September 30, 2025 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Don Hooper from the Houston Conservative Forum. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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in the banner. Wood in the banner also sounds like
a book about a gay baseball player.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for turning on the radio
this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
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a police officer, a first responder, a member of our
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tickets today. Don Hooper is going to be here this
afternoon from the Houston Conservative Forum and my buddy Derek
Bingham stopping by. He has a cool company called Higgins
Boat Rum. Maybe you've tried it. If you haven't, you should.
We'll get to all that shortly before we get to
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any of it. The Chicago Teachers Union managed out to
itself this weekend. A report from Peter Heck just humiliating.
Did you guys see do you know who Asada Shakur is.
I'll start out with this. Asada Shakur isn't her real name.
Her real name is Joanne Chessermard. Maybe that's why she
changed it. Shakur is a convicted murderer, and not just
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a murderer. She escaped from prison and then she fled
down to Cuba and she was on the FBI's most
wanted terror list terrorist list right up until her death.
She died very sad. I mean, it's always sad when
anyone dies, but maybe not when a terrorist dies or
a cop killing terrorist. So the Chicago Teachers Union they
heard the news that she died, and they took to X,
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the social media platform, and they posted the following. They said,
rest in power, Rest in peace, Assada Shakur, and there
was more. They went on to say, today we honor
the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer,
a re revered leader of black liberation, and a leader
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of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle,
Live in our struggle, they say. Asada refused to be silenced.
She taught us that quote. It is our duty to
fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other, with
nothing to lose but our chains. By the way, she
was never chained up. I mean, not like in the
traditional sense. She was never a slave. She did, you know,
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get arrested because she was a bad person, But that's different.
Asada was convicted in nineteen seventy seven for the first
degree murder in the nineteen seventy three killing of a
New Jersey State trooper. She was sentenced to life plus
thirty three years. She escaped to Cuba, and she's been
a fugitive ever since. She was on the most wanted
terrorist list. So this glowing description, obviously I added all
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that other information they didn't have that that glowing description
leaves out the crucial fact that she was not a
good person. She murdered a guy named New Jersey State
Trooper Werner Forrester. He was shot and killed execution style
on the side of the turnpike, leaving behind a wife
and a son. Asada Shakur was sentenced to life in prison,
but she escaped. She lived underground. She surfaced in Cuba.
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They gave her asylum. The FBI had a million dollar
reward for her capture. So that's who the Chicago Teachers
Union decided to honor. This is the kind of thing
that makes many of us who are public school critics,
shake our heads and wonder, why do we have to
pay for this? Okay, obviously, not every public school teacher
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is a murderer. Not every public school teacher shares the
values of the Chicago Teachers Union. But we know people
think of teachers, they think of groups like this. That's
what it's become nowadays. Nowadays, when there's a news story
about a teacher, it's almost always because they had some
far left agenda, celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk or
trying to trans your kids. It's never a story about
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how great teachers are and how much they're trying to do,
which is a shame because there are good teachers out there.
I just don't think anybody's writing news stories about him.
So it's bad enough. The Chicago Teachers' Union has made
a habit of dabbling in activism far removed from the classroom.
Just this summer, the president mocked critics by affirming her
organization's intent to claim ownership of young people over their parents.
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Chicago Teachers Union thinks your children are its children.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
President even admitted that her name's Stacy David Gates. More recently,
the group called for a boycott of Target. Why why
Target the department store? Because the retailer backed away from
its aggressive DEI policies and left wing activism. You'll never
be woken up for the woke mob. Remember Target's the
same department store that was selling for any underwear for
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little kids. As usual, none of their activities seemingly has
anything to do with improving schools. I'm speaking about the union,
of course, or the student's outcome. It's just left wing
politics and that. As if that wasn't annoying enough, the
latest action goes a little further, honoring Asada Chakor is
something else altogether, This isn't an edgy policy position. It's
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moral failure to praise a fugitive who murdered a cop
is indefensible. It makes the Chicago Teachers' Union look radical
and unhinged, and worse, it makes teachers everywhere look complicit.
Most people who become educators believe that they're helping. They're
trying to shape the minds of young people, trying to
shape character into the next generation. They take their responsibility seriously,
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and most of them want nothing to do with a
union that confuses violent revolutionaries with role models. The Chicago
Teachers' Union obviously thinks it's sending a message of resistance.
What they're really sending is a message of contempt. Contempt
for law enforcement, contempt for the families of victims, contempt
for the taxpayers who expect better from those who teach
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our children. If you're a teacher, this is probably pretty humiliating.
Most of you didn't do anything to deserve this. But
every time a union like the Chicago Teachers' Union drags
their profession your profession into the mud, a lot of
parents and taxpayers and people that just question what's going
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on or left wondering whether the adults in the classroom
can be trusted to distinguish right from wrong. That's the
real cost, not just the bad headlines, not just the
bad political posturing, but the erosion of trust between families
and public schools. Trust the teachers work hard to earn
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and unions like the CTA CTU seem determined to squander.
Because that's the reality.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I guess it's not available in Canada, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I never watched Harry Potter. I never read the books.
I was too old. I never heard any kids. It
seemed creepy to me. But there's a report at Breitbart
dot com today that makes me think I should probably
be a big fan of JK.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Rowling. Could I get some Hollywood music please?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood bratt.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Or what.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Harry Potter author JK. Rowling dropped rhetorical nukes on Emma Watson.
Emma Watson's an actor. As you know, she starred in
the popular Harry Potter film series and actually launched her career.
For the last decade or so. The three main actors
made famous and rich by the Harry Potter film franchise,
people like Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
They have all publicly attacked.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Jk Rowling because she refuses to join the trans cult.
All I know about jk Rowling is I love her tweets,
and whenever she talks about her political beliefs, I seem
to agree with them. Although I'm told she's on the left,
I don't hear her saying much leftist stuff. Rawling takes
no issue with adults who wish to parade around as
the opposite sex. On that score, like most of us,
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live and let live is her motto that I happen
to agree with it. Where jk Rowling draws the line
is the same place. Let kids be kids, stop mutilating children.
Biological men have no place in what should be private
and safe places for women, restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, women's shelters.
Isn't it amazing We started putting trans inmates into a
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women's prison in New Jersey and then the pregnancy rates skyrocketed.
We never had pregnant prisoners before, now we have lots
of them. So what jk Rowling is doing is perfectly reasonable.
What she's saying is about compassion. Her beliefs are reasonable
because she's a woman, she's a wealthy woman, she's an
influential woman. She's a very smart woman, and now she's
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faced a decade of hate and death threats and blacklisting
and public menacing rawlings watched three people she made famous
and who is no since they were ten years old
repeatedly and publicly stabber in the back.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All three of these stars of Harry Potters have.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Abused this woman to pimp their careers by sounding virtuous
even and this is unforgivable as they knew they were
adding fuel to the hay inferno that threatened her career
in her safety. Nevertheless, until this month, jk Rowling never
pushed back against the three of them, at least not
by name. Now that's all changed this week when that
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sleazy little mercenary Emma Watson slithered out from under a
rock and she said the following I'll just read it
to you.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
This is her quote quote.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I really don't believe that by having had that experience
and holding the love and support and views that I have,
means that I can't and don't treasure Joe jk Rowling
and the person that I had personal experiences with. I
think it's my deepest wish that I hope people who
don't agree with my opinion, will love me, and I
hope I can keep loving people who I don't necessarily
share the same opinion with.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
All Right, it seems normal so far.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She goes on to say, I guess where I've landed
is it's not so much much what we say or
what we believe, but very often how we say it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
That's really important.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
As a young woman, for her to have written that
character and created that world, given me an opportunity which,
to be honest, barely exists in the history of the
English literature. There's just no world in which I could
ever cancel her out or cancel that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Out end quote. Now.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
JK Rowling, who's no one's full saw this for exactly
what it was and initially responded with the following.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
She said, I'm already missing intel, ladies.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's JK. Rowling, Angela Rayner. But I'm here for all
the spoofs. Here's a little audio for you. Hang on
a second, here, computers loading.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
It comes to my relationship with you. Obviously, I will
never forget the opportunity that she gave me. She saw
something so so special in me that she knew she
had to bring me into her creative vision and make
me part.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Of that and I will.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, it's just the thing I just tried. Sorry, I
thought it was something else all right. On Monday, JK.
