February 24, 2026 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster‘s pursuit of happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens and author Austin Petersen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Giganic government sucks souon of happiness. Radio is dux,
Liberty and freedom will make you smile. The a Suda
happen and us on your radio tol justice, cheeseburgers, libery
fries at.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The food.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Palingontologists have developed a technique that more accurately dates dinosaur fossils.
Of course, when it comes to dating fossils, no one
beats Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends. Boy, I really am not proud
of that joke, but you're here, Hi, welcome, More abound
more on jokes I'm not proud of coming up. But
before we get to any of that, Brandon Waltons will
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be joining us this afternoon from texascorecard dot com with
all the latest news from around the state as early
voting continues. Paxton versus Hunt versus Cornyn, We'll tell you
what's going on with Crenshawn Toath, alex Miheler and Brisco
Kane and all the other all the other big names
running for office right now that are making headlines. We'll
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get to all of it soon, but first, may I
start with this. I just wanted to tell jokes. I
didn't want to start a culture war. But here we
are guys.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I did it. I have stepped in it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When my buddies Jesse Payton, Alex Stein and I hatched
the brilliant plan to do the right side of comedy
the Golf of America Tour at the House of Blues
this June, literally a short stumble from the Texas Republican
State Convention.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
We thought we were geniuses.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Three Texas comics, a bronze peacock room, some uncensored jokes,
and that tour name because renaming the golf is peak
absurd comedy material. We pictured a packed house full of
folks who get our style, edgy but not evil, poking
fun at everybody, including ourselves, like a backyard barbecue with
Mike's instead of burgers. We booked it, posted the flyer,
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and went back to whatever losers like us do, probably
arguing over who gets the last shiner. And then the
internet happened. Liberals saw the House of Blues post first
and lost their minds faster than a Houston driver in
a modest rainstorm. This is embarrassing, unwoke, more like unbookable.
(02:13):
That was the kind of stuff people were saying on
the internet. It was like we'd announced a show called
Kicking Puppies for the GOP instead of it just being
three dudes telling jokes, they were madder than a cat
in a bathtub. Next thing, you know, my favorite local
newspaper runs a story about the controversy, and conservatives swarmed
the comments section with their own unique outrage. Not at us,
(02:35):
thank god, but at the libs for being mad in
the paper for covering the story. Ignore the whiny snowflakes
kron acting like Watergate, the kind of stuff people were saying,
you get it. So we had liberals offended by the
show and conservatives offended by the coverage of the story.
It wasn't all you can eat outrage buffet. I just
sat there thinking I only wanted to make people laugh,
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not start World war meme.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Look Day and Age.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Getting canceled for comedy is practically a rite of passage.
Kevin Hard loses the Oscars gig over decade old tweets
that were dumb but not evil. Shane Gillis gets bounced
from messn L before he even gets a dressing room
because of old podcast bits. Dave Chappelle has Netflix staff
walking out over trans jokes that are mostly him calling
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out hypocrisy, Kathy Griffin does one fake severed head photo
and poof, gig's gone, like she's actually assassinated comedy, and
Gilbert Godfrey loses affleck for being Gilbert godfreed. Sarah Silverman
and Amy Schumer have to grovel over old satirical bits.
These aren't hate crimes, they're punchlines. But apparently a joke
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is scarier than actual bad guys these days.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And don't get me started on priorities.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Our little show on the right Side of comedy, the
Gulf of America tour sparks some online fury, more so
than a Houston summer heat wave. But where's the same
energy for the real tragedies and mess is happening right
here in our own town, in our own backyard, Folks
hammering unfunny and embarrassing under our flyer like it's a
full time gig. But the same crowd barely bats an
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eye at local shootings or violent crimes popping up across
the city, or even big political scandals involving our own
Texas reps. I'm looking at you, Tony Gonzalez. Real heartbreak, families,
torn up, investigations dragging on headlines about everyday danger and
shady politics, and mostly silence or quick like and scroll
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kind of reactions. The three comments booking a laugh night
at a convention Suddenly it's apocalypse level outrage, petitions in
the comments section, and endless threads. Priorities are more twisted
than a bad tender date and rush hour traffic. Oh
and here's the part the canceled crowd conveniently ignores. We
do a ton of charity work with our shows and events.
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We've raised money for veterans, local causes, children's with cancer
at the Sunshine Kids, you name it. Comedy Therapy is
one of our biggest events. You know, those benefit nights
where tickets go to good stuff like disabled military veterans
and wheelchairs for warriors, or finding homes for shelter dogs
at Citizens for Animal Protection. Laughter with a side of
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helping people. But sure keep calling us the bad guys
while pretending that part doesn't exist. Real classy, It's fine,
will be okay.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
This isn't new.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
SNL boss Lauren Michaels nailed it years ago. Republicans are
easier to roast because Democrats take it personally. Republicans just laugh.
