Is Dan Crenshaw about to lose his job?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features State Rep Steve Toth.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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happiness on your radio toil just as cheeseburgers libriz. All right.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Today is Halloween and Britney Spears is saving money on
a costume by going as a mental patient. I have
now told that joke twice today, Steve. I'm not proud
of that, Steve top Can I get a mulligan on
that one? I feel like I could do better than that.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's pretty good. All right. Today is Halloween.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
So if you see a bunch of people running up
and down the street in masks, make sure your citizenship
papers are in order better, better or worse?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
No, I like it. How about this one? Today is Halloween.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
If you see a black cat, don't panic, Just say
aren't you a little too old to be trick or treating?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Samuel L. Jackson.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
That seemed like it was going to be dirty, but
then it actually was, you know, because he's a black
cat like you're a white cat.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Hey, what's up cat?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's how people used to talk in the twentieth century.
My dad would have loved your humor. Thank you very much.
I appreciate that or hated it. Who knows legend has
it on this night every year, Hunter Biden rises from
the grave defeed on the blood of the innocent. I
am told it's good to be here. Everybody. I hit
the wrong butt. Your camera is not pointed at you.
I just realized that it's pointed at the TV over there.
We have to fix this. There we go. I hate

(01:31):
that people move these cameras. It drives me nuts because
then I spend a lot of time trying to fix them.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
We're live on the.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Radio, We're also live on social media right now. Steve Toth,
I learned I've never known you. I learned about you
recently from watching Tucker Carlson's podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I understand you're some kind of a lawmaker in the
state of Texas. Yes, we've never met before. You are.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I was there when you announced your candidacy with me,
Chad Prather and others. A lot of people, huge packed town,
lots of people, a lot of people around the country,
not just at Southeast Texas. A lot of people around
the country are rallying for you to win this thing.
And Dan Crenshaw obviously been an unpopular candidate for a
long time, since about a year after he got elected.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I've told this story before. This is part of the reason.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Why I think I never got invited back to the
Texas Young Republicans National Convention.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I was.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Booked in twenty nineteen fall of twenty nineteen, right before
everything got weird. In twenty twenty, I was asked to
speak and then introduce Dan Crenshaw. And this was right
as we were kind of learning that Dan Crenshaw was
not the guy we thought he was when we'd elected him,
you know, a year earlier, but people didn't quite understand
yet till really around the pandemic, really how bad he was.

(02:42):
And so Dan doesn't want to be there. He does
not want to be at this event. It's beneath his time.
He's not interested. You've been to these political events before.
We're all hanging out. It's dinner time, Saturday night. He's
the keynote speaker. There are several people that are supposed
to speak before him. I supposed to come out and
talk about the mayoral election at the time.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
To give you an idea of how long ago this was.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Bill King, Tony Busby, and Sylvester Turner were all running
for Houston. And then I was going to wrap that
up and be like, all right, everybody, Dan Crenshaw. Dan
goes no, He's like, I want to leave. I don't
want to be here, he says. Everybody's still waiting in
line with their plates at the buffet. Dan goes, I
want to talk now, and then I'm going to leave.
I was like, all right, so I'm going to introduce you,

(03:26):
and then.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
What's that you're kidding me? Have I never told you
the story?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
So everybody's standing there very awkwardly with their plates, and
Dan Crenshaw's like, all right, he's got this like Dia
tribe about fighting the left.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's one of it. It's his stump speech. You'd get
what that means.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh yeah, And he's done the speech before some people
had heard. It wasn't topical or anything. It's just, you know,
so it's.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
A culture war, but it's also a war overseas, and
you know, it's that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
And he ramps it up and everybody yay, and then
immediately people turn back to like slicing roast beef, putting
me lok. It was the most awkward thing. He finishes.
I come on, I go all right, everybody. I get
that you're all still getting slices of turkey and meat loaf.
But I'm going to do a speech right now about
the mayoral election. And so then I wrapped that up.

