October 18, 2024 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Michael Quinn Sullivan and Brandon Darby, plus author Daniel Turner. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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take a look at that, Just.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
A heads up.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Unlike a lot of celebrities, there's no chapter about his
sex life.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's not really part of it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't know how much you know about.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Catholicism, but just fy hey, big show today, got a
lot of great guests.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Michael quinn Sullivan's coming by.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We have a scandal here in Houston, Texas local democrat
Chris Hollands, local elected official being accused of people in
his own party of engaging in a pay to play scandal.
Chris Hollins, you are a scumbag. Michael Quinnsullivan from Texas
scorecard dot Com will be here to tell you all
about it. Daniel Turner stopping by it from Power the Future.
He's an advocate for energy and energy industry workers. And
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we're going to go down to the border with Brandon Darby,
so stick around for all that. But we start off
today looking at some polling data courtesy Breitbart dot Com
Reporting on a recent Rassmusen poll.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
We now have two polls.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The show the Trump Fans ticket topping the Harris Walls
ticket in both favoritability, favorability, and something they call caring.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Caring. Really, that's a poll, okay fine.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Rasmussen Reports surveyed sixteen hundred and eighty three voters from
October fourteenth to the sixteenth. Asked a pretty straightforward question,
which candidate for president cares the most about people like you?
Vice President Kamala earned forty five percent of the vote.
Trump got forty nine, so we won that one. On
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the same question, Trump won the mail vote by twelve percent,
fifty three to forty one. Harris topped Trump by five
points with women, but still hit a ceiling at fifty
percent to Trump's forty five, meaning she couldn't get more
than half. Among black voters. Trump earned an incredible I
mean incredible for a Republican thirty three percent. That number
you'd think would be more like fifteen. You'd assume with
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black voters Kamala to have a much higher number, But
apparently black men just don't like her, and that has
nothing to do with race. I don't care what anyone
tells you. I haven't met a black man yet that
dislikes Kamala because of her skin color. No black young
black men don't like Kamala Harris because she represents everything
there against. These are young men who want economic opportunity,
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they want free speech rights, they like crypto for example.
Kamala's parties against all of that. Here's what should strike
fear into Democrats on this question of caring. Caring, Trump
wins the Hispanic vote by ten points. What I thought
he was supposed to be racist to Mexicans, remember the
narrative from twenty sixteen. Trump got the Hispanic vote fifty
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two to forty two. And there's more. The latest Fox newspool,
which has never been friendly towards Trump, not only shows
the former president with a two point national lead over
word Salad Kamala Kamala fifty to forty eight, but Trump's
favorability among likely voters is now a point higher than
hers forty eight to forty seven. Since about September, Trump
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has gained four overall points.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
In the poll. Kamal's lost points.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And I don't know if you're good at math, but
that's bad for her and good for him. That's how
math works. I know math is racist. Here's a real
bombshell from Fox News. Trump's running mate JD. Vance also
enjoys higher favorability than Governor Elmer Fudd. Vance's favorability forty
four percent to Walls is forty three.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
How did that happen?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, the October first vice presidential debate, I would imagine
had a lot to do with it. We had weeks
of smear campaigns, billions of dollars in funding, not to
mention free advertising from corporate media propaganda, and the American
public was finally able to see Vance unfiltered. They saw
what a lot of people saw, a very intelligent and
prepared normal guy, nothing like the weird monster the rigged
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media wanted you to believe he was. Of course, on
the flip side, Americans got unfiltered looks at Tim Walls,
and so, after billions of dollars in corporate media propaganda
attempting to sell him as an everyday guy, we discovered
Tim Walls is, in reality, well, for lack of a
better word, kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics and government and nalls hit and
co gruption this show hit.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Ain't you averbage?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
This podcast?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You gotta get it, you tone den. We can this.
This puts your happiness.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Last night at the Harris County judicial candidate's fundraiser in
Wicklow Heights. It's in the Heights, which is the name
of a neighborhood here in Houston, but the bar is
called Wicklow Heights. It was a cool place. Apparently the
owner of the business is very lead to local conservative activists,
so he was happy enough to host Harris County Republican
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judicial candidates last night. And as I was asked to
come out in MC and speak for a few minutes.
And it's always weird when they asked me to talk
in front of a group of people that are clearly
smarter than me. I mean, they're all judges and lawyers,
and you guys know I tell inappropriate jokes for a living.
So anyway, I had a great time last night. You
remember caveman lawyer. I'm just a caveman. You know, those
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bright lights on the box in front of me. Frightened
and confuse me. How did the tiny little people get
inside of that TV screen? That's how I felt last
night speaking to a bunch of lawyers and judges. But
I will say this, As I was talking to the crowd,
I mentioned some of the people that contributed to this
radio show regularly, including Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas scorecard
dot Com. And most of the people in the audience
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applauded Michael.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Demonstrating they weren't playing attention to what you said.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
No, I think most of the people were.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
The people who applaud were the people who weren't listening.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
There were the people said, oh, okay, stopped I going
going to applaud now, yeah, the people the majority of
people who didn't applaud, those are the people who were
actually listening to you, so most of us. That's actually
a good barometer to how many people were listening to
what you were saying, rather than focusing on stirring their
drink or you know, making Google eyes at their date
across the table or No.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I will tell you this, most most.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Only real players. Only real players take dates to Republican
judiciary forums.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Whenever I tell people at Republican events that I'm friends
with you, most of the people there are like, yeah,
Michael quinn Sullivan cool. And then I look around the
room and the one guy that's rolling his eyes, that's
the Bush Republican.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Michael.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I could spot him every time, every bro every time.
And I don't know if it's ever happened to you,
but I bet if you told a bunch of people
that you knew me, you'd get the same reaction.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's funny whenever I say, you know,
I'm friends Kenny Webster. They you know a lot of people,
you know, the over on the Dwarf. Oh it's a
great guy. I love listening to this up and those
be the one or two who go, why WHOA? I mean, lovely,
the guy just tell us funny jokes. You know what's
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what the like about Kimmy. He's a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm happy to not get invited to a lot of
cocktail parties, Michael.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
There are some people who just take themselves way too seriously.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Man.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
They're just some people who and they take themselves too seriously,
and they want you to take yourself too seriously too.
And those kind of people drag me down to the
people who, oh, just we need to avoid those kind
of people.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We call them neo cons, and Republicans are neo cons
and liberals. But now I'm being redundant.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Tarn't I.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You're being a little redundant, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hey, let's let's talk about Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There's You guys have so many great stories at Texas
scorecard dot Com. Today I want to lead with this one,
Mayor John Whittmeyer. I didn't love him as a Democrat lawmaker,
who would but as a mayor he's not doing awful.
I'll tell you what he is accusing one of my
least favorite Democrats in Houston, the Houston Controller. Controller Chris Hollins.
Chris Hollins and I have sparred on Twitter at time
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or two. You really get the oppression. Chris Hollins is
kind of like a Colin Allred type. He wears a
fancy suit. But is this guy just like a dumb jock?
I don't know. He's being accused of a pay to
play scandal for selling sponsorships. Now, you guys reported this
as the highest level of which awarding the donor of
a private dinner with the controller is a very bizarre scandal. Here,
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all of a sudden, in the eleventh hour, right before
the election, here for the Democrat mayor of the city
to come out and make accusations against a high ranking member,
a local elected official of the Harris County Democrat Party.
Can you explain what Chris Hollins is being accused of?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Essentially?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, So one thing you understand about, you know, to
kind of set the stage here, is that is it
your mayor John Whitmeyer. For whatever else people might think
of him, he is very definitely a law and order
guy and he is an anti corruption guy. And you know,
I mean, what what whatever other his you know, bad
bad politics, bad ideology, whatever, he is good in those
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two areas, really good in those two areas. And that's
where he's really been making his mark in Houston, you know,
near the one of the largest UH cities in the nation,
you know, in going through and dealing with corruption. So
it should not surprise any of us that if he
sees corruption occurring under his watch, he's going to say something.
I mean that both of me, as the leog slator
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and so not, it should not surprise us that he's
willing to call out corruption, even if it goes against
a fellow Democrat. Holland is accused of taking this UH
this the Houston Annual Investor conference kind of a dog
and pony show that they put on for years in Houston,
UH for folks who you know, UH do business in
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and around Houston and with the city of Houston. You know,
can't big conference. What's going on? You know? All that
is kind of your typical business conference kind of thing.
