March 31, 2025 • 46 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features State Rep Steve Toth and METRO public safety committee chair Alex Mealer. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right, I can't believe this is true, and I'm
sorry to start the show with this because it's a little,
it's a lot. I'll just put it that way. According
to a new study, one day, one way, let me
start over. According to a recent study experts in the
field of sexual promiscuity, maybe promiscuity is not the right point. Okay,
(00:41):
let me start over a third time. Take three, according
to experts in the field of intimacy. There we go.
According to experts in the field of intimacy, one way
for men to delay the finale, the grand finale, I'm
gonna call it the grand is by doing math problems.
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Math problems, So if a guy doesn't want to accidentally
finish the job too soon, he just needs to do
math in his brain. I find it to be a
little awkward during sex trying to position my abacus along
the side of the bed, do you know what I mean? Like,
that's a weird place for an ancient Chinese calendar. Okay, fine,
bring in the calculator, bring in my TI eighty five.
(01:22):
Hi everybody, I'm Kenny Webster. You guys probably already regret
turning this show on. I don't blame you, but you
know who's going to be here in the next statement,
Steve Toath, State Representative Steve Toath from up in the
Conro area. Y'all know at SB fourteen, they're trying to
get rid of the legal ability for healthcare providers while doctors,
I don't child abusers is what I would call him,
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to experiment on young kids, particularly little girls, and things
like the misectomies and hysterectomies and adadictamies and all the
weird other things that look, you're an adult, fine, go
ahead and do it. You're a kid. That's creepy, that's
very bizarre. Steve Taeth has some thoughts on that, because
apparently legal issues surrounding that aren't not quite as common
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sense as you would expect them to be. Also stopping
by Alex Mieler. You remember Alex Meeler. She ran for
county judge. Now she works for Metro here in Houston,
and she is definitely got some thoughts about this. Recall
petition against Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer. So we'll get to
all that real scenes stick around, but before we get
to any of it, little national politics. Here at Breitbart
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dot com today reporting on the White House Correspondence Association
the WHCA. You know, every year they do the White
House Correspondent's Dinner and they always have a comedian. Well,
this year they've decided to dump the comedian, and Bert
Ruffin is a Trump hating comedian. You've never heard of
her before, no normal person ever has. But no one
from the White House likely had any intention of showing
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up to this thing anyway, this god awful Republican smearing,
self important dinner featuring all the fascist smugs in the
regime media people that just relentlessly attack the White House
with fake news and hoaxes and that sort of thing. Anyway,
Amber Huffins, sort of a DEI hire, already promising to
spend the night tearing into the Trump administration as a
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gang of murderers, she says, who feel like they are
human beings. But dot dot dot shouldn't get to feel
that way because they are not. She says, Oh, okay,
we Republicans are murderers, but we're not humans. Thanks, that's
what she says. She also added that she was told
to quote be equal and give it to both sides.
She responded by saying, quote, there's no way I'm going
to freaking do that. Dude. I'm sorry. You can't think
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of jokes to tell about Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
You just want Trump jokes. This woman might be out
for the April twenty sixth dinner, but when someone is
full of themselves like this, just absolutely consumed by intolerance
and ignorance and hate, I'm guessing pretty soon she's gonna
have a primetime news slot on CNN. I'm sure they'll
hire her. The White House Correspondence President is a guy
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named Eugene Dans and he released a statement over the
weekend explaining that the vote to dump Ruffin was unanimous.
He added quote, at this consequential moment for journalism, I
want to ensure the focus is not on the politics
of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their
outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next
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generation of journalists. End quote. Here's what makes this reversal
even juicier is that Daniels personally chose ruffin, saying, quote,
her unique talents are ideal fit for the current political
and cultural climate. Wait, what changed? What changed? He also
added this, He said, quote her perspective will fit right
in with the dinner's tradition of honoring the freedom of
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the press while roasting the most powerful people on both
sides of the isle. End quote Again, guy, what changed?
What changed? The regime? Media are not doing this to
focus on journalism or the folk first Amendment. These people
are villains. They hate us. Once a year they all
come together for an inseferable dinner. I'll congratulate each other
the same way they always do. The WHCA blinked. That's
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what happened here, guys. Trust in the corporate media is
at a record low, and the last thing these losers
and liars need is three days of blowback for once
again pretending to be objective and then looking like a
bunch of.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Lives Joe Biden decades of giving dirty politics a bad name.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sorry, dirty politics.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I want to tell a quick story about something that
happened to me over the weekend, and I there's a
reason I'm telling this story. It's a it ties into
what our next guest is about to talk about. I
went on a blind date this weekend. I went on
a blind date this weekend with somebody that is not
a conservative, She's very liberal, and the conversations was the
date was going horribly. She was real combative and argumentative,
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and like, this is just right out of the gates.
Something wrong with this person. I don't Nothing could have
prepared me for the fact that I was about to
date someone that you wanted to have an argument. But
that's fine because I'm me. Most people don't realize, you know,
and when they're meeting someone for the first time that
they're meeting someone like me. You know what I'm saying,
wink wink, nudge, nudge. So immediately the date's not going
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well and I think, well, I'm let's let's do a
little science experiment here, if you will, social science, that is,
And I bring up politics. He said, so, what end
of the political spectrum are you on? And she says
to me the side that's compassionate and cares about people.
And immediately I'm like ah, I know exactly what we're
getting into, and I thought, wow, what is it. I'm
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on that side too, but something tells me we're not
on the same side. And then I said, you know,
it's interesting about that. I don't I'm not really bothered
by the fact that other people have differing opinions from me.
I don't care. You're welcome to believe what you want.
In fact, I'll defend your right to believe whatever you want,
even if it's not what I believe. I think you
have a right to believe it. And they're sort of
an awkward pause because she wasn't prepared for that, and
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then I said, the only thing I don't understand about
your side is the thing with trans kids. I don't
understand why you guys are okay with that. And she
laughs kind of arrogantly and says, trans kids. You think
there are trans kids? Well, lady, we can disagree about opinions,
but we can't disagree about objective truths if there are
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no trans kids. Why did Vice President Kamala Harris and
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau wear t shirts that
said I support trans kids. Why is Attorney General Ken
Paxton assuing and investigating the Texas Children's Hospital. Why did
the Boston Children's Hospital say they were no longer going
to give puberty blockers to prefus and kids? And why
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are there TV shows on cable TLC about trans kids?
And she had nothing to say that They ended pretty
shortly after all that. But all that being said, we
don't get to decide what the truth is. Right Sadly
here in Texas, despite the fact that we have laws
in place that are supposed to prevent this sort of
stuff from happening, it still happens, mutilating kids. It's sick,
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It's very disgusting. Right. In fact, I thought we had
a bill for this SB fourteen. Senate Bill fourteen was
supposed to prohibit certain procedures and treatments for gender transitioning,
gender reassignment, gender dysphoria for kids. What the heck ever
happened to that. I reached out to one of the
most conservative and honest members of the Texas state government
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for an answer to that question, and he's on the
line right now. Stay Representative Steve Toth, what side of
the political spectrum are you on?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh man, Well, there's just me, myself and I over here, honey.
I've got two blind dates stories both times, I mean
bad blind date. I've only I only went on two
blind dates. Both times the women that I went out with,
and this was you know, just just right after high school,
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and both times they wore jean skirts. Total turn off
jean skirts. And so when I met my wife the bat,
she never wore a jean skirt, and I knew this
is the woman for me. She doesn't wear jean skirts.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Interesting, what is it about the What is it about
the denim skirt? You don't like it's too Daisy Duke
or something? Is that? No?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, No, it's so like women in really nice jeans,
can ye know? That's that's wow, you know, but definitely
not mom pants and definitely not jean skirts.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What about men in jean skirts? That's okay, right men? Obviously,
because you know it's in these times we're living.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
In I'm in Austin, so I see a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's a good answer. Hey, Steve's SB fourteen. Wasn't this
supposed to stop people from mutilating kids genitals? Why would
this even be controversial?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So? SB fourteen was the first step, right, that was
the first step we all said this is the first step.
The first step was to eliminate damage that you know
something that the left said as well, just let these
kids transition because it's it's you know, they can undo it. Well,
you can undo it. If you put a little girl
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on loupron and she misses puberty, it's part of her
bone generation, it's part of her muscle generations, part of
her neural generation. And then you take that kid, that
same little girl, and you put her on testosterone across
sex hormone, and yeah, she'll have she will have osteoporosis
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when she's older. She may not be functional sexually, meaning
she'll never be able to have an orgasm. She may
never be able to have a child as well. And
you know, these are all the things that they go
into the transition of children, and kids are being lied
to and they're told that all this is all reversible.
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It's not reversible, and so the next step will always
we always had in mind that the next step was
to eliminate the social transitioning of children. And we have
a bill House Bill twenty two to fifty eight that
stops this, that lets kids to become kids. There's been
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a five thousand percent increase in the number of little
girls that want to be little boys. You don't look
at that and say well, that's biology. That's not biology.
You don't look at that and say, well, that's just
socially natural. It's not socially natural. It's a social contagion.
