October 24, 2025 • 45 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Newsmax's Chris Salcedo, Republican Executive Commitee Member Rolando Garcia, and Houston Conservative Forum's Don Hooper. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right, folks, it's happening. Plastic surgeons saying more people
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my friend Josh, the conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He was right. The world really is flat.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hi. I'm Kenny Webster and thanks so much. Returning on
the radio, A lot of people, a lot of fascinating
conservatives from the state of Texas will be here on
the show today. Chris Salcito will be stopping by the
Newsmax TV show host. I was on his show last week.
He's gonna be on my show today. He's got a
new book out. You're gonna want to hear about it.
Really cool stuff. Also in the building today Rolando Garcia
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and Don Hooper.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Who are they?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You might ask, two of the most dominant grassroots conservative
activists in the greater Harris County area. If you've ever
been to a local Republican event or whatever, these were
the guys in the room holding people accountable.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Naming names, making lists. We're going to talk about early
voting and a lot more, say hang out for that.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Before we get to any of that, there's a report
today for Peter Hack that I think needs some attention.
In the news today, you're hearing about a tariff war
with Canada. You are hearing all about Donald Trump building
a new wing on the East end. It's a ballroom
on the east wing of the winehouse, and the FBI
director Cash Pattel on the verge of exposing antifa's funding network.
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But I think right now, with everything going on, one
of the most underreported news stories, not just in America
but in the world is the story of Christians Catholics
in Nigeria being hunted and murdered and buried in silence.
I gotta tell you it is. It's like something out
of a horror film. What is taking place in Nigeria
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right now?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The music stop? Can we try that again? Taking to Mulligan,
Why did the music stop? Started again? There we go?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Thank you the thrill of live radio. Everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There's a video that just surfaced within the last week
here of a mass funeral in Nigeria.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Wooden coffins.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They all hold women and children and just innocent victims
murdered for their religious beliefs. Let me read the caption
to you on the video. This heartbreaking mass burial of Christians,
mostly children and their mothers actually happened on the fourteenth
of October. Nigeria will go down in history as the
country that has drunken the most Christian blood in all
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of human history with zero remorse.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Loud shame.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Take note of this caption here, guys, loud shame, indeed
even louder silence. It's a pastor that has been speaking
out about what is taking place in Nigeria while a
burial of more slaughtered Nigerian Christians. This pasture, the pastor,
excuse me, pasture, sorry, been on the I've been awake
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for a long time. This pastor made a plead to
President Trump to come rescue these Christians, diet to.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The outside performing pot of everything and then expect silence.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Now cannot open me on denied.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
There's no massacre, there's no genocide of christ and na
jen I look at today, You're not dominations. I know
you're watching you at a Senate. You're watching what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Advice to Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Please.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
To set our life and not jelli.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Seven thousand Nigerian Christians have been slaughtered by Islamic insurgents
so far this year. Islamis terrorist group called Boko Haram
waging a brutal campaign against Nigeria's Christian populations, happening for
ten years.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And none of this is theoretical. It's really happening, right.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's not like you could say, oh, they're not getting
you know, in South Africa, there's this argument that now
the farmers aren't just being killed because they're white. It's
just a crime spree. These people are being killed because
they're they're Christians. And by the way, I do think
the farmers in South Africa are being killed because they're white.
But that's besides the point. One Nigerian witness, visibly shaken,
describe the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I am a preacher of the gospel, does and evangelists,
and evangelist is known for traveling to rural villages.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
There is a village we.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Went for on an outreach, jose legc. Everything was fine.
We did our medical autrees. So diesus being please a
gospel today, donated them boats children, an adult. Everything is
going well fast forward. Last week we were last week
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we went back day to go to follow up. That
village is completely wipe out, O body.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Not for you.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I mean the lots were cute and lord wages please.
In fact, you are working on espected with just stumbul
or human skull. You're working on expected in stumbul on
human skeletons. So that's why I don't long got kid
to let's this cost me my life, But I'll come
out as being the truth.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'm gonna passit right here.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm gonna explain what he's saying, because I understand accents
very thick at somebody on the other end of the world.
I grew up around a lot of Nigerians. I know
exactly what this guy is saying. I also have a
transcript of it, saying there was a village. They were
there a couple of weeks ago. Everything was fine. They
came back. They witnessed three year old babies being slaughtered
like chickens. You're walking unexpectedly, you just stumble on a
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human skull. You're walking unexpectedly on human skeletons. He said,
I've never thought that a day is coming where I
will witness a three year old baby being slaughtered like
a chicken. Listen to that. That is horror. You can't
listen to that information without feeling it in your chest.
This is what real genocide looks like, not a viral
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post or some college protest. Mass graves, disappearing villages, and
while Nigeria's Christians bury their dead, we here in the
West bury our conscience. In the next political distraction this week,
there's a budget fight happening in America next week, some
social media spat. Meanwhile, believers on the other side of
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the world are paying for their faith with their lives.
There are people in West Virginia at a church there,
led by a local pastor and a lawmaker, Representative Rianley Moore,
who have tried to go out and try to help
these people. And what he said was, we have been
training and equipping the Nigerians and the hope that they
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were going to stop Boko Haram. Well that's not happening.
I think there's a question that there's a collusion between
the current Islamic government in Nigeria and these terrorist organizations
that are killing Christians in mass end quote. This isn't
random violence, it's targeted ideological. It's absolutely intentional. The Christians
of Nigeria are not the aggressors. They build, they farm,
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they teach, they worship. For those things, they are marked
for death. If this were happening anywhere else, to anyone else,
the world would be in an uproar. But these are
rural African Christians and nobody pays attention, No one cares.
We cannot let our comfort become apathy. While we argue politics,
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they bury their children, and that should break our hearts
enough to act or say something. With everything happening in
the world right now, there's a place on Earth where
Christians are being massacred for their religious beliefs. If you
cared about Ukraine, if you cared about Iraq, or Afghanistan
or any of those places, just remember those those were
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all places where people had very different beliefs than us.
These Nigerian Catholics actually have the same belief system as us,
similar political and religious beliefs as us, and they're being
murdered for it. Now, you guys understand, I'm an intervention
I'm a non interventionist, I'm a pacifist. These are terrorists
murdering Christians. I think even Rand Paul would agree, we
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should probably stand up and do something.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
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Speaker 2 (08:35):
All right, So, breaking news from the economy here at
Target is cutting eighteen hundred corporate jobs in their first
major layoff in decades. Now, those executives at Target will
be so broke.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
How broke are they? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The executives at Target will be so broke they'll be
forced to shop at Walmart. I know, I actually prefer
Walmart to be honest. That's besides the point. You're probably
wondering why I'm playing this music right now, here's a
show on news Max I enjoy watching every weekend, every weeknight,
excuse me. And he's actually a guy with a close
connection to Houston. He's got a talk radio show on
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another conservative talk station in town, k SEV.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
His name's Chris Salcito.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
But I happen to know that his godmother is Italian,
which means technically that means that technically his name is
pronounced Chris Salcedo.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Right, Chris, Well, just don't tell my mom or any
of my living relatives.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
K Wait, wait, why what nationality is your mom my?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Mom my mom, Well, nationality is he's an American. But
my dad used to when I when I started media,
my dad would always get on me because in school
they would call me salcito. They would mispronounce it right,
And then when I got on the air, I said, Dad, well,
I said three years of Spanish, so I'm just gonna
pronounce it sal sato, which is how uh English, how
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English people English speaking people do Spanish. And he hated it. Technically,
it's saltsevo as your liberty loving Latino. That's how it's pronounced.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But you know, I wait, wait, wait a second Latino.
That means we're playing the wrong music. Cue the right music.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
There we go. That is so much better.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Chris Salcedo, I actually I'm gonna be I have to.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I have to confess to the audience.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I actually knew that Chris and I were doing a
hokey bit to start the segment off.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It was pretty hokey, wasn't it. Chris, Hope hokey doesn't
cover it.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
But you know what, it's entertaining radio, So I'm down.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, we're just having fun. Man, Hey, Chris has a
new book out right now. I think this is really cool.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's about the liberty loving Latino. It's not just a
catchy it's not just a catty catchy title. That's really
what you are, aren't you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The book is called The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino,
a New American Revolution. It's my moniker, it's what I
It's how I start the Christal Sader Show when I
got out of news, got into opinion, and it has
been the culmination about fifteen years in talk radio, fifteen
years in opinion television, and then my interview with Trump
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just before the election kind of wrapped up in all
of that and how we present the case as to
why millions upon millions of Latinos turned around and said,
I can't support the socialist, violent, anti American, kook, freaking
nut Party anymore. I'm going to start voting not for
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Republicans but for the America First Coalition in President Trump.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But Chris, if you're a Latino, that would mean that,
according to what I've been told, what I've been brainwashed
to believe by the mainstream media, You're supposed to think
that Trump is racist.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Correct, You're supposed to believe that if you enforce the
rule of law, he's a racist. You're supposed to believe
that the enforcement of the rule of law is the
act of a king, when it actually is. That's the
exact opposite, the Democrats ignoring of law and by the way,
complicit Republicans, the democrats usurpation of the US Constitution. That
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is the act of a king, of a total litarian.
Every accusation leveled by the left, my friend, is a confession.
