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It is an unusual episode of KennyWebster's Pursuit of Happiness here on KPRC
nine fifty. Let me turn thecameras on. There, we are there,
I am so, we're live rightnow. We're doing things a little
differently today. We are streaming liveon social media and we're doing so for
a reason. I have two guestsin studio right now. I live in
the Texas seventh Congressional district. Ilive right down the street from this radio
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station, located in the Uptown neighborhoodof Houston. My congressional leader, my
representative, is a nightmare. LizzieFletcher is in the Nancy Pelosi of Texas.
I am not a big fan ofher, don't care for the woman.
Would love to to get somebody elsein that position. Now there's a
runoff to see who will be theRepublican candidate, and I am very proud.
I'm very honored to be sitting infront of both of those candidates right
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now. One of those candidates isCaroline Kane. Ladies, First, how
are you good afternoon? I'm doingwell. Thank you for having me on.
Kenny, awesome to have you here. And Kenneth, I'm a ROI.
How are you, my brother?Thank you so much for the opportunity.
And I said your last name correctly, that's Amari, Great, Amari,
Amory. Okay. I feel likeI never get anything right, but
I'm excited to have both of youguys here today. And I'm running.
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So this is a one man wreckingcrew today. I'm running the cameras and
I'm running the microphone, and I'mmoderating the debate cause that's the kind of
exciting stuff we do here in AMRadio. And hopefully hundreds of people will
be connecting to us right now insocial media. Looks like many are and
many more will be listening on theradio. So I reached out to listeners
to ask them for questions. Iwrote a few questions myself, and I
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guess the most obvious thing to startwith would be this, Caroline, why
are you running for Congress? Whydid you decide to do this. So
I'm a small business owner. I'veowned my own company for twelve years,
and what we do is property management. We manage apartment communities and we actually
have won commercial property. And whenCOVID rolled around in twenty twenty and they
started closing businesses and closing our housesof worship, I was not the one
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sitting in my house eating bond bonds. I was the one saying, wait
a second, there is something muchlarger at play here. Went over to
Facebook. Nobody's talking about it.They're they're they're fat and happy on the
couch, and went over to Twitterand people were talking about it. My
question was, where's the constitution right? We have constitutional protections life, liberty,
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the pursuit of happiness, and thosewere seriously infringed upon at that time,
so much so that you know,I was jolted out of my bed
from a long winter sleep thinking thatI knew what was going on with politics.
I'd watched you know, an houron the on Fox News every morning,
thinking hey, I know exactly what'sgoing on with my government. Huh,
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joke was on me. So startedto donate to candidates, thinking these
people can get it turned around.Working elections so they don't steal our elections
anymore. And the opportunity was presentedto me on the very day that I
had to lay a couple of folksoff in my office, did I want
to run for office? And Itold them I would get back to them,
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prayed on it, talked to myhusband a little bit, began that
conversation, and announced a couple ofmonths later. So a lot of it
had to do with the government overreachof the pandemic. It sounds like absolutely,
I mean it was. It waspure anger that nobody else was getting
it done, and nobody else seemedto be seeing the things that I was
seeing with the government overreach and reallyoutright communism at this point kind of how
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about you, my brother, why'dyou decide to rhyme for Congress? Thank
you so much, Kenny, forthese opportunity. Once again, I am
running to give back to a countrythat has given me everything that I have
today. Right, I'm a firstgeneration American, and even if I want
to hide it, I can hidemy axits so you can always know that
I wasn't born here, so Ibecame an American citizen, and I'm extremely
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grateful to this country for the opportunitythat I have giving the enormous, you
know, things that I have experiencedin this country. The best of this
country lies in the people that shehas, and America represents the last beacon
of hope to billions of people fromevery corner of the world today. I'm
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an educator is an extension of whatI have been doing for the past seven
years. I started teaching in twentyseventeen, and it was my way of
giving back, and I chose toactually teach at a community college. I
started teaching at Houston Community College andI moved to Lonster College where I still
teach. And even in the middleof this whole election, I am still
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teaching right now. I'm still takingtwo classes. And the reason why I'm
doing this is a way of givingback to this society that has given me
so much excellent. I like that. And so both of you are.
You've been living into access for awhile. You're established here, you guys
are comfortable, and you look atsomebody like Lizzie Fletcher and you've decided,
I, you know, I feellike I could do a better job than
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her. Caroline, What what isit about Lizzie Fletcher? What is it
about District seven that made you todecide to run? I mean, I
assume you live in the district.This is your congressional representative. Why do
you not want her to be yourlawmaker? So Lizzie Fletcher has a zero
percent constitutional rating in the way thatshe legislates, so zero percent of the
time does she vote with the constitution. She it does vote lockstep with Nancy
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Pelosi. She will tell you toyour face that she's a moderate and she's
anything, but you've got to lookat her voting record. She sends out
these very well written rainbows and unicornsemails, and unless you're actually checking the
legislation that she's saying that she votedfor against and the reasons why, it
sounds fantastic until you look at theactual legislation and all it is doing is
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bringing us closer and closer to communism. I live in what used to be
the district. It is not thedistrict anymore. It's not constitutionally required.