When there's a five thousand percent increase in over a
ten year period, so much so the Tavistock Clinic over
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in Great Britain has said, Wow, this is bad, five
thousand percent increase. And the woman that ran the clinic
that believed in this said, the suicide rate is actually
higher among the kids that are transitioning.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It's not lower.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Higher. Yeah, we're causing kids. We're causing kids to kill themselves.
And and so we have this bill to stop it.
And Dustin Burrows send it to a committee where it
could die, where it would die. They won't give it
a hearing. No, they will not give the bill a hearing.
So the bill's gonna die. Angel Paxton has already committed,
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Brandon Creighton has already committed. May's Middleton has already committed.
The entire Senate has made a commitment to hear and
pass this bill if it will only come out of
the house. In the house is killing it. Wow, thanks
to Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I've noticed under uh, you know, house speaker, Dustin Burrows,
the gridlock in Austin has never been worse like we thought.
It was pretty bad with Dad Fahalin. It's nothing that
was a walk in the park. It is clearly getting
worse right now. And one of your u one of
your all, go.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Ahead, yeah, let me explain what's going on. So under
Burr under Day Feeling, Democrats had committe chairmanships and they
were forced to give up committee chairmanships, and they wanted
something in return for it. What they what did they
want in return for it? They wanted to make sure
that social transitioning would would not happen of little, the
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elimination of social transitioning would not be banned. And they're
getting it. This is what they're getting. This is one
of the things that they negotiated for. If Date Feeling
had been there, we would this bill would be getting
a hearing. And that doesn't say much for Date Feeling.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No, no, he was awful, right And somehow here is
the new boss worse than the old boss. One of
your one of your few allies in the Texas House. There.
Brian Harrison had an interesting tweet over the weekend. Currently,
the Texas government allows sky high property taxes, funds DEI funds,
liberal gender ideology, hires liberal faculty to indoctrinate students on
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artist Marxist ideology, does not require photo ID to vote,
does not require citizenship proof to register to vote. Let's
Democrats write the budget in secret, has more occupational regulations
than California has, massive corporate welfare for liberal firms, still
allows COVID, vax mandates for students, recruits students for public
universities based on their race, awards contracts based on race.
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Is growing government at rates that would make DC Democrats blush.
Uses tax dollars to fund liberal Hollywood. Let's trans teachers
teach young students as young as five. The only thing
on the list I wasn't sure about is the part
about I thought we required a photo ID to vote.
Is there some way around that that I'm not aware of?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
We do require photo ID to vote. If you show
up without a photo ID, you're given You're given the
ability to fill out a provisional.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Bank right provisional. Okay, that's what he's talking about. But
he's right then to his point, he's not wrong about
any of that.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And you shouldn't be able to even fill out a
provisional bail Even though provisional bills are accounted, you still
shouldn't be able to do that either. Yeah, Frankly, Scarlet,
give a damn if you show up and you don't
have your craft together, and you shouldn't be able to vote.
This is the most important thing we do right we're
democ we're a constitutional republic, and if you don't show
up with your ID, sucks to be you. You shouldn't be
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able to vote.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Here's what sucks about this, Steve is right now, the
way that our government is this, considering what's going on
in Washington, considering what's going on at the Houston mayoral office.
Witt Meyers the most conservative mayor we've had in years.
Trump's the most conservative president we've had in years. It's
hard to imagine right now that it's going to get
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better by the next election. It feels like, you know,
if history repeats itself, the way that the pendulum swings
back and forth, I'm not optimistic about what happens in
the next year or two much less. What's going to
happen in this legislative session? Is there anything you could
tell us to you know, I mean, be honest, don't
Optimism and pessimism are one thing. But I think what
we really need is some realism. What realistically do you
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see coming our way as Texas voters, conservative minded people, maga, populous,
liberty Republicans, what do you expect in the near future?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
The United States has woken up. It understands that it's
going to take bold actions to save America. Texas has
woken up. You know, we went from from state wides
winning by four to state wides winning by eight and
twelve percent. All of Texas, all of the United States
are the exception of about thirty one Republicans in the
Texas House have woken up to realize it's going to
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take bold steps to save American to save Texas. And
it's these thirty one Republicans that want to side with
Democrats so that they can hold on to power. Screw them.
You're going to get thrown out of office. A bunch of
you are going to get absolutely fired in the next
election cycle. And no one's going to feel bad for you,
but your Brides so sucks to be you. I'm sorry,
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but we're going to have to clean house again this
election cycle. And frankly, I'm excited about America because we're
going to have twelve years four under Donald Trump, eight
under JD. Vance or whoever, probably Vance. Yeah, and we're
going to turn things around. We're going to turn things
around the United States. Cowards that equivocate, cowards that want
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to reach across the aisles of the Democrats, they are
going to be thrown out of office at the federalist
state level period. End of story.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You know, Steve, one more question I want to ask
you because I thought that was a great answer and
it reminded me of something else I wanted to talk
to you about. Well, what I'm about to ask you
doesn't technically have anything to do with you, and yet
at the same time, it kind of does. Texas District
two Congressional District two is Dan Crenshaw, and he is
not somebody that most conservative grassroots conservatives love the voting
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record of. He's not a lawmaker that I mean, he's
a neo con He's certainly not a Maga populist. He's
not a Ron Paul Republican. He's not a Donald Trump
republic and he's kind of the old school George W.
Bush George H. W. Bush Republican. Right now, he's only
primary opponent who seems to be getting any traction. Appears
to be a con artist with nine aliases, who has
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credibly been accused of committing bigamy. Members of her own
family say that they've been waiting for Dateline to call
them for years because she's such a scam artist. It's
weird to think right now in that race, Dan Crenshaw
might be the best person to vote for. And I
say that as someone that spent years trying to get
someone to primary him. Unless somebody moves in from another
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part of the country. Here, you're probably the only guy
in that part of the state who's even close to
that district that would that would be a credible and
viable candidate to take down Dan Crenshaw. Is that anything
you're considering? Is that anything you're thinking about? Because I
know there's a lot of people that want you to
do it, and you know, I know you're busy with
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other stuff. I get it, but you know, when the
nation calls, I mean, what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
So, Kenny, is this the real reason why you called
me buddy?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No? No, no, no, no, But it's a no, but
it's a good But it's a valid question. I mean,
you know you're not a Dan Crenshaw guy, right, You're
you know, you're tea party Steve Toats, You're the you're
the liberty side of the party. I mean, what are
your thoughts on that? You crack me up?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You wanted to talk about trans kids? No, So here's here's.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I did want to talk. We just talked about it
for fourteen minutes. This is my this is my one
last thing question.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's all that is, all right, So here's here's here's
my pad answer. I think this guy is smart as
a whip. He's Harvard trained, and I have the utmost
respect for what he did for us overseas. I love seals,
and I love the sacrifice that he made, you know,
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honorably serving our country. He lost his eye. But there's
part of his patriotism elevator that doesn't go all the
way to the top that he does not understand that.
You know, the reality, the reality, Kenny, is that fifty
years ago. Yeah, I you know, you could reach across
the aisle to the Democrats and collectively you could come
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up with good policy because you know, both parties, red
and Blue, each one would beat their chest to see
who was tougher on foreign policy, who was tougher on
the fan, you know, believing in supporting the family. Who
is tougher on law and order, who's tougher on common sense?
For how you fisically run a nation, secure borders, the
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whole nine yards. The only thing that we disagreed with
fifty years ago was how big should the social safety
net be? You know, welfare, social security. It's the only
thing we disagreed on. But Dan thinks that you can
reach across the aisle and find common ground with these
these people. They are not Democrats. They are socialists. The
people that run the Democrat Party in Washington are socialists.
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There's no common ground, Kenny, with socialism run, There's only
lungs in havoc. And the reality is that Dan doesn't
get that. If the Democrats were in power, like Obama
said John McCain, elections have consequences. I don't give a
crap what you think. I am going to put my
foot on your neck and I'm gonna hold it there
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until you're dead, and that's what Democrats tried to do
to us when they're in power, and until we get
the same idea, we cannot work with Democrats. We must
defeat Democrats. And Dan just doesn't get that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
What mean what does that mean for me? Well, let's
wait till the end of session.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Man, that's a great answer, Steve, I will tell you. Look,
you're a friend, obviously, and this is not something you
and I have talked about a lot off the air,
but I'm not you know, I'm not going to hide it.
A lot of people have been asking Steve to do this,
and it'll be it. I just want to say, whatever
your choice is, I get it. You got to ask God,
you got to ask your family. Whatever it is, it
has to be the right decision. This is not our
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final form. There is another world beyond this. Obviously, it's
not the most important thing in the world. But I
think if you did it right now, a lot of
people would be cheering you on.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
But Bet and I are praying about it, we really are.
We just you know, we've gotten so many really cool
things done over the years in Texas to help kids
and tell public education find its truths again in listening
to mom and Dad. But we're not done yet, and
we don't know. Honestly, I'm not being cool. I'm not
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in any way, shape or form. We're just like, you know,
the best to do that? Is it best to do
that Washington or is it best to do that here
in Texas? And so that's what we're working through.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I will say this, I know which place has better food.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I mean it's not even close. I don't think they
even have salt in Washington, DC. Hey, we got we
went along on this, Steve, whatever you know how I
feel about it. Man, whatever you choose to do, we
support you. But man, I know there's a lot of
people hoping for it. Steve Tooth find him on X
tooth for Texas. He's easy to find. I follow him.
