February 17, 2026 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features a gaggle of local angry taxpayers. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Olympic Village ran out of condoms in just three days,
and you thought Lindsey Vaughn was having trouble walking because
of her broken leg. Hi, thanks for joining us. Oh hi,
Oh yeah no, come on in, take a seat. I'm
glad you're here. It's good to be with you today. Guys,
I'm Kenny Webster. Some of y'all might know me from
well this radio show, among other things. My guest this
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afternoon Ethan Buchanan stopping buying from the k t H newsroom,
and a local angry citizen and taxpayer named Bob Choate.
My very special guest, cost will be joining us at
the bottom of the hour to talk about early voting.
And it is gonna get sassy to stick around for
all of that. You're gonna want to be part of it.
But in the meantime, let's start off with this.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yesterday, a fifty six year old guy, stop me if
you've heard this one before. Who changed his name from
Robert to ROBERTA storms a high school hockey game in
Rhode Island, pops off at his own family in the stands,
kills his ex wife and one of his kids, wounds
a few other people, then checks out himself. What about
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the media, how they report this, oh, trans violence? Yeah,
they're tiptoeing around it like a delicate snowflake family dispute.
They say, gender identity tied to pass conflicts. They whisper, Yeah,
no kidding. The ex literally cited the gender reassignment surgery
in the divorce papers. But sure, let's pretend this is
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just another random Tuesday tragedy and not the latest chapter
in the what could possibly go wrong when you pump
someone full of hormones and tell them reality is optional saga?
And don't get me started on the pattern or the
lack of one. According to the fact checkers who reminding us,
it's only a tiny fraction of mass shootings. Fine, like
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finding an honest politician in DC. When it happens, it's
always the same script. Confused identity, mental health, train wreck,
family fallout, and suddenly everyone's playing thoughts and prayers. While
the Left screams. Don't you dare notice the common thread.
It's like if every time a clown robbed a bank,
the media reported man in colorful outfit commits crime. Nothing
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to see here about the makeup? And what about the kids?
The kids? Yeah, the left still out here pushing puberty
blockers like they're handing out candy at a Mardi Gras parade.
Life saving care, they chant, while Europe actual adults in
the room have been slamming the brakes for years. Sweden
and Finland and the British people they may be importing
Islam at a rapid pace, and I'm not sure why,
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but at least they respond to this nonsense by saying,
hold up, the evidence is shaky, long term data is missing,
bone density, tanks, fertility. He's a coin flip. And surprise,
some of these kids grow up and regret what they did.
Here in America, we are full steam ahead because feelings
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trump facts and questioning it makes it makes you well
hitler reincarnate. How dare you not go along with the
trans ideology. Puberty blockers are bad for kids.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
They're not candy.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
They're chemical pause buttons on a developing body hit pause
for too long and good luck restarting without side effects
that make a bad tattoo look like a minor oopsie,
what about your hormones? Cross sex ones turn boys into
estrogen fueled emotional roller coasters, and they turn girls into
testosterone powered rage machines, sometimes before they've even figured out
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how to parallel park.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Regret.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, they say it's less than one percent, like that's
supposed to comfort the kid who ends up sterile, scared
and realizing the f information wasn't just some fancy word
for irreversible experimentation. One percent of thousands is still hundreds
of walking I told you sos. But hey, collateral damage
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in the War on biology, right, And by the way,
I think the numbers are much higher than what they're admitting.
I'm just trying to make a point here. The suicide
stats they wave around like a magic wand don't actually
explain what's really going on. They'll tell you, oh, these
kids kill themselves if they can't get the procedure. There's
no proof of that, but there is proof sometimes they
do kill themselves if they did get the procedure. The
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long term studies don't look good. These people show up
post op the suicide rates are still through the roof
compared to normal people. It's not some magic curity your
mental health. It's often a band aid on a bullet
wound caused by trauma, autism, abuse, or just being a
confused teenager in a world that tells you, if you're awkward,
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maybe we should chop you up in pump you full chemicals.
Rapid onset gender dysphoria. It's not a myth. Its pure
pressure meets TikTok alvegorithm meets your parents or bigots if
they hesitate. But try saying any of this out loud
and watch the cancel squad descend like locusts.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Bigot, transphobe. You've heard it before. You've heard them.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
They probably said it to you when you brought it
up at your kids' school board meeting. The same crowd
screaming protect the kids is fine. Chemically castrating them as
long as it comes with the rainbow flag. It's like
watching vegans protest animal cruelty while force feeding children's soy
lattes and calling it nutrition. Look, I get it, nobody
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wants children to suffer. I don't if a grown adult
wants to live as the opposite sex knock yourself out.
But kids, they're not many adults with fully baked brains,
their frontal lobes are still under construction. And what does
happen when adults do it well? Sometime they get hopped
up on the goofy juice and the chemicals and they
end up showing up at a children's hockey game and
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killing people. So here's the bottom line. Biology isn't bigotry
discouraging people from taking this chance. It isn't hate encouraging
people to do It isn't progress. This isn't about being
anti trans It's about being pro common sense. If any
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of this makes me the bad guy in twenty twenty
six clown World, then go ahead, hand me the villain, cap.
I don't care. At least I'm being honest. Stick around,
We got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
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Speaker 2 (06:57):
After four knee surgeries, Lindsay Vaughn's skiing career is likely over,
but that doesn't mean she's done with competitive athletics. She
could always fight Jake Paul Hi, everybody, praypart dot com
today reporting on Trump and his response to the Nancy
Guthrie kidnapping.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Assuming she was kidnapped, I don't think she was. I
think it was a botched robbery. But what do I know.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I tell fart jokes about politicians for a living, but
I do know. Yesterday, Trump used his pulpit to threaten
Nancy Guthrie's alleged kidnappers or killers or whatever they are,
with the death penalty if they don't at least give
us some information. He said he'd like to see eighty
four year old Nancy Guthrie come back alive. He was
talking to the New York Post over the phone, and
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he said Guthrie's alleged abductors will face quote very very severe,
the most severe consequences if Guthrie is discovered dead. When
asked if he specifically meant that the Justice Department would
seek the death penalty, he confirmed that's what he meant. Nancy,
as you know, is the mother regrown children, including Savannah Guthrie,
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the high profile fifty four year old co host of
the Today Show. We haven't seen Nancy since last month.
She disappeared one night a few hours later. According to police,
in the early morning hours of February first, she was
not in her home. There have been four ransom notes,
there's no proof any of them are real, no proof
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of her life, so no one knows if Nancy is
alive or dead, or even if she was alive on
the night of her disappearance. Trump has had an uncomfortable
relationship with the corporate media, to put it bluntly, but
he has set all that aside to call Savannah Guthrie
and assure her all the tools of the federal government
are available to bring her mom home safely. So the
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Today Show statement from the President is apparently that he's
trying to help out, which is nice, using the presidential
megaphone to tell the alleged kidnappers that they could possibly die,
but if they want to live, let us know where
Nancy is and keep her alive. Nancy's been missing for
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over two weeks now, We're now in the third week,
and based on what we know, the police and the
FBI are no closer to a resolution today than they
were then. Maybe Trump's threat slash off ramp will break
something loose.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The truth is, we don't know if Nancy was abducted
or kidnapped. We don't even know if the four ransom
notes are real. So further part, the family has repeatedly
used social media to assure the alleged kidnappers they will
pay any ransom. I got to assume if these people
wanted money, we'd have heard something by now. More news
today from Breitbart dot Com about what's going on. Speaking
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of other controversial people in mainstream media, Anderson Cooper is
out at CBS News. Well, you probably forgot he was
part of sixty Minutes. You probably don't watch. I know,
maybe you did know that, but most people think of
him as being sixty minutes news anchor, a CNN news anchor.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Excuse me, and he is.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But for about the last twenty years, he was, you know,
sixty Minutes shamelessly disguised his left wing agendas journalism.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
But now they're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They just announced Anderson Cooper has taken sixty minute viewers
on journeys to faraway places. But now we were grateful
to him for his dedication. Sixty Minutes will forever appreciate
Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Naturally, even though the newly installed CBS News editor in
chief Barry Wise has done absolutely nothing to reform the
dying CBS News franchise. The corporate media who react to
the word reform like vampires to holy water, are angling.
