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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I spoke this morning to Karen Henry, who, along
(00:04):
with Amy Huggins, is involved with the making of the
Fired Up to Vote that I started the show with,
and she has agreed to come on the air and
be subjected to all sorts of awkward questions and otherwise impertinences. Karen, Hi,
do I have the two of you at the same time?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh, that's always terrible. Well, just speak Huggins. What's that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I said?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's Amy Huggins as well as in Bow Huggins's wife.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Adore your husband. I don't get to see him much anymore,
but I used to back in the day. He has
the beer distributorship. Ramon, you want to be nice to him. Yeah,
that's how you get free beery. Nice to him, you
get free beer. Okay, him and Johnny Johnson when they
called you picked the phone up. That's just what you do.
Tell me about Fired Up to Vote? Did y'all build that?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yes, Amy Chillen.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes. After the twenty twenty two election, we realized that
we needed to get more people to the polls, and
this summer we created a website and created a portal
so that friends can get their friends to vote and
know when their friends vote, because the best way to
get somebody to vote is for somebody they know and
(01:27):
or respect to ask them to vote. So this lets
people basically do what every politician asks their supporters to do,
which is to get ten friends to the polls. And
this way you know if your friends actually vote, because
the county produces that information every day, which I'm sure
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, no, I don't don't. Yes, I do, but that
does not mean you shouldn't tell it. This is fantastic.
I love that you ladies did this. Can we talk
about your day job?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah? Which one?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, the PRB boutie.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, thank you, Michael Frasking. Yes I'm I'm on the
pr B teak. We have offices in Houston, Austin, and
San Antonio, but I managed the Houston office.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, I don't need to pitch sweetheart on your site
all morning. I could tell the story. I just want
to make sure you were okay with me telling you
that's what you do. So I go on there as
I am George, and it's like, do you have to
be a model to work there? Because it's all pretty women?
What is going on with that? You got one dude
out there, Fulton Davenport who's got a porn name and
(02:34):
looks like a model himself. Well he is a model.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He's also our photographer and he develops our websites too.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh my goodness, it's all pretty women there. That's a
lot of pretty women under one under one roof.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, thank you for saying that. But they're smart, smart,
aggressive and very well uh trained. Let's put it that way.
I know that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
From the I can't know that from the photo. All
I can see is and there's nothing wrong with being pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
We're good, you think. So I like them all too.
They're all great. I know you're kidding, b.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, but they are. Even you two are beautiful. Everybody
on there is beautiful. Question. So, so the goal in
setting this up? Who funded this thing?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
We've gotten funding from quite a few just interested citizens
who who want to increase voter robust voter participation basically
in all of our elections.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
All right, So I'm going to do. I wonder what
a lot of hell listeners are going to do. And
I'm going to go to Fired up to Vote dot com.
And when I get there, because people want to Okay,
put the d in there, hold on fired Up to
Vote dot com. Okay, it's not letting me in there,
(03:56):
do I guess? Do I need the w w W
to start? Okay, there we go. I don't need that. Okay, no, no,
it's okay. So I don't need that. I just go
straight fired up to Vote and peer to peer vote
platform that empowers people to do this and vision statement,
mission statement how it works. Upload your list to your
fired Up to Vote account, so they create an account.
(04:17):
And then the person I didn't get her authorization to
mention her name on air, so I'm not going to.
But the person who contacted you that I saw yesterday
at lunch at be nineteen, she showed up her list
and so it went through and it was a lot
of people that are mutual friends of ours. So she
had upoded up uploaded her list of people like these
are her friends. I guess she did one by one
(04:37):
or her contacts or whatever, and then she could go
through and see as they had voted, which I think
is just fantastic. And then from there, I guess she
contacted each one of them and she was telling me
that in the last election, y'all had something like seventy
six percent of the people who ended up being uploaded
on the list ended up voting, which is way higher
(04:59):
than the general voting stats. Hold on just a moment.
Karen Henry and Amy Huggins. Their group is THEPR grouper't
PR Boutique dot com, but it's you haven't Fired.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Up to vote dot com and I haven't been to yet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We have to stop waiting on the Republican Party. You
have to stop waiting on Donald Trump. We have to
stop waiting on the big donors. We have to stop
waiting on other people to solve the problems. Self governance
requires the self. It will always be people who step
in and fill the void. One of the highlights for me,
one of the takeaways from this year's election is how
(05:34):
many people have just had enough. They are fed up
and they have engaged. They're people who are raising kids,
running a business, all the all the things that keep
us busy in life, and they have gotten involved. And
this is a great example. The website is fired Up
to Vote dot com. Don't put the www in front
(05:54):
of just put fired up to Vote dot com. Karen
Henry and Amy Huggins of the PR Boutique put this
thing together. When did this site go live.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
In June. We got it going at the end of June,
actually right. We had our website in June, and then
we had the portal working, which is for how you
create your account and get to put in the names
of your friends and colleagues and neighbors in July. And
so we've been asking people to join since then, and
we hope people will join today so that we can
(06:31):
get every common sense, conservative fundamentals of government voter in
Harrison County to vote tomorrow because there are a lot
of them left.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I love it. I love that you are people in
a retail sort of retail went to professional service. But
I love that you are people who are willing to
put yourselves out there and say the good of the
country comes first. If you don't like us, you don't
have to. A lot of people that do what you
do would hide from taking a stand. And I think
that's that's the and for the decline in this country.