He's out there. It's actually Tooth Underscore four Underscore Texas.
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Give him a follow and get some honest information from Austin.
Screw you.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We're back, obviously, we're back. That's why you're hearing the
James Bond theme, and not surprisingly, I'm going to talk
about James Bond right now. I suppose there'd only be
two reasons to play this music on a talk radio show,
if I was talking about diamond mines or blood diamonds
or child diamond miners. But then also the Bond stuff.
This was a classic James Bond theme. There's a report
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today from John Nolty and details what is a little
surprising to me. You never expect Hollywood to eat themselves.
Sometimes they just do. Helen Mirren, actress Helen Mirren does
not want to see a female James Bond, but only
because of all the quote profound sexism. What she said,
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quote the whole series of James Bond. It was not
my thing. I never liked James Bond. I never liked
the way women were in James Bond. Profound sexism, she says.
She says, quote women have always been a major and
incredibly important part of the Secret Service. They've always been
They're very brave. If you hear about what women did
in the French Resistance, they're amazing. I'm sorry, what is
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she end quote? By the way, what is she talking about? Look,
I agree that women should launch their own brands and
franchises rather than cosplaying and iconic roles by men. I
don't think we should redo James Bond with a woman.
I don't think we should redo Wolverine with a trans
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guy as the superhero or Spider Man. Shouldn't be like
a disabled black Legs may That'd be crazy, right, what
would be the point? I agree with that, but I
disagree with her overall? The Bond movie features gorgeous women
in bikinis falling all over themselves for James Bond. I
mean that's true sure from the beginning, though with Doctor
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Number sixty three years ago, the Doctor no right that
the series almost always presented a woman as tough and independent.
Honey Ryder unforgettably played by the stunning Ursula Andre the
opposite of a bimbo. She's self educated, resourceful, capable of
taking care of herself. Yeah, Bond girls are hot, obviously,
but wasn't Bond himself supposed to be attractive? Am I
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the only person that's ever seen a James Bond movie
in Okay, I'm not in Hollywood, but attacking James Bond
as sexist for his portrayal of women is like criticizing
the Double O seven franchises trafficking in you know, too
many male villains? You know what I mean? Like? Who
come on now? Before I'm accused of being disingenuous, I
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understand that Double O seven is all about male wish fulfillment.
There's eye candy there right, obviously, But normal women see
the series as their own form of wish fulfillment. They
can if they want. We're not allowed to say so
out loud anymore. Don't you think normal women would like
to be chased and seduced and wanted and rescued and
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protected by a man who looks like Sean Connery or
Roger Moore? Are we to believe that this wasn't a
fun movie for women as well? It was obviously popular.
There's nothing wrong with wish fulfillment for men and women.
The whole idea is to appeal to that part of
us we secretly desire to be. Isn't it interesting? Men?
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Young men will look at a video game and they'll go, cool,
they made the superheroes muscles bigger, cool. And women will
look at a video game and they'll go, oh, why
they make her boobs? So big, Like wait, what? Okay,
Obviously not all women feel that way. There's plenty of
women that like big boobs and video game I'm sure
there are. Over the weekend, I stumbled into a video
game convention. I wasn't my plan. I was out walking Milton,
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and there's a hotel here in the area, not far
from where I live, and in this general area where
the radio station is, and so we walked inside. I
got a cup of coffee from the coffee shop, and
there were nerds everywhere. You could tell they were nerds
because they were dressed like wizards and warlocks and stuff
like that. And they were in a certain age group,
you know, usually teenagers to thirty somewhere, younger adults who
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don't have families yet. And they were all gathered around
cosplaying role playing, pretending to be warriors and magicians and
gladiators and that sort of thing. And would you believe
a lot of the girls in this group of people
were wearing pretty dresses. And they were not doing it
against their own free will, No, it's completely consensual. They
wanted to wear pretty dresses to the video game convention
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so that they could either impressed boys or impress themselves
or impress. The other word, they just enjoyed looking that way.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging and appealing to human nature.
Declaring these perfectly normal and healthy impulses as being sexist
or the male gaze that has gone a long way
towards destroying the appeal and the fun of Hollywood's output.
(28:21):
This is one big reason why nobody goes to movies anymore,
the idea that anyone would go see snow White the
New One to watch her become a leader, instead of
wanting to see that moment when snow White's humility and
purity and self sacrifice pay off with her being rescued
by a handsome prince and living halfway ever after with him. Well, well,
those people are idiots, I guess.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks. They could make you
shoot at tax collectors and miss. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty cusin.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Utah has banned fluoride in public drinking water. Some people
are surprised by this, but you know, fluoride brighton's teeth.
It makes it whier And I gotta think Utah is
already white enough, they don't need any more whiteness there.
But all that being said, Utah's laws aside, we got
problems of our own here in the backyard. I actually
kind of wonder if this is a real controversy or
(29:20):
just something that gets the media for a thing at
the mouth. You notice how from time to time there
are people that will run for office and they don't
stand any chance of winning. It's someone you've never heard
of before, with no budget, no resources, and they want
to be Senator of Texas. They're going to take on
John Corny. You think, well, that's not really a serious candidate.
(29:42):
There's too much at stake. There would be too many
things that they'd need to do in order to win
that election. It seems unlikely. Right. Well, that's kind of
how I feel about this next bit of news here
from Houston. There's a group called Recall Houston and they
don't like John Whitmyer. To put it bluntly, John Whitmyer,
it's too moderate of a Democrat for them, and they're
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out right now collecting signatures to try to remove the mayor.
John Whitmeyer, our moderate centrist mayor is too controversial for
who now here's how it works. Recalling a mayor in
the city of Houston requires twenty five percent of the
votes in the last general election for Houston. That'd be
about sixty three thousand signatures. And they have to gather
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and submit all of these signatures within thirty days, so
you know fast math. Here's it's more than two thousand
signatures of day. And they've all got to be registered voters,
and they've all got to live in the city of Houston.
This can't be people out in sugar Land that just
don't like the mayor. So it begs the question, are
they going to be able to get two thousand signats?
Seems unlikely. No, But what they could do is collect
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a lot of donations in the weeks coming and maybe
create a little fervor if you will, you know, the outrage.
But it's kind of like, are you do you want
the position? It's like when people pretend to run for office,
but they're really just trying to build clout and build
up a war chest for their campaign. I don't know
if this is a sincere thing. For the record, I've
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always had mixed feelings about whitt Meyer. So much better
than what we could have had. Do you remember what
we could have had, well, I mean rest in peace.
We could have had Shila Jackson Lee. That was the
person that was challenging him. So even still Witmeyer, he's
a Democrat. Yeah, he's one of the better Democrats, but
a Democrat nonetheless. And there are people on our side
that have pointed out recently that Whitmeyer really needs to
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renegotiate his support with Republicans because he is doing some
things that might upset you. I'll explain why, and I'm
not at all suggesting we should support the recall effort.
But like a lot of things in local politics or
national politics for that matter, this is complicated. It's nuanced,
it's not as simple as good or bad. That's why
I reached out to one of the smarter people involved
in local government to get their take on it. Alex
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Miehler came within less than one percent of defeating Harris
County Judge Lena Hidalgo last time around. Since then, she
has gotten very involved in helping the campaign for local
judicial candidates, many of which have won and done fantastic
work since taking office. And she's on the line right now. Alex,
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let's start off with this is recall Houston. Is this
a real thing or, like I just explained, you think
they're just trying to build a clout for some other endeavor.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Well, so, yeah, zero chance of success. Like you mentioned
the two thousand vote signatures verified per day. But the
funnier thing here is the complete misdirection. So this group's
statement says that what they're really upset about is public safety, flooding,
and infrastructure. So I don't know how those are your
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lead issues and you're not doing a recall effort for
Judge Alina hid All, Goo, Rodney Ellis, Leslie Brionez and
Adrian who's continually starved our local government, you know, after
corruption and so those are not exactly the weak spot
issues for Whitmyer. Well, it's more of the scrutinies I think,
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a big civics lesson.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, I mean that's a fantastic point, John Whitmeyer. Those
are things, Those are reasons people elected Whitmyer. We had
a mayor who campaigned on a promise to fix all
the potholes in town, and then while he was running
for mayor, he actually created potholes so he could take
a photo of himself filling the potholes. Meanwhile, the real
potholes in town never got touched. Whit Myer's actually gone
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out and made efforts to fix some of these problem
These are kitchen table issues. People will tell you. It's
not quite the same as trans politics or deporting all
the illegals. It's this is generally stuff moderates and centrists
and conservatives and liberals would all agree on. Why are
people Matt at whitt Myer. Is this just a feud
within his own party that's bleeding out into the street
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snowpun intended. Yep.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
No, it really starts around as the bike lobby, but
all proxy AstroTurf groups from Rodney Ellis. So within the Democrats,
you've got the more centrists lined up with Whitmyer, and
then the hardcore progresses with Rodney Ellis, who while in
general elections has lost the power, still king of the
Democrat primary. You're seeing that play out with Sheila Jackson's seat,
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then Turner short held seat with Rodney kind of marshaling
all of the support against his protege, Christian Menacey. And
so this proxy war keeps happening. But what's happened is
throughout the city whit Meyer has gone and started to
reduce some of the bike dedicated lanes, which I fully support. Unfortunately,
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with Rodney Ellis and under Turner's administration, the only money
that really ever went to RHADS is if it was
going to add a bike lane. So people are frustrated
with the state of our infrastructure, which, to be clear,
it looks like a third world And that's one of
my frustrations just with the city of Houston is where's
the investment on the west side of town where the
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generically more the conservatives are because I don't know how
you don't replace your shocks every year. But Rodney Ellis
Isles has a billion but half a billion dollars of
road bonds. So this guy is twenty fifteen road bonds
not spent, twenty eighteen road bonds not spent, twenty two
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road bonds not spent, and he's holding all that cash
on the sideline and almost all his precinct is inside
the loop Houston. So kind of almost one hundred percent
overlap with Whitmire. And meanwhile, you know what, Meyer's trying
to figure out, how do we keep this city functional?
