Did Texas forget the Alamo?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Tony Ortiz. ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Giganic government sucks. The zoo is radio is DeLux.
Liberty and freedom will make you smiles of a Zouda
Habin is on your radio tole just as Yes, but
there's a limited rise at FOA.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I mean, shutdowns are terrible and and of course there
will be you know, families that are going to suffer,
but it is one of the few leverage times we have.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Some would say the soon to be former House Democrat
leader went so far is to call this legislation quote
a political ploy. I'll tell you what a political ploy is,
holding the American people hostage just so you can avoid
getting the guillotine from your far left base.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
That's a political ploy.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
Harcour.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
What does the president think should be or what are
you plans for preventing rising healthcare hosts.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's a very good question, and I'll leave that to
the president to negotiate that when Democrats vote to reopen
the government.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
Yeah, hi, everybody, Kenny Webster here, thanks so much for
joining us this afternoon. The government is still shut down.
It is still a government shut down. And as you
heard from that first SoundBite I played there, one of
the Democrats in charge of the Senate well, one of
the top demmer're basically admitting once and for all that
they're choosing politics over people. They admit it, they admit
it support today on the Examiner, and it explains exactly

(01:33):
what I just said. Once again, Washington has found itself
in a completely avoidable mess.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
We're going to talk about that today on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Joining us as well today on the show, Tony Ortiz
is going to be here for Current Revolt dot com.
There's a state senator up in the Metroplex living in
his office. It's a funny story. The State of Texas
is taking over the Fort Worth Independent School District because
the grades there for a lot of these kids are
just abysmal. We'll get to that shortly. Ethan Buchanan is
stopping by one of my producers. One of the new
reportings are on KTCH young Man reporting on the state

(02:03):
of the Alamo. Apparently people on the far left want
the Alamo to be more indigenous or to explain the
history of Native Americans, as if that has anything to
do with why the Alamo is there, which it certainly doesn't.
But anyway, so we know right now the federal government
shut down, and that's what we're going to start the
show with today, and it's not shut down.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Because Republicans refuse to act. They didn't.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
I mean, well, okay, they're doing something, but they're not
doing what the Democrats want. What the Democrats want is
to choose politics over people. Republicans did their job. They
passed a clean, non partisan continuing resolution to keep the
government open, and it was supposed to ensure that men
and women in uniform or farmers or federal workers wouldn't
miss a paycheck. Now, instead of them doing what was

(02:46):
right for the people, Democrat leader Senator Chuck Schumer decided
he would rather make a political point at the expense
of hard working families.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
So he's doing it. Did you know right now, Alabama.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Farmers and farmers all over the South their face uncertainty
about United States Department of Agriculture Services and disaster relief
programs because they depend on that stuff. It's affecting people
in Texas, Mississippi, basically everywhere where we're on the air.
Military families who sacrifice for this nation every single day
have to worry about their next paycheck. Small businesses that

(03:20):
rely on federal permits or loans are left to worry
if they'll be able to keep the doors open. Even
the men and the women of the Capitol Police, the
very people who protect the halls of our government, are
being punished by Chuck Schumer four years after those January
sixth hearings that explained how we will never forget these
men and.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
How great they are. So this is not leadership. What
they're doing is leveraging the people. They even admit it.

Speaker 6 (03:46):
Chuck Schumer admits it the every day, every day of
the shutdown, it gets better for us.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
He says, you heard that.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
Sound bite Lawmaker Democrat Kathlin Clark. There will be families
that suffer, but it is one of the few leverage
times we have, she says, And there are more examples
of this. Martin Heinrich, senator from New Mexico, said that
just gives the president more leverage. If we reopened the government.
If just five Democrats in the Senate had the courage

(04:16):
to walk on to the Senate for today and vote
for a clean continuing resolution, the government would reopen. You
would reopen before the end of the day. Five votes,
it's all it takes. Democrats like to claim they're fighting
for working people, but every hour this shutdown continues, those
very same Democrats and the people they claim to fight

(04:37):
for seemed to be.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
In odds with one another.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
I'm still felt like I need to remind everybody right
now it's October. The month isn't even over yet, and
between now in August, we have added a trillion dollars
to the national budget. Excuse me, to the national debt
are trillion dollars. That happened pretty quick. It took over
one hundred years for us to to add a trillion
dollars to the national debt the first time we did it.