(04:09):
I was like, I'm just gonna leave, and and that
Monday on the radio, I talked about how I thought
it was a tacky thing for him to do. And
until this past week, I had never been invited back
to a Young Republican event.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
So you're supposed to introduce him. Initially, I was supposed
to introduce him, and then you're just making comments on
meat loaf.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And that was kind of when I found out that
Dan was kind of a douche and it was over
and then you know, and then we really learned because
then we got to see his voting record over the
next few years more than once. Jamison Ellis God bless him,
just basically just an average local guy from the area
has challenged and did okay. I think it was like
seventy to thirty. I mean for a guy with no resources,

(04:47):
no no in the primary, what.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Was it, Jamison got forty three percent. That's pretty good.
It's incredible, that's unbelievable. I like Jamison. I'm not trying
to underwrote. Oh no, he's a great guy.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
But you're the only person to come along that actually
no offense to Jamison.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I like Jamison. I think he's a great guy. You
do too. You have name recognition.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
People have seen you on a ballot in this district,
and you have won more than once. God bless Jamison's
and I mean, you know he knows. I'm not trying
to write him off or dismiss him. The guy's done
great work to try to remove a rhino from office
that was clearly unpopular. You being on the ticket is
a little different this time. You are Steve State Representative
Steve Toath. You're considered by many to be the most

(05:28):
conservative lawmaker in the state legislature. You're a guy that
the establishment hates. You're a guy with a reputation. You're
considered to be an underdog, but an underdog that's known
throughout the state. Tucker Carlson's endorsed you. It's a pretty
big deal, dude, I mean, what's that like right now?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
It's pretty exciting. So you develop a following more and
you're more known by who hates you than who loves you. Yeah, right,
every two years, the Associated Republicans of Texas, which that's
Carl Rove, they come after me every two years, and
so two election cycles ago, they spent like three four
hundred thousand dollars against me, and they got I think

(06:07):
they got thirty six percent of the vote. This last time,
they spent almost seven hundred thousand dollars against me, and
they went from getting thirty six percent of the vote
to getting thirty four percent of the vote.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, it was embarrassing. How does Carl Rove still have
any influence?

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Like?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Who is he? Who cares about Carl Rove?

Speaker 4 (06:25):
I don't get it. I don't get why people even
listen to the guy anymore. I don't get why Fox
keeps putting him on the air. We are in a
Maga Maha generation, right, and we're exciting a whole new
generation of young people, African American Hispanics into the Republican Party,
and for some reason, people keep listening to this drum

(06:46):
beat from Carl Rove, this idiotic mentality that you've got
to take out conservative members of the party that are
exciting a new generation of voters.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
That makes no sense. Boy, I think so.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
So you're the guy right now, everybody's there's a couple
other people in the race. Obviously, I'm not a big
fan of Dan Crenshaw.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
I'm also not a big fan of grifters.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I don't like people that pretend to run for office
but they're really just running for followers on social media.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
We'll talk about that later on. I don't want to
use this.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't want to waste your airtime here today to
promote a candidate that doesn't matter. But we know there
are people in your race and you're that are gonna
be on your ballot that aren't that are carpetbaggers from
other states with nine aliases.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I'll leave it just sketchy. Are so many people like that?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, sketchy, weird people anyway, I digress. Steve Toth live
in studio right now. We are live streaming. It looks
like about a thousand people watching us talking right now.
Thousands more on the radio throughout Southeast Texas. Quick break
more with Steve Toath right after this.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its line behind. You're listening to Kenny Webster.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
All right.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
According to a new study, Maine was named the most
haunted state in America.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's so creepy there. How creepy is it? Thank you, Steve.
It's so creepy there.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Stephen King just writes down what he sees from his
window and then publishes it as a book.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
That's the thing. Hi, Hi, everybody, welcome back. It's Halloween.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
It's Friday, and we're not We didn't do anything. We
didn't plan like a big Halloween. I like Halloween. I
like the idea of Halloween. But I'm always one of
those last minute Halloween guys. I'm a Catholic, so I
know that this is a touchy subject for some Christians.
My buddy Josh and his wife Chanelle are a trad couple.
You're familiar, trad, trad traditional. She's a stay at home mom.

(08:42):
There used that used to just be being normal. Now
we have a word for it. She's a stay at
home mom. They have three kids. He works as in
computer security. He's got a good job, fortunately, God bless him.
And they're very religious. They homeschool their kids and they
do not like Halloween. And I don't think it was
always this way, but they don't like Halloween. Now I
get the homeschooling thing. I will say as a Catholic,

(09:03):
I've been told that we're allowed to celebrate Halloween, that
it's been around for a while. The Roman Catholic Church
actually moved Halloween to today back in the year eight hundred.
Did you know that I did not know that you're
not a Catholic. I'm not a Catholic. You're a Baptist.
I'm a Baptikostal says, I'm a mutt. So since you're
alone here with a Catholic right now, we could probably
polish off a bottle of Higgins Drum. But if another