Because we really do look in terms of infrastructure third
world and so a lot of funds. Now, we approved
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twenty five million dollars at the last Metro meeting Service
Public Safety Chair, and we're taking that money and it's
going towards fixing roads. But you have this great distortion
because the county's not doing what it's doing. So recall
Houston and are ready to do a recall initiative for
the county.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Let me know. I'll sign myself right up.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You know, that's an interesting point. I think you explained
it quite well for those that don't know, And I
mean I wonder no one really knows who the There's
no public figure backing this group, so we don't officially know.
I mean, we kind of know who's involved, but it's
not anybody that most of us names we would recognize.
There's a lot of speculation in online discussion the groups
backed by interests tied to the previous administration Mayor Sylvester Turner. Now,
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as you're aware, he recently passed away. He was sitting
in the congressional seat previously occupied by Sheila Jackson Lee
and she's also recently passed away. So I find it
a little odd that that group of local progressive far
left Democrats, mostly from the Black Democrat inner circle, are
worried about Whitmeyer right now. I think they have more
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important things to worry about, like who's going to take
Shila Jackson Lee's old congressional seat. But all that being said,
it's also interesting to think that, you know, the Republicans
aren't real thrilled right now with w Meyer either. There
is a chance some Republicans might go out and sign
this the petition, although I think it's unlikely because honest,
we'd probably get something much worse. But you and I
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were talking about this on off air. Why are a
lot of Conservatives upset with Wittmeyer right now?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Well, I don't know if fully upset, but it's clear.
You know, projects when are going to Democrat areas generically,
So right now I think we're waiting to see what
happens with that toll road. So new legislation going to
siphon thirty percent to the City of Houston, but there's
no requirement for debt pay down. So you know, in
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the future city of Houston having these funds, where's the
incentive to ever, you know, relieve the unincorporated county, which
you know is largely Republican. As you continue to have
mayors which you know in all likelihood will be Democrat
for the foreseeable future, how do we make sure that
roads are getting repaved on the west side of town
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or in the incorporated area. So right now, a good
provision in that bill that it's sponsored by Mono Della
and Ben Incore, is it makes the roads Parada. So
Commissioner Ramsay, who's our only Republican at the county, he
has fifty percent of the roads that he only gets
a quarter, So they'll adjust that and make it Parada
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as currently proposed, But thirty percent of the funds are
going to go to the City of Houston, and so
you know, wanting to make sure that that incorporated side
is protected is really careful because right now we see
still the predominance of projects going into Democrat strongholds instead
of conservative areas of the city that were neglected under
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An East Parker and Sylvester Turner.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Boy, it's interesting too how this affects local politics because
Sylvester Turner just died obviously, that leaves an empty seat. Meanwhile,
in Florida, they're having special elections today to figure out
who's going to replace Matt Gates and one other congressional chair.
And this, actually, all of this together could combine to
create some problems for the Republicans if they lose control
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of the House in Washington, d C. I don't know
how soon that would happen, but it could happen relatively soon.
Clock is ticking on that one right now. Do you
think Amanda Edward's former Houston City councilwoman, do you think
she stands any chance of taking that chair?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
No? I mean, you know, you can hate policy, right,
but respect the organization, and I do think Rodney is
one of the more forward looking politicians that really invest
in kind of the next generation. Obviously doesn't leave Democrats
much of a choice in a primary, but with the
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amount you know, pretty much every Democrat officeholder you've ever
heard of, I think it's about two pages long the
endorsement sheet that Menafee has behind him, and including Sheila
Jackson's daughter, So you know, I don't see if they
ran a more moderate candidate, but that hasn't emerged yet,
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so it's much more organized command and control. We still
obviously have that problem in our Republican primaries, but a
Democrat seat like that Texas eighteen. That's not just a hey,
I want to be active in my community, raise my
hand to run. It's pretty wired. It's pretty interesting to
see what happens. And to your point with you know,
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the midterms, that that is a real threat. I think
Democrats are worried about how close twenty four is, and
this recall effort at Whitmeyer, to me, is a lot
of way to scapegoat the problems that the county's failing,
because there's some pretty big elections up in twenty six
and a chance for us to win back actually take
majority control of the court. So I think this is
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them coming more from a place of vulnerability than a
place of strength. But Republicans in terms of the macro,
I think is going to come out to how quickly
economy tariffs can get settled and if that can be
stabilized before mid terms, which there's there is time, but
it's kind of hard to know where the economic outlook's
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going to become midterms.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Okay, So bottom line me here, with everything that's taking
place right now and all the stuff we see going
on here, do you think that this recall of wit
Meyer is gonna matter? No?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
I think it's gonna be pretty minimal. And like I said,
I think it's more of a distraction. You know, Harris
County is short several hundred million on their flood control
bond million. They don't know where it went yet. Yeah,
And so if you're you know, basically have a sucking
chest wound, you're gonna keep trying to do whatever you
can because most people, honestly, you know, if you and
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I weren't so involved, you wouldn't understand what's the city's responsibility,
what's the counties and the city on any kind of metric,
is out performing the county right now, that's clear, there's
no doubt about it. Further, we're going to continue to
needle and try to ravel rowse.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Right for those that don't live in Houston, you know,
people out in the suburbs are just those of you
that don't actively follow local politics. One of the reasons
that Rodney Allis is so interesting is he's not the
county judge. He's just a local county commissioner, and yet
he kind of controls the local Democrat party. You know,
we're talking about you know, who could replace wit Meyer,
who could replace Sheila Jackson Lee or Sylvester Turner in Congress.
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And I always think it's interesting, Alex how Rodney never
really seemed to have the ambition to leave that position.
But why leave a position that he'll easily get re
elected in and a position in which he actually has
a lot of power in it, even though it doesn't
seem like he would, right Yeah, And look at.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
His campaign account He's got six million in his campaign accounts,
probably more now than he's able to heavily fundraise from it.
So he has two kind of key mentees, Christian Mennasei,
who just left county attorney to be lined up for
Sheila's and then Chris Hollins's kind of the perpetual foil
of what Meyer comptroller, which is always interesting considering the
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guy's financially illiterate. But he's geared up to the challenging
what Meyer in the Marrit race, and so the progresses
have really lined up around him. But lots of proxy wars.
Just like our site has fights, so does theirs, And
it's just a tumultuous time in Houston. And I think
the positive at least the county now is very much
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becoming purple. And so these kind of fissures are just
very active as people try to figure out what's the
way to hold onto power.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Alex, you are always honest and right to the point,
and I am grateful for you. What's going on in
your world lately?
Speaker 5 (43:42):
Okay, yeah, no, I'm hanging in there. So obviously not
campaign season. Still busy with Metro. I'm hoping next month
will be able to put more funding towards law enforcement,
the big strides there that we'll be looking forward to
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announcing hopefully next month. And then kids, you know, we
just start a key ball so trying to do the
family thing.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And you are still, if I am not mistaken, chair
of the Public Safety Committee for Metro.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
I am, and like I said, a really strong police
chief there, pretty notable, you know, used to have most
of your Metro officers in their cars. Has done a
big push to get them riding the system and increase
the numbers quite a bit. And I think, like I said,
next month that I want to jump the gun and
we'll be pretty drastic though. We've meaningfully increased the size
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of the law enforcement and I'm hoping we can grow
it some more. So that's been one of the fights
that obviously I fully support with meron Is.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
From Metro.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
We've been putting more funds to repairing roads. These should
be roads that Metro uses heavily and funding law enforcement
as we get ready for kind of world cup, et cetera.
But by actually having Metro have an increased police presence,
that creates more officers in the area, gives local law
enforcement in your area, you know, more flexibility to respond
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because of the county not funding law enforcement to appropriate levels. Anyway,
we can get a large entity and Metro is a
multi billion dollar entity to fund law enforcement, that then,
you know, starts moving the needle. Not the full degree
we'd all want, but still progress.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
As always, Alex awesome work. You can find her on
x that you know, the social media website Alex Mieler
TX is her name on there. If you want to
keep up with what's going on in local politics from
a reasonable liberty minded, right leaning perspective, I feel like
Alex is a great resource for that. I'm county Webster.
I love you all. Thank you so much for tuning
in this afternoon. Drive safe out. There will be back
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right, I can't believe this is true, and I'm
sorry to start the show with this because it's a little,
it's a lot. I'll just put it that way. According
to a new study, one day, one way, let me
start over. According to a recent study experts in the
field of sexual promiscuity, maybe promiscuity is not the right point. Okay,
(00:41):
let me start over a third time. Take three, according
to experts in the field of intimacy. There we go.
