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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, if you enjoy that, you want a Johnson show
like we do, then you might also enjoy the Pursuit
of Happiness show in the afternoon with oh Guinny Webster there.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And as a matter of fact, I think, do we
have a clip? Can we play a clip? All right?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
As a lot of you know, the Big Beautiful Bill
has passed a committee, and so now I think the
biggest hurdle is going to be the Senate. But what
the hell is in the Big Beautiful Bill? It's eleven
hundred and sixteen pages. Let me start off with this.
We all agree we hated omnibus bills. Right, does everybody
agree that what's an omnibus bill? It's when you try
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to shove too much stuff into one bill and then
you vote on it. We all agree that sucks. Everyone
agreed that that sucked. So what's the difference between that
and this? Oh, it's just branding, right. House Republicans cleared
to major hurdle over the weekend. They advanced a sweeping
package of President Trump's tax proposals. Tax cuts, I like spending,
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I like. The problem is doesn't look like it goes
far enough. They say, this thing is going to be
very expensive. And CNN looked through the bill and they
found a bunch of stuff in there.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That looks off.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You know, this thing is going to cut off medicaid
to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I don't care about that. I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
There's going to be a car Loan interest deduction, a
boost for senior citizens. The tax breaks all sound great.
The problem is the spending. It's always been the spending.
We spend way too much money. There is a news
story this week about Moody the Financial Institute, downgrading America's
credit rating. Now maybe that doesn't mean anything to you,
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but it should when that happens. A few things happen right.
Number one, the money that we're borrowing as a nation,
we now pay a higher interest rate on it. That
means our debt is going to skyrocket. It's going to
accumulate higher. But it's not just the nation's debt. It's
your debt, your mortgages, your credit card rating, that stuff.
Those interest rates go up as well. Ah, you didn't
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know that, did you. That changes things, doesn't it. So
Moody's downgrading of America's debt with all these different banks
actually does directly affect you because you're probably somebody that's
going to buy a house. Mortgage rates climb back to
seven percent after Moody's US debt downgrade. You have a
credit card, you wanted to put a vacation on it
and pay that thing off at increments. I guess what
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national spending actually affects that Most people don't realize that.
People are crying about all the cuts Elon Musk just
made do our federal government in the spending But now
you're starting to see how it actually affects you. Now
you see it firsthand. So there's this is twofold here.
One we realize we need a doge. Two we realized
Donald Trump was right to put Elon Musk in charge
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of doing that. And then three, look, I'm not going
to I'm not going to put on a MAGA hat
and pretend I like this. This spending bill actually kind
of undoes some of those things. It's not good. It's
in the big beautiful bill, whatever you choose to call it.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that realize this.
Austin Peterson is the creator of the Libertarian Republic. He's
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the author of the Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto. I Love a
good manifesto Austin, you're as a as an advocate for
small government. When you hear the words big beautiful bill,
do you vomit? How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hey, Kenny, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's a big stupid bill.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Let me just quote a tweet from one of the
greatest thinkers in conservative circles on the right. I think
maybe in the last one hundred years, definitely top one hundred.
But this is a tweet that he posted two hours ago.
It says, unpopular opinion, the beautiful the big beautiful bill
is way too expensive. Let's stop funding IVS with tax
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dollars nine billion. Also Ukraine sixty six point nine, Israel
three point five, and Taiwan two billion dollars of taxpayer dollars.
So many big stupid spending items, the big stupid bill.
The man who tweeted that, Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a blase track, I think, yeah time me, Yeah me.
I thought that sounded famire.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Look, I don't understand why we have to give money
to developed countries right like and Taiwan and Israel. And
I know there's an argument to be made that they
do pay us for some of our military services, but
we also give them money. And when you break it
down of all the exchange that's happening, we give them money,
they give us money back and forth. What it ends
up with is in the end we give them three
point five that's Israel. We give Taiwan two billion, like
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and and the amount of money we give Ukraine is disgusting.
It's it's in what to what avail. But that's a
conversation for another time. I don't I don't like it.