(05:05):
Now we've done it in a month. You should be alarmed.
There is a price to be paid here, and it's
not just monetary. What this will do to our culture,
to our society, to our nation can never be undone.
It is costly. It is going to erode away the

(05:26):
decay of society. We're going to pay for this for
a long time. There's a reason why these budget crises
keep happening. We owe so much money. The interest to
pay off the national debt is now becoming more than
the actual budget itself.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Imagine that. It's crazy.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
So every time we print out money with no backing
on it. We create more inflation. Every time we try
to pay bills and buy things we can't afford to have,
it gets vastly worse. Imagine if we were a house
with a credit card, right, Imagine if this was a family,
we were talking about some family budget and we owed

(06:08):
this much money on a credit card. Do you think
we would start buying dinner for people we'd never met before. Well,
that's what the Democrats want. They want free health care
for foreigners, non citizens. Republicans say they're illegal immigrants, and
you know, Democrats will say, well, no, they're residents of America.
They may not be citizens, but they're Americans too, Okay,

(06:29):
whatever you want to call them. We can't afford to
buy dinner for all your friends' kids. We've got to
pay off the credit card bill first. It's not going away.
Debt is not an imaginary number. And anybody tells you
that debt is an imaginary number is an insane person.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
You should ignore them. You're listening to the Pursuit of
Happiness radio. I guess it's not available in Canada. All right,
we're live.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
We're like, all right, calm down, everybody, We're on the
radio right now. Apparently AI misrepresents news content forty five
percent of the time, according to a new study. Or
is CNN put it that low double exclamation question mark? Hi, everybody,
I' Kenny Webster. You thinks so much for watching us
live streaming today. We are also on the radio. If

(07:15):
you're listening to us on the radio, you could be
watching me right now with Ethan Buchanan, who is in
studio as we speak out.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
You're not even old enough to vote? What are you doing?

Speaker 7 (07:25):
I am old enough to vote. I am old enough
to vote.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Didn't you tell am I doing?

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Didn't you tell Tony Ortiz of Current Revolt dot com
that the way you vote on the props is you
just flip a coin when you walk again?

Speaker 7 (07:37):
I did tell them that. Yeah, that's my big scandal.
So we've got seventeen different ballot propositions, and I figured
I had two options. I could do the responsible thing
and actually research and vote accordingly. Or I could just
bring a nickel with me and flip it each time.
And that's how I decide why a nickel inflation is
that bad? Inflation is horrible. All I can afford is
a nickel.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
And what even can you do? With a nickel.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Tony Ortiz is actually on the line right now. We
didn't have him in studio. We've never done this before.
I've never live streamed with somebody on the phone. So
I got this AI generated image of a Mexican in
a sombrero, Tony.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
It doesn't look anything like you, but it's going to
have to work.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, it's gonna work. It's my people's it's the image
of my people. So I like it.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
All right, Tony, let's start off with this first.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
Can you explain to the audience who is Brian Slayton
and why did you see his cowboy boots this weekend?

Speaker 5 (08:25):
So, Brian Slayton is a former state rep. That was
technically removed and I think it was the first state
rep to removed, like completely removed from office via unanimous
vote since like nineteen the nineteen twenties or nineteen thirties.
But he was removed because he had had a sexual

(08:47):
relationship with his staffer, his nineteen year old staffer, and
provided her alcohol. And this is all, this is all
why he was married, by the way, and of course,
and so yeah, he was removed and so this you know,
he's he's been out of office since and we got
a tip the other day that his his soon to

(09:09):
be ex wife, because they're going through a divorce, boots
with her name on it are for sale in El Pasa.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
With her name on it. I thought it was his boots.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
With her name on it, with his last name and
the Texas State seal cowboy.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Boots, all right, So why she wasn't in the legislature.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
Why did she have a pair of custom it was Okay,
it's the Texas State Seal. When I first saw this online,
I thought it was the Texas legislature, but it's just.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
The TECHNI it says, it says Texas House of Representatives
on it. I assumed he made Yeah, I assumed he
orders some custom boots. You know. I reached out to
him for comment and he didn't respond, but I, you know,
it's safe to assume maybe he ordered her some custom
boots and uh, you know, maybe he uh, he never
gave him to her and he just decided to offload

