August 18, 2025 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Daniel Turner and journalist Holly Hansen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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if you eat enough of them, your feet will disappear. Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster. You joined us here and this is
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a good choice. You picked Pursuit of Happiness Radio. We
love being here with you. A lot of guests on
the show this afternoon, well too, to be honest. Over
the next hour, Daniel Turner stopping by from Powerthefuture dot com.
He is something of an expert on the energy industry
and he is going to opine a bit about why
the energy industry and the Russian Ukraine War are all
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synonymous with one another and why you should or shouldn't
care about what's going on over there.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Stick around for that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Then, Holly Hansen joins us from the Texan News with
the latest report from Harris County Commissioner's Report, and yikes,
yet another case of a dangerous criminal being released from
a local jail on one of those recognizant bonds.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We'll tell you about it. Stick around for that. May
I start off with this today?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Today we're going to need ooh, I didn't cue up
the right music for this. Give me the funeral music
if you don't mind. We're about to bury. We're about
to say goodbye to somebody we've talked about on this
radio show many many times.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Up there it is.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
There, it is today we say goodbye to MSNBC. No,
no guys saying I'm this isn't like some hyperbolic joke
or something. MSNBC, as John Nolty put it, the elitist,
far left propaganda outlet devoted to spreading bigotry and misinformation,
is now going to be known as ms NOW. They
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are officially splitting with NBC News. NBC News will no
longer be associated, at least in terms of branding and name.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
With the h.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
With MSNBC. MSNBC doesn't exist anymore. It's now called miss now.
Miss now more like miss LMAOM. I right, but I'm bumped.
Miss now. Ms NOW officially stands for my source for
news opinion in the world. Ms NOW might as well
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stand for my sweaty nards occupy Wisconsin, because this is
a death blow.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
This is listen to the MSNBC. Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The ms NOW president, Rebecca Cutler, of course, her name's Rebecca,
wrote an internal memo. It reads the following. This new
branding underscores omission to serve as a destination for breaking
news and best in class opinion journalism, all rooted in
accurate and reported facts. Hmmm, Rebecca continues. During this time
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of transition, NBC Universal decided that our brand requires a new,
separate identity. It sounds like they don't want to be
associated with you anymore. Rebecca, Okay, tutlu, goodbye whatever. J'all
Remember when you first heard about MSNBC was back in
the nineties when AOL was still relevant. It was a
joint venture between Microsoft and NBC. No, that was what
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it was. Ms S goood for Microsoft NBCAST. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't think Microsoft has anything to do with it.
Anyone could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Thanks to Keith Alberman in the aughts, MSNBC quickly devolved
into a fever swamp for far left hate, driven by
neurotic white women who buy wine in boxes.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
At the gas station.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So they fired Keith Alberman and they brought in Rachel
Maddow a little more manly and masculine compared to Keith. Obviously,
that proved to be the network's biggest downfall. At first,
she was a big star. Do you remember she used
to do segments with Tucker Carlson quite regularly. Actually, she
earned big, massive ratings. She was spreading wild eyed conspiracy
theories about Trump at some point, and then CNN, you know,
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they had Jake Tapper. Mattout disgraced herself more just pushing
the ridiculous Russian collusion hoax, kind of like Jake Tapper,
but more emotional. For years, Rachel basically told her audience,
don't touch that dial. I'm pretty sure Trump will be
arrested right after this commercial for Cialis.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But then that's not what happened, was it?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Twenty years of hoax chickens finally came home to roost
with Trump's triumphant twenty twenty four reelection, and MSNBC viewers
were caught completely off guard because MSNBC had assured them
over and over again this was never possible. The audience
was demoralized. They were betrayed, they fled. MSNBC's reignings tanked.
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They remain in the tank, by the way, And now
MSNBC's owner, Comcast, has spun the fake news outlet off
into a separate, publicly traded company called Versant. Versant is
still part of Comcast, so there was no legal reason
MSNBC had to change its name, right, you know, CNBC
was spun off into Versant, but it remains CNBC. They're
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not changing the name of that. That's still the financial
news network for NBC. But we all know why this
is happening. MSNBC has become an embarrassment. NBC News doesn't
want to be associated with them. They've lost credibility. This
divorce was totally it was totally necessary. MSNBC's cutler could
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spin this all she wants. Rebecca the CEO, Chief executive officer,
Rebecca is losing the NBC branding. It's a massive blow.
MSNBC has been an established brand for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
They're called ms now. Sounds like every cheap o streaming
news outlet you've ever heard of, which are everywhere now
because they're so inexpensive to produce. Ms now doesn't even
have news in its name. Oh and this is great.
It can no longer use the famous peacock logo. Imagine
if McDonald's changed his name to micwilbur and they remove
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the golden arches. That's what just happened to MSNBC. Se
Remember the dummies at Warner Brothers Discovery changed their name
of their streaming service HBO Max to just Max. That
lasted less than two years before someone figured out that
removing one of the oldest and most prestigious brands in
media was nuts, so they brought it back right. So
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it kind of seems appropriate that MSNBC reported this news
with its usual spin, lies and bravado.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Here is Joe Scarborough early this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We have breaking news as it pertains to our network
this morning, a new name for the network.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
By the end of the year, we will become ms.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now Wow sad enjoy this time, kids. We are seeing
the end of toxic media in real time, and honestly,
it's pretty beautiful. It is a beautiful thing in my opinion.
Rested peace, MSNBC. We won't miss.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yet, Jay Let's King's This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
On every year on Vladimir Putin's birthday, they sing this
song to him. It's called the Sacred War. It's an
old Soviet War anthem. I think they sing it to
all the children in Russia on their birthdays.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Today, the New.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
York Post reports Trump and Zelensky well. Trump claims Zelensky
could bring the nation's war with Russia to a halt
almost immediately if he was willing to make two major concessions.
So it sounds like what he's sharing here is basically
what Putin told him.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
In the meeting.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Trump called for Ukraine to drop its bid to join NATO,
and I think we all knew that was going to happen.
And he also said there was no getting back Crimea,
signaling to the nation to accept Russia's annexation twenty fourteen
annexation of the region during the Obama administration. If any
Democrats are mad about that, I got to ask you,
why didn't you do anything about it when Obama or
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Biden was in charge. That's that's two things, right, So
Ukraine Russia gets to keep Crimea and Ukraine doesn't get
to join NATO. I gotta tell you personally, I don't
really have a problem with that. We all know why
this war started. This war started because Biden wanted it
to start. Sorry, but that's what happened. We know what happened.
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There was a war going on in Afghanistan and your
average American Republican or Democrat was exhausted with it. But
the military industrial complex keeps the checks flying to Joe
Biden's big donors. So without a never ending war, how
are they going to make money? The answer was pretty simple.
While your sympathy for a war in the Mideast or
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whatever we consider Afghanistan to be was dwindling at that point,
a war in Europe, oh man, white people, wars in Europe.
That's just what the doctor ordered. So they did away
with Afghanistan. We all know how poorly that went. And
then Biden had to find a way to get Russia
to invade Ukraine. Taking the sanctions off the North Dream
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Pipeline was the perfect way to do it because it
gave them the monetary influence, aka the money they needed
to fund a never ending war. And that's exactly what happened.
And here we are, guys. This war has been going
on almost as long as world War two.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Can you believe it? Yeah, it's been a few years
since it started.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I know one person who could probably believe it because
he has watched this as closely as I have, Daniel
Turner from Power The Future is Here, And I would
assume Daniel, my explanation of this has a lot to
do with the energy industry, because I think it played
a role in all of it. Russia is, after all,
a petro state. Do you think I'm exaggerating? Do you
think I mis explained it? What are your thoughts on that?