Rowling decided to finally let it fly against the privileged
to face Watson, and it was kind of glorious. She said,
I'm seeing quite a bit of comments about this, so
I want to make a couple of points. I'm not
owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a
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character I created. That idea is ludicrous, She said. She's
written a lot of characters over the years. Like other
people who've never experienced a delf life uncushioned by wealth
and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life
she's ignorant of how ignorant she is has Emma had
to strip off in a newly mixed sex changing room
at a council run swimming pool. Is she ever likely
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to need a state run rape crisis center that refuses
to guarantee an all female service to find herself sharing
a prison cell with a male rapist who who's identified
into the women's prison end quote. Now, unlike Emma Watson,
Rawlings explains, quote, I wasn't a multi millionaire at fourteen,
I lived in poverty while writing the book that made
Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience
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what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has
so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privilege.
Then Rolling gets to the two faced part quote. The
greatest irony here is that had Emma not decided in
her most recent interview declare that she loves and treasures
me a change of tach, I suspect she's adopted because
she's not. She's noticed full throated condemnation of me is
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no longer quite as fashionable as it was. I might
never be this honest. Rolling closes with this quote, adults
can't expect to cozy up to an activist movement that
regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right
to the former friend's love as though the friend was
in fact their mother. End quote. My guess is that
one of the reasons Rolling took it easy on these
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ungrateful brats is because when you're an adult who meets
little kids when they're still little kids, you always see
them that way. I'm sure Rolling felt motherly towards them,
which is why she remained silent. But Emma Watson and
the other two are thirty five years old. Now they're adults.
I have no doubt jk Rowling would accept a sincere
apology and reconciliation. But again, jk Rowling is not an idiot,
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She's not a fool, she's not a dumb person.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
She sees.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Emma Watson for who she is. She's a spoiled, privileged,
ungrateful opportunist at the risk of her career and her status.
Jk Rowling has been one hundred percent principled in fighting
against the trans sociopathy, and in doing so, she has
not only helped shape public opinion, but she has made
it safe for others to voice some sanity, which is
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helping to turn the tide. Jk Rowling currently stands on
the right side of history, which means she is once
again a kingmaker in the world of entertainment. So good
on her. I want to point something out here. I
hate Nazi analogies and politics. I hate them, but often
as a question people ask about the Holocaust, or World
War Two or the Nazi Germany. How could people let
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it get that bad? For about four years. Again, I
hate the Nazi analogy. For about four years in this country,
you were not allowed to stand up and criticize the
trans You were not allowed to point out how crazy
it was that fully grown men were using the bathroom
with little girls and people were getting assaulted, and if
you assaulted, and if you even complained, you could be
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canceled for it. It took enough people standing up and
saying something to make a difference. People are scared. It's
not that people don't know what the difference is between
right and wrong. People are afraid to speak up sometimes
because they don't want to get canceled. They don't want
it to affect their job. Biological men have no place
in what should be private and safe places for women, restrooms,
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locker rooms, prisons, women shelters. But the National Organization for
Women obediently and subserviently rolls over and plays dead at
the feet of their male overlords and lipstick eyeliner mascarist
to let he and the tucket underwear the same way
they rolled over for Islam's treatment of women and gays.
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The whole Western civilization has turned into one big, ironic
alternate reality.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So thank God for JK. Rowlins. Sure, it's what it is.
A star cousin right here for Seeds and Happy his.
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Watch Christy Nome's dog play dead.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
No, everyone got very uncomfortable in the room when I
said that that's not funny, is it? She did kill
a dog though. Don Hooper from the Houston Conservative for him,
what are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Cheer on? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, here, put that mic in front of your face.
Don have you ever been in studio.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We have a full room here of people right now
for those of you just getting connected with us, we're
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Speaker 4 (16:20):
And we can all drink together.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
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I think that'd be even better. And you're bringing then,
can you hold the bottle up for the camera here?
I want people to see what it looks like. Yes,
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Speaker 3 (17:10):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, I know there's too much here and moving around. Sorry,
we should have planned this better. Never a dull moment here,
all right, Yeah, Derek explained to me.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You're so you're gonna make a drink. Here's my plan.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
My plan is you get us liquored up right now
while we're on the radio, and then entertaining, and then
Don Hooper, who has hot goss up about Harris County
politics that he's not supposed to share on the radio,
will be nice and he'll be juiced up. He'll be
the juice is loose, and then maybe he'll be more
lenient on what he's willing to tell us. Does that
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a great plan.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I think so too. What are they making right now, Derek?
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And again our brand is named after the Higgins Boat,
the landing craft from D Day, and it's a tribute
to my grandfather's and great uncle service in World War Two,
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and we go ten percent of our property profits go
to veterans charities.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Both of my grandpa's also served in World War Two.
Did we talk about this last time you were here?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I think we did a little bit.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
My grandpa John's job, because he spoke fluent Italian, was
to go to Italy and convince all the American gis
to come home to their wives, which.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Was a very night. It was necessary.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
They're like, look, you know, Dale, I know you love
you know, you got Marie back in America. I'm sure
you love Isabella, but you've got to come home now
the war is over.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That was his job. What did your grandpa do during
World War Two?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
So one of my grandpa's was a little young at
the started the war, ended up in the Merchant Marines
and just was, you know, on the ships that brought
a whole lot of the stuff over to support the
war effort. And then my other grandpa landed in France
shortly after D Day and fought all the way through
the battle of the Bulgian Army.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Wow, that's hardcore. You got family that were military veterans.
I said, well, my dad was in World War Two.
He was a Navy medic. The served almost well, probably three.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Three and a half years.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
I think what where where did they send him? Oh,
he was all over the South Pacific. Yeah, and he
you know, so he was pretty young when he signed
up and then he went through He had always wanted
to go to medical school, and he later did become
a doctor. But the so he went through medical training
which took him a little bit longer to get into
the field.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But he was in the South Pacific.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, well that's but that's hardcore. That was very hardcore.
It was wild over there. Apparently there were literally nuclear
bombs going off, which is not something that most wars
could say. I think that's the only war where we
ever had nuclear weapons god that we know of. Right,
all right, So don for those that don't know what
the I would describe the Houston Conservative for him like this,
you are a guy that publishes information that is brutally
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honest about what is going on in Southeast Texas politics,
a political scene where there's millions, if not billions of
dollars on the line at any given moment, and you
had published some information over the years that has really
upset some people because they did not want people to
know the things that you were willing to report on.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Am I accurately describing what you do?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, and so I started with the Big Jolly and
I wrote on Big Jolly Politics back when Big Jolly
was the largest political publication or online publication in Texas.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
We had about a.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Million people a week that would come to it and
read it from all over the state. And then David Jennings,
the founder of it, eventually quit and I took over
and wrote for it for about five and a half years,
I think, before I started the Houston Conservative Forum. But
I was always on KTRH radio in the mornings for
a long time. Wrote on the Houston Conservative Forum for
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many years. Don't really write that much anymore. Recently sold
my company and then my wife is the current General
counsel of the Republican Party of Texas. But I'm still
very active in politics in Texas.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Okay, So at some point, you know, you started, you
were tired from your day job and you started doing politics.
You treat your hobby like it's a full time job, right,
Is that a good.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Way to explain it?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well? Now?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
And then I kind of got started in my professional
career in real estate development, which is being a in politics.