According to experts in the field of intimacy, one way
for men to delay the finale, the grand finale, I'm
gonna call it the grand is by doing math problems.
(01:01):
Math problems, So if a guy doesn't want to accidentally
finish the job too soon, he just needs to do
math in his brain. I find it to be a
little awkward during sex trying to position my abacus along
the side of the bed, do you know what I mean? Like,
that's a weird place for an ancient Chinese calendar. Okay, fine,
bring in the calculator, bring in my TI eighty five.
(01:22):
Hi everybody, I'm Kenny Webster. You guys probably already regret
turning this show on. I don't blame you, but you
know who's going to be here in the next statement,
Steve Toath, State Representative Steve Toath from up in the
Conro area. Y'all know at SB fourteen, they're trying to
get rid of the legal ability for healthcare providers while doctors,
I don't child abusers is what I would call him,
(01:45):
to experiment on young kids, particularly little girls, and things
like the misectomies and hysterectomies and adadictamies and all the
weird other things that look, you're an adult, fine, go
ahead and do it. You're a kid. That's creepy, that's
very bizarre. Steve Taeth has some thoughts on that, because
apparently legal issues surrounding that aren't not quite as common
(02:08):
sense as you would expect them to be. Also stopping
by Alex Mieler. You remember Alex Meeler. She ran for
county judge. Now she works for Metro here in Houston,
and she is definitely got some thoughts about this. Recall
petition against Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer. So we'll get to
all that real scenes stick around, but before we get
to any of it, little national politics. Here at Breitbart
(02:30):
dot com today reporting on the White House Correspondence Association
the WHCA. You know, every year they do the White
House Correspondent's Dinner and they always have a comedian. Well,
this year they've decided to dump the comedian, and Bert
Ruffin is a Trump hating comedian. You've never heard of
her before, no normal person ever has. But no one
from the White House likely had any intention of showing
(02:51):
up to this thing anyway, this god awful Republican smearing,
self important dinner featuring all the fascist smugs in the
regime media people that just relentlessly attack the White House
with fake news and hoaxes and that sort of thing. Anyway,
Amber Huffins, sort of a DEI hire, already promising to
spend the night tearing into the Trump administration as a
(03:14):
gang of murderers, she says, who feel like they are
human beings. But dot dot dot shouldn't get to feel
that way because they are not. She says, Oh, okay,
we Republicans are murderers, but we're not humans. Thanks, that's
what she says. She also added that she was told
to quote be equal and give it to both sides.
She responded by saying, quote, there's no way I'm going
to freaking do that. Dude. I'm sorry. You can't think
(03:36):
of jokes to tell about Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
You just want Trump jokes. This woman might be out
for the April twenty sixth dinner, but when someone is
full of themselves like this, just absolutely consumed by intolerance
and ignorance and hate, I'm guessing pretty soon she's gonna
have a primetime news slot on CNN. I'm sure they'll
hire her. The White House Correspondence President is a guy
(03:59):
named Eugene Dans and he released a statement over the
weekend explaining that the vote to dump Ruffin was unanimous.
He added quote, at this consequential moment for journalism, I
want to ensure the focus is not on the politics
of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their
outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next
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generation of journalists. End quote. Here's what makes this reversal
even juicier is that Daniels personally chose ruffin, saying, quote,
her unique talents are ideal fit for the current political
and cultural climate. Wait, what changed? What changed? He also
added this, He said, quote her perspective will fit right
in with the dinner's tradition of honoring the freedom of
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the press while roasting the most powerful people on both
sides of the isle. End quote Again, guy, what changed?
What changed? The regime? Media are not doing this to
focus on journalism or the folk first Amendment. These people
are villains. They hate us. Once a year they all
come together for an inseferable dinner. I'll congratulate each other
the same way they always do. The WHCA blinked. That's
(05:06):
what happened here, guys. Trust in the corporate media is
at a record low, and the last thing these losers
and liars need is three days of blowback for once
again pretending to be objective and then looking like a
bunch of.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Lives Joe Biden decades of giving dirty politics a bad name.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sorry, dirty politics.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I want to tell a quick story about something that
happened to me over the weekend, and I there's a
reason I'm telling this story. It's a it ties into
what our next guest is about to talk about. I
went on a blind date this weekend. I went on
a blind date this weekend with somebody that is not
a conservative, She's very liberal, and the conversations was the
date was going horribly. She was real combative and argumentative,
(05:53):
and like, this is just right out of the gates.
Something wrong with this person. I don't Nothing could have
prepared me for the fact that I was about to
date someone that you wanted to have an argument. But
that's fine because I'm me. Most people don't realize, you know,
and when they're meeting someone for the first time that
they're meeting someone like me. You know what I'm saying,
wink wink, nudge, nudge. So immediately the date's not going
(06:14):
well and I think, well, I'm let's let's do a
little science experiment here, if you will, social science, that is,
And I bring up politics. He said, so, what end
of the political spectrum are you on? And she says
to me the side that's compassionate and cares about people.
And immediately I'm like ah, I know exactly what we're
getting into, and I thought, wow, what is it. I'm
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on that side too, but something tells me we're not
on the same side. And then I said, you know,
it's interesting about that. I don't I'm not really bothered
by the fact that other people have differing opinions from me.
I don't care. You're welcome to believe what you want.
In fact, I'll defend your right to believe whatever you want,
even if it's not what I believe. I think you
have a right to believe it. And they're sort of
an awkward pause because she wasn't prepared for that, and
(07:00):
then I said, the only thing I don't understand about
your side is the thing with trans kids. I don't
understand why you guys are okay with that. And she
laughs kind of arrogantly and says, trans kids. You think
there are trans kids? Well, lady, we can disagree about opinions,
but we can't disagree about objective truths if there are
(07:22):
no trans kids. Why did Vice President Kamala Harris and
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau wear t shirts that
said I support trans kids. Why is Attorney General Ken
Paxton assuing and investigating the Texas Children's Hospital. Why did
the Boston Children's Hospital say they were no longer going
to give puberty blockers to prefus and kids? And why
(07:44):
are there TV shows on cable TLC about trans kids?
And she had nothing to say that They ended pretty
shortly after all that. But all that being said, we
don't get to decide what the truth is. Right Sadly
here in Texas, despite the fact that we have laws
in place that are supposed to prevent this sort of
stuff from happening, it still happens, mutilating kids. It's sick,
(08:05):
It's very disgusting. Right. In fact, I thought we had
a bill for this SB fourteen. Senate Bill fourteen was
supposed to prohibit certain procedures and treatments for gender transitioning,
gender reassignment, gender dysphoria for kids. What the heck ever
happened to that. I reached out to one of the
most conservative and honest members of the Texas state government
(08:28):
for an answer to that question, and he's on the
line right now. Stay Representative Steve Toth, what side of
the political spectrum are you on?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh man, Well, there's just me, myself and I over here, honey.
I've got two blind dates stories both times, I mean
bad blind date. I've only I only went on two
blind dates. Both times the women that I went out with,
and this was you know, just just right after high school,
(09:01):
and both times they wore jean skirts. Total turn off
jean skirts. And so when I met my wife the bat,
she never wore a jean skirt, and I knew this
is the woman for me. She doesn't wear jean skirts.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Interesting, what is it about the What is it about
the denim skirt? You don't like it's too Daisy Duke
or something? Is that? No?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, No, it's so like women in really nice jeans,
can ye know? That's that's wow, you know, but definitely
not mom pants and definitely not jean skirts.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What about men in jean skirts? That's okay, right men? Obviously,
because you know it's in these times we're living.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
In I'm in Austin, so I see a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's a good answer. Hey, Steve's SB fourteen. Wasn't this
supposed to stop people from mutilating kids genitals? Why would
this even be controversial?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So? SB fourteen was the first step, right, that was
the first step we all said this is the first step.
The first step was to eliminate damage that you know
something that the left said as well, just let these
kids transition because it's it's you know, they can undo it. Well,
you can undo it. If you put a little girl
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on loupron and she misses puberty, it's part of her
bone generation, it's part of her muscle generations, part of
her neural generation. And then you take that kid, that
same little girl, and you put her on testosterone across
sex hormone, and yeah, she'll have she will have osteoporosis
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when she's older. She may not be functional sexually, meaning
she'll never be able to have an orgasm. She may
never be able to have a child as well. And
you know, these are all the things that they go
into the transition of children, and kids are being lied
to and they're told that all this is all reversible.
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It's not reversible, and so the next step will always
we always had in mind that the next step was
to eliminate the social transitioning of children. And we have
a bill House Bill twenty two to fifty eight that
stops this, that lets kids to become kids. There's been
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a five thousand percent increase in the number of little
girls that want to be little boys. You don't look
at that and say well, that's biology. That's not biology.
You don't look at that and say, well, that's just
socially natural. It's not socially natural. It's a social contagion.
When there's a five thousand percent increase in over a
ten year period, so much so the Tavistock Clinic over
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in Great Britain has said, Wow, this is bad, five
thousand percent increase. And the woman that ran the clinic
that believed in this said, the suicide rate is actually
higher among the kids that are transitioning.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It's not lower.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Higher. Yeah, we're causing kids. We're causing kids to kill themselves.