Obviously you're welcome to disagree.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
No, I think you nailed it. I think allowing Russia
to have unfettered oil and gas access to the world's
markets made them incredibly rich. And Putin's always made no
bones about the fact that he wanted the Soviet block
back and Ukraine is the first depth. But they are
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to basically have Belarus, right, there's kind of a puppet
regime there. But then he'll go to Georgia next and
he'll keep expanding. There's no doubt. I mean, it doesn't
surprise anybody. Heck, his Foreign Minister Lavrov, on Friday of
last week, arrived in Alaska wearing a CCCP jersey. I mean,
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for those of us who are old enough to remember
when the Soviet Union was around every Olympics, we would
see their CCCP acronym rather than USSR, because that's what
it is in the Slavic alphabet. You know this, Seventy
year old men don't wear sweatshirts as a general rule,
or they shouldn't, and seventy year old diplomats don't normally
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come off of an airplane wearing a sweatshirt. And yet
here's the Russian foreign minister clearly sending a message to
the world, you know, tongue in cheek, but you know
he knew exactly what he was doing. So, yeah, you're
giving Russia oil, petro dollar dominance in the region made
them rich, and rich countries that are not good like
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Russia go to war. It's pretty logical. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I remember back in twenty thirteen, these protests started up
in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It was obviously the second.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Term of Barack Obama, on the heels of him telling
us that we had to stop worrying about Russia. Russia
wasn't important. Remember he mocked Mitt Romney for it. Take
your policy, foreign policy back to the nineteen eighties, and
then as quickly as they told us that, suddenly we
were all pretty worried about Russia again, because Ukraine was,
after all, at the time, like you just used that term,
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a puppet government of Russia. There was a person in
charge of Ukraine at the time it was very sympathetic
to Putin and the Russian oligarchy. And then, suspiciously, in
twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen, this large wave of giant
protests known as the euromaid In protests, the Revolution of Dignity,
took place in Ukraine, and it had all of the
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I mean, it looked to me like it was this coup.
It looked to me like it was. But you know,
we don't know that. It seemed a lot like behind
the scenes, we were behind it. And guess what happened.
We took the Putin sympathetic leader out of power and
replaced him with somebody that was very sympathetic to Western
business interest. What an odd coincidence that we went from
one of those things, not Chinese business interests, not African,
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but no American, British, Germany, NATO business interest interestingly enough,
and then came the attack on Crimea, and then came
all the other things that they blamed Donald Trump for.
I gotta tell you, the more we learn about this,
much like the twenty sixteen election conspiracies that the Democrats
tried to weave, the more we learn about it, Daniel Turner,
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the more it seems like they were behind it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, And the more it seems like there is that
permanent state of warfare because it is incredibly lucrative. It's
why Eisenhower wrote about it in his famous last letter
where he coined that phrase the military industrial comp And
you know, I'm not a huge fan of his comedy,
nor of his movies, nor of his political views, but
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that podcaster Russell Brandt, it's kind of where he started
taking a red pill, was on that exact issue, but
during COVID, and he said, if you have industries that
are going to become incredibly lucrative when this crisis happens, well,
the surprise, they're always going to see a crisis because
that's their bread and butter. And we see it in military,
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we see it in COVID world. I clearly see it
in the climate world. Right as soon as there stops
being a climate crisis, the green groups all have to
go away. So there's definitely a lot of truth in that.
If this is your industry and it is your bread
and butter, and it's also your passion, right, we have
to remember that a lot of these folks, it's not
just the business decision. Like they love war the way
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the climate groups love punishing poor people and sub Saharan
Africa with slavery, like they love this, and so they
will perpetuate it from forever because it's just part of
their DNA.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, I think you're absolutely correct about that, and to them,
I mean, this is as important as the petro chemical industry.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
All right, So what happens next? Do you want to
make any predictions?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I mean, it sounds a lot like Trump already told
us what Putin wanted by pointing out I mean, I
don't know if he showed us his hand of cards.
Everybody's making it sound like the meeting with Putin on
Friday was a complete catastrophe, but I don't know if
it was.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I think we all have to.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Wait until this meeting with Zelenski and the European Union
ends before we can decide that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
And I'm curious to see all the European leaders who
are coming over to the White House today, that their
position right, it's their continent. They don't like the fact
that there's this heavy handed American and President Trump who's
now calling the shots. Joe Biden was a wonderful partner
for them because he didn't do anything. He just wrote
checks every time they asked him to. So I'm sure
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the Europeans aren't thrilled that Trump is heavily involved. But
that's too bad. That's part of being the world's largest superpower.
This is not an issue that interests me. And I
know that sounds awful, and you can show me pictures
and you can talk about human rights and democracy and
all of that. I have a very simple answer that
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I give people. I was just arguing with a friend
online earlier this morning, and I said about, you know,
two weeks ago, President Trump announced that the end of
the thirty five year war between Armenia and Isabrajahan, and
both presidents sat down with him at the White House
and they shook hands and they ended a thirty five
year war, and all the world said, huh, like what war?
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First of all, where's Isa Braijan and Armenia? They've been
at war for thirty five years. My point is there
are lots of wars going on in the world that
America doesn't have to be involved in, and the fact
that this is getting a lot of news doesn't deny
the fact that no one seems to care about the
ongoing war in Me and mar that used to be Burma,
the conflict and Sudan and Sadan, the conflict in Rwanda, right,
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the conflict in Thailand and Cambodia, another resolution that President
Trump got to an end. There's a lot of war happening.
Why do we have to be involved ever? If it's
helpful to bring peace, wonderful, but our involvement it's not
our continent, it's not our conflict. I don't think President
Putin has a desire to invade in North America anytime soon.
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I look at all the problems we have as a country,
and Ukraine does not rank in high on my list
of problems we have to tackle.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Amen to that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, if you look at the Council on Foreign Relations
Global Conflict Tracker, they claim they're thirty two ongoing conflicts.
If you look at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law,
they're currently monitoring one hundred and ten armed conflicts war.
There's a war that's been going on for years now
at the border of India and China. You don't even
hear about. You don't hear about that at all. All
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we hear about is USA and Ukraine and the Arab
Israeli conflict.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We're still involved in the Yemen Civil War.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
How many wars do we have to be involved in,
Daniel before people realize that the water in Michigan and
Detroit is still tainted and that the people are still
starving in the streets of Los Angeles a heroin and
opioid addiction, and Monroe, Louisiana is still out of control,
and I'm supposed to send my money to Ukraine as that.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Exactly the only war I want is with the Sineloa cartels.
If America invaded Mexico, I'd be thrilled. I would support
that war wholeheartedly and kill all of the cartels which
funnel Chinese opioids into our country. We havoc across America,
across South America. I would wholeheartedly and invite the takeover
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the invasion of Mexico, And quite frankly, I would I would,
I would support just the absolute conquest of Mexico. We
need a lot more ocean front property in our country.
And you know, if Texas can be three times the
size of what it was, they have an awful lot
of oil and gas. So I can be pro war
with American's interests are at heart. Obviously I'm being a
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little tongue in cheek here, but I have a quick
solution to the end in the war of Ukraine, also
something I was arguing with my friends this morning online.
But no one wants this quick solution. And what makes
Russia different now than when the Soviet Union was around
and Reagan was battling them is Russia now has an
enormous oligarch class. It's kind of like our Gilded Age,
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where a thousand families control everything, and those thousand men
who were all major billionaires and control the industry, all
have multiple daughters who are nineteen and twenty and they
want to be in London, and they want to be
at the Paris Fashion Show, and they want to rip
lines of cocaine in cool cities around the world. And
if every one of them is exported expelled back to Russia,
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the war will end in five minutes. Because that oligarch
class will gather up their forces and they will oust
putin because they don't want to be in Russia and
their wives want to shop in Beverly Hills, and their
sons want to, you know, go a Lamborghini racing in Switzerland.
Export every single one of those families, and we know
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exactly who they are. They're studying at Columbia right now,
we know where they are. Every one of those people
and their families have to be sent back to Russia
within twenty four hours and this war will be over
in five damn minutes. But no one wants to do that,
right because they like their money. Because that's a tough decision,
so we drag it on unnecessarily. But that's how I
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would end the war. By by Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You mentioned going after the Sinelola cartel.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Obviously, the Losatas and the golf cartel all problematic as well.