(07:01):
I really do so a big applause for you on that.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Could not agree with you more.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Michael.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We have to do it, we have to read because
nobody else is doing it. There are people that do it,
but not to the degree that we're trying to do it.
I just want to let you know that there's a
lot of GOOTV get off the vote groups, so we
had to come up with a name that was about
getting out the vote, but we couldn't use that name,
So that's all we came up with, Fired Up to Vote.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, the people I talked to, including the person
I saw at on Chesterday, they are not passively watching
this election. They are fired up. They have been awakened
from their slumber. They are well aware, they are damn
near obsessed with We've got to fix this. We've got
(07:54):
to fix the things in this country, and they have
to begin now. It cannot get any worse. I have
to tell you. It is a sleeping giant that has
been awakened, and that is the everyman, and especially the
every woman, because women will always do more in campaigns
than men. I learned that as a candidate. George Strake
taught me that twenty four years ago, and it has
(08:14):
turned out to be true. Men will talk, women will act.
It's just true. But this is very interesting. Do you
have a sense of how many people have already logged
onto this and are using this, and how you know
the numbers of this.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The seven hundred people have created accounts. Unfortunately, not all
seven hundred people have added names, but hundreds of people
have added their lists of friends and are tracking with us.
We have contacted through our group over two hundred thousand
(08:50):
voters in the Harris County area.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's incredible. So when someone creates their account and they
put in their list of people, it populates it with
whether that person has voted or not, and then and
then I from there, do they need to have their
own contact information for that person, which presumably they.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Would they have to, they do not put that into
our system. We don't have any contact information on the
people on your list that like you. If you have
your list of people, yeah, you have their phone number
and you text them to remind them. We actually provide
template texts for people to send to their friends so
that we put links of voting locations and how to
(09:32):
find your sample ballot and voting location hours, just to
make it easy for people to tell their friends where
to vote and when to vote.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Our mutual friend who I Sawna, showed me. She scrolled down,
I guess it's the emails you'll send out, and it
was it was you know. It was a calendar of days.
You know, on this day, do this, on this day,
do this, on this day, do this, And there was
an election day uh text to send to your list,
(10:05):
and I thought that was just that's just fantastic. I mean,
it makes it so easy. You know. When someone asked
me for a letter of recommendation, which I don't like
to do anymore because it's just too many people. But
if I am going to do it, I will say,
write me a draft, because if I have to sit
and come up with all this stuff and who to
send it to and all that, it makes it less
likely I'm going to do it. Or if you need
(10:27):
a letter for your Eagle Scout or whatever else, write
me a draft and then I'll go in and make
it my own. But I love that y'all are sending
out the templates. It's almost like y'all are good at
what you do.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Who's were I'm in my car?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Is the door open? Or you don't have your seat?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I have it on.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I hope y'all so.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, I'm just kidding. I hope you all get so
much business from this. I hope that businesses out there
that would be a perfect fit for you. Go to
THEPR boutique dot com and say, I want to talk
to those two Patriot ladies who built that site to
get people out to vote, and I want y'all to
handle my PR and I don't care that y'all are
(11:20):
insanely expensive. I want to support y'all's business. I hope
that happens.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I really do well. And I have to say Amy
Huggins does not work with Karen Henry at the PR boutique,
but we've worked together on Fired Up to Vote. Karen
is solely responsibility responsible for the PR boutique, so together.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, and Michael, I want to say that there's so
many there's like four or five women that are very
dedicated to crafting those templates that Amy was talking about
that give all our users exactly the information they need
and they can kind of tailor it to what they
want to say that it's like you said, you get
the template, you can then you and make it your own.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Hey, listen, I'm not grated in the kitchen, but give
me a recipe and I can follow it, right. I
can make something once somebody lays it out for me.
I think this is fantastic Karen hen Karen Henry, Amy Huggins.
Good on you for getting out there and getting involved
and making a difference. It's fired up to vote dot Com,
(12:21):
Fired up to vote dot Com. You ladies are awesome.