But I have spent twenty years inthe district in forty years in Houston.
So I do say y'all, andI give hugs, and I'm Texas through
and through. I've been here probablylonger than either of you, just because
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I'm older than you, Kenny,Sure, Houston is my home, and
I have seen this district go froma stronghold Republican district for decades and decades
and decades until twenty eighteen, whenall of a sudden a Democrat is able
to swoop in and take this districtaway. Which makes no sense, right
you think since twenty eighteen this countryhas become more democratic, more liberal in
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the feeling and rationale of society.I disagree with that. We are moving
farther and farther to the right,coming to a common ground to protect our
kids, and so the time isright to take that district stronghold back and
make it a Republican stronghold. Yeah. What do you think, Lizzie Fletcher?
You obviously don't think she's qualified tobe in charge of District seven.
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Why is that? Absolutely Well?First of all, let me make a
very clear distinction not to get theding at my opponent here. I am
the only candidate in this race thatactually leave in the district. Having said
that, I come from the oiland gas. Most of my background as
an accountant spent to the oil andgas My most recent corporate America experience was
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with Slumberger, and I understand theimportance of the oil and gas industry.
Houston is the oil and gas capitalof the world, and today we as
a country, I think there definitelyneeds to be a lot more to be
done in that regard. There's somuch talk about Green New Deal, and
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I think the oil and gas industryare suffering from some of the repercussions of
this bill that was voted for bythe current income So we think that that's
that's no representative of the district,and we believe moving this country in the
right direction. In the last administration, we know how America was almost an
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independent and today's is far from that. We now go outside of the country
to beg for for oil, whichis which is actually in a disaster,
and I think that that doesn't representthis country and this district. Well,
Carolyn, I didn't know what youjust said. You live in the area,
right, I mean I pursume thatI do. Yeah, So I
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went to bel Air and Westbury Highschools, grew up in Southwest and West
Houston. My first, second,third, fourth departments were in what is
now the district. I don't knowif you know, historically they were my
first home and the home I livein right now was the district until the
district was migrated. So I ama Houstonian through and through. I spent
you know, my days and eveningsin the district. So I am just
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maybe seven eight miles north of thedistrict at this point. And Wesley Hunt
is doing a good job for us. It didn't make any sense for me
to try and get rid of apatriot that's in office doing the right thing
by his constituents. Yeah, Wesleyis a good friend. He's been on
the show. I think he's doingan awesome job too. Agreed, Abs,
I'll tell you what. Let's takea quick break. I want to
talk about Wesley and some of theother local Republicans, Trinelle's other people that
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you guys would be working with,and get your thoughts on them. Also,
we have people watching us streaming onlineright now. It looks like we
have a few hundred people on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, so we're
going to get some of their questionsas well. When we get back.
Don't change the channel. KPRC nineto fifty. Kenny Webster, the best
looking dude on radio and if you'veseen the competition, that's not saying a
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whole hell of a lot. Ohwe're back. Greetings everybody. Kenny Webster
at KPRC nine fifty live from TexasCongressional District seven. I think we're in
District seven, right, aren't we. I live a couple blocks from here,
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and I'm in District seven, andjust looking at a map here,
I've never Actually I don't live inthis office building, so I don't vote
from here. But is it what? Yeah? And this is Wesley down
to West Timer and it actually goesa little bit south of West Timer right
here over to mid Lane. AtMidlane it jumps up again. So that's
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Caroline Kane, one of the twocandidates that's part of this debate today to
see who's going to be the runoff. Who's it's there in a runoff
debate a race right now, KennethAmorori and Caroline Kane. And so those
are your two options. You guysare, like you just said, Caroline,
you think Wesley is a good candidate, and you didn't want to challenge
him. You live near the district, so you've decided Lizzie Fletcher's the one
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that's got to go. I know, I get that. I tend to
agree with that. The other peoplein the area. The other Republicans in
the area are Troy Nels and DanCrenshaw and Kenneth Since we left off with
Caroline, we'll start with you onthis one, looking at who the local
Republicans are, looking at who ourlocal representatives are. Who do you see
yourself most similar to? Who doyou think you're the most different from?