Cooper's exit is more proof than any kind of reform
in the news media can only mean the death to
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democracy CBS. This is from What is This? The USA
Today says CBS News has undergone several shakeups since Paramount
sky Dancyeo named the Free Press founder and opinion writer
Barry Wise editor in chief. Her hiring stirred controversy. Variety
had a similar reaction to this. They said her efforts
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so far have given rise to a level of mistrust
between her management team and the CBS News rank and fine.
NBC News reported that, well, they were a little more vague.
Cooper is the latest high profile journalist to depart CBS
News since the arrival of Barry Wise. New York Times
had a similar take. The good news is that Anderson
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Cooper just signed a contract to extend to stay at
CNN to anchor his show Anderson Cooper three point sixty,
which nobody's watching, so you probably don't even care about that.
Nobody does. Who is any of this for what difference
does it make. CNN's ratings are so bad right now
they have less than one third of what they had
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a decade ago. Nobody's watching this stuff, guys. And a
report from the same website on the latest from James Tallerico,
the Texas Democrat was recently interviewed by Stephen Colbert and
this is just a basement rated soon to be unemployed
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propagandas nobody cares about. Colbert's show took the publicly owned
airwaves Monday to cry baby over far left CBS News
killing his interview with James Tallerico.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Tall Rico, as you know, is running for Senate in Texas.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Before we go any further, let me point out the
only facts that matter in this case. Stephen Colbert benefits
greatly from his access to the publicly owned airwaves, which
are leased to CBS affiliates for free free. Nevertheless, for
the last ten years, CBS and Colbert have abused their
privilege by turning a full hour of the Late show's
broadcast time into Colbert's personal left wing superpack. Year after
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year for a decade, Colbart is handed untold billions of
dollars worth of broadcast time over to Democrat politicians for
their fascist causes, and technically you paid for it. So
this is a clear and blatant violation of the FCC's
equal time rule. There is a reason why I don't
have candidates on before the election date, because you've got
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to share the tits a law. Exceptions have been made
in the past legitimate newscast, news interviews, documentaries, real time
coverage of ongoing events. But if you're just bringing someone
on to promote their campaign for no other reason than
that to have them there, you have to give equal
airtime to their opponent if it's in that window of
time right like thirty days before the election.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That's always explained to me.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So Keith Colbert is upset that this interview got tanked
by CBS. He gets paid millions of dollars, so CBS
can bleed forty million.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's how much they lose off of his show, according
to reports online, if he wants to host Taller Rico,
he should probably also host all tall Rico's qualified opponents,
not just Jasmine Crockett or Ahmed Hussan Hassan. But what
about Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton or even John Cornyn.
They're all in this race right now. Look, I don't
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like John Cornyn, but I think he'd be better than
James Tallerico. That's the law, and it is long pastime
to enforce this law. We have to follow it here
at your favorite radio station. Why shouldn't they? Please note
that Colbert blatantly lied to his audience about Trump wanting
to silence criticism. No, the Trump administration merely wants all
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candidates to be given equal time on the publicly owned airwaves.
Because those are the law. That's the law, those are
the rules. Tall Rico can trash Trump all he wants.
The truth is this, It is the fascist Colbert who
is blacklisting dissenting voices, Republican voices. So why not invite
taller Rico's Democrat and GOP opponents onto the Lad Show.
You know why Colbert is spoiled Bubble. He's arrogant. He
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believes he's the good guy for blacklisting Republicans. He also
believes he's above the FCC roles. Sorry, we're not in
neither of you.
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Speaker 3 (16:17):
Hey, there we go. Now we're connected to the radio.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Are we make it overtime? There we go, Wall.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
He's a gentleman. Common sense. Bob is here. Bob, you're
a handsome man. I think I find the joke as
you're probably not gonna be surprised by this. If I
have a dollar for every time someone said, oh, he's
got a face for radio, I could buy every radio
station in Texas. But you really are a guy who
belongs on radio. You know, you just seem like a
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seem like a radio guy.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yes, yes, and you're a handsome guy yourself too. Now
that we love each other, let's just Bob.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Choke, local angry political activist, local taxpayer, local angry man
shaking his fist at the sky, live with us on
the radio right now.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Also here, Buchanan there.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Now we've given a proper introduction to both the people
on the radio and the people watching us live streaming
today on social media.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Why don't we start off with this, guys.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
A short time ago, we had a young man in
here off the air, Alex Kalay Kalay. He's running in
a primary. He wants to challenge Lizzie Fletcher for local
elected officials for local Republicans. They read drew. They say
they redrew that map. So Republicans can stand a better
chance of winning. Lizzie won it by twenty points with
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Donald Trump on the ticket in twenty twenty four, where
Republicans crushed it all over the state of Texas, Lizzie
still absolutely destroyed her opponent in that race. That young
man had a twinkle in his eye. He seemed very ambitious,
and I love that fire in his belly. Do you
think he or any of the other candidates stand a
chance of beating Lizzie Fletcher? Be honest, don't give us.
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I know it's pessimism time. That's why I brought you
in here. We don't want optimism. We don't want pessimism,
we want realism. Bob, what do you really.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Think as long as we have electronic voting machines in
this county, anything's possible. And in that case, do.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You believe that you believe that matters? He doesn't have
a chance.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Okay, you think the electronic voting machines really do reg
elections for Democrats?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Now for the record, for legal purposes, I have to
press here. That's not k PARC Radio's opinion, nor is
it not our opinion. We don't have an opinion about
this because I don't think we've been threatened to get sued,
but I understand other media outlets have.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
So I'll just go ahead and tell you that's not
a thing I'm worried about.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
You right now.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, there's a guy already here with everywhere. Boy, that
was fast. They say that there are like that. That
was why Tucker Carlson lost his job. Some people in
the industry speculate that a lawsuit against Newsmax is why
Chris Salcedo recently got let go. I don't know if
that's true. I thought Chris was awesome. I thought he
was great on Newsmax. I was shocked when they let
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him go. But this thing about suggesting that voting machines
are problematic, it does cause people to get sued. Bob, Now,
are you worried about getting sued? Not at all, because
they don't have anything to take me.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Let's go back to the last major election where there
was a big vallely who about running out of ballot paper. Okay, that,
in my opinion, was a smoke screen.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It has been expressed to me that that was actually
kind of Cindy Siegel's fault, that it was her job
as the Harris county chair to have the paper there
and that she didn't do enough to prepare the polling
locations for Republican voters.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You don't agree with that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, I've been an election judge, and you know the
when I was a Republican precinct chair, and I don't
recall the party getting involved in any of that we're giving.
As a judge, you show up at the warehouse and
a point of time on the weekend before the election,
you pick up your stuff and you have a chance
to go through it. And I guess maybe because I
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was in a food service business and I didn't like
running out of food, you know, I'd look and see, oh,
I only have one bundle of paper. This to be
a problem. Yeah, but I guess people didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
But it's actually common sense. Bob. Yeah, the name Ethan.
When you hear a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Guy like Bob's age say stuff like this, you know,
he's afraid of technology and what have you.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I mean, I don't know. I'm kind of fifty to fifty.
You're twenty three years old. How old were you when
when he was born?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Bob?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Oh, gosh, he didn't say it was gonna be mass Well,
how old are you now? He was about my late forties.
Let's put that.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Okay, so you were older than me when he was born.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, okay, so you have underwear older than Ethan Buchanan
or ktr H News.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that,
so many people have underwear that are older than me.
And I just think it's weird that y'all are keeping well.
Underwear used to be a lot more affordable than it
is now. It's not our fault, the inflation that went on.
Durable on elastic, Oh, way more durable back then. I
think it's designed to break now.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
But I appreciate technology. But the thing is that paper
thing became a smoke screen. I was working at a
polling location as a favorite or a friend who begged me.
I swore off working elections anymore. Okay, And it was
a it was a technological fuster clock.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Okay, we opened, thank you, thank you for that. Yes,
that was good.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A polling place has two controllers, and each controller feed
controls a certain number of voting booths. And then they
added that scanner. A couple of elections ago, do you
scan your ballot okay. In our case, one controller was
down and the one controller was up was only controlling
four out of the twenty four voting booths that we had,
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and the scanner wasn't working. I stepped out to the
line we opened at seven o'clock with the line of
a huntble and suggested they go to one of the
four alternate locations that are posted near the door. The
guy stepped out and said, sir, we're here because they're
screwed up too.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That never really got enough press.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Not no, and you know, at the end of the day,
it's supposed to be better this year. They claim we
made some changes, we redrew the maps and stuff like that.