(09:24):
I don't drink. But if another Baptist shows up, I'm
not a big drinker either. Actually, I gave it up
like six years ago. Really, why'd you stop drinking?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
More than anything, it just didn't feel like it did
anything for me, really, And I would have maybe a
glass or two of wine at night for dinner, and
I might now and then have a beer, but I
just never felt like it did anything for me.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
During commercial break there, you were just talking to the
people on our live stream about how a lot of
young people are getting involved in your campaign. Yeah, you
and I speak every year at the Texas Youth Summit.
Christian Collins is a mutual friend.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's amazing. He's a great guy.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
He organizes it, really cool guy, and he's almost like
I know he probably doesn't like when I say this,
but I think he's like the Charlie Kirk of Texas.
I don't wish any God forbid. I hope they don't
treat him the way they treated Charlie Kirk. But what
Christian does bringing together young conservatives around the state is amazing.
Kamala Harris was on the news yesterday. She was on

(10:15):
this podcast. Hang on, let me pull up the video.
That was not Kamala Harris. That's the frost that probably
confused the people that are watching them the live stream.
It was a different person. Kamala was on the news yesterday.
She's on this podcast in Australia and she was detailing
how she wants young people to start voting at age sixteen.
We should lower the voting age because climate change.

Speaker 7 (10:37):
I think we should reduce voting age to sixteen.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Why. I'll tell you, why, tell us why so? Gen
z uh huh? That's who they are.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Their age about thirteen through twenty second. Sure they've only
known the climate crisis, they missed substantial prests to their
education because of the pandemic.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now, as you could tell, she did not give up
drinking six years ago. If a Hollywood actor in the
golden era of Hollywood was pretending to be drunk, like
I guess, Dean Martin would often pretend to be drunk,
did you know that was often not alcohol, it was
iced tea in his glass. Did you know he was
known for this, that Dean Martin would pretend to be
drunk with Jerry, Dean and Jerry or Jerry and Dean

(11:20):
or whatever. Isn't that exactly how they would act? They
would talk the way Kamala talks. Ye, yes, that's correct
to those in Texas that know what he's talking about.

Speaker 7 (11:32):
If they're in high school or college, especially in college,
it is very likely that whatever they've chosen is their
major for study may not result in an affordable wage.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Kamala is very much out of touch right now for
two reasons here. First of all, this talking point about
climate change, I'm told that the left has basically abandoned
it very recently. Have you seen the latest from Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is now saying, okay, maybe climate change won't
cause us all to die and doom and globe.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's not the eminent threat.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
We still got to reduce pollution, which is where Raschlimbaugh
used to always say, reducing pollution's great. Pretending that your
car is going to cause a hurricane is junk science.
And now Bill Gates agrees with that. But the other
point I think she's missing out on here, and you
and I were just alluding to this. We're now living
in a day and age where young people are skewing
harder to the right than ever before. For as long

(12:24):
as we've been calculating it, the young, especially young men,
are voting Republican leaning conservative.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I don't think she knows that well.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
For forty years, they've been telling us that Florida would
be underwater by now, and yet and the inconvenient truth
of al Gore is that we'll be dead. That's dead
by twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
That's what he said.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I think there was an even earlier date they predicted
by twenty fourteen, which, yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
It's just so ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
And now we're hearing the science is saying that the
more obviously, the more co carbon in the atmosphere, the
greener the world will be, and the more prolific will
have agriculture growth and everything else.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
They have this website, gatenoes dot com that just tells you,
if you're a big fan of Bill Gates, what's the
on really? No, well, who is right? Three tough truths
about climate and then he goes on, I think this
just got published recently.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
What's the date on this? Three days ago? Okay, that's
what it says.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
And then in it he basically says, all right, to
be clear, climate change is an important problem. It needs
to be solved, malaria, malnutrition, but maybe when we tell
people that it's an eminent threat to your safety, that's
not exactly true. They're about to have the COP thirty
summit in Brazil, of all places, and that was the
people who signed the Paris Climate Accord. I just looked

(13:41):
at a list of the countries that have submitted their
carbon data, and a few glaring things I noticed right away.
Number one, France didn't even submit their data. Yet you're
the ones that worked.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
And France, I think what they say.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
And they said that Russia's on the list is one
of the people that's meeting their goals.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Now I'm pretty sure they're lying. Not on the list.
Was China Putin filled that out right, didn't that?

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Probably he filled out the TPS report the cover sheet
or whatever. But okay, fine, they told us that Trump
was a bad guy for getting out of the agreement.
But none of them are leaving up to the agreement.
None of them the shortlist of countries that have even
claimed to be doing it are probably lying. China didn't
submit their dat So it's basically, UK and Canada have
reduced their carbon emission? What's that do to the world

(14:25):
according to climate change theory?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
What does that do? Nothing?

