further contemplation,
because it's flat out outrageous to think the Democrat establishment
wanted this guy to remain in power. He was unfit
to do the job. They could pretend they didn't know
due to the cover up. But that's nonsense. They could

(07:03):
all see it. We could see it. We knew in
twenty nineteen. I didn't have any special access to Joe Biden.
The emerging version of the dishonesty and revisionism they're now
attempting as they shuffle around the talking points that bardon
Biden was sharp and capable in his first term then

(07:23):
deteriorated later on. Well, that was just a lie. It
was a lie. In twenty twenty twenty twenty two was
when he literally shut down in front of Jonathan k
Part to the point during an interview when it's obvious
his brain was broken. Here's a SoundBite from twenty twenty two.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
I have not made that formal decision, but it's my intention,
my intention to run again, and we have time to
make that decision.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Doctor Biden is for it as the president.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Doctor Biden thinks that my wife's thinking said yeah, that
I uh, oh god, that that we're doing something very important. Guys,
that's not nothing there. He looks like he had a
stroke in the video. Here's another clip twenty twenty two.

(08:17):
Biden finishes his speech, turns around and tries to shake
hands with thin air, then wanders around looking confused.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Me God, bless you. Biden on stage, walks out, puts
his hand out to nobody, turns around no one's there,
shuffles around like a room, but doesn't really seem to
know where he's going, doesn't seem to know what he's
supposed to do. You know, they would often put tape
on the floor to help direct him off the stage

(08:43):
so he could figure out where to go. Nobody provided
him with it that day. Sad right. What cannot be
emphasized enough is that they don't regret the lying or
the gas lighting. They don't regret the damage if a
severely diminished, incapacitated president. They don't regret the extra constitutional
presidency by committee scheme. They only regret that they lost

(09:05):
the election.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its sline behind. You're listening to Kenny Webster.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Okay, so a bronze statue of Milania Trump near her
hometown in Slovenia has gone missing. It's a case of
art imitating life. That's not funny. You don't laugh at that. Okay,
maybe Milania Trump isn't in the public eye very often.
But that's okay. You didn't vote for her. You voted
for Donald Trump. Donald Trump is supposed to be the president,

(09:37):
not his wife. It's a little different in the Biden administration,
wasn't it. You voted for Biden, Well, you didn't vote
for Biden. Someone voted for Biden and what they ended
up getting was doctor Jill. It's true. It's kind of
amazing how that was just supposed to be normal. Matt
Vespa reporting today on what happened on CNN over the weekend.

(09:59):
Van van Jugan Who Van Jones is. He's a black Democrat.
He's kind of a moderate and Obama guy. He drops
a lot of cringe worthy commentary, but he's a liberal
Democrat and a CNN commentator, so that shouldn't shock anyone.
He's also a former Obama official and brutally torched his
own party over the weekend, as he's done on numerous occasions.

(10:21):
Van Jones pleading with liberals to stop calling Trump stupid.
As he's become one of the most transformative and politically
astute operatives in the game right now. He's probably the
only person to navigate the multiple crusades against him and
win his old job back. Could you imagine any other
politician pulling off what Trump did? Also, he did not

(10:42):
mince words as to what the Biden health cover up
amounted to. In his own mind, it was a crime
against the republic. I have a little audio this. Let
me play it.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
Man.

Speaker 8 (10:50):
I remember how emotional you were in the immediate moments
after the June twenty seventh, twenty twenty four debate because
of what you saw on the stage and with all
this new coming out. And I should disclose that I
gave both of you copies of the book so you
would have a little bit more information. Do you feel
like you were duped?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Van?

Speaker 9 (11:09):
Like?