Mel Brooks turned Hitler into a singing fool in The
Producers because ridicule. Ridicule shrinks tyrants to size, Comedy robs
them of fear and unites the rest of us in absurdity.
Rodney Dangerfield built a career on I Get No Respect Improved.
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If you can't laugh at yourself, you're the real joke.
Lenny Bruce took on the prudes and fanatics because comedy's
the best weapon against bullies. It mocks without mercy but
binds with belly laughs. So Houston, come see Jesse, Alex
and Me on June twelfth at the House of Blues
for the Right Side of Comedy the Gulf of America Tour.
It's not a hate rally, it's a laugh ryot. All
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are welcome, including communists and nihilists. We poke Republicans plenty
of material there, but we also poke woke nonsense, and
we even poke ourselves the hardest, although our doctors.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Don't recommend it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Tickets are moving faster through life nations, so get them today,
Grab them now before the next wave of outrage accidentally
sells us out and leaves you stuck outside listening to
the laughs from the parking lot. And remember that Hornet's
nest we kicked. Turns out it was full of buzzkills.
But hey, at least our show's got more sting than complaints,
and probably better punchlines too.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income. Yeah that Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
All right, let's get real for a minute. For the
first time, Amazon has s passd Walmart in retail sales.
But but, but, but Walmart still has a big lead
when it comes to bathroom meth labs, so they've got that.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Hi, everybody, welcome back from break. Good to be here
with you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Lots of things happening today in the news. It is Texas.
We are the greatest state in the Union. We're the
only state that is a country. We have the best food,
the best music, the best people, the best comedy, the
best culture.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Mah on the weather.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But hey whatever, It's a sure beats other places, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
With all that being said, it's early voting time.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
If you haven't voted yet, your life is garbage and
you're nobody.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I'm just kidding. No, get out and vote though, seriously,
early vote.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
What a great privilege it is to be a Texan
and to be able to be one of the first
in the country to get to vote in the primaries
in the midterms this year. I get my information from
Texas scorecard dot Com when I want to know what's
going on in the elections around the state. And there's
a lot to talk about.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Today.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
My buddy Brandon Waltons just did a deep dive into
who's financing the campaigns right now. Fascinating to learn Mark
Zuckerberg Zuckerbucks we used to call him. A lot of
money was pumped into the Democrat Party several years ago,
and then we learned that Mark Zuckerberg got an injection
of testosterone, started doing mixed martial arts, became a Joe
(08:13):
Rogan podcast listener, and all of a sudden, he grew
a set of balls, my friends, or has he? Let's
find out a meta backed super pack is pumping one
point two million dollars into the Texas Republican primaries. Here
to explain who, what, when, where and why, it's Brandon
Waltons with Texas scorecard dot Com.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah, this is crazy, because I mean it was just
a few years ago that we were talking about, you know,
these zucker Bucks that were pumped into elections in twenty
twenty and then later on in twenty twenty two, going
almost exclusively to Democrats. And here we have Meta, right,
the Facebook parent company, and this AI focused pack essentially
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putting this money into Texas Republican primaries.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Now is this a good thing? Is this a bad thing?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Well, you know, it depends, I guess how much you
trust Meta and what their goals are. But this is
a lot of money, and it's interesting. You know, it
went to a number of state representative candidates, a couple
of state senate candidates, but the primary recipient who received
nearly half of the money, half a million dollars, is
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Kelly Hancock, who's the acting comptroller, who's running for comptroller.
And so an interesting sort of question there about what
Meta thinks that the comptroller can do for them.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, okay, so what do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Why is it that all of a sudden they're backing
the Hancock Not, well, like, doesn't he in third place now?
Or I mean I feel like this is Don Haffin's
race to win or lose.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
That's certainly.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
What you know, the latest polls would suggest usually has
Kelly Hancock in third place, despite the fact that Hancock
is coming in with you know, a good amount of
money and Governor Abbott's endorsement and the fact that he's
been made the acting comptroller, so he's sort of a
quasi incumbent that's been holding that office for you know,
at least the last half year or so. But yeah,
(10:09):
you're right, I mean, he's not doing too well in
the polls. I don't know if this extra money will
help him at all. What I should say, what Meta
actually wants. You know, they haven't been very specific or
very public about what their legislative goals are for the
next session, but it is expected that the legislature will
be dealing with things like artificial intelligence, like data centers,
which is a big issue, especially in some of the
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rural areas where these are popping up, and so you know,
this could be sort of maybe setting the table and
trying to build some inroads before the next session.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Do you think part of the reason why Kelly Hancock's
unpopular is his name. I mean, think about it. His
first name is a girl's name, and then his last
name well, it sounds a little salacious without going too
deep into the weeds there, he's kind of like the
Dick Weekly of the comptroller candidates.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I don't know what you want me to say to that,
but I just wanted to laugh, That's all I wanted.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Brandon, your reaction was great. I don't expect you to
play topper on that. You're a real journalist. You don't
deserve this. This isn't fair. Brandon Walton's working hard on
any other candidates that he's backing that we should not
I got.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Cole Hefner appears in the article what's that about?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Yeah, Cole Hefner's in there.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Some interesting sort of smattering of state House incumbents, right,
Cole Hefner, Pat Curry, Lacey Hle just to name a few.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
I mean, it's sort of interesting.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
You know, it's not really clear why exactly they've picked
these incumbents yet, and it is possible that they could
be funding even more. These reports were just released yesterday.