There's no way you can develop real estate without being
in politics. And I did that for a very long time.
Actually worked in the lobby side of the world of
the A real estate group, and then eventually moved back
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to Houston. I lived in California, I lived all over
the actually all over the world at one point that
came back to Houston and started working with a group
of people including Alan Blair more in Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I cover politics nationally, regionally and locally. I do state politics.
I do regional and so I don't always know every
little intricate detail about what's going on.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
For those that don't know who Don is.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Don is a guy I call on the phone when
I have a real meticulous question about something going on.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But last week, yes, I KINI thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Last week we had a rally for these kids from
Stratford High School.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It was huge. Thousands of people came out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Some Democrat from the Spring Branch Democrats docks to these kids.
Nancy Hurpin published personal information about them on the internet.
Now she's playing victim. And in response to this, a
lot of people came out to support Abraham. George was there.
He's the chairman of the Texas Republican Party. Michael Barry
probably one of the biggest talk radio show hosts in America,
if not in Texas. Ken Paxton, the flipping Attorney General,
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was there. Kenny Webster was there and there too, right
a humble part of a very big event. One group
of people I noticed were not there was the Harris
County Republican Party, which is weird because this was a
national news story about Harris County Republicans and none of
them were anywhere inside. I assumed they did not show
up because they didn't want to be associated with Ken Paxton.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You have a different theory, Well, it's part of that theory.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I think that the Harris County Republican Party, for the
most part, is much more aligned on the opposite side
of the Charlie Kirk Ken Paxton realm. But what did
you want me to talk about, in particular, what.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Was your theory about why they weren't there.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Oh, I think that they didn't want to show up
because it had been exposed that there were people who
well miss herpin in particular, she's the vice president of
the Spring Branch Democrats had voted in the Republican primary,
which I have been accusing the Harris County Republican Party
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for several years that they were recruiting people Democrats to
vote in the Republican primary to elect model or it's
are left leaning Republicans.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, So, for whatever it's worth, this is a big
problem in the Texas Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
We have open primaries.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Part of the people always wonder, how is it this
big red state has all these squishy liberal Republicans John Cornyn,
whatever you think of Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, how is
it you guys elect these people that aren't staunch conservatives
on a state wide level?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Why is it that the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Is always a liberal Republican that works with the Democrats.
And the short answer is, in your opinion, open primaries,
which is bigger than the Stratford High School thing last week?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Oh it is in the well Dade Feeling was in
a huge battle to retain his House seat.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
In that you had.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
About I think twenty three hundred It could have been
twenty seven hundred. Democrats crossed over to vote in that
runoff election where he retained to see just barely. He
won by one hundred and sixty six votes. I think,
or maybe too. I can't rememb exactly what it was,
but that we could document people with Democratic voting histories
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voting in that runoff election.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
And.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The results speaker themselves. It's why we get squishy Republican
judges and stuff like that. I'll tell you we got
to break.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Take a break.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Derek Bingham is here right now from Higgins Boat Rum Company.
He's going to talk to us about Booze in just
a second. Don Hooper is here from the Houston Conservative Forum.
I have a feeling you've already upset a few people
with what you just said on the quick Greg.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Hello. My name is Pedro.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
My favorite things to do are smuggle drugs, pro create
like a rabbit, and listen to Pursuit of Happiness Radio
with producer Keini Peace Stoopy. Oh, this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
McDonald's is bringing back the Monopoly game pieces after a decade.
People are pretty excited about it, but I don't know why.
I don't think it's a big deal that Burger they
just served you was under a heat lamp for two decades.
I think that's impressive. What the hell is in that food?
Don Hooper? He used to conservative for him. Have you
ever seen someone will pull an old cheeseburger out of
a cabinet that's been in there for years and it
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never ages? Does that make you want to eat McDonald's? No, No,
it doesn't, Derek, best fast food place?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Where do you go?
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I don't eat a lot of fast food these days.
Usually just get like some burger patties from water Burger
when I'm on the road.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
If I need some beat you left, I do. Don't
you have?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Like on a lyft day, isn't it? That's a day
when you can do a lot of calories?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I don't measure anything?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Oh oh well, this is awkward because I do, but
feverishly I am measured.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
It's been enough Tom paying attention to nutrition to where
I kind of have a fuel for it. And but
I eat high amounts of red meat and then like honey,
fruit and raw dairy and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I measure everything. I always think it's important to start
at the base. That's just my opinion. All right, let's
talk about this for a minute. We have I want
to tell a story about you real quick. Don Saturday evening,
I have nothing going on, so I walk down the
street to a steakhouse not far from where I live.
It's one of my favorite places to eat. It's called
King Ranch Steakhouses. Is not a commercial for King Ranch Steakhouse.
It's I love eating there. Women hate it. Never bring
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a woman there on a date. They will not be
impressed by it. I always adds a Tilleman for Tita Steakhouse.
They're like, I don't want to go. It looks like
Texas Roadhouse. It does an It's a fancy version of
Texas Roadhouse. Anyway, I'm sitting out on the patio and
there's a Hispanic gentleman in his twenties sitting not far
away from me with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And I'm just gonna describe to you what I saw.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's not going to be it's not politically correct, as
they used to say in the nineties. Two black guys
get kicked out of the restaurant. They're in their twenties.
I don't know what their names were. I have no idea.
Ron Trelan and Traylon. Who knows like very gangster looking
black and not like you know, we're not talking about
like you know, it wasn't like Ben Carson or anything
like that. These were looks like they were in a gang.
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We're being kicked out for bad behavior. And before before
leaving the parking lot, they turn their attention to the
hispanic gentleman that is on a date sitting on the patio.
We're the only ones out there, me and one of
my friends and these two at the other end, and
they start saying things to his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And immediately this guy stands up.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He feels that his manhood has been challenged, so he
reaches down.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
He's got a gun right here. I was like, this
is it. This is how I die.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
This is I'm gonna die on the patio of a
mid price steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I was like, I can't, this is it, this is
I can't.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I came down here to get a cheap fil a
and cheap was what I well, that is how I
will die.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Can you move it over to B and B Butcher's
real quick?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Can I die at Mastros for crying out loud? So anyway,
as soon as this happens, cops pull up. It gets
crazy out there. Management runs out, the woman in charge
of the restaurant starts lecturing them. They all go their
different way, Cops come, they get arrested.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It is very dramatic.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And then as soon as that ends, prominent members of
the Republican Party start showing up to go to a
party in this banquet hall at the restaurant, including you
Don Hooper from the Houston Conservative Forum. What were you
guys doing there?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
You saw a bunch of Republicans there, but there were
many many Democrats there, and it was Kim Ogg's birthday.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It was Kim Ogg, our former district attorney. Now you
know how conspiracy theorists are on the internet. I'm sitting
on the pat me Kenny Webster, local right wing comedian
and talk show host, is sitting on the patio where,
just coincidentally, the former DA is having a birthday party, where,
just coincidentally, three gang bangers are getting into a gunfight
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in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Now people are blaming Israel for Charlie Kirk's murder.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You know what I'm saying, Like people will come up
with some far fetched nonsense to spin a narrative if
something had happened, if someone had died there, with kim
Ogg in that building having her birthday, me on the patio,
and these gang bangers in the parking lot. Don How
would people on Twitter have reacted to that?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well, I didn't know that I missed all this when
I saw you.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
But the.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
When I walked into the event, I could clearly see
there were a bunch of bodyguards. They're all heavily armed,
and most of the Republicans, I'm sure we're armed.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I carry gun, my wife carries a gun.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
We were all armed, and I'm glad I don't run
into those situations because, quite frankly, I don't want to
have to shoot anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You get along with kim Ogg, I do. Kim Ogg
is kind of those don't know what you got till
it's gone. Politicians. Eric Adams in New York City, he's
another one, the outgoing mayor of New York City. We
all hated him when he showed up. Nobody liked kim
Ogg when she got into office. Then she left and
we were like, man, can we get the reasonable Democrat back?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I would say that's true, the uh and and you
have to think about well, it wasn't true at the time,
but My wife was appointed to be the special prosecutor
against Lena Hildago by a Democrat, right so, the current
General Counsel of the Republican Party, and she wasn't the
general council when she was appointed. Winds up being the
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special prosecutor against Lena.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All Right, a little inside baseball for a minute. I
like Ken Paxton. He's the best attorney general you've ever had.