(09:54):
him since they're going through a divorce.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
Okay, I want to do how many people are saying
segment with you on the air right now. I don't
know anything about how Brian met his wife or soon
to be ex wife.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
But many people are signing fell in the.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Yeah, many people are saying he got her off the internet.
A while back. Somebody had sent me alleged photos of
her online uh Filipino dating website profile, and so yeah,
now you know she's you know, you know, you know
it can't falter. You know, it's not really it's not
for for fall, you know, or anything wrong. You know,

(10:30):
just you gotta you gotta do what you gotta do
these days. And he I guess he was shopping around
on the internet and decided to click the buy it now.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
And you know, now in the studio, right Ethan Buchanan, journalist, Ethan,
you're in an interracial marriage, she said, okay to talk
about this on the air.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
I know we're fine. We watched not watching.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
And your wife, your wife is of the she's of
the Asian Asian.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, me too, Asi.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Wait a second, everybody on the show except for me
right now, is married to an Asian.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
I gotta tell you you're you're missing out, Kenny, because
I don't know if you know this, but there is
a Facebook page called Libertarian Guys with Asian. It's it's
a it's a common theme I've learned since marrying well.
US libertarians, whatever it is, have an affinity for plucking
women out of communist Asian nations and marrying them.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
But Tony, you're married to a Japanese, right, Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Not into the jungle Asians, really Japanese.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
So you're right, Dara, ask what he means by it?
What do you mean by that? Tony?

Speaker 5 (11:41):
I don't mean anything. I'm just what are.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
You talking about, Kenny? I didn't say that.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
All right, Let's get back to that auction. So over
the weekend there were two auctions.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
One of them was for Brian Slayton's stuff and the
other one was for Mayor Sylvester Turner's stuff. Any other
good stuff from Brian Slayton's auction this weekend, not.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
That I saw. We just saw the boots. And you know, again,
in his defense, no idea how those boots got there
or or whatnot. Again, I reached out for common and
he didn't give a reply. But as far as I'm aware,
it's only the boots that.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Are for sale.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Okay, maybe his love he's maybe I'm back on the
market again. So maybe if you're a if you're a
nineteen year old girl, and you're looking for a slightly
overweight white man.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
You're in the market for.

Speaker 7 (12:26):
By American dan by American standards.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
I mean in the Philippines. I gotta think he'd be
the biggest guy in the country. They'd make him king,
they'd worship him like a god. Probably right, all right,
before let's quick, let's get off this topic real quick.
Houstonians lined up over the weekend to purchase pieces of
city history at the estate sale of Sylvester Turner, Houston's
former mayor and congressman. The sale, hosted by Town and

(12:50):
Country Estate Sales in Southwest Houston, featured Turner's personal belongings,
including closed shoes, furniture, and Art week artwork. So what
are the odds, Tony? This weekend you could have acquired
not only the boots of Brian Slayton or his wife,
I guess, I don't know if they're the same size,
but also Sylvester Turner's cowboy boots.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Boy.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
And it's my understanding some guy wanted the boots from
Turner for a cowboy boot museum.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
What would you even call that exhibit? Fake cowboys? I
don't know, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
But there's there's an opportunity here for somebody to buy
up all these like weird techs Texas political stuff and
like open a museum.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yeah, how about that, Ethan, you're a collector of cowboy boots?
What a great Texas politician, modern day or past? Would
you love to own a boot, pair of boots from
oh gosh?

Speaker 7 (13:38):
I would love to own a pair of Sam Houston's.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh man, that was going to be my answer. Yeah,
I stole it.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Did Sam Houston own boot own cowboy boots? Do you
think to that?

Speaker 7 (13:48):
I mean, they probably weren't the modern day traditional cowboy boots,
but I mean they were boots.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
According to AI. I hate to crap on your idea.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Now, it is highly unlikely that Sam Houston owned or
or what we recognized his cowboy boots today, as they
did not exist during his lifetime. He died in eighteen
sixty three, and the cowboy boots became a thing in
eighteen eighty three.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
How do you like that? Tony?

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Who would you have picked? Tony Ortis? Do we lose
Tony Ortis? Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony. I don't know where
he went. I feel like he's still on the line.
All right, well listening to us, We'll try to get
him back.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
I'm I'm back.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
Oh there he is. That's okay. Where'd you go? Did
you hit mute? By mistake?

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Well? I had to hop in the car. And you know, technology,
it can't decide what it wants to connect to.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Is that what happened to you? Okay? Well, anyway, I'm
glad we got you back. Tony.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Which celebrity politician Texas politician modern or past?

