August 21, 2025 • 25 mins
Kenny Webster interviews MAHA activist Jesse Henry and journalist Faith Bugenhagen.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, if you enjoy the Walton Johnson Show like we do,
then you might also enjoy the Pursuit of Happiness show
in the afternoon with Oh Kenny Webster there and as
a matter of fact, I think, do we have a clip?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Can we play a clip? Turn that down?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
That is very noisy? Has something important to say? What
do I have to say?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
According to a new pole, fifty four percent of people
would reach into a festival toilet to retrieve their.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Telephone like their iPhone. I guess. Meanwhile, at the gathering
at the Juggalos, ninety five.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Percent of attendees would reach into a toilet on a dare,
probably for ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Thanks for joining us for an afternoon edition to Pursue
a Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We are live streaming right now.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
If you're listening to us on the radio and you're
curious what we look like, don't be it's really not.
There's not much to see here. But I am joined
by a galley of craze, a Motley crewe if you will,
of people today, A bunch of people in the studio
coming back today.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
He's been here before.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right wing environmentalist Jesse Henry what happened to your camera?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Jesse? What what did you do? Fix it? I don't know, man,
I'm sorry, Can.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
You fix that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Somebody screws up the threading on this really, that really
screws up the show? Jesse?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Henry is here. Jesse, you're a renewable guy. You're one
of the MAHA people.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Did you have to introduce me as a right wing environmentalist? Yeah,
like like Ted Kaczynski.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And then also here right now is Faith Bugenhagen and
she's a Mexican, as you could tell by her last name,
Faith Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What would inspire you to do something like this?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You're instantly regretting.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, not exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
This is a political news talk station, so our listeners
that are, you know, news savvy, probably know who you are.
You are the cron dot com reporter for politics, and
you are politically ambiguous. That's right, the ambiguously political duo.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You're not non binary.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
She's not on the right, She's not. And I will
admitage somebody that reads your column regularly, you.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Are have a column? I write articles?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, okay, but what would you isn't there a word
for this? This is I would assume this is called
a column, right, is that not?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
That's just my author's page of articles, so it's not
called a call already fact checking you?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay? See I thought the age of fact checkers was
over faith.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
No, no, it's not.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, people don't trust Snopes anymore. Have you seen this before?
There was a report that came out it said a
lot of these guys that run these websites like Snopes
and PolitiFact dot com are x FBI, x CIA agents.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Now is someone that works in journalism?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Why do you think if you had to guess, you know,
just as a human being, not as the official spokesperson.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Of cron dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Why is it so important for ex intelligence agents to
go out and make sure people on social media are
aware of what the establishment's opinions are about things?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You're nervous, aren't you. You're rocking in your chair.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm not nervous at all. I just like moving when talking.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It is as I recently wrote an op ed for
last week for the Houston Chronicle and it went viral,
which is not what your news outlet is? Your news
outlet here, get that my closer to your mouth? Your
news outlet is cron dot Com. Cron dot com and
the Houston Chronicle are different for a reason, right, Houston Chronicle,
you pay for cron dot Com is ad based if
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, but not subscription.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But why is it so important to you that people
know you don't write for the Houston Chronicles.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, they are two separate publications, and I feel like
most Houstonians actually don't know that. So I love to,
you know, get the word out there that we are
separate publication.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Coron dot Com isn't really his opinion driven.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
People often assume that your news outlet is like has
a liberal bias or that you're left of center, and
I thought that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And I will admit one of your.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Co workers sort of he works with the Chronicle, Evan Mintz,
allowed me to write an op ed recently, and they didn't.
They let me say whatever I want, and I roasted
John Cornyn. I even pointed out how one of his
chief staffers was accused of hiring an escort with a
Venmo account, just being a creepy, and they put all
that in the article. They let me publish all of it,
And I will admit faith after a long time of
(04:06):
hating Hurst media, I now don't necessarily feel that way
anymore about you guys, and some of our listeners are
mad at me for it. But my whole problem with
you guys was that I thought you guys censored right
wing thinkers, and it would seem as though, at least
with some of the new management, that's not what's happening.
And I look, I call balls and strikes. I commend
you guys on that. I think that's very cool.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, well, I cannot speak to management and decisions because
I'm not management, but I think it's important to note
that you wrote an op ed. Editorial is separate from well,
opinion separate from editorial, so that's important.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So what you're saying is that while the editorial section
would allow a right wing thinker such as me to exist,
the news team would never let that happen because you guys.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Okay, again fact checking, Kenny, it's not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I said, sure enough, Faith, you are doing a good
job so far.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I commend you on that in the studio right now,
as well as mister Henry Jesse. I actually thought it
would be interesting to invite both of you here on
the same day for two reasons. Number one, yesterday I
was in Baton Rouge giving a speech with Governor Jeff
Landry to the oil and gas executives and we were
talking about a topic It wasn't You guys aren't necessarily
political at least even though you're a political reporter. And
(05:17):
what you're talking about is something, Jesse, that the effect
is affected by this current administration, the Maha movement. You're
not here today to talk about immigration reform or anything
like that. You're really bothered by microplastics in our testicles.
And I have been checking all morning and I have
not found any microplastics in my testicles.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Now, I try to be objective on this.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You say it's bad, But for people that have that problem,
won't they save a lot of money on prophylactics they could.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I think you need to check your testicles again, though, Kenny,
because I think there might be some there. They currently
microplus are one hundred percent amen's balls. They don't make
a magnifying glass that small. Unfortunately, Jesse, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You had a list today of what foods to eat
to make sure you have the least microplasts sticks in
your testicles.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, I mean I think you know, it's cut down
on the hot coffees and teas and the cups that
are plastic.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And what are you drinking out of right now? I'm
just curious.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
What is that Kenny Webster sponsored styrofoam cup?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What is the problem with styrofoam? Do you know when
I moved to Texas.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I grew up in Illinois, in the north suburgs of Chicago,
never seen a styrofoam cup in my life, and I
moved down here there is styrofoam everywhere. I was really
excited about styrofoam cups. It's like the the material of
the future. But you say it's not.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Polystyrene is one of the worst chemistries for human health
according to WHO. According to the World the World.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes in fact check in faith, give this guy hell
for that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The world can't accord. What are the foods besides?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Why tea and coffee because it's hot and it Yeah,
I mean the tea bags are made of polypropylene, so
you're getting millions of microplastics when you have the tea
the coffee. It's it's the temperature in the cup that's
creating the plastic.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Liner to degrade in the hot coffees and teas.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
But if you go to like seafood, for example, there's
a lot of bioaccumulation of microplastics and seafood, so it's
in all the foods and drinks. It's really tough to
get rid of, but it tastes great, apparently, because we're
not stopping it anytime soon. And the whole goal here
is really you know, sustainable chemistry is such a bipartisan
issue that no one's talking about today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All right, what else is putting microplastics in our ovaries
or our potestcles?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
You know, microplastics is a problem, it's not the problem.