I never want to hear a Republican or a Democrat
ever complain again about jerrymandering. Over what we witnessed over
the last year. People in both parties, look, I call
balls and strikes guys. Over the last year, Republicans and
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Democrats openly.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
They used to hide it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
They used to pretend that now it was like, all right,
we're gonna jerry mander as much as we can.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Man, We're gonna draw these root and tune maps. We're
gonna No liberal will ever win.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Again in Texas, and then California was like, yeah, we're
gonna do that here too.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
No Republican will ever win in California again.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
If you don't have a soy latte in the cup
holder of your Toyota Prias, you'll never get elected to
any congressional seat in the state ever again.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And here we are, Bob.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now, all over the country we've jerrymandered almost every state
and nobody even cares olig what.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
We did in this county. It was rodney bandered. It
was It wasn't even the adjustment if you remember, it
wasn't even the adjustment of the lines of the of
the commissioner or cause I call them commasar precincts. It
was a total.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Flip, Okay, So who do you blame for that? Because
during that time, during Cindy Siegal's time as the chairwoman
of the Harris County Republican Party, the biggest county For
those that aren't from Houston, maybe you don't care, it's
the biggest county in the state. It's the third biggest
in the country. It's very influential, it's very important. Even
if you don't live here. What happens here a lot
of stuff is downstream from our community.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And during the current.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Leadership's time as the chairwoman of the Harris County Republican Party,
we've lost what eighty percent of elections, we lost a
commissioner's court seat, We've lost all the judicial elections. I mean,
what would Cindy Siegal's great accomplishment have been.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I have no idea, you know, the I will go
to my grave praising her for filling every judicial race
with the candidate one or two elections ago.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
With a candadate with a candidate. But then the next that's.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
All he did. You know, they had the signing party,
so they had to pay their fee and that was it.
No go go, go forth therefore and multiplied and they're there.
Uh were you there?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
When I went to speak a couple of weeks ago
on Don Hooper's behalf, they could not have kicked me
off stage fast and I talked for thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
They go time, time, Time, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I was like, you, guys, I can talk about this
right now at your tiny meeting, or I could spend
an hour on the radio in front of thousands of
people tomorrow telling everyone how terrible of a job you
have done, which would you prefer? They're like time and
then I get off the stage. This guy comes out.
He's like, Kenny, I understand you're a member of the
Knights of Columbus. I was like, yeah, it's had a
nice of clumb Why don't you come in the back
and talk to me real quick?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I go back there. That you'd have thought they'd have
lectured me like.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was hiding the Epstein files the way they got there, Like,
how dare you come here? Well you have been try
to defend Don Hooper, all right, we should we talk
about that for a minute. The Don Haffines controversy. Oh,
that's so stupid, Don Hoffne. Don Haffines did nothing wrong. No,
he bought a ranch a couple of years ago. It
was never a secret. It was open information. You can
look there's old tweets about it, people discussing it from
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twenty twenty four. Nobody cared. Now he's running for comptroller.
Just today it was announced the State of New Mexico
has had an announcement.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
We're finally gonna search that ranch and see what Don
Haffins is hiding there, hiding there.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
He just bought it. It was on the open market
for years. Why didn't you guys ever bother to search? Look,
I agree we should search. It isn't that kind of
on you guys for not doing anything?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Could you have done?
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Lest Ethan Buchanan, I really want to just kind of
get after the almost woke right, Although I hate to
use that term, but I feel like it's necessary here.
It is, if you so much as touch a square
inch of ground that Jeffrey Epstein may have once stepped on,
you're a bad person. And it kind of speaks to
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why I think maybe some folks in the Trump administration
were so hesitant to release the Epstein files. Not to
justify their hesitation to release the Epstein files, but we're
saying exactly why they wouldn't want to. Right, you buy
a piece of land that's been on the market for years,
the proceeds go to the Epstein victims. He effectively donated
something like twenty million dollars to Epstein victims, and he's
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still being crucified by the Roque right because Epstein owned
it before him. What's your alternative is every piece of
ground that Epstein touched to be salted, burned and never touched.
That's not practical. Well, that's not realistic. And to your point,
somebody bought the mansion, nobody cared. Somebody bought the island,
nobody cared. Somebody bought the ranch.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And it's a Republican who's challenging an incumbent and pointed
to the position by the establishment governor.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Suddenly Don Haffines is the bad guy, Bob. I'll let
you get the last thought on this before we go
to break.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
This kind of smacks of mar Alago.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Right, yeah, it kind of does.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I get your point, but go a little deeper into that,
just in case anyone doesn't well sure, I know what
you mean.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Just for everybody else, but for everyone else.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It doesn't want to insult your your your your fan.
But anyway, you know, they went help the Obiden administration
when hell bent for election into mar A Lago, ripped
through everything, found boxes of files and said, look, he's
been hiding these documents, and this kind of sounds like,
you know, it's a strange investigation rather than just be
(27:23):
thankful that the guy bought a ranch is going to
start paying tax as well. Maybe not because he's going
to go to a charity, but whatever, it's uh.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I mean I love I love that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I hope he pays as little taxes as possible. I
hope he gives a giant middle finger to the government,
But I don't know that that's necessarily his plan.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
We're going to go to break stand by shoot, so
star cousin right here.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's hard work to host the show with a couple
of knuckles Ken Western. I've I've never been so happy
for my friend and yet so upset about myself at
the same time. We're back on the radio now. For
those of you live streaming, you're you know what I'm
about to say. But moments ago, my young cohort here
one of my understood what. One of my protegees, Ethan Buchanan,
(28:07):
has informed me that his weekend show is now syndicated.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Twenty three year old. I didn't even have a.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Show until I was in my thirties. This kid, is,
you're syndicated.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I'm syndicated. How I'm syndicated? First of all, how dare you? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
This is my first question. My second question is what
gives you the right? My third question is who do
you think you are?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Well? Here's what it is. I wake up every day
and I think, how can I be more like Kenny.
And so step one was get a radio show. Step
two was syndicate the radio show. Step three is convert
to Catholicism. But I'm a little bit farther away from that.
You're not going to be Catholic. I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I don't know. Oh it's great.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You get to party all the time, drink, you can gamble,
swear as much as you want. And then on Sunday,
very traditional religious service.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Bobby, let me talk about being a Lutheran. Oh no,
my son's a pastor.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Listen to this guy. You want to be a Lutheran.
Just listen to the name for starters.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, I like luther. I like that.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What a Catholic light that's interesting. No, it's Catholics Lutherans.
And then what are you Baptists?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
I'm a reformed Baptist quote unquote, So it's it's Baptist.
But I can have alcohol's thing or what? No?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, no, no, he's he's not Baptist. What is he is?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
He? Olstein Temple, Temple of Joels.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You know it's not for me. I've been before. I
went there once with my ex girlfriend. It's not for me,
but you know what I know, it doesn't matter, it
doesn't matter. But I went there with one and uh,
it's she's really into it. She's a sweet girl. And
even though it's not for me. One of the reasons
it bothers me when people criticize Joelstein is like, you
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don't have to go. It's not like it's the government.
You're not forced to pay the Joel Holstein tax. If
you don't like his church, just don't go to his church.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
It makes us all look bad, right, I mean, he's
the biggest mega church and so he he's effectively representing
Christianity to a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
He knows you're reminded me of something speaking Cathols and
you go. Today is Paris Hilton's birthday, and I guess
out of habit, she got on her knees and blew
out the candle.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I thought that was really nice. That was great. What
can I say?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Something really really young?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Who's Paris? Oh, it's awesome. I love it. I love
it so much.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You know what, Well, she's the heir to the Hilton fortune.
And while we're on the topic, the heir to the
Hyatt fortune is a guy named Thomas Pritzker. I want
you to really micro focus on that last name for
just a minute. Yesterday, Thomas Pritzker stepped down from his
job as the CEO of the Hyatt Hotel.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
He's the high you know his job, You get what
he does. He's a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
And why Well, it turns out he was in the
Epstein files mentioned many many times the late Virginia Geoffrey
god Rest her soul said that he was a guy
she was forced to have sex with. She said she
was not suicidal. Then we're at least she got hit
by a bus, survived, then killed herself. After all that,
I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Now, yesterday he stepped
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down again. The Illinois governor's billionaire brother is in the
Epstein files. I ask you again, why is everybody micro
focusing on Don Haffines And why isn't there any charges
against Pritzker? You know, why is he stepping down in disgrace?