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Would you love to own a pair of boots.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
From what's the name of that obnoxious columb.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
What?

Speaker 6 (14:49):
What does he say? Your phone's cutting out? I don't know,
I don't know. We're having a hard time with Tony's
phone right now.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
While we wait for him to get back. I'm gonna
correct your AI correction. Here's a picture of Sam Houston's
boots on display. They're real, they're out there.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
How about that?

Speaker 6 (15:07):
You found a picture of Sam Houston's boots in the
San Antonio report.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's amazing. Tony, are you back?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, I'm back. I was Dalentina Gomez's boots.

Speaker 7 (15:16):
Val does she count as a Texan politician to the government.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
I started listening to the je Proceeds of Happiness Radio
with Cana Webstern Judio aka producer Kenny. All right, get
this today's National American Beer Day, which is a good
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enough water.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
I guess right. I'm Kenny Webster.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
We are on the line right now with Tony Ortiz's
here from Current Revolt dot com.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Ethan.

Speaker 6 (15:47):
If Buchanan is here, Ethan, I'd like you to lead
us off on this next topic. Ethan Buchanan is our
weekend host Kay Terry shnews reporter as well as a
KPRC radio weekend talk show host. He is a zoomer
and you are are apparently one of the white supremacists
that wants to keep the Alamo the way it is.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, I mean, I want to preface this with I
know Tony's here on the line. I know he's of
the Hispanic persuasions, Mexican. I don't want to offend him,
but scoreboard suck it we want. But yeah, So there's
this narrative that's been very prevalent since really twenty twenty,
when you know, all of a sudden, we decided that

(16:26):
slavery was the most important thing in all of North
American history. But there's been this narrative, yeah, that the
Texas Revolution was fought over slavery. Now here's where they
get this. There were a lot of slaves brought over
from the United States by Anglo settlers into the Mexican

(16:47):
territory of Texas. And so some brilliant scholars have decided, okay, well,
since that happened, and Mexico did not allow slavery because
it was a very Catholic nation. Clearly that's why the
Texans revolted, which is stupid because you can look right now,

(17:08):
go to the Texas State Archive, go dig up a
copy of the Texas Texas Declaration of Independence. It's not
hard to do, and just do a keyword search search
the word slave or slavery. It appears zero times.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
It does not ever appear in that it does not.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
Ever appear because it doesn't matter. There's a couple of
easy ways to refute the claim that the Texas Revolution
was fought over slavery. One, it's not in the Declaration
of Independence at all. Two, Doctor Amos Pollard, who was
the chief surgeon at the Alamo, he was the garrison surgeon.

(17:47):
On top of being the garrison surgeon for the Texian
Army at the Alamo, he was also a published abolitionist. Now,
I don't know a whole lot about the history of
published abolitionists. In the early eighteen thirties.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
It was complicated.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
I would have to guess that if your whole thing
is you oppose slavery, you wouldn't volunteer to be the
surgeon for an army fighting to preserve slavery. I could
be mistaken, but I'm fairly confident that I'm not. And
so we keep having to have this debate about whether
or not we should turn the Alamo from a shrine

(18:24):
to Texas liberty into a shrine to Texas slavery. This
keeps coming up, and it requires just frankly, absolute historical
illiteracy to push this point. But we keep seeing it
push and I think it's stupid and it pisses me off.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
All Right, I want to hear a Mexican's take on this, because,
after all, we are nothing if not diverse here, and
we have a Mexican on the line right now. His
name is Tony Ortiz. Currentrevolt dot com Tony. People who
are advocates for your community and your culture are saying
that we need to include more in the story of
the Alamo about slavery and indigenous people and that sort

(18:58):
of thing. And you know, your people, we're pretty heavily
involved in the whole Alamo story.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
What do you think about this?

Speaker 5 (19:04):
You know, I really don't care about all of that.
You know, what I want to become a thing. You
know how politicians go to Israel and they kiss the
wall and they take a photo off there.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
I've heard about what I want.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Texas politicians to like be forced before they run for
office to go to the Alamo and kiss the Alamo walls. Wow,
that needs to.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Be a thing now, if I'm not mistaken, you actually, dude,
you did this.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
You took an AI generated image of an American politician
kissing the wall in Jerusalem and you changed it so
that they were at the Alamo.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
And huge if true?