I certainly don't agree with everything he's ever done. Kim
Ogg built this fantastic case working with the Texas Rangers
to prove that I think proved that Lena Hidalgo and
her staff members were involved in a bid rigging scheme
to take millions of dollars away from the federal government
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for a COVID vaccine outreach program contract that should have
been assigned to the University of Texas, if I'm not mistaken. Yes,
And in the end it went to some lady that
lives above a bong shop in.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Montrose, Felicity Perea, who's currently running for the school board.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Right exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It wasn't literally a bong shop, but like that kind
of an operation, like why is this woman who's never
done this before, that lives in Montrose with a staff
of At some point Ken Paxton dropped all the charges
after kim Ogg handed the case over to her.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Well, Kim was leaving off as the prosecution hadn't moved forward,
the judge hadn't moved it forward, and handed it off
to Ken and assigned it to a prosecutor in his
office and the U And when it was assigned to
the prosecutor in his office, I later learned.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Who she was.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
I wasn't a particular fan of hers. I made it known,
but I think Ken allowed some of his staffers to
make a decision that didn't sit well with me. It
certainly didn't sit well with my wife or Kim about it.
But I will say that Ken gave my wife and
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kim Ogg his explanation of it, and they kind of
agreed with not that that the case was bad, that
there was probably prosecutorial discretion on his staff's part to
do that.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And all right now we need your professional opinion here.
When you're frustrated about political about a public officer doing
something you don't like, what's the right kind of rum
to drink?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Good Room.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Higgins, Higgins, Derek thing, I'm higgeams about rum.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Yeah, and then if you mix it with some good
syrups and things like that, you can make a good cocktail.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And then you suddenly you won't be so pissed off exactly.
But another crony politician got away.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
With millions of dollars in my money, and I would
have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for
you damn rum distillers, exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
The U I will say, it was kind of interesting
at Kim's birthday. I was sitting with the former first
assistant and we were talking about in There were a
lot of people from the public corruption group within Kim
Ogg's office there, and Kim you prosecuted quite a bit
of public corruption and all of those cases, the ones
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that she didn't finish. We don't believe that the current
District Attorney Chan Tier has one single public corruption case going.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And how can that be true? Don That's insane.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
No, there's not one single public corruption in one of
the most corrupt political.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Cities in the country. There's nothing.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Well, you have to think.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
James Comy sent down this guy named Perry Turner to
head the Houston Field Office for the FBI, a large
field office. The Houston office is very big special agent
in charge, and his specific instruction was not to investigate
certain politicians for public corruption. And hardly anything happened on
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the federal side at all the entire time that he
was here, and he was here a long time, and
then Kim started investigating cases. Now, I will say Devin
Anderson didn't really investigate public corruption either.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
The prior Republican.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
When you look at the who's running for county judge
right now in Harry's County? Who the Republicans are? Marty Langton,
that's your firefighter union president. This woman's the mayor of
Piney Point. What's her name?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
You know what, Audrey, I'm gonna get it wrong.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Is there someone else? So there's two other people running?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, there's Warren Howell.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Who do you like?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:02):
I like I've known Marty a very long time in Orlando.
Sanchez is running in Orlando Sanchez. Now, don't you think
it's interesting that most Republicans in Houston right now want
a government union leader to be our county judge. How
much Trump has changed this party in ten years?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Well, it is unusual.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
And I never thought of Marty as being somebody that
was tied to his union.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I already endorsed him. I think he's great. I'm not
trying to besmirch the guy. But isn't that an interesting pick?
Speaker 6 (35:31):
It is in Marty when I'm asked that, I've been
asked that question before. When Marty decided to run, people
on the Republican side were quickly pointing out his Union ties.
But I will say, you want toe to toe with
Sylvester Turner, a huge union guy for years, somewhat are well,
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I'm not Ultimately he won that fight.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Do you think there's any truth of the rumor that
Sylvester Turner's still alive and he's planning another Astro world
music festival?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Don go ahead?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Uh No, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
He Why can you prove it?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
No? Probably not?
Speaker 6 (36:12):
But you know, I you know, one of the reasons
why I really loved Marty is because he fought so
hard against Sylvester in the absolute corruption that was going
on at City Hall.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
That was how we all learned to love Marty, right
and that and and Turner tried to pit him in
the cops against each other. And isn't it interesting as
soon as he's announced his candidacy, the police Union's come
out and endorsed him.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
I was shocked about that because I definitely had conversations
with the HPOU over the years when Marty was going.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Toe to toe.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
But you know, they the union, the police union, had
gotten some really big contract victories when Marty got nothing,
and because he got nothing, they were rewarded more and
ultimately they lowered the pension, I think by the police
the fire union pension seven hundred and eighty five million
dollars in a lot of that money went to the
police officer Giini.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Do you remember when James Brown died? They took his
body on tour around the country. Do you know what
I'm about to ask you? Don't you know when Turner died.
When Turner died, they took his body from Washington, DC
to Houston, Texas. Then they brought it up to Austin,
then they brought it back to Houston.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Who does he think he is? He's not the hardest
working man in entertainment.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
No, he is. No Jackson, Lee, Sheila Jackson.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'm Kenny Webster, Derek part Derek didn't deserve any of this.
You know, it's it's Tuesday, guys. We're having a little
bit of fun here and I appreciate everybody for being here.
Quicker minder, folks. We have a comedy show on. That's
the wrong thing on the screen there. They were having
a comedy show on Sunday, October fifth. The Bad Astronaut
Brewing Company, one of our sponsors, is here, Derek Bingham. Derek,
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this is an amazing cocktail. You did awesome. I'll let
you get the last word before we go. Houston could
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they find you? Just follow you on X.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I guess yeah, follow me on X. Derek. We got run.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But you're a sponsor, You're a great guy, and you're
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Speaker 2 (38:20):
I will say this about Piney Point that mayor over there.
When I go to Piney Point, I don't see any
homeless people. I don't see any vandalism and how does
she do it? Don Hooper, Well.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
I think that's the same way West University and all
the Memorial villages do it. They they can focus more
on police work.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
The average income in that town is like a half
a million dollars a year. Yeah, that's all we gotta
do is if we had that in the rest of Houston,
we'd all be like Piney Point.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Well, and they have conservative leadership, which means they don't
have DEI in their police department.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
It's amazing. I'm Conny Webster. Thanks so much for watching.
Everyone have a great day.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for turning on the radio
this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Quick reminder if you like bad jokes like that, I'm
not selling it well. On Sunday, we're having a comedy
show and we'd really love for you to be there.
Tickets are available. Wheelchairs for Warriors dot org. It's big lineup,
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Gonna be a lot of fun. One hundred percent of
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a police officer, a first responder, a member of our
military warriors. Wheelchairs for Warriors. That's the website. Get your
tickets today. Don Hooper is going to be here this
afternoon from the Houston Conservative Forum and my buddy Derek
Bingham stopping by. He has a cool company called Higgins
Boat Rum. Maybe you've tried it. If you haven't, you should.
We'll get to all that shortly before we get to
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any of it. The Chicago Teachers Union managed out to
itself this weekend. A report from Peter Heck just humiliating.
Did you guys see do you know who Asada Shakur is.
I'll start out with this. Asada Shakur isn't her real name.