Every accusation is a confession.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You know, I've always wondered about this. You know, I
grew up in Chicago. Don't hold it against me. I
got to Texas as quick as I could, kind of
like Davy Crockett. And in Chicago we call them Latinos.
In Texas they say Hispanics Vegas, Hispanics, California Latinos.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why is there two different words? What's the deal there?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And it doesn't matter, Well, in the actual parlance, it
really doesn't matter, But there is a difference between the
two Hispanics. The word Hispanic was created by the US
government to lump Kubano's people from Spain who speaks Spanish,
people from Central America speak Spanish, people from Mexico seek
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spanis all in the one demographic group. So it was
a US government creation. The word Hispanics not even a
real word, they just created it. Latinos. They traditionally come
from Latin America, that's their their point of origin. So
and there are some cultural differences that go along with that,
But for the for all intents and purposes, for the
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way it's communicated in the political parlance and in the
normal everyday conversation that Americans are having, they're relatively the
same term.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, Chris, I'm sure we both agree. I'm just glad
that white liberal suburban cat ladies came along and changed
both words to latinx oh Man.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I write several times in the book about this, And
don't you love it when when white liberals kind of
want to come up to you, white leftists come and
tell you, you know what, Hey, you know, I know you
really love your Spanish language, but it doesn't really work
with my trans idiocy agenda, my LGBTQ ag cultural Marxist agenda.
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So I'm going to have to ask you to start
referring it yourself and not as a Latino or Latina.
Just Latin X because we really need it to work
for us politically. And I don't care what side of
the political.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Earl you're on.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Ninety over ninety percent of Latinos hear that and go
no way, yeah, no way, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Why did we need to change the language?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh, because it's been offensive now for fifteen minutes, even
though it's probably existed for thousands of years.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Let's talk about Latin American culture for just a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Obviously, in this half of the world, there's a lot
of Spanish speaking people, and one of those people comes
from Florida's name is Marco Rubio. I think he had
the perfect response this week after the liberal media started
criticizing Donald Trump for blowing up boats with literal Narco
terrorists on board.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Well, I mean the question is, bottom line, these are
drug votes.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up,
stop sending drugs to the United States.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Does it matter if it's in the United States, Well,
these are all in international waters. The boat in the
United States, Well, that's a different Manua. You're talking about
a law enforcement matter.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
In this particular case, there are people traveling on international
waters headed towards the United States with hostilities in mind,
which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs. And
they're going to be stopped. And that's what's happening. And
in the case last week you saw there was a submarine,
it was a submarine. It was a submersible. That's a
drug boat. All the way through. We know what these
boats are, the President just said it. We track them
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from the very beginning. We know who's on them, who
they are, where they're coming from, what they have on them.
And you know, if you're running drug boats, you're in
grave danger.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, as it turns out, there is a very good
legal argument for this. It's covered in the Constitution. This
is we have the legal authority to do this. It's
part of the reason why nobody is going after Trump now.
And you know, whether it be in the Constitution or
the un Charter, there's more than one thing that gives
Trump the power to do this, right.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, not to mention the a foreign terrorist designation, these
narco terrorists have President of the United States has determined
that these people are responsible for the desks, by the way,
supplied by communist China. Let's all, let's not forget supplied
by communist China, the precursors for these drugs killing upward
of a hunt on average, one hundred thousand Americans a year.
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Can you imagine? Can you imagine one hundred thousand people
dying every year in the United States of America and
the American government not acting. Oh yes, we don't have
to imagine that. That's four years of Joe Biden, that's
eight years of baraq Houssein Obama. They didn't the Democrats
don't give a damn about one hundred thousand Americans dying.
Now I've heard the libertarian argument. I've heard it, Well,
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these people who are using these drugs, they should be
allowed to coke out and it's killing the herd, which
I can actually get behind to a certain degree. Sentinel
is a different drug. You brush up against somebody who
has some of this fentanyl, maybe in a jacket pocket
or something like that that they've handled, it can see
through your skin and it can literally kill you. Right,
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This can literally kill that. There's enough being seized in
Texas alone in twenty twenty five to kill the United
States of America. That's in the in Texas alone in
twenty twenty five alone. We haven't got California or is
there Arizona or New Mexico and their seizures involved. So
the President is right to point out that this drug
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is a weapon. It is being utilized against Americans, it
is killing Americans. And you know what, I'm with, Rubio,
if you don't want to get blown up in international waters,
don't be transporting this poison into the veins of America.
It's plain and simple.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, I just feel like if something's physically addictive like that,
I mean, there's such a big difference between marijuana and
crack or you know, like like psychedelic mushrooms and fentanyl,
that it's such a weird argument for somebody to support
one that could arguably have medicinal or therapeutic uses and
the other one that's actually being used for as a bioweapon,
as narco terrorism, as you just pointed out. And I
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think it's easy to see where the line should be.
I don't know why people try to obscure that so much,
but you know, it's Trump arrangement syndrome on full display.
People have to be against Trump no matter what he does. Chris,
It's just as true with him taking out terrorists and
arresting criminals, even this thing with the White House. I
just watched a video earlier. We're running out of time here,
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but i'd love to get your take on this real quick.
I just watched a video of CNN in twenty ten,
a very diverse news crew, very excited about three hundred
and seventy six million dollar White House renovation. They're all smiling,
everyone looks happy. Fast forward in time. Trump is actually
now building a ballroom with private funds, not public and
they're actually mad about this.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What's your thoughts on that, Chris.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, we found it featured on the Newsback Show just yesterday.
You're right, three hundred and thirty seven million dollar project
from Barack Houssein Obama in twenty ten. Everybody thought it
was great. By the way, in modern dollar dollars, this
somewhere around five hundred and sixty eight five hundred and
sixty nine million dollars in equivalent dollars. So here's Obama
who did a project that is almost doubles what President
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Trump's project is, and and it was heap in the
back of taxpayers, and everybody was cool with that. But
the minute Trump tries to beautify, and it's like he's
going to fold up the East Room and the Ballroom
and put in his back pocket and leave. When he
leaves the White House, he's gonna leave it there to
beautify the White House for decades to come. Praise God.
And this is just again part of the Trump Arrangement syndrome.
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And why so many liberty loving Latinos and record numbers
voted for President Trump because, let's be honest, Kenny, that
the left has gone back one oh crazy and Latinos show.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I love that, Chris, You're pretty good at doing this,
my man. I'm so glad you don't have a morning
radio show. We'd have to compete with here in town.
That would really hurt us. Hey, the book is called
The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino. Chris does have
a radio show. By the way, you can also watch
him on Newsmax every day. Follow him on Ax. He
is a great follow But more than anything, we really
want people to check out this book America first, The
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Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino, A New American Revolution
with Chris Santa though the Italian American.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Chris right, I'll take it be Italian Stallion. I'll rip
off Rocky all day. Look you guys can pick it
up on Amazon for a couple of bucks because it's
on pre order. It drops on December ninth. Seek you
save yourself of money some money, head over to Amazon
dot com and check it out.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
My brother Chris Salcido check him out on x.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Yeah, you're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very
spicy radio.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All right, everybody, he places people? What's going on here? Oh,
this is interesting. Meta is cutting six hundred jobs in
its AI unit because ironically they did such a great
job developing AI that now everybody can be replaced by AI. Hi.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Thanks so much for joining us for a live streamed
edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness Radio. With a
room full of Harris County right wing, heavy hitting conservative
garbage Nazis.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
On the left of the Nazis, I'm the left of me.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Right now, Romando Garcia, explain what your position is in
the Texas State Republican Party.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Well, I am a State Republican Executive committee man, and
what that means is that basically I'm on the board
of Directors of the Republican Party of Texas. It's a
volunteer position, so if you're pissed off about what the
state party is doing or not doing, you can let
me know.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And in addition to that, sitting to your left directly
across from me, he is the arm candy to Texas
Republican Party attorney Rachel Hooper Don Hooper, but he's a.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Man of his own accolades.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Don Hooper actually created the Houston Conservative Forum, which has
been really important to help motivate and educate local right
wing voters in local elections.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
For how long you've been doing it now at this point, God,
I'm probably twenty years. I think that's quite put that
night closer to him out there. Yeah, so twenty years.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Started in ernest, probably riding on Big Jolly Politics, and
I know that website, yeah yeah, yeah, And so I
wrote there for probably six or seven years, very quite
a few number of years, I remember that. And then
David Jennings who had started it. Interestingly enough, David was
the Lone Star Times got started with Dan Patrick, and
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then the three guys that started Lone Star Times all
want different directions, and David started Big Jolly Politics. And
I didn't like what David was right, and he said, well,
then you ought to write. I went, okay, I will
all right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So there's kind of like two factions of the conservatives
here in Southeast Texas, and like the Dick Weekly Republicans
and then the Don Hooper Republicans. Is that how you'd
explain it obviously, right, Well, the Don Hooper Republicans.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
More establishment Republicans, I guess, versus the conservatives that are
and then that's a fight that's played out at the
part the state party, in at the local party.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I kind of get along while with everyone, but I
will admit that the Dick Weekly Republicans have never invited
me to a single cocktail part, not at once. Have
I been invited to the Bacon rap shrimp buffet. Never
not allowed at that. But some of his underlings I
seem to get along with. I think it's because I
made a lot of jokes about his name. It's right there,
like one am I, it's not my fault. It's not
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my fault. Your name is Dick Weekly. I feel like
your name's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You can't blame me. I invited both of you here
for two different reasons.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Number One, Rolando one of my favorite people to interview
about local political causes. I never had you in studio before,
and Don, I could say the same thing about you,
but more specifically in your case and let me get
it up on the screen here. Sorry about that I
hit the wrong button. You have your where is it
your early voting guide?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Early voting Guide?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Early voting is happening right now around the state of Texas,
and I feel like, although we didn't have a No
Kings rally last weekend to motivate us while we dressed
up in furry kitty outfits and spanked each other at
an LGBTQ Pride crosswalk in mantrase, we do have this
talk radio p to remind everybody that even though it's
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not the sexiest, most salacioust exciting election you've ever been
involved in, there are some relatively important things here that
we're voting on. And Don, you did a pretty good
job of breaking down, like, what was the more conservative
way to vote on these props? What is the liberal
Houston Chronicle saying to people? And then a couple of
local right leaning more libertarian republican liberty concuss would be
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a right wing libertarian Texas policy research, probably center libertarian position,
I would think, And I like how you did that,
because you're just telling people how to vote, not telling
people how to vote, but telling people how other people are.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Voting, right is compared to mine.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But before we get into what you wrote about this, Rolando,
how do you explain to people you had an easy
way to No one's going to memorize seventeen or eighteen props, right,
I don't even know my own sister's birthday.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
How am I going to remember that.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
There's seventeen amendments. Some are more important than others. But
what I've been telling people, and don may disagree, is
that Conservatives should vote for most of them except Number one,
Number four and number fourteen, because those are the three
that spend money. All the others deal with various types
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of tax cuts, tax exemptions, and of course Prop three,
which deals with bail that's very important. And of course
one of them raises the home set of exemption for
those you know, property taxes. One of them would raise
the home set exemption. So lots of good stuff in there. So,
but you don't have to know all about them. But
the only three that you might want to vote against
are Number one, number four, and number fourteen, and.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
We agree perfectly.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Although I will be voting for number four and I
can explain why, but I can understand why Conservatives would
vote against that one. But those three are the only
ones you need to look at closely.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
All right, Let's talk.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
About fourteen real quick, because it deserves the least amount
of attention dementia research funds, So this money you would
go directly to Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Don is that correct?