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Right?

Speaker 6 (19:36):
A lot some people actually thought the AI generated an
image you created was so good. Tony Ortiz currveall dot com.
So people actually thought it was real.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah it was Ivanka Trump, and yeah, people thought it
was real. I think that two million views. It was
kind of it was kind of insane.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
That was pretty impressive. So I guess we've seen this
kind of revisionist history before. As an Italian Catholic, I'm
sure you guys already know when I I'm about to
say Christopher Columbus Day. For years we acknowledged Okay, he
wasn't perfect. Maybe it was a little complicated, but he
never owned a slave.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
You give him an inch, they take a mile.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Next thing, you know, Indigenous People's Day, they're tearing down
our statues.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
People always forget.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
The reason we celebrate Christopher Columbus Day was more about
the fact that he was a folk hero.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Back in the early nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Back in the early twentieth century, Italian Americans, Catholic Americans
were harassed and terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan. And
then we latched on. My people latched onto the story
about how an Italian American helped bring people from Europe
over here to the West, which was so important at
the time to the white supremacist and the nationalists and

(20:42):
what have you that you know, surely we deserve to
be part of the story. And in doing so, although
it took a long time, Italian Americans were eventually accepted
as a part of the American culture. In fact, some
would argue it wasn't really until nine to eleven happened
that we were eventually considered to be white.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
I think we still are still exotic whites, right Tony.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Italians? Yeah, yeah, I think. I think the I think
the left policy white, and your skin's pretty white, so
I think you just get the pass by default.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Ethan Buchanan, You're year named after Pat buchanans your dad, right,
isn't that use your uncle.

Speaker 7 (21:19):
Or something like that.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
And he wrote a book called Death of the West,
which was all about how importing immigrants was going to
destroy our country. Uh, you know, as the as a
not too distant relative of the author of that book,
how do you feel about what we're talking about?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, there's this narrative that.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
You know it it's almost like, how do I say this?

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Are you gonna say something racist?

Speaker 7 (21:43):
The indigenous people have, you know, been elevated by the
left to this like godhood status because of how terrible
and victimized they were by the white man, by the immigrants,
et cetera, the evil Europeans. And I would just like
to say, for the record, I regret nothing I apologize

(22:07):
on behalf of my people for nothing. You sat on
this land, this continent for you know, however, many thousands
of years, and all you were able to come up
with was some pyramids that you roll bodies off of
after you decapitate them and rip their heart out alive.
I am not going to sit here and apologize for
coming into this country, getting you to quit doing that,

(22:30):
and then building a successful society, multiple successful societies, except
it depends on how you count Mexico, but they used
to be kind of successful ish. And you know, we
have the United States, it's undisputably the greatest nation in
the world. We have the Republic of Texas, which is
undisputably the greatest former nation in the world. And all

(22:50):
of that came because European settlers got here and said,
you guys are doing disgusting pagan rituals and building nothing,
are going to give you Christendom and you know, brick houses,
and now we're supposed to look and feel sorry about that.
The answer is no, I'm not sorry about that.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
Well, I can't feel sorry about something that I didn't
do that happened hundreds of years before I was born.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
But I will say this.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
There were Native American indigenous groups, whatever buzzword you choose
to use to describe them, that seemed to be nice people,
that were participating in agriculture and were relatively peaceful.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
There were also some who.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Participated in cannibalism, the Iroquois, the Algonquin tribe, the Aztecs,
some of them participated in human sacrifice, the Kahokia, the Natchez,
some of them were involved in torturing of captives. Again,
the Hurons, the Iroquois. Infanticide is the Inuits were involved
in that. And I'm you know, I'm against those things.

(23:47):
I find those to be bad. Tony your thoughts on this?
Which of these? You know, the indigenous people eighty percent
of them died because of disease, not necessarily because they
were killed by the white man, but you know, these
weord disease. This is that the white man brought over here.
How much responsibility? What do you bear for this burden?

Speaker 5 (24:06):
You know all I love white people, man, White people
are awesome. I'm just glad to have been born in America.
I read a statistic the other day that there was
like a thirty percent chance you could have been born
in India. Which could have been an absolute disaster. So
I'm just glad. I'm just glad for everything that's happened
leading up to the point that I live in America.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Well, Yo, you know yoga. They've got yoga in India.
You're not into that, Tony, No.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
What about the Countdown Festival?