Well, I think the three namesyou just mentioned, especially Wesley Hunt and
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Chrenell's, these are very very great, you know, lawmakers, and I
definitely believe that those are very goodmodel to be able to pattern our you
know, our own leadership style from. And another person who beyond just the
congressmen, well the House, thethe US Senate right now Tenant to Tech
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Cruise, it's one person who Iadmire a lot, you know, not
just because of his faith, butbecause of how much he stands for America.
And I think that those are verygood role models. Any thoughts on
Dan Cernshaw, Well, I havemy reservations about some of you know,
the policies that you know, youknow, he has maybe voted for some
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of the things in the past,but I would not want to dwell in
that, but right now I wantto focus on Texas on Congressional District Caroline.
If you are Lizzy Fletcher's opponent andyou win, like I said,
try now is Wesley Hunt, DanCrenschild. These are people you'll probably be
on an airplane with a lot travelingoff to Washington, d C. Where
do you where do you put yourselfnext to those candidates? I would say
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I'm most closely aligned with Wesley Hunt. He is Freedom Caucus, and uh
you know, I would love tobe a part of the Freedom Caucus.
I know that you know Matt Gates, who is one of my heroes,
I'm not. I'm also not takingany lobbyist or pack money just like him.
I tend to keep my my whistleclean, right and untainted. Uh
So, in that regard, Iam mostly aligned with Wesley Hunt. With
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Dan Crenshaw. You know, Wesleyis it a ninety percent you know rating
when when voting with the Constitution.When you're looking at Dan Crenshaw, he's
in the sixties. And we need, we need our conservatives to truly be
conservative, and me be more inthat ninety percentile range. Chip Roy is
at one hundred percent, one hundredpercent of the time. Chip Roy votes
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with the Constitution, and that's whereI am to be. Yeah, when
you know you brought up chip Roy, chip Roy was a little controversial because
he was not a Trump supporter.He was a deciantist guy. I think
we all agree it's Trump at thispoint. I'm sure everybody, Yeah,
you're both Trump supporters. Did youin the primaries? Were you guys into
de Santis or any of these?Never know, both of you are Trump
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people. I assume, well,good, okay, all right, So
all that being said, issues,right, let's get down to specific issues
kind of when you look at immigration, the economy, Ukraine, war,
oil and gas, what do youthink is the most important right now to
people in Texas. I think anybodywho actually have the interest of America at
hat should be talking about what's goingon in the southern bordered. Everyone should
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be focused on what's going on therebecause today it's absolutely a mess. We
need strong and secure borders, evenfrom third world countries. Yeah, I
mean countries that are not even developedcountries. They don't have as much for
us but US as we have today, and I think that is an issue.
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So Beyond that issue is the economy. When I say this way,
when you go to the grocery store, when you go to the gas station,
you know, you don't get acts. If you're a Republican or you're
a Democrat, you don't you don'tget acted if you're a liberal or you're
a conservative. We all are feelingthe paint and the you know, the
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the economic wars are going on today. Everybody is feeling it, and we
we definitely need the economy to turnaround for the better to what we used
to have. Mean today, thethe gas of the price of uh,
you know, a gallon is abovethree three dollars and it used to be
less than one dollar before. Soinflation is through the roof, interest rates
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through the roof, and everybody isfeeling the brunt of it. So economy
and strong borders are my very verybig issues that we're running on. And
then finally, I think, uh, you know, as a conservative,
if I believe fiscal responsibility should bethe hallmark of what we should be advocating
for. I'm an accountant by training, My skill, you know, bus
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on my training is really really hatedon fiscal responsibility, and I think we
need more accountant in Congress. Wedo believe Canada, we have only four
accountants today in Congress. Really,who are they? Well, we have
three of them that are Republicans,one of well, three Republicans, one
Democrat, and only one in theSenate, three in the House. In
the US House, it does notsurprise me that there are Republicans a majority
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of the Republicans. Caroline, samequestion for you, The biggest issue for
you right now? What is themost pressing it? What's the thing we
need to fix first? One hundredpercent right now in terms of fires that
need to be put out, wouldbe at the southern border. We've got
trafficking of kids, We've got traffickingof human beings, trafficking of drugs,
trafficking of weapons, all coming acrossour southern border with the aid of the
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United States government. So we haveKen Paxon who is looking into shutting down
NGOs, which is a big partof my platform that I speak out about
all the time, non governmental organizationswhere our tax dollars are laundered through these
organizations, to allow this trafficking tohappen, to allow these illegals to come
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into our nation, our tax dollarsare paying for them to be housed,
they're paying for their medicine, puttingour veterans out on the street. It
is absolutely a humanitarian crisis and anational security issue. So that is first
and foremost, and the second beingthe economy. If we can get rid
of some of these agencies or theNGOs that are affiliated with them that launder
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our tax dollars, that is whereis going to get us the biggest break
in taxes and in expenses that theUnited States is dealing with right now.