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Well in Rolando helped me because I wrote this a
while back. And so the Dementia Research Fund just sets
up another fund outside of the state budget that can
be manipulated other than by politicians said dementia research, Well,
dementia is.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Dementia research is very important. However, it's very important, and
it does cost the state government money because you know
where Medicaid funding goes to long term nursing pair and
nursing homes. So dementia is very important. However, there's already
a lot of money being devoted to dementia research, and
you know, I think a Conservatives would look at this
and say, well, do we know that throwing even more
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billions at it would would lead to a care to
any prevention. So I think conservatives need to be very
careful about Number fourteen, which would simply throw more money
into a field that is already very well funded.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
In a lock box that's controlled by X.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
You know that that you could have anybody managing that fund,
somebody that that you know is looking for a payday,
or in the in the state government has kind of
done these things as a standalone budgets that don't have
to answer to politicians, and I just think they're dangerous.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I think I would agree with you, guys. I think
the most important thing on here is mandatory bail denial.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You are for this vote. The two libertarian groups you
highlighted here are against it. Interestingly enough, the Houston Chronicle
is also for it. Why do you guys think that?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Is that scared me?
Speaker 9 (27:25):
I mean, were occasionally like every once in a while,
every once in a while, the Chronicle will get it right. Yeah,
And so they got it right this one time.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I don't mean to brag, but the Chronicle has been
publishing my op eds. Wow, and they've let me say
almost anything that I want. I'm working on my third
op ed right now, and is I think it's the
newspapers realized, they've had a realization.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Realizing they're losing readers, and they realize that they can't
simply count on aging boomer liberals.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Right exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And to that point, guess what conservatives like old school media.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I mean, we're on obviously, we're on the internet right now.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
This podcast gets tens of thousands of downloads a day,
but still tens of thousands of people just listen to
talk radio on good old fashioned AM radio. They would
probably those same kind of people would probably also buy
a newspaper and hold it at a piece of paper.
But I don't think liberals are going to do that.
They've invested in the wrong group of people. Would you
agree with that?
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Yes, And that's why newspapers are dying off. Yeah, I
mean how many how many people does Hurst keep laying off?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah? And the Chronicle does have a new editor or
opinion editor.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Thoughts on Evan, he has me blocked, and he has
had me blocked for a number of years. He came
over from the Arnold Foundation, but he also came from
the chron So he went from the Chronicle to the
Arnold Foundation and now from the Arnold Foundation back to
the Chronicle.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I know that Evan Mins and I are politically opposites,
but when I have had friendly debates with him, he's
very polite to me. We agree on some stuff in
the middle there and then you know, and again he
lets me say whatever I want in his newspaper.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
He's a biased not having meant.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Yeah, well, it's promising that he's at least trying to
get one conservative voice.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Evan is a very committed socialist and he'll tell you that,
and his politics have been very dangerous. At one time
he worked for the Harris County District Attorney's Office in
the communications division.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Do you know that what was the DA At the time?
It was pat likeas and so that was before Tim
and before Shawn. Oh yeah, yeah, No, this is a
long time, and I don't think he was there for
very long. Matter of fact, I did he even know
he was there until one time he told me that
at lunch. I went, what And so therefore he's an
expert on all things criminal justice not.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
But you know, I have a theory about the Chronicle.
The Chronicle will take one position that's pretty radical and
vote with conservatives on every election cycle. It could be
a candidate, or it could be a cause. I think
this is their cause.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, on that note, one person that's running for Senate
right now, who they have endorsed in previous years when
he was running for Congress, was Wesley Hunt. Wesley Hunt
is the only person I'm aware of who has ever
rejected a Houston Chronicle endorsement. And when we get back
from break, we're going to talk about the Senate race.
He is now involved in.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Stop It Government, Get out of my life. You're listening
to the Pursuit of Happiness radio.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
All right, kids, an eighty year old it became the
oldest woman to take the Appalachian Trail. This won't be
the last time she gets a view from really high up.
I'm guessing, Hi, welcome back from break. I'm Kenny Webster.
And that was a joke about old people dying. And
I'm not proud of it. But you know what, We're
all gonna die someday, right Rolando, Uh, apparently yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Hopefully not today.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Don Hooper, you're in the room right now. I'm a millennial.
You're a millennial you would call.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
What gen x? I'm guessing I'm sixty four. I'm a boomer.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You're a boomer boomer and you're retired, and with your
retirement you've decided to get very involved in local politics.
What is it about self deprecation and pain that you
enjoy so much?
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Don Well, Actually, when I was opera reading my company,
I was involved with politics that never stopped, and I
kind of started my professional career in politics. I was
working as a land developer in California, and that is
all politics. You had to be friendly with a lot
of unsavory people in smoothing unsavory people to get your
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entitlements to build your projects.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, that's kind of how I got involved with it
right on.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I got into politics from prank phone calls and fart jokes.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
So that's and I remember you in Chicago with Mancow.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, I was on the Mancout Show. I was DJ
Crazy Lips. I would beat box of the news. That
was almost twenty years ago, and as you could see,
things are going great for me. I'm doing almost the
exact same thing, Rolando. How did you get involved in
all this? What made you decide to be political? I've
always been conservative.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Then around twenty ten, during the Tea party wave that
backlashed against Obama. I thought, you know, instead of just
watching Fox News and being angry, I need to actually
volunteer in local campaigns and you know, try to make
a difference.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
And so I did. And the one thing about.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
Politic is if you're willing to do more and more
work for free, they'll give you more titles. Yeah, isn't
that nifty? Isn't that amazing? They give you titles in
return for free work. So it's a lot like corporate
America in that Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
You're not going to get a pay raise, but we'll
give you a better parking spot.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Yes, and yeah, I will say Rolando is one of
the best block walkers, and he really takes care of
his precinct in his area better than any well, I
would say, there's maybe no. I think Rolando leads activism
as far as being able to work a precinct in
his area.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
By far and away more than any other pres.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
When I see people go out and campaign either for
themselves or for a campaign they claim to be working for,
and I'm trying to figure out is this person running
for office or are they running for Twitter followers. That's
the thing I always ask them, Like, there's this woman
in Dan Crenshaw's district who has nine aliases and she's
was accused of big of me and a bunch of
other and she doesn't just campaigns on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I'm like, you're not real candidate. There's a lot of
candidates like that, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Like a guy that just moved to Texas, bought a
cowboy hat, voted in one election, moved into an RV
park and said he was going to run for governor.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
That kind of a thing, is that?
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yes, I assume you're referring to our friend, Doc Pete Chambers.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Doc.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Why does he put doc in quotes? Do you think?
I don't know? Is that part of his real name
part of his legal name?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now? I just know he's a holistic medicine expert. Holistic
he talking about that must be important. All right, let's
talk about this because all three of us do agree
on one thing for sure, close primaries. I've had a
handful of people, including no Offense Bill King and a
couple other people whose names I reach out to me
privately and tell me, Kenny, I want to talk to
you about why the primaries need to stay open, and
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they're like, it's really complicated. It takes a long time
to explain. Well, it shouldn't. It's not complicated. It shouldn't
be complicated at all. Right, very simple, It's very simple.