Speaker 4 (14:29):
But you know, here's the reality, though, is that the
United States is reducing emissions more than any other nation,
and it's because we're an economic engine and we're looking
for efficiency and technology and technology, great technology, technological advances
is bringing us towards a more climate neutral position, and

(14:49):
we're not even aiming for it, right, But these guys
continue to pour crap into the atmosphere with no regard whatsoever,
and yet we we're going to try and take the
United State dates and drag us into this thing. It's
just it's ridiculous. It's the only thing this is is
wealthy distribution.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
One hundred percent, because at the end of the day,
it's carbon based fuels that get people out of poverty.
Correct percent of our pharmaceuticals are synthesized using petroleum prosthetic limbs.
Guess where that comes from. Every technology on Earth that
helps to advance civilization seems to directly connect oil and gas.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
I like the idea of being able to live off
the grid. I think that's cool. I went to a
music festival back in August out in the middle of
the desert. There's no running water, there's no electricity out there.
But if you have solar panels on your camper, you
can have air conditioning at night while you sleep. I
think that's neat, but it's not cheap and it certainly
didn't save the earth. That the minerals that they're using

(15:50):
were apparently put together and by child slave labor in
places like China and Central afric exactly. So how is
that the humane liberal apart?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
There's nothing humane about it.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
There's nothing humane about it, And at the end of
the day, it's just going to lead to more ruin,
more and more starvation, more people without water and in
uh it's just it's stupid.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Do you hope that Kamala runs again in twenty twenty eight,
Lord please help her. Yeah, I'm with that.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I endorse her as the candidate for the Democrats. I
think it's a great idea.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Screw you.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, kids, it's Halloween time and apparently King Charles
has stripped Prince Andrew of his royal titles.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
It was the highlight of London's No Princes rally.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Thank you, thank you, Steve, Steve giving me all the
pitty laughs over here.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
I was I was a little I was not. I
wasn't surprised that it happened.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I was surprised that it took so long, King Charles
taking away Prince Andrew's royal titles. Normally Andrew prefers to
be stripped by an underage messuse.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
I'm toss what is the deal with that? But it
takes a long It is very bizarre, is it.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Do you think they don't like each other or was
he just pressured into Do you think Prince Andrew and
King Charles got I mean Andrew Andrew Windsor, I guess
is his name.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Now he's not a prince anymore.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
So you know, I don't know who's more embarrassing to
the crown. Yeah, the King or the or or the Prince.
I mean they're just they're both. It's a clown show
over there.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I'm team Boston Tea Party. I'm team seventeen seventy six.
I will never understand these Americans who are obsessed with Oh,
Prince Harry and Meghan. Look how eloquent they are. They're
on a red carpet. Yeah, could they do less? I
could not care less. I could not care less.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
And it's more women than anything else that that are
into this, not conservative women, liberal women. I Karen's don't
get it, which just don't get it, which.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is ironic because in England it's generally the conservatives who
like the royal family, right right? I mean, I'm I'm
a punk rock Republican. As a teenager, I one of
my first cassette tapes I ever bought was the sex Pistols.
God Saved the Queen said to me as an American patriot.
The Ramones hated communism and the sex pistols, hated the
Royal family, and to me Punk Rocks seemed kind of

(18:22):
cool back then, and it still does.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
We're still the counterculture. What it means to be the
counterculture changed a lot. Yeah, as an Eagles guy, Sorry
is that?

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (18:32):
The Eagle, the bands, and the Bees. Yeah, not the
Philadelphia Yeah, that's okay. I hated the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
But you're not a country guy. You're a rocker.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
No.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
So you know my dad, My dad listened to a
lot of Charlie Pride, Passy Kleine, and so I did.
I love country, but just real the real old stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Really like what about outlaw country? Willie Nel said? No,
Merle Haggard, No, No, I love the highwaymen.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Oh, I did like a highwayman because I love Jenny Cash,
Johnny Cash.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
I love Johnny Cash too. The only highwayman I didn't
like his Chris Christophers City. He seems like a pretty
boy to me.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't know, he's kind of kind of weird, a
little rough. I like him.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Whenever I say I don't like Chris Christofferson. The spouses,
the wives and girlfriends of a lot of my buddies,
are a little older than me because I'm in talk
radio and I'm a conservative, and whenever I say that,
their spouses get real mad. They're like, but Kenny, Chris Christopherson,
he's he's dreamy.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Like, where do you come up with dreamy? I don't
get that.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Well.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I think back in the day when they were young,
young women young, not that they're old now or whatever,
but women age like wine. I'm sure we all agree
with that, but uh, at one point, you know, some
women my age or older looked at Chris Christofferson as
a hunk. Anyway, I don't want to waste any more
time to talk about that.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
I will admit this. A lot of country singers are
very pro America. You know me.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I love electronic music, I love rock and roll. I
listen to a lot of indie rock. It's generally that
is not a world that is pro America. I was
at a concert recently watching rockers from New Zealand on
stage at the White Oaks Music Hall get up on
stage and first they said F Trump, Yeah, F Trump everybody,