Speaker 6 (11:09):
What?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
How do you feel? First?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
This book is extraordinary. I don't care who you are, left,
right or otherwise, anybody who cares about this country and
about just the dynamics of power. This is the Emperor's
new clothes playing itself out in real time. Everybody knew,
but everyone was afraid to say, except for Dave David

(11:35):
Azelrod for two years that something was wrong here. And
so you know, yeah, I was shocked. I love Joe Biden.
I don't like him, I love him. I got a
chance to work with him when I was a part
of the Obama administration and loved him more every day.
I was shocked to see his condition when he came out,
and so was the world. And that wasn't the first

(11:55):
time he was in that condition. The book makes it very,
very clear there are people who knew and said nothing,
and that is a crime against this republic. And I
think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
How about how interesting is any saying this to Jake Tamper.
I mean, Jake Tamper is responsible for the cover up, Guys,
certainly one of them. This wasn't just one or two people.
It was numerous Democrats. It was numerous members of the
media who put their party's grip on power above the country.
It's funny how all these slogans country over party and
the like, which run counter to how people in Washington operate,

(12:32):
have always blown up in the faces of Democrats. Guys,
this story isn't going to go away. The cancer diagnosis
won't be blunt, either cancer or not. We still had
a half dead president who likely wasn't making policy decisions.
So I will ask this question again, and I will
continue to ask it, and you should too, and so
should everyone else in America. If Joe Biden's brain was broken,

(12:55):
if he wasn't the president, if he wasn't the one
calling the shots, dos and dozens and dozens and dozens
of government documents contain an auto pen signature that he
didn't actually sign. Who was running the country? Who was
running There's no more important question than this right now.

(13:15):
It wasn't Joe, It wasn't was it Jill? Was it Hunter?
Who is signing the paperwork? It can't be somebody in
an office somewhere that wasn't elected. The executive of the
United States of America needs to be the president of
the United The person in charge has to be the
person we elected. Who was in charge? And why do

(13:36):
these people lie so much? What were they covering up?

Speaker 9 (13:40):
So far?

Speaker 3 (13:41):
The more questions we answer, the more questions that seem
to surface. So far, the answers have been beyond unsatisfactory,
bordering on unbelievable. You were lied to. Kurt Schlichter recently
pointed out how you've kind of got to admire the
Democrat Party's innovative plan to center it's ideology around contempt

(14:02):
for America's largest ethnic group. That was their policy the
whole time. Joe Biden's brain is fine, and old white
men are evil. Well, wait a second, you guys put
an old white guy in charge. Yeah, not him, He's fine. Okay,
Well who then Tim Walls? No, No, Tim Walls is
one of the good ones too. Wait, so you're telling
me all the white men, all the old white men

(14:22):
in America are evil except the two that you chose.
I think, if nothing else, the last week or so
has demonstrated that the key sacrament of the Democrats has
stopped being the murdering of little babies and it has
become the hatred of white people. Somewhere between sixty and
seventy percent of Americans identify as white. The notion of

(14:43):
white is, like most ethnic category, is ambiguous. It's silly.
Liberals love to tell you white people have no culture,
but also white people are the devil. It's as the
kids say, it's kind of a bold strategy. Let's see
how it works for him. I'm betting it works out
quite poorly. Now, obviously I'm a little biased here. I'm
a middle aged white guy. So the consequences of what

(15:06):
happens when a major faction elevates ethnicity over unity and
tries to leverage it for short term political advantage can
be quite dangerous. We've seen it before. You see it
on full display right now. Political refugees from South America,
farmers getting murdered South Africa. Excuse me. You know, one
of the greatest achievements in the United States of America

(15:28):
was to make its ethnic majority not think of itself
as an ethnicity. I'm white. I'm so white. I make
Mitt Romney look exotic, right, But like almost everybody except
for weird outliers who most of us never encountered in
our daily lives. When I was coming up in the
eighties and the nineties, if you'd ask me, you know,

(15:51):
what are you, I would have said American. I wouldn't
have said a white guy. And I always felt like
that was our country's biggest strength. It was the thing
we could be the most proud of. It's not about
being black, brown, or whatever other colors are socially acceptable
to say out loud. What color are the Asians? Do
we know we can't say that color? What about the
Native Americans? Also? Touchy? Okay? Just check in, Just wonder

(16:12):
what the rules are when you ask those people what
are you? I would hope they would say American. But
of course leftists don't believe in the awesomeness of America.
They hate America. They hate white people more than anything.
Of course, many leftists are white people, but they're different.
They're the good white people like Joe. Last week proved

(16:34):
my point perfectly provided us with several examples of the
pathological hatred of white people. You realize how many of
these Afrikaners, these South Africans we gave refuge to sixty
They collectively wet themselves when sixty people from South Africa
showed up in a plane waving American flags. Sixty people.