The problem is that we're in a state of chemical
warfare and we need to figure out how to reduce
our tox and exposure on a day to day basis.
So if we were to just walk through the average morning, right,
you wake up, you wash your face, you brush your teeth.
Not me, You put on deodorant. Maybe not if you're
Kenny Webster, but other people.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
They put on waste the money.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
They put on skincare stuff, They put on clothes made
of synthetic fibers.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
They eat some food and drink and all of it.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
If you haven't consciously chosen, it is contaminated with synthetic
chemistries that are disrupting your hormone production, your gut biome,
and your brain chemistry.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Okay, so read through the list real quick, because I
know there's a bunch more and we're gonna run out
of time.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Here the list. I don't have the list up in
front of me right now, but yeah, the list was seafood,
it was salt. It was sugar, salt. I love salt.
How could salt be a problem. It's millions of years old.
I had a salt shaker the other day, sea salt.
It said it was millions of years old on the front,
and then I looked on the back and it had
just expired. What are the odds of that, after all
those years I got bad salt?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Can you believe that? I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I know Trader Jos wouldn't even give me a refund.
All right, So cut fish fish was number one.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, the small fish eat the microplastics, and the bigger
fish eat the smaller fish than the biggest fish eat
the medium size fish.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
On that note, A big news story today is that
we were getting this the radioactive hang on, let me
put that on the screen. Radioactive shrimp from Indonesia. Now,
I looked into it, and we can get shrimp right
out of the Gulf of America because of Mississippi. Right,
we've all seen that movie Forrest Gump. You remember that
scene right where he has sex with Jenny and he
doesn't get AIDS.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Does that even make sense to you? It makes no,
not not that sea.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
The scene where they're reading off all the different kinds
of shrimp, coconut shrimp, shrimp, sandwich, shrimp, stew. I remember this, Yes,
if we can get it out of the golf, why
are we getting radioactive shrimp from Indonesia? Jesse, oh Man,
that's a really tough question. There's contamination at all levels
one in the water, two and processing equipment, so contamination
can come from anywhere. And they say it's mostly Walmart's fault. Apparently,
(09:27):
huh oh, Walmart's fault. They're definitely putting you know the pictures. Great,
I know that's where for those of I'm listening on
the radio, we're looking at pictures right now of radioactive shrimp.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And I really liked this.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
This one was my favorite the big guy right there,
and weirdly enough, if you look down, there a lot
of microplastics in his balls, you know, to your part, Yeah, absolutely,
you know that's probably the high protein diet.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's great for you.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
RFK Junior really does not like this stuff, the microplastics,
the ultra processed foods, the gly faucet, and the electromagnetic Oh,
that's an easy word, radiation. What is his problem with
all this stuff?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Jesse?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
What if this is just a great origin story for
the next superhero movie? This, I mean, this could be
a Marvel movie that we're facing right now. Right chemical
warfare is actually one of the biggest problems on our
planet and no one's talking about it. So what RFK
Junior is doing is really great because he's tackling in
all these different sectors. It's food, it's agriculture, it's chemicals,
it's pharma, and he's trying to get these toxic ingredients
(10:24):
out of our supply chain so they increase human health
and planetary health outcomes.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Faith is here, Faith Boog and Hagen from the cron
dot com obviously, And what else did you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Used to write for?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I used to write for the Houston Press for about
three years.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Ken Paxton was just involved in a lawsuit that has
Callogg's taking some of the chemicals out of cereal.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Did you cover that story?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I did not cover it, but I did hear about it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Would Ken Paxton be the guy that you would think
would be the dude to fix fruity loops or whatever like?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It didn't. I was a little surprised by it.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I think there are bigger issues that he's probably attending to.
But he has filed a slew of lawsuits that are
environmentally kind of charge, so it doesn't necessarily surprise me.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Way Faith that out of curiosity, though, you don't you
don't think that synthetic dies and sweeteners or that is
not at all?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
When I said that is not at.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
All, maybe she didn't say that, maybe it's causing you know,
human health outcomes for our children, like increases in ADHD
from having red red dyes or maybe synthetic food colorants
or other synthetic sweeteners.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That's not a problem.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That, Yeah, which chemicals do you think we should use
to kill kids? Faith book and hogencron dot com go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I never said any such thing, none of those things.
I just think that you know, Paxton has a number
of issues on his plate, and he has sued for
a number of issues.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
So in terms of issues that politicians care about, presumably
human health should be at the top of the list.
Though no, well, protecting our among the top of the
government is supposed to protect eyes.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I think we agree on that.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'll ask you this, because this is a politically ambiguous question.
As somebody that covers politics, does it surprise you that
now in twenty twenty five, it's the Republicans that care
about preservatives and chemicals in their foods and the Democrats
have kind of taken a back seat on that. I mean,
do you find that surprising as someone that's covered politics
for how old are you twenty four? Like for four years?
Or how long have you covered politics? I guess six
(12:15):
six years? Okay, but as a kid. You didn't just
get into politics. You must have been interested in this
as a teenager, right.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Slightly slightly. I actually started out as an arts and
culture reporter, so I did hop into fall into politics.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Here's another politically ambiguous question. Is there any in your industry?
Is there anything as useless as a music critic? I mean,
I don't need someone to tell me if the new
radio album is not useless.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Music critics are not useless.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You have to say that because your website has music critics.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Who's the most useless?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Though?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
If one reporter had to go away, is it crime?
