Can women save Texas?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Laura Loomer and Holly Hansen, and children's rights activist Rebecca Smith. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey. One hundred and two year old man climbed Mount Fuji.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
They asked him what he thought of it. He described
it as being breath taken. Literally, it took his breath
away because he died. Hi, everybody, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks
for turning that radio on. Thanks for joining us. It's
Wednesday afternoon. I'm kind of it's been one of those weeks.
I'm having a hard time keeping track of days. So
I'll help you, You help me, We'll all do it together.
Today's a really cool show. Actually I'm doing things a
little different today. Today's theme of this show is all

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about strong conservative women. I have three of the strongest
women I know on the show who are public figures
who are involved in you know, right wing politics and policy.
One of them is Laura Lumer, one of the most
contra virtual journalists in America, but probably the most influential
journalist right now. I know that's bold talk. But it's true.
The story she's writing, the news coverage she's providing to

(01:09):
the public is actually inspiring public policy in the White House.
Donald Trump reads her stories. He reads her work every day,
and he navigates his administration based on stories and things
that she's publishing. She's become a lens to the world
for the President. She'll be here to talk a little
bit about what that means, what it's like, and a
little bit about her thoughts on Senator John Cornyn. Spoiler alert,

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she don't like him. Also stopping by this afternoon, Rebecca
Smith is going to be here. She's from a group
called Love Heals Youth. Rebecca Smith is literally I know
people over use that word a lot, but she is
literally a hero. She's a real life superhero. As a
matter of fact. She goes around helping out foster children,
trafficked children, kids who have been dealt in unfair hand

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to cards in life. And one of the ways she
does it, interestingly enough, is they have a She takes
no salary, she earns no money. They have an energy
drink called Bomber Blueberry Energy Drink and Visible rebound it.
She'll tell you about it. I know that sounds corny,
but actually it's really cool. They don't make any money
off of it if you buy it, if you buy
a candidate. The money goes towards helping out kids, and
there's so much more to the work that she's doing.

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It's a really cool story. And a regular on the show,
my sister from another mister Holly Hansen, one of my
favorite people on Planet e. She's stopping by to tell
you what happened yesterday when Lena Hidalgo cut out a
work during a discussion of a budget crisis at the
Harrickson County Commissioner's Court so she could go attend a
concert to listen to music that you would probably hear

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in the background on an elevator. We'll tell you what
that means. All that and more. Hey, don't forget kids
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Do or come out hang out with Us Sunday, October fifth,
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It's going to be a lot of fun. That's the
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Speaker 4 (03:11):
Screw you. I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars. Sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness, all.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right, so really exciting. Apple just unveiled the new iPhone
seventeen yesterday. Meanwhile, the iPhone eighteen launch is scheduled for
the day after you buy the seventeen, so that's something
to look forward to. Welcome back from break Kids. It's
always interesting to me to get to talk to some
of the most controversial, some of the most influential, some
of the deepest thinkers in America. I know that's bold talk.

(03:49):
You know, there's a regional radio show. We have some
big journalists and politicians and comedians on this show, but
sometimes we get to collaborate with people who have an
audience bigger than ours. And this next guest is a
perfect example of that. She actually ran for Congress a
number of years ago and then and lost right, and
kind of like Rodney Dangerfield. It was this amazing comeback

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where I don't know if you know this about Rodney Dangerfield,
he failed at comedy at a young age and then
came back a decade later and became the biggest comedian
of his lifetime. I always thought that was an inspiring story.
Laura Lumer not quite as old as I think. She's
younger than me. She's a millennial. Ran for Congress and
it didn't pay off the way she wanted it to.
The Neo cons came after, the Liberals came after. So

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she became a journalist and now a lot of people
consider her to be the most influential journalist in the
White House. Her stories often get credited for being the
cause of new policies. Donald Trump reads her work regularly,
and so I'm very excited that she's not a big
fan of John Cornyn. I mean, that makes me really happy.
I know some of you mixed feelings about Ken Paxton,

(04:53):
but he's clearly vastly better than John Is. The incumbent
candidate here is corrupt as a warm d He's really
done nothing for the border. Every time Joe Biden is
in office or some other Democrat. He does anything he
can to support any swampy bill that crosses the liberal
president's desk. And let's not forget a couple of years
back he helped Joe Biden pass a gun control bill.

(05:14):
Thanks a lot for that. Red Flag laws. By the way,
Laura Lumer authored this piece that went viral yesterday on
social media, and I found this to be fascinating. She
talked about the ties between neo cons like John Cornyn
who support any corrupt war. You've ever heard of any
any swampy bill. We're gonna send money to Burma to
fund a transgender puppet show, you know, whatever crazy thing

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it is, abortions in India, whatever it is, John Cornyn
wants to fund it. And it's interesting to think this
woman that got murdered on that light rail in Charlotte,
North Carolina, you've all seen the video. By this point,
she wouldn't even be in America if not for the
fact that people like John Cornyn fund wars overseas, bring
in refugees by the boatload, and then interesting a lot. Amazingly,