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Okay, quick, brank, we'll be rab back.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
It's never too early to learn that the government is
a greedy piglet that suckles on a taxpayer's teat until
they have sore, chapped nipples.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
The Pursuit of Happiness Radio on AM nine fifty KPRC,
This is fun.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
A Japanese company rents scary looking people to help you
confront bullies. Or you could just tell bullies, hey, I
don't want any thin mints, little girl, get away from me,
knock it off, get out of here. Ethan, you've been
there before, right, You've been attacked by girl scouts.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
They're a disease man. They come after you. There's thousands
of them, and they just throw the cookies at your
face and then reach your pockets.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
And apparently there's a lot of corn syrup in those cookies.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
I wouldn't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. I mean,
there's shelf stable cookies that are being sold in front
of a Kroger parking lot. I'd be surprised if there weren't.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
Remember when some girl Scouts got into trouble because they
were selling Girl Scout cookies in front.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Of a pop dispensary. Like, these little girls are geniuses.

Speaker 7 (25:32):
That's brilliant.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
All right on the line right now is Tony Ortiz.
Tony ortis current Revolt dot com.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Tony.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
I know we only have you for a few more minutes.
You probably got to run shortly, but real quick. There's
a story today about a state senator in Texas who
has been sleeping in his office in an effort to
prove that he is a resident of his district. Can
you first explain why he's doing this? I mean, it's
probably obvious, but this is this the law.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Now, well, you know this part is old news in
the sense that he ran for office in this strict
and claimed that he lived in order to qualify. He
claimed he lived in his office in like his like
his work office. He owns a trucking company, so he
claimed he worked there and that qualified him to run
for office. And you know he faced some lawsuits over this.

(26:14):
Ultimately he won. He got the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick endorsement,
of course, and he ultimately won. And some people sued
him and now they're trying to recoup their costs for
this lawsuit. And we posted some updates on his story,
and yeah, he's reaffirmed that he both showered and did
day to day activities his words, in his corporate office base.

(26:35):
And it's just very absurd. And of course, you know,
in the state of Texas when it comes to politics,
Jerry like, people don't care where people live. You can
run for office anywhere and live anywhere. And it kind
of doesn't get if these rules that require you to
have residency don't actually get enforced in the state of Texas.
It's kind of a horrible thing.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
All right.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
I will admit the memes at Current Revolt dot com
are always great. This one's particularly funny. It's a guy
in his office bathroom showering. There's another one where he
appears to be sleeping under a desk. He's running for
Texas Senate. Who did these cartoons for your website, Tony Ortiz,
That would be.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Tommy with the assistance of AI. We have no art
skills here, so we just throw a prompt into AI
and it pops out garbage. It's great.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
You also have something on your website today about Dick Weekly. Now,
I Dick Weekly apparently does not like me because I
have made fun of his name many times. And that's
not my fault. I didn't name him Dick Weekly. That's
totally on your mom and dad. I don't bear any
responsibility for that. But Tony, what does Dick Weekly have
to do with this story?

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Jick Weekly is a satirical satirical comic that we made
about Texas politics, and it comes out whenever we feel
like it. Unfortunately, it's now weekly.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Wait wait, this isn't about Dick Weekly. The what would
you describe him as? He's the one that runs the
Texans for Lawsuit Reform TLR they call it, But you're
just used his name or it's a take on his
name for your current Revolt dot com has a satirical
comic that's called Dick Weekly.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yeah, it's the Weekly Dickings, but it has nothing to
do with Dick Weekly.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Tony, I'm just I am just now learning about this,
and I have to tell you I'm immediately a fan.
That's great. So there's a picture of a guy on
the cover and he looks really tired. Is that the
state Senator?

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yes? That is that is indeed the state senator.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yeah, when is the last time he took a nap? Tony?