For the first time, you have U, the controller who
runs this conference, UH suddenly rolling out sponsorships asking UH
businesses to sponsor this. Apparently whip Meyer found out about
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it when a couple of couple of business leaders called said, Hey,
if if I don't sponsor you, we didn't have in
our budget to do one hundred thousand dollars sponsorship for
this conference. Is this going to have negative repercussions for us?
You're clearly thinking, is it going to be hard for
us to do business with the city. It's going to
be hard for us to you know, do our business
in the city. And that's apparently what's said with Marv.
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The appearance of impropriety, the appearance of a play to
play scandal where Hollins was being pretty straightforward about it, Hey,
if you give a lot of money to this, to
this project, I'll have dinner with you and if you're
someone who does business with the city, that's a big
deal to get to have a private and you call
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it two hour sit down conversation with the controller to
pitch your products, your your services in a after giving
one hundred thousand dollars to his to his pet projects.
Those are all, you know, those are all the kind
of things that you know where we're scandals come out of.
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And so I think Whitmeyer is right to be calling
the sound and and and just for folks to understand
what Hollins is asking for. He was asking people to
make donations the sponsorship. The money would go to a
fund that he helps control. One of the things that
this fund does is register people to vote, and you know,
and then push them to go vote. All very inappropriate
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on so many levels. And so you know, John Whitmyer
should be congratulated for having having the stones to call
out this kind of, if nothing else, icky looking activity
by the city controller.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know, I always wonder, as a resident of Houston
and Harris County with this upcome election about to drop Michael. Look,
it's nice to be optimistic, you know. I get that people,
especially in a very blue place like Harris County. Pessimism
tends to be what a lot of us feel as
we go to vote.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But realism is what we need. I think, do you
is John.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Whittmeyer as a you know, a law and order democrat.
He votes along party lines back when he was a
state lawmaker. But like you said, law and order guy,
anti corruption in a big city like Houston, is that
the best we can hope for?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
No? I mean, you know, I think that a lot
of us have been told this lie, that that demographics' destiny,
and that's not true. The United States was not formed
as a nation as a republic of you know, of
a demographic We were formed as a republic based on ideals,
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and ideals transcend demographics. And I think that, you know,
it is a I think certainly the other side, the leftists,
the socialists, they want all of us that they want
people to believe that demographics destiny. That way, you know,
you don't have a conversation with your with your hispanic neighbor.
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That way, you and your and your black co worker, Uh,
don't don't sit down and have coffee and talk about
about you know, difficult things about issues, about the things
in the news. They want us all to look at
each other and look at each other with suspicion and hatred.
That's what the other side wants because they are they
are they're afraid of those kinds of conversations because when
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people have honest conversations about the role of government, about
the value of liberty, when they have open conversations about
you know, the the the importance of family and the
and the need for for individuals to care for each
other rather than bureaucrats, what they find is those are
those are things that resonate well with people. You just
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have to have the conversations. So when when the when
they tell us, oh, there's nothing to do in Houston,
nothing you can do about it is getting big and
it's you know, all these people coming in, nothing you
can do about it. What they're really saying is and
we don't want any of you people talking. We don't
want any of the people having conversations. We want we
want everyone left in their little ghettos so that we,
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the uh, the political elite, can continue to control things.
And I think our job a citizens should be to
say no to that. You and I citizens have to say,
I'm going to have the conversation with my neighbor. I'm
going to be willing to risk a little embarrassment by
having having coffee with the coworker and talk about things
in the news.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I'm going to be willing.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
To open myself up in the things that I believe
so that maybe together we can we can build a
better future for for for for for where we are.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I thought that was beautifully stated.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And on that note, I want to point out this
report you guys published about the Houston about Chris Hollins,
the corrupt scumbag being accused of pay to play by
our mayor here in Houston, was published by Charles Blaine,
a good friend of mine in yours, and I don't
know how many people know this. He made a short
announcement on social media. He is at home with his mom.
He's nursing her. She's been having some health issues. So
please keep Charles Blaine's beautiful mom in your house. Hey,
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before we run out of time here, there was a
recent story about the Texas Lottery about how lawmakers in
our state are trying to address the state lotto system
was cheated by foreigners and they want to see what
they could do to change the system around. But you
guys actually have another story about the Texas lottery that
I thought was particularly interesting as well.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Could you share that with us?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Yes, so real quickly, every state agency comes up for
review every ten or so years to see you should
that agency continue to exist, And that's when they do
kind of a deep dive, kind of going microscopically through
the through the agency. And the lottery is up in
twenty twenty five and there are a lot of questions
being asked about the lottery, the lottery'sform to nineteen ninety one,
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Texans voted for that, being told it would fund public education.
If you put all the money that's been all the
proceeds from the lottery, put it all together in all
the years it's existed since then, you don't pay for
a year of public education. So it's never lived up
to a purpose. What it does do is provide a
lot of cash to kind of circulate among you know,
lobbyists and vendors and that sort of thing, and of
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course the occasional person who wins the lottery. But remember
all gambling requires the participants to be losers. The only
way lotteries work is for you to be a loser.
If everyone's a winner, the lottery cannot exist. The lottery
demands that players be losers and one person gets to
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be a winner, but then they go through and you know,
declare bankruptcy and lose all the money anyway, so you know,
there's never really many winners there. But the lottery is done.
State law requires that tickets be sold in person, that
a ticket can only be sold to someone in person.
But the lottery has been conspiring with retailers to do
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digital tickets. Well that's not allowed under state law. The
lottery also conspired with an out of state consortium, a
syndicate it's called the Folks, to buy up twenty five
million dollars worth of lottery tickets and an effort to
kind of rig the system so that they could then
win the ninety five million dollar jackpot back in the spring.
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The lottery. Uh, you know, most of that ninety five
million dollars of course paid by low income people hoping
that maybe they can you know, hit it rich with
the lottery. So most that money generated by low income
people in Texas and the winnings then went to this
out of state syndicate that was aided by the Lottery Commission.
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The Lottery Commission deploying extra ticket sales machines and extra
personnel to facilitate this scam and out of state syndicate.
All of this has legislators asking questions, and quite frankly,
are the kind of questions that all of us should
be asking two about what in the world is being
done in our name? It doesn't fund education, but it
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seems to fund is kind of a little self perpetuating
fiefdom at the Texas Lottery Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Early voting starts Monday. I encourage people to early vote.
As a conservative, I've never loved mal in ballots or
ballot harvesting or early voting, but hey, you know, don't
don't uh, don't hate the player, hate the game. You know,
you can't change the roles now, So people need to
early vote on Monday.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Look, I'm a big fan of I'm a big fan
of voting. You know, vote early, vote often nominally. But
you know, look at it's trick to say every elect
know is the most important election of all time, but
this one feels like it's maybe more important than others
have been in recent years. Sure, the most important thing
that every single citizen can do is exercise their their
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duty and responsibility to participate in our republic. Vote in
the election. That's literally the least you can can do
as a citizen is vote. You've got an entire weekend here.
You can read about judges, you can read about constables,
you can read about commissioners, you can read about sheriffs,
you can read about legislators and congressmen. Do that this weekend.
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Take one weekend and look at the folks on your ballot,
and then go do your civic duty on Monday to
vote early. Working the extra time to do that reading
Election Day of courses on Tuesday, November fifth.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Michael Quinn Sullivan, Texas scorecard dot com. It's a better
place to do your research than Houston Chronicle, for example.
I will tell you this though, if you want to
avoid doing all that reading, just vote for the people
with ours next to their names.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It makes it a lot easier.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Ken Webstay's Pursuit of Happiness a radio show that's just
as good when you're driving around Soba as it is
when you're drunk at home.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
More sober at home. You give me sober at home,
all right.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Al Smith was the Governor of New York in nineteen eighteen.
He's a Catholic, half Italian, half Irish, spent a lot
of time in New York City. Was the Democrat Party's
presidential nominee in nineteen twenty eight This is the old Demo.
It was a very different Democrat Party back then, or
was it, depending on how you look at it. Right,
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the Democrats have always loved dividing everybody up by race.
And you know, it was just as true in the
early twentieth century as it is today. Sadly, and then,
Catholics Roman Catholics generally tend to lean liberal in the
United States. I've never understood why at every Catholic Mass
we pray for the unborn. I'm Catholic. I know everybody
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listening to this show knows. I lift weights and I'm Catholic.
I talk about that a lot. But I love God,
I love being Catholic, I love my religion. I love
my faith, and I you know, I don't care if
you're a Democrat, if you're you know, as long as
your heart's in the right place, I can look the
other way about a few dumb political beliefs, assuming you
don't rule over me, you know. Jim Gaffigan is a
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comedian whose political beliefs I may not often agree with.