And and so we have this bill to stop it.
And Dustin Burrows send it to a committee where it
could die, where it would die. They won't give it
a hearing. No, they will not give the bill a hearing.
So the bill's gonna die. Angel Paxton has already committed,
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Brandon Creighton has already committed. May's Middleton has already committed.
The entire Senate has made a commitment to hear and
pass this bill if it will only come out of
the house. In the house is killing it. Wow, thanks
to Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I've noticed under uh, you know, house speaker, Dustin Burrows,
the gridlock in Austin has never been worse like we thought.
It was pretty bad with Dad Fahalin. It's nothing that
was a walk in the park. It is clearly getting
worse right now. And one of your u one of
your all, go.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Ahead, yeah, let me explain what's going on. So under
Burr under Day Feeling, Democrats had committe chairmanships and they
were forced to give up committee chairmanships, and they wanted
something in return for it. What they what did they
want in return for it? They wanted to make sure
that social transitioning would would not happen of little, the
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elimination of social transitioning would not be banned. And they're
getting it. This is what they're getting. This is one
of the things that they negotiated for. If Date Feeling
had been there, we would this bill would be getting
a hearing. And that doesn't say much for Date Feeling.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No, no, he was awful, right And somehow here is
the new boss worse than the old boss. One of
your one of your few allies in the Texas House. There.
Brian Harrison had an interesting tweet over the weekend. Currently,
the Texas government allows sky high property taxes, funds DEI funds,
liberal gender ideology, hires liberal faculty to indoctrinate students on
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artist Marxist ideology, does not require photo ID to vote,
does not require citizenship proof to register to vote. Let's
Democrats write the budget in secret, has more occupational regulations
than California has, massive corporate welfare for liberal firms, still
allows COVID, vax mandates for students, recruits students for public
universities based on their race, awards contracts based on race.
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Is growing government at rates that would make DC Democrats blush.
Uses tax dollars to fund liberal Hollywood. Let's trans teachers
teach young students as young as five. The only thing
on the list I wasn't sure about is the part
about I thought we required a photo ID to vote.
Is there some way around that that I'm not aware of?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
We do require photo ID to vote. If you show
up without a photo ID, you're given You're given the
ability to fill out a provisional.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Bank right provisional. Okay, that's what he's talking about. But
he's right then to his point, he's not wrong about
any of that.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And you shouldn't be able to even fill out a
provisional bail Even though provisional bills are accounted, you still
shouldn't be able to do that either. Yeah, Frankly, Scarlet,
give a damn if you show up and you don't
have your craft together, and you shouldn't be able to vote.
This is the most important thing we do right we're
democ we're a constitutional republic, and if you don't show
up with your ID, sucks to be you. You shouldn't be
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able to vote.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Here's what sucks about this, Steve is right now, the
way that our government is this, considering what's going on
in Washington, considering what's going on at the Houston mayoral office.
Witt Meyers the most conservative mayor we've had in years.
Trump's the most conservative president we've had in years. It's
hard to imagine right now that it's going to get
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better by the next election. It feels like, you know,
if history repeats itself, the way that the pendulum swings
back and forth, I'm not optimistic about what happens in
the next year or two much less. What's going to
happen in this legislative session? Is there anything you could
tell us to you know, I mean, be honest, don't
Optimism and pessimism are one thing. But I think what
we really need is some realism. What realistically do you
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see coming our way as Texas voters, conservative minded people, maga, populous,
liberty Republicans, what do you expect in the near future?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
The United States has woken up. It understands that it's
going to take bold actions to save America. Texas has
woken up. You know, we went from from state wides
winning by four to state wides winning by eight and
twelve percent. All of Texas, all of the United States
are the exception of about thirty one Republicans in the
Texas House have woken up to realize it's going to
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take bold steps to save American to save Texas. And
it's these thirty one Republicans that want to side with
Democrats so that they can hold on to power. Screw them.
You're going to get thrown out of office. A bunch of
you are going to get absolutely fired in the next
election cycle. And no one's going to feel bad for you,
but your Brides so sucks to be you. I'm sorry,
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but we're going to have to clean house again this
election cycle. And frankly, I'm excited about America because we're
going to have twelve years four under Donald Trump, eight
under JD. Vance or whoever, probably Vance. Yeah, and we're
going to turn things around. We're going to turn things
around the United States. Cowards that equivocate, cowards that want
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to reach across the aisles of the Democrats, they are
going to be thrown out of office at the federalist
state level period. End of story.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You know, Steve, one more question I want to ask
you because I thought that was a great answer and
it reminded me of something else I wanted to talk
to you about. Well, what I'm about to ask you
doesn't technically have anything to do with you, and yet
at the same time, it kind of does. Texas District
two Congressional District two is Dan Crenshaw, and he is
not somebody that most conservative grassroots conservatives love the voting
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record of. He's not a lawmaker that I mean, he's
a neo con He's certainly not a Maga populist. He's
not a Ron Paul Republican. He's not a Donald Trump
republic and he's kind of the old school George W.
Bush George H. W. Bush Republican. Right now, he's only
primary opponent who seems to be getting any traction. Appears
to be a con artist with nine aliases, who has
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credibly been accused of committing bigamy. Members of her own
family say that they've been waiting for Dateline to call
them for years because she's such a scam artist. It's
weird to think right now in that race, Dan Crenshaw
might be the best person to vote for. And I
say that as someone that spent years trying to get
someone to primary him. Unless somebody moves in from another
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part of the country. Here, you're probably the only guy
in that part of the state who's even close to
that district that would that would be a credible and
viable candidate to take down Dan Crenshaw. Is that anything
you're considering? Is that anything you're thinking about? Because I
know there's a lot of people that want you to
do it, and you know, I know you're busy with
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other stuff. I get it, but you know, when the
nation calls, I mean, what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
So, Kenny, is this the real reason why you called
me buddy?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No? No, no, no, no, But it's a no, but
it's a good But it's a valid question. I mean,
you know you're not a Dan Crenshaw guy, right, You're
you know, you're tea party Steve Toats, You're the you're
the liberty side of the party. I mean, what are
your thoughts on that? You crack me up?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You wanted to talk about trans kids? No, So here's here's.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I did want to talk. We just talked about it
for fourteen minutes. This is my this is my one
last thing question.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's all that is, all right, So here's here's here's
my pad answer. I think this guy is smart as
a whip. He's Harvard trained, and I have the utmost
respect for what he did for us overseas. I love seals,
and I love the sacrifice that he made, you know,
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honorably serving our country. He lost his eye. But there's
part of his patriotism elevator that doesn't go all the
way to the top that he does not understand that.
You know, the reality, the reality, Kenny, is that fifty
years ago. Yeah, I you know, you could reach across
the aisle to the Democrats and collectively you could come
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up with good policy because you know, both parties, red
and Blue, each one would beat their chest to see
who was tougher on foreign policy, who was tougher on
the fan, you know, believing in supporting the family. Who
is tougher on law and order, who's tougher on common sense?
For how you fisically run a nation, secure borders, the
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whole nine yards. The only thing that we disagreed with
fifty years ago was how big should the social safety
net be? You know, welfare, social security. It's the only
thing we disagreed on. But Dan thinks that you can
reach across the aisle and find common ground with these
these people. They are not Democrats. They are socialists. The
people that run the Democrat Party in Washington are socialists.
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There's no common ground, Kenny, with socialism run, There's only
lungs in havoc. And the reality is that Dan doesn't
get that. If the Democrats were in power, like Obama
said John McCain, elections have consequences. I don't give a
crap what you think. I am going to put my
foot on your neck and I'm gonna hold it there
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until you're dead, and that's what Democrats tried to do
to us when they're in power, and until we get
the same idea, we cannot work with Democrats. We must
defeat Democrats. And Dan just doesn't get that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
What mean what does that mean for me? Well, let's
wait till the end of session.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Man, that's a great answer, Steve, I will tell you. Look,
you're a friend, obviously, and this is not something you
and I have talked about a lot off the air,
but I'm not you know, I'm not going to hide it.
A lot of people have been asking Steve to do this,
and it'll be it. I just want to say, whatever
your choice is, I get it. You got to ask God,
you got to ask your family. Whatever it is, it
has to be the right decision. This is not our
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final form. There is another world beyond this. Obviously, it's
not the most important thing in the world. But I
think if you did it right now, a lot of
people would be cheering you on.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
But Bet and I are praying about it, we really are.
We just you know, we've gotten so many really cool
things done over the years in Texas to help kids
and tell public education find its truths again in listening
to mom and Dad. But we're not done yet, and
we don't know. Honestly, I'm not being cool. I'm not
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in any way, shape or form. We're just like, you know,
the best to do that? Is it best to do
that Washington or is it best to do that here
in Texas? And so that's what we're working through.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I will say this, I know which place has better food.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I mean it's not even close. I don't think they
even have salt in Washington, DC. Hey, we got we
went along on this, Steve, whatever you know how I
feel about it. Man, whatever you choose to do, we
support you. But man, I know there's a lot of
people hoping for it. Steve Tooth find him on X
tooth for Texas. He's easy to find. I follow him.
He's out there. It's actually Tooth Underscore four Underscore Texas.