And I love the idea of using military force in Mexico,
but the word posse kamatatis gets thrown around a lot,
which is obviously her gets back to the founding father's
idea that the military and the police should never be
combined together, which makes some critics of the Trump administration
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suggest that would be an unconstitutional move.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Your reaction to that, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Well, because this is coming, it's not it's not a
police action because it is coming from international borders. And
if you know a country was dropping any other sort
of poison into our niche would we would respond with
military force. Right if they were invading us with bombs,
we would respond with force. But they're invading us with
drugs and we do nothing about it. And similarly, China
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is invading us with everything from tainted bugs that they're
trying to drop into our agriculture and stars and mers
and COVID, so they're using biological warfare. Mexico is using
a drug warfare. So this is not a police action.
This is a military action. And you know, when we
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stop having eighty thousand people full a year die of
opioid overdoses, I don't think America is going to be
too sad that we killed a couple of cartel bosses
in the process.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I gotta tell you music to my ears, Daniel Turner,
Powerthefuture dot Com, my brother come back next week.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We always appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Anytime, Kenny. Thank your suit of that Penis Radio coming
now just the This.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
According to a new report from the Financial World, about
eighty percent of the US currency that's currently in circulation
is actually one hundred dollars bills. Americans like to have
a one hundred dollars bill on them because they can
just pull it out and buy a cup of coffee
at Starbucks. It's very convenient to do that. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster, Welcome back, and in KIS you're curious.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I was do people still believe fact checkers? Now? I
get it.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You listen to talk radio, odds are you're one of
the smarter news consumers out in the zeitgeist and a
social sphere. If you will, good for you, And you know,
hopefully the talk radio host you turn to yours truly
or someone else to get objective truth is somebody you
can trust.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
But they still have these websites out.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
There, Snopes dot com and PolitiFact, and these websites have
been proven wrong so many times it's embarrassing. In fact,
I think we all recall we've done deep dives into
this in the past and learned that a lot of
those fact checking websites are actually operated by former intelligence agents. Weird,
Why would it be so important for some ex FBI
or CIA agent to make sure that you're not being
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lied to about vaccines? Those two things don't seem like
they're connected at all, or do they. Joe Concha at
Fox News recently made the point that the factchecker era
is ending, and that's a good thing, and I think
he's right. It was kind of a telling revelation from
a recently disgraced Washington Post fact checker, a guy named
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Glenn Kesler, when he shared a conversation he once had
with his publisher, Will Lewis. Lewis asked the question what
should the Post do to appeal more to Fox newsviewers.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
He gave an interesting answer. I'm going to read it
here too, he said. Quote.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I felt he was crossing a bit of business newsroom
line where he was asking my advice on how to
make the newspaper appeal to a different audience. As I
write in the piece, frankly, the audience of the Washington
Post is mostly liberal. I mean this is based on
my anecdotal evidence, based on if I wrote fact checkers
that gave pinocchios to democrats. I got a lot of
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angry emails. If I gave fact checks that gave pinocchios
to Republicans, I didn't get many emails, and so it
was an indication of where his thinking was.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
End quote. Hmm, Okay, I'm starting to understand what's happening here.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
People at the Washington Post were uncomfortable with the fact
that average normal people quit reading their newspaper. Imagine that
they didn't want to read a newspaper anymore that was
lying to them. I think it's probably pretty obvious why
that was happening, right, Sure, you probably know the answer. Well,
the Washington Post has done quite a bit of house
cleaning recently. Actually, Breitbart dot Com just reported the Washington
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Post is getting rid of the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist
Robin Given. And this is one of those infinite examples
you have of how people that have gone too far
to the left are no longer good for the business model.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
She just posted online.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
This is one of those women that works at the
Washington Post whose job it is to tell you that
today Donald Trump is hitler, He's the hitler is Hitler,
whoever Hitler.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
At a Hitler.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Convention, she said she loves the Post. She grew up
as a journalist and loves being a journalist. She's a
believer in the importance of institutions. But they no longer
welcome her alarmism at the Washington Post anymore. It's probably
a good reason why you can only be wrong so
many times before people will stop paying for your news outlet.
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They have this saying at the Washington most democracy dies
in darkness. Well, as it turns out, one wonders how
democracy will survive without all of her headlines. Listen to
some of these headlines. Mark Jcubbs anti politics, from fake
nails to creative freedom.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Who wants to read that? The fashion designer? He's not
political enough?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, here's another headline. President Trump addresses Congress and nothing
about it was normal. That's an actual how why you
should be alarmed at Trump giving a regular, average speech.
Nothing else to say about it. We're just going to
tell you it's scary. Okay, here's a great one. See
inside Kamala Harris's VP house as Jade Vance prepares to
move in. Hmmm, so it's just an empty house before
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the new VP. Who wants to Nobody wants to read that.
Here's a great one. What does diversity mean in a
second Trump administration? Probably the same thing it meant in
the first, to administrate nothing right. Diversity is just a
thing you, guys invented to make up for the fact
that you can't actually favor her meritocracy because people on
your side suck at their job. I love this headline.
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Thanksgiving is our most woe holiday. That's why it's so great.
It goes on and on and on. Guys, there's more.
Speaker Pelosi's style of power, Marjorie Taylor Green's big mouth
in her big white fur rimmed coat. When Fanny Willis
took the stand, her fury was precise and laser focused.
Stormy Daniel's voluble specificity. That's like, come on, nobody even
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talks like that. Why are you writing a headline that
uses those words. It's intended to be alienating. You go
back three years and look at her work, and it's
just a snooze fest. I don't know what she won
her Politzer Prize for. I bet it's something really stupid.
She wrote the safest, most boring nonsense you could write
at the Washington Post. Nothing ever colored outside the lines
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or dared to question conventional wisdom.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It was just mainstream left wing dribble.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
She was not in the business of doing anything other
than affirming comforting the rich elites who subscribed to the
Washington Post. If she believed she was trolling Trump supporters,
this is the first time anyone ever noticed her.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
So I'm okay. Bye. Didn't even really know who she
was until recently.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm not going to miss her at the Washington Post because,
like most normal people, I stopped reading the Washington Post
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I'll bet even Washington Post readers don't know who she is.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
That happiness.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston, Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The most stressful travel destination. According to a new report,
the most stressful travel destination in the world is Paris.
I don't believe that and don't buy it. I think
it's the local trader Joe's in my neighborhood on a Saturday.
I would not go there. It's insanity. Somebody threw a
gourd at me the last time I went there. A
gord I tell you, and in that cord was thirty dollars. Hi, everybody,
(28:01):
welcome back from break.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I am. I can't believe this is still an issue.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Jar.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Do you ever feel like there's problems we've solved on
this radio show and they should just not be problems anymore.
Surely we have explained enough on this radio show about
the unintended or perhaps intended consequences of what we used
to refer to as bond reform. I don't even think
we call it that. We'll just call him get out
of jail free cards. It happened again. The three hundred
(28:28):
and fifty first Criminal District Court judge not a Cornelio,
not a not a brainer in her head, I think,
But I'm bub she gave Jared Wilson a personal recognizance bond. Basically,
I get out of jail free card, even though he's
charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
This is getting a lot of attention now.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
People are pretty upset because dangerous criminal, purportedly dangerous, an
alleged dangerous certainly sounds like he's a dangerous criminal.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
It's just got let go.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Andy Kahn with Crime stut Stoppers said there was a
Lawn Act did better known as Senate Bill six. It's
supposed to have eliminated most violent crimes, including aggravated robbery
with a deadly weapon, from being eligible for a PR bond.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yet here we are. I can't believe it's as bad
as it sounds.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So I invited somebody on who gives us just the facts,
nothing but the facts, and only the facts, with maybe
a little bit of insinuation thrown in, but that, you know,
but still mostly just the facts. That would be Holly Hanson,
if the Texan Dot News, Holly, give us the skinny
you what's going on?