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this is the same iliberal neocon mentality that they have.
Is the reason why there's not enough police out on
the streets in places like Charlotte, North Carolina. But rather
than have me explain it to you, I wanted her
to explain it. Laura, I'm sorry for being a little
long in the tooth, but I was excited to have
you on the show today and I felt like there
was a lot to be said here. But you could
probably explain it better than I can. There is a
tie between John Cornyan and what we just witnessed in

(06:20):
that video, isn't there.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, well, thanks so much for having me on. I've
been looking forward to coming on your show for a
while now. And yeah, look, I mean, just like you said,
what's ironic is that this poor young woman, Irena Zurutska,
this Ukrainian refugee, wouldn't have even been in the United
States had it not been for neocons and also open

(06:43):
borders Democrats who sent billions of our dollars, taxpayer dollars
overseas to fund a war in Ukraine. I mean, that's
how these refugees were created.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Both.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
What's even more sinister about this is the fact that
you know, you expect this topic of so called racial injustice, right,
and I use air quotes around racial injustice because you know,
we're eleven and twenty twenty five, we've already had a
mixed race president. I mean, you are pushed to the

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front of the line in this country these days if
you are a black lesbian, or a black woman, or
a black man, or a Hispanic woman, or even an
a legal alien right white people are now permanently occupied
at the back of the bus, it seems. But I
bring this up because you would expect those types of
talking points to come out of the radical left. But

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when you try to make sense of how something like
this horrific stabbing of Arena Zarutzka could take place in
North Carolina in the middle of people sitting on sitting
on the light rail their version of the subway, yet
to ask yourself, how did we get to this point?
And I think that a lot of this normalization of

(07:57):
hatred towards white people, anti white racism, and also just
the apathy expressed by the blacks who were sitting next
to her on the train when she was stabbed. I mean,
it's quite incredible for people who are listening and haven't
seen the full video or they haven't seen the screenshots
of the still frame when she's in shock, bleeding out
of her next profusely, there's like four black people just

(08:20):
sitting next to her, doing nothing but sitting on their iPhones.
And they're not freaked out, They're not offering to help
she's bleeding out. They clearly just witness this, you know,
career criminal black individual stab her three times in the
jugular and none of them offered her help. And when
you examine a scene like that, you really come to

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realize how mainstream hatred her white people has become here
in the United States of America, and you have to
ask yourself, why, why did this happen? How did we
get to this point? Well, you look at the Black
Lives Matter movement, which really catapulted and became more mainstream
in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, who
did not die from police brutality. And you know, he

(09:03):
did not die from being suffocated by a police officer
with his knee on his neck. The autopsy conclusively determined
that he died from a Sentinel overdose and when he
was resisting arrest, it obstructed his breathing, which was caused
and exacerbated by Sentinel in his system. Yeah, he has

(09:24):
enough sel he had enough, He had enough sentinel in
his system to kill a rhinoceros. Okay, And I bring
this up because you know, you look at your own
Senator John Cornyan. It's a bit of a ranch. But
these these details will matter to those listening. In twenty twenty,
Senator Cornyn delivered a speech from the Senate floor in

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which he said that one of the biggest issues in
our country that we still need to combat is racial injustice.
And he blamed racism for the death of George Floyd,
who is a career criminal. And when you think about it,
George Floyd is very similar to this I'm scrupulous individual,
to Carlos Brown Junior. Now, George Floyd died, but Carlos

(10:06):
Brown Junior is now facing federal charges. President Trump is
calling for the death penalty, and he's still alive. But
you look at Carlos Brown Junior, and he really is
a spitting image of a of a George Bloyd. He
is the twenty twenty five version of George Floyd. And
you see the media is refusing to mention the fact

(10:29):
that he's a blackmail a repeat offender. They almost want
the story to be buried. But it's people like John Cornyan,
who gave a voice to this breed of career criminals,
mostly black and Hispanic individuals, who think that it's okay
to go around attacking, robbing, and murdering white people. And

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so I encourage you to play the audio from the
Senate floor speech so that everybody listening knows what the
stakes are if they send John Cornyan, this uni party,
uniparty rhino monster, back to the United States Senate for
another term.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
All right, I got that audio right here. Let's have
a little listen now to President. Ours is a nation.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
With the split screen of a battle on two fronts.
One is the pandemic that we've been fighting now for
many months, and the other is to continue the fight
to defeat racial injustice that has sadly divided our nation
since its very inception.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
One week ago.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Today, George Floyd, a native Houstonian, was tragically died in
the custody of a law enforcement officer.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
As the gut wrenching.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Video of his death spread, so has the passion and
the anger among all of us who wonder how can
something like that happen? Our constitution guarantees every American the
right to protest injustice and I believe we all have
a response ability to stand up for what's right and
condemn what is plainly wrong. People of all color, backgrounds

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and ages are demanding that justice be served.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Now, look, I think you raise a great point here.
George Floyd would still be alive if not for bad
decisions made by George Floyd. Maybe people don't like how
that police officer handled the situation, that's fine, But George
Floyd is still dead because the things that George Floyd did,
and that's terrible. But this Ukrainian refugee, who wouldn't be
even be in America if not for the fact that
we fund both sides of every single war on Earth