Would it be the culinary guy?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I think there is value in free press, all free press?
What was all of news reporters as well as any
other topic of reporters?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
All right, you heard it here first, she doesn't like it.
The editorial section.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Faith just said we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Don't go anymore more with Faith Boogan Hoggen and Jesse Henry,
the right wing environmentalist.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Right after this, I'm listening to Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston. Okay, you'll appreciate this, Faith, because you write
things for the Internet. A new survey says that reading
for pleasure has fallen by forty percent in the last
couple of decades.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Here, we're surprised to hear that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Meanwhile, reading online user agreements remain steady at zero percent.
Nobody's ever read a user agreement ever, in the history
of your entire life.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Do you know what else? I wonder? I don't look
at this.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I never would, but I'm told that on adult websites
at the bottom of videos there's a comment section, Jesse Henry,
who's that for?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Exactly? Who's leaving a comment? Why is that?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
What would inspire someone at the end of whatever they're doing,
following the plotline and avidly at the end of someone
that should be able to list at the end of
that experience to go, you know, And I'd really like
people to know what I thought of this. When you're
writing Faith, while you're writing those comments, what do you
usually type there?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I am not writing those comments, so.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You're just watching and then getting off the website.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I'm not watching Faith since.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You're hearing a lot of let's call this segment meet
your journalist. Let's be clear, she does not look at
adult entertainment. She's disgusted by it. That's fine. She's a
paleo conservative when it comes to that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I did not say that you became a.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Journalist for a reason, though you started working at the
Tribune and you said, no, the Free Press.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
No, I worked at the Houston Press.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
The Houston Press. Okay, did they used to have a festival?
Were you guys associated with.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That or was that?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I don't think we were, but that was also before
my time with them.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So well, on that topic, why doesn't Houston have a
good music festival? Austin has music festivals, Dallas has it,
Chicago's got Lallapalooza.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We're the fourth biggest city.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They should have Travis Scott to a festival, you know
what I mean, no comment, but it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Would be great if they did it. You guys, you
did you?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I think we do need a fun music festival that
is Houston centric, and I'm sure that would draw a
lot of artists.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Without giving me your opinion, you've covered this a lot.
Marty Langton was here not long ago. He is the
firefighter union president. He is a Republican primary candidate for
County judge. Amazingly, he's this union leader for a government
group of workers, and Republicans love.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Him right now. I don't think that would have happened
ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I like Marty. I think he's a good guy. I've
talked to him about this before, and a lot of
people that work with First responders, firefighters, cops. They blame
Sylvester Turner for that. When you hear from people about
why that Astro World? Do you know about this Jesse?
We had a big music festival here was it two
years ago? And no, he just moved here. He travels
around the country like an escort, staying at airbnbs or whatever.
(15:54):
A couple of years A couple of years ago, A
couple of years ago, there was a rap concert here,
A bunch of kids died, there was a stampede, there
were rooms. Yeah, it was called astro World. It was
named after a theme park that used to be here.
A lot of people blame. Some people blame live nations.
Some people blame the local political leaders, some blame the county,
some blame the city. When you get a general reading,
(16:15):
you know, not your opinion, but who do you think
most people blame for that?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I think, to your point, they blame all of kind
of the parties involved. I know that there was a
lot on Scott himself, you know, and that's kind of
been talked about in reports and all that. So I
think every party, to my understanding what I've heard from
sources as well as when I was covering that after fact,
because I did cover that for the Houston Press, the
(16:40):
reports were put out. There was like shared responsibility as
well a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm going to play white Devil's advocate here on this,
and I bet I won't take the position you expect.
Live Nation throws festivals all the time, all the time.
People don't die at them, right, they follow the protocol
and the rules in each city, county, municipal government. Happens
all the time. I enjoy all alternative music. I'm standing
here wearing a KMFDM shirt as I'm talking on a
conservative talk station. I've been in a lot of mosh pitz.
(17:05):
I've had a lot of stranger's blood and sweat on
me in my life. I've never seen children get trampled
to death. Of all the festivals, concerts, rave parties, punk shows,
and I've been to a lot, I've never seen that happen.
Before I got to think the one denominating, the one
factor here that existed that didn't normally exist, and all
the other festivals and concerts these people have been involved in.
(17:26):
You know, it's Travis Scott's job as the entertainer to
get the crowd fired up. I saw Pantera at the
Woodlands Pavilion a year and a half ago. I didn't
see anybody die. That's like the loudest, angriest heavy metal
band on Lamb of God was the opening act. Nobody died, right,
isn't that his job? I mean, I feel like at
the end of the day, and I don't expect you
to answer this, but how is it not the local
government's fault. They're the ones that dictated the rules on this.
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Everybody followed them and then kids died.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah. Well, and like I said, there was a report
that was put out about the shortcomings of the law
enforcement and security that were there. So if anybody wants
to check that out, you wrote the article I did
two years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is like Kamala Harris on The Tonight Show.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You've got to read my book to find out what
happened in the one hundred days.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Of the election.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You're also much more in depth analysis and reports about
that that I would also go to.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Sounds like the spider Man meme where everyone's just pointing
accountability at the next guy.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
How everything is with accountability though, well.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Especially since people might die, you know, the funny way.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
From a political a political correspondent that's a very keen insight.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I mean, she's right about that.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
The funniest thing about that?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
If correct me if I'm wrong on this, wasn't one
of the people they wanted to charge, wasn't it Drake?
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't he Didn't he have some involvement?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
It up in some way? Because I believe he.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Was with a teenage girl backstage? Probably No, come on,
doesn't that sound something he would do?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Though?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
No comment?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
What would Kendrick la mar say? Come on, dude, that's
a good That is a good that's a good settle,
It is a good song. Okay, we'll leave that one alone.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
She doesn't.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You don't have to.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You don't have to explain a tragedy or nothing to do,
and that don't blame you for that. Faith of all
your recent articles here, people were to look at your
website at cron dot com, at your author's page, not
a column as you described it, right at the top
of the screen here, who could replace Ken Paxton's attorney general?