Her real name is Joanne Chessermard. Maybe that's why she
changed it. Shakur is a convicted murderer, and not just
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a murderer. She escaped from prison and then she fled
down to Cuba and she was on the FBI's most
wanted terror list terrorist list right up until her death.
She died very sad. I mean, it's always sad when
anyone dies, but maybe not when a terrorist dies or
a cop killing terrorist. So the Chicago Teachers Union they
heard the news that she died, and they took to X,
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the social media platform, and they posted the following. They said,
rest in power, Rest in peace, Assada Shakur, and there
was more. They went on to say, today we honor
the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer,
a re revered leader of black liberation, and a leader
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of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle,
Live in our struggle, they say. Asada refused to be silenced.
She taught us that quote. It is our duty to
fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other, with
nothing to lose but our chains. By the way, she
was never chained up. I mean, not like in the
traditional sense. She was never a slave. She did, you know,
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get arrested because she was a bad person, But that's different.
Asada was convicted in nineteen seventy seven for the first
degree murder in the nineteen seventy three killing of a
New Jersey State trooper. She was sentenced to life plus
thirty three years. She escaped to Cuba, and she's been
a fugitive ever since. She was on the most wanted
terrorist list. So this glowing description, obviously I added all
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that other information they didn't have that that glowing description
leaves out the crucial fact that she was not a
good person. She murdered a guy named New Jersey State
Trooper Werner Forrester. He was shot and killed execution style
on the side of the turnpike, leaving behind a wife
and a son. Asada Shakur was sentenced to life in prison,
but she escaped. She lived underground. She surfaced in Cuba.
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They gave her asylum. The FBI had a million dollar
reward for her capture. So that's who the Chicago Teachers
Union decided to honor. This is the kind of thing
that makes many of us who are public school critics,
shake our heads and wonder, why do we have to
pay for this? Okay, obviously, not every public school teacher
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is a murderer. Not every public school teacher shares the
values of the Chicago Teachers Union. But we know people
think of teachers, they think of groups like this. That's
what it's become nowadays. Nowadays, when there's a news story
about a teacher, it's almost always because they had some
far left agenda, celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk or
trying to trans your kids. It's never a story about
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how great teachers are and how much they're trying to do,
which is a shame because there are good teachers out there.
I just don't think anybody's writing news stories about him.
So it's bad enough. The Chicago Teachers' Union has made
a habit of dabbling in activism far removed from the classroom.
Just this summer, the president mocked critics by affirming her
organization's intent to claim ownership of young people over their parents.
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Chicago Teachers Union thinks your children are its children.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
President even admitted that her name's Stacy David Gates. More recently,
the group called for a boycott of Target. Why why
Target the department store? Because the retailer backed away from
its aggressive DEI policies and left wing activism. You'll never
be woken up for the woke mob. Remember Target's the
same department store that was selling for any underwear for
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little kids. As usual, none of their activities seemingly has
anything to do with improving schools. I'm speaking about the union,
of course, or the student's outcome. It's just left wing
politics and that. As if that wasn't annoying enough, the
latest action goes a little further, honoring Asada Chakor is
something else altogether, This isn't an edgy policy position. It's
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moral failure to praise a fugitive who murdered a cop
is indefensible. It makes the Chicago Teachers' Union look radical
and unhinged, and worse, it makes teachers everywhere look complicit.
Most people who become educators believe that they're helping. They're
trying to shape the minds of young people, trying to
shape character into the next generation. They take their responsibility seriously,
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and most of them want nothing to do with a
union that confuses violent revolutionaries with role models. The Chicago
Teachers' Union obviously thinks it's sending a message of resistance.
What they're really sending is a message of contempt. Contempt
for law enforcement, contempt for the families of victims, contempt
for the taxpayers who expect better from those who teach
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our children. If you're a teacher, this is probably pretty humiliating.
Most of you didn't do anything to deserve this. But
every time a union like the Chicago Teachers' Union drags
their profession your profession into the mud, a lot of
parents and taxpayers and people that just question what's going
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on or left wondering whether the adults in the classroom
can be trusted to distinguish right from wrong. That's the
real cost, not just the bad headlines, not just the
bad political posturing, but the erosion of trust between families
and public schools. Trust the teachers work hard to earn
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and unions like the CTA CTU seem determined to squander.
Because that's the reality.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I guess it's not available in Canada, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I never watched Harry Potter. I never read the books.
I was too old. I never heard any kids. It
seemed creepy to me. But there's a report at Breitbart
dot com today that makes me think I should probably
be a big fan of JK.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Rowling. Could I get some Hollywood music please?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood bratt.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Or what.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Harry Potter author JK. Rowling dropped rhetorical nukes on Emma Watson.
Emma Watson's an actor. As you know, she starred in
the popular Harry Potter film series and actually launched her career.
For the last decade or so. The three main actors
made famous and rich by the Harry Potter film franchise,
people like Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
They have all publicly attacked.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Jk Rowling because she refuses to join the trans cult.
All I know about jk Rowling is I love her tweets,
and whenever she talks about her political beliefs, I seem
to agree with them. Although I'm told she's on the left,
I don't hear her saying much leftist stuff. Rawling takes
no issue with adults who wish to parade around as
the opposite sex. On that score, like most of us,
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live and let live is her motto that I happen
to agree with it. Where jk Rowling draws the line
is the same place. Let kids be kids, stop mutilating children.
Biological men have no place in what should be private
and safe places for women, restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, women's shelters.
Isn't it amazing We started putting trans inmates into a
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women's prison in New Jersey and then the pregnancy rates skyrocketed.
We never had pregnant prisoners before, now we have lots
of them. So what jk Rowling is doing is perfectly reasonable.
What she's saying is about compassion. Her beliefs are reasonable
because she's a woman, she's a wealthy woman, she's an
influential woman. She's a very smart woman, and now she's
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faced a decade of hate and death threats and blacklisting
and public menacing rawlings watched three people she made famous
and who is no since they were ten years old
repeatedly and publicly stabber in the back.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All three of these stars of Harry Potters have.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Abused this woman to pimp their careers by sounding virtuous
even and this is unforgivable as they knew they were
adding fuel to the hay inferno that threatened her career
in her safety. Nevertheless, until this month, jk Rowling never
pushed back against the three of them, at least not
by name. Now that's all changed this week when that
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sleazy little mercenary Emma Watson slithered out from under a
rock and she said the following I'll just read it
to you.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
This is her quote quote.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I really don't believe that by having had that experience
and holding the love and support and views that I have,
means that I can't and don't treasure Joe jk Rowling
and the person that I had personal experiences with. I
think it's my deepest wish that I hope people who
don't agree with my opinion, will love me, and I
hope I can keep loving people who I don't necessarily
share the same opinion with.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
All Right, it seems normal so far.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She goes on to say, I guess where I've landed
is it's not so much much what we say or
what we believe, but very often how we say it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
That's really important.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
As a young woman, for her to have written that
character and created that world, given me an opportunity which,
to be honest, barely exists in the history of the
English literature. There's just no world in which I could
ever cancel her out or cancel that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Out end quote. Now.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
JK Rowling, who's no one's full saw this for exactly
what it was and initially responded with the following.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
She said, I'm already missing intel, ladies.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's JK. Rowling, Angela Rayner. But I'm here for all
the spoofs. Here's a little audio for you. Hang on
a second, here, computers loading.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
It comes to my relationship with you. Obviously, I will
never forget the opportunity that she gave me. She saw
something so so special in me that she knew she
had to bring me into her creative vision and make
me part.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Of that and I will.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, it's just the thing I just tried. Sorry, I
thought it was something else all right. On Monday, JK.