We have a government that's gone offthe guardrails. It is no longer working
for people like me and you.The passage of the FAISA renewal proves that
we had one hundred and nineteen Republicanswith Democrats to allow the illegal spying of
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on Americans for another five years.And so I mean they're probably listening right
now. They don't need they needvery little. If somebody in this room
is on a watch list, they'vebeen taken to FISA, then they can
talk to they can monitor five peoplethat that person is friends with, and
then five people that those people arefriends with, and you wind up casting
a web of one hundred or morepeople with one FISA trip to the FISA
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court. So that happened with thePatriot Act, and it is it's a
disgrace that our Congress just threw usunder the bus again. The FISA issue
kind of seems to be something thathas divided Republicans a bit. You heard
what Caroline just said. Do youdisagree with anything? She said? No,
absolutely. I think that's one ofthese that I'll say, we'll probably
see abotaion. Yes, and Idon't disagree with that. Okay, let's
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go back to the immigration thing fora second with both of you. Let's
say that hypothetically November happens and oneof the two of you gets elected,
but Trump doesn't worst possible scenario,I mean, it's not. The worst
scenario would be everybody losers, right, But the second worst scenario would be
Trump doesn't win in November and we'restill the underdogs. Kind of. It's
one thing when you have a presidentthat has executive orders to fix the border,
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what do you do as the contenderif the Republicans don't take the White
House, if we don't take theSenate. As a member of the House,
what do you do well? Thatis a hypothetical situation, and I'm
glad that you know you said that'sthe worst case scenario, because we don't
pray that ever happens. We believewe prayed at the best right we win
in the House. But in sucha situation, we just need to stand
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our ground. We need to youknow, advocate for the policies that's shipped.
You know what we believe in.If you don't stand for anything,
you fall for everything. So we'regoing to stand for on the policy that
we we believe is right. Thefact that if that hypothesis doesn't, you
know, work, doesn't mean thatwhat we're advocating for is not you know,
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we didn't believe what we are vocatingfull We are going to believe that
we need to secure the border.That is a common sensical issue. I
don't think we need any rocket scienceto understand that the issues that we are
facing today both economy, actually havea direct consequence of the open borders,
because there is a direct correlation betweenthe open borders and some of the things
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we have seen today that we don'tthink is right. All right, Caroline,
the same question for you. Youget to Washington, DC, you
represent District seven, but Joe Biden'sthe president. Starting with the immigration being
an obvious example, what do youdo as a member of the underdog party.
Well, first, I refuse toentertain the notion that Donald Trump will
not win this however, okay,I love that, go into your complete
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hypothetical situation. Of course, thereare things that the Congress can do constitutionally,
and that is we can call upa militia to protect from invasion,
and that is specifically mentioned in theconstitution. Nobody talks about it. Everybody
says, oh, Congress, youknow, just holds the purse strings.
Now we have powers, so wecan certainly, you know, look into
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that, make sure that that getsengaged, and then see if we can
get DHS defunded. That would beif we could get a super majority,
we can get a lot done.Right, with a super majority, you
don't even need the president anymore.If we can have a sixty six percent
supermajority in both houses, we geta lot done. So God will provide,
is what I'm saying. So oneway or another, we will be
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able to secure this country and bringit back. I just I feel as
though we have a huge win comingour way. God's gonna move. Sorry.
I'm a believer in Christ, abeliever in God. This is a
coveted nation. So the Creator wasinvoked in the creation of this nation,
and he will move for us.I love that. That's a great answer.
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I am Kenny Webster. You arewatching or listening to live debate right
now having on KPRC nine to fiftywith Kenneth Amory and Caroline Kin and they're
competing to see who's going to bethe candidate to take down Lizzie Fletcher figuratively
speaking of course, coming this November. Don't change a channel. More with
us right after this late last night, after a few beers, we discovered
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the art of deceiving politicians. Justtell them the truth and they'll never believe
you. Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness. Hey, we're back. Thank you
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so much. Everybody watching us onsocial media right now, everybody listening live
on the radio to see who isgoing to be challenging Lizzie Fletcher coming this
November. For congressional districts, thisis very important. Once upon a time,
John Colbertson for about two decades wasa charge of District seven and back
in twenty nineteen, Lizzie Fletcher won. It's just been that way ever since.
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It's unfortunate people often think that afterRepublicans lose a district, we often
just write that off. We think, all right, that's the way it
is now. I think of Districtseven as being kind of like a swing
state. It's a swing district.We controlled it a short time ago.