What the same reason that the governor of Minnesota isn't
gonna run again because it's an admission of guilt.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Isn't that obvious?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I think so, Bob Choate, I think so.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Angry local angry guy, Bob cho.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Why are you talking about things in Illinois Minnesota's beyond
my But.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All right, well let's talk about Houston for a minute.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Sure, we're here to talk about local Early voting starts
today for Houstonians. This is we're micro focusing on local stuff.
And I'm not saying at Cherfald, but I noticed there's
less people than normal watching today on the stream.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Could you like.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Take your top off or something something we could do
to get more people.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To want less to watch you?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
No, But all that being said, so let's talk about this,
the PO box voter registration scannals. There's hundreds of people
in Houston that have been flagged for using private post
office boxes to vote instead of physical residential addresses.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
This is a violation of state law. Much like anything,
there's pros and cons to everything.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I've heard people say, you know, some of these people
they need to protect their identity. I have heard people
I agree with on everything in politics tell me I'm
over focusing on the PO box thing. There's people that
use the PO box to register to vote because their
lives are in danger and they're hiding from their stalkers
or whatever. And there's a part of me that sympathizes
with that, but even still, I feel like it is
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does raise the potential for fraud.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
What say you, Bob Choate?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I think you're absolutely correct, and they can hide their
address in the system without having to us a po box.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I encountered this as a as an election judge when
a woman came in and we couldn't find her in
a system. Then finally she revealed to us, well, I'm
a judge and you know her address was not in
the systems okay, fine, Then she doesn't seem an ovisual ballot.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It does seem like she should have known that when
you guys started doing all that on this.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
That was a little little annoyed at her.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
How long are you like five minutes or what? Yeah?
Should just become a judge?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Or maybe she was a beauty salon attendant when she
was elected, like one judge was.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You know what, I don't I like, Shelley Luthor is unshadeed.
Shelley Luthor, Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
No, I think she doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Was the actual case in Harris County a couple elections ago.
This woman was had a law degree, had never practiced law,
and hadn't worked for a law firm, was unopposed in
the election, and was working in the beauty salon.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
And then the day after the election says I'm a judge. Okay, bang,
that's quite the promotion.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds like it.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
And you know who again, you know, let's let's look
at the Harris County Republican Party. Why wasn't someone put
up against her? She was unopposed.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I see your point. What do you think? Then you're
okay with him?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Po boxes is definitely no.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
I like Paul Betton Court State Center Paul Bettan courts
quote about this like nobody lives in a five by
eight box and that that's true. You should be registered
to vote where you live.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Paul Bettencourt, state Senator filed a complaint leading to a
Texas Secretary of State investigation in corrective orders. Governor Greg
good Enough sometimes Abbott escalated by threatening to strip Harris
County of election administration powers and consider legal charges, calling
it grounds for state takeover. County officials push back, labeling
at political theater and baseless attacks on local control. I
(34:36):
think we're all kind of in agreement on this one.
Did you guys speaking of county officials. Did you see
the thing? On her way out the door? Lena hddalgo
now wants money for renovations.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Do you see this?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Because she feels that her staff members don't have enough
room to work, just too much staff. You're only there,
I know? Well yeah, well apparently her ex husband didn't
think so.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Wait, I don't get that one. I mean, I get
that he's a X.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I'll explain to you later right down for you.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Don't don't do that, Bob, What do you think about it?
Alena's on her way out the door. Can't her staff
just go use the Wi Fi at the Starbucks?
Speaker 5 (35:11):
With the first off, that Office of County Administration was
created and took a lion's share of what the county
judge used to do away from her. So, I don't
know what kind of staff she needs. Sure you got
you know? She mentioned a communication team. I don't know
you need one that I can see, you know, Leslie,
Briona's my county commissar has a has a social media
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staff of three that.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Why do they need that many people?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
I have no idea?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
What are they doing? How many times a day do
they write a tweet? Well?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
She has one that pops out at seven o'clock every morning.
I l like clockwork, okay, and one around eight and
then some throughout the day where she's starring and she says, hi, hi, hi,
and we did this for you, and blah blah blah,
and actually has hardly any following.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
They didn't do it for me. They did nothing for me.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Well, I don't know. I mean, he thinks so even
Bob Billboards.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Tell us, I know you criticized the Houston Chronicle a lot,
but they did do one thing in the past year
that I bet you really enjoyed. I don't think anyone
ever thought of this before. They filed a Freedom of
Information Act request to get the chat GPT search results
for Lena Hidalgo's staff, and the stuff they were searching
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for was so embarrassing, like they were trying to justify
having a taxpayer funded trip to go to Paris. So
they asked it questions like, hey, chat GPT, what could
Paris learn from Harris County?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Think big?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
And then they were like, does Paris ever have natural disasters?
What sort of natural disasters do they have that we
could compare to the hurricanes we have in Houston. So
it would give us a reason to talk about this
while we were there, thus justifying our very expensive.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Trip to Paris.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
I have no words. I mean, it's us hilarious.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
I think, I think.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
I think Leana had going to Paris was a disaster, sure,
and they should have been better prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
They should be the best part of her going there.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
She wasn't here, Ethan Buchanan, would you pay to send
all the local Harris County officials to Paris if they
just didn't come back?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I mean, would I pay for it?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
But would I be happy if someone else paid for it?
For sure? Honestly, I don't want to shame her or
her staff for using chatgyb tea on this Paris trip.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I don't blame them.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
If I went to Paris, I'd probably use chatgybta a
bunch too, just because there's nothing else that'll translate from
Arabic to English that quickly.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, but that's an interesting point, all right, Bob. Before
we wrap up this live stream, this has been great.
For the last thirty minutes. I've been chilling out here
with Ethan Buchanan and Bob chowed two of my good
friends to local angry people they're not elected officials, they're
not running for office, they're not selling a book, they're
not trying to get you to read their news website. Well,
I guess Ethan sort of is Ethan has.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, Ethan, go listen to my podcast, shamelessly promoting.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
No he is. But but Bob, you're not. You're just
a local angry guy.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Well, I might be coming out with a book soon.
I I you know. I uhfore, actually actually I finished.
I finished my first book a couple weeks ago. Now
I'm I start reading a second one.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Okay, Bob, But before, before you promote a thing that
doesn't exist yet, tell us before we get out of here.
Early voting starts today, what would you like local right
wing Houstonians to know?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
What would you like him to think about? What should
they focus on? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (38:34):
First off, I'd like everyone to focus on the fact
that this is a This is a fairly big primary.
My sample battle I pulled it down head over ninety
ninety lines on it, and a lot of them were
unopposed judicial races, which is fine, you can kind of
breeze through them. But there's some others, like you get
three people running against Dan Patrick. Who the hell are
they also on people?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Nobody? There's no good challengers?
Speaker 5 (38:58):
No, no, no, has no have it as no good challengers?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
It would have been great if they did. Yeah, they don't, unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
And I I had a debate over the weekend with
a very knowledgeable person, a former congressional candidate, who was like, well,
we have to get her to Dan Patrick. I said, okay,
so what if this person wins the primary, they gotta
get slaughtered in the general.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
So what uh?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Yeah, what difference it make? I mean, end up losing
to what's her name from Austin Goodwin.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Before we get out of here, I had one more
question for you, and just be honest with me.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Are you sure you're not Robert Duvall? Are you sure
about that?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Robert Duvall? Yeah, no, I'm very alive.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
You're sure? Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Michael Douglas?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Are you sure you're not Michael Douglas.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Have you ever seen the two of us in the
same room?
Speaker 6 (39:49):
Ethan, I have not seen him and Michael Douglas in
the same room.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Why, I think man answers a question right there. Thanks
for listening to everybody. You are listening to this has
just been a disaster.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
We miss radio.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
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to this show.
John gannon government sucks. The suite of Habits radio is deluxe.