And then your next article, Chip Roy just jumped in
(19:17):
and announced he's running. There's a friend of mine that
works down the hall in the k TRH newsroom. He's
a good guy, tells me today he thinks Trump endorses
chip Roy. Chip Roy is hated by MAGA. I have
a hard time believing that Trump would endorse chip Roy.
Do you have any thoughts on that as a journalist?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah, I mean I wrote that article actually this morning,
and I sided in there multiple times that chip Roy
has butted heads with President Trump in the past, and
so to think that he would get an endorsement, I
think is an interesting take. We'll definitely have to see,
But I do think it's an interesting take because there
is that tension between the relationship for a multitude of reasons,
(19:58):
the twenty twenty election as well as the big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So when you say interesting, you mean wrong obviously, because
it's not the right.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It's clearly the hard in the business of prediction.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay, here's what I do wonder, and I bet you
could probably answer this question for me because I wrote
an article for your website recently, and.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I was in my website, the Houston Chronicle.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
For your company opinions.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I wrote an article for your company, the Umbrella Hurst Media,
right fair?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do we agree on that?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I was very interested to see what picture they
chose of Ken Paxton. Now, I like Ken Paxton more
than John Corny. I'll admit it is hard to find.
I will admit it is hard to find a good
photo of Ken Paxton. I'll admit that he's not what
you'd call a supermodel of good looks.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But that's not why people like him.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
They like him because he's a great legal scholar and
apparently a ladies man according to some. I'm still going
to vote for him if the picks are him and
John Cornyn.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I was curious why they picked this picture. Who
picks the photos? Faith? I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Actually, I'd like to backtrack for a second.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You don't think he's a ladies man?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Why I didn't call sex machine?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
What term would you use for Kenball?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Any of those things? Why are you choosing him over Cornying?
Can you get in?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, you'll have to read the article.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Read.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Here's one couple. I'm not a maga Republican. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I would say either like the five big issues that
people voted on or six. I probably agree with Trump
on four of them, but four is a lot more
than Kama I agree with none. I'm a libertarian Republican.
I'm a Ron Paul guy. Hate war, hate censorship. I
hate that the FBI in the twenty twenty election went
out and told Twitter to censor Hunter Biden's as a journalist.
That must upset you, even if you don't agree with
that side that they told them to censor the New
(21:38):
York Post that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't legitimate news.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
How is it the FBI's job to do that? That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
But getting back to John Cornyn, I don't like that
this guy voted for every war we've ever had. I
raise a lot of money for military veterans and wheelchairs.
I'll tell you a lot of them have PTSD. They
can't sleep at night, they're in broken marriages, they have
drug addiction, they're riddled with opioids because the stuff John
Corny voted yes on. Ken Paxton is not a perfect guy.
He's not a boy scout. But I'll tell you it's
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the devil I know versus the Ken. Paxton's done a
great job of suing every company. I hate Pfizer, Jesse,
he sued Pfizer, he sued Maderna, he sued We just
talked about kell Ogg, right, Yeah, I ask you a question,
as a Maha guy, who do you trust more John Cornyn,
mister big business or Ken Paxton, the guy just suit
every company you hit.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I don't know the political figures, but one in doubt.
Trusting big pharma, big ag, big food, big chemicals typically
doesn't yield good results.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Okay, well that's John Cornyn gets money from these people.
He's been friendly with him for decades. John Cornyn is
a guy who would vote yes on any wars, so
there's gonna be a Warren. He'd answer yes before you
finish the question anything. Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell
votes yes on I don't like it. These are old
school neo Kahn paleo conservative Republicans. They care what you smoke,
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they care who you have sex with. They want to
censor you. They're basically everything that's wrong with the Democrats
with everything that's wrong with the Republicans in one big package.
That's what I don't like about John Cornyn. Ken Paxton
never voted to send my friends to go die in
Afghanistan in a twenty five year war. Ken Paxton never
voted to send more money to Ukraine in a war.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
In Ukraine and Russia, you know who the bad guy
is both sides. You want to see a group of
people that hate us and don't care about us. It's
pretty much any oligarchy in Eastern Europe. Before this war happened,
Ukraine didn't have legal gay marriage, women didn't have rights.
All that stuff happened during a small period of time
so that they could try to convince Western political figures
to give more money to them. Like Ukraine was never
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pro gay before this. That happened during the war. They
haven't had an election since the war started. If they did,
I think people would be pretty shocked to learn. There's
a strikingly large number of people in Ukraine that don't
like Zelensky and probably wouldn't vote for him. He outlawed
the opposition party. And oh, by the way, this is
one in John Corn's buddies. I could talk about this
for a long time, obviously. What do you like about him?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
What do I like about John Krney? Well, you asked
me for a reason endorse straw.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You don't endorse anything.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Or because you're politically because you're politically asymmetrical, ambiguous. I'm
kidding but why did you ask me that question? Faith
boog and Hagen of Crome dot Com.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I just thought the listeners should know if they haven't
read your op ed. I know I did read it.
You know I have written.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You know I host this talk show, right They probably
they've heard me do that ramp before. I could talk
about that for three hours. I do not like John Corny.
I do not like Matt mccoyac. I think he's a
creepy weird I wouldn't trust Matt mckoyac alone with any
woman in my family. I think he's a creepy weirdo.
Just that guy just gives me the creeps. Have you
ever looked at him? That double chin, fat F word
guy is disgusting, Just a pig of a huge statement though,
(24:37):
Just a greasy, piggish, slimy looking human being. And you
have to cover politics, how would you feel being alone
with Matt mccoyac on an elevator at the state Capitol,
Faith boog and Hagen, you don't have to answer that question.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I am not commenting on that.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I want Matt, Matt, look at me.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Matt, I promise you on the camera, if you're watching
this video, I will see you again.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I promise. All right, we're gonna run out of ten
I'm here in a minute. But I'll tell you what.
Let's do you guys have to run or can you
hang for ten minutes? Do you have to run?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We're gonna do some bonus here For those of you
watching us on social media, don't go anywhere, stick around.