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Give him a follow and get some honest information from Austin.
Screw you.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We're back, obviously, we're back. That's why you're hearing the
James Bond theme, and not surprisingly, I'm going to talk
about James Bond right now. I suppose there'd only be
two reasons to play this music on a talk radio show,
if I was talking about diamond mines or blood diamonds
or child diamond miners. But then also the Bond stuff.
This was a classic James Bond theme. There's a report
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today from John Nolty and details what is a little
surprising to me. You never expect Hollywood to eat themselves.
Sometimes they just do. Helen Mirren, actress Helen Mirren does
not want to see a female James Bond, but only
because of all the quote profound sexism. What she said,
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quote the whole series of James Bond. It was not
my thing. I never liked James Bond. I never liked
the way women were in James Bond. Profound sexism, she says.
She says, quote women have always been a major and
incredibly important part of the Secret Service. They've always been
They're very brave. If you hear about what women did
in the French Resistance, they're amazing. I'm sorry, what is
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she end quote? By the way, what is she talking about? Look,
I agree that women should launch their own brands and
franchises rather than cosplaying and iconic roles by men. I
don't think we should redo James Bond with a woman.
I don't think we should redo Wolverine with a trans
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guy as the superhero or Spider Man. Shouldn't be like
a disabled black Legs may That'd be crazy, right, what
would be the point? I agree with that, but I
disagree with her overall? The Bond movie features gorgeous women
in bikinis falling all over themselves for James Bond. I
mean that's true sure from the beginning, though with Doctor
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Number sixty three years ago, the Doctor no right that
the series almost always presented a woman as tough and independent.
Honey Ryder unforgettably played by the stunning Ursula Andre the
opposite of a bimbo. She's self educated, resourceful, capable of
taking care of herself. Yeah, Bond girls are hot, obviously,
but wasn't Bond himself supposed to be attractive? Am I
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the only person that's ever seen a James Bond movie
in Okay, I'm not in Hollywood, but attacking James Bond
as sexist for his portrayal of women is like criticizing
the Double O seven franchises trafficking in you know, too
many male villains? You know what I mean? Like? Who
come on now? Before I'm accused of being disingenuous, I
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understand that Double O seven is all about male wish fulfillment.
There's eye candy there right, obviously, But normal women see
the series as their own form of wish fulfillment. They
can if they want. We're not allowed to say so
out loud anymore. Don't you think normal women would like
to be chased and seduced and wanted and rescued and
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protected by a man who looks like Sean Connery or
Roger Moore? Are we to believe that this wasn't a
fun movie for women as well? It was obviously popular.
There's nothing wrong with wish fulfillment for men and women.
The whole idea is to appeal to that part of
us we secretly desire to be. Isn't it interesting? Men?
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Young men will look at a video game and they'll go, cool,
they made the superheroes muscles bigger, cool. And women will
look at a video game and they'll go, oh, why
they make her boobs? So big, Like wait, what? Okay,
Obviously not all women feel that way. There's plenty of
women that like big boobs and video game I'm sure
there are. Over the weekend, I stumbled into a video
game convention. I wasn't my plan. I was out walking Milton,
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and there's a hotel here in the area, not far
from where I live, and in this general area where
the radio station is, and so we walked inside. I
got a cup of coffee from the coffee shop, and
there were nerds everywhere. You could tell they were nerds
because they were dressed like wizards and warlocks and stuff
like that. And they were in a certain age group,
you know, usually teenagers to thirty somewhere, younger adults who
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don't have families yet. And they were all gathered around
cosplaying role playing, pretending to be warriors and magicians and
gladiators and that sort of thing. And would you believe
a lot of the girls in this group of people
were wearing pretty dresses. And they were not doing it
against their own free will, No, it's completely consensual. They
wanted to wear pretty dresses to the video game convention
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so that they could either impressed boys or impress themselves
or impress. The other word, they just enjoyed looking that way.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging and appealing to human nature.
Declaring these perfectly normal and healthy impulses as being sexist
or the male gaze that has gone a long way
towards destroying the appeal and the fun of Hollywood's output.
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This is one big reason why nobody goes to movies anymore,
the idea that anyone would go see snow White the
New One to watch her become a leader, instead of
wanting to see that moment when snow White's humility and
purity and self sacrifice pay off with her being rescued
by a handsome prince and living halfway ever after with him. Well, well,
those people are idiots, I guess.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks. They could make you
shoot at tax collectors and miss. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty cusin.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Utah has banned fluoride in public drinking water. Some people
are surprised by this, but you know, fluoride brighton's teeth.
It makes it whier And I gotta think Utah is
already white enough, they don't need any more whiteness there.
But all that being said, Utah's laws aside, we got
problems of our own here in the backyard. I actually
kind of wonder if this is a real controversy or
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just something that gets the media for a thing at
the mouth. You notice how from time to time there
are people that will run for office and they don't
stand any chance of winning. It's someone you've never heard
of before, with no budget, no resources, and they want
to be Senator of Texas. They're going to take on
John Corny. You think, well, that's not really a serious candidate.
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There's too much at stake. There would be too many
things that they'd need to do in order to win
that election. It seems unlikely. Right. Well, that's kind of
how I feel about this next bit of news here
from Houston. There's a group called Recall Houston and they
don't like John Whitmyer. To put it bluntly, John Whitmyer,
it's too moderate of a Democrat for them, and they're
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out right now collecting signatures to try to remove the mayor.
John Whitmeyer, our moderate centrist mayor is too controversial for
who now here's how it works. Recalling a mayor in
the city of Houston requires twenty five percent of the
votes in the last general election for Houston. That'd be
about sixty three thousand signatures. And they have to gather
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and submit all of these signatures within thirty days, so
you know fast math. Here's it's more than two thousand
signatures of day. And they've all got to be registered voters,
and they've all got to live in the city of Houston.
This can't be people out in sugar Land that just
don't like the mayor. So it begs the question, are
they going to be able to get two thousand signats?
Seems unlikely. No, But what they could do is collect
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a lot of donations in the weeks coming and maybe
create a little fervor if you will, you know, the outrage.
But it's kind of like, are you do you want
the position? It's like when people pretend to run for office,
but they're really just trying to build clout and build
up a war chest for their campaign. I don't know
if this is a sincere thing. For the record, I've
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always had mixed feelings about whitt Meyer. So much better
than what we could have had. Do you remember what
we could have had, well, I mean rest in peace.
We could have had Shila Jackson Lee. That was the
person that was challenging him. So even still Witmeyer, he's
a Democrat. Yeah, he's one of the better Democrats, but
a Democrat nonetheless. And there are people on our side
that have pointed out recently that Whitmeyer really needs to
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renegotiate his support with Republicans because he is doing some
things that might upset you. I'll explain why, and I'm
not at all suggesting we should support the recall effort.
But like a lot of things in local politics or
national politics for that matter, this is complicated. It's nuanced,
it's not as simple as good or bad. That's why
I reached out to one of the smarter people involved
in local government to get their take on it. Alex
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Miehler came within less than one percent of defeating Harris
County Judge Lena Hidalgo last time around. Since then, she
has gotten very involved in helping the campaign for local
judicial candidates, many of which have won and done fantastic
work since taking office. And she's on the line right now. Alex,
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let's start off with this is recall Houston. Is this
a real thing or, like I just explained, you think
they're just trying to build a clout for some other endeavor.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Well, so, yeah, zero chance of success. Like you mentioned
the two thousand vote signatures verified per day. But the
funnier thing here is the complete misdirection. So this group's
statement says that what they're really upset about is public safety, flooding,
and infrastructure. So I don't know how those are your
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lead issues and you're not doing a recall effort for
Judge Alina hid All, Goo, Rodney Ellis, Leslie Brionez and
Adrian who's continually starved our local government, you know, after
corruption and so those are not exactly the weak spot
issues for Whitmyer. Well, it's more of the scrutinies I think,
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a big civics lesson.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, I mean that's a fantastic point, John Whitmeyer. Those
are things, Those are reasons people elected Whitmyer. We had
a mayor who campaigned on a promise to fix all
the potholes in town, and then while he was running
for mayor, he actually created potholes so he could take
a photo of himself filling the potholes. Meanwhile, the real
potholes in town never got touched. Whit Myer's actually gone
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out and made efforts to fix some of these problem
These are kitchen table issues. People will tell you. It's
not quite the same as trans politics or deporting all
the illegals. It's this is generally stuff moderates and centrists
and conservatives and liberals would all agree on. Why are
people Matt at whitt Myer. Is this just a feud
within his own party that's bleeding out into the street
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snowpun intended. Yep.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
No, it really starts around as the bike lobby, but
all proxy AstroTurf groups from Rodney Ellis. So within the Democrats,
you've got the more centrists lined up with Whitmyer, and
then the hardcore progresses with Rodney Ellis, who while in
general elections has lost the power, still king of the
Democrat primary. You're seeing that play out with Sheila Jackson's seat,
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then Turner short held seat with Rodney kind of marshaling
all of the support against his protege, Christian Menacey. And
so this proxy war keeps happening. But what's happened is
throughout the city whit Meyer has gone and started to
reduce some of the bike dedicated lanes, which I fully support. Unfortunately,
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with Rodney Ellis and under Turner's administration, the only money
that really ever went to RHADS is if it was
going to add a bike lane. So people are frustrated
with the state of our infrastructure, which, to be clear,
it looks like a third world And that's one of
my frustrations just with the city of Houston is where's
the investment on the west side of town where the
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generically more the conservatives are because I don't know how
you don't replace your shocks every year. But Rodney Ellis
Isles has a billion but half a billion dollars of
road bonds. So this guy is twenty fifteen road bonds
not spent, twenty eighteen road bonds not spent, twenty two
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road bonds not spent, and he's holding all that cash
on the sideline and almost all his precinct is inside
the loop Houston. So kind of almost one hundred percent
overlap with Whitmire. And meanwhile, you know what, Meyer's trying
to figure out, how do we keep this city functional?