Of all the comedians out there that do family friendly comedy,
you would think Jim Gaffigan would not be somebody with
Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
But he is. At least he was up until recently.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
If you heard his stand up comedy bit last night
at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City, a
long standing tradition involving Democrats and Republicans in New York City.
Some of the highest ranking members of both political parties
have attended this event, and if I'm not mistaken, the
last time a Democrat skipped it was Walter Mondale who
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lost to Ronald Reagan forty nine states to one. I
don't know if how many of you guys are history
buffs but or understand the electoral college, but that was
a pretty bad loss. Here's Jim last night.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
You know, this event has been referred to as the
Catholic met galapwent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will
be a key demographic in every battle ground state. I'm sorry,
why is Vice President Harris not here?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
I mean, consider this, this is a room full of
Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a
layup for the Democratic nominee. I mean in her defense,
I mean she did find time to appear on The
View Howard Stern, Colbert and the longtime staple of campaigning,
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the Call Her Daddy podcast. President Biden couldn't be here tonight.
The DNC made sure of that.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Huh yeah, oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He went on to make the point that the Democrats
thought Trump was a threat to democracy, so they staged
a ooh in their own party and removed Biden from office.
And there's a lot of secret Trump supporters out there
that don't want you to know they support Trump. They
call themselves the Biden family. I don't have time to
play all the sound bites from last night. Was a
long dinner with a lot of great speeches. We didn't
even talk about Trump said. Trump was making fun of
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Kamala and Democrats, and when you know it, Michael Bloomberg
and Chuck Schumer were clapping and applauding him last night.
I don't know if this was a turning point in
the election, but it really felt like it was here
to discuss this with me, my fellow Catholic. Daniel Turner
from Power the Future, a regular contributor to the show. Daniel,
Peace be with you, My brother.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Dominus takom to you as well. I don't know if
this was a turning point in the election, because we're
heading in the home stretch. I don't know if you
can turn at this point. But it does say a
lot about the advice Kamala Harris has been getting to
on her entire campaign and Jim Gaffigan's right, this is
a layup, right, this is especially in the era of
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Pope Francis. This is a pretty sympathetic audience. What I
found really impressive. And I will give Jim gaffckan a
lot of credit. He has hardcore Trump arrangement syndrome, but
he went and he played the part, and he understood
what this dinner is. It is bipartisan laughter for a charity.
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And he acknowledged that he runs the risk of being
canceled as a result, and he does. There are gonna
be people who are gonna say, I'm not having Jim
Gaffick in Butler and My Comedy Club. Heck, Jerry Seinfeld
made a joke just this week about how the hardcore
left has killed comedy, and yesterday he had to apologize
and walk it back and say he was in a
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bad place, and of course I didn't mean it. Even
Jerry Seinfeld is worth a billion dollars, is worried about
being canceled, and so Jim Gaffkin deserves credit. But yeah,
this was a deliberate snub on the part of Kamala Harrison.
Quite frankly, it shows you how ill advised he is
as a candidate. Imagine how ill advised she will be
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as a president.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
See, I don't disagree with anything you said. I'll just
add this to it. I really feel like there is
a change happening right now. I feel like a couple
of weeks ago, a lot of people thought Kamala was
going to win, and then she started going out and
doing public interviews and stuff. And of course, internal polling
has always revealed different things than what we get to see.
We've been told she's very popular and everybody loves her,
and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But to your point, something did drive her.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Political consultants did go out and encourage her to start
doing more interviews because she wasn't doing awesome in some
of these swing States, and then you started to see
momentum from Trump. I think last night it was on
full display. I think we're at a point here where
the corporate media is no longer pretending to love her,
members of her own party are no longer pretending to
love her, and Jim Gaffigan, of all the comedians out
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there to have tds, I mean, this guy was on
the Joe Rogan podcast just trashing the guy. And then
last night, I mean he made fun of Trump a
little bit, but not like he did with Kamala. Basically,
he told the audience last night he didn't think Kamala
deserved to win.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I mean that's what I heard.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Yeah, And I think the whole Joe Rogan podcast is
just a lie. I think that's her campaign saying there
and talks Heck, I can announce to your wonderful audience
right now, Kenny Aman talks with Joe Rogan to be
on the podcast. Right Just because I said it doesn't
mean it's true. Of course, it's not true. Joe Rogan
doesn't know who I am. But you can put out
a statement like that and have it get credibility. Kama's
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putting that statement out because she's desperate for popular appeal,
and she again the terrible advice she's gotten from this
campaign and her campaign staff lay low, Trump's going to implode.
Everyone thinks you're great if you don't say anything. I
think they gave her that advice also because they know
she is not good on the stump. Now the Alsmiths
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dinner is not on the stump. Trump read his jokes.
Odds are someone wrote those jokes for him. That wouldn't
surprise anybody who's not a professional comedian. Sure, but Kamala
probably can't even do that much right. And her only
comfort zone for public speaking is a hand chosen audience
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who has been coached. They are all holding the sign
and there's someone behind them saying, wave your sign, applaud,
sit down, stand up, you know, like little monkeys, and
that's what they are trained to do. Kamala has never
done an off the cuff conversation, or I shouldn't say never.
We saw her on Brett Baer and she did great.
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We saw her on the View and she did just
as well. I mean, if Kenny, if you flubbed the
View as a Democrat, right, what hoped you have to
negotiate with Vladimir Putin or Jiji Ping.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean you nailed it.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, you had made a point off the air
on social media that I'd like to ask you about.
And you never really hear Kamala Kamala talk about America.
She never talks about her history, the founders, the documents,
unless you credit She never brings it up. She's criticized
those things, but generally never praises those things. The Al
Smith the Al Smith dinner might be a Catholic thing
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right as a Catholic tradition, but it's also an American tradition.
It's an American vision that goes back decades, goes back
about a century. It's kind of a big deal, and
she would not participate in it. And Jim Gaffigan seemed
angry about that. Is she is she anti American? Is
she anti Catholic?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Is she both?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I call her non American, And it's not an expression
I made it up. I don't want to go so
far to say she's an American or anti American, because
that will bring a whole host of attacks, etc. But
she she's thoroughly non American in the sense that you
could replace her campaign with any other country in the world,
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and she would say the same things. There's nothing about
her that is uniquely American. You can't see Kamala Harris
talking about Fourth of July or marching in parades unless
she wants to vote right. You don't imagine her in
backyard barbecues wearing red, white and lou and having sparklers.
And that's not because she's a first generation immigrant. My
mom also an Italian Catholic. It's part of my half.
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My mom's a first generation American, right, I mean, my
mom is no less or more American than Kamala Harris.
Her parents were born in a foreign country, but a
very different upbringing a very thorough sense of America and Americana.
Kamala Harris reminds me of the person who moved into
your HOA and then the next day is running for
the board and you say, well, why do you want
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to be on the board. Do you love this community?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I just want power?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, you know what you had me at HOA. Daniel
Turner the Future dot Com my brother. I always love
talking to you. We don't normally get you on a Friday.
You do anything cool this weekend?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
My man?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Uh, hopefully drinking. That's my plan every weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
You're going to early vote.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I've already done that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh yeah, because Virginia, right exactly. I well, good early
voting is important. I know we had people email us
say no, now, don't early vote, early vote or vote
early vote often vote early? They say, but okay, that's
a joke. Obviously, do vote early. I'm Kenny Webster. That's
Daniel Turner. You could follow him on social media if
you hang around. Brandon Darby and I are going to
take a trip down to the border and very strange
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news from Texas death row and something that Democrats just did.