Liberty and freedom will make you smile. A suit of
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Olympic Village ran out of condoms in just three days,
and you thought Lindsey Vaughn was having trouble walking because
of her broken leg. Hi, thanks for joining us. Oh hi,
Oh yeah no, come on in, take a seat. I'm
glad you're here. It's good to be with you today. Guys,
I'm Kenny Webster. Some of y'all might know me from
well this radio show, among other things. My guest this
(00:42):
afternoon Ethan Buchanan stopping buying from the k t H newsroom,
and a local angry citizen and taxpayer named Bob Choate.
My very special guest, cost will be joining us at
the bottom of the hour to talk about early voting.
And it is gonna get sassy to stick around for
all of that. You're gonna want to be part of it.
But in the meantime, let's start off with this.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yesterday, a fifty six year old guy, stop me if
you've heard this one before. Who changed his name from
Robert to ROBERTA storms a high school hockey game in
Rhode Island, pops off at his own family in the stands,
kills his ex wife and one of his kids, wounds
a few other people, then checks out himself. What about
(01:24):
the media, how they report this, oh, trans violence? Yeah,
they're tiptoeing around it like a delicate snowflake family dispute.
They say, gender identity tied to pass conflicts. They whisper, Yeah,
no kidding. The ex literally cited the gender reassignment surgery
in the divorce papers. But sure, let's pretend this is
(01:45):
just another random Tuesday tragedy and not the latest chapter
in the what could possibly go wrong when you pump
someone full of hormones and tell them reality is optional saga?
And don't get me started on the pattern or the
lack of one. According to the fact checkers who reminding us,
it's only a tiny fraction of mass shootings. Fine, like
(02:05):
finding an honest politician in DC. When it happens, it's
always the same script. Confused identity, mental health, train wreck,
family fallout, and suddenly everyone's playing thoughts and prayers. While
the Left screams. Don't you dare notice the common thread.
It's like if every time a clown robbed a bank,
the media reported man in colorful outfit commits crime. Nothing
(02:28):
to see here about the makeup? And what about the kids?
The kids? Yeah, the left still out here pushing puberty
blockers like they're handing out candy at a Mardi Gras parade.
Life saving care, they chant, while Europe actual adults in
the room have been slamming the brakes for years. Sweden
and Finland and the British people they may be importing
Islam at a rapid pace, and I'm not sure why,
(02:51):
but at least they respond to this nonsense by saying,
hold up, the evidence is shaky, long term data is missing,
bone density, tanks, fertility. He's a coin flip. And surprise,
some of these kids grow up and regret what they did.
Here in America, we are full steam ahead because feelings
(03:11):
trump facts and questioning it makes it makes you well
hitler reincarnate. How dare you not go along with the
trans ideology. Puberty blockers are bad for kids.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
They're not candy.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
They're chemical pause buttons on a developing body hit pause
for too long and good luck restarting without side effects
that make a bad tattoo look like a minor oopsie,
what about your hormones? Cross sex ones turn boys into
estrogen fueled emotional roller coasters, and they turn girls into
testosterone powered rage machines, sometimes before they've even figured out
(03:50):
how to parallel park.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Regret.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, they say it's less than one percent, like that's
supposed to comfort the kid who ends up sterile, scared
and realizing the f information wasn't just some fancy word
for irreversible experimentation. One percent of thousands is still hundreds
of walking I told you sos. But hey, collateral damage
(04:14):
in the War on biology, right, And by the way,
I think the numbers are much higher than what they're admitting.
I'm just trying to make a point here. The suicide
stats they wave around like a magic wand don't actually
explain what's really going on. They'll tell you, oh, these
kids kill themselves if they can't get the procedure. There's
no proof of that, but there is proof sometimes they
do kill themselves if they did get the procedure. The
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long term studies don't look good. These people show up
post op the suicide rates are still through the roof
compared to normal people. It's not some magic curity your
mental health. It's often a band aid on a bullet
wound caused by trauma, autism, abuse, or just being a
confused teenager in a world that tells you, if you're awkward,
(04:57):
maybe we should chop you up in pump you full chemicals.
Rapid onset gender dysphoria. It's not a myth. Its pure
pressure meets TikTok alvegorithm meets your parents or bigots if
they hesitate. But try saying any of this out loud
and watch the cancel squad descend like locusts.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Bigot, transphobe. You've heard it before. You've heard them.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
They probably said it to you when you brought it
up at your kids' school board meeting. The same crowd
screaming protect the kids is fine. Chemically castrating them as
long as it comes with the rainbow flag. It's like
watching vegans protest animal cruelty while force feeding children's soy
lattes and calling it nutrition. Look, I get it, nobody
(05:44):
wants children to suffer. I don't if a grown adult
wants to live as the opposite sex knock yourself out.
But kids, they're not many adults with fully baked brains,
their frontal lobes are still under construction. And what does
happen when adults do it well? Sometime they get hopped
up on the goofy juice and the chemicals and they
end up showing up at a children's hockey game and
(06:07):
killing people. So here's the bottom line. Biology isn't bigotry
discouraging people from taking this chance. It isn't hate encouraging
people to do It isn't progress. This isn't about being
anti trans It's about being pro common sense. If any
(06:30):
of this makes me the bad guy in twenty twenty
six clown World, then go ahead, hand me the villain, cap.
I don't care. At least I'm being honest. Stick around,
We got more coming up.
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Speaker 2 (06:57):
After four knee surgeries, Lindsay Vaughn's skiing career is likely over,
but that doesn't mean she's done with competitive athletics. She
could always fight Jake Paul Hi, everybody, praypart dot com
today reporting on Trump and his response to the Nancy
Guthrie kidnapping.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Assuming she was kidnapped, I don't think she was. I
think it was a botched robbery. But what do I know.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I tell fart jokes about politicians for a living, but
I do know. Yesterday, Trump used his pulpit to threaten
Nancy Guthrie's alleged kidnappers or killers or whatever they are,
with the death penalty if they don't at least give
us some information. He said he'd like to see eighty
four year old Nancy Guthrie come back alive. He was
talking to the New York Post over the phone, and
(07:41):
he said Guthrie's alleged abductors will face quote very very severe,
the most severe consequences if Guthrie is discovered dead. When
asked if he specifically meant that the Justice Department would
seek the death penalty, he confirmed that's what he meant. Nancy,
as you know, is the mother regrown children, including Savannah Guthrie,
(08:03):
the high profile fifty four year old co host of
the Today Show. We haven't seen Nancy since last month.
She disappeared one night a few hours later. According to police,
in the early morning hours of February first, she was
not in her home. There have been four ransom notes,
there's no proof any of them are real, no proof
(08:23):
of her life, so no one knows if Nancy is
alive or dead, or even if she was alive on
the night of her disappearance. Trump has had an uncomfortable
relationship with the corporate media, to put it bluntly, but
he has set all that aside to call Savannah Guthrie
and assure her all the tools of the federal government
are available to bring her mom home safely. So the
(08:47):
Today Show statement from the President is apparently that he's
trying to help out, which is nice, using the presidential
megaphone to tell the alleged kidnappers that they could possibly die,
but if they want to live, let us know where
Nancy is and keep her alive. Nancy's been missing for
(09:07):
over two weeks now, We're now in the third week,
and based on what we know, the police and the
FBI are no closer to a resolution today than they
were then. Maybe Trump's threat slash off ramp will break
something loose.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The truth is, we don't know if Nancy was abducted
or kidnapped. We don't even know if the four ransom
notes are real. So further part, the family has repeatedly
used social media to assure the alleged kidnappers they will
pay any ransom. I got to assume if these people
wanted money, we'd have heard something by now. More news
today from Breitbart dot Com about what's going on. Speaking
(09:42):
of other controversial people in mainstream media, Anderson Cooper is
out at CBS News. Well, you probably forgot he was
part of sixty Minutes. You probably don't watch. I know,
maybe you did know that, but most people think of
him as being sixty minutes news anchor, a CNN news anchor.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Excuse me, and he is.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But for about the last twenty years, he was, you know,
sixty Minutes shamelessly disguised his left wing agendas journalism.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
But now they're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They just announced Anderson Cooper has taken sixty minute viewers
on journeys to faraway places. But now we were grateful
to him for his dedication. Sixty Minutes will forever appreciate
Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Naturally, even though the newly installed CBS News editor in
chief Barry Wise has done absolutely nothing to reform the
dying CBS News franchise. The corporate media who react to
the word reform like vampires to holy water, are angling.