Rowling decided to finally let it fly against the privileged
to face Watson, and it was kind of glorious. She said,
I'm seeing quite a bit of comments about this, so
I want to make a couple of points. I'm not
owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a
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character I created. That idea is ludicrous, She said. She's
written a lot of characters over the years. Like other
people who've never experienced a delf life uncushioned by wealth
and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life
she's ignorant of how ignorant she is has Emma had
to strip off in a newly mixed sex changing room
at a council run swimming pool. Is she ever likely
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to need a state run rape crisis center that refuses
to guarantee an all female service to find herself sharing
a prison cell with a male rapist who who's identified
into the women's prison end quote. Now, unlike Emma Watson,
Rawlings explains, quote, I wasn't a multi millionaire at fourteen,
I lived in poverty while writing the book that made
Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience
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what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has
so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privilege.
Then Rolling gets to the two faced part quote. The
greatest irony here is that had Emma not decided in
her most recent interview declare that she loves and treasures
me a change of tach, I suspect she's adopted because
she's not. She's noticed full throated condemnation of me is
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no longer quite as fashionable as it was. I might
never be this honest. Rolling closes with this quote, adults
can't expect to cozy up to an activist movement that
regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right
to the former friend's love as though the friend was
in fact their mother. End quote. My guess is that
one of the reasons Rolling took it easy on these
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ungrateful brats is because when you're an adult who meets
little kids when they're still little kids, you always see
them that way. I'm sure Rolling felt motherly towards them,
which is why she remained silent. But Emma Watson and
the other two are thirty five years old. Now they're adults.
I have no doubt jk Rowling would accept a sincere
apology and reconciliation. But again, jk Rowling is not an idiot,
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She's not a fool, she's not a dumb person.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
She sees.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Emma Watson for who she is. She's a spoiled, privileged,
ungrateful opportunist at the risk of her career and her status.
Jk Rowling has been one hundred percent principled in fighting
against the trans sociopathy, and in doing so, she has
not only helped shape public opinion, but she has made
it safe for others to voice some sanity, which is
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helping to turn the tide. Jk Rowling currently stands on
the right side of history, which means she is once
again a kingmaker in the world of entertainment. So good
on her. I want to point something out here. I
hate Nazi analogies and politics. I hate them, but often
as a question people ask about the Holocaust, or World
War Two or the Nazi Germany. How could people let
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it get that bad? For about four years. Again, I
hate the Nazi analogy. For about four years in this country,
you were not allowed to stand up and criticize the
trans You were not allowed to point out how crazy
it was that fully grown men were using the bathroom
with little girls and people were getting assaulted, and if
you assaulted, and if you even complained, you could be
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canceled for it. It took enough people standing up and
saying something to make a difference. People are scared. It's
not that people don't know what the difference is between
right and wrong. People are afraid to speak up sometimes
because they don't want to get canceled. They don't want
it to affect their job. Biological men have no place
in what should be private and safe places for women, restrooms,
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locker rooms, prisons, women shelters. But the National Organization for
Women obediently and subserviently rolls over and plays dead at
the feet of their male overlords and lipstick eyeliner mascarist
to let he and the tucket underwear the same way
they rolled over for Islam's treatment of women and gays.
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The whole Western civilization has turned into one big, ironic
alternate reality.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So thank God for JK. Rowlins. Sure, it's what it is.
A star cousin right here for Seeds and Happy his.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Radio is It's ha work the host the show with
a couple of knucklehears Ken Western Ginea.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Watch Christy Nome's dog play dead.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
No, everyone got very uncomfortable in the room when I
said that that's not funny, is it? She did kill
a dog though. Don Hooper from the Houston Conservative for him,
what are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Cheer on? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, here, put that mic in front of your face.
Don have you ever been in studio.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We have a full room here of people right now
for those of you just getting connected with us, we're
on the radio, obviously, we're also live streaming. One of
our awesome sponsors is here. My good buddy Derek Bingham
is here from the from Higgins Boat Rub Company, and
Don Hooper is here right now from Hugh Conservative for
him and Derek, you are well liked by everybody because
you usually bring livations to parties, and Don, you not
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so much, are liked by everybody because you often piss
people off with your far right political beliefs in city politics.
So I thought it'd be good. It's kind of a
yang and yang effect here. Have it both of you
in the studio at the same time.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
And we can all drink together.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, and we can all drink together. Here's my plan
right now. I have this idea. We're preparing for a
comedy show on Sunday to raise money for a very
worthy cause. For those of you that do not know
this Sunday, five pm the Bad Astronaut Brewing Company. Chad
pray Thro, Jesse Payton, Kenny Webster, Steve Johnson, Eric Knoles,
many other people. And while we're there, Derek is going
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to give away. We're going to sell bottles of booze
to raise money for CHAE hundred bucks. All the comedians
will sign it. I think that's very cool. Or for
one hundred and fifty dollars, none of us will sign it.
I think that'd be even better. And you're bringing then,
can you hold the bottle up for the camera here?
I want people to see what it looks like. Yes,
hold it a little closer there, Look at that yum.
That is good rum that is and it is a
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World War two theme if I'm not mistaken here talking
to the mic. There, you got a mic in front
of you. Yes, get that in front of you, Derek.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, I know there's too much here and moving around. Sorry,
we should have planned this better. Never a dull moment here,
all right, Yeah, Derek explained to me.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You're so you're gonna make a drink. Here's my plan.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
My plan is you get us liquored up right now
while we're on the radio, and then entertaining, and then
Don Hooper, who has hot goss up about Harris County
politics that he's not supposed to share on the radio,
will be nice and he'll be juiced up. He'll be
the juice is loose, and then maybe he'll be more
lenient on what he's willing to tell us. Does that
sound like a good plan to you, Derek, sounds like
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a great plan.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I think so too. What are they making right now, Derek?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
What's called a corn and oil corner dole is traditionally
made with a dark rum. But it's amazing with our
reserve room. We're actually I'm work shopping with some Coastguard guys.
U named to kind of tribute a tribute to the
coasties because they're the ones that piloted the Higgins boats.
And again our brand is named after the Higgins Boat,
the landing craft from D Day, and it's a tribute
to my grandfather's and great uncle service in World War Two,
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and we go ten percent of our property profits go
to veterans charities.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Both of my grandpa's also served in World War Two.
Did we talk about this last time you were here?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I think we did a little bit.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
My grandpa John's job, because he spoke fluent Italian, was
to go to Italy and convince all the American gis
to come home to their wives, which.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Was a very night. It was necessary.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
They're like, look, you know, Dale, I know you love
you know, you got Marie back in America. I'm sure
you love Isabella, but you've got to come home now
the war is over.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That was his job. What did your grandpa do during
World War Two?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
So one of my grandpa's was a little young at
the started the war, ended up in the Merchant Marines
and just was, you know, on the ships that brought
a whole lot of the stuff over to support the
war effort. And then my other grandpa landed in France
shortly after D Day and fought all the way through
the battle of the Bulgian Army.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Wow, that's hardcore. You got family that were military veterans.
I said, well, my dad was in World War Two.
He was a Navy medic. The served almost well, probably three.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Three and a half years.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
I think what where where did they send him? Oh,
he was all over the South Pacific. Yeah, and he
you know, so he was pretty young when he signed
up and then he went through He had always wanted
to go to medical school, and he later did become
a doctor. But the so he went through medical training
which took him a little bit longer to get into
the field.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But he was in the South Pacific.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, well that's but that's hardcore. That was very hardcore.