We'll explain it to you.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Food and nutrition activists want the Kellogg Cereal company to
remove the artificial colors from fruit loops.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Wait, can't they just eat cheerios? Isn't that just what
cheerios is? Sounds like some Texas justice to me. Loco
and now live from the border, it's Bright Vart's Brandon
Darby with the Cartel Chronicles only on KPRC Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
There's two early There are two very concerning stories involving
kids today in Texas. But before we get to any
of that, Brandon, didn't you guys have a thing at
Breitbart a while back where Kellogg didn't want to advertise
on your website anymore because you guys were against illegal
immigration basically your department.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Yeah, that was that was That was interesting. Yeah, I
forget about the thing when brands, when brands decide to
target Breitbart because Breitbart fights back, you know. And it's
just weird that you know, some you know, it's one
of its glass houses kind of thing. It's weird that
some company who you know, has a portion of their
(31:35):
product allowed to be rap poop, you know, thinks it's
smart to pick on a on someone who buys ink
by the barrel, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, it is kind of amazing. Politics aside, though, Do
you eat cereal? I mean, forget about politics. What what
is your favorite cereal? I'm just curious, Brandon Darby Bright
Bart And yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
And I have no endorsement from these people or whatever,
but pretty much the only cereal I eat on a
routine basis, it's called Morning Summit from Costco. It is amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Asian.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
Maybe twice a month I indulge in a big bowl
of frosted many weeks.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I'm into it, bro, I'm with it. There you go,
you heard it here. First start.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
My strategy, my strategy for health as I get older
is definitely like and this is what I always tell
medical professionals is I say I eat everything I'm supposed
to eat. I eat all the good stuff, but I
eat other stuff too, you know. And so my strategy
has been to exercise more and more instead of reducing
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my caloric intake.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
You know, and you know that that is that is
my strategy as well. I run three to six miles
a day. I lift weights three or four times a week,
and I have found that after losing weight, I'm not
gaining weight back just from working out a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But hey, this isn't about nutrition.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
I want I want to know, but real quick, I
want to say this, but you know, people always say
that to me. They're like, hey, like I'm running for
the key. Hey, I'm running for this, And I'm like,
I'm running so I can eat. That's why I'm running
because I want to eat.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I want to.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
Eat whatever I want to eat. That's why I do
what I do.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I do love food, Brandon, Hey, I want to talk
to you about kids for a second, because you're a
dad and you're a parent in a weird time in history.
Let's start off with news from the border and then
we'll get to that story about the death row in May.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It's right before the election.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
We all know that we're three early voting starts Monday,
and we had sort of been led to believe that
part of the reason why illegal migrants at our border migrants,
whether they're illegal or refugees or whatever. That's besides the
point here, that migrants showing up at the border was
at a lull that they turned down the tempt They
(33:45):
turned the faucet down on getting these migrants over the border,
so it didn't look bad right before the election. But
now you guys have just reported on a source at
the Customs Border Patrol saying the damn is starting to break.
There is a flood of unaccompanied minors at the Texas
border right before the election.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Brandon, Why now, Well, you know it's a tricky situation.
Here's what basically happens in Mexico and in Central America
and in other nations, is right before an election. This
you know, happened during the obomba years. It's happened right
before an election. The US gets into deals and they
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make backroom deals with Mexico, and Mexico starts cracking heads
and stopping people from coming to our border. Right, That's
what happens, and it happens. It starts right before an election,
and then it goes away and there's a flood of
people after an election. This is what happens, you know,
in this situation, what we're having, we're seeing is, you know,
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for Mexico to do that, it requires the you know,
transnational criminal organizations agree to help the Mexican government and
vice versa. And there's obviously a dispute, some type of
territorial dispute going on in Mexico. Somebody's you know, whipping
theirs out to show theirs is larger, and they're letting
(35:12):
a little spat come through to show what can happen
if they don't get their way, some type of internal dilemma.
There's also the issue of you know, people are afraid,
you know, the people who want to come here are like, hey,
if we don't get in there before Trump possibly takes office,
we're not getting in there. And so there's there's that
pressure as well. There's multiple things going on all at once.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, okay, well that like a lot of things, it's
more complicated than people realize. There's no simple answer to it,
and I appreciate your honesty there. Let's talk about this
unanimous vote. The Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee
voted to subpoena a death row inmate this week in
an apparent effort to delay the man's execution. This is
(35:56):
a very unusual way to stop an execution. Now, like
the last topic we just discussed as as complicated, this
guy was accused of shaking his baby. The gentleman Robert Roberson,
who is on you know, about to get executed here.
He was supposed to die, and Texas State Representative Jeff
Leech steps in and did what they did, stopped it
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from happening, essentially a historic bid to halt a Texas
execution by subpoenaing death throat inmate Robert Robertson. It's my understanding,
Brandon that whether they say it was junk science that
proved this guy was guilty. And I have talked to
a handful of people, including other conservative journalist peers of yours,
Holly Hansen, Michael Quinn, Sullivan, who all think whether or
(36:42):
not that study that they used to convict this guy
was accurate or not, that he's still guilty, that the
baby's body was covered in bruises and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
You don't know. I don't know, But what's your take
on this story?
Speaker 9 (36:55):
Well, first off, you know, I'm not the biggest fan
of the day penalty. I think it's you know, there's
always a risk of the wrong guy, right, But but
more importantly, I think it's harder on families who have
been victimized than just putting the person away for life
(37:17):
without parole. You know, it's harder on families, right, So
you have families having to show up for appeals and
for all kinds of stuff that goes on forever. I'm
not the biggest fan of it. That said, I will
tell you that, you know, we went through this before.
There was a guy from Bastrop. He was a black guy,
and he was he was going to get the death penalty,
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and everybody was in an uproar and new evidence emerged,
like you have to look at the new evidence, and
when you got into it, the guy did it the
guy was a killer. The guy was a rapist, and
he did it, you know, and it's like, look, they
have a way. I mean, look at the case of
Mamia albou Jamal. Right, Mabia albu Jamal killed an office
(38:00):
in Philly named Daniel Faulkner. And by the time you know,
people had spun that news articles and documentary, it looked
like he was a saint and he hadn't done anything wrong,
and the guy obviously did it. These people I saw
the same stuff when, you know, back in the day
a long time ago, when I had worked under couple
(38:21):
with the FBI and I was testifying against these lefties
who were trying to blow up Republicans and cops at
a political convention, and these guys made documentaries, they made
all kinds of films. Made me it was like a
monster made these guys look like. They started calling these
twenty five year old guys kids. And the photos they
would use of them in the news were photos of
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them in their little league outfits. Right, fun me crazy stuff,
you know, And that's what people do so in general,
because it's like the little Boy who Cried Wolf. When
people get in an uproar, right, before someone's executed, and
they're like new evidence has emerged, shut up, you know,
like maybe, but they cried wolf so many times. There's
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been so many people who have, you know, have been exonerated,
But the vast majority of the people who have been
exonerated of a crime they didn't commit. When you look
into it, it's like, no, they actually did that, Like
they actually did that. There was a technicality and they
got off. But they killed the top or they killed
this person, or they they did whatever. So I'm not
the biggest fan of it, but you know, do I like,
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stop everything I'm doing every time someone's going to get executed,
and believe everything I'm reading in the hype just because
a bunch of people, know, just a bunch of people
are saying something does not excite me any longer because
I know how news works, right, Like the vast majority
and I don't mean to be rude, but the vast
majority of us, and the people listen to this show,
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and the people watching CNN and the people reading Breitbart
and watching Fox and whatever whoever it is human beings.
If mediate editors choose to put a story in your faith,
enough times and enough media editors join the you know,
talk to their buddies at other who are other editors,
and decide to do the story all at once, all
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of a sudden. That's what we as a society care about,
right yeah, because we're manipulated. So I'm not you know,
I'm not the biggest fan of the death penalty. Do
I think this guy, you know, for whatever reason he
was convicted, If indeed there's some legitimate reason that he didn't,
obviously I wouldn't want him executed. But but you know,
(40:35):
all the hoopla over it, it doesn't you know, it
doesn't you know. I was sitting with my sixteen year
old daughter the other night, and she was watching this
documentary about the Menindo's brothers and how the dad was
sexually abusing them and how the mother knew about it
and so they should be out of jail, and and
I'm like, they bludgeoned their mother and father, Like no,
(40:57):
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I think in that case, what the the argument they're
trying to make, because I think they deserve to go
to prison.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Brandon, I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I think in that case, the argument that the people
are sympathetic to him are trying to make is that
if they were in fact murderers who were murdering because
they were victims of sexual assault, wouldn't thirty years in
prison be enough of a punishment? And I don't know
the answer to that question, Brandon, because we're about to
run out of time here.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
My man.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
But you made a lot of awesome points, Brandy, and
I always love talking to you.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
You are, if nothing, very consistent.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Brandon Darby a brilliant journalist, a longtime editor, and one
of the leaders of Breitbart dot Com. Check out his
work online Brandon Darby at Breitbart Texas. Find him on
Twitter at Brandon Darby. Brandon, you doing anything cool this weekend?
Speaker 9 (41:40):
I'm just hanging out with family, going to a kid's game,
you know, and enjoying the cool weather that's just hit
that landed upon Texas. Man, I'm all into it.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 9 (41:52):
Mistakes eating barbecue, I don't know. He's gonna eat good food,
gonna have fun, and that's all.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
A weekend of mild and red meat sounds like a
winning week endemy, Brandon Darby my brother from another Hey,
radio listeners, I love you all, Thanks so much for
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The Pope is releasing an autobiography if you want to
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
A heads up.