(12:34):
would probably this is a complicated thing to say, Laura,
but I really believe this is true. I bet she'd
still be alive if she'd have stayed in Ukraine. Somebody
pointed this out to me the other day, and I
didn't believe it, so I had to look it up.
Since the war started, the death rate, the homicide rate
in Ukraine is still lower than what it is here
in the United States of America. And if we just
took into consideration the statistics from.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't that's because I don't think they have a
lot of black people. I mean, we're going to be
honest about who's killing, who's doing most of the killing.
I don't really know what the population statistics are at Ukraine,
but I guarantee you their homicide rate is low when
you talk about non war related homicides, not talking about
the death count from this brutal war. But it's side

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because they don't have a lot of black people. And
that might sound very jarring to people to hear, but
it's true. And even President Trump I found a tweet
that he posted in twenty thirteen in which he said
that most of the crime in America is being committed
by blacks and Hispanics. A tough conversation to have, but
it must be had. And he's right. Why aren't we
going to talk about the fact that most of the

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violent crime and homicides committed in this country are committed
by black youth and Hispanic youth. It's not racist to
say that, right. It's an epidemic that derives from the
destruction of the nuclear family in America, the exceptionally high
rate of fatherlessness and black households, and you have all

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these young black men who grew up to be thugs
and gang bangers. And there's a reason why over fifty
people are getting shot and killed on Labor Day weekend
in Chicago. Right. It's not because white he's going around
putting his knee on the back of black men right
selling drugs or doing drugs. It's because all these black
men are killing each other.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
I grew up in the north suburbs of Chicago, and
I know this is going to sound crazy to hear
me say this out loud, but it's true. I've watched
people get shot before. I watched somebody get stabbed once,
and I lived in pretty relatively safe parts of the city.
I moved from there to a red state, Texas, Houston.
I've never seen anything like that as an adult in
the city of Houston, Texas. And Houston ain't perfect, but

(14:40):
at least it's not that I do wonder this, Laura.
We've been told over and over again if we criticize
black people killing each other in Chicago were racist. If
we criticize a white person getting stabbed to death on
a light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, that's also racist.
Is it ever okay to call out violence and be
critical of it. This doesn't seem like it should have
to be political. How is it political?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, I think it's important that we're able to speak
for violence, but we also have to be able to
speak freely about the cause of violence. And we need
to start addressing the the proliferation of anti white racism
and black on black crime or the black crime. Right
in America. Race is real and we are living through

(15:23):
Obama's race war right now. This is the legacy of
Barack whosein Obama and we need to come to terms
with it. Barack Who saying Obama started a race war
and it's time for us to finish this race war.
I'm not advocating for violence, but what I'm saying is
that you know, he created a race war in our country.
All of his racial animosity began with Barack whusein Obama.
And look at what it's done. Look at what it's done.

(15:46):
And so it's time for our politicians to stand up
and say white lives matter, just like they stood up
or actually they took a knee forgive me, they kneeled
and said black lives matter in the halls of Congress,
and they are did all of these statues and had
a gold casket for this, you know, career drug addict. Uh,

(16:07):
you know, convicted fellon George Floyd. It's time for our politicians,
especially our Republican senators, to reaffirm that white lives matter.
I know people will say, well, all lives matter. Okay,
Well if everybody believe that all lives matter, you wouldn't
be seeing black career criminals stab a white woman on

(16:29):
a train and then say, yeah, I got that white bitch.
I mean that's what the audio said. Go listen to
the audio yourself. Sorry, I don't know what I'm allowed
to say that. We're on the radio.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're okay, Yeah, it's okay. This is this is the
same radio station as Jesse Kelly.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
That is a hate crime. That is a hate crime. Hey,
ye I get that white bitch. Go listen, go listen
to it. But you they're not going to show that
on TV. Right, So uh it's it's it's inn a bombation.
And this is the result of of eight years of
Barack Hussein Obama justifying violence against white people and saying

(17:02):
things like, oh, if I had a son, he would
look like Trayvon Martin. You know, this is the result
of Obama's race war, and it's time for politicians, especially
those seeking reelection, to end the race war that Barack
Hussein Obama started.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's hard to disagree with anything you just said. It's
just objective truth. You have been criticized for doing this
kind of journalism, and you know, you run an operation
with a relatively small team. It's pretty much you and
a couple of people that help you out. It is
your stories. The work that you do have a bigger
audience than most mainstream news outlets right now, and there's
a lot of pressure on you and people doing similar

(17:38):
work as you, some of your friends, to stop doing
what you're doing. But I got to think, Lauren, you
know I just call balls and strikes here. The work
that you did played a really big role in helping
Donald Trump to get over the finish line in twenty
twenty four. I know there's a lot of people out
there that want you to stop doing this kind of journalism.
What would you say to those people?