Now as Republicans, we don't controlit anymore. And I don't you know,
I don't take that for granted.I think anything can happen, anything
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can change. And so if you'rejust tuning turning on your radio today,
ask Caroline Kane and Kenneth A.Morey to come in today and tell us
what you know about their platform,about their candidacy. Where do we leave
off at? Who went last?There? I've kind of lost track of
what I was doing. Caroline,did you say talking a little bit about
immigration? No? But who answer? You answered the last question? Right?
I did? Okay? I justwant to make sure we're going back
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and forth, even Stevens. HereI'm doing. I'm running a camera,
microphones and a board and asking questionsalone. We'll pick it back up with
Kenneth. Kenneth, I don't feellike, obviously you guys are very different
backgrounds, and I think that's interesting. But from what platform wise? You
both seem to be America first,Texas first, patriotic, you care about
the border. You both seem tohave really similar platforms. What's the difference
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between you and Caroline? Thank you? So, I am a first generation
American by choice, and as somebodywho I know is not a traditional candidate
that you see all the time,it's rare to have a first generation American
immigrant run for a public office likethe US Congress. I believe I bring
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a lot of my experience, haven'tbeen through the legal immigration process, and
who best speak to the issue ofimmigration today? Because a lot of people,
especially on the left, there's thisnarrative that we conservative, we hate
immigrants. They can tell someone likeme that. The reason why they can't
tell me that is because I negatethat narrative. There's a difference between legal
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immigration and illegal immigration. So,and that's one very unique difference between myself
and and and then I'm the onlyone who live in the district. You
know, it's very very, verydifferent. You know, my kids attend
school in the district, I livein the district. I work in the
district. I have a lot ofties within the district because this is where
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I leave my neighbors and everyone whoI connect with within the district are people
who I know means well for thedistrict. I don't think my opponent is
not qualified to run in this race. I absolutely don't think so. I
just believe that as somebody who livein the district, we have a lot
a lot to bring how to connectwith how about policy stuff? Though if
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somebody said it's nice to have adifferent background, obviously we all have different
backgrounds. If somebody sends you toDC, how will you vote differently than
Caroline? Is there any issue youand her Mike differ on? Well,
I you know right now. Imean on the issues that with the most
present issues we just immigration, issuesof the economy. I think we'll probably
aligned on those issues. But Ithink experienced matters. I'm an accountant,
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I'm a CPA. I bring alot of experience from that background. When
we talk about fiscal responsible lady whobest identify what it means to balance the
budget? The last time the USbudget was in balance was over twenty two
years ago, And as an accountant, I think we need more people who
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understand the practicality of what it meansto balance the budget. And do you
create budgets as a CPA. Well, we have skills to be able to
balance the budget and we are trainedto do so. Interesting, all right,
Caroline, same question for you policywise. Do you see yourself do
you see your platform as being differentin any way? Do you think there's
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an issue, whether it be immigrationor economy, anything where you differ from
Kenneth? Absolutely? So. Ihave always said that I'm America first,
in Texas first, and have alignedmyself with those candidates as they have been
running for office. You know,we had the Dirty Dozen here in Texas,
and so align myself with some ofthose folks that we're trying to unseat,
these these folks in our house herethat perhaps we're not working for the
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people. Always said that I'm Americafirst. That's part of my platform.
America comes first before any foreign policyor any money that may be going overseas.
We have a huge crisis here inthe United States and our focus needs
to be on the United States.We're spending eight trillion dollars a year,
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we're bringing in four which means thatwe're borrowing four trillion dollars a year.
By the time our kids, mykids, your kids grow up, we're
going to have one hundred trillion deficit, and we can't have that. It
actually affects our national security. We'vegot other countries that are ganging up on
the US dollar to collapse that.So I understand who the enemy is.
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I'm also a constitutional list and thatis not something that Kenneth has ever mentioned.
He doesn't really want to discuss theconstitution. And in my opinion,
we don't get the country back withoutgoing to a constitutional form of government that
is for the people and buy thepeople. So I consider this a job
interview for the people. I willbe their public servant. I don't want
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to be a somebody. I wantto get the job done. I'm not
going to be popular when I getthere. And I'm telling you as a
business owner, I've been creating budgetsfor thirty years. We have seven or
eight budgets at this point that wehave to create every year. We have
to stick to the budget. Whenwe run out of money, we can't
spend any more money. And Ihire CPAs, we hire them and fire
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them, and what we do isif we got one in house, we
put them in the corner and letthem do numbers. That's what CPAs do.
Wow, so interesting kind of ownersspouted out, Well, I think
that's a very debasing way to talkto refer to cp as a higher and
put them in the corner. Idon't think that's what CPA is the work
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of a CPAs. Beyond that,just to make a clarification, you don't
hold any license, so I can'timagine why you were saying anything like that.