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Hi, Kenny, Well, what happened is you had Judge not
a Cornelio, who we've talked about many times on this show,
award a PR bonds to this guy. And as you said,
he had been accused of aggravated robbery with the deadly weapon.
He actually pled guilty to that charge and he was
on probation when she gave him this PR bond. Now,
(29:53):
you know, we wrote about this, this was reported on
Fox twenty six, there was a lot of news stories
about it last week. Well, apparently, what a Criminal Defense
Association has told us is that well, technically she did
not give the PR bond on the charge of aggravated robbery.
(30:13):
She gave it to him on emotion to revoke his
probation because he wasn't following the rules of this probation
and so it doesn't actually fall under the law. And
so they are defending this action. We got a lot
of emails from them and comments from them, and the
(30:34):
fact that they're saying that there's this loophole in the
law is starting to get the attention of some lawmakers.
I've talked to two of them, I don't want to
name them just yet, that they are looking seriously at
this and trying to figure out, scratching their heads, how
anyone would interpret what we call the Damon Allen Act
to allow a judge to give a PR bond related
(30:57):
to a violent offense even though it's technically on this
motion to revoke his probation. So it's it's sort of
blown up over the past few days, and I think
we're gonna we're gonna be hearing more about this. Just
to note, this suspect, you know, was picked up for
some other charges while he was on probation. One of
(31:19):
them was just a misdemeanor, but it was abating arrest.
He didn't comply with the terms of a bond in
that case either. That you had the prosecutors repeatedly coming
to the judge with these emotions to revoke his probation.
But you know, we did get some more bonds eventually
and some of the charges got dropped until last month
(31:42):
when he got arrested once again. This time he was
found to be in possession with an automatic weapon which
was prohibited by MOW and he was charged with also
tampering with evidence. So you know, he does seem like,
you know, a frequent flyer in our criminal justice system
in Harris County. And nonetheless, he did get a pr
(32:05):
bond last year and has been free in the community
for over a year.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
A lot going on in.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Here's what I don't understand about this. This is what
confuses me.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
It seems like, and not always I don't mean a stereotype,
it seems like often is the case when you see
these criminals getting released and let go immediately after doing
something that might indicate they're the exact person that we
built the jails for. Very often the judge releasing them
is a female Democrat who lives in the city. I'm
just guessing, right, I don't know where she lives, but
(32:38):
odds are she occupied somewhere in Harris County, right, that's
where she's working at, which is probably in the city.
This woman has to live in the community where she's
releasing these dangerous, violent criminals into.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm forgive me for pointing this out, but I feel
like women are more physically vulnerable to these dangerous criminals
than men are.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
What is the deal here, Holly? I mean, I am
I wrong about this?
Speaker 8 (33:02):
I don't think you're wrong about that. You know, as
a single female lives in the Houston area, you know,
I'm pretty wary and I feel like I'm probably a
little more vulnerable. But I will tell you that some
of these judges, they're kind of this part of this
kind of far left criminal justice reform movement that really
doesn't believe in pre trial incarceration and even often incarceration
(33:26):
for convicted criminals and not a Cornelio is the same
judge who brought back the Ronald Lee Haskel who's on
death row. He was convicted of killing one that's five
to six people and she brought him bath under what
was allegedly a false bench warrant. She's been removed from
that case for that. She's also the one who let
(33:50):
a convicted murderer out on bond so that he could
go get a haircut before his sentencing hearing. So it's
recently been what what can't make yourself up?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
You couldn't get a haircut in jail, They didn't have
a barber. I don't believe that. I don't believe it.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Apparently not, well, you know, she authorized his name is
James ray Lane, and then she let him go so
he could go get a haircut. Wow, she's got maybe
a different approach to criminal justice than most of the
residents of Harris County, even if they are left of center.
So this is the reason we're getting a lot of
(34:32):
attention on our judicial races here in Harris County. And
we saw some changes last year in the twenty twenty
four elections, and my guess is we'll probably see more
in twenty twenty six because this issue is non pargasant.
People are worried about public safety and they don't like,
they don't like these kind of bond policies.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All Right, let's talk a little bit about the Harris
County Commissioner's Court for just a second.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Tom Ramsey posted something interesting recently.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
He's probably the only reasonable person left on the Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
And here's a fun sound by to Lena Hidalgo. Real quick,
I did only go to Stanford and Harvard.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
She just wants you to know she's really smart. I
love that sound. Hut, I did only go to Stanford
and Harvard. Okay, yeah, but you went there when there
was a lot of DEI going on. And anyway, there's
been a lot of criticize with how Harris County manages
flood control and funding law enforcement. And Tom Ramsey says, quote,
it's been suggested the Commissioner's find ways to address the
two hundred million dollar deficit for the twenty twenty six budget.
(35:32):
County Judge Lena Hidalgo is particularly concerned with the one
million dollars the majority of the court approved to retain
for our constables law enforcement. He's suggesting the County attorney
recover one point two million dollars paid to her elevate
strategies canceled contract. Apparently, lawmakers want to address what is
going on here. I know I'm bundling a lot of
topics in to one umbrella issue here, Holly, But what's
(35:56):
the latest on this. Lena Hidalgo using money for things
that we didn't want her to use it for. Meanwhile,
the rest of the Commissioner's Court want that money used
for law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (36:07):
So? Yeah, that correlates with the whole public safety issue
in Harris County. So you have this deputy contract program
where you've got neighborhoods and even your public school districts
will contract with the constables or the sheriff's office so
that they can get extra patrols in their neighborhood. And
we find that where you have these contracts in place,
(36:28):
those neighborhoods and school districts have less crime associated with them.
But County Commissioner's Court, Lena Hidalgo and Commissioner Rodney Ellis,
they don't like these contract programs, and I don't think
Adrian Garcia is a big fan of them either, and
so they've sought ways to either eliminate them or restrict them,
make them so expensive that the school districts and neighborhoods
(36:50):
cannot afford them. So what some of the local lawmakers
have filed in the special session that's going on right now.
Mike's go Field and Tom oliverson out of this area
have filed legislation that would say County Commissioner's Court doesn't
have any control over these contracts. The constables and the
sheriff are elected officials. They're chosen by the voters, and
(37:14):
they should be able to control and negotiate these contracts,
and they would be able to eliminate some of the
really hefty administrative fees that the county imposes on them,
and they charge them for things like extra HR costs,
and I think there's a stipulation in there to cover
the costs of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs and
(37:37):
things like that, when really just you've got your school
districts wanting, you know, extra patrols, and they've got kids
coming into the school or neighborhoods they want extra patrol
so that you know, bad guys aren't running around doing
whatever they want to do. So I see this as
being yet another fight Harris County. I'm sure will oppose this,
(37:58):
but it looks like lawmakers are going to try to
push this through. I am hearing that it is getting
the attention. We'll just say of people higher up, and
you know, if they have a quorum for a special session,
it may get through.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yes, that is very interesting.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
And another local related news today, Holly, did you know
there was a local man who owned a company that
made throat lozenges that died last week?
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Uh? No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, apparently there was no coffin at his funeral.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Oh oh, that's painful, aren't You don't get paid to,
you know, do stand up comedy.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Holly, don't break mine heart, Holly, Come on, that is
a good joke.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
She is Holly Hanson of the Texan Dot News.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
You should follow her on x and consider subscribing to
their news website. I think it is filled with great content.
In the meantime, I love you all. I hope you
have a great afternoon. We'll be back bright and early
tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
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love being here with you. A lot of guests on
the show this afternoon, well too, to be honest. Over
the next hour, Daniel Turner stopping by from Powerthefuture dot com.