Republicans should choose Republican nominees, not Democrats or other non Republicans.
And every person who tells you that they're opposed to
closed primaries, every single one, they are moderate or liberal
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Republicans who always support the most liberal Republican in every
primary and.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Are dependent on Democrat votes to get elected. No, that's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
So they count on Democrats entering the Republican primary to
choose the most liberal Republican option. You will rarely find
an actual conservative who believes we should keep the primaries open.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Don I'm going to ask you a question, and you know,
if you don't feel comfortable answering this on the air
right now, that's fine. But this kind of relates to
something you and I noticed there were not a lot
of people from the Harris County Republican Party at that
rally we did last month with the kids from Stratford
High School for Club America and TPUSA.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Do you think that had anything to do with this?
Speaker 10 (34:50):
I do, because I do think that there's an active
campaign within the Harris County Republican Party and probably the
governor's office because I think the governor's paying for it.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I think the govern there also benefits from open primaries. Yeah,
for sure he does. And I think John Cornyn.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, and I do think there's an active effort to
recruit Democrats into voting for Republican candidates in then more
moderate to Democrat precinct chairs to switch over to do that.
And you see that Actually we have a candidate running
against Cindy Siegel that was, you know, actively recruiting Democrats
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to become precinct chairs.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Who was that, Shelbrochard? And what became of that person?
Was she still there? She's still running? All right? Rolanda,
what do you think about what don just said?
Speaker 9 (35:36):
I don't want I don't want to overstate the issue
with open primaries. It's not that millions of Democrats are
voting in the Republican primary. But however, it's enough to
make a difference in close races. When you have a
close race, for example of the Senate race with cornyin
Wesley Hunt and Paxton is close, then the Democrats could
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make a difference. It already made a difference in electing
date Feeling. Date Feeling is still in the House because
Democrats crossed over in his primary and he barely won,
so it's making a difference in close races.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Absolutely, I think that's one hundred percent correct. Kind of
like Andrew Breibart used to say, culture is politics is
downstream from culture. The Texas House Speaker, in my opinion,
is downstream from the from the open primaries. That's how
we get these guys. There's a couple more things I
want to talk to you guys about before we run
out of time, so I have to budget the minutes here.
But real quick, everybody in this room's probably considered to
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be by most conservatives in Houston on the farther end
of the spectrum to the right right. I would agree
all three of us probably are. Don and I are
definitely what did you call us a garbage not? Yes,
the horrible garbage. Yes, that's what we are.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
And I well, people lump me in with you guys,
you are too.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I don't generally get associated with the Dick weeklies or whatever,
but I'm that know and I will say this our
lifelong votes along party line. Democrat former Democrat lawmaker turned
mayor John Whitmyer, who just got attacked this past week
and a New York Times hit piece, probably the best
mayor we've had in Houston the entire time I've lived here.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I think it's the best absolute I've taken in a
long time here in this.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
I tell people, voting for Whittmeyer was the best thing
Republicans in the city have done in a long time.
Like he yes, he's a Democrat, and he's liberal on
some things, but he's not a crazy Democrat. And he
is the best Democrat that you're going to find in Houston.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, And are you going to and do you have
a choice when it comes to I mean, it has
to be a Democrat. I hate to be the blackpilled pessimist,
but do we have a choice?
Speaker 9 (37:35):
You know, maybe someday if you had a Republican with
nay mighty and or a lot of money. But for
the most part, Democrats just start out with a big
advantage in the city.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:45):
The last Republican we had elected as mayor of the
City East in nineteen seventy eight, Jim McConn.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, all right, the other race, that's true, and didn't
they name a baseball field after him in Memorial Park.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I think, so, yeah, the baseball fields.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
And every time I jog passed it, I'm like, that's
what we get as local Republicans.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
We get this Swimen's softball fields is there. It is
u Jim And he was actually considered to be a
very liberal Republican in his day and age.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
He was, well, you know, I should you know, it's hard.
I think he was much more moderate than I am today.
But the interestingly enough, his son is getting involved with
the politics.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Interesting, I'm not showing up left or right right. Oh cool,
glad to hear it. We only have a little bit
of time left, so let's go from that to this
county judge race. After this election's over here in a
couple weeks and a month, we'll be all done talking
about the prop votes and what have you, and then
we will be onto the primaries for the midterms. Wesley Hunt,
John Cornyn, Ken Paxton. Obviously that's getting a lot of
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attention right now. But since we'll have a lot of
time to talk about that, and you guys are both
Houston specific, let's talk about this instead. The county judge
race is between Orlando Sanchez. Marty Langdon, the fire union
president and apparently the HOA president to the Piney Point community,
would don, who are you leaning towards here?
Speaker 10 (39:06):
With full disclosure, I am longtime friends with both Marty
Langton and Orlando Sanchez, and I like them both. I
have known Orlando more as a Dick Weekly operative for
many many years. He was part of the open borders thing. However,
you know, I could you know, I've been a little
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bit disappointed.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
In how should I say people who Marty's dating late
link for the record.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
For the record, I am, I am, I am. I've
endorsed Marty Langton. I'm not that is here's a personal
livesman of my business. I will say this about Marty.
Could you imagine before Donald Trump, the most popular Republican
Canadate to be the executive of the biggest county in
Texas is a union president for first responders, And I mean,
that's the world we live in now. Is like suddenly
a lot of blue collar guys in the Republican Party,
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firefighters and cops all get behind Marty. You have a
different opinion on this, Rolando, and I respect you, so
I'm gonna let you give.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
It without interrupting you.
Speaker 9 (40:12):
God, no, I first of all, I don't have I
haven't to have a favorite among the three. I'm still
looking closely at them. The problem with Marty is, you know,
of course we support first responders. However, his job as
union president has always been one thing benefits, to increase
the benefits and pay for his members's and that's what
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he should be doing. However, that doesn't mean he's always
been on the on the side of the taxpayer. So
now that he's running for county judge, will he understand
that you're going to be advocating for the taxpayer and
not for government employees because he spent his whole adult
life advocating for government employees.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Years ago, you and I became friends because I learned
that you were a guy that was really good at
vetting candidates.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
If you sat down to vet Marty, what would you
ask him?
Speaker 9 (41:00):
I would ask him, what proof can you show before
you started campaign that you have fought for conservative causes
and not just for better pay and better benefits for
your members. What have you done to actually fight for
any conservative cause? That's what I would ask.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Don Hobert your reaction so I'll play I'll play white white, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
I know, I'll.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
I'll defend Marty in saying this is that I had
fought with the Fire Union for years, probably over a decade,
with Marty and his guys, and then one day, well
actually two different things happened. One day, a guy, a
illegal alien, slammed into the back of my car and
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hit me on the Southwest Freeway, hard enough to.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Pin me in in the front and.
Speaker 10 (41:56):
I was able to free myself, but my knees were
pretty badly damaged. And one of those great, big, all
huge pumper trucks pulled in behind me and I was
in the fast lane when this occurred, and turned on
its lights. And I'd always been real critical of Marty
in the Fire Unit. Why are you always sending a
pumper truck in an ambulance to an accident or whatnot?
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And at that moment I realized why they did that.
And the traffic was very heavy that day, and luckily
the person was caught who hit me, and it had
a pretty good outcome, but I was very happy. And
then the other thing that happened was my mother fell
in her retirement home and I was pulling in and
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I was following this fire truck and you have this thing.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
God is it?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
You know?
Speaker 10 (42:45):
I hope that they're not coming from my mom, you know,
five hundred people. And sure enough I get upstairs and
she had this unit that was a combined unit up
on the top floor and they were there for her,
and she had a thing on her neck and pushed
it and even the building didn't know that she had
called the fire.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Wow, they got there and and I was very, very.
Speaker 10 (43:08):
Pleased with all that now, So my thinking kind of
changed on that, you know, with being critical on them
on some of their expenses. And I have seen Marty
involve himself in some conservative causes and support my wife
and I and some conservative activities that I probably shouldn't
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talk about that had to do with the district attorneys parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
over the district Attorney's office.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Marty, Marty has a chance.
Speaker 9 (43:42):
When I say, when I when I air criticism said,
I actually want to hear from him, like I want
him to address all these concerns with Republican voters and
I'm hoping, you know, he could win me over and
like we have three credible candidates. You mentioned that, well,
Eliza Dutt. Who's the mayor of Piney Pointer you referred
to as a the hoa president.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I'm just depressed how much she cleaned up Piney Colling,
She got the homeless off the street, the crime Evan,
how did you make Piney Points so nice? I know
it was a total turnaround, was it? But you know,
whether it's Marty or Orlando or Eliza or anyone else,
There's three questions any Republican primary voter needs to ask
these candidates. One, how are you going to be able
to raise money? Hers County is a bit's bigger than
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the state of Louisiana. Sure you need to run a
million dollar campaign. Two can you appeal to independence and
moderates grig We'd got.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
To win those over.
Speaker 9 (44:30):
And three are you going to govern as a conservative?