They run through the twenty first, so there's still time
left in this election. There's still some of these days
that have gone unreported, so we'll see exactly what what
else they decide to do before the March third primary.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Is it possible that these candidates were these all Paxton
impeachment guys or no?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
No, no no, And in fact you get kind of
a mix there. I mean, people like Helen Kirwin, who's
wasn't there when when the Paxistan peachrant took place, but
as somebody who ran against somebody who supported the Paxtan
petriot and was a conservative challenger, So you know, she
doesn't really fit them all there. So no, I think
these uh, these definitely run run the gamba super unusual.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I mean what pro crypto or anti censorship or I
guess if you don't know, you don't know. I'm just
trying to pick of the weeds here.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Yeah, I mean I think it's uh, they've they said
essentially that it's about AI and that's obviously been a
big topic. And you know, right now actually in Hood
County up in North Texas, you've got the sort of
Northwest Texas, I guess you have the the county actually
considering a moratorium on building data centers because citizens have
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complained about that and they don't want those projects in
their backyard. And so I think, you know, they're actually
meeting on that today their county commissioners, so that that
does not I don't actually believe deal directly with Meta,
but it is an issue that they would certainly be
sympathetic too, because obviously they want to continue to build
these data centers and even though there has been some
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pushback from the citizens who live in these places.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, okay, well that's a pretty good way of explaining it, Brandon,
you always do a good job of that. Let's talk
about this, speaking of online censorship, Bookkeeper alleges nonprofit power
grab after founders meme arrest. There's some people that argued
that this guy that got arrested for a meme, it
wasn't really for a meme. So we, you know, talk
about getting into the weeds here. Can you explain what
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happened on November fifth, twenty twenty five in Hood County.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yeah, this is actually segues right into this story actually,
because this takes place in Hood County where this this
whole data center scandal has been taking place.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
But you had a separate story.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Okay, so last November, folks might remember a little bit.
You had this guy, Colton Kroninger, who was arrested after
posting what was essentially a meme on a Facebook group, right,
just an image sort of joking that somebody supported the
candidate that they didn't and actually got.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Arrested by the sheriff there. Now the charges were dropped.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
There was a lot of attention put on this by
folks saying that, you know, this needs to be dropped,
and they did. But now you have actually somebody out
there who is alleging that this was actually part of
maybe a bigger power grab to alse Coulton from a
nonprofit organization that he is the leader of and that
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he started that provides mental health services to veterans for
the reason of essentially this nonprofit, Anxiety Solutions of America,
operates this twenty two acre retreat in Granbury, and the
accusation is that actually there were some parties that wanted
to tell that property and put those data centers on there,
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the same data centers that people are fighting against right
now in Hood County today.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
And so sort of one.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Of those interesting things where you see that I think
the smaller the town, the bigger some of these stories
can really be in some of the potential corruption that
we see.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
All right, let's talk about this in fact, boy, wait
a lot more to talk about. Can you hang with
us through break?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Brandon? I want to know what's going on it Galveston County.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Apparently there's an elected official connected to a game room raid.
We'll tell you the story more with Brandon Walton's Texas
Scorecard dot Com.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Right after this late last night, after a few beers,
we discovered the art of deceiving politicians.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Just tell them the truth and they'll never believe you.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
A fentyl vaccine is in the works. To make sure it's.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Distributed to the right people, it will only be available
at Walmart.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Two Walmart jokes in a row. I am on a
roll this afternoon, aren't I Thanks for joining us. We're
back for more with Brandon Walton's We're gonna go to
Galveston County in just a minute, where a local elected
official is in trouble for a game room gambling on
illegal But before we get to any of that, I
just want to remind everybody that sometimes the stars align.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Oh they really do you know?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
There's two people that have gotten a lot of attention
on this radio show in Texas politics over the last
few months. It's the lawmaker from South Texas, Tony Gonzalez,
who some might say his penis caused a woman to die.
All right, fine, that's a loaded statement. But the guy
was clearly bullying, grooming one of his staff members into
cheating on her husband. When you read the text conversations
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with her and Tony Gonzalez, it doesn't look like she
was interested in what he was saying to his staff member.