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, I better get used to me, right, I'm not
going anywhere anytime soon. I think it's really important that
people fight for what's right. And you know, I guess
I'm blessed to have the platform I have as an
independent journalist, and yeah, look, it's a lot harder because
I don't have the type of funding that a lot
of these other more mainstream media outlets have. But I
like to say that I will know when I am

(18:22):
no longer wanted or needed as an independent journalist because
the funding will dry up, and that will tell me
that the people no longer find value or an interest
in my reporting, because that's how I'm funded. I'm funded
by grassroots donations and everyday Americans supporting my work with
either subscriptions online or with donations to my website. So

(18:42):
I will know when it's my time to you know,
go away and fete into darkness and no longer be
a reporter anymore when I can't, you know, raise the
funds needed to do my work on a daily basis.
But I think that, you know, I'm doing a service
to the country. I'm doing a service for the American people,
many of whom are still silenced innocent because not everybody

(19:04):
can speak out freely. They feel like there's going to
be retribution, professional social retribution for saying the things that
I'm saying, or you know, you see it too, saying
the things that you say on your radio show on
a daily basis. So it's important that the independent media
is able to operate freely and unrestricted.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Laura Lumer you can find her on ex at Laura Lumer,
investigative journalist, host of Lumer on Leash. She writes tweets
that have a bigger audience than CNN and The New
York Times. Laura, thank you so much for your time
this afternoon. We're always grateful to talk to you.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground,
alive in listening to Kinney Webster on KPRC nine point
fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
You don't smell like a dead person. Oh this is interesting.
Girl Scouts. The Girl Scout cookie people just announced a
new flavor, your move ozempic. Let's see what you guys got. Hi. Thanks,
you're connecting. I'm Kenny Webster. Thank you so much. If
you're listening on the radio, we're also live streaming on
the internet right now, which is something I generally do

(20:06):
when I'm an in studio guest. And look at that
I have an in studio guest. Rebecca Smith is here
right now. Rebecca. You and I have known each other,
I don't know, like a couple of years, and you
are Most of the time when people come in and
do this show, it's a politician running for office, it's
a journalist trying to promote some website that they write for,
or it's a comedian that wants to sell comedy tickets.

(20:27):
And you are none of those things.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
No, I'm none of those things.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You're here today because you want to protect children, yes,
And I'm just curious. Are these kids paying you or
why are they? You know, what are you getting out
of this?

Speaker 7 (20:37):
No? I get nothing. I don't even take a salary.
I do it all for free.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
You're you're for the for the goodness of your own heart.
You're here today. You drove all the way in from
like Conro or something from Montgomery so you could talk
with me on the radio for fifteen minutes because you
want to protect kids. Yes, And they're not going to
give you bitcoin or any A lot of these kids
at bitcoin nowadays.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
I wish I knew what that was, but I hear
it's pretty good, has really taken off. But yeah, no bitcoin,
no nothing.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
It's the blockchain apparently you know at the blockchain, roadblocks
or something. I don't know. I don't get it either.
I love what you do. I think this is really awesome.
If people have not found Rebecca on X yet, you
should please find her at Grassroots Therapist is the website.
It's also your what you do on the name of
the X account. But what I thought was so remarkable

(21:24):
here when you and I first met each other, you
told me about how you were working with foster kids.
And these are a lot of kids in Texas that
were being trafficked. We got to meet them one night
at this honky Tonk and at Jeff Canada's shows, hanging
out with Steve toat the state Representative. You and I
have a lot of mutual friends. And tell me about
the group, the foster care program that you are involved

(21:45):
in up there.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
So I founded Love Hill's Youth just a few years ago,
actually three years ago in June, and we work with
foster youth that are teenagers older foster youth in group
homes or orphanages. Everyone thinks that group homes mean that
they're living with families, but they're not. It's a modern
day orphanage and these kids oftentimes are moving from place

(22:07):
to place three to ten times per year. The foster
prison pipeline is absurd. I think eighty percent of the
inmates have been touched by foster the foster care system
at some point in their lives, and so our program
is really about building relationships and offering the mental health
services that they need, and then meeting those basic needs
for clothing, hygiene and things like that. And we're seeing

(22:28):
some major results with about forty to fifty percent reduction
in depression, anxiety, and anger issues just within three months
of working with them, and we do assessments to monitor
that every three months. But it's a really big deal,
and we're making some huge waves and impacts in these
kids' lives, and we do it for pennies on the dollar.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
People often need to look at statistics and data understand
how serious a problem is. And I don't have the
statistics or data in front of me right now, but
I have looked at them before. The shockingly large number
of kids that were in a foster care program who
grow up to be drug addicts, who grow up to
be criminals, who grow up to go to prison, who
die young, who die early, who become rape victims who

(23:10):
become it is just alarmingly it's like the numerically speed,
the numbers are against them. They're not often is the case,
most of them are not going to make it and
live a normal life. And the work that you're trying
to do, what is that like to meet these children
and know that the odds are against you. It's like
almost an impossible game to play, like you're not going

(23:31):
to win, but you do it anyway.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
Well, we have got on our side, so we stay
focused on making sure that we work with them in truth,
with a lot of love and abundance of love.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
And most of these kids have grown up in the system.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
They've never had a family unit to love on them,
to raise them and teach them family dynamics and attachments
and healthy relationships. So we spend a lot of time
trying to help them understand how to navigate a healthy
relationship and then working through their trauma. But yeah, I
mean about fifty percent by the age of twenty four,
fifty percent are going to be addicted to drugs and alcohol.
They're going to be living on government assistants. By the

(24:04):
age of twenty one or twenty two, fifty percent of them.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
How could they not right?