You inspire me. This is this is the good news
to come out of all this.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, we are starting my Dolph
So I spoke this morning to Karen Henry, who, along
(00:04):
with Amy Huggins, is involved with the making of the
Fired Up to Vote that I started the show with,
and she has agreed to come on the air and
be subjected to all sorts of awkward questions and otherwise impertinences. Karen, Hi,
do I have the two of you at the same time?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh, that's always terrible. Well, just speak Huggins. What's that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I said?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's Amy Huggins as well as in Bow Huggins's wife.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Adore your husband. I don't get to see him much anymore,
but I used to back in the day. He has
the beer distributorship. Ramon, you want to be nice to him. Yeah,
that's how you get free beery. Nice to him, you
get free beer. Okay, him and Johnny Johnson when they
called you picked the phone up. That's just what you do.
Tell me about Fired Up to Vote? Did y'all build that?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yes, Amy Chillen.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes. After the twenty twenty two election, we realized that
we needed to get more people to the polls, and
this summer we created a website and created a portal
so that friends can get their friends to vote and
know when their friends vote, because the best way to
get somebody to vote is for somebody they know and
(01:27):
or respect to ask them to vote. So this lets
people basically do what every politician asks their supporters to do,
which is to get ten friends to the polls. And
this way you know if your friends actually vote, because
the county produces that information every day, which I'm sure
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, no, I don't don't. Yes, I do, but that
does not mean you shouldn't tell it. This is fantastic.
I love that you ladies did this. Can we talk
about your day job?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah? Which one?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, the PRB boutie.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, thank you, Michael Frasking. Yes I'm I'm on the
pr B teak. We have offices in Houston, Austin, and
San Antonio, but I managed the Houston office.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, I don't need to pitch sweetheart on your site
all morning. I could tell the story. I just want
to make sure you were okay with me telling you
that's what you do. So I go on there as
I am George, and it's like, do you have to
be a model to work there? Because it's all pretty women?
What is going on with that? You got one dude
out there, Fulton Davenport who's got a porn name and
(02:34):
looks like a model himself. Well he is a model.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He's also our photographer and he develops our websites too.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh my goodness, it's all pretty women there. That's a
lot of pretty women under one under one roof.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, thank you for saying that. But they're smart, smart,
aggressive and very well uh trained. Let's put it that way.
I know that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
From the I can't know that from the photo. All
I can see is and there's nothing wrong with being pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
We're good, you think. So I like them all too.
They're all great. I know you're kidding, b.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, but they are. Even you two are beautiful. Everybody
on there is beautiful. Question. So, so the goal in
setting this up? Who funded this thing?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
We've gotten funding from quite a few just interested citizens
who who want to increase voter robust voter participation basically
in all of our elections.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
All right, So I'm going to do. I wonder what
a lot of hell listeners are going to do. And
I'm going to go to Fired up to Vote dot com.
And when I get there, because people want to Okay,
put the d in there, hold on fired Up to
Vote dot com. Okay, it's not letting me in there,
(03:56):
do I guess? Do I need the w w W
to start? Okay, there we go. I don't need that. Okay, no, no,
it's okay. So I don't need that. I just go
straight fired up to Vote and peer to peer vote
platform that empowers people to do this and vision statement,
mission statement how it works. Upload your list to your
fired Up to Vote account, so they create an account.
(04:17):
And then the person I didn't get her authorization to
mention her name on air, so I'm not going to.
But the person who contacted you that I saw yesterday
at lunch at be nineteen, she showed up her list
and so it went through and it was a lot
of people that are mutual friends of ours. So she
had upoded up uploaded her list of people like these
are her friends. I guess she did one by one
(04:37):
or her contacts or whatever, and then she could go
through and see as they had voted, which I think
is just fantastic. And then from there, I guess she
contacted each one of them and she was telling me
that in the last election, y'all had something like seventy
six percent of the people who ended up being uploaded
on the list ended up voting, which is way higher
(04:59):
than the general voting stats. Hold on just a moment.
Karen Henry and Amy Huggins. Their group is THEPR grouper't
PR Boutique dot com, but it's you haven't Fired.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Up to vote dot com and I haven't been to yet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We have to stop waiting on the Republican Party. You
have to stop waiting on Donald Trump. We have to
stop waiting on the big donors. We have to stop
waiting on other people to solve the problems. Self governance
requires the self. It will always be people who step
in and fill the void. One of the highlights for me,
one of the takeaways from this year's election is how
(05:34):
many people have just had enough. They are fed up
and they have engaged. They're people who are raising kids,
running a business, all the all the things that keep
us busy in life, and they have gotten involved. And
this is a great example. The website is fired Up
to Vote dot com. Don't put the www in front
(05:54):
of just put fired up to Vote dot com. Karen
Henry and Amy Huggins of the PR Boutique put this
thing together. When did this site go live.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
In June. We got it going at the end of June,
actually right. We had our website in June, and then
we had the portal working, which is for how you
create your account and get to put in the names
of your friends and colleagues and neighbors in July. And
so we've been asking people to join since then, and
we hope people will join today so that we can
(06:31):
get every common sense, conservative fundamentals of government voter in
Harrison County to vote tomorrow because there are a lot
of them left.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I love it. I love that you are people in
a retail sort of retail went to professional service. But
I love that you are people who are willing to
put yourselves out there and say the good of the
country comes first. If you don't like us, you don't
have to. A lot of people that do what you
do would hide from taking a stand. And I think
that's that's the and for the decline in this country.