I've thought one of our money. My followers also pointed
out the Medicare advantage over billing cost us to trillion
dollars a year. I don't think it's actually that much money.
I think one of my followers on social media pointed out,
I think that's an exaggerated figure, but it is billions
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of dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
This stuff adds up Austin.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You know, once, when you can'tpaign for office, you make
a lot of promises, and most of those promises will
never be fulfilled because they just can't. And it's disappointing
to see people like Elon Musk running into a brick wall, right.
You know, all the optimism of the campaign itself has
faded and it's a natural cycle. Things always sort of
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you know, run into the brick wall of reality, it seems.
But you know, if we are going to you know,
face this fight over and over and over again on
the spending as we are, you know why attack Thomas Massey,
Congressman Thomas Massey for doing the right there saying when
you got people like Tom Tillis out there bucking the
president and he's doing the wrong thing. I really just
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can't get behind this kind of this lurch left that
the Republican Party has done. And you and I have
been talking about this since back in the Tea Party days, Kenny,
that the Republican Party they campaign like libertarians, they spend
when they govern like democrats. And it's true. But the
thing that's probably the most sickening, the most stomach churning,
uh is that you know, at least they paid lift
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service to the Constitution and to limited government and into
fiscal conservatism. But that pretense has been dropped with the
with the infusion of this new sort of might makes right.
It's it's not it's when it's not wrong when we
do it. It's not socialism when we do it. You know,
somehow that because it's this this pretense of knowledge that
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the problem is, Kenny, is that everybody, Republican, Democrat, left,
right or whatever, they all think that, you know, that
they can be the ones to manage the economy, that
if they if we can just get enough money here,
we can you know, we can buy world peace right
and and it's never been effectuated an effective massive government,
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at least not for not for long. You know. It's
like this old quote I think that you say about
a cruise chev you can sit on the throne of
ans for but not for long. You can sit on
a throne of double A rating down, you know, triple
A rating down to double A rating down to single
A rating bonds until finally the bills come due, and
you know, people say, what are you, well, what's going
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to be solutioned to that? Well, if Donald Trump can't
cut spending. And here's the thing I do, Trump would
cut spending. I know he's mad at Thomas Massey because
you know, it's a massive spending bill and Massy's not
going to vote for it. I get that, But I
mean I believe that if the Congress actually put together
a reasonable package with some reasonable cuts, I think President
Trump would sign it. He's you know, he's warning them
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on medicaid. Don't touch Medicaid. Like, here's the thing, what
what I don't understand? Why doesn't Donald Trump care about medicaid?
You know he is he really thinking about future elections
for some reason, I just don't get the impression that
Donald Trump cares about future elections because he doesn't have to,
right once his turns over. It's like, you know, he's
laying ducked out here soon enough anyway. And I mean,
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the whole point of the second administration was was supposed
to be a kamic Cozi attack. So why are we
trying to like playcate you know, senior citizens, you know,
social security benefits and things like that. I voted for,
like dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. I voted. I voted
for the nuclear option on government. And that's what I
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expected to get. And did I well least, did I
say that's what I expected to get. Excuse me, that's
not what I meant. I didn't expect anything. Honestly, I
expected it to do go about how it's going. I
expected it to go about as terribly as it's going.
To a certain extent, there are some good things that
are happening. Right. I'm not saying I'm not a full
critic here. I still support Trump. But the fact matter
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is is that if Trump can't fix it, and if
and if with the majority, we can't get a decent
spending packge across the line and Matthew's getting lashed, then
I mean probably we're we're going to have to just
suffer the fate of Argentina and suffer under parhaism and socialism,
and don't cry for me Argentina for fifty years or
so until we get a Hobby or Malay you can
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finally say, oh, well you should have listened to Milton
Friedman fifty years If you shouldn't you, Oh you had
all the right ideas. Oh you had a Look, you
had a constitution that worked. Maybe our kids or our grandkids,
Kenny will we'll pick up that dusty old book. Maybe
they'll even learn cursive and they'll write incursive, and they'll
read the Declaration of Independence and they'll read the Constitution,
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will go wow, these were some good ideas. Maybe we
should have followed them a long time ago. But you
know what, I think God's gonna spend send the israelifes
out into the desert, I think some of us are
like Moses, would touch the rock instead of called the
water force. We're going to have to go. We're gonna
have to you know, some of us are not going
to see the promised land. To say, Elon Musk is
not going to see Mars. But if if we had
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a constitutional government the way that it was set up,
Elon would be building wormholes to Mars. He wouldn't be
building electric cars, electric vehicles. We would be on Mars.