Speaker 7 (24:08):
They haven't given any tools to figure out how to
navigate life right exactly.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I complained before that average kids from nice families don't
learn how to balance a check book or pay their taxes.
They don't because the public schools are too busy trying
to indoctrinate us or teach LGBTQ ideology or what a
white shame or whatever it is that they're teaching them
what's true? Right? It's it's you know, all we could
do is laugh at it, because what else can you
do and try to fix it. When I meet people

(24:33):
like you, Rebecca, it inspires me. But also it's sort
of a bittersweet moment because there's so much work that
you're doing all the time. It's like it's an upheld
battle all the time. You're paddling upstream constantly. What is
that like?

Speaker 7 (24:46):
It can be exhausting at times, but luckily I've been
blessed with a really great network of not just family,
but friends, and the community that I live in is varied,
devout to their faith and their values. So so people
turn up, and they show up, and we have a
call to action for next Tuesday at Connor ad to

(25:07):
stand strong for the Ten Commandments. We fought hard to
get this bill passed, and well I didn't, but the
legislators did. They got it passed, and here we have
an opportunity for the kids to have some basic morals
on the walls. And so the community shows up. So
when I'm exhausted paddling up uphill or upstream, the community

(25:29):
shows up and restores my faith.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
All right, So you're talking about that's putting the Ten
Commandments on the walls of public schools in Texas. I'm
not friends with a lot of politicians. Most politicians wouldn't
have anything to do with me because you know you've
read my tweets before. But one guy I do get
along with is Governor Jeff Landry. I know he's controversial,
but he's made the point before that it's not unconstitutional
to put the Ten Commandments on the wall. You're not

(25:50):
requiring people to say that they believe it. And also,
the First Amendment says we have freedom of religion, it
doesn't say freedom from religion. Most of the major religions
seem to adhere to a similar belief system. Why do
you think there's so much resistance to this?

Speaker 7 (26:05):
I think people are uneducated. I think really the people
that are saying that they don't agree with the Ten
Commandments being on the walls are the ones that they
also claim to be Christians, but they don't even know
what the words mean. I saw a post yesterday that
when lady was saying her lawyer, sister or sibling whatever
didn't even know what it means to bear false witness.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, okay, I mean that's amazing, right. It seems very
obvious to me. But okay, yeah, and so all the
more reason to put it on the wall. You should
teach it to people, right, I mean, because these are kids,
they don't get it.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
They need guidance, and the Ten Commandments are great guidance.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Psalms one nineteen, verse one oh five.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
Your words are a light to my feet, and a
lamp or a lamp to my feet, and a light
to my path.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
That is guidance. The kids need guidance.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
And then we look at Isaiah fifty five, verse eleven
that God's word is going to give you results. And
so if we give them guidance, we know the guidance
is going to produce results.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
I always love when I have a guest in here,
and I look at the comment section on our live
stream and I see people asking questions, And that's exactly
what's happening right now. People are talking about you in
the comments section. Christen says, Montgomery Gal. She appears to
be beautiful in and out. I love that. Can you
please tell me the name of her organization? Again? The
organization is Love Heels Youth. That's the foster care program

(27:27):
that you work with. But it's not the only program
you work with, right correct? Yeah? What else? What are
the other ones?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
So?

Speaker 7 (27:32):
I have Lovehel's Youth that have my private practice in
Montgomery County. It's called Counsel Considera Montgomery County. We have
an energy drink that a portion of the proceeds help
us support veterans, active military, first responders, and of course
the child welfare system. That's one of the main reasons
we got into the energy drink was to help support

(27:52):
the nonprofit.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
And it's really cool. It's called Bomber. It's got I cannot.
I'm not supposed to talk about this, but I'm going
to do it anyway. I have a family member who
played a role in helping to design the electrical system
that's cool on the military aircraft, which is displayed on
your can that can't the drink. Just so we're clear,
you perverts, And I love that you did that. I

(28:13):
think that's very cool that you put that on there.
How do people buy this? Where do they get it from?
Right now?

Speaker 7 (28:18):
You can get it online at our website Bomber ENERGYUSA
dot com, and there are some stores. It's all listed
on the website where you can get the drinks at
local stores, and we're working with distributors to try to
get it marketed in more areas.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
This is probably going to shock you, but as a
morning radio guy, I drank a lot of caffeine. I've
already had two of these today and that was an
average amount of caffeine for me today. How much How
often do you drink them?

Speaker 7 (28:43):
Well, I try to drink more water, but I do
love the blueberry, So when I do drink an energy drink,
it's going to be the Bomber Blueberry flavor, sugar free.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Very cool, all right. So one of the other things
you're doing is mental health for kids during the pandemic.
I think a lot of people didn't realize before the
pandemic how bad it was for kids in America right now.
They're constantly inundated with technology. They're the food that they're
consuming is not healthy, the chemicals and the snacks and
things like that. So in came the Maha movement. In
came the school choice movement. In came this humongous attempt

(29:16):
by average people to go out and remove liberal and
doctrination from the average lives of just you know, kids
in Middle America. People couldn't understand this. Ever since Glenn
Youngkin got elected, I think in twenty twenty one, a
Republican who's the governor of Virginia, campaigned specifically on this
issue of like trans and public school bathrooms, you know,

(29:37):
the gender neutral sporting events and stuff like that, and
DEI in public schools. White shame, white guilt for like
telling some little kid like, hey, I know you're you know,
you're eleven or whatever. But you're white, you're male, you're heteronormative,
you're cis gender, you're all these words we just made
up five minutes ago so we could explain why you
were the problem. And weirdly enough, this has pushed not

(29:59):
only children but America in general really far to the right.
Does that surprise you at all, do you? I mean,
isn't that exactly what you would have expected to have happened?