He is something of an expert on the energy industry
and he is going to opine a bit about why
the energy industry and the Russian Ukraine War are all
(00:56):
synonymous with one another and why you should or shouldn't
care about what's going on over there.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Stick around for that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Then, Holly Hansen joins us from the Texan News with
the latest report from Harris County Commissioner's Report, and yikes,
yet another case of a dangerous criminal being released from
a local jail on one of those recognizant bonds.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We'll tell you about it. Stick around for that. May
I start off with this today?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Today we're going to need ooh, I didn't cue up
the right music for this. Give me the funeral music
if you don't mind. We're about to bury. We're about
to say goodbye to somebody we've talked about on this
radio show many many times.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Up there it is.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
There, it is today we say goodbye to MSNBC. No,
no guys saying I'm this isn't like some hyperbolic joke
or something. MSNBC, as John Nolty put it, the elitist,
far left propaganda outlet devoted to spreading bigotry and misinformation,
is now going to be known as ms NOW. They
(01:53):
are officially splitting with NBC News. NBC News will no
longer be associated, at least in terms of branding and name.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
With the h.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
With MSNBC. MSNBC doesn't exist anymore. It's now called miss now.
Miss now more like miss LMAOM. I right, but I'm bumped.
Miss now. Ms NOW officially stands for my source for
news opinion in the world. Ms NOW might as well
(02:25):
stand for my sweaty nards occupy Wisconsin, because this is
a death blow.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
This is listen to the MSNBC. Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The ms NOW president, Rebecca Cutler, of course, her name's Rebecca,
wrote an internal memo. It reads the following. This new
branding underscores omission to serve as a destination for breaking
news and best in class opinion journalism, all rooted in
accurate and reported facts. Hmmm, Rebecca continues. During this time
(02:54):
of transition, NBC Universal decided that our brand requires a new,
separate identity. It sounds like they don't want to be
associated with you anymore. Rebecca, Okay, tutlu, goodbye whatever. J'all
Remember when you first heard about MSNBC was back in
the nineties when AOL was still relevant. It was a
joint venture between Microsoft and NBC. No, that was what
(03:15):
it was. Ms S goood for Microsoft NBCAST. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't think Microsoft has anything to do with it.
Anyone could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Thanks to Keith Alberman in the aughts, MSNBC quickly devolved
into a fever swamp for far left hate, driven by
neurotic white women who buy wine in boxes.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
At the gas station.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So they fired Keith Alberman and they brought in Rachel
Maddow a little more manly and masculine compared to Keith. Obviously,
that proved to be the network's biggest downfall. At first,
she was a big star. Do you remember she used
to do segments with Tucker Carlson quite regularly. Actually, she
earned big, massive ratings. She was spreading wild eyed conspiracy
theories about Trump at some point, and then CNN, you know,
(03:57):
they had Jake Tapper. Mattout disgraced herself more just pushing
the ridiculous Russian collusion hoax, kind of like Jake Tapper,
but more emotional. For years, Rachel basically told her audience,
don't touch that dial. I'm pretty sure Trump will be
arrested right after this commercial for Cialis.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But then that's not what happened, was it?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Twenty years of hoax chickens finally came home to roost
with Trump's triumphant twenty twenty four reelection, and MSNBC viewers
were caught completely off guard because MSNBC had assured them
over and over again this was never possible. The audience
was demoralized. They were betrayed, they fled. MSNBC's reignings tanked.
(04:40):
They remain in the tank, by the way, And now
MSNBC's owner, Comcast, has spun the fake news outlet off
into a separate, publicly traded company called Versant. Versant is
still part of Comcast, so there was no legal reason
MSNBC had to change its name, right, you know, CNBC
was spun off into Versant, but it remains CNBC. They're
(05:01):
not changing the name of that. That's still the financial
news network for NBC. But we all know why this
is happening. MSNBC has become an embarrassment. NBC News doesn't
want to be associated with them. They've lost credibility. This
divorce was totally it was totally necessary. MSNBC's cutler could
(05:21):
spin this all she wants. Rebecca the CEO, Chief executive officer,
Rebecca is losing the NBC branding. It's a massive blow.
MSNBC has been an established brand for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
They're called ms now. Sounds like every cheap o streaming
news outlet you've ever heard of, which are everywhere now
because they're so inexpensive to produce. Ms now doesn't even
have news in its name. Oh and this is great.
It can no longer use the famous peacock logo. Imagine
if McDonald's changed his name to micwilbur and they remove
(05:56):
the golden arches. That's what just happened to MSNBC. Se
Remember the dummies at Warner Brothers Discovery changed their name
of their streaming service HBO Max to just Max. That
lasted less than two years before someone figured out that
removing one of the oldest and most prestigious brands in
media was nuts, so they brought it back right. So
(06:17):
it kind of seems appropriate that MSNBC reported this news
with its usual spin, lies and bravado.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Here is Joe Scarborough early this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We have breaking news as it pertains to our network
this morning, a new name for the network.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
By the end of the year, we will become ms.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now Wow sad enjoy this time, kids. We are seeing
the end of toxic media in real time, and honestly,
it's pretty beautiful. It is a beautiful thing in my opinion.
Rested peace, MSNBC. We won't miss.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yet, Jay Let's King's This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
On every year on Vladimir Putin's birthday, they sing this
song to him. It's called the Sacred War. It's an
old Soviet War anthem. I think they sing it to
all the children in Russia on their birthdays.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Today, the New.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
York Post reports Trump and Zelensky well. Trump claims Zelensky
could bring the nation's war with Russia to a halt
almost immediately if he was willing to make two major concessions.
So it sounds like what he's sharing here is basically
what Putin told him.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
In the meeting.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Trump called for Ukraine to drop its bid to join NATO,
and I think we all knew that was going to happen.
And he also said there was no getting back Crimea,
signaling to the nation to accept Russia's annexation twenty fourteen
annexation of the region during the Obama administration. If any
Democrats are mad about that, I got to ask you,
why didn't you do anything about it when Obama or
(07:55):
Biden was in charge. That's that's two things, right, So
Ukraine Russia gets to keep Crimea and Ukraine doesn't get
to join NATO. I gotta tell you personally, I don't
really have a problem with that. We all know why
this war started. This war started because Biden wanted it
to start. Sorry, but that's what happened. We know what happened.
(08:18):
There was a war going on in Afghanistan and your
average American Republican or Democrat was exhausted with it. But
the military industrial complex keeps the checks flying to Joe
Biden's big donors. So without a never ending war, how
are they going to make money? The answer was pretty simple.
While your sympathy for a war in the Mideast or
(08:39):
whatever we consider Afghanistan to be was dwindling at that point,
a war in Europe, oh man, white people, wars in Europe.
That's just what the doctor ordered. So they did away
with Afghanistan. We all know how poorly that went. And
then Biden had to find a way to get Russia
to invade Ukraine. Taking the sanctions off the North Dream
(09:00):
Pipeline was the perfect way to do it because it
gave them the monetary influence, aka the money they needed
to fund a never ending war. And that's exactly what happened.
And here we are, guys. This war has been going
on almost as long as world War two.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Can you believe it? Yeah, it's been a few years
since it started.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I know one person who could probably believe it because
he has watched this as closely as I have, Daniel
Turner from Power The Future is Here, And I would
assume Daniel, my explanation of this has a lot to
do with the energy industry, because I think it played
a role in all of it. Russia is, after all,
a petro state. Do you think I'm exaggerating? Do you
think I mis explained it? What are your thoughts on that?