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Unlike a lot of celebrities, there's no chapter about his
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That's not really part of it.
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There.
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I don't know how much you know about.
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Catholicism, but just fy hey, big show today, got a
lot of great guests.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Michael quinn Sullivan's coming by.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We have a scandal here in Houston, Texas local democrat
Chris Hollands, local elected official being accused of people in
his own party of engaging in a pay to play scandal.
Chris Hollins, you are a scumbag. Michael Quinnsullivan from Texas
scorecard dot Com will be here to tell you all
about it. Daniel Turner stopping by it from Power the Future.
He's an advocate for energy and energy industry workers. And
(01:02):
we're going to go down to the border with Brandon Darby,
so stick around for all that. But we start off
today looking at some polling data courtesy Breitbart dot Com
Reporting on a recent Rassmusen poll.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
We now have two polls.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The show the Trump Fans ticket topping the Harris Walls
ticket in both favoritability, favorability, and something they call caring.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Caring. Really, that's a poll, okay fine.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Rasmussen Reports surveyed sixteen hundred and eighty three voters from
October fourteenth to the sixteenth. Asked a pretty straightforward question,
which candidate for president cares the most about people like you?
Vice President Kamala earned forty five percent of the vote.
Trump got forty nine, so we won that one. On
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the same question, Trump won the mail vote by twelve percent,
fifty three to forty one. Harris topped Trump by five
points with women, but still hit a ceiling at fifty
percent to Trump's forty five, meaning she couldn't get more
than half. Among black voters. Trump earned an incredible I
mean incredible for a Republican thirty three percent. That number
you'd think would be more like fifteen. You'd assume with
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black voters Kamala to have a much higher number, But
apparently black men just don't like her, and that has
nothing to do with race. I don't care what anyone
tells you. I haven't met a black man yet that
dislikes Kamala because of her skin color. No black young
black men don't like Kamala Harris because she represents everything
there against. These are young men who want economic opportunity,
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they want free speech rights, they like crypto for example.
Kamala's parties against all of that. Here's what should strike
fear into Democrats on this question of caring. Caring, Trump
wins the Hispanic vote by ten points. What I thought
he was supposed to be racist to Mexicans, remember the
narrative from twenty sixteen. Trump got the Hispanic vote fifty
(02:54):
two to forty two. And there's more. The latest Fox newspool,
which has never been friendly towards Trump, not only shows
the former president with a two point national lead over
word Salad Kamala Kamala fifty to forty eight, but Trump's
favorability among likely voters is now a point higher than
hers forty eight to forty seven. Since about September, Trump
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has gained four overall points.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
In the poll. Kamal's lost points.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And I don't know if you're good at math, but
that's bad for her and good for him. That's how
math works. I know math is racist. Here's a real
bombshell from Fox News. Trump's running mate JD. Vance also
enjoys higher favorability than Governor Elmer Fudd. Vance's favorability forty
four percent to Walls is forty three.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
How did that happen?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, the October first vice presidential debate, I would imagine
had a lot to do with it. We had weeks
of smear campaigns, billions of dollars in funding, not to
mention free advertising from corporate media propaganda, and the American
public was finally able to see Vance unfiltered. They saw
what a lot of people saw, a very intelligent and
prepared normal guy, nothing like the weird monster the rigged
(04:08):
media wanted you to believe he was. Of course, on
the flip side, Americans got unfiltered looks at Tim Walls,
and so, after billions of dollars in corporate media propaganda
attempting to sell him as an everyday guy, we discovered
Tim Walls is, in reality, well, for lack of a
better word, kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics and government and nalls hit and
co gruption this show hit.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Ain't you averbage?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
This podcast?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You gotta get it, you tone den. We can this.
This puts your happiness.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Last night at the Harris County judicial candidate's fundraiser in
Wicklow Heights. It's in the Heights, which is the name
of a neighborhood here in Houston, but the bar is
called Wicklow Heights. It was a cool place. Apparently the
owner of the business is very lead to local conservative activists,
so he was happy enough to host Harris County Republican
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judicial candidates last night. And as I was asked to
come out in MC and speak for a few minutes.
And it's always weird when they asked me to talk
in front of a group of people that are clearly
smarter than me. I mean, they're all judges and lawyers,
and you guys know I tell inappropriate jokes for a living.
So anyway, I had a great time last night. You
remember caveman lawyer. I'm just a caveman. You know, those
(05:27):
bright lights on the box in front of me. Frightened
and confuse me. How did the tiny little people get
inside of that TV screen? That's how I felt last
night speaking to a bunch of lawyers and judges. But
I will say this, As I was talking to the crowd,
I mentioned some of the people that contributed to this
radio show regularly, including Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas scorecard
dot Com. And most of the people in the audience
(05:47):
applauded Michael.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Demonstrating they weren't playing attention to what you said.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
No, I think most of the people were.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
The people who applaud were the people who weren't listening.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
There were the people said, oh, okay, stopped I going
going to applaud now, yeah, the people the majority of
people who didn't applaud, those are the people who were
actually listening to you, so most of us. That's actually
a good barometer to how many people were listening to
what you were saying, rather than focusing on stirring their
drink or you know, making Google eyes at their date
across the table or No.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I will tell you this, most most.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Only real players. Only real players take dates to Republican
judiciary forums.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Whenever I tell people at Republican events that I'm friends
with you, most of the people there are like, yeah,
Michael quinn Sullivan cool. And then I look around the
room and the one guy that's rolling his eyes, that's
the Bush Republican.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Michael.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I could spot him every time, every bro every time.
And I don't know if it's ever happened to you,
but I bet if you told a bunch of people
that you knew me, you'd get the same reaction.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's funny whenever I say, you know,
I'm friends Kenny Webster. They you know a lot of people,
you know, the over on the Dwarf. Oh it's a
great guy. I love listening to this up and those
be the one or two who go, why WHOA? I mean, lovely,
the guy just tell us funny jokes. You know what's
(07:11):
what the like about Kimmy. He's a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm happy to not get invited to a lot of
cocktail parties, Michael.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
There are some people who just take themselves way too seriously.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Man.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
They're just some people who and they take themselves too seriously,
and they want you to take yourself too seriously too.
And those kind of people drag me down to the
people who, oh, just we need to avoid those kind
of people.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We call them neo cons, and Republicans are neo cons
and liberals. But now I'm being redundant.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Tarn't I.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You're being a little redundant, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hey, let's let's talk about Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There's You guys have so many great stories at Texas
scorecard dot Com. Today I want to lead with this one,
Mayor John Whittmeyer. I didn't love him as a Democrat lawmaker,
who would but as a mayor he's not doing awful.
I'll tell you what he is accusing one of my
least favorite Democrats in Houston, the Houston Controller. Controller Chris Hollins.
Chris Hollins and I have sparred on Twitter at time
(08:04):
or two. You really get the oppression. Chris Hollins is
kind of like a Colin Allred type. He wears a
fancy suit. But is this guy just like a dumb jock?
I don't know. He's being accused of a pay to
play scandal for selling sponsorships. Now, you guys reported this
as the highest level of which awarding the donor of
a private dinner with the controller is a very bizarre scandal. Here,
(08:27):
all of a sudden, in the eleventh hour, right before
the election, here for the Democrat mayor of the city
to come out and make accusations against a high ranking member,
a local elected official of the Harris County Democrat Party.
Can you explain what Chris Hollins is being accused of?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Essentially?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, So one thing you understand about, you know, to
kind of set the stage here, is that is it
your mayor John Whitmeyer. For whatever else people might think
of him, he is very definitely a law and order
guy and he is an anti corruption guy. And you know,
I mean, what what whatever other his you know, bad
bad politics, bad ideology, whatever, he is good in those
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two areas, really good in those two areas. And that's
where he's really been making his mark in Houston, you know,
near the one of the largest UH cities in the nation,
you know, in going through and dealing with corruption. So
it should not surprise any of us that if he
sees corruption occurring under his watch, he's going to say something.
I mean that both of me, as the leog slator
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and so not, it should not surprise us that he's
willing to call out corruption, even if it goes against
a fellow Democrat. Holland is accused of taking this UH
this the Houston Annual Investor conference kind of a dog
and pony show that they put on for years in Houston,
UH for folks who you know, UH do business in
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and around Houston and with the city of Houston. You know,
can't big conference. What's going on? You know? All that
is kind of your typical business conference kind of thing.