We be having this conversation, were broadcasting this on Mars
and the Gulf of America that we would have built
from human manufacturing. It's government would get out of our way,
our stinking stupid way.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I love it. I love Hey. I have a question
for you.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't know if you've heard, but apparently there's a
great online store at I love WJ dot com and
there's new merchandise there, and there's even a Memorial Day
sale going on right now. Have you have you checked
out some of the stuff on that website?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Kenny, listen, I'm a married man, but I got there's
so many beautiful women wearing your merchandise that are sending
photographs and things like that that I just I put
my wife in charge of that email account so she
knows they're not sending them to me. Okay, because like
all the hot chicks in on the Gulf Coast this
summer are going to be wearing Gulf of America merch,
and they're going to be wearing Kenny Walton and Johnson
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merch h and they're wearing Pursuit of Happiness merch. So
you know, I don't understand all this whining about like
liberal girl dating liberal chicks on your Twitter account, Kenny,
because like from what I could see, there's a lot
of beautiful young ladies out there that it's seemed interested
in you. So you know, let's stop pretending like Kenny
Webster doesn't get dates.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh thank you. No, I'm not dating anyone.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Now. I'm a Catholic rapper. I have vow of abstinence.
I'm now I'm a Catholic rapper. I'm known as my
rap name is Black Smoke.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Don't say that, Listen, that's a dangerous thing to say.
You got convicts running around the streets of New Orleans
out there. I saw you guys. Didn't get them all
wrapped up. What the hell you know, do we have
to come down there and like, you know, what do
we need to send them all to Al Salvador? I mean,
what what do we need to do? Get a little
law and order down there and on the Gulf coast.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Now you're talking we got to do something about I agree,
it's you know, it's not enough. We have to stop
the We got to get the criminals off the street
or find dates for them. You know, I pointed out
as a lot of eligible bachelers there, Austin.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I think, you know, Kenny, if if everybody went to
I LOVEWJ dot com and was wearing Golf of AMERICASO
this summer. I was just in l A last week, Kenny,
and I unironically called it the Gulf of America to
like this liberal like tick Oh and works in the
film industry right and ironically said Golf of America to
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call it that, And she looked at me like I
had just spit in her suit.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It makes some people mad. I don't get why some
people get very angry about it. I don't I don't
understand any of their Austin.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I think it's a beautiful thing. I love the Golf
of America.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I got Brad.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Sitting here next to me. He's got the he's got
the American flag, great White Shark Gulf of America's shirt.
That's a really popular one. The towels, people love the
Pirates of the Caribbean style themed skull, American flag skull,
Gulf of America towels. The towels are just going like crazy.
I think everybody and everybody wants the big towels. They're
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not going for the little towels, are going for the
big towels. And God, we've got so much stuff at
I LOVEWJ dot com and more and more every day
we keep Today, we're gonna really beef up the pursuit
of happiness. Merch we're gonna get We got some new
hats that are coming for you guys. So if everybody
in the Gulf Coast is wearing it this summer, trigger
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a lib maybe the problem solves itself. You to send
them all into heart attacks and there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I love it, my brother. Hey, we got a run,
but I can't encourage people to go check it out today.
I love WJ dot com and follow Austin on social media.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You'll find Austin Peterson on X Joe.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Biden decades of giving dirty politics a bad name.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Sorry, dirty politics.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty, Houston,