(20:11):
and then and then the next song plays and then
they go free Palestine. And this was right after the
ceasefire started and it's the only guy in the in
the crowd that probably watched the news that day. I
was like, hello, you remember the guy you were just
saying f two a minute ago. Well, funny thing about
that he freed technically freed Palestine just this weekend.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Here.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
If you're hey, you guys hate Trump, I get it.
You know it's a red hat.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
If you guys were over there, they'd be throwing you
off a building right now. Yeah. Queers for Palestine, Yeah,
figure that one out. Isn't that the craziest thing. It's
like vegans for steak or do vegans for steaks? Meat packers?

Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I'm a libertarian Republican. I like Rand Paul. I know,
even when he disagrees with Trump. I like that there
are guys in the party that make other people more conservative.
Thomas Massey, I get it. I don't have to agree
with everything he does, but I like that he pushes
the other Republicans further to the right. I think that's cool.
And I don't want to fund both sides of every war.
That's just my position. Somebody that disagrees with that, however,

(21:10):
is Dan Crenshaw. Dan Crenshaw has never seen a war
that he didn't want to fund. I can't imagine going
to Washington, DC seeing all those homeless people lining the streets,
knowing that more than half of them are military dress, right,
and that they're there right now because somebody like John
Corny or Dan Crenshaw voted yes on a war, didn't
vote yes on giving these guys wheelchairs or whatever when

(21:32):
they came home, didn't vote yes on more funding for
the VA hospitals. You know, you stand a good chance
of going there next year. You stand a good chance
of joining the swamp. Not that you'd be a swamp creature,
but you would be there. You're already in a maybe
a more shallow swamp right now that we call Austin.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Like, when you go to DC, are you you know
you could be pro vat and anti war right?

Speaker 4 (21:56):
I don't know that I would use the expression anti war.
I think I used expression America first before. And we've
got to be a lot more contemplative before we engage
in foreign conflicts. And we've just not been wise over
the years. You know, initially when we went into Iraq,
you know, I was all for it. Do you remember
the Purple fingers. Of course people would vote and they

(22:17):
come out with it. You look at all the indoctrination
that the State Department did to suck us into that war,
that never ending war.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
What did we achieve? What did we really achieve? And
I get it, like we didn't know at the time.
We didn't.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
I was, you know, I was completely fooled by everything
that was going on and this idea of the Arab
spring that we can bring democracy to the Middle East.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, you can't.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
It is it is counterintuitive to Islam and everything that
follower resifs of Islam believe. With the whole idea of
democracy and a constitutional republic, they are into a theocracy.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's what they believe.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
That's what their very essence of who they are is
a theocracy.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
They don't want a democracy, they don't want a constitution.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I make that point all the time. I think you're
more conservative than me. I think I'm more libertarian than you.
But we're both part of the America First movement. Yeah,
and both of us look at something like this. Let
me throw something up on the screen here to Dallas Express,
great conservative news outlet to combat the Dallas Morning Snooze
has ran an article this week, does John Cornyn have
a Hunter Biden problem? And it details what's going on

(23:21):
with John Cornyn's daughter, Haley Cornyn. Weirdly enough, she's just
I mean, it's amazing, what a coincidence. Her dad's a
senator and she's such a great lobbyist. The story details
all the money that she's directly connected to, directly died
to lobbyist firms, the Greenberg Trorig connection, which apparently gets

(23:42):
a lot of money for helping to distribute as they
described in the conversation here EB five visas kind of
similar to the H one B visas, And like, I
don't claim to be I'm not an immigration attorney, but
I do feel like if you can buy your way
into the country, the system's probably broken a little bit.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Trump has made the point, Okay, what if you paid
a million dollars to be an American citizen. Well, that's different, right,
because these are people that would come to America, invest
in our infrastructure.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Suck off of Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I'm okay with that exactly. But that's a little
bit different, isn't it. Now Somebody just coming into the
country so they can go work at what they get
the H one bv's and they go work at seven
to eleven.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
That doesn't seem like a fair deal to me. No,
it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I guess my issue with what they're doing with this,
with these EB five visas is that you've got people
that came here legally. I know a guy that he
came from India. He got his PhD at Notre Dame.
Sure married an American woman, they have kids. He's a pastor