Those three questions that we need to be asking all
those candidates.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Rolando Garcia, Don Hooper. I loved having you guys in
here today. I want people to follow both of you
on X on Twitter or whatever it's AX, we can
call it X now.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right, folks, it's happening. Plastic surgeons saying more people
are removing their breast implants. I'd like to apologize to
my friend Josh, the conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He was right. The world really is flat.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hi. I'm Kenny Webster and thanks so much. Returning on
the radio, A lot of people, a lot of fascinating
conservatives from the state of Texas will be here on
the show today. Chris Salcito will be stopping by the
Newsmax TV show host. I was on his show last week.
He's gonna be on my show today. He's got a
new book out. You're gonna want to hear about it.
Really cool stuff. Also in the building today Rolando Garcia
(00:56):
and Don Hooper.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Who are they?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You might ask, two of the most dominant grassroots conservative
activists in the greater Harris County area. If you've ever
been to a local Republican event or whatever, these were
the guys in the room holding people accountable.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Naming names, making lists. We're going to talk about early
voting and a lot more, say hang out for that.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Before we get to any of that, there's a report
today for Peter Hack that I think needs some attention.
In the news today, you're hearing about a tariff war
with Canada. You are hearing all about Donald Trump building
a new wing on the East end. It's a ballroom
on the east wing of the winehouse, and the FBI
director Cash Pattel on the verge of exposing antifa's funding network.
(01:39):
But I think right now, with everything going on, one
of the most underreported news stories, not just in America
but in the world is the story of Christians Catholics
in Nigeria being hunted and murdered and buried in silence.
I gotta tell you it is. It's like something out
of a horror film. What is taking place in Nigeria
(02:02):
right now?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The music stop? Can we try that again? Taking to Mulligan,
Why did the music stop? Started again? There we go?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Thank you the thrill of live radio. Everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There's a video that just surfaced within the last week
here of a mass funeral in Nigeria.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Wooden coffins.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They all hold women and children and just innocent victims
murdered for their religious beliefs. Let me read the caption
to you on the video. This heartbreaking mass burial of Christians,
mostly children and their mothers actually happened on the fourteenth
of October. Nigeria will go down in history as the
country that has drunken the most Christian blood in all
(02:43):
of human history with zero remorse.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Loud shame.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Take note of this caption here, guys, loud shame, indeed
even louder silence. It's a pastor that has been speaking
out about what is taking place in Nigeria while a
burial of more slaughtered Nigerian Christians. This pasture, the pastor,
excuse me, pasture, sorry, been on the I've been awake
(03:07):
for a long time. This pastor made a plead to
President Trump to come rescue these Christians, diet to.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The outside performing pot of everything and then expect silence.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Now cannot open me on denied.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
There's no massacre, there's no genocide of christ and na
jen I look at today, You're not dominations. I know
you're watching you at a Senate. You're watching what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Advice to Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Please.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
To set our life and not jelli.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Seven thousand Nigerian Christians have been slaughtered by Islamic insurgents
so far this year. Islamis terrorist group called Boko Haram
waging a brutal campaign against Nigeria's Christian populations, happening for
ten years.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And none of this is theoretical. It's really happening, right.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's not like you could say, oh, they're not getting
you know, in South Africa, there's this argument that now
the farmers aren't just being killed because they're white. It's
just a crime spree. These people are being killed because
they're they're Christians. And by the way, I do think
the farmers in South Africa are being killed because they're white.
But that's besides the point. One Nigerian witness, visibly shaken,
describe the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I am a preacher of the gospel, does and evangelists,
and evangelist is known for traveling to rural villages.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
There is a village we.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Went for on an outreach, jose legc. Everything was fine.
We did our medical autrees. So diesus being please a
gospel today, donated them boats children, an adult. Everything is
going well fast forward. Last week we were last week
(05:09):
we went back day to go to follow up. That
village is completely wipe out, O body.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Not for you.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I mean the lots were cute and lord wages please.
In fact, you are working on espected with just stumbul
or human skull. You're working on expected in stumbul on
human skeletons. So that's why I don't long got kid
to let's this cost me my life, But I'll come
out as being the truth.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'm gonna passit right here.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm gonna explain what he's saying, because I understand accents
very thick at somebody on the other end of the world.
I grew up around a lot of Nigerians. I know
exactly what this guy is saying. I also have a
transcript of it, saying there was a village. They were
there a couple of weeks ago. Everything was fine. They
came back. They witnessed three year old babies being slaughtered
like chickens. You're walking unexpectedly, you just stumble on a
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human skull. You're walking unexpectedly on human skeletons. He said,
I've never thought that a day is coming where I
will witness a three year old baby being slaughtered like
a chicken. Listen to that. That is horror. You can't
listen to that information without feeling it in your chest.
This is what real genocide looks like, not a viral
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post or some college protest. Mass graves, disappearing villages, and
while Nigeria's Christians bury their dead, we here in the
West bury our conscience. In the next political distraction this week,
there's a budget fight happening in America next week, some
social media spat. Meanwhile, believers on the other side of
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the world are paying for their faith with their lives.
There are people in West Virginia at a church there,
led by a local pastor and a lawmaker, Representative Rianley Moore,
who have tried to go out and try to help
these people. And what he said was, we have been
training and equipping the Nigerians and the hope that they
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were going to stop Boko Haram. Well that's not happening.
I think there's a question that there's a collusion between
the current Islamic government in Nigeria and these terrorist organizations
that are killing Christians in mass end quote. This isn't
random violence, it's targeted ideological. It's absolutely intentional. The Christians
of Nigeria are not the aggressors. They build, they farm,
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they teach, they worship. For those things, they are marked
for death. If this were happening anywhere else, to anyone else,
the world would be in an uproar. But these are
rural African Christians and nobody pays attention, No one cares.
We cannot let our comfort become apathy. While we argue politics,
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they bury their children, and that should break our hearts
enough to act or say something. With everything happening in
the world right now, there's a place on Earth where
Christians are being massacred for their religious beliefs. If you
cared about Ukraine, if you cared about Iraq, or Afghanistan
or any of those places, just remember those those were
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all places where people had very different beliefs than us.
These Nigerian Catholics actually have the same belief system as us,
similar political and religious beliefs as us, and they're being
murdered for it. Now, you guys understand, I'm an intervention
I'm a non interventionist, I'm a pacifist. These are terrorists
murdering Christians. I think even Rand Paul would agree, we
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should probably stand up and do something.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Ken Webster's Pursuit of Happiness a radio show that's just
as good when you're driving around Soba as it is
when you're drunk at home.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
All right, So, breaking news from the economy here at
Target is cutting eighteen hundred corporate jobs in their first
major layoff in decades. Now, those executives at Target will
be so broke.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
How broke are they? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The executives at Target will be so broke they'll be
forced to shop at Walmart. I know, I actually prefer
Walmart to be honest. That's besides the point. You're probably
wondering why I'm playing this music right now, here's a
show on news Max I enjoy watching every weekend, every weeknight,
excuse me. And he's actually a guy with a close
connection to Houston. He's got a talk radio show on
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another conservative talk station in town, k SEV.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
His name's Chris Salcito.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
But I happen to know that his godmother is Italian,
which means technically that means that technically his name is
pronounced Chris Salcedo.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Right, Chris, Well, just don't tell my mom or any
of my living relatives.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
K Wait, wait, why what nationality is your mom my?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Mom my mom, Well, nationality is he's an American. But
my dad used to when I when I started media,
my dad would always get on me because in school
they would call me salcito. They would mispronounce it right,
And then when I got on the air, I said, Dad, well,
I said three years of Spanish, so I'm just gonna
pronounce it sal sato, which is how uh English, how
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English people English speaking people do Spanish. And he hated it. Technically,
it's saltsevo as your liberty loving Latino. That's how it's pronounced.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But you know, I wait, wait, wait a second Latino.
That means we're playing the wrong music. Cue the right music.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
There we go. That is so much better.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Chris Salcedo, I actually I'm gonna be I have to.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I have to confess to the audience.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I actually knew that Chris and I were doing a
hokey bit to start the segment off.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It was pretty hokey, wasn't it. Chris, Hope hokey doesn't
cover it.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
But you know what, it's entertaining radio, So I'm down.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, we're just having fun. Man, Hey, Chris has a
new book out right now. I think this is really cool.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's about the liberty loving Latino. It's not just a
catchy it's not just a catty catchy title. That's really
what you are, aren't you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The book is called The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino,
a New American Revolution. It's my moniker, it's what I
It's how I start the Christal Sader Show when I
got out of news, got into opinion, and it has
been the culmination about fifteen years in talk radio, fifteen
years in opinion television, and then my interview with Trump
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just before the election kind of wrapped up in all
of that and how we present the case as to
why millions upon millions of Latinos turned around and said,
I can't support the socialist, violent, anti American, kook, freaking
nut Party anymore. I'm going to start voting not for
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Republicans but for the America First Coalition in President Trump.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But Chris, if you're a Latino, that would mean that,
according to what I've been told, what I've been brainwashed
to believe by the mainstream media, You're supposed to think
that Trump is racist.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Correct, You're supposed to believe that if you enforce the
rule of law, he's a racist. You're supposed to believe
that the enforcement of the rule of law is the
act of a king, when it actually is. That's the
exact opposite, the Democrats ignoring of law and by the way,
complicit Republicans, the democrats usurpation of the US Constitution. That
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is the act of a king, of a total litarian.
Every accusation leveled by the left, my friend, is a confession.