Speaker 7 (30:08):
Absolutely, because they're trying to indoctrinate why call them ginger terrorists,
and they're grooming children into gender trafficking and all these
other weird things, like they're trying to normalize sexually deviant behavior.
So of course it's going to push all of us
that were if we were just right leaning it moderate
but right leaning. Well, now we're gonna be pretty hardcore

(30:29):
conservatives because family, family, country, and god, I mean, that's.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
What we love, right Yeah, I mean I think so too.
All right, So mental health for kids is a big
part of what the work that you're doing. And average
people are gonna watch you in this video, listen to
you on the radio today, and they're gonna be like, oh,
thank god, there's somebody out there like Rebecca Smith, because
she does this work that I can't do. Like people
will you know, somebody's a mechanic or a mortgage broker,
whatever it is that they do, and they hear you

(30:54):
talk about all the time you spend. You drove here
today took probably took you forty minutes to get here.
To come in and do radio segment with me. God
bless you, and most people don't have the time to
do that. You're not like a wealthy woman. You're just
an average person that makes the time.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
For this, right right, Well, this is a priority for me.
One of the main reasons is that in mental health
we have the Sage study produced some results saying that
ninety percent of the people in the mental health field
are far left progressive, and so I represent three point
six percent of the people in my field that are conservative.
And that's for a field that wants to preach diversity, equity,

(31:30):
and inclusion. We are so not any of that, and
that's the problem. We have thousands and thousands of licensed
mental health professionals that are pushing these agendas and working
with kids as young as three to write a letter
for gender dysphoria after forty five minutes so that they can
start treatment. And even though it's been outlawed here in Texas,
they'll still write the letter because social transition has not

(31:53):
been outlawed, and the families can then.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Take these kids out of state. Even if the.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
Families don't agree with it, the counselor will talk them
into it and then the families will think that the
only recourse for this is to get medical intervention because
they don't want their children to commit suicide.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
It's supposed to be illegal. I don't know if you've
heard about the state representative Brian Harrison was here yesterday
and he and many others have been doing this investigation.
At Texas AM and M University, there's a you know,
that's a college for adults, obviously, but at the school,
they're teaching people about how to educate young people, and
in this class that they're teaching right now, a big

(32:28):
part of it is trans and doctrination. It's in doctrination.
It's not education. It's supposed to be illegal. And the
president of Texas A and M University has even admitted
that he knew about it for a while. He didn't
do anything about it until they got caught. If we
pass laws, it's still happening. And the only way to
get people to stop is journalism. Talk shows is like, well,

(32:49):
what's the point of having these leaders, what's the point
of putting this person in charge of the university if
they're going to allow this to happen. Have you had
a chance to look at this story?

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yet.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
Oh yes, yes, I've had it sent to me multiple times.
It's gusting, and it's happening at every university, and that's
the major problem. Even at say, Houston State University, it's
happening in their master's program for counseling. They are creating
social activists rather than mental health professionals.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, and you can't get a job. I don't know
if you've looked into this, but I checked. If you
major in LGBTQ studies, you can't get paid to be gay.
That's not a job. There's not like a job. And
isn't it all kind of the same thing? Why do
they need so many words? Like gay? What's that? Two guys?
What's lesbian? Two women? All right? So just you're gay? Woman?
Why do you need another word for that? What's the

(33:33):
next one? Bisexual? All right? You haven't decided if you're
gay yet? Okay, great, that's the same trends. What's that?
I like wearing other people's clothes? So gay basically queer?
I don't get at all. And by the way, Rebecca,
I'm not like a hardcore social conservative. I don't care
if these people are what they are. I don't care,
especially if that's really who they are if someone didn't
brainwash them or talk them into being that. Fine, But like,

(33:55):
we don't need to teach heterosexuality, right, we're not trying to.
We don't have different words for guys that are into
blonds or Asians or whatever. So why do we need this?

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Well, and I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
I don't care what you do as an adult in
your own personal life and things like that, but when
you start to impose this on children, that's where I
have a problem.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
And that's what has happened.

Speaker 7 (34:15):
And they're putting those pride flags with the gender ideology
in every single classroom and saying that this is a
safe space. Well, but what makes your neighbor not a
safe space that doesn't want to display a pride flag?

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Why are we unsafe? And so it's grooming.

Speaker 7 (34:30):
It's grooming, it's alienating, and it's wrong, and it's putting
these kids in a really bad predicament of being lost
and confused.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
All right, what's your end goal of all this? Because
you're obviously conservative, you're obviously on the right, you're obviously
driven by Christ and God. But the stuff that you're
out promoting and like mental health for kids that shouldn't
be political. Helping out foster kids that shouldn't be political,
don't give kids an education, don't brainwash them that shouldn't
be political. Do you feel like you're winning? What's your

(34:56):
end goal for all this?