I want to watch my favorite video from this week
for a second time. I want to do an encore
performance of the Rhode Island Attorney General who kept repeating
the pack that she is an AAG before she got
arrested for getting blackout drunken as seafood restaurant.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Who does that?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But to those of you listening on the radio, join
us on social media in just a few short moments.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I love you all. We'll be back Brian early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
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Speaker 4 (25:45):
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Hey, if you enjoy the Walton Johnson Show like we do,
then you might also enjoy the Pursuit of Happiness show
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Can we play a clip? Turn that down?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
That is very noisy? Has something important to say? What
do I have to say?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
According to a new pole, fifty four percent of people
would reach into a festival toilet to retrieve their.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Telephone like their iPhone. I guess. Meanwhile, at the gathering
at the Juggalos, ninety five.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Percent of attendees would reach into a toilet on a dare,
probably for ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Thanks for joining us for an afternoon edition to Pursue
a Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We are live streaming right now.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
If you're listening to us on the radio and you're
curious what we look like, don't be it's really not.
There's not much to see here. But I am joined
by a galley of craze, a Motley crewe if you will,
of people today, A bunch of people in the studio
coming back today.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
He's been here before.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right wing environmentalist Jesse Henry what happened to your camera?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Jesse? What what did you do? Fix it? I don't know, man,
I'm sorry, Can.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
You fix that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Somebody screws up the threading on this really, that really
screws up the show? Jesse?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Henry is here. Jesse, you're a renewable guy. You're one
of the MAHA people.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Did you have to introduce me as a right wing environmentalist? Yeah,
like like Ted Kaczynski.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And then also here right now is Faith Bugenhagen and
she's a Mexican, as you could tell by her last name,
Faith Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What would inspire you to do something like this?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You're instantly regretting.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, not exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
This is a political news talk station, so our listeners
that are, you know, news savvy, probably know who you are.
You are the cron dot com reporter for politics, and
you are politically ambiguous. That's right, the ambiguously political duo.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You're not non binary.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
She's not on the right, She's not. And I will
admitage somebody that reads your column regularly, you.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Are have a column? I write articles?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, okay, but what would you isn't there a word
for this? This is I would assume this is called
a column, right, is that not?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
That's just my author's page of articles, so it's not
called a call already fact checking you?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay? See I thought the age of fact checkers was
over faith.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
No, no, it's not.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, people don't trust Snopes anymore. Have you seen this before?
There was a report that came out it said a
lot of these guys that run these websites like Snopes
and PolitiFact dot com are x FBI, x CIA agents.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Now is someone that works in journalism?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Why do you think if you had to guess, you know,
just as a human being, not as the official spokesperson.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Of cron dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Why is it so important for ex intelligence agents to
go out and make sure people on social media are
aware of what the establishment's opinions are about things?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You're nervous, aren't you. You're rocking in your chair.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm not nervous at all. I just like moving when talking.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It is as I recently wrote an op ed for
last week for the Houston Chronicle and it went viral,
which is not what your news outlet is? Your news
outlet here, get that my closer to your mouth? Your
news outlet is cron dot Com. Cron dot com and
the Houston Chronicle are different for a reason, right, Houston Chronicle,
you pay for cron dot Com is ad based if
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, but not subscription.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But why is it so important to you that people
know you don't write for the Houston Chronicles.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, they are two separate publications, and I feel like
most Houstonians actually don't know that. So I love to,
you know, get the word out there that we are
separate publication.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Coron dot Com isn't really his opinion driven.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
People often assume that your news outlet is like has
a liberal bias or that you're left of center, and
I thought that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And I will admit one of your.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Co workers sort of he works with the Chronicle, Evan Mintz,
allowed me to write an op ed recently, and they didn't.
They let me say whatever I want, and I roasted
John Cornyn. I even pointed out how one of his
chief staffers was accused of hiring an escort with a
Venmo account, just being a creepy, and they put all
that in the article. They let me publish all of it,
And I will admit faith after a long time of
(04:06):
hating Hurst media, I now don't necessarily feel that way
anymore about you guys, and some of our listeners are
mad at me for it. But my whole problem with
you guys was that I thought you guys censored right
wing thinkers, and it would seem as though, at least
with some of the new management, that's not what's happening.
And I look, I call balls and strikes. I commend
you guys on that. I think that's very cool.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, well, I cannot speak to management and decisions because
I'm not management, but I think it's important to note
that you wrote an op ed. Editorial is separate from well,
opinion separate from editorial, so that's important.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So what you're saying is that while the editorial section
would allow a right wing thinker such as me to exist,
the news team would never let that happen because you guys.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Okay, again fact checking, Kenny, it's not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I said, sure enough, Faith, you are doing a good
job so far.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I commend you on that in the studio right now,
as well as mister Henry Jesse. I actually thought it
would be interesting to invite both of you here on
the same day for two reasons. Number one, yesterday I
was in Baton Rouge giving a speech with Governor Jeff
Landry to the oil and gas executives and we were
talking about a topic It wasn't You guys aren't necessarily
political at least even though you're a political reporter. And
(05:17):
what you're talking about is something, Jesse, that the effect
is affected by this current administration, the Maha movement. You're
not here today to talk about immigration reform or anything
like that. You're really bothered by microplastics in our testicles.
And I have been checking all morning and I have
not found any microplastics in my testicles.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Now, I try to be objective on this.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You say it's bad, But for people that have that problem,
won't they save a lot of money on prophylactics they could.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I think you need to check your testicles again, though, Kenny,
because I think there might be some there. They currently
microplus are one hundred percent amen's balls. They don't make
a magnifying glass that small. Unfortunately, Jesse, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You had a list today of what foods to eat
to make sure you have the least microplasts sticks in
your testicles.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, I mean I think you know, it's cut down
on the hot coffees and teas and the cups that
are plastic.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And what are you drinking out of right now? I'm
just curious.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
What is that Kenny Webster sponsored styrofoam cup?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What is the problem with styrofoam? Do you know when
I moved to Texas.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I grew up in Illinois, in the north suburgs of Chicago,
never seen a styrofoam cup in my life, and I
moved down here there is styrofoam everywhere. I was really
excited about styrofoam cups. It's like the the material of
the future. But you say it's not.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Polystyrene is one of the worst chemistries for human health
according to WHO. According to the World the World.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes in fact check in faith, give this guy hell
for that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The world can't accord. What are the foods besides?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Why tea and coffee because it's hot and it Yeah,
I mean the tea bags are made of polypropylene, so
you're getting millions of microplastics when you have the tea
the coffee. It's it's the temperature in the cup that's
creating the plastic.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Liner to degrade in the hot coffees and teas.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
But if you go to like seafood, for example, there's
a lot of bioaccumulation of microplastics and seafood, so it's
in all the foods and drinks. It's really tough to
get rid of, but it tastes great, apparently, because we're
not stopping it anytime soon. And the whole goal here
is really you know, sustainable chemistry is such a bipartisan
issue that no one's talking about today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All right, what else is putting microplastics in our ovaries
or our potestcles?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
You know, microplastics is a problem, it's not the problem.