For the first time, you have U, the controller who
runs this conference, UH suddenly rolling out sponsorships asking UH
businesses to sponsor this. Apparently whip Meyer found out about
(10:14):
it when a couple of couple of business leaders called said, Hey,
if if I don't sponsor you, we didn't have in
our budget to do one hundred thousand dollars sponsorship for
this conference. Is this going to have negative repercussions for us?
You're clearly thinking, is it going to be hard for
us to do business with the city. It's going to
be hard for us to you know, do our business
in the city. And that's apparently what's said with Marv.
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The appearance of impropriety, the appearance of a play to
play scandal where Hollins was being pretty straightforward about it, Hey,
if you give a lot of money to this, to
this project, I'll have dinner with you and if you're
someone who does business with the city, that's a big
deal to get to have a private and you call
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it two hour sit down conversation with the controller to
pitch your products, your your services in a after giving
one hundred thousand dollars to his to his pet projects.
Those are all, you know, those are all the kind
of things that you know where we're scandals come out of.
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And so I think Whitmeyer is right to be calling
the sound and and and just for folks to understand
what Hollins is asking for. He was asking people to
make donations the sponsorship. The money would go to a
fund that he helps control. One of the things that
this fund does is register people to vote, and you know,
and then push them to go vote. All very inappropriate
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on so many levels. And so you know, John Whitmyer
should be congratulated for having having the stones to call
out this kind of, if nothing else, icky looking activity
by the city controller.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know, I always wonder, as a resident of Houston
and Harris County with this upcome election about to drop Michael. Look,
it's nice to be optimistic, you know. I get that people,
especially in a very blue place like Harris County. Pessimism
tends to be what a lot of us feel as
we go to vote.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But realism is what we need. I think, do you
is John.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Whittmeyer as a you know, a law and order democrat.
He votes along party lines back when he was a
state lawmaker. But like you said, law and order guy,
anti corruption in a big city like Houston, is that
the best we can hope for?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
No? I mean, you know, I think that a lot
of us have been told this lie, that that demographics' destiny,
and that's not true. The United States was not formed
as a nation as a republic of you know, of
a demographic We were formed as a republic based on ideals,
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and ideals transcend demographics. And I think that, you know,
it is a I think certainly the other side, the leftists,
the socialists, they want all of us that they want
people to believe that demographics destiny. That way, you know,
you don't have a conversation with your with your hispanic neighbor.
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That way, you and your and your black co worker, Uh,
don't don't sit down and have coffee and talk about
about you know, difficult things about issues, about the things
in the news. They want us all to look at
each other and look at each other with suspicion and hatred.
That's what the other side wants because they are they
are they're afraid of those kinds of conversations because when
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people have honest conversations about the role of government, about
the value of liberty, when they have open conversations about
you know, the the the importance of family and the
and the need for for individuals to care for each
other rather than bureaucrats, what they find is those are
those are things that resonate well with people. You just
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have to have the conversations. So when when the when
they tell us, oh, there's nothing to do in Houston,
nothing you can do about it is getting big and
it's you know, all these people coming in, nothing you
can do about it. What they're really saying is and
we don't want any of you people talking. We don't
want any of the people having conversations. We want we
want everyone left in their little ghettos so that we,
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the uh, the political elite, can continue to control things.
And I think our job a citizens should be to
say no to that. You and I citizens have to say,
I'm going to have the conversation with my neighbor. I'm
going to be willing to risk a little embarrassment by
having having coffee with the coworker and talk about things
in the news.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I'm going to be willing.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
To open myself up in the things that I believe
so that maybe together we can we can build a
better future for for for for for where we are.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I thought that was beautifully stated.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And on that note, I want to point out this
report you guys published about the Houston about Chris Hollins,
the corrupt scumbag being accused of pay to play by
our mayor here in Houston, was published by Charles Blaine,
a good friend of mine in yours, and I don't
know how many people know this. He made a short
announcement on social media. He is at home with his mom.
He's nursing her. She's been having some health issues. So
please keep Charles Blaine's beautiful mom in your house. Hey,
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before we run out of time here, there was a
recent story about the Texas Lottery about how lawmakers in
our state are trying to address the state lotto system
was cheated by foreigners and they want to see what
they could do to change the system around. But you
guys actually have another story about the Texas lottery that
I thought was particularly interesting as well.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Could you share that with us?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Yes, so real quickly, every state agency comes up for
review every ten or so years to see you should
that agency continue to exist, And that's when they do
kind of a deep dive, kind of going microscopically through
the through the agency. And the lottery is up in
twenty twenty five and there are a lot of questions
being asked about the lottery, the lottery'sform to nineteen ninety one,
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Texans voted for that, being told it would fund public education.
If you put all the money that's been all the
proceeds from the lottery, put it all together in all
the years it's existed since then, you don't pay for
a year of public education. So it's never lived up
to a purpose. What it does do is provide a
lot of cash to kind of circulate among you know,
lobbyists and vendors and that sort of thing, and of
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course the occasional person who wins the lottery. But remember
all gambling requires the participants to be losers. The only
way lotteries work is for you to be a loser.
If everyone's a winner, the lottery cannot exist. The lottery
demands that players be losers and one person gets to
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be a winner, but then they go through and you know,
declare bankruptcy and lose all the money anyway, so you know,
there's never really many winners there. But the lottery is done.
State law requires that tickets be sold in person, that
a ticket can only be sold to someone in person.
But the lottery has been conspiring with retailers to do
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digital tickets. Well that's not allowed under state law. The
lottery also conspired with an out of state consortium, a
syndicate it's called the Folks, to buy up twenty five
million dollars worth of lottery tickets and an effort to
kind of rig the system so that they could then
win the ninety five million dollar jackpot back in the spring.
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The lottery. Uh, you know, most of that ninety five
million dollars of course paid by low income people hoping
that maybe they can you know, hit it rich with
the lottery. So most that money generated by low income
people in Texas and the winnings then went to this
out of state syndicate that was aided by the Lottery Commission.
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The Lottery Commission deploying extra ticket sales machines and extra
personnel to facilitate this scam and out of state syndicate.
All of this has legislators asking questions, and quite frankly,
are the kind of questions that all of us should
be asking two about what in the world is being
done in our name? It doesn't fund education, but it
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seems to fund is kind of a little self perpetuating
fiefdom at the Texas Lottery Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Early voting starts Monday. I encourage people to early vote.
As a conservative, I've never loved mal in ballots or
ballot harvesting or early voting, but hey, you know, don't
don't uh, don't hate the player, hate the game. You know,
you can't change the roles now, So people need to
early vote on Monday.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Look, I'm a big fan of I'm a big fan
of voting. You know, vote early, vote often nominally. But
you know, look at it's trick to say every elect
know is the most important election of all time, but
this one feels like it's maybe more important than others
have been in recent years. Sure, the most important thing
that every single citizen can do is exercise their their
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duty and responsibility to participate in our republic. Vote in
the election. That's literally the least you can can do
as a citizen is vote. You've got an entire weekend here.
You can read about judges, you can read about constables,
you can read about commissioners, you can read about sheriffs,
you can read about legislators and congressmen. Do that this weekend.
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Take one weekend and look at the folks on your ballot,
and then go do your civic duty on Monday to
vote early. Working the extra time to do that reading
Election Day of courses on Tuesday, November fifth.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Michael Quinn Sullivan, Texas scorecard dot com. It's a better
place to do your research than Houston Chronicle, for example.
I will tell you this though, if you want to
avoid doing all that reading, just vote for the people
with ours next to their names.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It makes it a lot easier.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Ken Webstay's Pursuit of Happiness a radio show that's just
as good when you're driving around Soba as it is
when you're drunk at home.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
More sober at home. You give me sober at home,
all right.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Al Smith was the Governor of New York in nineteen eighteen.
He's a Catholic, half Italian, half Irish, spent a lot
of time in New York City. Was the Democrat Party's
presidential nominee in nineteen twenty eight This is the old Demo.
It was a very different Democrat Party back then, or
was it, depending on how you look at it. Right,
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the Democrats have always loved dividing everybody up by race.
And you know, it was just as true in the
early twentieth century as it is today. Sadly, and then,
Catholics Roman Catholics generally tend to lean liberal in the
United States. I've never understood why at every Catholic Mass
we pray for the unborn. I'm Catholic. I know everybody
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listening to this show knows. I lift weights and I'm Catholic.
I talk about that a lot. But I love God,
I love being Catholic, I love my religion. I love
my faith, and I you know, I don't care if
you're a Democrat, if you're you know, as long as
your heart's in the right place, I can look the
other way about a few dumb political beliefs, assuming you
don't rule over me, you know. Jim Gaffigan is a
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comedian whose political beliefs I may not often agree with.