Speaker 7 (34:57):
My end goal is really, even if it's just a
few kids that have a difference, it's made for them
by seeing the Ten Commandments in the classroom or not
being absorbed trafficked into gender trafficking. I just really want
to know that I'm fighting hard to make this world
a better place. It's our job, and if we don't

(35:18):
do it, then our kids are going to be stuck
with this world that's broken.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
And then what Yeah, I want people that are following
us right, that are watching us on social media to
follow you. So your ex account is at Grassroots Therapist,
is that right? Yes? And the Love Heels Youth that's
the name of the program, and the energy drink is
called Bomber. And you know, I think one of your
only problems is you're doing so much work for free

(35:43):
to help out these is it almost a little it's
almost a little confusing. There's a lot of stuff here
to explain to people. Sometimes it's just one thing today.
We're selling apples or whatever, but you're selling an entire
produce section worth of fruit.

Speaker 6 (35:55):
I love fruit.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
That's great. Thank you for just going with Maya. Now
it was a dumb analogy. If people were to take
one thing away from this interview today, Rebecca, if they
want to help you out, what's the easiest way they
can help you.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
The easiest way that you could help is probably just
sharing our posts, whether it's on Facebook, Instagram X and
help us raise awareness. That's my number one thing is
I want to raise awareness about what's going on with
children and the middle health field, and we've got to
work together to help them.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
All right, Well, our radio show today is all about
strong women helping other people out. Journalist Laura Lumer joining
us on the program today, Holly Hansen here as well.
But Rebecca, what you do is very unique from what
we normally do on the show. So I commend you,
I support you, and I encourage our listeners to help
them out. I'm Kenny Webster. If you've been watching us
live streaming, thank you so much for joining us. If
you're listening on the radio, don't go anywhere more. Program ahead.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its line behind. You're listening to Kenny Webster. Oh
my god, this is so dramatic. What is this?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Oh? This is the music of Hans Zimmer. Would you,
I mean, just listen to this music for a second
and be try to be objective? Would you miss work
to listen to someone perform this music? I mean it's nice, right,
miss would you? Would you not only pay money, but
like skip out at your job to listen to somebody

(37:21):
do this? Why? Why would you do? What would be
the point? No, it's great. It's elevator music. This is
the kind of music they played a dentist's office. It's
like the music they play at the beginning of a
Lifetime movie when someone's having a revelation about how they're
going to quit their job and start a gluten free bakery. Fabulous,
just fantastic. Well, anyway, yesterday, I know what you're thinking.

(37:42):
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, Kenny. Why are
you even asking that dumb question yesterday? That actually happened yesterday,
As I'm sure you could probably guess. I'm about to
say a government official's name. She is the single most
powerful Democrat elected official in the state of Texas. I
know it's weird to say too, but it's true. Her
name is Lena Hidalgo. She's the Harris County Judge. It's

(38:04):
the biggest county in Texas. She's very influent, very important
woman when she's not at one of her mental health vacations.
Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo being accused of leaving the
Commissioner's Court meeting during a budget crisis two hundred and
fifty million dollars to attend a concert at the Toyota Center, and,
according to various sources online, Rodney Ellis so many other

(38:27):
people were not thrilled that she just got up and
stormed out, I'm told and we wondered if this was true.
And then later that day on social media, she posted
a photos beautiful show at Toyota Center this evening with
world renown musicians performing Hans Zimmer's famous scores Food for
the Soul. After fighting to keep colleagues from decimating county

(38:48):
services for residents, we live to fight another day. You're
probably wondering what services they're talking about. Do you remember
back at twenty twenty one, we just talked about this.
Glenn Youngkin won an election. He's a Republican, won the
Virginia governor goubinatorial race by saying, we're going to be
against trains and kids. We're going to be against you know,
a critical race theory, education and LGBTQ and doctrination in

(39:09):
public schools. Boys use the boys' bathroom, girls use the
girls bathroom, and this common sense policy position about parenting
and education and families, right policies for families won the
election for them. Well, now Democrats need to figure out
something to do in the twenty twenty six midterms. So
here to explain it to us. Holly Hanson of the

(39:30):
Texan Dot News. They're going all in on free childcare,
aren't they? Oh?

Speaker 8 (39:35):
Yes, And Lena Hidalgo, you know, try to put press
for fellow Commissioner's court to supporting a proposed tax increase. Now,
you have to keep in mind the county just levied
a tax increased last year that resulted in almost an
eighteen percent increase for some property owners in the county,
So they've already been kind of saddled with this new

(39:59):
set of tax as of last year. But she wanted
to come back again and Levy Moore taxes to cover
the costs of a childcare pilot program that was launched
using these federal COVID relief dollars, and became extremely irate
when three of the fellow commissioners would not support. Two

(40:21):
of those commissioners are her fellow Democrats. That would be
Adrian Garcia and Leslie Brionez, the third one being Tom Ramsey,
a Republican. But none of those three would support the
tax increase because you know, to their argument that just
levy taxes last year and you know that it's just
not the appropriate time to do so. Uh So she

(40:42):
was she was very angry about that. That pressed very hard,
and yesterday during commissioner's court meetings as she, you know,
continued to Lambaso's three. She calls them the GOP three,
and pretty much after every speaker who came from the
local community or anyone spoke about anything, she went back

(41:04):
to this issue. She's also very angry with them for
supporting a pay increase for the county's law enforcement officers
who are on patrol in the county and city day
after day. So she's very angry about that. The county
is looking at a bit of a deficit, and they
are trying to and at cost savings, you know, and

(41:26):
curtail some expenditures to cover all these costs and give
those law enforcement officers a raid. As you noted, she
did leave the meeting early to purportedly attend this concert
and left her fellow commissioners there as they continued to
pass items necessary to create budget which starts pretty soon here.