(16:57):
They led in twenty million illegal immigrants we let in
six The left was breathlessly angry. Many of them said,
you shouldn't be here, you should have to die in
your home country. Why sins of the father? Well, these
are white farmers. They didn't get to decide what happened
in pre apartheid. By the way, here's an uncomfortable reality

(17:17):
life in South America, South Africa for black people before
apartheid went away? Was it better or worse than it
is now? Well, they had more food than more healthcare,
then more access to shelter. What was worse? Civil rights?
Now that's important. But when you build the hierarchy of needs,

(17:38):
you know that pyramid where you build from the ground up,
what do you need? You need food, you need shelter,
you need protection, you need safety, you need water, you
need air, you need oxygen. Civil liberties appear somewhere in
the middle. At the very top of the pyramid, you'll
find things like self actualization and spiritual enlightenment. So what's
the point? I guess the point is this life right

(17:58):
now in post of South Africa. It's not great. It's
not even good for the black people. And I am
in no way making the argument that apartheid was better.
It's like when people argue who's better. Zelenskier putin, well,
what if they're both bad guys. The point is this,
we're all Americans first and foremost, but radical leftist you're
doing everything they can to sew division. They want everyone's

(18:21):
character to be viewed through a racial lens, through an
ethnic lens, through the lens that you're having you are
attracted to the same genitalia you were born with, or
you don't think that you're the same sex you were
born as. That's it, But more than anything, it's about
the hatred of white people. Join the fight for American
awesomeness and help end the left's racial and ethnic division.

(18:45):
How do you do it?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well?

Speaker 3 (18:46):
I guess you could subscribe to this podcast. That'd be
a good start.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Kamala Harris deserves to be vice president like Elvis deserved
as black belt in karate. What a hunka hunka burning crab.
This is Kinny Webster's pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
If you've ever if you've ever caught a small child
stealing cookies from a cookie jar, you know how quickly
they can change their narrative, their explanation for what they
did wrong when evidence surfaces demonstrating that they weren't behaving. Well,
have you ever caught a little kid stealing cookies? The

(19:22):
first thing you say is hey, little Billy, little Sally,
little What are kids names nowadays? Braiden or Aiden or
Drayden or whatever, you know, some millennial baby name. What
where'd the cookies go?

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (19:34):
I don't know, I don't know where the cookies are. Yeah,
but Braiden, you have chocolate all over your face. Oh?
I do oh, I didn't put that chocolate there. I
don't know how it got there. It's the exact same
thing right now with the Democrats. Look how quickly they've
changed their narrative last week. Eighty six forty seven, that's
what they kept saying. They thought it was hilarious. Eighty

(19:57):
six forty seven. That's funny, right, eighty six forty seven.
That means they want to kill Trump or get rid
of him or whatever. James Comey, former head of the FBI,
spelled it out on the beach, using seashells clever. Eighty
six forty seven. Kill Trump, that's what they were saying.
The weekend passed, you and your family went out and
did whatever you did this weekend, you know, Little League

(20:19):
and picnics and barbecues, whatever you spent your weekend doing.
Now it's Monday, and they want you to be compassionate
to Joe Biden because of his cancer. I don't wish
any harm on the guy, but it's hard to feel
sorry for someone who said that the unvaccinated will die
in a winter of death. Remember that, Remember when he
basically wished death on you for not getting vaccinated back

(20:40):
during the pandemic again. You know, I'm going to take
the high road here. When they go lo, we'll go high.
I don't wish any harm on the guy, so I'll
just say nothing about that. But Joe Biden one of
the most violent, dangerous political leaders of our lifetime, not
as violent as President Obama was. President Obama the Nobel

(21:00):
Peace Prize and pat it on the back and then
drone bombed American citizens. I mean, he was a terrible person.
But Joe Biden was as bad as Barack Obama was,
but more incompetent. Not maybe not as evil, but certainly
more incompetent. Same policies, same staffers. And it begs the
question who was running the country? Who was running the