Obviously you're welcome to disagree.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
No, I think you nailed it. I think allowing Russia
to have unfettered oil and gas access to the world's
markets made them incredibly rich. And Putin's always made no
bones about the fact that he wanted the Soviet block
back and Ukraine is the first depth. But they are
(10:01):
to basically have Belarus, right, there's kind of a puppet
regime there. But then he'll go to Georgia next and
he'll keep expanding. There's no doubt. I mean, it doesn't
surprise anybody. Heck, his Foreign Minister Lavrov, on Friday of
last week, arrived in Alaska wearing a CCCP jersey. I mean,
(10:22):
for those of us who are old enough to remember
when the Soviet Union was around every Olympics, we would
see their CCCP acronym rather than USSR, because that's what
it is in the Slavic alphabet. You know this, Seventy
year old men don't wear sweatshirts as a general rule,
or they shouldn't, and seventy year old diplomats don't normally
(10:42):
come off of an airplane wearing a sweatshirt. And yet
here's the Russian foreign minister clearly sending a message to
the world, you know, tongue in cheek, but you know
he knew exactly what he was doing. So, yeah, you're
giving Russia oil, petro dollar dominance in the region made
them rich, and rich countries that are not good like
(11:04):
Russia go to war. It's pretty logical. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I remember back in twenty thirteen, these protests started up
in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It was obviously the second.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Term of Barack Obama, on the heels of him telling
us that we had to stop worrying about Russia. Russia
wasn't important. Remember he mocked Mitt Romney for it. Take
your policy, foreign policy back to the nineteen eighties, and
then as quickly as they told us that, suddenly we
were all pretty worried about Russia again, because Ukraine was,
after all, at the time, like you just used that term,
(11:35):
a puppet government of Russia. There was a person in
charge of Ukraine at the time it was very sympathetic
to Putin and the Russian oligarchy. And then, suspiciously, in
twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen, this large wave of giant
protests known as the euromaid In protests, the Revolution of Dignity,
took place in Ukraine, and it had all of the
(11:58):
I mean, it looked to me like it was this coup.
It looked to me like it was. But you know,
we don't know that. It seemed a lot like behind
the scenes, we were behind it. And guess what happened.
We took the Putin sympathetic leader out of power and
replaced him with somebody that was very sympathetic to Western
business interest. What an odd coincidence that we went from
one of those things, not Chinese business interests, not African,
(12:20):
but no American, British, Germany, NATO business interest interestingly enough,
and then came the attack on Crimea, and then came
all the other things that they blamed Donald Trump for.
I gotta tell you, the more we learn about this,
much like the twenty sixteen election conspiracies that the Democrats
tried to weave, the more we learn about it, Daniel Turner,
(12:41):
the more it seems like they were behind it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, And the more it seems like there is that
permanent state of warfare because it is incredibly lucrative. It's
why Eisenhower wrote about it in his famous last letter
where he coined that phrase the military industrial comp And
you know, I'm not a huge fan of his comedy,
nor of his movies, nor of his political views, but
(13:07):
that podcaster Russell Brandt, it's kind of where he started
taking a red pill, was on that exact issue, but
during COVID, and he said, if you have industries that
are going to become incredibly lucrative when this crisis happens, well,
the surprise, they're always going to see a crisis because
that's their bread and butter. And we see it in military,
(13:28):
we see it in COVID world. I clearly see it
in the climate world. Right as soon as there stops
being a climate crisis, the green groups all have to
go away. So there's definitely a lot of truth in that.
If this is your industry and it is your bread
and butter, and it's also your passion, right, we have
to remember that a lot of these folks, it's not
just the business decision. Like they love war the way
(13:51):
the climate groups love punishing poor people and sub Saharan
Africa with slavery, like they love this, and so they
will perpetuate it from forever because it's just part of
their DNA.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, I think you're absolutely correct about that, and to them,
I mean, this is as important as the petro chemical industry.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
All right, So what happens next? Do you want to
make any predictions?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I mean, it sounds a lot like Trump already told
us what Putin wanted by pointing out I mean, I
don't know if he showed us his hand of cards.
Everybody's making it sound like the meeting with Putin on
Friday was a complete catastrophe, but I don't know if
it was.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I think we all have to.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Wait until this meeting with Zelenski and the European Union
ends before we can decide that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
And I'm curious to see all the European leaders who
are coming over to the White House today, that their
position right, it's their continent. They don't like the fact
that there's this heavy handed American and President Trump who's
now calling the shots. Joe Biden was a wonderful partner
for them because he didn't do anything. He just wrote
checks every time they asked him to. So I'm sure
(14:55):
the Europeans aren't thrilled that Trump is heavily involved. But
that's too bad. That's part of being the world's largest superpower.
This is not an issue that interests me. And I
know that sounds awful, and you can show me pictures
and you can talk about human rights and democracy and
all of that. I have a very simple answer that
(15:16):
I give people. I was just arguing with a friend
online earlier this morning, and I said about, you know,
two weeks ago, President Trump announced that the end of
the thirty five year war between Armenia and Isabrajahan, and
both presidents sat down with him at the White House
and they shook hands and they ended a thirty five
year war, and all the world said, huh, like what war?
(15:38):
First of all, where's Isa Braijan and Armenia? They've been
at war for thirty five years. My point is there
are lots of wars going on in the world that
America doesn't have to be involved in, and the fact
that this is getting a lot of news doesn't deny
the fact that no one seems to care about the
ongoing war in Me and mar that used to be Burma,
the conflict and Sudan and Sadan, the conflict in Rwanda, right,
(16:03):
the conflict in Thailand and Cambodia, another resolution that President
Trump got to an end. There's a lot of war happening.
Why do we have to be involved ever? If it's
helpful to bring peace, wonderful, but our involvement it's not
our continent, it's not our conflict. I don't think President
Putin has a desire to invade in North America anytime soon.
(16:27):
I look at all the problems we have as a country,
and Ukraine does not rank in high on my list
of problems we have to tackle.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Amen to that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, if you look at the Council on Foreign Relations
Global Conflict Tracker, they claim they're thirty two ongoing conflicts.
If you look at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law,
they're currently monitoring one hundred and ten armed conflicts war.
There's a war that's been going on for years now
at the border of India and China. You don't even
hear about. You don't hear about that at all. All
(16:59):
we hear about is USA and Ukraine and the Arab
Israeli conflict.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We're still involved in the Yemen Civil War.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
How many wars do we have to be involved in,
Daniel before people realize that the water in Michigan and
Detroit is still tainted and that the people are still
starving in the streets of Los Angeles a heroin and
opioid addiction, and Monroe, Louisiana is still out of control,
and I'm supposed to send my money to Ukraine as that.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Exactly the only war I want is with the Sineloa cartels.
If America invaded Mexico, I'd be thrilled. I would support
that war wholeheartedly and kill all of the cartels which
funnel Chinese opioids into our country. We havoc across America,
across South America. I would wholeheartedly and invite the takeover
(17:50):
the invasion of Mexico, And quite frankly, I would I would,
I would support just the absolute conquest of Mexico. We
need a lot more ocean front property in our country.
And you know, if Texas can be three times the
size of what it was, they have an awful lot
of oil and gas. So I can be pro war
with American's interests are at heart. Obviously I'm being a
(18:12):
little tongue in cheek here, but I have a quick
solution to the end in the war of Ukraine, also
something I was arguing with my friends this morning online.
But no one wants this quick solution. And what makes
Russia different now than when the Soviet Union was around
and Reagan was battling them is Russia now has an
enormous oligarch class. It's kind of like our Gilded Age,
(18:33):
where a thousand families control everything, and those thousand men
who were all major billionaires and control the industry, all
have multiple daughters who are nineteen and twenty and they
want to be in London, and they want to be
at the Paris Fashion Show, and they want to rip
lines of cocaine in cool cities around the world. And
if every one of them is exported expelled back to Russia,
(18:57):
the war will end in five minutes. Because that oligarch
class will gather up their forces and they will oust
putin because they don't want to be in Russia and
their wives want to shop in Beverly Hills, and their
sons want to, you know, go a Lamborghini racing in Switzerland.
Export every single one of those families, and we know
(19:17):
exactly who they are. They're studying at Columbia right now,
we know where they are. Every one of those people
and their families have to be sent back to Russia
within twenty four hours and this war will be over
in five damn minutes. But no one wants to do that,
right because they like their money. Because that's a tough decision,
so we drag it on unnecessarily. But that's how I
(19:39):
would end the war. By by Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You mentioned going after the Sinelola cartel.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Obviously, the Losatas and the golf cartel all problematic as well.