The problem is that we're in a state of chemical
warfare and we need to figure out how to reduce
our tox and exposure on a day to day basis.
So if we were to just walk through the average morning, right,
you wake up, you wash your face, you brush your teeth.
Not me, You put on deodorant. Maybe not if you're
Kenny Webster, but other people.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
They put on waste the money.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
They put on skincare stuff, They put on clothes made
of synthetic fibers.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
They eat some food and drink and all of it.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
If you haven't consciously chosen, it is contaminated with synthetic
chemistries that are disrupting your hormone production, your gut biome,
and your brain chemistry.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Okay, so read through the list real quick, because I
know there's a bunch more and we're gonna run out
of time.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Here the list. I don't have the list up in
front of me right now, but yeah, the list was seafood,
it was salt. It was sugar, salt. I love salt.
How could salt be a problem. It's millions of years old.
I had a salt shaker the other day, sea salt.
It said it was millions of years old on the front,
and then I looked on the back and it had
just expired. What are the odds of that, after all
those years I got bad salt?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Can you believe that? I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I know Trader Jos wouldn't even give me a refund.
All right, So cut fish fish was number one.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, the small fish eat the microplastics, and the bigger
fish eat the smaller fish than the biggest fish eat
the medium size fish.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
On that note, A big news story today is that
we were getting this the radioactive hang on, let me
put that on the screen. Radioactive shrimp from Indonesia. Now,
I looked into it, and we can get shrimp right
out of the Gulf of America because of Mississippi. Right,
we've all seen that movie Forrest Gump. You remember that
scene right where he has sex with Jenny and he
doesn't get AIDS.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Does that even make sense to you? It makes no,
not not that sea.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
The scene where they're reading off all the different kinds
of shrimp, coconut shrimp, shrimp, sandwich, shrimp, stew. I remember this, Yes,
if we can get it out of the golf, why
are we getting radioactive shrimp from Indonesia? Jesse, oh Man,
that's a really tough question. There's contamination at all levels
one in the water, two and processing equipment, so contamination
can come from anywhere. And they say it's mostly Walmart's fault. Apparently,
(09:27):
huh oh, Walmart's fault. They're definitely putting you know the pictures. Great,
I know that's where for those of I'm listening on
the radio, we're looking at pictures right now of radioactive shrimp.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And I really liked this.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
This one was my favorite the big guy right there,
and weirdly enough, if you look down, there a lot
of microplastics in his balls, you know, to your part, Yeah, absolutely,
you know that's probably the high protein diet.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's great for you.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
RFK Junior really does not like this stuff, the microplastics,
the ultra processed foods, the gly faucet, and the electromagnetic Oh,
that's an easy word, radiation. What is his problem with
all this stuff?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Jesse?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
What if this is just a great origin story for
the next superhero movie? This, I mean, this could be
a Marvel movie that we're facing right now. Right chemical
warfare is actually one of the biggest problems on our
planet and no one's talking about it. So what RFK
Junior is doing is really great because he's tackling in
all these different sectors. It's food, it's agriculture, it's chemicals,
it's pharma, and he's trying to get these toxic ingredients
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out of our supply chain so they increase human health
and planetary health outcomes.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Faith is here, Faith Boog and Hagen from the cron
dot com obviously, And what else did you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Used to write for?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I used to write for the Houston Press for about
three years.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Ken Paxton was just involved in a lawsuit that has
Callogg's taking some of the chemicals out of cereal.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Did you cover that story?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I did not cover it, but I did hear about it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Would Ken Paxton be the guy that you would think
would be the dude to fix fruity loops or whatever like?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It didn't. I was a little surprised by it.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I think there are bigger issues that he's probably attending to.
But he has filed a slew of lawsuits that are
environmentally kind of charge, so it doesn't necessarily surprise me.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Way Faith that out of curiosity, though, you don't you
don't think that synthetic dies and sweeteners or that is
not at all?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
When I said that is not at.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
All, maybe she didn't say that, maybe it's causing you know,
human health outcomes for our children, like increases in ADHD
from having red red dyes or maybe synthetic food colorants
or other synthetic sweeteners.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That's not a problem.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That, Yeah, which chemicals do you think we should use
to kill kids? Faith book and hogencron dot com go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I never said any such thing, none of those things.
I just think that you know, Paxton has a number
of issues on his plate, and he has sued for
a number of issues.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
So in terms of issues that politicians care about, presumably
human health should be at the top of the list.
Though no, well, protecting our among the top of the
government is supposed to protect eyes.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I think we agree on that.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'll ask you this, because this is a politically ambiguous question.
As somebody that covers politics, does it surprise you that
now in twenty twenty five, it's the Republicans that care
about preservatives and chemicals in their foods and the Democrats
have kind of taken a back seat on that. I mean,
do you find that surprising as someone that's covered politics
for how old are you twenty four? Like for four years?
Or how long have you covered politics? I guess six
(12:15):
six years? Okay, but as a kid. You didn't just
get into politics. You must have been interested in this
as a teenager, right.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Slightly slightly. I actually started out as an arts and
culture reporter, so I did hop into fall into politics.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Here's another politically ambiguous question. Is there any in your industry?
Is there anything as useless as a music critic? I mean,
I don't need someone to tell me if the new
radio album is not useless.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Music critics are not useless.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You have to say that because your website has music critics.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Who's the most useless?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Though?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
If one reporter had to go away, is it crime?
Would it be the culinary guy?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I think there is value in free press, all free press?