It was wild over there. Apparently there were literally nuclear
bombs going off, which is not something that most wars
could say. I think that's the only war where we
ever had nuclear weapons god that we know of. Right,
all right, So don for those that don't know what
the I would describe the Houston Conservative for him like this,
you are a guy that publishes information that is brutally
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honest about what is going on in Southeast Texas politics,
a political scene where there's millions, if not billions of
dollars on the line at any given moment, and you
had published some information over the years that has really
upset some people because they did not want people to
know the things that you were willing to report on.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Am I accurately describing what you do?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, and so I started with the Big Jolly and
I wrote on Big Jolly Politics back when Big Jolly
was the largest political publication or online publication in Texas.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
We had about a.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Million people a week that would come to it and
read it from all over the state. And then David Jennings,
the founder of it, eventually quit and I took over
and wrote for it for about five and a half years,
I think, before I started the Houston Conservative Forum. But
I was always on KTRH radio in the mornings for
a long time. Wrote on the Houston Conservative Forum for
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many years. Don't really write that much anymore. Recently sold
my company and then my wife is the current General
counsel of the Republican Party of Texas. But I'm still
very active in politics in Texas.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Okay, So at some point, you know, you started, you
were tired from your day job and you started doing politics.
You treat your hobby like it's a full time job, right,
Is that a good.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Way to explain it?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well? Now?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
And then I kind of got started in my professional
career in real estate development, which is being a in politics.
There's no way you can develop real estate without being
in politics. And I did that for a very long time.
Actually worked in the lobby side of the world of
the A real estate group, and then eventually moved back
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to Houston. I lived in California, I lived all over
the actually all over the world at one point that
came back to Houston and started working with a group
of people including Alan Blair more in Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I cover politics nationally, regionally and locally. I do state politics.
I do regional and so I don't always know every
little intricate detail about what's going on.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
For those that don't know who Don is.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Don is a guy I call on the phone when
I have a real meticulous question about something going on.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But last week, yes, I KINI thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Last week we had a rally for these kids from
Stratford High School.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It was huge. Thousands of people came out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Some Democrat from the Spring Branch Democrats docks to these kids.
Nancy Hurpin published personal information about them on the internet.
Now she's playing victim. And in response to this, a
lot of people came out to support Abraham. George was there.
He's the chairman of the Texas Republican Party. Michael Barry
probably one of the biggest talk radio show hosts in America,
if not in Texas. Ken Paxton, the flipping Attorney General,
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was there. Kenny Webster was there and there too, right
a humble part of a very big event. One group
of people I noticed were not there was the Harris
County Republican Party, which is weird because this was a
national news story about Harris County Republicans and none of
them were anywhere inside. I assumed they did not show
up because they didn't want to be associated with Ken Paxton.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You have a different theory, Well, it's part of that theory.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I think that the Harris County Republican Party, for the
most part, is much more aligned on the opposite side
of the Charlie Kirk Ken Paxton realm. But what did
you want me to talk about, in particular, what.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Was your theory about why they weren't there.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Oh, I think that they didn't want to show up
because it had been exposed that there were people who
well miss herpin in particular, she's the vice president of
the Spring Branch Democrats had voted in the Republican primary,
which I have been accusing the Harris County Republican Party
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for several years that they were recruiting people Democrats to
vote in the Republican primary to elect model or it's
are left leaning Republicans.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, So, for whatever it's worth, this is a big
problem in the Texas Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
We have open primaries.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Part of the people always wonder, how is it this
big red state has all these squishy liberal Republicans John Cornyn,
whatever you think of Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, how is
it you guys elect these people that aren't staunch conservatives
on a state wide level?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Why is it that the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Is always a liberal Republican that works with the Democrats.
And the short answer is, in your opinion, open primaries,
which is bigger than the Stratford High School thing last week?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Oh it is in the well Dade Feeling was in
a huge battle to retain his House seat.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
In that you had.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
About I think twenty three hundred It could have been
twenty seven hundred. Democrats crossed over to vote in that
runoff election where he retained to see just barely. He
won by one hundred and sixty six votes. I think,
or maybe too. I can't rememb exactly what it was,
but that we could document people with Democratic voting histories
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voting in that runoff election.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
And.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The results speaker themselves. It's why we get squishy Republican
judges and stuff like that. I'll tell you we got
to break.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Take a break.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Derek Bingham is here right now from Higgins Boat Rum Company.
He's going to talk to us about Booze in just
a second. Don Hooper is here from the Houston Conservative Forum.
I have a feeling you've already upset a few people
with what you just said on the quick Greg.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Hello. My name is Pedro.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
My favorite things to do are smuggle drugs, pro create
like a rabbit, and listen to Pursuit of Happiness Radio
with producer Keini Peace Stoopy. Oh, this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
McDonald's is bringing back the Monopoly game pieces after a decade.
People are pretty excited about it, but I don't know why.
I don't think it's a big deal that Burger they
just served you was under a heat lamp for two decades.
I think that's impressive. What the hell is in that food?
Don Hooper? He used to conservative for him. Have you
ever seen someone will pull an old cheeseburger out of
a cabinet that's been in there for years and it
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never ages? Does that make you want to eat McDonald's? No, No,
it doesn't, Derek, best fast food place?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Where do you go?
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I don't eat a lot of fast food these days.
Usually just get like some burger patties from water Burger
when I'm on the road.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
If I need some beat you left, I do. Don't
you have?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Like on a lyft day, isn't it? That's a day
when you can do a lot of calories?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I don't measure anything?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Oh oh well, this is awkward because I do, but
feverishly I am measured.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
It's been enough Tom paying attention to nutrition to where
I kind of have a fuel for it. And but
I eat high amounts of red meat and then like honey,
fruit and raw dairy and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I measure everything. I always think it's important to start
at the base. That's just my opinion. All right, let's
talk about this for a minute. We have I want
to tell a story about you real quick. Don Saturday evening,
I have nothing going on, so I walk down the
street to a steakhouse not far from where I live.
It's one of my favorite places to eat. It's called
King Ranch Steakhouses. Is not a commercial for King Ranch Steakhouse.
It's I love eating there. Women hate it. Never bring
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a woman there on a date. They will not be
impressed by it. I always adds a Tilleman for Tita Steakhouse.
They're like, I don't want to go. It looks like
Texas Roadhouse. It does an It's a fancy version of
Texas Roadhouse. Anyway, I'm sitting out on the patio and
there's a Hispanic gentleman in his twenties sitting not far
away from me with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And I'm just gonna describe to you what I saw.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's not going to be it's not politically correct, as
they used to say in the nineties. Two black guys
get kicked out of the restaurant. They're in their twenties.
I don't know what their names were. I have no idea.
Ron Trelan and Traylon. Who knows like very gangster looking
black and not like you know, we're not talking about
like you know, it wasn't like Ben Carson or anything
like that. These were looks like they were in a gang.
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We're being kicked out for bad behavior. And before before
leaving the parking lot, they turn their attention to the
hispanic gentleman that is on a date sitting on the patio.
We're the only ones out there, me and one of
my friends and these two at the other end, and
they start saying things to his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And immediately this guy stands up.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He feels that his manhood has been challenged, so he
reaches down.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
He's got a gun right here. I was like, this
is it. This is how I die.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
This is I'm gonna die on the patio of a
mid price steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I was like, I can't, this is it, this is
I can't.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I came down here to get a cheap fil a
and cheap was what I well, that is how I
will die.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Can you move it over to B and B Butcher's
real quick?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Can I die at Mastros for crying out loud? So anyway,
as soon as this happens, cops pull up. It gets
crazy out there. Management runs out, the woman in charge
of the restaurant starts lecturing them. They all go their
different way, Cops come, they get arrested.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It is very dramatic.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And then as soon as that ends, prominent members of
the Republican Party start showing up to go to a
party in this banquet hall at the restaurant, including you
Don Hooper from the Houston Conservative Forum. What were you
guys doing there?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
You saw a bunch of Republicans there, but there were
many many Democrats there, and it was Kim Ogg's birthday.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It was Kim Ogg, our former district attorney. Now you
know how conspiracy theorists are on the internet. I'm sitting
on the pat me Kenny Webster, local right wing comedian
and talk show host, is sitting on the patio where,
just coincidentally, the former DA is having a birthday party, where,
just coincidentally, three gang bangers are getting into a gunfight
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in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Now people are blaming Israel for Charlie Kirk's murder.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You know what I'm saying, Like people will come up
with some far fetched nonsense to spin a narrative if
something had happened, if someone had died there, with kim
Ogg in that building having her birthday, me on the patio,
and these gang bangers in the parking lot. Don How
would people on Twitter have reacted to that?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well, I didn't know that I missed all this when
I saw you.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
But the.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
When I walked into the event, I could clearly see
there were a bunch of bodyguards. They're all heavily armed,
and most of the Republicans, I'm sure we're armed.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I carry gun, my wife carries a gun.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
We were all armed, and I'm glad I don't run
into those situations because, quite frankly, I don't want to
have to shoot anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You get along with kim Ogg, I do. Kim Ogg
is kind of those don't know what you got till
it's gone. Politicians. Eric Adams in New York City, he's
another one, the outgoing mayor of New York City. We
all hated him when he showed up. Nobody liked kim
Ogg when she got into office. Then she left and
we were like, man, can we get the reasonable Democrat back?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I would say that's true, the uh and and you
have to think about well, it wasn't true at the time,
but My wife was appointed to be the special prosecutor
against Lena Hildago by a Democrat, right so, the current
General Counsel of the Republican Party, and she wasn't the
general council when she was appointed. Winds up being the
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special prosecutor against Lena.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All Right, a little inside baseball for a minute. I
like Ken Paxton. He's the best attorney general you've ever had.