Every accusation is a confession.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You know, I've always wondered about this. You know, I
grew up in Chicago. Don't hold it against me. I
got to Texas as quick as I could, kind of
like Davy Crockett. And in Chicago we call them Latinos.
In Texas they say Hispanics Vegas, Hispanics, California Latinos.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why is there two different words? What's the deal there?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And it doesn't matter, Well, in the actual parlance, it
really doesn't matter, But there is a difference between the
two Hispanics. The word Hispanic was created by the US
government to lump Kubano's people from Spain who speaks Spanish,
people from Central America speak Spanish, people from Mexico seek
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spanis all in the one demographic group. So it was
a US government creation. The word Hispanics not even a
real word, they just created it. Latinos. They traditionally come
from Latin America, that's their their point of origin. So
and there are some cultural differences that go along with that,
But for the for all intents and purposes, for the
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way it's communicated in the political parlance and in the
normal everyday conversation that Americans are having, they're relatively the
same term.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, Chris, I'm sure we both agree. I'm just glad
that white liberal suburban cat ladies came along and changed
both words to latinx oh Man.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I write several times in the book about this, And
don't you love it when when white liberals kind of
want to come up to you, white leftists come and
tell you, you know what, Hey, you know, I know you
really love your Spanish language, but it doesn't really work
with my trans idiocy agenda, my LGBTQ ag cultural Marxist agenda.
(14:02):
So I'm going to have to ask you to start
referring it yourself and not as a Latino or Latina.
Just Latin X because we really need it to work
for us politically. And I don't care what side of
the political.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Earl you're on.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Ninety over ninety percent of Latinos hear that and go
no way, yeah, no way, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Why did we need to change the language?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh, because it's been offensive now for fifteen minutes, even
though it's probably existed for thousands of years.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Let's talk about Latin American culture for just a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Obviously, in this half of the world, there's a lot
of Spanish speaking people, and one of those people comes
from Florida's name is Marco Rubio. I think he had
the perfect response this week after the liberal media started
criticizing Donald Trump for blowing up boats with literal Narco
terrorists on board.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Well, I mean the question is, bottom line, these are
drug votes.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up,
stop sending drugs to the United States.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Does it matter if it's in the United States, Well,
these are all in international waters. The boat in the
United States, Well, that's a different Manua. You're talking about
a law enforcement matter.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
In this particular case, there are people traveling on international
waters headed towards the United States with hostilities in mind,
which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs. And
they're going to be stopped. And that's what's happening. And
in the case last week you saw there was a submarine,
it was a submarine. It was a submersible. That's a
drug boat. All the way through. We know what these
boats are, the President just said it. We track them
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from the very beginning. We know who's on them, who
they are, where they're coming from, what they have on them.
And you know, if you're running drug boats, you're in
grave danger.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, as it turns out, there is a very good
legal argument for this. It's covered in the Constitution. This
is we have the legal authority to do this. It's
part of the reason why nobody is going after Trump now.
And you know, whether it be in the Constitution or
the un Charter, there's more than one thing that gives
Trump the power to do this, right.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, not to mention the a foreign terrorist designation, these
narco terrorists have President of the United States has determined
that these people are responsible for the desks, by the way,
supplied by communist China. Let's all, let's not forget supplied
by communist China, the precursors for these drugs killing upward
of a hunt on average, one hundred thousand Americans a year.
(16:11):
Can you imagine? Can you imagine one hundred thousand people
dying every year in the United States of America and
the American government not acting. Oh yes, we don't have
to imagine that. That's four years of Joe Biden, that's
eight years of baraq Houssein Obama. They didn't the Democrats
don't give a damn about one hundred thousand Americans dying.
Now I've heard the libertarian argument. I've heard it, Well,
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these people who are using these drugs, they should be
allowed to coke out and it's killing the herd, which
I can actually get behind to a certain degree. Sentinel
is a different drug. You brush up against somebody who
has some of this fentanyl, maybe in a jacket pocket
or something like that that they've handled, it can see
through your skin and it can literally kill you. Right,
(16:53):
This can literally kill that. There's enough being seized in
Texas alone in twenty twenty five to kill the United
States of America. That's in the in Texas alone in
twenty twenty five alone. We haven't got California or is
there Arizona or New Mexico and their seizures involved. So
the President is right to point out that this drug
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is a weapon. It is being utilized against Americans, it
is killing Americans. And you know what, I'm with, Rubio,
if you don't want to get blown up in international waters,
don't be transporting this poison into the veins of America.
It's plain and simple.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, I just feel like if something's physically addictive like that,
I mean, there's such a big difference between marijuana and
crack or you know, like like psychedelic mushrooms and fentanyl,
that it's such a weird argument for somebody to support
one that could arguably have medicinal or therapeutic uses and
the other one that's actually being used for as a bioweapon,
as narco terrorism, as you just pointed out. And I
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think it's easy to see where the line should be.
I don't know why people try to obscure that so much,
but you know, it's Trump arrangement syndrome on full display.
People have to be against Trump no matter what he does. Chris,
It's just as true with him taking out terrorists and
arresting criminals, even this thing with the White House. I
just watched a video earlier. We're running out of time here,
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but i'd love to get your take on this real quick.
I just watched a video of CNN in twenty ten,
a very diverse news crew, very excited about three hundred
and seventy six million dollar White House renovation. They're all smiling,
everyone looks happy. Fast forward in time. Trump is actually
now building a ballroom with private funds, not public and
they're actually mad about this.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What's your thoughts on that, Chris.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, we found it featured on the Newsback Show just yesterday.
You're right, three hundred and thirty seven million dollar project
from Barack Houssein Obama in twenty ten. Everybody thought it
was great. By the way, in modern dollar dollars, this
somewhere around five hundred and sixty eight five hundred and
sixty nine million dollars in equivalent dollars. So here's Obama
who did a project that is almost doubles what President
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Trump's project is, and and it was heap in the
back of taxpayers, and everybody was cool with that. But
the minute Trump tries to beautify, and it's like he's
going to fold up the East Room and the Ballroom
and put in his back pocket and leave. When he
leaves the White House, he's gonna leave it there to
beautify the White House for decades to come. Praise God.
And this is just again part of the Trump Arrangement syndrome.
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And why so many liberty loving Latinos and record numbers
voted for President Trump because, let's be honest, Kenny, that
the left has gone back one oh crazy and Latinos show.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I love that, Chris, You're pretty good at doing this,
my man. I'm so glad you don't have a morning
radio show. We'd have to compete with here in town.
That would really hurt us. Hey, the book is called
The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino. Chris does have
a radio show. By the way, you can also watch
him on Newsmax every day. Follow him on Ax. He
is a great follow But more than anything, we really
want people to check out this book America first, The
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Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino, A New American Revolution
with Chris Santa though the Italian American.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Chris right, I'll take it be Italian Stallion. I'll rip
off Rocky all day. Look you guys can pick it
up on Amazon for a couple of bucks because it's
on pre order. It drops on December ninth. Seek you
save yourself of money some money, head over to Amazon
dot com and check it out.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
My brother Chris Salcido check him out on x.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Yeah, you're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very
spicy radio.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
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this is interesting. Meta is cutting six hundred jobs in
its AI unit because ironically they did such a great
job developing AI that now everybody can be replaced by AI. Hi.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Thanks so much for joining us for a live streamed
edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness Radio. With a
room full of Harris County right wing, heavy hitting conservative
garbage Nazis.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
On the left of the Nazis, I'm the left of me.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Right now, Romando Garcia, explain what your position is in
the Texas State Republican Party.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Well, I am a State Republican Executive committee man, and
what that means is that basically I'm on the board
of Directors of the Republican Party of Texas. It's a
volunteer position, so if you're pissed off about what the
state party is doing or not doing, you can let
me know.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And in addition to that, sitting to your left directly
across from me, he is the arm candy to Texas
Republican Party attorney Rachel Hooper Don Hooper, but he's a.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Man of his own accolades.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Don Hooper actually created the Houston Conservative Forum, which has
been really important to help motivate and educate local right
wing voters in local elections.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
For how long you've been doing it now at this point, God,
I'm probably twenty years. I think that's quite put that
night closer to him out there. Yeah, so twenty years.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Started in ernest, probably riding on Big Jolly Politics, and
I know that website, yeah yeah, yeah, And so I
wrote there for probably six or seven years, very quite
a few number of years, I remember that. And then
David Jennings who had started it. Interestingly enough, David was
the Lone Star Times got started with Dan Patrick, and
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then the three guys that started Lone Star Times all
want different directions, and David started Big Jolly Politics. And
I didn't like what David was right, and he said, well,
then you ought to write. I went, okay, I will
all right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So there's kind of like two factions of the conservatives
here in Southeast Texas, and like the Dick Weekly Republicans
and then the Don Hooper Republicans. Is that how you'd
explain it obviously, right, Well, the Don Hooper Republicans.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
More establishment Republicans, I guess, versus the conservatives that are
and then that's a fight that's played out at the
part the state party, in at the local party.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I kind of get along while with everyone, but I
will admit that the Dick Weekly Republicans have never invited
me to a single cocktail part, not at once. Have
I been invited to the Bacon rap shrimp buffet. Never
not allowed at that. But some of his underlings I
seem to get along with. I think it's because I
made a lot of jokes about his name. It's right there,
like one am I, it's not my fault. It's not
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my fault. Your name is Dick Weekly. I feel like
your name's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You can't blame me. I invited both of you here
for two different reasons.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Number One, Rolando one of my favorite people to interview
about local political causes. I never had you in studio before,
and Don, I could say the same thing about you,
but more specifically in your case and let me get
it up on the screen here. Sorry about that I
hit the wrong button. You have your where is it
your early voting guide?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Early voting Guide?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Early voting is happening right now around the state of Texas,
and I feel like, although we didn't have a No
Kings rally last weekend to motivate us while we dressed
up in furry kitty outfits and spanked each other at
an LGBTQ Pride crosswalk in mantrase, we do have this
talk radio p to remind everybody that even though it's
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not the sexiest, most salacioust exciting election you've ever been
involved in, there are some relatively important things here that
we're voting on. And Don, you did a pretty good
job of breaking down, like, what was the more conservative
way to vote on these props? What is the liberal
Houston Chronicle saying to people? And then a couple of
local right leaning more libertarian republican liberty concuss would be
(24:25):
a right wing libertarian Texas policy research, probably center libertarian position,
I would think, And I like how you did that,
because you're just telling people how to vote, not telling
people how to vote, but telling people how other people are.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Voting, right is compared to mine.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But before we get into what you wrote about this, Rolando,
how do you explain to people you had an easy
way to No one's going to memorize seventeen or eighteen props, right,
I don't even know my own sister's birthday.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
How am I going to remember that.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
There's seventeen amendments. Some are more important than others. But
what I've been telling people, and don may disagree, is
that Conservatives should vote for most of them except Number one,
Number four and number fourteen, because those are the three
that spend money. All the others deal with various types
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of tax cuts, tax exemptions, and of course Prop three,
which deals with bail that's very important. And of course
one of them raises the home set of exemption for
those you know, property taxes. One of them would raise
the home set exemption. So lots of good stuff in there. So,
but you don't have to know all about them. But
the only three that you might want to vote against
are Number one, number four, and number fourteen, and.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
We agree perfectly.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Although I will be voting for number four and I
can explain why, but I can understand why Conservatives would
vote against that one. But those three are the only
ones you need to look at closely.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
All right, Let's talk.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
About fourteen real quick, because it deserves the least amount
of attention dementia research funds, So this money you would
go directly to Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Don is that correct?