(21:21):
country when Joe Biden was in charge. Now we know
from the Robert her tapes his brain was broken. Now
we know he's probably had cancer for a while. I mean,
pancreatic cancer that doesn't just happen, that moves very slowly.
If he was getting treated for cancer, those cancer meds
are basically it's like getting stoned. You know, if the
president was high on marijuana all the time, it would

(21:42):
explain why he spoke so slowly and forgot where he
was from moment to moment. I don't know the answer.
Nobody really does. We'll never figure it out, so it's
fairly speculation. But I do have some very intelligent friends,
people that are very politically savvy, people that pay attention
all the time. One of those people is Republican strategist
and could sservative youth leader Christian Collins of the Texas

(22:03):
Youth Summon. I want to ask him about this latest
polling data we have about Trump being popular with young voters.
But before we get to any of that, Christian, I
know anecdotal, you don't know. I don't know, just speculation.
But first of all, thanks for coming on the show.
And second of all, you were there for four years,
you were an American. Who do you think was running
the country when Biden was sitting in the Oval office?

Speaker 9 (22:24):
Well, look, you know, it's such an honor to be
on your show. And I'll tell you Barack Obama, the
Democrat guru himself, said this about Joe Biden whenever he
had more mental stability. He said, don't underestimate Joe Biden's
ability to f things up. And I'm not going to

(22:45):
say the word, but you know what I mean. Sure,
and that's when he was a little more there than
he is now. And over the last four years, there's
obviously been things that haven't added up. He hasn't been
all there. Everybody's understood that.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Now that we see this.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
Report, it really kind of overshadows her report where there
was a special counsel her who interviewed him and it
really came to light that he wasn't all there. You know,
in twenty twenty four, they didn't want that to get out.
But in twenty twenty five, of course President Trump's released

(23:25):
those tapes and and it's very evident, evident he wasn't there,
all there. And but you know, this cancer diagnosis, we
wouldn't wish that on our worst enemy. Of course, we
don't want that to be the case with Joe Biden.
We wish him well and we'll be praying for his
speedy recovery. But you know, the media wants to talk
about the things that they want to talk about, and

(23:45):
they don't want to focus on the obvious, problematic things
that have been wrong with his administration for so long.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's interesting how Jake Tapper as something in his book
that says the Biden staffers were worried about what they
would do if he got re elected and he had
to sit in a wheelchair. And you think, all right,
well if he gets reelected, aren't you aren't you worried about? Now?
What if he gets reelected? You should be nervous right
now that he's that unhealthy. He's president right now, you

(24:14):
live in his country. Here's a question for you, Christian,
I didn't have I'll tell you, I didn't have any
special access to Joe Biden. Like a lot of people listening,
I wasn't privy to what was going on behind the scenes.
I feel like we knew his brain was broken back
when the twenty twenty primaries started, back in twenty nineteen.
If I knew that back then, I mean, and so
many other people did, how did how did they not know?

(24:35):
And then I guess my other question for you would
be when did you first realize something was wrong with him?
That's a great question, you know.

Speaker 9 (24:43):
I think people recognized when he was staying in the
basement that there's a reason why theyre not putting him
out there. They didn't want him to say anything stupid
or you know, look incompetent, or look sin now really
and so he had the perfect cover up because during
the time of COVID, a lot of people were forced

(25:03):
to stay home, and so, you know, Joe Biden was
doing the same. Meanwhile, President Trump was doing rallies during
that time to get out the vote. And unfortunately people
didn't really get to see, you know, how bad things
actually were. I think they were bad then, and then
there was a very steep decline over the course of

(25:24):
the next four years and so, and this really came
to light, of course, in the debates. And you know,
many of us conservative commentators on social media had been
commenting for a long time saying, this is not adding up,
this doesn't look right. But I mean, I think, you know,
that really came to a head. Everybody understood, you know,