Of all the comedians out there that do family friendly comedy,
you would think Jim Gaffigan would not be somebody with
Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
But he is. At least he was up until recently.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
If you heard his stand up comedy bit last night
at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City, a
long standing tradition involving Democrats and Republicans in New York City.
Some of the highest ranking members of both political parties
have attended this event, and if I'm not mistaken, the
last time a Democrat skipped it was Walter Mondale who
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lost to Ronald Reagan forty nine states to one. I
don't know if how many of you guys are history
buffs but or understand the electoral college, but that was
a pretty bad loss. Here's Jim last night.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
You know, this event has been referred to as the
Catholic met galapwent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will
be a key demographic in every battle ground state. I'm sorry,
why is Vice President Harris not here?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
I mean, consider this, this is a room full of
Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a
layup for the Democratic nominee. I mean in her defense,
I mean she did find time to appear on The
View Howard Stern, Colbert and the longtime staple of campaigning,
(22:36):
the Call Her Daddy podcast. President Biden couldn't be here tonight.
The DNC made sure of that.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Huh yeah, oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He went on to make the point that the Democrats
thought Trump was a threat to democracy, so they staged
a ooh in their own party and removed Biden from office.
And there's a lot of secret Trump supporters out there
that don't want you to know they support Trump. They
call themselves the Biden family. I don't have time to
play all the sound bites from last night. Was a
long dinner with a lot of great speeches. We didn't
even talk about Trump said. Trump was making fun of
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Kamala and Democrats, and when you know it, Michael Bloomberg
and Chuck Schumer were clapping and applauding him last night.
I don't know if this was a turning point in
the election, but it really felt like it was here
to discuss this with me, my fellow Catholic. Daniel Turner
from Power the Future, a regular contributor to the show. Daniel,
Peace be with you, My brother.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Dominus takom to you as well. I don't know if
this was a turning point in the election, because we're
heading in the home stretch. I don't know if you
can turn at this point. But it does say a
lot about the advice Kamala Harris has been getting to
on her entire campaign and Jim Gaffigan's right, this is
a layup, right, this is especially in the era of
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Pope Francis. This is a pretty sympathetic audience. What I
found really impressive. And I will give Jim gaffckan a
lot of credit. He has hardcore Trump arrangement syndrome, but
he went and he played the part, and he understood
what this dinner is. It is bipartisan laughter for a charity.
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And he acknowledged that he runs the risk of being
canceled as a result, and he does. There are gonna
be people who are gonna say, I'm not having Jim
Gaffick in Butler and My Comedy Club. Heck, Jerry Seinfeld
made a joke just this week about how the hardcore
left has killed comedy, and yesterday he had to apologize
and walk it back and say he was in a
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bad place, and of course I didn't mean it. Even
Jerry Seinfeld is worth a billion dollars, is worried about
being canceled, and so Jim Gaffkin deserves credit. But yeah,
this was a deliberate snub on the part of Kamala Harrison.
Quite frankly, it shows you how ill advised he is
as a candidate. Imagine how ill advised she will be
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as a president.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
See, I don't disagree with anything you said. I'll just
add this to it. I really feel like there is
a change happening right now. I feel like a couple
of weeks ago, a lot of people thought Kamala was
going to win, and then she started going out and
doing public interviews and stuff. And of course, internal polling
has always revealed different things than what we get to see.
We've been told she's very popular and everybody loves her,
and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But to your point, something did drive her.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Political consultants did go out and encourage her to start
doing more interviews because she wasn't doing awesome in some
of these swing States, and then you started to see
momentum from Trump. I think last night it was on
full display. I think we're at a point here where
the corporate media is no longer pretending to love her,
members of her own party are no longer pretending to
love her, and Jim Gaffigan, of all the comedians out
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there to have tds, I mean, this guy was on
the Joe Rogan podcast just trashing the guy. And then
last night, I mean he made fun of Trump a
little bit, but not like he did with Kamala. Basically,
he told the audience last night he didn't think Kamala
deserved to win.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I mean that's what I heard.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Yeah, And I think the whole Joe Rogan podcast is
just a lie. I think that's her campaign saying there
and talks Heck, I can announce to your wonderful audience
right now, Kenny Aman talks with Joe Rogan to be
on the podcast. Right Just because I said it doesn't
mean it's true. Of course, it's not true. Joe Rogan
doesn't know who I am. But you can put out
a statement like that and have it get credibility. Kama's
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putting that statement out because she's desperate for popular appeal,
and she again the terrible advice she's gotten from this
campaign and her campaign staff lay low, Trump's going to implode.
Everyone thinks you're great if you don't say anything. I
think they gave her that advice also because they know
she is not good on the stump. Now the Alsmiths
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dinner is not on the stump. Trump read his jokes.
Odds are someone wrote those jokes for him. That wouldn't
surprise anybody who's not a professional comedian. Sure, but Kamala
probably can't even do that much right. And her only
comfort zone for public speaking is a hand chosen audience
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who has been coached. They are all holding the sign
and there's someone behind them saying, wave your sign, applaud,
sit down, stand up, you know, like little monkeys, and
that's what they are trained to do. Kamala has never
done an off the cuff conversation, or I shouldn't say never.
We saw her on Brett Baer and she did great.
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We saw her on the View and she did just
as well. I mean, if Kenny, if you flubbed the
View as a Democrat, right, what hoped you have to
negotiate with Vladimir Putin or Jiji Ping.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean you nailed it.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, you had made a point off the air
on social media that I'd like to ask you about.
And you never really hear Kamala Kamala talk about America.
She never talks about her history, the founders, the documents,
unless you credit She never brings it up. She's criticized
those things, but generally never praises those things. The Al
Smith the Al Smith dinner might be a Catholic thing
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right as a Catholic tradition, but it's also an American tradition.
It's an American vision that goes back decades, goes back
about a century. It's kind of a big deal, and
she would not participate in it. And Jim Gaffigan seemed
angry about that. Is she is she anti American? Is
she anti Catholic?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Is she both?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I call her non American, And it's not an expression
I made it up. I don't want to go so
far to say she's an American or anti American, because
that will bring a whole host of attacks, etc. But
she she's thoroughly non American in the sense that you
could replace her campaign with any other country in the world,
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and she would say the same things. There's nothing about
her that is uniquely American. You can't see Kamala Harris
talking about Fourth of July or marching in parades unless
she wants to vote right. You don't imagine her in
backyard barbecues wearing red, white and lou and having sparklers.
And that's not because she's a first generation immigrant. My
mom also an Italian Catholic. It's part of my half.
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My mom's a first generation American, right, I mean, my
mom is no less or more American than Kamala Harris.
Her parents were born in a foreign country, but a
very different upbringing a very thorough sense of America and Americana.
Kamala Harris reminds me of the person who moved into
your HOA and then the next day is running for
the board and you say, well, why do you want
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to be on the board. Do you love this community?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I just want power?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, you know what you had me at HOA. Daniel
Turner the Future dot Com my brother. I always love
talking to you. We don't normally get you on a Friday.
You do anything cool this weekend?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
My man?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Uh, hopefully drinking. That's my plan every weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
You're going to early vote.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I've already done that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh yeah, because Virginia, right exactly. I well, good early
voting is important. I know we had people email us
say no, now, don't early vote, early vote or vote
early vote often vote early? They say, but okay, that's
a joke. Obviously, do vote early. I'm Kenny Webster. That's
Daniel Turner. You could follow him on social media if
you hang around. Brandon Darby and I are going to
take a trip down to the border and very strange
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news from Texas death row and something that Democrats just did.