Cooper's exit is more proof than any kind of reform
in the news media can only mean the death to
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democracy CBS. This is from What is This? The USA
Today says CBS News has undergone several shakeups since Paramount
sky Dancyeo named the Free Press founder and opinion writer
Barry Wise editor in chief. Her hiring stirred controversy. Variety
had a similar reaction to this. They said her efforts
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so far have given rise to a level of mistrust
between her management team and the CBS News rank and fine.
NBC News reported that, well, they were a little more vague.
Cooper is the latest high profile journalist to depart CBS
News since the arrival of Barry Wise. New York Times
had a similar take. The good news is that Anderson
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Cooper just signed a contract to extend to stay at
CNN to anchor his show Anderson Cooper three point sixty,
which nobody's watching, so you probably don't even care about that.
Nobody does. Who is any of this for what difference
does it make. CNN's ratings are so bad right now
they have less than one third of what they had
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a decade ago. Nobody's watching this stuff, guys. And a
report from the same website on the latest from James Tallerico,
the Texas Democrat was recently interviewed by Stephen Colbert and
this is just a basement rated soon to be unemployed
(12:16):
propagandas nobody cares about. Colbert's show took the publicly owned
airwaves Monday to cry baby over far left CBS News
killing his interview with James Tallerico.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Tall Rico, as you know, is running for Senate in Texas.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Before we go any further, let me point out the
only facts that matter in this case. Stephen Colbert benefits
greatly from his access to the publicly owned airwaves, which
are leased to CBS affiliates for free free. Nevertheless, for
the last ten years, CBS and Colbert have abused their
privilege by turning a full hour of the Late show's
broadcast time into Colbert's personal left wing superpack. Year after
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year for a decade, Colbart is handed untold billions of
dollars worth of broadcast time over to Democrat politicians for
their fascist causes, and technically you paid for it. So
this is a clear and blatant violation of the FCC's
equal time rule. There is a reason why I don't
have candidates on before the election date, because you've got
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to share the tits a law. Exceptions have been made
in the past legitimate newscast, news interviews, documentaries, real time
coverage of ongoing events. But if you're just bringing someone
on to promote their campaign for no other reason than
that to have them there, you have to give equal
airtime to their opponent if it's in that window of
time right like thirty days before the election.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That's always explained to me.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So Keith Colbert is upset that this interview got tanked
by CBS. He gets paid millions of dollars, so CBS
can bleed forty million.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's how much they lose off of his show, according
to reports online, if he wants to host Taller Rico,
he should probably also host all tall Rico's qualified opponents,
not just Jasmine Crockett or Ahmed Hussan Hassan. But what
about Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton or even John Cornyn.
They're all in this race right now. Look, I don't
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like John Cornyn, but I think he'd be better than
James Tallerico. That's the law, and it is long pastime
to enforce this law. We have to follow it here
at your favorite radio station. Why shouldn't they? Please note
that Colbert blatantly lied to his audience about Trump wanting
to silence criticism. No, the Trump administration merely wants all
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candidates to be given equal time on the publicly owned airwaves.
Because those are the law. That's the law, those are
the rules. Tall Rico can trash Trump all he wants.
The truth is this, It is the fascist Colbert who
is blacklisting dissenting voices, Republican voices. So why not invite
taller Rico's Democrat and GOP opponents onto the Lad Show.
You know why Colbert is spoiled Bubble. He's arrogant. He
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believes he's the good guy for blacklisting Republicans. He also
believes he's above the FCC roles. Sorry, we're not in
neither of you.
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Speaker 3 (16:17):
Hey, there we go. Now we're connected to the radio.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Are we make it overtime? There we go, Wall.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
He's a gentleman. Common sense. Bob is here. Bob, you're
a handsome man. I think I find the joke as
you're probably not gonna be surprised by this. If I
have a dollar for every time someone said, oh, he's
got a face for radio, I could buy every radio
station in Texas. But you really are a guy who
belongs on radio. You know, you just seem like a
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seem like a radio guy.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yes, yes, and you're a handsome guy yourself too. Now
that we love each other, let's just Bob.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Choke, local angry political activist, local taxpayer, local angry man
shaking his fist at the sky, live with us on
the radio right now.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Also here, Buchanan there.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Now we've given a proper introduction to both the people
on the radio and the people watching us live streaming
today on social media.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Why don't we start off with this, guys.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
A short time ago, we had a young man in
here off the air, Alex Kalay Kalay. He's running in
a primary. He wants to challenge Lizzie Fletcher for local
elected officials for local Republicans. They read drew. They say
they redrew that map. So Republicans can stand a better
chance of winning. Lizzie won it by twenty points with
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Donald Trump on the ticket in twenty twenty four, where
Republicans crushed it all over the state of Texas, Lizzie
still absolutely destroyed her opponent in that race. That young
man had a twinkle in his eye. He seemed very ambitious,
and I love that fire in his belly. Do you
think he or any of the other candidates stand a
chance of beating Lizzie Fletcher? Be honest, don't give us.
(17:55):
I know it's pessimism time. That's why I brought you
in here. We don't want optimism. We don't want pessimism,
we want realism. Bob, what do you really.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Think as long as we have electronic voting machines in
this county, anything's possible. And in that case, do.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You believe that you believe that matters? He doesn't have
a chance.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Okay, you think the electronic voting machines really do reg
elections for Democrats?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Now for the record, for legal purposes, I have to
press here. That's not k PARC Radio's opinion, nor is
it not our opinion. We don't have an opinion about
this because I don't think we've been threatened to get sued,
but I understand other media outlets have.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
So I'll just go ahead and tell you that's not
a thing I'm worried about.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
You right now.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, there's a guy already here with everywhere. Boy, that
was fast. They say that there are like that. That
was why Tucker Carlson lost his job. Some people in
the industry speculate that a lawsuit against Newsmax is why
Chris Salcedo recently got let go. I don't know if
that's true. I thought Chris was awesome. I thought he
was great on Newsmax. I was shocked when they let
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him go. But this thing about suggesting that voting machines
are problematic, it does cause people to get sued. Bob, Now,
are you worried about getting sued? Not at all, because
they don't have anything to take me.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Let's go back to the last major election where there
was a big vallely who about running out of ballot paper. Okay, that,
in my opinion, was a smoke screen.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It has been expressed to me that that was actually
kind of Cindy Siegel's fault, that it was her job
as the Harris county chair to have the paper there
and that she didn't do enough to prepare the polling
locations for Republican voters.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You don't agree with that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, I've been an election judge, and you know the
when I was a Republican precinct chair, and I don't
recall the party getting involved in any of that we're giving.
As a judge, you show up at the warehouse and
a point of time on the weekend before the election,
you pick up your stuff and you have a chance
to go through it. And I guess maybe because I
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was in a food service business and I didn't like
running out of food, you know, I'd look and see, oh,
I only have one bundle of paper. This to be
a problem. Yeah, but I guess people didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
But it's actually common sense. Bob. Yeah, the name Ethan.
When you hear a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Guy like Bob's age say stuff like this, you know,
he's afraid of technology and what have you.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I mean, I don't know. I'm kind of fifty to fifty.
You're twenty three years old. How old were you when
when he was born?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Bob?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Oh, gosh, he didn't say it was gonna be mass Well,
how old are you now? He was about my late forties.
Let's put that.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Okay, so you were older than me when he was born.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, okay, so you have underwear older than Ethan Buchanan
or ktr H News.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that,
so many people have underwear that are older than me.
And I just think it's weird that y'all are keeping well.
Underwear used to be a lot more affordable than it
is now. It's not our fault, the inflation that went on.
Durable on elastic, Oh, way more durable back then. I
think it's designed to break now.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
But I appreciate technology. But the thing is that paper
thing became a smoke screen. I was working at a
polling location as a favorite or a friend who begged me.
I swore off working elections anymore. Okay, And it was
a it was a technological fuster clock.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Okay, we opened, thank you, thank you for that. Yes,
that was good.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A polling place has two controllers, and each controller feed
controls a certain number of voting booths. And then they
added that scanner. A couple of elections ago, do you
scan your ballot okay. In our case, one controller was
down and the one controller was up was only controlling
four out of the twenty four voting booths that we had,
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and the scanner wasn't working. I stepped out to the
line we opened at seven o'clock with the line of
a huntble and suggested they go to one of the
four alternate locations that are posted near the door. The
guy stepped out and said, sir, we're here because they're
screwed up too.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That never really got enough press.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Not no, and you know, at the end of the day,
it's supposed to be better this year. They claim we
made some changes, we redrew the maps and stuff like that.