What was all of news reporters as well as any
other topic of reporters?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
All right, you heard it here first, she doesn't like it.
The editorial section.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Faith just said we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Don't go anymore more with Faith Boogan Hoggen and Jesse Henry,
the right wing environmentalist.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Right after this, I'm listening to Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston. Okay, you'll appreciate this, Faith, because you write
things for the Internet. A new survey says that reading
for pleasure has fallen by forty percent in the last
couple of decades.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Here, we're surprised to hear that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Meanwhile, reading online user agreements remain steady at zero percent.
Nobody's ever read a user agreement ever, in the history
of your entire life.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Do you know what else? I wonder? I don't look
at this.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I never would, but I'm told that on adult websites
at the bottom of videos there's a comment section, Jesse Henry,
who's that for?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Exactly? Who's leaving a comment? Why is that?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
What would inspire someone at the end of whatever they're doing,
following the plotline and avidly at the end of someone
that should be able to list at the end of
that experience to go, you know, And I'd really like
people to know what I thought of this. When you're
writing Faith, while you're writing those comments, what do you
usually type there?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I am not writing those comments, so.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You're just watching and then getting off the website.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I'm not watching Faith since.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You're hearing a lot of let's call this segment meet
your journalist. Let's be clear, she does not look at
adult entertainment. She's disgusted by it. That's fine. She's a
paleo conservative when it comes to that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I did not say that you became a.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Journalist for a reason, though you started working at the
Tribune and you said, no, the Free Press.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
No, I worked at the Houston Press.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
The Houston Press. Okay, did they used to have a festival?
Were you guys associated with.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That or was that?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I don't think we were, but that was also before
my time with them.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So well, on that topic, why doesn't Houston have a
good music festival? Austin has music festivals, Dallas has it,
Chicago's got Lallapalooza.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We're the fourth biggest city.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They should have Travis Scott to a festival, you know
what I mean, no comment, but it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Would be great if they did it. You guys, you
did you?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I think we do need a fun music festival that
is Houston centric, and I'm sure that would draw a
lot of artists.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Without giving me your opinion, you've covered this a lot.
Marty Langton was here not long ago. He is the
firefighter union president. He is a Republican primary candidate for
County judge. Amazingly, he's this union leader for a government
group of workers, and Republicans love.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Him right now. I don't think that would have happened
ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I like Marty. I think he's a good guy. I've
talked to him about this before, and a lot of
people that work with First responders, firefighters, cops. They blame
Sylvester Turner for that. When you hear from people about
why that Astro World? Do you know about this Jesse?
We had a big music festival here was it two
years ago? And no, he just moved here. He travels
around the country like an escort, staying at airbnbs or whatever.
(15:54):
A couple of years A couple of years ago, A
couple of years ago, there was a rap concert here,
A bunch of kids died, there was a stampede, there
were rooms. Yeah, it was called astro World. It was
named after a theme park that used to be here.
A lot of people blame. Some people blame live nations.
Some people blame the local political leaders, some blame the county,
some blame the city. When you get a general reading,
(16:15):
you know, not your opinion, but who do you think
most people blame for that?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I think, to your point, they blame all of kind
of the parties involved. I know that there was a
lot on Scott himself, you know, and that's kind of
been talked about in reports and all that. So I
think every party, to my understanding what I've heard from
sources as well as when I was covering that after fact,
because I did cover that for the Houston Press, the
(16:40):
reports were put out. There was like shared responsibility as
well a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm going to play white Devil's advocate here on this,
and I bet I won't take the position you expect.
Live Nation throws festivals all the time, all the time.
People don't die at them, right, they follow the protocol
and the rules in each city, county, municipal government. Happens
all the time. I enjoy all alternative music. I'm standing
here wearing a KMFDM shirt as I'm talking on a
conservative talk station. I've been in a lot of mosh pitz.
(17:05):
I've had a lot of stranger's blood and sweat on
me in my life. I've never seen children get trampled
to death. Of all the festivals, concerts, rave parties, punk shows,
and I've been to a lot, I've never seen that happen.
Before I got to think the one denominating, the one
factor here that existed that didn't normally exist, and all
the other festivals and concerts these people have been involved in.
(17:26):
You know, it's Travis Scott's job as the entertainer to
get the crowd fired up. I saw Pantera at the
Woodlands Pavilion a year and a half ago. I didn't
see anybody die. That's like the loudest, angriest heavy metal
band on Lamb of God was the opening act. Nobody died, right,
isn't that his job? I mean, I feel like at
the end of the day, and I don't expect you
to answer this, but how is it not the local
government's fault. They're the ones that dictated the rules on this.
(17:48):
Everybody followed them and then kids died.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah. Well, and like I said, there was a report
that was put out about the shortcomings of the law
enforcement and security that were there. So if anybody wants
to check that out, you wrote the article I did
two years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is like Kamala Harris on The Tonight Show.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You've got to read my book to find out what
happened in the one hundred days.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Of the election.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You're also much more in depth analysis and reports about
that that I would also go to.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Sounds like the spider Man meme where everyone's just pointing
accountability at the next guy.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
How everything is with accountability though, well.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Especially since people might die, you know, the funny way.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
From a political a political correspondent that's a very keen insight.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I mean, she's right about that.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
The funniest thing about that?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
If correct me if I'm wrong on this, wasn't one
of the people they wanted to charge, wasn't it Drake?
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't he Didn't he have some involvement?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
It up in some way? Because I believe he.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Was with a teenage girl backstage? Probably No, come on,
doesn't that sound something he would do?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Though?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
No comment?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
What would Kendrick la mar say? Come on, dude, that's
a good That is a good that's a good settle,
It is a good song. Okay, we'll leave that one alone.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
She doesn't.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You don't have to.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You don't have to explain a tragedy or nothing to do,
and that don't blame you for that. Faith of all
your recent articles here, people were to look at your
website at cron dot com, at your author's page, not
a column as you described it, right at the top
of the screen here, who could replace Ken Paxton's attorney general?
And then your next article, Chip Roy just jumped in
(19:17):
and announced he's running. There's a friend of mine that
works down the hall in the k TRH newsroom. He's
a good guy, tells me today he thinks Trump endorses
chip Roy. Chip Roy is hated by MAGA. I have
a hard time believing that Trump would endorse chip Roy.