(24:44):
at our church that's christ here legally, did everything the
right way, and yet he can't get his visa reinstated
because the State Department or Immigration Customs screwed something up,
lost it, and now now poor Sam is just like
I might gonna have to go back to to India.
I've got an American wife, I've got a kid, I've

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got a job, I'm paying taxes. I've done everything the
right way, and yet you see crap like this where
it's just crony capitalism.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I have sympathy for him. I have a buddy named Richard.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
He lives up in the Fort Worth area and he's
been around since the nineties or the eighties. He came
worked with Llights in London, got a lot of money,
very wealthy British person, owns a business here, has dozens
and dozens of employees.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Took him thirty years to get his citizenship. Could you
imagine that?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
At the same time, he's like, if I had just
walked over the border and given birth, I wouldn't have
had to do any of that.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Isn't that strange? He's totally stupid.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
So fifty plus percent of the bursts in Texas are
Medicaid burst and it's breaking us right now. I had
a guy come into my office just this past week
from Ireland and he's been here for nearly twenty years.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Kenny.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
He and his wife and their family. He created a
business here, he's here legally, and he's working towards his citizenship.
He's spent fifty sixty thousand dollars home builder and his son,
during the immigration process in becoming getting his citizenship, went
back to Ireland to be with his grandparents as they
were dying. Yeah, then when they came back in, I

(26:13):
guess he got bad information from his immigration attorney and
when he came through customs, the customs agent said you
shouldn't have left, and now we're going to kick you
out of the country for ten years.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
It's just it's such it's so difficult. But do anything legally,
do it the right way.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
If you do it the right way, there seems to
be this rift in the America First movement that we saw.
We heard a lot about it earlier this year, the
Elon Musk Republicans versus the Steve Bannon Republicans.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
The Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Republicans want more legal immigrants, less illegal immigrants.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
The Steve Bannon Republicans want no immigrants. Right.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I really feel like it's got to be a middle ground.
There has to be a middle ground between the two.
It should be possible to come here. We want the
world's doctors and scientists and engineers to come here. We
just don't want to give out the same the people
that are going to work at a gas station that
we're giving to some guy that's apparently a brilliant software programmer.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
I could appreciate that. There has to be a solution
to that.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, so we're doing we're doing over a million a year,
we're allowing over a million a year. Then on top
of that, canny look at tens of millions of illegals
that are coming in a year, and so at the
end of the day, the tens of millions of illegals
is breaking the bank and is making it very difficult
for even the people that come here legally, because the
people that come here legally, a million of them, three

(27:29):
hundred and thirty three thousand of them typically every single
year go go right into into the welfare system. They're
not working, and so they came here legally, and yet
yet they're they're on of government and it's breaking us.
So I'm with Bannon on this in this regard. We've
got to we've got to decrease even the number of
people that are coming here legally. But we've got to

(27:50):
we've got to make it a sensible pathway. If you're
coming here legally, there should be a way to do
this without paying an immigration attorney one hundred thousand dollars
twenty years.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
And maybe a cap on it on how many people
a year it can't be. Yeah, it's it's just too many,
all right. Tell you what I want to talk more
about that. I want to talk about the primaries coming up.
It feels like the primaries started.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Extra early this year.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
We're gonna explain why after this hang around.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
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this is of happiness.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
No, we don't endorse custon.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
No, don't shoot tax collectors ever.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
All right, kids, welcome back from break.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
The ladies of the View have decided not to wear
costumes for their Halloween episode. That's right, they just went
as witches. Everybody, Hi, welcome back from break. I am
here right now with State Representative Steve Toath. Steve, I
turn on the TV and I see NonStop political ads.
Cornyn Paxton, Wesley Hunt. I see it all the time,
and for months now it's not even new. Don Haffin's

(29:04):
running for comptroller announced his candidacy back in the early
part of summer, and May's Middleton Attorney general candidate. All
these candidates made their announcements way earlier than normal this year.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Why do you think that.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
Is You've got some really wealthy, big hitters that are
in this thing, and then you've got some really people
that are fighting for their absolute lives, like Cornyn is
an example.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Right, they're probably not well.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
The only person that actually has higher unfavorables that's running
for office right now, than John Cornyn is Dan Crenshaw.
So both these guys have got a lot of work
ahead of them to try and try and salvage their
their campaigns.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I have been told that in the Senate right now,
what is her name, Jony Ernst is pulling higher than
John Cornyn.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
She doesn't think she's pulling high enough.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
To run again, Wait a second, so she doesn't think
she's popular enough to stay in office, but she's more
popular than John Cornyn.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Why is John still in this thing?