I certainly don't agree with everything he's ever done. Kim
Ogg built this fantastic case working with the Texas Rangers
to prove that I think proved that Lena Hidalgo and
her staff members were involved in a bid rigging scheme
to take millions of dollars away from the federal government
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for a COVID vaccine outreach program contract that should have
been assigned to the University of Texas, if I'm not mistaken. Yes,
And in the end it went to some lady that
lives above a bong shop in.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Montrose, Felicity Perea, who's currently running for the school board.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Right exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It wasn't literally a bong shop, but like that kind
of an operation, like why is this woman who's never
done this before, that lives in Montrose with a staff
of At some point Ken Paxton dropped all the charges
after kim Ogg handed the case over to her.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Well, Kim was leaving off as the prosecution hadn't moved forward,
the judge hadn't moved it forward, and handed it off
to Ken and assigned it to a prosecutor in his
office and the U And when it was assigned to
the prosecutor in his office, I later learned.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Who she was.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
I wasn't a particular fan of hers. I made it known,
but I think Ken allowed some of his staffers to
make a decision that didn't sit well with me. It
certainly didn't sit well with my wife or Kim about it.
But I will say that Ken gave my wife and
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kim Ogg his explanation of it, and they kind of
agreed with not that that the case was bad, that
there was probably prosecutorial discretion on his staff's part to
do that.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And all right now we need your professional opinion here.
When you're frustrated about political about a public officer doing
something you don't like, what's the right kind of rum
to drink?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Good Room.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Higgins, Higgins, Derek thing, I'm higgeams about rum.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Yeah, and then if you mix it with some good
syrups and things like that, you can make a good cocktail.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And then you suddenly you won't be so pissed off exactly.
But another crony politician got away.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
With millions of dollars in my money, and I would
have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for
you damn rum distillers, exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
The U I will say, it was kind of interesting
at Kim's birthday. I was sitting with the former first
assistant and we were talking about in There were a
lot of people from the public corruption group within Kim
Ogg's office there, and Kim you prosecuted quite a bit
of public corruption and all of those cases, the ones
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that she didn't finish. We don't believe that the current
District Attorney Chan Tier has one single public corruption case going.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And how can that be true? Don That's insane.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
No, there's not one single public corruption in one of
the most corrupt political.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Cities in the country. There's nothing.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Well, you have to think.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
James Comy sent down this guy named Perry Turner to
head the Houston Field Office for the FBI, a large
field office. The Houston office is very big special agent
in charge, and his specific instruction was not to investigate
certain politicians for public corruption. And hardly anything happened on
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the federal side at all the entire time that he
was here, and he was here a long time, and
then Kim started investigating cases. Now, I will say Devin
Anderson didn't really investigate public corruption either.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
The prior Republican.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
When you look at the who's running for county judge
right now in Harry's County? Who the Republicans are? Marty Langton,
that's your firefighter union president. This woman's the mayor of
Piney Point. What's her name?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
You know what, Audrey, I'm gonna get it wrong.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Is there someone else? So there's two other people running?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, there's Warren Howell.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Who do you like?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:02):
I like I've known Marty a very long time in Orlando.
Sanchez is running in Orlando Sanchez. Now, don't you think
it's interesting that most Republicans in Houston right now want
a government union leader to be our county judge. How
much Trump has changed this party in ten years?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Well, it is unusual.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
And I never thought of Marty as being somebody that
was tied to his union.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I already endorsed him. I think he's great. I'm not
trying to besmirch the guy. But isn't that an interesting pick?
Speaker 6 (35:31):
It is in Marty when I'm asked that, I've been
asked that question before. When Marty decided to run, people
on the Republican side were quickly pointing out his Union ties.
But I will say, you want toe to toe with
Sylvester Turner, a huge union guy for years, somewhat are well,
(35:56):
I'm not Ultimately he won that fight.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Do you think there's any truth of the rumor that
Sylvester Turner's still alive and he's planning another Astro world
music festival?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Don go ahead?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Uh No, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
He Why can you prove it?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
No? Probably not?
Speaker 6 (36:12):
But you know, I you know, one of the reasons
why I really loved Marty is because he fought so
hard against Sylvester in the absolute corruption that was going
on at City Hall.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
That was how we all learned to love Marty, right
and that and and Turner tried to pit him in
the cops against each other. And isn't it interesting as
soon as he's announced his candidacy, the police Union's come
out and endorsed him.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
I was shocked about that because I definitely had conversations
with the HPOU over the years when Marty was going.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Toe to toe.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
But you know, they the union, the police union, had
gotten some really big contract victories when Marty got nothing,
and because he got nothing, they were rewarded more and
ultimately they lowered the pension, I think by the police
the fire union pension seven hundred and eighty five million
dollars in a lot of that money went to the
police officer Giini.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Do you remember when James Brown died? They took his
body on tour around the country. Do you know what
I'm about to ask you? Don't you know when Turner died.
When Turner died, they took his body from Washington, DC
to Houston, Texas. Then they brought it up to Austin,
then they brought it back to Houston.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Who does he think he is? He's not the hardest
working man in entertainment.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
No, he is. No Jackson, Lee, Sheila Jackson.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'm Kenny Webster, Derek part Derek didn't deserve any of this.
You know, it's it's Tuesday, guys. We're having a little
bit of fun here and I appreciate everybody for being here.
Quicker minder, folks. We have a comedy show on. That's
the wrong thing on the screen there. They were having
a comedy show on Sunday, October fifth. The Bad Astronaut
Brewing Company, one of our sponsors, is here, Derek Bingham. Derek,
(37:49):
this is an amazing cocktail. You did awesome. I'll let
you get the last word before we go. Houston could
serve it for him. What's the website? Don How do
they find you? Just follow you on X.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I guess yeah, follow me on X. Derek. We got run.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But you're a sponsor, You're a great guy, and you're
doing a lot of good for charity.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I want people to know about you before we leave.
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Speaker 2 (38:20):
I will say this about Piney Point that mayor over there.
When I go to Piney Point, I don't see any
homeless people. I don't see any vandalism and how does
she do it? Don Hooper, Well.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
I think that's the same way West University and all
the Memorial villages do it. They they can focus more
on police work.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
The average income in that town is like a half
a million dollars a year. Yeah, that's all we gotta
do is if we had that in the rest of Houston,
we'd all be like Piney Point.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Well, and they have conservative leadership, which means they don't
have DEI in their police department.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
It's amazing. I'm Conny Webster. Thanks so much for watching.
Everyone have a great day.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
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