That's I consider that's a very verydebate way to talk to professionals,
like I'm sorry if you were offended, Kenneth, Okay, all right,
everybody, Well look, okay,well you made your points, So all
right, here's one for me.This is some thing I take very personally.
As you know. I it's atalk radio station and a big part
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of what we do. It's thisis a mix between new and old media.
I'm a constitutionalist, like both ofyou claim to be. I care
a lot about respecting free speech,respecting the media. And right now,
as we're sitting here having this conversation, we are streaming to several social media
platforms, including YouTube, Instagram,more, than one Facebook account, more
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than one Twitter account. I'm justlooking at a couple examples here. My
personal Twitter account has forty thousand followers. According to what I could see on
my screen, there's almost two hundredpeople watching us right now. My morning
show's Facebook page, The Walton andJohnson Show, is also carrying this debate.
Right now, My morning show's Facebookpage has four hundred and fifty thousand
followers on it, and there areI think eight people that can see us.
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Now, I don't think that's acoincidence. Now, I find I
think that I'm being I think thatever since the twenty twenty election, I
started criticizing election results and criticizing vaccinesand things like, I think I've been
getting censored, and I think alot of people have. I think a
lot of conservatives have had this problem. It's part of the reason why Elon
Musk bought Twitter. But all thatbeing said, right, besides private industry
stepping and a guy like Elon Musk, what else can we do without violating
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the Constitution to protect the speech ofjournalists and activists who lean to the right
on digital platforms. Caroline, wouldyou like to go first? Well,
so all of our freedoms and protectionsright now are under assault. That's what
communism is, right. Imagine acommune. They want us all to live
together in a fifteen minute city,and they will tell us what's important to
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us. And so, you know, step one is to suppress our speech
so that we can't communicate with oneanother. We are oppressed. We feel
as though we are the only personin the world with these feelings and thoughts,
and so suppression is a real thing. I know that it's happening heavily
on Facebook and Instagram. You know, obviously they did everything they could to
throw the twenty twenty election and therehave been zero consequences. So I am
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very hesitant to average ties on Facebookfor that reason. You know, if
you spend those dollars, are theyreally going to reach anybody? Twitter,
I'm very grateful for I don't knowthat we would would have come this far
in having people understand what is happeningto the country if it weren't for Twitter
and what Elon Musk has done,and so for that, I am very
very grateful. So I agree withyou, suppression is happening. Our Constitution
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is being buried, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, fourth through seventh
Amendment dealing with our judicial system.We are we are under attack, and
all of these things were put inplace to prevent exactly what is happening,
and we are not rising up andclaiming our constitutional rights. And it's it's
a difficult process because with without thejudicial branch being intact, and we don't
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have a whole lot of chance.And so that's what's happening is Democrats are
overrunning these local judiciaries and state judiciaries. So you're you're seeing this at every
level. And that's that's why crimeis happening, because there is no punishment
for what is happening after a crimeis committed. So it's a multifaceted attack
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on our constitutional freedoms. Kind ofthe same question to you social media censorship.
I mean, every conservative, libertarian, Republican, populist, this is
something that gets complained about a lotby right wing thinkers. What do we
do about it? Yes, I'llpiggyback on the question that you'd asked earlier,
but yes, I absolutely agree withthat. One of the things that
I think is a problem is actuallyenforcement America was not created yesterday. America
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has been a very very established countryfor of centuries, and the enforcement you
will to enforcing the constitutional rights ofAmericans is the issue that we're talking about.
Whether censorship, which of course Iagree with, currently exists, but
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I think we need to enforce youknow, those constitutional rights away weekend as
Americans adhered to all of those thingsthat we have in the Constitution. I
think one of the things that wasmentioned earlier that you had asked was what
was maybe one of the differences betweenhow we would vote, and then you
know, it was mentioned that youknow, American American first policies, which
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I absolutely agree with that, andI also want to quickly make a quick
maybe point here. America represents thelast beacon of hope to billions of people
from Americana of the world, andthat comes with responsibilities. That's how it
works. If we want to keepbeing the largest economy in the world,
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if we want to keep being themost super you know, super advanced,
which is the super power of theworld, has responsibilities. American First doesn't
mean America America alone. It meanstaking responsibility for being at the forefront of
what's happening in the world, andbecause of that, anything that happens around
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the world. The US have aresponsibility to be able to ask the leader.
When they say the President of Americais a leader of the free world.