(41:50):
So we're talking about the fiscal year budget that starts
in October, so they needed to get some work done.
But towards the end of the meeting, it was just them.
They moved very quick quickly without without Lena Hidalgo present.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
All right, I know you hate when I do this
because you try to be just you're you know, you're
you're get smart, just the facts, nothing but the facts.
You're very very I understand you're being objective and I
could appreciate that, but take off your journalism hat for
just a minute and put on your I'm I'm I'm
I'm Holly Hansen, the Texas voter, civilian taxpayer. Do you
think that going all in on free childcare considering all

(42:25):
the other stuff that is mobilized and galvanized parents to
get out and get more involved in politics since the
end of the pandemic, from anything from school choice to
LGBTQ and doctrination, so many different things that have inspired
parents to start going to more school board meetings. Do
you think that Do you think free childcare is the

(42:46):
thing that will help win Democrats the elections next year?

Speaker 3 (42:50):
You know, I.

Speaker 8 (42:52):
Really don't think so, at least not at this level.
That is a push that's coming from some of these
leaders like Hidalgo. I think they see it as an
emotional wedge issue that it will appeal to families and
so forth. Let's keep in mind that this pilot program
they're talking about doesn't serve very many children. I think
it amounted to about two thousand children from you know,

(43:14):
you know, very poor families. And there are other entities
that provide that childcare. There's you know, some of the
school districts. We actually have a Harris County Department of Education.
There's you know, early early pretty early start and things
like that had start. So you know, there's a lot
of conflict about that. And you know, the county's responsibility

(43:39):
extend to public safety and infrastructure. There's a lot of
concerns about whether or not we are prepared for another
flood event like we had Hurricane Harvey back in twenty seventeen.
The county has experienced so a lot of problems in
getting those flood mitigation projects done. And back to the

(44:00):
public safety issue, a lot of concerned about crime and
whether or not it's safe. People like their patrol officers
they see in their communities, and they especially like their
constables being out there in the school districts and the neighborhoods. UH,
trying to make sure we have a safe place to live. So,
you know, I don't necessarily think this is going to

(44:21):
be a winning issue for Hidalgo, although she has recruited
a lot of people to come to Commissioner's Court and
advocate for it and advocate for a whole fleu of
social programs that the county launched using those federal relief dollars.
How about will play out, we don't know. Adalgo is
not said whether or not she's going to run for

(44:42):
reelection next year. There's rumors that she may run for Congress,
but said she hasn't drawn quite a few both Democrats
and Republicans who say they're going to run for county judge.
So if she does run, she's gonna she's gonna face
a lot of challenges both for her from the Democrat
Party and the Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Just using your basic knowledge of what words mean. Does
it seem a little contradictory for mainstream Democrats like Lena
Headdalgo to be against school choice, which would help low
income families be able to have access to private school,
charter schools, you know, homeschooling programs, whatever it may be.
They're against that, but they'refore money for daycare. Doesn't that

(45:27):
seem it's almost it's almost like they're saying, is you
can watch someone else's kid on the taxpayer time, but
you better not teach them to read a book.

Speaker 8 (45:37):
Yeah, that's you know, I don't know quite what to
do with that. And you know, I believe that under
these childcare programs they do funnel money to private providers.
So it is a bit of a contrast. But and
my guess is that the ultimate goal is that you
would have you know, government funded early childcare, just like

(45:59):
you have you know, government funded public schools, which is
not necessarily a bad thing, but they would like to
extend basically what's your K twelve education to being a
you know, age zero on through programs so that you
would have kids, you know, in these these institutions up

(46:20):
from the get gos. So that is controversial, but it
is a push. And you know, these are people who
believe that government should be running all of these things,
whereas you know, others on the other side are saying, well,
and we like it better and we can we can
choose our you know, private daycare, our private school, or

(46:42):
or whatever schooling option that we want.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Holly Anson, I got to tell you, I think you're
a very good journalist. I think you have a future
in this industry. You should keep doing it.

Speaker 8 (46:53):
Well, thank you very much. Appreciate Holly.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
If people wanted to find your work and they were
willing to pay a nominal fee to subscribe to a
high quality, right leaning conservative news source, where would one
go to get such a subscription, Well.

Speaker 8 (47:07):
We'd love for you to check us out at Ztexan
dot news. We cover statewide issues. We have a great
team of reporters that provide some great information and analysis.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
I love it, Holly Hanson, my sister from another mister.
I got to run everybody. We'll be back bright and
early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a
radio for. You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.

Speaker 7 (47:36):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.