Do you have any thoughts on that as a journalist?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah, I mean I wrote that article actually this morning,
and I sided in there multiple times that chip Roy
has butted heads with President Trump in the past, and
so to think that he would get an endorsement, I
think is an interesting take. We'll definitely have to see,
But I do think it's an interesting take because there
is that tension between the relationship for a multitude of reasons,
(19:58):
the twenty twenty election as well as the big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So when you say interesting, you mean wrong obviously, because
it's not the right.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It's clearly the hard in the business of prediction.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay, here's what I do wonder, and I bet you
could probably answer this question for me because I wrote
an article for your website recently, and.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I was in my website, the Houston Chronicle.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
For your company opinions.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I wrote an article for your company, the Umbrella Hurst Media,
right fair?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do we agree on that?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I was very interested to see what picture they
chose of Ken Paxton. Now, I like Ken Paxton more
than John Corny. I'll admit it is hard to find.
I will admit it is hard to find a good
photo of Ken Paxton. I'll admit that he's not what
you'd call a supermodel of good looks.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But that's not why people like him.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
They like him because he's a great legal scholar and
apparently a ladies man according to some. I'm still going
to vote for him if the picks are him and
John Cornyn.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I was curious why they picked this picture. Who
picks the photos? Faith? I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Actually, I'd like to backtrack for a second.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You don't think he's a ladies man?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Why I didn't call sex machine?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
What term would you use for Kenball?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Any of those things? Why are you choosing him over Cornying?
Can you get in?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, you'll have to read the article.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Read.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Here's one couple. I'm not a maga Republican. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I would say either like the five big issues that
people voted on or six. I probably agree with Trump
on four of them, but four is a lot more
than Kama I agree with none. I'm a libertarian Republican.
I'm a Ron Paul guy. Hate war, hate censorship. I
hate that the FBI in the twenty twenty election went
out and told Twitter to censor Hunter Biden's as a journalist.
That must upset you, even if you don't agree with
that side that they told them to censor the New
(21:38):
York Post that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't legitimate news.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
How is it the FBI's job to do that? That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
But getting back to John Cornyn, I don't like that
this guy voted for every war we've ever had. I
raise a lot of money for military veterans and wheelchairs.
I'll tell you a lot of them have PTSD. They
can't sleep at night, they're in broken marriages, they have
drug addiction, they're riddled with opioids because the stuff John
Corny voted yes on. Ken Paxton is not a perfect guy.
He's not a boy scout. But I'll tell you it's
(22:05):
the devil I know versus the Ken. Paxton's done a
great job of suing every company. I hate Pfizer, Jesse,
he sued Pfizer, he sued Maderna, he sued We just
talked about kell Ogg, right, Yeah, I ask you a question,
as a Maha guy, who do you trust more John Cornyn,
mister big business or Ken Paxton, the guy just suit
every company you hit.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I don't know the political figures, but one in doubt.
Trusting big pharma, big ag, big food, big chemicals typically
doesn't yield good results.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Okay, well that's John Cornyn gets money from these people.
He's been friendly with him for decades. John Cornyn is
a guy who would vote yes on any wars, so
there's gonna be a Warren. He'd answer yes before you
finish the question anything. Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell
votes yes on I don't like it. These are old
school neo Kahn paleo conservative Republicans. They care what you smoke,
(22:51):
they care who you have sex with. They want to
censor you. They're basically everything that's wrong with the Democrats
with everything that's wrong with the Republicans in one big package.
That's what I don't like about John Cornyn. Ken Paxton
never voted to send my friends to go die in
Afghanistan in a twenty five year war. Ken Paxton never
voted to send more money to Ukraine in a war.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
In Ukraine and Russia, you know who the bad guy
is both sides. You want to see a group of
people that hate us and don't care about us. It's
pretty much any oligarchy in Eastern Europe. Before this war happened,
Ukraine didn't have legal gay marriage, women didn't have rights.
All that stuff happened during a small period of time
so that they could try to convince Western political figures
to give more money to them. Like Ukraine was never
(23:35):
pro gay before this. That happened during the war. They
haven't had an election since the war started. If they did,
I think people would be pretty shocked to learn. There's
a strikingly large number of people in Ukraine that don't
like Zelensky and probably wouldn't vote for him. He outlawed
the opposition party. And oh, by the way, this is
one in John Corn's buddies. I could talk about this
for a long time, obviously. What do you like about him?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
What do I like about John Krney? Well, you asked
me for a reason endorse straw.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You don't endorse anything.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Or because you're politically because you're politically asymmetrical, ambiguous. I'm
kidding but why did you ask me that question? Faith
boog and Hagen of Crome dot Com.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I just thought the listeners should know if they haven't
read your op ed. I know I did read it.
You know I have written.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You know I host this talk show, right They probably
they've heard me do that ramp before. I could talk
about that for three hours. I do not like John Corny.
I do not like Matt mccoyac. I think he's a
creepy weird I wouldn't trust Matt mckoyac alone with any
woman in my family. I think he's a creepy weirdo.
Just that guy just gives me the creeps. Have you
ever looked at him? That double chin, fat F word
guy is disgusting, Just a pig of a huge statement though,
(24:37):
Just a greasy, piggish, slimy looking human being. And you
have to cover politics, how would you feel being alone
with Matt mccoyac on an elevator at the state Capitol,
Faith boog and Hagen, you don't have to answer that question.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I am not commenting on that.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I want Matt, Matt, look at me.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Matt, I promise you on the camera, if you're watching
this video, I will see you again.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I promise. All right, we're gonna run out of ten
I'm here in a minute. But I'll tell you what.
Let's do you guys have to run or can you
hang for ten minutes? Do you have to run?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We're gonna do some bonus here For those of you
watching us on social media, don't go anywhere, stick around.
I want to watch my favorite video from this week
for a second time. I want to do an encore
performance of the Rhode Island Attorney General who kept repeating
the pack that she is an AAG before she got
arrested for getting blackout drunken as seafood restaurant.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Who does that?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But to those of you listening on the radio, join
us on social media in just a few short moments.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I love you all. We'll be back Brian early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
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