(25:45):
during that debate that he was not able to run
another four years and Democrats thanked him out. So I
don't really remember when it was. I just knew, you know,
I would say probably during that twenty twenty election when
they were keeping him in the basement and not letting
them get out.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, something was off, you know, sure, yeah, exactly. They
didn't want him to go out and campaign. How lucky
for them that the pandemic happened. Hey, before we run
out of time, here is something else I wanted to
ask you about today. We're talking about Joe Biden. Weirdly enough,
Joe Biden very popular with older voters, and the Democrat
Party in general seems to be pulling well with the
baby boomers. Not great, obviously, they're actually experiencing abysmal record

(26:24):
well pulling numbers right now. But when you add up
all the big four generations of adults right now, Zoomers, Millennials,
gen Xers, and baby boomers, Weirdly enough, Democrats seem to
be the most popular with older voters. So what does
that mean for the Republicans. Well, Zoomers, interestingly enough, in
the last election cycle overwhelmingly seem to like Trump, especially

(26:44):
young men, millennials, and gen xers. Kind of fifty to
fifty switch there. Obviously, the boomers liked Kamala. Now we're
seeing a shift. President Trump's approval rating among millennials. Among
millennials is ticking upwards. Millennials, typically defined as people born
between nine teen eighty one in nineteen ninety six, represent
the largest block of the US electorate, and apparently Trump

(27:07):
really reduced the Democrats lead among these young voters in
the last election, and now we see it continuing to
shift at a point when Trump's supposed to be unpopular,
especially with young people. That's exactly what's not happening. Colin
Christian Collins, you are a creator of the Texas Youth Summit,
You're a millennial yourself. You organize political rallies for college

(27:29):
kids and high school kids. What do you make of this?
Why do you think it's happening?

Speaker 9 (27:34):
Well, I think there's a real independent strenk amongst young people.
They don't want to be told what to do, they
don't want to just conform to whatever the social norm is.
And I think with young people, especially ages eighteen to
twenty one, we've really seen that with gen Z where
they just they want to be out on their own
and young men. You said it correctly, especially amongst young men,

(27:58):
they have that independence. Many of them listen to podcasts
with the similar vein as yours, like Joe Rogan. Uh,
you know, this rugged type of I'm gonna do it myself.
It's very masculine and and I think, uh, with with
young men especially, we've we've really seen this. That's who

(28:20):
they're listening to. You know The Vaughan a lot of
these podcasts, and I have a friend his name is
Alex Bruce Woods. He worked with President Trump on all
of the the Younger Demographics podcast, and those are some
of the names that young people are listening to. On
the other side, I know President Trump has recently criticized

(28:41):
Taylor Swift. She's very likely the most popular, you know,
female musician pop singer of all time, even more than
maybe Madonna or Slainner, who who maybe you know, in
past generations, could have been the most popular. I think
I think Taylor Swift is probably the most pop of
all time. And what has she done, And she's endorsed,

(29:02):
you know, Kamala Harris in the twenty twenty are in
twenty twenty four election. In twenty twenty she endorsed Joe Biden,
and before that she supported Barack Obama. So young women
have started to shift that way. And it's not just
because the influencers are pushing them that direction, but I
think it's in large part because of the issues that
they support. And you know, young people, especially men, we

(29:25):
want to be entrepreneurs. Can I mean, you have a business,
You're you're doing so many different things in media. Young
people they want to, you know, be entrepreneurs. That's what
some men think. And I think with the women, you know,
they've been swept up with this some of the social
issues and abortion. I think on demand is important to
a lot of these young girls, and they need to

(29:47):
be educated on the harms of abortion and and but frankly,
I mean that's that's how they're voting. And so we
recognize there's an issue with with gen Z and young,
but we're thankful that the tides are turning and it's
shifting in a more positive direction, especially with the recent
article that I read where millennials are pivoting in that direction,

(30:11):
and I think that's great.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
My brother Christian Collins find him on ACX, check out
his website Texas Youthsummit dot com. He's actually they're planning
out the Texas Youth Summit right now. It's going to
be the biggest one ever. It's happening this September. You're
going to want to be there. You don't have to
be a college kid to go. Plenty of adults attend
this thing. Past speakers include people like Matt Gates, Don Junior, Kimberly, Gilfoyle,