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Well, no, I imagine sleeping in your office isn't very comfortable.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
So I will say there has been talk in in
the legislature in recent years. I know State Senator Paul
Bettencourt had voiced some kind of support or interest in
the idea for taking a lot of the unoccupied open

(28:59):
commercial office space that we have here in the United
States and here in Texas and transforming that into residential
buildings in order to meet some of the housing deficit.
So I think this guy's just ahead of the game, Frankly.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, Yeah, there's something to be.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
To be and you know I support that. I support
that movement. We need more. We need more permanent housing,
no more apartments, So we need more, need more permanent
housing for sure.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
A little while back, the uh switching topics here for
just a minute. A little while back here in the
Houston area, our state took over h ID. You're familiar
with this tea. They call it if I'm not. Something
similar is happening up in your neck of the woods, Tony.
In accordance with the state law, the Texas Education Agency
is taking control of fort Worth Independent School District following

(29:47):
unacceptable academic ratings. TEA informed fort Worth ISD on Thursday
the state will take over the district because the school
had five consecutive years of unacceptable academic ratings. There's some
are saying they're dropping the tea bag on fort Worth ISD.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
People discuss this up in the metroplex there, Tony.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Yeah, you know, the left is really upset about it.
The right, of course, is happy. The fort Worth d
has been a disaster for a very very long time,
and finally we're getting some accountability back via the government,
which you know, you think the left would love this.
The left loves big government. I don't know why they're
so upset about it.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
The other thing the left used to love but no
longer does is school choice. They black, especially black Democrats,
if you went back ten or fifteen years, Shila Jackson,
Lee Al Green, Sylvester Turner, rest his soul, they were
all big fans of school choice right up until the
teachers unions got involved. And now they're not now well,
two of those people I just mentioned are not even

(30:45):
alive anymore. But that's a recent phenomenon. Now, black democrats
hate school choice now that it's become a Republican thing. You,
Tony Ortiz, you're kind of a rare one because you're
somebody on the right that doesn't like school choice either.
Why is that Tony Tony into leus you. We did
lose him. He's gone, he got disconnected. Many such cases, Yeah,

(31:07):
many such you're right, many such cases. Well, what do
you think about school choices? You can answer for him.
What would a Mexican say? Do it with the voice, Ethan,
don't do the voice.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
I don't want to ruin your career.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
If anyone's going to do racially and insensitive accents of
Hispanic people around here, it'll be me.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Kenny Webster.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
I can do a good Trump, but I can't do
a good Mexican.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Let's hear your Trump.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
We love school choice. We need everyone to pick their
own schools. Frankly, schools are terrible. We need more competition.
It's a monopoly. It's a government monopoly. We hate monopolies,
unless it's a golf monopoly. Then it's my monopoly, and
I love it. That was actually pretty good.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
I worked.

Speaker 7 (31:49):
It's about the cadence. It's not so much about the voice.
It's about the cadence.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Right, it's not about that, No, I get it. Yeah,
it's not about how high or low you go with
the tone allergies.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
To get the cadence, and then the voice comes later.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Right exactly. I could do three Hispanic accents. I can
do the field worker. I could do handsome, like the
romantic guy who's like he's here to finesse your wife.
And then I can also do Cholo from Los Angeles,
which I'm told by many Mexicans is not a racial slur,
although I thought it was.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Apparentlylo is not a racial slur.

Speaker 7 (32:20):
I can do Mexican radio host.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Let's here, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
Oh that's that's all I can do.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (32:26):
You have to say, I always noticed they always kind
of talk like a vampire.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
They're very passionate people. That's what it is, and vampires
are passionate too. That's what they've got to get, you know.
The The White Chicks.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Vampire seems like a good costume Halloween costume for your kid.
If you have a gay kid and you don't want
people to know he's gay. You could dress him up
as a vampire. Is like, is he gay or is
he just a vampire?

Speaker 7 (32:49):
He's a vampire, well dressed in wearing makeup like all
vampires and homosexuals.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
It's a good point. Thank you so much for that, Ethan.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
I'm glad, dear future employers, everything I have ever said
is that guy.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
We haven't offended anybody with this show today. I'm Kenny Webster.
We lost Tony Ortiz, but that's okay. You probably had
to go anyway, and we're almost out of time, Ethan.
If people want to check out your podcast, where do
they go?

Speaker 7 (33:09):
Anywhere you get podcasts? iHeart Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook.
Give me a follow on Twitter at Underscore Ethan Buchanan
b U H A N A M.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
I love that and I'm Kenny Webster.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
I will be the keynote speaker this evening at the
monthly Houston Young Republicans Meeting.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
We would love for you guys to be there.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
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Speaker 4 (33:43):
Y'all a good one. We'll be back Brian early tomorrow
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You are listening to the pursuit of this radio.

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Speaker 6 (34:03):
To the show.