And I love the idea of using military force in Mexico,
but the word posse kamatatis gets thrown around a lot,
which is obviously her gets back to the founding father's
idea that the military and the police should never be
combined together, which makes some critics of the Trump administration
(20:08):
suggest that would be an unconstitutional move.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Your reaction to that, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Well, because this is coming, it's not it's not a
police action because it is coming from international borders. And
if you know a country was dropping any other sort
of poison into our niche would we would respond with
military force. Right if they were invading us with bombs,
we would respond with force. But they're invading us with
drugs and we do nothing about it. And similarly, China
(20:36):
is invading us with everything from tainted bugs that they're
trying to drop into our agriculture and stars and mers
and COVID, so they're using biological warfare. Mexico is using
a drug warfare. So this is not a police action.
This is a military action. And you know, when we
(20:58):
stop having eighty thousand people full a year die of
opioid overdoses, I don't think America is going to be
too sad that we killed a couple of cartel bosses
in the process.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I gotta tell you music to my ears, Daniel Turner,
Powerthefuture dot Com, my brother come back next week.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We always appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Anytime, Kenny. Thank your suit of that Penis Radio coming
now just the This.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
According to a new report from the Financial World, about
eighty percent of the US currency that's currently in circulation
is actually one hundred dollars bills. Americans like to have
a one hundred dollars bill on them because they can
just pull it out and buy a cup of coffee
at Starbucks. It's very convenient to do that. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster, Welcome back, and in KIS you're curious.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I was do people still believe fact checkers? Now? I
get it.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You listen to talk radio, odds are you're one of
the smarter news consumers out in the zeitgeist and a
social sphere. If you will, good for you, And you know,
hopefully the talk radio host you turn to yours truly
or someone else to get objective truth is somebody you
can trust.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
But they still have these websites out.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
There, Snopes dot com and PolitiFact, and these websites have
been proven wrong so many times it's embarrassing. In fact,
I think we all recall we've done deep dives into
this in the past and learned that a lot of
those fact checking websites are actually operated by former intelligence agents. Weird,
Why would it be so important for some ex FBI
or CIA agent to make sure that you're not being
(22:36):
lied to about vaccines? Those two things don't seem like
they're connected at all, or do they. Joe Concha at
Fox News recently made the point that the factchecker era
is ending, and that's a good thing, and I think
he's right. It was kind of a telling revelation from
a recently disgraced Washington Post fact checker, a guy named
(22:58):
Glenn Kesler, when he shared a conversation he once had
with his publisher, Will Lewis. Lewis asked the question what
should the Post do to appeal more to Fox newsviewers.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
He gave an interesting answer. I'm going to read it
here too, he said. Quote.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I felt he was crossing a bit of business newsroom
line where he was asking my advice on how to
make the newspaper appeal to a different audience. As I
write in the piece, frankly, the audience of the Washington
Post is mostly liberal. I mean this is based on
my anecdotal evidence, based on if I wrote fact checkers
that gave pinocchios to democrats. I got a lot of
(23:35):
angry emails. If I gave fact checks that gave pinocchios
to Republicans, I didn't get many emails, and so it
was an indication of where his thinking was.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
End quote. Hmm, Okay, I'm starting to understand what's happening here.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
People at the Washington Post were uncomfortable with the fact
that average normal people quit reading their newspaper. Imagine that
they didn't want to read a newspaper anymore that was
lying to them. I think it's probably pretty obvious why
that was happening, right, Sure, you probably know the answer. Well,
the Washington Post has done quite a bit of house
cleaning recently. Actually, Breitbart dot Com just reported the Washington
(24:12):
Post is getting rid of the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist
Robin Given. And this is one of those infinite examples
you have of how people that have gone too far
to the left are no longer good for the business model.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
She just posted online.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
This is one of those women that works at the
Washington Post whose job it is to tell you that
today Donald Trump is hitler, He's the hitler is Hitler,
whoever Hitler.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
At a Hitler.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Convention, she said she loves the Post. She grew up
as a journalist and loves being a journalist. She's a
believer in the importance of institutions. But they no longer
welcome her alarmism at the Washington Post anymore. It's probably
a good reason why you can only be wrong so
many times before people will stop paying for your news outlet.
(24:57):
They have this saying at the Washington most democracy dies
in darkness. Well, as it turns out, one wonders how
democracy will survive without all of her headlines. Listen to
some of these headlines. Mark Jcubbs anti politics, from fake
nails to creative freedom.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Who wants to read that? The fashion designer? He's not
political enough?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, here's another headline. President Trump addresses Congress and nothing
about it was normal. That's an actual how why you
should be alarmed at Trump giving a regular, average speech.
Nothing else to say about it. We're just going to
tell you it's scary. Okay, here's a great one. See
inside Kamala Harris's VP house as Jade Vance prepares to
move in. Hmmm, so it's just an empty house before
(25:43):
the new VP. Who wants to Nobody wants to read that.
Here's a great one. What does diversity mean in a
second Trump administration? Probably the same thing it meant in
the first, to administrate nothing right. Diversity is just a
thing you, guys invented to make up for the fact
that you can't actually favor her meritocracy because people on
your side suck at their job. I love this headline.
(26:05):
Thanksgiving is our most woe holiday. That's why it's so great.
It goes on and on and on. Guys, there's more.
Speaker Pelosi's style of power, Marjorie Taylor Green's big mouth
in her big white fur rimmed coat. When Fanny Willis
took the stand, her fury was precise and laser focused.
Stormy Daniel's voluble specificity. That's like, come on, nobody even
(26:29):
talks like that. Why are you writing a headline that
uses those words. It's intended to be alienating. You go
back three years and look at her work, and it's
just a snooze fest. I don't know what she won
her Politzer Prize for. I bet it's something really stupid.
She wrote the safest, most boring nonsense you could write
at the Washington Post. Nothing ever colored outside the lines
(26:52):
or dared to question conventional wisdom.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It was just mainstream left wing dribble.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
She was not in the business of doing anything other
than affirming comforting the rich elites who subscribed to the
Washington Post. If she believed she was trolling Trump supporters,
this is the first time anyone ever noticed her.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
So I'm okay. Bye. Didn't even really know who she
was until recently.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm not going to miss her at the Washington Post because,
like most normal people, I stopped reading the Washington Post
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I'll bet even Washington Post readers don't know who she is.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
That happiness.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston, Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The most stressful travel destination. According to a new report,
the most stressful travel destination in the world is Paris.
I don't believe that and don't buy it. I think
it's the local trader Joe's in my neighborhood on a Saturday.
I would not go there. It's insanity. Somebody threw a
gourd at me the last time I went there. A
gord I tell you, and in that cord was thirty dollars. Hi, everybody,
(28:01):
welcome back from break.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I am. I can't believe this is still an issue.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Jar.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Do you ever feel like there's problems we've solved on
this radio show and they should just not be problems anymore.
Surely we have explained enough on this radio show about
the unintended or perhaps intended consequences of what we used
to refer to as bond reform. I don't even think
we call it that. We'll just call him get out
of jail free cards. It happened again. The three hundred
(28:28):
and fifty first Criminal District Court judge not a Cornelio,
not a not a brainer in her head, I think,
But I'm bub she gave Jared Wilson a personal recognizance bond. Basically,
I get out of jail free card, even though he's
charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
This is getting a lot of attention now.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
People are pretty upset because dangerous criminal, purportedly dangerous, an
alleged dangerous certainly sounds like he's a dangerous criminal.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
It's just got let go.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Andy Kahn with Crime stut Stoppers said there was a
Lawn Act did better known as Senate Bill six. It's
supposed to have eliminated most violent crimes, including aggravated robbery
with a deadly weapon, from being eligible for a PR bond.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yet here we are. I can't believe it's as bad
as it sounds.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So I invited somebody on who gives us just the facts,
nothing but the facts, and only the facts, with maybe
a little bit of insinuation thrown in, but that, you know,
but still mostly just the facts. That would be Holly Hanson,
if the Texan Dot News, Holly, give us the skinny
you what's going on?