I never want to hear a Republican or a Democrat
ever complain again about jerrymandering. Over what we witnessed over
the last year. People in both parties, look, I call
balls and strikes guys. Over the last year, Republicans and
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Democrats openly.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
They used to hide it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
They used to pretend that now it was like, all right,
we're gonna jerry mander as much as we can.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Man, We're gonna draw these root and tune maps. We're
gonna No liberal will ever win.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Again in Texas, and then California was like, yeah, we're
gonna do that here too.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
No Republican will ever win in California again.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
If you don't have a soy latte in the cup
holder of your Toyota Prias, you'll never get elected to
any congressional seat in the state ever again.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And here we are, Bob.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now, all over the country we've jerrymandered almost every state
and nobody even cares olig what.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
We did in this county. It was rodney bandered. It
was It wasn't even the adjustment if you remember, it
wasn't even the adjustment of the lines of the of
the commissioner or cause I call them commasar precincts. It
was a total.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Flip, Okay, So who do you blame for that? Because
during that time, during Cindy Siegal's time as the chairwoman
of the Harris County Republican Party, the biggest county For
those that aren't from Houston, maybe you don't care, it's
the biggest county in the state. It's the third biggest
in the country. It's very influential, it's very important. Even
if you don't live here. What happens here a lot
of stuff is downstream from our community.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And during the current.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Leadership's time as the chairwoman of the Harris County Republican Party,
we've lost what eighty percent of elections, we lost a
commissioner's court seat, We've lost all the judicial elections. I mean,
what would Cindy Siegal's great accomplishment have been.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I have no idea, you know, the I will go
to my grave praising her for filling every judicial race
with the candidate one or two elections ago.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
With a candadate with a candidate. But then the next that's.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
All he did. You know, they had the signing party,
so they had to pay their fee and that was it.
No go go, go forth therefore and multiplied and they're there.
Uh were you there?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
When I went to speak a couple of weeks ago
on Don Hooper's behalf, they could not have kicked me
off stage fast and I talked for thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
They go time, time, Time, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I was like, you, guys, I can talk about this
right now at your tiny meeting, or I could spend
an hour on the radio in front of thousands of
people tomorrow telling everyone how terrible of a job you
have done, which would you prefer? They're like time and
then I get off the stage. This guy comes out.
He's like, Kenny, I understand you're a member of the
Knights of Columbus. I was like, yeah, it's had a
nice of clumb Why don't you come in the back
and talk to me real quick?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I go back there. That you'd have thought they'd have
lectured me like.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was hiding the Epstein files the way they got there, Like,
how dare you come here? Well you have been try
to defend Don Hooper, all right, we should we talk
about that for a minute. The Don Haffines controversy. Oh,
that's so stupid, Don Hoffne. Don Haffines did nothing wrong. No,
he bought a ranch a couple of years ago. It
was never a secret. It was open information. You can
look there's old tweets about it, people discussing it from
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twenty twenty four. Nobody cared. Now he's running for comptroller.
Just today it was announced the State of New Mexico
has had an announcement.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
We're finally gonna search that ranch and see what Don
Haffins is hiding there, hiding there.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
He just bought it. It was on the open market
for years. Why didn't you guys ever bother to search? Look,
I agree we should search. It isn't that kind of
on you guys for not doing anything?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Could you have done?
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Lest Ethan Buchanan, I really want to just kind of
get after the almost woke right, Although I hate to
use that term, but I feel like it's necessary here.
It is, if you so much as touch a square
inch of ground that Jeffrey Epstein may have once stepped on,
you're a bad person. And it kind of speaks to
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why I think maybe some folks in the Trump administration
were so hesitant to release the Epstein files. Not to
justify their hesitation to release the Epstein files, but we're
saying exactly why they wouldn't want to. Right, you buy
a piece of land that's been on the market for years,
the proceeds go to the Epstein victims. He effectively donated
something like twenty million dollars to Epstein victims, and he's
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still being crucified by the Roque right because Epstein owned
it before him. What's your alternative is every piece of
ground that Epstein touched to be salted, burned and never touched.
That's not practical. Well, that's not realistic. And to your point,
somebody bought the mansion, nobody cared. Somebody bought the island,
nobody cared. Somebody bought the ranch.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And it's a Republican who's challenging an incumbent and pointed
to the position by the establishment governor.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Suddenly Don Haffines is the bad guy, Bob. I'll let
you get the last thought on this before we go
to break.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
This kind of smacks of mar Alago.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Right, yeah, it kind of does.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I get your point, but go a little deeper into that,
just in case anyone doesn't well sure, I know what
you mean.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Just for everybody else, but for everyone else.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It doesn't want to insult your your your your fan.
But anyway, you know, they went help the Obiden administration
when hell bent for election into mar A Lago, ripped
through everything, found boxes of files and said, look, he's
been hiding these documents, and this kind of sounds like,
you know, it's a strange investigation rather than just be
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thankful that the guy bought a ranch is going to
start paying tax as well. Maybe not because he's going
to go to a charity, but whatever, it's uh.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I mean I love I love that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I hope he pays as little taxes as possible. I
hope he gives a giant middle finger to the government,
But I don't know that that's necessarily his plan.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
We're going to go to break stand by shoot, so
star cousin right here.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's hard work to host the show with a couple
of knuckles Ken Western. I've I've never been so happy
for my friend and yet so upset about myself at
the same time. We're back on the radio now. For
those of you live streaming, you're you know what I'm
about to say. But moments ago, my young cohort here
one of my understood what. One of my protegees, Ethan Buchanan,
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has informed me that his weekend show is now syndicated.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Twenty three year old. I didn't even have a.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Show until I was in my thirties. This kid, is,
you're syndicated.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I'm syndicated. How I'm syndicated? First of all, how dare you? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
This is my first question. My second question is what
gives you the right? My third question is who do
you think you are?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Well? Here's what it is. I wake up every day
and I think, how can I be more like Kenny.
And so step one was get a radio show. Step
two was syndicate the radio show. Step three is convert
to Catholicism. But I'm a little bit farther away from that.
You're not going to be Catholic. I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I don't know. Oh it's great.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You get to party all the time, drink, you can gamble,
swear as much as you want. And then on Sunday,
very traditional religious service.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Bobby, let me talk about being a Lutheran. Oh no,
my son's a pastor.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Listen to this guy. You want to be a Lutheran.
Just listen to the name for starters.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, I like luther. I like that.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What a Catholic light that's interesting. No, it's Catholics Lutherans.
And then what are you Baptists?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
I'm a reformed Baptist quote unquote, So it's it's Baptist.
But I can have alcohol's thing or what? No?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, no, no, he's he's not Baptist. What is he is?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
He? Olstein Temple, Temple of Joels.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You know it's not for me. I've been before. I
went there once with my ex girlfriend. It's not for me,
but you know what I know, it doesn't matter, it
doesn't matter. But I went there with one and uh,
it's she's really into it. She's a sweet girl. And
even though it's not for me. One of the reasons
it bothers me when people criticize Joelstein is like, you
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don't have to go. It's not like it's the government.
You're not forced to pay the Joel Holstein tax. If
you don't like his church, just don't go to his church.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
It makes us all look bad, right, I mean, he's
the biggest mega church and so he he's effectively representing
Christianity to a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
He knows you're reminded me of something speaking Cathols and
you go. Today is Paris Hilton's birthday, and I guess
out of habit, she got on her knees and blew
out the candle.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I thought that was really nice. That was great. What
can I say?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Something really really young?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Who's Paris? Oh, it's awesome. I love it. I love
it so much.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You know what, Well, she's the heir to the Hilton fortune.