Because we really do look in terms of infrastructure third
world and so a lot of funds. Now, we approved
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twenty five million dollars at the last Metro meeting Service
Public Safety Chair, and we're taking that money and it's
going towards fixing roads. But you have this great distortion
because the county's not doing what it's doing. So recall
Houston and are ready to do a recall initiative for
the county.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Let me know. I'll sign myself right up.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You know, that's an interesting point. I think you explained
it quite well for those that don't know, And I
mean I wonder no one really knows who the There's
no public figure backing this group, so we don't officially know.
I mean, we kind of know who's involved, but it's
not anybody that most of us names we would recognize.
There's a lot of speculation in online discussion the groups
backed by interests tied to the previous administration Mayor Sylvester Turner. Now,
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as you're aware, he recently passed away. He was sitting
in the congressional seat previously occupied by Sheila Jackson Lee
and she's also recently passed away. So I find it
a little odd that that group of local progressive far
left Democrats, mostly from the Black Democrat inner circle, are
worried about Whitmeyer right now. I think they have more
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important things to worry about, like who's going to take
Shila Jackson Lee's old congressional seat. But all that being said,
it's also interesting to think that, you know, the Republicans
aren't real thrilled right now with w Meyer either. There
is a chance some Republicans might go out and sign
this the petition, although I think it's unlikely because honest,
we'd probably get something much worse. But you and I
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were talking about this on off air. Why are a
lot of Conservatives upset with Wittmeyer right now?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Well, I don't know if fully upset, but it's clear.
You know, projects when are going to Democrat areas generically,
So right now I think we're waiting to see what
happens with that toll road. So new legislation going to
siphon thirty percent to the City of Houston, but there's
no requirement for debt pay down. So you know, in
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the future city of Houston having these funds, where's the
incentive to ever, you know, relieve the unincorporated county, which
you know is largely Republican. As you continue to have
mayors which you know in all likelihood will be Democrat
for the foreseeable future, how do we make sure that
roads are getting repaved on the west side of town
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or in the incorporated area. So right now, a good
provision in that bill that it's sponsored by Mono Della
and Ben Incore, is it makes the roads Parada. So
Commissioner Ramsay, who's our only Republican at the county, he
has fifty percent of the roads that he only gets
a quarter, So they'll adjust that and make it Parada
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as currently proposed, But thirty percent of the funds are
going to go to the City of Houston, and so
you know, wanting to make sure that that incorporated side
is protected is really careful because right now we see
still the predominance of projects going into Democrat strongholds instead
of conservative areas of the city that were neglected under
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An East Parker and Sylvester Turner.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Boy, it's interesting too how this affects local politics because
Sylvester Turner just died obviously, that leaves an empty seat. Meanwhile,
in Florida, they're having special elections today to figure out
who's going to replace Matt Gates and one other congressional chair.
And this, actually, all of this together could combine to
create some problems for the Republicans if they lose control
(39:07):
of the House in Washington, d C. I don't know
how soon that would happen, but it could happen relatively soon.
Clock is ticking on that one right now. Do you
think Amanda Edward's former Houston City councilwoman, do you think
she stands any chance of taking that chair?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
No? I mean, you know, you can hate policy, right,
but respect the organization, and I do think Rodney is
one of the more forward looking politicians that really invest
in kind of the next generation. Obviously doesn't leave Democrats
much of a choice in a primary, but with the
(39:44):
amount you know, pretty much every Democrat officeholder you've ever
heard of, I think it's about two pages long the
endorsement sheet that Menafee has behind him, and including Sheila
Jackson's daughter, So you know, I don't see if they
ran a more moderate candidate, but that hasn't emerged yet,
(40:04):
so it's much more organized command and control. We still
obviously have that problem in our Republican primaries, but a
Democrat seat like that Texas eighteen. That's not just a hey,
I want to be active in my community, raise my
hand to run. It's pretty wired. It's pretty interesting to
see what happens. And to your point with you know,
(40:26):
the midterms, that that is a real threat. I think
Democrats are worried about how close twenty four is, and
this recall effort at Whitmeyer, to me, is a lot
of way to scapegoat the problems that the county's failing,
because there's some pretty big elections up in twenty six
and a chance for us to win back actually take
majority control of the court. So I think this is
(40:50):
them coming more from a place of vulnerability than a
place of strength. But Republicans in terms of the macro,
I think is going to come out to how quickly
economy tariffs can get settled and if that can be
stabilized before mid terms, which there's there is time, but
it's kind of hard to know where the economic outlook's
(41:11):
going to become midterms.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Okay, So bottom line me here, with everything that's taking
place right now and all the stuff we see going
on here, do you think that this recall of wit
Meyer is gonna matter? No?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
I think it's gonna be pretty minimal. And like I said,
I think it's more of a distraction. You know, Harris
County is short several hundred million on their flood control
bond million. They don't know where it went yet. Yeah,
And so if you're you know, basically have a sucking
chest wound, you're gonna keep trying to do whatever you
can because most people, honestly, you know, if you and
(41:49):
I weren't so involved, you wouldn't understand what's the city's responsibility,
what's the counties and the city on any kind of metric,
is out performing the county right now, that's clear, there's
no doubt about it. Further, we're going to continue to
needle and try to ravel rowse.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Right for those that don't live in Houston, you know,
people out in the suburbs are just those of you
that don't actively follow local politics. One of the reasons
that Rodney Allis is so interesting is he's not the
county judge. He's just a local county commissioner, and yet
he kind of controls the local Democrat party. You know,
we're talking about you know, who could replace wit Meyer,
who could replace Sheila Jackson Lee or Sylvester Turner in Congress.
(42:28):
And I always think it's interesting, Alex how Rodney never
really seemed to have the ambition to leave that position.
But why leave a position that he'll easily get re
elected in and a position in which he actually has
a lot of power in it, even though it doesn't
seem like he would, right Yeah, And look at.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
His campaign account He's got six million in his campaign accounts,
probably more now than he's able to heavily fundraise from it.
So he has two kind of key mentees, Christian Mennasei,
who just left county attorney to be lined up for
Sheila's and then Chris Hollins's kind of the perpetual foil
of what Meyer comptroller, which is always interesting considering the
(43:07):
guy's financially illiterate. But he's geared up to the challenging
what Meyer in the Marrit race, and so the progresses
have really lined up around him. But lots of proxy wars.
Just like our site has fights, so does theirs, And
it's just a tumultuous time in Houston. And I think
the positive at least the county now is very much
(43:29):
becoming purple. And so these kind of fissures are just
very active as people try to figure out what's the
way to hold onto power.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Alex, you are always honest and right to the point,
and I am grateful for you. What's going on in
your world lately?
Speaker 5 (43:42):
Okay, yeah, no, I'm hanging in there. So obviously not
campaign season. Still busy with Metro. I'm hoping next month
will be able to put more funding towards law enforcement,
the big strides there that we'll be looking forward to
(44:03):
announcing hopefully next month. And then kids, you know, we
just start a key ball so trying to do the
family thing.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And you are still, if I am not mistaken, chair
of the Public Safety Committee for Metro.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
I am, and like I said, a really strong police
chief there, pretty notable, you know, used to have most
of your Metro officers in their cars. Has done a
big push to get them riding the system and increase
the numbers quite a bit. And I think, like I said,
next month that I want to jump the gun and
we'll be pretty drastic though. We've meaningfully increased the size
(44:42):
of the law enforcement and I'm hoping we can grow
it some more. So that's been one of the fights
that obviously I fully support with meron Is.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
From Metro.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
We've been putting more funds to repairing roads. These should
be roads that Metro uses heavily and funding law enforcement
as we get ready for kind of world cup, et cetera.
But by actually having Metro have an increased police presence,
that creates more officers in the area, gives local law
enforcement in your area, you know, more flexibility to respond
(45:15):
because of the county not funding law enforcement to appropriate levels. Anyway,
we can get a large entity and Metro is a
multi billion dollar entity to fund law enforcement, that then,
you know, starts moving the needle. Not the full degree
we'd all want, but still progress.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
As always, Alex awesome work. You can find her on
x that you know, the social media website Alex Mieler
TX is her name on there. If you want to
keep up with what's going on in local politics from
a reasonable liberty minded, right leaning perspective, I feel like
Alex is a great resource for that. I'm county Webster.
I love you all. Thank you so much for tuning
in this afternoon. Drive safe out. There will be back
(45:51):
bright and early tomorrow morning for more of what you
bought a radio for. You are listening to the Pursuit
of Appiness Radio.
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