Speaker 4 (30:02):
That's a great question because typically political science and commentators
will tell you that if you're above forty percent unfavorable,
that you probably don't have a chance.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, and then as far as your opponent goes, Dan
Crenshaw supported red flag laws, supported foreign as much foreign
spending as any Democrat or neo kons ever could said
that Jesus was an folk hero emissional archetype and on
some liberal podcast, and I look, I could understand if

(30:32):
his words were confused or mixed up. But then some
girl asked him about that at a town hall, a
teenage girl, Yeah, have you ever seen this video?

Speaker 3 (30:38):
And he yells at her, I was there that night,
Were you there? Yeah? What was your take on that.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
I could not get over how thin skinned he was,
you know, I mean he said, he said, you put
a period after Jesus, and don't question my faith. And
it's kind of like, gosh, she's a young woman. She
just asked a normal question.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Did she question his faith or did she just ask me?
I don't remember, that's a question. That's all she did.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
And you know, it would have been easy to just say, look,
you know, wow, yeah, I probably I probably handle that wrong.
I guess you put a period after Jesus and.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
That's that.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Well.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
It's kind of like whenever someone gets mad that they're
being challenged, it makes them look more guilty.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, you know, I hate to keep going back to
the corner thing.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
But Wesley jumps in the race, Paxton welcomes into the race,
and then Cornyn goes on an attack campaign trying to
get Wesley out of the race. It makes one of
these guys look weak, and it makes the other one
look like like he belongs in the race, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
So Dan Crenshaw voted to raise the debt ceiling more
than once. He referred to Trump supporters as clowns. He
did not agree that the twenty twenty election results might
have been a little questionable. He did not have an
issue with that, has been accused of insider trading, has
a history of being tied to Democrats, endorse Hillary Clinton
in two thousand and eight, donated to Democrats like Nancy Pelosi.

(31:58):
Not a lot of people know that about him. You
know what, what do you think?

Speaker 4 (32:03):
He supported one of the most egregious Democrats of all,
Liz Cheney.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
How about that? Yeah, that's a great point.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Isn't that interesting that back in the early days of
the George W. Bush administration, Green Day recorded an album
about how George W.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Bush was so terrible.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Fast forward in time, Green Day goes on tour at
the same time as Dick Cheney to promote the Kamala
Harris presidential campaign. Do you think twenty years ago they
all knew they'd be on the same side at some point.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
It's so it's so ridiculous, but you know, it just
kind of goes to show where their heart and their passion,
their true north was really at right, that they were
never with us to begin with.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
They were never with us to begin with.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Because you finally have a president that's actually doing all
the things that these people said that they stood for,
and yet they never took a stand.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
They always gave us great rhetoric.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
They served up the most incredible rhetoric, and yet once
they got into office, they always gave us excuses as
to why they couldn't deliver. Trump got into office, and
even when he lost Congress midway through his first term,
he's still delivered for us. He was amazing. And yet
these guys are like, now they hate him for it.
He's making them look bad.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Absolutely, So this weekend, the government shutdown will become a
big topic of the conversation. The Senate's not doing anything
till Monday, but over the weekend the food stamp benefits
go away.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Here is one very.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Interesting individual, I don't know how else to describe her,
who seems to think that crime will be okay since
the food stamp benefits are going away. By the way,
this video we're about to watch a few seconds of
there are thousands of these videos.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Y'all better lock y'all cars that night, Lock your cars,
lock your house up if you wanted.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
The people that just leave your.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Car, unlock parking your driveway. But luck it with the
fool stamps being gone and people not gonna.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Have no people gonna eat.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Okay, nobody's just gonna this is twenty twenty five. Nobody's
just not gonna email full stamps. I'm telling you right now,
even with the government shut down, the food stamps and
stuff being going for next month, and it's gonna affect everybody,
there's gonna be a lot of stuff going on.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Okay, I'm gonna pausit right here.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I've watched a lot of videos like this, some of
them just don't contain language that we can use, but
a lot of people suggesting that it's already okay to
shop with because the government's shutting down. I looked at
statistics from earlier this week explaining how less than ten
percent of people on food stamps are actually disabled, and
of those people, it's something like forty percent of them
of a disability caused by obesity. I'm not against a

(34:36):
little bit of public aid. I'm not against a little
bit of welfare.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I'm not. I'm not one of these guys that's like
so hard. I am my bank. My church has a
food bank.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
I understand people fall into a position sometimes they didn't
expect to be in. But it does seem as though
if you're paying people to be poor, or if you're
paying people not to work, it's probably gonna cause a
lot of people not to work, right.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah, we pay them not to work and then we
kill them through obesity. I mean, it's just the most
screwed up thing in the whole world.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
So what do we do about the Do you think
that this is going to be what's going to end
the government shut down that in the airports this weekend?