(07:01):
I really do so a big applause for you on that.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Could not agree with you more.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Michael.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We have to do it, we have to read because
nobody else is doing it. There are people that do it,
but not to the degree that we're trying to do it.
I just want to let you know that there's a
lot of GOOTV get off the vote groups, so we
had to come up with a name that was about
getting out the vote, but we couldn't use that name,
So that's all we came up with, Fired Up to Vote.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, the people I talked to, including the person
I saw at on Chesterday, they are not passively watching
this election. They are fired up. They have been awakened
from their slumber. They are well aware, they are damn
near obsessed with We've got to fix this. We've got
(07:54):
to fix the things in this country, and they have
to begin now. It cannot get any worse. I have
to tell you. It is a sleeping giant that has
been awakened, and that is the everyman, and especially the
every woman, because women will always do more in campaigns
than men. I learned that as a candidate. George Strake
taught me that twenty four years ago, and it has
(08:14):
turned out to be true. Men will talk, women will act.
It's just true. But this is very interesting. Do you
have a sense of how many people have already logged
onto this and are using this, and how you know
the numbers of this.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The seven hundred people have created accounts. Unfortunately, not all
seven hundred people have added names, but hundreds of people
have added their lists of friends and are tracking with us.
We have contacted through our group over two hundred thousand
(08:50):
voters in the Harris County area.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's incredible. So when someone creates their account and they
put in their list of people, it populates it with
whether that person has voted or not, and then and
then I from there, do they need to have their
own contact information for that person, which presumably they.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Would they have to, they do not put that into
our system. We don't have any contact information on the
people on your list that like you. If you have
your list of people, yeah, you have their phone number
and you text them to remind them. We actually provide
template texts for people to send to their friends so
that we put links of voting locations and how to
(09:32):
find your sample ballot and voting location hours, just to
make it easy for people to tell their friends where
to vote and when to vote.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Our mutual friend who I Sawna, showed me. She scrolled down,
I guess it's the emails you'll send out, and it
was it was you know. It was a calendar of days.
You know, on this day, do this, on this day,
do this, on this day, do this, And there was
an election day uh text to send to your list,
(10:05):
and I thought that was just that's just fantastic. I mean,
it makes it so easy. You know. When someone asked
me for a letter of recommendation, which I don't like
to do anymore because it's just too many people. But
if I am going to do it, I will say,
write me a draft, because if I have to sit
and come up with all this stuff and who to
send it to and all that, it makes it less
likely I'm going to do it. Or if you need
(10:27):
a letter for your Eagle Scout or whatever else, write
me a draft and then I'll go in and make
it my own. But I love that y'all are sending
out the templates. It's almost like y'all are good at
what you do.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Who's were I'm in my car?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Is the door open? Or you don't have your seat?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I have it on.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I hope y'all so.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, I'm just kidding. I hope you all get so
much business from this. I hope that businesses out there
that would be a perfect fit for you. Go to
THEPR boutique dot com and say, I want to talk
to those two Patriot ladies who built that site to
get people out to vote, and I want y'all to
handle my PR and I don't care that y'all are
(11:20):
insanely expensive. I want to support y'all's business. I hope
that happens.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I really do well. And I have to say Amy
Huggins does not work with Karen Henry at the PR boutique,
but we've worked together on Fired Up to Vote. Karen
is solely responsibility responsible for the PR boutique, so together.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, and Michael, I want to say that there's so
many there's like four or five women that are very
dedicated to crafting those templates that Amy was talking about
that give all our users exactly the information they need
and they can kind of tailor it to what they
want to say that it's like you said, you get
the template, you can then you and make it your own.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Hey, listen, I'm not grated in the kitchen, but give
me a recipe and I can follow it, right. I
can make something once somebody lays it out for me.
I think this is fantastic Karen hen Karen Henry, Amy Huggins.
Good on you for getting out there and getting involved
and making a difference. It's fired up to vote dot Com,
(12:21):
Fired up to vote dot Com. You ladies are awesome.
You inspire me. This is this is the good news
to come out of all this.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, we are starting my Dolph
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