The meaning of that is that theresponsibility of making sure that everything that
is happening there is no the ditectorshipthat is going on. If things are
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happening that is destroyed, that isgoing to destroy the world. Right as
America, we as a country,because of the responsibility that falls on our
shoulder as the greatestination in the world, we need to be able to make
sure that we look at those externalaggressions. That's what means to be a
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leader. I'll tell you why wegot a break. I want to get
back to that. Also, we'regetting questions online from listeners, including an
incredibly liberal member of the Houston EditorialBoard appears to be watching us right now.
I bet a lot of you knowwho he is, and he has
a question he wants to ask bothof you guys, So don't change a
channel. We'll be right back.We could certainly slow the aging process if
aging had to pass its way throughslow ass Congress take another vacation, Why
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don't you Kenny Webster's pursuit of happinessI'm very stubborn. I have two producers
in the morning, one producer inthe afternoon. I have a program director.
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I have a digital team down thehall, and they all would have
helped me do this, run theboard, handle the cameras and all that.
But I refuse. I do everythingalone. That's how I am.
I'm just I'm like that while meand my French bulldog, Milton Friedman.
But so today I am hosting atalk radio show, running a camera operation
here it's just four buttons, it'snot as complicated as it sounds, and
conducting and moderating a debate between twoof my local favorite col conservatives, two
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people I would love to see eitherone of you make it to Washington.
D C. Kenneth Amoury is hereand Caroline Kine. They are challenging Lizzie
Fletcher to see who will be thelawmaker for Texas seventh congressional district. Is
very personal to me. Who winsthis race, because she's my lawmaker and
she sucks. Nobody likes Lizzie Fletcher. I mean, obviously she won the
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race, so local democrats do,but certainly not the people that are listening
to this radio show at least Iwouldn't have thought. So there's somebody listening
to this radio show right now whoprobably does like Lizzy Fletcher. His name
is Evan mince Evan mintz Is youguys might know him. He's a local
activist. He's a describes himself aswhat does his biography say here? He's
from the Houston Chronicle editorial board,but he does something else now I think
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he works for the Arnolds or somethinglike. He's I don't want to I'm
probably misstating what he does for aliving. But he's a Politzer finalist,
which is as do you guys knowthat's funny? Do you guys know why
that's funny? Anybody? I don'tknow if you're supposed to know this,
but anybody could apply to be aPolitzer finalist? Evan, He's probably gonna
get mad at me on Twitter forsaying that anybody can be a Politzer final
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Did you guys know that anyone couldbe? It means nothing. Anyone could
be a Politzer finalist. You justhave to apply for It doesn't mean you're
a winner anyway. Sorry Evan,but Evan did ask you guys this.
We live in Houston. There's alot of hurricanes here. Sadly, that's
just an issue everybody's got, youknow, mud slides in California, droughts
or earthquakes, that's oor well.In Texas, Hurricane Alley they call it.
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We have hurricanes. And Evan reallywants to know how you guys feel
about the Ike Dike? Are youboth familiar with this is a thing they've
talked about for years in Houston,Texas about building this thing called the Ike
Dike in Galveston Bay. Is thatI'm not an expert on this, but
I know that this is something alot of people talk about that is supposed
to help us out in the eventof a hurricane. And I think a
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lot of people would agree this isreally more of a local issue, but
it would depend on federal funding.Do either of you have a strong opinion
about this? Would you like torespond to Evan Mints of the Houston Chronicle
editorial board or former editorial board.I don't know what he does now.
I don't know anything about the ikedke, so I can tell you that what
I do know is that millions andmillions of dollars have been shoveled out by
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the federal government to Houston to addressits flooding. So h thirty seven million
was given to Lizzie's district when shehad the Bear Creek area to handle that
restoration. Whatever happened with these dollars, we don't know. There's another ten
million that was given to the MeyerLand area, and so these moneys are
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going to our city and county ratherthan we had a huge influx of money
that went to the General Land Office, and the General Land Office is working
with the Army Corps of Engineers.That's the way it needs to happen.
Okay, you can't send the moneydirectly to a corrupt government. Everybody knows
that Harris County and Houston are corrupt. We're battling making some progress at the
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city level, but the county itselfhas a serious well in the city too,
serious serious financial issues such that theyare bankrupt. Both are bankrupt,
and so you're gonna send pallets ofcash to bankrupt city and state authorities rather
than the General Land Office who canmanage the project through the Army Corps of
Engineers. So I'm more concerned abouthow the money flows to address these things,
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because there are unaccounted four dollars Ohyeah, that are that are out
there. I think that's a fairresponse for the record to Caroline's creditor.