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Well in Rolando helped me because I wrote this a
while back. And so the Dementia Research Fund just sets
up another fund outside of the state budget that can
be manipulated other than by politicians said dementia research, Well,
dementia is.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Dementia research is very important. However, it's very important, and
it does cost the state government money because you know
where Medicaid funding goes to long term nursing pair and
nursing homes. So dementia is very important. However, there's already
a lot of money being devoted to dementia research, and
you know, I think a Conservatives would look at this
and say, well, do we know that throwing even more
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billions at it would would lead to a care to
any prevention. So I think conservatives need to be very
careful about Number fourteen, which would simply throw more money
into a field that is already very well funded.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
In a lock box that's controlled by X.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
You know that that you could have anybody managing that fund,
somebody that that you know is looking for a payday,
or in the in the state government has kind of
done these things as a standalone budgets that don't have
to answer to politicians, and I just think they're dangerous.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I think I would agree with you, guys. I think
the most important thing on here is mandatory bail denial.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You are for this vote. The two libertarian groups you
highlighted here are against it. Interestingly enough, the Houston Chronicle
is also for it. Why do you guys think that?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Is that scared me?
Speaker 9 (27:25):
I mean, were occasionally like every once in a while,
every once in a while, the Chronicle will get it right. Yeah,
And so they got it right this one time.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I don't mean to brag, but the Chronicle has been
publishing my op eds. Wow, and they've let me say
almost anything that I want. I'm working on my third
op ed right now, and is I think it's the
newspapers realized, they've had a realization.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Realizing they're losing readers, and they realize that they can't
simply count on aging boomer liberals.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Right exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And to that point, guess what conservatives like old school media.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I mean, we're on obviously, we're on the internet right now.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
This podcast gets tens of thousands of downloads a day,
but still tens of thousands of people just listen to
talk radio on good old fashioned AM radio. They would
probably those same kind of people would probably also buy
a newspaper and hold it at a piece of paper.
But I don't think liberals are going to do that.
They've invested in the wrong group of people. Would you
agree with that?
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Yes, And that's why newspapers are dying off. Yeah, I
mean how many how many people does Hurst keep laying off?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah? And the Chronicle does have a new editor or
opinion editor.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Thoughts on Evan, he has me blocked, and he has
had me blocked for a number of years. He came
over from the Arnold Foundation, but he also came from
the chron So he went from the Chronicle to the
Arnold Foundation and now from the Arnold Foundation back to
the Chronicle.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I know that Evan Mins and I are politically opposites,
but when I have had friendly debates with him, he's
very polite to me. We agree on some stuff in
the middle there and then you know, and again he
lets me say whatever I want in his newspaper.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
He's a biased not having meant.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Yeah, well, it's promising that he's at least trying to
get one conservative voice.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Evan is a very committed socialist and he'll tell you that,
and his politics have been very dangerous. At one time
he worked for the Harris County District Attorney's Office in
the communications division.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Do you know that what was the DA At the time?
It was pat likeas and so that was before Tim
and before Shawn. Oh yeah, yeah, No, this is a
long time, and I don't think he was there for
very long. Matter of fact, I did he even know
he was there until one time he told me that
at lunch. I went, what And so therefore he's an
expert on all things criminal justice not.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
But you know, I have a theory about the Chronicle.
The Chronicle will take one position that's pretty radical and
vote with conservatives on every election cycle. It could be
a candidate, or it could be a cause. I think
this is their cause.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, on that note, one person that's running for Senate
right now, who they have endorsed in previous years when
he was running for Congress, was Wesley Hunt. Wesley Hunt
is the only person I'm aware of who has ever
rejected a Houston Chronicle endorsement. And when we get back
from break, we're going to talk about the Senate race.
He is now involved in.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Stop It Government, Get out of my life. You're listening
to the Pursuit of Happiness radio.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
All right, kids, an eighty year old it became the
oldest woman to take the Appalachian Trail. This won't be
the last time she gets a view from really high up.
I'm guessing, Hi, welcome back from break. I'm Kenny Webster.
And that was a joke about old people dying. And
I'm not proud of it. But you know what, We're
all gonna die someday, right Rolando, Uh, apparently yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Hopefully not today.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Don Hooper, you're in the room right now. I'm a millennial.
You're a millennial you would call.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
What gen x? I'm guessing I'm sixty four. I'm a boomer.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You're a boomer boomer and you're retired, and with your
retirement you've decided to get very involved in local politics.
What is it about self deprecation and pain that you
enjoy so much?
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Don Well, Actually, when I was opera reading my company,
I was involved with politics that never stopped, and I
kind of started my professional career in politics. I was
working as a land developer in California, and that is
all politics. You had to be friendly with a lot
of unsavory people in smoothing unsavory people to get your
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entitlements to build your projects.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, that's kind of how I got involved with it
right on.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I got into politics from prank phone calls and fart jokes.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
So that's and I remember you in Chicago with Mancow.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, I was on the Mancout Show. I was DJ
Crazy Lips. I would beat box of the news. That
was almost twenty years ago, and as you could see,
things are going great for me. I'm doing almost the
exact same thing, Rolando. How did you get involved in
all this? What made you decide to be political? I've
always been conservative.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Then around twenty ten, during the Tea party wave that
backlashed against Obama. I thought, you know, instead of just
watching Fox News and being angry, I need to actually
volunteer in local campaigns and you know, try to make
a difference.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
And so I did. And the one thing about.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
Politic is if you're willing to do more and more
work for free, they'll give you more titles. Yeah, isn't
that nifty? Isn't that amazing? They give you titles in
return for free work. So it's a lot like corporate
America in that Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
You're not going to get a pay raise, but we'll
give you a better parking spot.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Yes, and yeah, I will say Rolando is one of
the best block walkers, and he really takes care of
his precinct in his area better than any well, I
would say, there's maybe no. I think Rolando leads activism
as far as being able to work a precinct in
his area.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
By far and away more than any other pres.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
When I see people go out and campaign either for
themselves or for a campaign they claim to be working for,
and I'm trying to figure out is this person running
for office or are they running for Twitter followers. That's
the thing I always ask them, Like, there's this woman
in Dan Crenshaw's district who has nine aliases and she's
was accused of big of me and a bunch of
other and she doesn't just campaigns on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I'm like, you're not real candidate. There's a lot of
candidates like that, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Like a guy that just moved to Texas, bought a
cowboy hat, voted in one election, moved into an RV
park and said he was going to run for governor.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
That kind of a thing, is that?
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yes, I assume you're referring to our friend, Doc Pete Chambers.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Doc.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Why does he put doc in quotes? Do you think?
I don't know? Is that part of his real name
part of his legal name?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now? I just know he's a holistic medicine expert. Holistic
he talking about that must be important. All right, let's
talk about this because all three of us do agree
on one thing for sure, close primaries. I've had a
handful of people, including no Offense Bill King and a
couple other people whose names I reach out to me
privately and tell me, Kenny, I want to talk to
you about why the primaries need to stay open, and
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they're like, it's really complicated. It takes a long time
to explain. Well, it shouldn't. It's not complicated. It shouldn't
be complicated at all. Right, very simple, It's very simple.