(30:35):
so many brilliant people not to mention yours truly, you
should attend. Check out the website Texas Youth Summit dot com.
You can be a sponsor. Screw you.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kiddie Webster's
pursuit of happiness, all right.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
The Pope's official installation was on Sunday. The Vaticant invited
Jesus to attend, but apparently he holy ghosted them. Thank you,
thank you very much. Folks. You know the Pope's installation,
the inauguration of the Pope a pretty big deal. On Sunday.
This is when he officially becomes vested in is four
to oh one k or four oh one Prey. I
don't know, I have no idea. I do know this

(31:22):
here in Southeast Texas, we got problems, kids, We have problems.
A little bit of a time machine trip if you will,
you guys, remember God, I'm so old. I'm so old.
I can remember when kim Ogg was the DA. I'm
so old I can remember when kim Ogg was the
DA of Harris County and she the moderate Democrat suddenly

(31:44):
became a very reasonable person, a breath of fresh air
when she built a case with the Texas Rangers against
Lena Hidalgo and her staff members, pointing out how these
people had stolen millions of dollars from you in order
to do some COVID vaccine outreach program. I can remember
like it was yesterday. Ah, yes, the time machine. Lena

(32:07):
Hidalgo is very worried. Back then, she was very worried
about getting into trouble. But she's not worried anymore because apparently,
apparently Lena Hidalgo, she's moved on from that. She knows
she's not gonna get in any trouble. We don't know
why the Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of the state,
dropped the charges against Lena Hidalgo's staff members for that.
And now Lena Hidalgo has a new thing to worry about.

(32:28):
And here to explain it to us is Ethan Buchanan,
our twenty everybody, the twenty two year old journalist from
KTRH News. God, journalist is such a dirty word. You
are a journalist, You're a reporter, Steven. What is it
that Lena Hidalgo wants from us now?

Speaker 6 (32:42):
Well, she wants a twenty three thousand and three hundred
dollars taxpayer funded trip to Paris. Now she claims this
is a working trip. I don't buy it personally. I
just I don't buy it. First of all, if it's
a working trip, I don't understand why it costs twenty
three thousand dollars. You should be able to work for
pretty cheap. And how much is a plane ticket? I've

(33:04):
never flown, but it can't be that much.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
I've never been to Paris, but I got to think,
I don't know, a thousand bucks, a couple thousand bucks
or something.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
Yeah, there's there's no way if you're saying, Okay, I'm
just going to be a public servant, I'm going to
you know, take the cheapest available flight and work at
the cheapest available hotel room, and you know, straight by
for food, because you know, that's what public servants should
be doing. They shouldn't be, you know, spending taxpayer money

(33:33):
on the most luxurious available options on their foreign trips.
Even if this is a necessary foreign trip, which I
don't even know. If I buy that, they claim it's
a business trip. They claim, you know, we need to
represent Harris County to the rest of the world, to Paris.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
To Paris. The rest of the world knows we're here.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
It's no secret that Houston, Texas and Harris County is,
you know, a hub for business.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I don't think we need to go tell people that,
all right. A vote to approve the trip failed last
week after Lena attempted to conceal the destination from the public.
There were security concerns and political vitriol. Obviously, apparently the
delegation is part of a collaboration between the Greater Houston
Partnership and Rice University aimed at promoting economic development and

(34:15):
attracting future investment to the region. And I am curious
who on Lena Hidalgo's staff has a background in economic development?
How many of them are entrepreneurs former business owners? Have
any of them ever worked in the private sector? What
exactly would you say they do?