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (35:09):
I think honestly, you know, this is their base. This
is Schumer's base, and you know he knows at some
point he can't starve them into becoming Republicans because they are.
They are going to take the fallout for this. This
is their fault. They're the ones that have caused a shutdown.
And eventually, you know, these people are gonna understand it.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Apparently even Senator Schumer is excuse me, Fetterman, Senator Fetterman
is blaming Chuck Schumer for the shutdown.

Speaker 8 (35:35):
For but Democrat, you know, we're not allowed to just
open this up. I mean, then our party has bigger
problems than I thought we might have already. It's like
that's not controversial. Pay everybody. And you have our workers
here borrowed over a third of a billion dollars to
pay their own bills.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Like it's it's a failure.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
And like I said to all of the viewers, I'm apologizing.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
I deposit right here.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Chuck Schumer did not want to participate in a government
shutdown earlier this year, the last time there was a
budget crisis, because he thought it would hurt his pulling numbers. Yeah,
and then AOC said, well then we have to primary you.
So this time he allowed the shutdown to happen. His
pulling numbers went down. Both times the government shutdown didn't
happen as pulling numbers dropped. Now it's happening as pulling

(36:25):
numbers are dropping in the meantime. Unlike the Trump one
point zero when there was a government shut down several
years ago, Trump's pulling numbers have gone up, not a lot,
but a little bit since this started. Do people get
that this isn't necessarily a Republican fault?

Speaker 4 (36:38):
That no, no, And you're the first person that I've
said this multiple times. The only reason that Schumer is
doing this is because of AOC.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Right.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
He is absolutely only doing this because he knows that
she's going to primary him if he does not do this,
because he has New York has one of the most
whacked out bases for the left that there is at
least sick ten percent of that Democrat base. They are
absolutely lunatics in New York and AOC is a reflection

(37:08):
of that, and he's trying he's trying to feed into that,
hoping that he can stave her off.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
All right, we got to get out of here in
just a minute. But I want people to understand Steve
Toth is a man. You are a man a mystery.
You're a vigilante. Don't you fight crime at night? And
you put out no, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
You're a preacher, right, yeah, I am. But I love veterans.
I've been involved in working with veterans for the past
fifteen years and that's what my heart beats for and
that's what I'm passionate about.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
We are big advocates for wheelchairs for warriors. You've supported
our cause. We're very grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
We know that times are tough right now.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
That's the whole reason why this government shutdown even matters
to people. And before we leave real quick. I had
a story here I wanted to share with you. This
young man whose name is Dagobert. I guess he's a
British guy. I don't know that I would name my
kid Dagobert, but that's what his parents name him. Sold
ad space on his tuxedo so he could raise money

(38:05):
to get married. And a lot of people bought the
ad space. As you could see. One of them was
an AI firm, a tech company right there with something
called Lucky Note, which I'm guessing is a betting app
small bets dot Com. He must not there must have
been its okay to have competing firms there, I guess.
I don't know, Steve, you're a young man once who
didn't have a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Is this brilliant ury? I gotta love it? Hey, you
know it's funny.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
You were mentioning Jamison he's getting married soon, and he
invited me to the deal. And at the end of it,
at the end of the digital invitation, you have the
opportunity of paying for your meal.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Oh I like that.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
I love it. It was great, And I'm like, you know,
they offer you fifty bucks. I'm like, man, I'll do
one hundred and fifty bucks. I think this is a
great way to help them get started.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
That's a very kind thing to do. I think so too.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
It is I love him. It does feel like it's weddings.
See Christian Collins is getting married too. Congression graduation.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
She's beautiful, met a great young lady. I love that, Steve.
We got to wrap it up here.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
We have at least a couple thousand people watching us
streaming on social media right now. Let's see if anybody
asked any questions, I'll tell you what. We'll do a
bonus round right now. To those of you watching us
live streaming, don't go anywhere, stick around. We're gonna do
a bonus round off the air right now. That means
we can use spicy language because we won't be on
the radio.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
And to the rest of you, have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
We'll see you back here bright and early Monday morning
for more of what you bought a radio for.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
I love you all. God bless.

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You are listening to the pursuit of this radio.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
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