Okay, So, originally the IikeDike was it's supposed to be a coastal
barrier that would protect Galveston Bay inthe event of a hurricane. And originally
it was supposed to cost two tofour billion dollars. In twenty twenty one,
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it was determined to be twenty ninebillion dollars. A short time later,
it was determined to be thirty fourbillion dollars. Honestly, is that
enough? Is that? Is that? How many? How many dykes should
we have had by now? Howmany dykes could we I don't know kind
of do you want to respond toEvan Vinz's question, Caroline, thank you
for that, you know, educationabout the dive. I never really I
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won't sit here. I can't sithere and tell you I'm an expert in
what that is. But one thingfor sure is we've been, you know,
in Houston, prone to you know, the hurricane Harvy, and so
anything that we're going to be ableto do to prevent a more devastating situation
like that, as long as wehave a very comprehensive plan that experts in
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those areas look at it and believethat it will help to, you know,
mitigate certain situations like that if it'sworth taking an investment in that,
and I don't think that's going tobe a bad idea to exploring. But
again, accountability matters. It's notabout spending, is about being accountable for
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whatever we are spending. So wehave to be sure before we shut down
any idea, understanding the idea first. If it's worth it, then we
you know, when policies are beingtaken. When we take policy classes,
for example, you look at themerits and the merits of a policy.
If the merits at waste the merits, then you emback on those policies.
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But if the demerits right the disadvantageout waste the advantages, then you descend
back. That's how policy works.Okay, I thank you guys, both
gave great answers to that. Ihave a lot more questions in front of
me and to those of you watchingus on social media, can you guys,
you guys want to hang for anextra ten minutes to do a little
more on social media that won't beon your here because I'm getting good questions
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from people that I'd love to ask, and we have about four or five
minutes left to show, so we'renot gonna be able to ask all of
these. But while we're still onthe radio here and to those of you
that are, you know, ifyou're listening on the radio, you could
connect with me on social media.I'm Kenny Webster. Find me on Twitter,
YouTube, and Facebook, or orthe Walton Johnson Show, your choice.
I'm also on Instagram the deep Stank. That's hilarious. That's the name
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of a person on Twitter. Hecalls himself the deep Stank and he would
like to know what role has theCIA or the FBI played in the current
political division of the country and whatactions would you take to deal with that.
Caroline, you kind of touched onthis earlier with the PHISA issue,
but this is bigger than just FISA. Yes. Wow, he wants to
go directly down the rabbit hole.So you better follow me on Twitter.
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It's Caroline KTX. I have hertagged, by the way, to those
you if you look at my Twitteraccount, I have both candidates tagged.
So this you know, the CommunistManifesto was entered into the Library of Congress
in nineteen fifty eight, and ifyou look that up, they have completed
everything on that list. And atthe time, everybody thought McCarthy, who
was, you know, a communisthunter essentially, was a lunatic. They
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made him out to be crazy,which we can all relate to right now.
Right you're a conspiracy theorist if you'regoing to speak out on anything like
this. But there is something tobe said for our intelligence agencies working together
in tandem with other intelligency intelligence agenciesacross the world to us share out a
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new world order. And that isfact, it's provable. At this point.
We've got the World Economic Forum,we've got the World Health Organization,
we've got the Council on Foreign Relations, We've got all of these globalist entities
that have been setting policy for theUnited States for decades upon decades upon decades.
And that's how we found ourselves here. You know, I hate to
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say it, but it is agiant ssyop. We were lulled to sleep
so that we would tolerate these things. And so many of us, myself
included, have woken up to thisfact, and we're rising up to try
and take our country back. Wewant our we want our constitutional protections back.
Okay, Kenneth, the same questionfor you, the FBI, the
CIA. Look, everybody knows thestory of Carter Page, the social media
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giants being told to suppress a storyabout Hunter Biden's laptop. What do we
do about this? No. Ithink one of the things that was mentioned
just now was that the you know, the intelligent agencies that we have,
all of those agencies. I believemy opponents want to abolish all three later
agencies. So I think it goesbeyond that. There are reasons why these
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agencies were established. If I buya vehicle and the vehicle, you know,
have an issue, for example,you take it to the mechanic to
fix it so that we can bringthe vehicle back to the original intent of
that vehicle, why we should be, you know, using it to commute.
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So that's how I think about thoseissues as well. If there are
things or their elements within any ofthose agencies that we know are doing things
that are at variance with the originalintention of those agencies, we need to
fix that. And however the fixingit is going to take, that's going
to be another entire discussion. ButI think there are reasons why these institutions.
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They've been there for decades, rightor for centuries? Right? All
of those three letter words. DoI believe today that they are not things
that some of those agencies needs tobe needs to answer. No. I
think there's quite a lot of controversiesaround some of them, but I think
they need to be fixed. ButI don't think we all need to just
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abolish all of those agencies that havethree letters. That's not how government works.
All right. I'll tell you whatwe are out of time here on
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