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah, they just kind of sit around and cry basically,
if Lena Hndalgo is any example. But what's kind of
more interesting to me is Rice University and the Greater
Houston Partnership. Those are two well funded institutions, right, Why
would we need twenty three almost twenty four thousand dollars

(34:55):
of public money at a time when even Lena Hidalgo
herself will we will openly admit that the county is
broke and we can't give our county deputies a raise
without bumping up property taxes. But yet, somehow we're going
to foot the bill for this super expensive trip. And
not you know, the almost Ivy League University Rice that's

(35:17):
got millions of dollars, if not billions, and the Greater
Houston Partnership, which is itself a very wealthy organization. Why
do we the taxpayer have to fund this? Okay, So
it says here it's going to be her and three
county employees.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
She will lead. The delegation appointed a company by three
county employees who would serve as their staff during the trip.
The request comes at a time when the county's facing
significant financial challenges one hundred and twenty nine million dollar
budget deficit. So I asked, you know, this is anecdotal,
but I asked Grock my AI chatbot here, well, what
it cost to send them on a budget? It said,

(35:51):
for for adults, somewhere between six thousand and eight thousand dollars.
That includes the airline ticket budget, accommodations, food, roughly fifty
dollars a day per person, basic activities for a week.
That's for a week. How long are they going to
be there for? I don't think it's much more than
a week.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
I think it was I'd want to say the eighth
to the fourteenth were the days that I ate to
the fifteenth. June eighth to June fifteenth were the days
that she was going to be there. So that's not
even a full week. That's just shy of a full week.
And twenty four thousand dollars for that. Now, you just
put up the numbers about six thousand. That's a grock estimation,

(36:29):
and I think that's probably low ball. But let's say
it's let's say it's ten. Yeah, even if it's ten,
that's ten thousand dollars more than the county has to
waste right now, and to spend on what and exactly
to spend on what? Are you flying first class and
staying at a five star luxury Paris resort?

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Must be? It does cause.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
Just anecdotally, I'm going on a big trip for my
honeymoon almost the same day I believe I'm getting back
the day after she's supposed to leave honeymoon.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
And where you going on your honeymoon.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
I'm going on a very nice cruise. I booked myself
a nice Royal Caribbean cruise.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
That's what I did. I bought myself some fancy add
ons to the cruise. That's what I did when I
got married. Yeah, and my marriage ended very poorly, Ethan.
I just want to let you know that.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
Well, I'm shooting for being a big time radio host,
so I'm following here.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Why, Ethan, I gotta tell you that does not look
good for you right now, buddy.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
But my big fancy cruise, which is I think eight
or nine days and has you know, a nice food
package and I drinks package and some fancy excursions that
cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of three thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah, it's not as expensive as this, right.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
There's no way that if she's doing even a decent,
you know, comfortable work trip, that it should cost twenty
four thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Okay, well, maybe there's a way for us to save money.

Speaker 9 (37:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Harrison County, DA, Sean Tierre, Shawn tier what we how
do we say his last name out? I think it's
Tier tier Okay. Anyway, he's the communist, right. He wants
to handle the jail overcrowding issue. Our jails are full
of people, and he thinks one way to solve that
problem is by focusing on mental health and addiction treatment. Now,
if I'm not mistaken, didn't our county judge have a

(38:10):
little issue with mental health and addiction treatment? Maybe she could,
maybe she could show us how to save some money
on this.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Yeah, I mean she took herself a nice like what
was that like six months almost where she was completely gone.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
She was county business most of the summer two summers ago.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
She was very gone. And it makes you wonder, first
of all, where was she because we still don't know. Yeah,
and who paid for that? Because we still don't know
that either.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Probably us. Probably she's wherever she wanted to be, and
you paid for it, is the short answer. Hey, before
we run out of time, don't you have a podcast
people could subscribe to?

Speaker 6 (38:46):
Yeah, the Next Gen Report. It's wherever you get your podcast.
iHeart Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and we're on the air here
Sundays at seven pm.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, that's great. And that's before or after Ted Cruise's
show right after Ted crue show.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
They wanted me to have a nice, big long intro,
so they figured they'd warmed the crowd up with Ted
Cruz and then I would come in and finish things off.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Wow, how about that. That's very cool. That's something to
check out, folks. Hey, quick reminder. I will be in
Jackson this Thursday night with Jesse Peyton doing stand up comedy.
Friday night, we are in somewhere and we're gonna be
in Mandeville and Metaie Friday and Saturday night. I forget
which night is which, but you can get all the
details at jessesfunny dot com. I'm Kenny Webster. I love
you all. We'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning

(39:29):
for more of what you bought a radio for. You
are listening to the Pursuit of Happy this radio.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.
Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know
Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.