And while we're on the topic, the heir to the
Hyatt fortune is a guy named Thomas Pritzker. I want
you to really micro focus on that last name for
just a minute. Yesterday, Thomas Pritzker stepped down from his
job as the CEO of the Hyatt Hotel.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
He's the high you know his job, You get what
he does. He's a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
And why Well, it turns out he was in the
Epstein files mentioned many many times the late Virginia Geoffrey
god Rest her soul said that he was a guy
she was forced to have sex with. She said she
was not suicidal. Then we're at least she got hit
by a bus, survived, then killed herself. After all that,
I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Now, yesterday he stepped
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down again. The Illinois governor's billionaire brother is in the
Epstein files. I ask you again, why is everybody micro
focusing on Don Haffines And why isn't there any charges
against Pritzker? You know, why is he stepping down in disgrace?
What the same reason that the governor of Minnesota isn't
gonna run again because it's an admission of guilt.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Isn't that obvious?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I think so, Bob Choate, I think so.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Angry local angry guy, Bob cho.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Why are you talking about things in Illinois Minnesota's beyond
my But.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All right, well let's talk about Houston for a minute.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Sure, we're here to talk about local Early voting starts
today for Houstonians. This is we're micro focusing on local stuff.
And I'm not saying at Cherfald, but I noticed there's
less people than normal watching today on the stream.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Could you like.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Take your top off or something something we could do
to get more people.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To want less to watch you?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
No, But all that being said, so let's talk about this,
the PO box voter registration scannals. There's hundreds of people
in Houston that have been flagged for using private post
office boxes to vote instead of physical residential addresses.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
This is a violation of state law. Much like anything,
there's pros and cons to everything.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I've heard people say, you know, some of these people
they need to protect their identity. I have heard people
I agree with on everything in politics tell me I'm
over focusing on the PO box thing. There's people that
use the PO box to register to vote because their
lives are in danger and they're hiding from their stalkers
or whatever. And there's a part of me that sympathizes
with that, but even still, I feel like it is
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does raise the potential for fraud.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
What say you, Bob Choate?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I think you're absolutely correct, and they can hide their
address in the system without having to us a po box.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I encountered this as a as an election judge when
a woman came in and we couldn't find her in
a system. Then finally she revealed to us, well, I'm
a judge and you know her address was not in
the systems okay, fine, Then she doesn't seem an ovisual ballot.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It does seem like she should have known that when
you guys started doing all that on this.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
That was a little little annoyed at her.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
How long are you like five minutes or what? Yeah?
Should just become a judge?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Or maybe she was a beauty salon attendant when she
was elected, like one judge was.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You know what, I don't I like, Shelley Luthor is unshadeed.
Shelley Luthor, Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
No, I think she doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Was the actual case in Harris County a couple elections ago.
This woman was had a law degree, had never practiced law,
and hadn't worked for a law firm, was unopposed in
the election, and was working in the beauty salon.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
And then the day after the election says I'm a judge. Okay, bang,
that's quite the promotion.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds like it.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
And you know who again, you know, let's let's look
at the Harris County Republican Party. Why wasn't someone put
up against her? She was unopposed.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I see your point. What do you think? Then you're
okay with him?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Po boxes is definitely no.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
I like Paul Betton Court State Center Paul Bettan courts
quote about this like nobody lives in a five by
eight box and that that's true. You should be registered
to vote where you live.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Paul Bettencourt, state Senator filed a complaint leading to a
Texas Secretary of State investigation in corrective orders. Governor Greg
good Enough sometimes Abbott escalated by threatening to strip Harris
County of election administration powers and consider legal charges, calling
it grounds for state takeover. County officials push back, labeling
at political theater and baseless attacks on local control. I
(34:36):
think we're all kind of in agreement on this one.
Did you guys speaking of county officials. Did you see
the thing? On her way out the door? Lena hddalgo
now wants money for renovations.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Do you see this?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Because she feels that her staff members don't have enough
room to work, just too much staff. You're only there,
I know? Well yeah, well apparently her ex husband didn't
think so.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Wait, I don't get that one. I mean, I get
that he's a X.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I'll explain to you later right down for you.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Don't don't do that, Bob, What do you think about it?
Alena's on her way out the door. Can't her staff
just go use the Wi Fi at the Starbucks?
Speaker 5 (35:11):
With the first off, that Office of County Administration was
created and took a lion's share of what the county
judge used to do away from her. So, I don't
know what kind of staff she needs. Sure you got
you know? She mentioned a communication team. I don't know
you need one that I can see, you know, Leslie,
Briona's my county commissar has a has a social media
(35:37):
staff of three that.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Why do they need that many people?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
I have no idea?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
What are they doing? How many times a day do
they write a tweet? Well?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
She has one that pops out at seven o'clock every morning.
I l like clockwork, okay, and one around eight and
then some throughout the day where she's starring and she says, hi, hi, hi,
and we did this for you, and blah blah blah,
and actually has hardly any following.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
They didn't do it for me. They did nothing for me.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Well, I don't know. I mean, he thinks so even
Bob Billboards.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Tell us, I know you criticized the Houston Chronicle a lot,
but they did do one thing in the past year
that I bet you really enjoyed. I don't think anyone
ever thought of this before. They filed a Freedom of
Information Act request to get the chat GPT search results
for Lena Hidalgo's staff, and the stuff they were searching
(36:26):
for was so embarrassing, like they were trying to justify
having a taxpayer funded trip to go to Paris. So
they asked it questions like, hey, chat GPT, what could
Paris learn from Harris County?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Think big?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
And then they were like, does Paris ever have natural disasters?
What sort of natural disasters do they have that we
could compare to the hurricanes we have in Houston. So
it would give us a reason to talk about this
while we were there, thus justifying our very expensive.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Trip to Paris.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
I have no words. I mean, it's us hilarious.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
I think, I think.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
I think Leana had going to Paris was a disaster, sure,
and they should have been better prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
They should be the best part of her going there.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
She wasn't here, Ethan Buchanan, would you pay to send
all the local Harris County officials to Paris if they
just didn't come back?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I mean, would I pay for it?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
But would I be happy if someone else paid for it?
For sure? Honestly, I don't want to shame her or
her staff for using chatgyb tea on this Paris trip.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I don't blame them.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
If I went to Paris, I'd probably use chatgybta a
bunch too, just because there's nothing else that'll translate from
Arabic to English that quickly.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, but that's an interesting point, all right, Bob. Before
we wrap up this live stream, this has been great.
For the last thirty minutes. I've been chilling out here
with Ethan Buchanan and Bob chowed two of my good
friends to local angry people they're not elected officials, they're
not running for office, they're not selling a book, they're
not trying to get you to read their news website. Well,
I guess Ethan sort of is Ethan has.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, Ethan, go listen to my podcast, shamelessly promoting.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
No he is. But but Bob, you're not. You're just
a local angry guy.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Well, I might be coming out with a book soon.
I I you know. I uhfore, actually actually I finished.
I finished my first book a couple weeks ago. Now
I'm I start reading a second one.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Okay, Bob, But before, before you promote a thing that
doesn't exist yet, tell us before we get out of here.
Early voting starts today, what would you like local right
wing Houstonians to know?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
What would you like him to think about? What should
they focus on? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (38:34):
First off, I'd like everyone to focus on the fact
that this is a This is a fairly big primary.
My sample battle I pulled it down head over ninety
ninety lines on it, and a lot of them were
unopposed judicial races, which is fine, you can kind of
breeze through them. But there's some others, like you get
three people running against Dan Patrick. Who the hell are
they also on people?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Nobody? There's no good challengers?
Speaker 5 (38:58):
No, no, no, has no have it as no good challengers?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
It would have been great if they did. Yeah, they don't, unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
And I I had a debate over the weekend with
a very knowledgeable person, a former congressional candidate, who was like, well,
we have to get her to Dan Patrick. I said, okay,
so what if this person wins the primary, they gotta
get slaughtered in the general.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
So what uh?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Yeah, what difference it make? I mean, end up losing
to what's her name from Austin Goodwin.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Before we get out of here, I had one more
question for you, and just be honest with me.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Are you sure you're not Robert Duvall? Are you sure
about that?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Robert Duvall? Yeah, no, I'm very alive.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
You're sure? Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Michael Douglas?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Are you sure you're not Michael Douglas.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Have you ever seen the two of us in the
same room?
Speaker 6 (39:49):
Ethan, I have not seen him and Michael Douglas in
the same room.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Why, I think man answers a question right there. Thanks
for listening to everybody. You are listening to this has
just been a disaster.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
We miss radio.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
To the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.
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