We'll explain it to you.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Food and nutrition activists want the Kellogg Cereal company to
remove the artificial colors from fruit loops.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Wait, can't they just eat cheerios? Isn't that just what
cheerios is? Sounds like some Texas justice to me. Loco
and now live from the border, it's Bright Vart's Brandon
Darby with the Cartel Chronicles only on KPRC Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
There's two early There are two very concerning stories involving
kids today in Texas. But before we get to any
of that, Brandon, didn't you guys have a thing at
Breitbart a while back where Kellogg didn't want to advertise
on your website anymore because you guys were against illegal
immigration basically your department.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Yeah, that was that was That was interesting. Yeah, I
forget about the thing when brands, when brands decide to
target Breitbart because Breitbart fights back, you know. And it's
just weird that you know, some you know, it's one
of its glass houses kind of thing. It's weird that
some company who you know, has a portion of their
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product allowed to be rap poop, you know, thinks it's
smart to pick on a on someone who buys ink
by the barrel, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, it is kind of amazing. Politics aside, though, Do
you eat cereal? I mean, forget about politics. What what
is your favorite cereal? I'm just curious, Brandon Darby Bright
Bart And yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
And I have no endorsement from these people or whatever,
but pretty much the only cereal I eat on a
routine basis, it's called Morning Summit from Costco. It is amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Asian.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
Maybe twice a month I indulge in a big bowl
of frosted many weeks.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I'm into it, bro, I'm with it. There you go,
you heard it here. First start.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
My strategy, my strategy for health as I get older
is definitely like and this is what I always tell
medical professionals is I say I eat everything I'm supposed
to eat. I eat all the good stuff, but I
eat other stuff too, you know. And so my strategy
has been to exercise more and more instead of reducing
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my caloric intake.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
You know, and you know that that is that is
my strategy as well. I run three to six miles
a day. I lift weights three or four times a week,
and I have found that after losing weight, I'm not
gaining weight back just from working out a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But hey, this isn't about nutrition.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
I want I want to know, but real quick, I
want to say this, but you know, people always say
that to me. They're like, hey, like I'm running for
the key. Hey, I'm running for this, And I'm like,
I'm running so I can eat. That's why I'm running
because I want to eat.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I want to.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
Eat whatever I want to eat. That's why I do
what I do.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I do love food, Brandon, Hey, I want to talk
to you about kids for a second, because you're a
dad and you're a parent in a weird time in history.
Let's start off with news from the border and then
we'll get to that story about the death row in May.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It's right before the election.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
We all know that we're three early voting starts Monday,
and we had sort of been led to believe that
part of the reason why illegal migrants at our border migrants,
whether they're illegal or refugees or whatever. That's besides the
point here, that migrants showing up at the border was
at a lull that they turned down the tempt They
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turned the faucet down on getting these migrants over the border,
so it didn't look bad right before the election. But
now you guys have just reported on a source at
the Customs Border Patrol saying the damn is starting to break.
There is a flood of unaccompanied minors at the Texas
border right before the election.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Brandon, Why now, Well, you know it's a tricky situation.
Here's what basically happens in Mexico and in Central America
and in other nations, is right before an election. This
you know, happened during the obomba years. It's happened right
before an election. The US gets into deals and they
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make backroom deals with Mexico, and Mexico starts cracking heads
and stopping people from coming to our border. Right, That's
what happens, and it happens. It starts right before an election,
and then it goes away and there's a flood of
people after an election. This is what happens, you know,
in this situation, what we're having, we're seeing is, you know,
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for Mexico to do that, it requires the you know,
transnational criminal organizations agree to help the Mexican government and
vice versa. And there's obviously a dispute, some type of
territorial dispute going on in Mexico. Somebody's you know, whipping
theirs out to show theirs is larger, and they're letting
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a little spat come through to show what can happen
if they don't get their way, some type of internal dilemma.
There's also the issue of you know, people are afraid,
you know, the people who want to come here are like, hey,
if we don't get in there before Trump possibly takes office,
we're not getting in there. And so there's there's that
pressure as well. There's multiple things going on all at once.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, okay, well that like a lot of things, it's
more complicated than people realize. There's no simple answer to it,
and I appreciate your honesty there. Let's talk about this
unanimous vote. The Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee
voted to subpoena a death row inmate this week in
an apparent effort to delay the man's execution. This is
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a very unusual way to stop an execution. Now, like
the last topic we just discussed as as complicated, this
guy was accused of shaking his baby. The gentleman Robert Roberson,
who is on you know, about to get executed here.
He was supposed to die, and Texas State Representative Jeff
Leech steps in and did what they did, stopped it
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from happening, essentially a historic bid to halt a Texas
execution by subpoenaing death throat inmate Robert Robertson. It's my understanding,
Brandon that whether they say it was junk science that
proved this guy was guilty. And I have talked to
a handful of people, including other conservative journalist peers of yours,
Holly Hansen, Michael Quinn, Sullivan, who all think whether or
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not that study that they used to convict this guy
was accurate or not, that he's still guilty, that the
baby's body was covered in bruises and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
You don't know. I don't know, But what's your take
on this story?
Speaker 9 (36:55):
Well, first off, you know, I'm not the biggest fan
of the day penalty. I think it's you know, there's
always a risk of the wrong guy, right, But but
more importantly, I think it's harder on families who have
been victimized than just putting the person away for life
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without parole. You know, it's harder on families, right, So
you have families having to show up for appeals and
for all kinds of stuff that goes on forever. I'm
not the biggest fan of it. That said, I will
tell you that, you know, we went through this before.
There was a guy from Bastrop. He was a black guy,
and he was he was going to get the death penalty,
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and everybody was in an uproar and new evidence emerged,
like you have to look at the new evidence, and
when you got into it, the guy did it the
guy was a killer. The guy was a rapist, and
he did it, you know, and it's like, look, they
have a way. I mean, look at the case of
Mamia albou Jamal. Right, Mabia albu Jamal killed an office
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in Philly named Daniel Faulkner. And by the time you know,
people had spun that news articles and documentary, it looked
like he was a saint and he hadn't done anything wrong,
and the guy obviously did it. These people I saw
the same stuff when, you know, back in the day
a long time ago, when I had worked under couple
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with the FBI and I was testifying against these lefties
who were trying to blow up Republicans and cops at
a political convention, and these guys made documentaries, they made
all kinds of films. Made me it was like a
monster made these guys look like. They started calling these
twenty five year old guys kids. And the photos they
would use of them in the news were photos of
(38:43):
them in their little league outfits. Right, fun me crazy stuff,
you know, And that's what people do so in general,
because it's like the little Boy who Cried Wolf. When
people get in an uproar, right, before someone's executed, and
they're like new evidence has emerged, shut up, you know,
like maybe, but they cried wolf so many times. There's
(39:06):
been so many people who have, you know, have been exonerated,
But the vast majority of the people who have been
exonerated of a crime they didn't commit. When you look
into it, it's like, no, they actually did that, Like
they actually did that. There was a technicality and they
got off. But they killed the top or they killed
this person, or they they did whatever. So I'm not
the biggest fan of it, but you know, do I like,
(39:30):
stop everything I'm doing every time someone's going to get executed,
and believe everything I'm reading in the hype just because
a bunch of people, know, just a bunch of people
are saying something does not excite me any longer because
I know how news works, right, Like the vast majority
and I don't mean to be rude, but the vast
majority of us, and the people listen to this show,
(39:52):
and the people watching CNN and the people reading Breitbart
and watching Fox and whatever whoever it is human beings.
If mediate editors choose to put a story in your faith,
enough times and enough media editors join the you know,
talk to their buddies at other who are other editors,
and decide to do the story all at once, all
(40:12):
of a sudden. That's what we as a society care about,
right yeah, because we're manipulated. So I'm not you know,
I'm not the biggest fan of the death penalty. Do
I think this guy, you know, for whatever reason he
was convicted, If indeed there's some legitimate reason that he didn't,
obviously I wouldn't want him executed. But but you know,
(40:35):
all the hoopla over it, it doesn't you know, it
doesn't you know. I was sitting with my sixteen year
old daughter the other night, and she was watching this
documentary about the Menindo's brothers and how the dad was
sexually abusing them and how the mother knew about it
and so they should be out of jail, and and
I'm like, they bludgeoned their mother and father, Like no,
(40:57):
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I think in that case, what the the argument they're
trying to make, because I think they deserve to go
to prison.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Brandon, I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I think in that case, the argument that the people
are sympathetic to him are trying to make is that
if they were in fact murderers who were murdering because
they were victims of sexual assault, wouldn't thirty years in
prison be enough of a punishment? And I don't know
the answer to that question, Brandon, because we're about to
run out of time here.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
My man.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
But you made a lot of awesome points, Brandy, and
I always love talking to you.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
You are, if nothing, very consistent.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Brandon Darby a brilliant journalist, a longtime editor, and one
of the leaders of Breitbart dot Com. Check out his
work online Brandon Darby at Breitbart Texas. Find him on
Twitter at Brandon Darby. Brandon, you doing anything cool this weekend?
Speaker 9 (41:40):
I'm just hanging out with family, going to a kid's game,
you know, and enjoying the cool weather that's just hit
that landed upon Texas. Man, I'm all into it.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 9 (41:52):
Mistakes eating barbecue, I don't know. He's gonna eat good food,
gonna have fun, and that's all.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
A weekend of mild and red meat sounds like a
winning week endemy, Brandon Darby my brother from another Hey,
radio listeners, I love you all, Thanks so much for
supporting our radio show.
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And what we do.
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