Republicans should choose Republican nominees, not Democrats or other non Republicans.
And every person who tells you that they're opposed to
closed primaries, every single one, they are moderate or liberal
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Republicans who always support the most liberal Republican in every
primary and.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Are dependent on Democrat votes to get elected. No, that's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
So they count on Democrats entering the Republican primary to
choose the most liberal Republican option. You will rarely find
an actual conservative who believes we should keep the primaries open.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Don I'm going to ask you a question, and you know,
if you don't feel comfortable answering this on the air
right now, that's fine. But this kind of relates to
something you and I noticed there were not a lot
of people from the Harris County Republican Party at that
rally we did last month with the kids from Stratford
High School for Club America and TPUSA.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Do you think that had anything to do with this?
Speaker 10 (34:50):
I do, because I do think that there's an active
campaign within the Harris County Republican Party and probably the
governor's office because I think the governor's paying for it.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I think the govern there also benefits from open primaries. Yeah,
for sure he does. And I think John Cornyn.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, and I do think there's an active effort to
recruit Democrats into voting for Republican candidates in then more
moderate to Democrat precinct chairs to switch over to do that.
And you see that Actually we have a candidate running
against Cindy Siegel that was, you know, actively recruiting Democrats
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to become precinct chairs.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Who was that, Shelbrochard? And what became of that person?
Was she still there? She's still running? All right? Rolanda,
what do you think about what don just said?
Speaker 9 (35:36):
I don't want I don't want to overstate the issue
with open primaries. It's not that millions of Democrats are
voting in the Republican primary. But however, it's enough to
make a difference in close races. When you have a
close race, for example of the Senate race with cornyin
Wesley Hunt and Paxton is close, then the Democrats could
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make a difference. It already made a difference in electing
date Feeling. Date Feeling is still in the House because
Democrats crossed over in his primary and he barely won,
so it's making a difference in close races.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Absolutely, I think that's one hundred percent correct. Kind of
like Andrew Breibart used to say, culture is politics is
downstream from culture. The Texas House Speaker, in my opinion,
is downstream from the from the open primaries. That's how
we get these guys. There's a couple more things I
want to talk to you guys about before we run
out of time, so I have to budget the minutes here.
But real quick, everybody in this room's probably considered to
(36:32):
be by most conservatives in Houston on the farther end
of the spectrum to the right right. I would agree
all three of us probably are. Don and I are
definitely what did you call us a garbage not? Yes,
the horrible garbage. Yes, that's what we are.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
And I well, people lump me in with you guys,
you are too.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I don't generally get associated with the Dick weeklies or whatever,
but I'm that know and I will say this our
lifelong votes along party line. Democrat former Democrat lawmaker turned
mayor John Whitmyer, who just got attacked this past week
and a New York Times hit piece, probably the best
mayor we've had in Houston the entire time I've lived here.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I think it's the best absolute I've taken in a
long time here in this.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
I tell people, voting for Whittmeyer was the best thing
Republicans in the city have done in a long time.
Like he yes, he's a Democrat, and he's liberal on
some things, but he's not a crazy Democrat. And he
is the best Democrat that you're going to find in Houston.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, And are you going to and do you have
a choice when it comes to I mean, it has
to be a Democrat. I hate to be the blackpilled pessimist,
but do we have a choice?
Speaker 9 (37:35):
You know, maybe someday if you had a Republican with
nay mighty and or a lot of money. But for
the most part, Democrats just start out with a big
advantage in the city.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:45):
The last Republican we had elected as mayor of the
City East in nineteen seventy eight, Jim McConn.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, all right, the other race, that's true, and didn't
they name a baseball field after him in Memorial Park.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I think, so, yeah, the baseball fields.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
And every time I jog passed it, I'm like, that's
what we get as local Republicans.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
We get this Swimen's softball fields is there. It is
u Jim And he was actually considered to be a
very liberal Republican in his day and age.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
He was, well, you know, I should you know, it's hard.
I think he was much more moderate than I am today.
But the interestingly enough, his son is getting involved with
the politics.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Interesting, I'm not showing up left or right right. Oh cool,
glad to hear it. We only have a little bit
of time left, so let's go from that to this
county judge race. After this election's over here in a
couple weeks and a month, we'll be all done talking
about the prop votes and what have you, and then
we will be onto the primaries for the midterms. Wesley Hunt,
John Cornyn, Ken Paxton. Obviously that's getting a lot of
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attention right now. But since we'll have a lot of
time to talk about that, and you guys are both
Houston specific, let's talk about this instead. The county judge
race is between Orlando Sanchez. Marty Langdon, the fire union
president and apparently the HOA president to the Piney Point community,
would don, who are you leaning towards here?
Speaker 10 (39:06):
With full disclosure, I am longtime friends with both Marty
Langton and Orlando Sanchez, and I like them both. I
have known Orlando more as a Dick Weekly operative for
many many years. He was part of the open borders thing. However,
you know, I could you know, I've been a little
(39:30):
bit disappointed.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
In how should I say people who Marty's dating late
link for the record.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
For the record, I am, I am, I am. I've
endorsed Marty Langton. I'm not that is here's a personal
livesman of my business. I will say this about Marty.
Could you imagine before Donald Trump, the most popular Republican
Canadate to be the executive of the biggest county in
Texas is a union president for first responders, And I mean,
that's the world we live in now. Is like suddenly
a lot of blue collar guys in the Republican Party,
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firefighters and cops all get behind Marty. You have a
different opinion on this, Rolando, and I respect you, so
I'm gonna let you give.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
It without interrupting you.
Speaker 9 (40:12):
God, no, I first of all, I don't have I
haven't to have a favorite among the three. I'm still
looking closely at them. The problem with Marty is, you know,
of course we support first responders. However, his job as
union president has always been one thing benefits, to increase
the benefits and pay for his members's and that's what
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he should be doing. However, that doesn't mean he's always
been on the on the side of the taxpayer. So
now that he's running for county judge, will he understand
that you're going to be advocating for the taxpayer and
not for government employees because he spent his whole adult
life advocating for government employees.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Years ago, you and I became friends because I learned
that you were a guy that was really good at
vetting candidates.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
If you sat down to vet Marty, what would you
ask him?
Speaker 9 (41:00):
I would ask him, what proof can you show before
you started campaign that you have fought for conservative causes
and not just for better pay and better benefits for
your members. What have you done to actually fight for
any conservative cause? That's what I would ask.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Don Hobert your reaction so I'll play I'll play white white, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
I know, I'll.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
I'll defend Marty in saying this is that I had
fought with the Fire Union for years, probably over a decade,
with Marty and his guys, and then one day, well
actually two different things happened. One day, a guy, a
illegal alien, slammed into the back of my car and
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hit me on the Southwest Freeway, hard enough to.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Pin me in in the front and.
Speaker 10 (41:56):
I was able to free myself, but my knees were
pretty badly damaged. And one of those great, big, all
huge pumper trucks pulled in behind me and I was
in the fast lane when this occurred, and turned on
its lights. And I'd always been real critical of Marty
in the Fire Unit. Why are you always sending a
pumper truck in an ambulance to an accident or whatnot?
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And at that moment I realized why they did that.
And the traffic was very heavy that day, and luckily
the person was caught who hit me, and it had
a pretty good outcome, but I was very happy. And
then the other thing that happened was my mother fell
in her retirement home and I was pulling in and
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I was following this fire truck and you have this thing.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
God is it?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
You know?
Speaker 10 (42:45):
I hope that they're not coming from my mom, you know,
five hundred people. And sure enough I get upstairs and
she had this unit that was a combined unit up
on the top floor and they were there for her,
and she had a thing on her neck and pushed
it and even the building didn't know that she had
called the fire.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Wow, they got there and and I was very, very.
Speaker 10 (43:08):
Pleased with all that now, So my thinking kind of
changed on that, you know, with being critical on them
on some of their expenses. And I have seen Marty
involve himself in some conservative causes and support my wife
and I and some conservative activities that I probably shouldn't
(43:30):
talk about that had to do with the district attorneys parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
over the district Attorney's office.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Marty, Marty has a chance.
Speaker 9 (43:42):
When I say, when I when I air criticism said,
I actually want to hear from him, like I want
him to address all these concerns with Republican voters and
I'm hoping, you know, he could win me over and
like we have three credible candidates. You mentioned that, well,
Eliza Dutt. Who's the mayor of Piney Pointer you referred
to as a the hoa president.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I'm just depressed how much she cleaned up Piney Colling,
She got the homeless off the street, the crime Evan,
how did you make Piney Points so nice? I know
it was a total turnaround, was it? But you know,
whether it's Marty or Orlando or Eliza or anyone else,
There's three questions any Republican primary voter needs to ask
these candidates. One, how are you going to be able
to raise money? Hers County is a bit's bigger than
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the state of Louisiana. Sure you need to run a
million dollar campaign. Two can you appeal to independence and
moderates grig We'd got.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
To win those over.
Speaker 9 (44:30):
And three are you going to govern as a conservative?
Those three questions that we need to be asking all
those candidates.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Rolando Garcia, Don Hooper. I loved having you guys in
here today. I want people to follow both of you
on X on Twitter or whatever it's AX, we can
call it X now.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
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