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Hi, Kenny, Well, what happened is you had Judge not
a Cornelio, who we've talked about many times on this show,
award a PR bonds to this guy. And as you said,
he had been accused of aggravated robbery with the deadly weapon.
He actually pled guilty to that charge and he was
on probation when she gave him this PR bond. Now,
(29:53):
you know, we wrote about this, this was reported on
Fox twenty six, there was a lot of news stories
about it last week. Well, apparently, what a Criminal Defense
Association has told us is that well, technically she did
not give the PR bond on the charge of aggravated robbery.
(30:13):
She gave it to him on emotion to revoke his
probation because he wasn't following the rules of this probation
and so it doesn't actually fall under the law. And
so they are defending this action. We got a lot
of emails from them and comments from them, and the
(30:34):
fact that they're saying that there's this loophole in the
law is starting to get the attention of some lawmakers.
I've talked to two of them, I don't want to
name them just yet, that they are looking seriously at
this and trying to figure out, scratching their heads, how
anyone would interpret what we call the Damon Allen Act
to allow a judge to give a PR bond related
(30:57):
to a violent offense even though it's technically on this
motion to revoke his probation. So it's it's sort of
blown up over the past few days, and I think
we're gonna we're gonna be hearing more about this. Just
to note, this suspect, you know, was picked up for
some other charges while he was on probation. One of
(31:19):
them was just a misdemeanor, but it was abating arrest.
He didn't comply with the terms of a bond in
that case either. That you had the prosecutors repeatedly coming
to the judge with these emotions to revoke his probation.
But you know, we did get some more bonds eventually
and some of the charges got dropped until last month
(31:42):
when he got arrested once again. This time he was
found to be in possession with an automatic weapon which
was prohibited by MOW and he was charged with also
tampering with evidence. So you know, he does seem like,
you know, a frequent flyer in our criminal justice system
in Harris County. And nonetheless, he did get a pr
(32:05):
bond last year and has been free in the community
for over a year.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
A lot going on in.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Here's what I don't understand about this. This is what
confuses me.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
It seems like, and not always I don't mean a stereotype,
it seems like often is the case when you see
these criminals getting released and let go immediately after doing
something that might indicate they're the exact person that we
built the jails for. Very often the judge releasing them
is a female Democrat who lives in the city. I'm
just guessing, right, I don't know where she lives, but
(32:38):
odds are she occupied somewhere in Harris County, right, that's
where she's working at, which is probably in the city.
This woman has to live in the community where she's
releasing these dangerous, violent criminals into.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm forgive me for pointing this out, but I feel
like women are more physically vulnerable to these dangerous criminals
than men are.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
What is the deal here, Holly? I mean, I am
I wrong about this?
Speaker 8 (33:02):
I don't think you're wrong about that. You know, as
a single female lives in the Houston area, you know,
I'm pretty wary and I feel like I'm probably a
little more vulnerable. But I will tell you that some
of these judges, they're kind of this part of this
kind of far left criminal justice reform movement that really
doesn't believe in pre trial incarceration and even often incarceration
(33:26):
for convicted criminals and not a Cornelio is the same
judge who brought back the Ronald Lee Haskel who's on
death row. He was convicted of killing one that's five
to six people and she brought him bath under what
was allegedly a false bench warrant. She's been removed from
that case for that. She's also the one who let
(33:50):
a convicted murderer out on bond so that he could
go get a haircut before his sentencing hearing. So it's
recently been what what can't make yourself up?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
You couldn't get a haircut in jail, They didn't have
a barber. I don't believe that. I don't believe it.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Apparently not, well, you know, she authorized his name is
James ray Lane, and then she let him go so
he could go get a haircut. Wow, she's got maybe
a different approach to criminal justice than most of the
residents of Harris County, even if they are left of center.
So this is the reason we're getting a lot of
(34:32):
attention on our judicial races here in Harris County. And
we saw some changes last year in the twenty twenty
four elections, and my guess is we'll probably see more
in twenty twenty six because this issue is non pargasant.
People are worried about public safety and they don't like,
they don't like these kind of bond policies.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All Right, let's talk a little bit about the Harris
County Commissioner's Court for just a second.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Tom Ramsey posted something interesting recently.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
He's probably the only reasonable person left on the Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
And here's a fun sound by to Lena Hidalgo. Real quick,
I did only go to Stanford and Harvard.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
She just wants you to know she's really smart. I
love that sound. Hut, I did only go to Stanford
and Harvard. Okay, yeah, but you went there when there
was a lot of DEI going on. And anyway, there's
been a lot of criticize with how Harris County manages
flood control and funding law enforcement. And Tom Ramsey says, quote,
it's been suggested the Commissioner's find ways to address the
two hundred million dollar deficit for the twenty twenty six budget.
(35:32):
County Judge Lena Hidalgo is particularly concerned with the one
million dollars the majority of the court approved to retain
for our constables law enforcement. He's suggesting the County attorney
recover one point two million dollars paid to her elevate
strategies canceled contract. Apparently, lawmakers want to address what is
going on here. I know I'm bundling a lot of
topics in to one umbrella issue here, Holly, But what's
(35:56):
the latest on this. Lena Hidalgo using money for things
that we didn't want her to use it for. Meanwhile,
the rest of the Commissioner's Court want that money used
for law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (36:07):
So? Yeah, that correlates with the whole public safety issue
in Harris County. So you have this deputy contract program
where you've got neighborhoods and even your public school districts
will contract with the constables or the sheriff's office so
that they can get extra patrols in their neighborhood. And
we find that where you have these contracts in place,
(36:28):
those neighborhoods and school districts have less crime associated with them.
But County Commissioner's Court, Lena Hidalgo and Commissioner Rodney Ellis,
they don't like these contract programs, and I don't think
Adrian Garcia is a big fan of them either, and
so they've sought ways to either eliminate them or restrict them,
make them so expensive that the school districts and neighborhoods
(36:50):
cannot afford them. So what some of the local lawmakers
have filed in the special session that's going on right now.
Mike's go Field and Tom oliverson out of this area
have filed legislation that would say County Commissioner's Court doesn't
have any control over these contracts. The constables and the
sheriff are elected officials. They're chosen by the voters, and
(37:14):
they should be able to control and negotiate these contracts,
and they would be able to eliminate some of the
really hefty administrative fees that the county imposes on them,
and they charge them for things like extra HR costs,
and I think there's a stipulation in there to cover
the costs of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs and
(37:37):
things like that, when really just you've got your school
districts wanting, you know, extra patrols, and they've got kids
coming into the school or neighborhoods they want extra patrol
so that you know, bad guys aren't running around doing
whatever they want to do. So I see this as
being yet another fight Harris County. I'm sure will oppose this,
(37:58):
but it looks like lawmakers are going to try to
push this through. I am hearing that it is getting
the attention. We'll just say of people higher up, and
you know, if they have a quorum for a special session,
it may get through.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yes, that is very interesting.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
And another local related news today, Holly, did you know
there was a local man who owned a company that
made throat lozenges that died last week?
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Uh? No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, apparently there was no coffin at his funeral.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Oh oh, that's painful, aren't You don't get paid to,
you know, do stand up comedy.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Holly, don't break mine heart, Holly, Come on, that is
a good joke.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
She is Holly Hanson of the Texan Dot News.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
You should follow her on x and consider subscribing to
their news website. I think it is filled with great content.
In the meantime, I love you all. I hope you
have a great afternoon. We'll be back bright and early
tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell
the government to kiss your ass when you listen to
this show.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I did only go to Stanford and Harvard. Yep, she
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