And then she killed herself. So Tony Gonzalez is a
bad guy. And then look he's a Forget about what
he did for a second. Let's just talk about who
he is as a lawmaker. The guy helped to push
open border policy, gun control, red flag laws. He's as
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bad as John Corny is, I mean worse probably, But
John Cornyn is a more powerful lawmaker being a Senator.
And what is the common denominator between John redflag laws
Cornyn and Tony self emilation Gonzales. I think it would
be Matt Venmo mkoyak is. Did you know that Matt
mccoyac previously worked for Tony Gonzalez. He denies it now,
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but apparently he was doing consulting work for Tony Gonzalez
a while back, and now report today at texascorecard dot
com reveals alleged explicit messages between Representative Tony Gonzalez and
a staffer. Immediately, the world has learned Tony Gonzalez is
a horrible person. Mainstream Republicans all over Washington, DC are
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disavowing him. Brandon Herrera, his primary opponent, is shooting up
in the polls.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Thank god, he deserves it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
But isn't the real super villain here in all of
this Brandon Waltons. Isn't it really Matt mccoyac because he
liked the Lex luthor of the Republican Party.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Gosh, well, you know, he certainly has been focused on
the Cornyan campaign this cycle. And I think that if
you're somebody who doesn't like John Cornyn, if you're somebody
who wants to see John Cornyn unelected, who wants to
see Ken Paxton or Wesley Hunt in the Senate instead,
I think that you probably owe Matt mccoback a dead
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of gratitude. He has been a you know, he has
been I just say this to somebody who's watched his campaigns.
I mean, I don't think anybody could say that Matt
mccoback has been helpful in any way to John Cornyn's campaign.
He's been a drag on it. He has caused multiple,
you know, self inflicted injuries to the campaign. You remember,
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of course, the the when he docksed Wesley Hunt and
his family just a couple of weeks ago, and you
know that that's really only the beginning. Uh, And so
it is unsurprising that he would also be tied to
Tony Gonzalez, who's having his own meltdown right now.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Remarkable, It's like wow, It's like sometimes the universe just
makes perfect sense. Sometimes the world's a confusing place. And
sometimes when you see all the bad people hanging out
together at a cocktail party, a cocktail party probably as
suspicious as one being held by Bill Cosby, it really
makes perfect sense to you, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
It, Brandon?
Speaker 7 (19:23):
It does?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yes, Thank you you handled that very tactfully. All right,
Let's move along real quick. Off to Galveston County. Thirty
three people, including the mayor of Hitchcock, were arrested after
Galveston County authorities executed search warrants to twenty locations tied
to allege illegal gambling operations. You know, This will confuse
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some people, Brandon, because we have poker rooms all over
the place in the greater Houston area, certainly the Galveston area.
But there are some things that aren't in the gray
area here, and this is one of them. You're clearly
not allowed to do this, right.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Yeah, you're not allowed to operate machines, right, and you
know if you were, they would be everywhere, right, So
of course they're illegal. And in this case, you actually
had these these slot machines seized by this major Galveston County.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Raid.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
But the real notable thing here, these things happen from
time to time that these they're kind of called these
eight liner machines that will pop up sort of in
the back of some gas stations or laundromats, and they're
supposed to you know, they're not necessarily on their face illegal, right,
because they're supposed to be. Okay, you can win like
a small prize that's not a money prize, something of
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little value. But the way these actually work in practices, Okay,
you might win a stuffed animal or something, and then
you can trade it in for money. There's sort of
the these loopholes that they try to do. It's all
illegal in any case.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Though.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
An interesting thing here though, is that you know who
else gets tied up in all this but the city's
mayor of Hitchcock, the mayor, mister Mayor Chris Armacost, who's
now being charged with engaging in organized criminal activity at
because these were taking place at businesses that were a
business that is tied to him, and so you know,
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he says he intends to fight the charges. This is
part of a bigger sweep. But not a good day
when you've got the mayor getting arrested in your town.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's also interesting too that this happened on State Highway Sex.
Is that what Texas six refers to, because apparently there
is a reputation. I have been told by our listeners
as that is a highway where you'll find like prostitution,
sketchy massage parlors, illegal gambling rooms, and it goes all
the way up into Houston. Our older listeners have told
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me this has been happening for years, and I guess
some things just never change, like organized crime in Chicago.
Texas six they call it Highway Sex. Apparently it's Brandon
avoid It would be my advice from what I'm told
A nice young man like you doesn't belong there, Brandon.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yes, yes, and well and sure enough, officials say these
locations might be linked to things like prostitution and drugs
as well, So that investigation is still ongoing.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, you guys have another article today about a
lawsuit involving Barber's Hill Education Foundation trying to drop its
lawsuit against a state lawmaker. What is First of all,
where's Barber's Hill in what happened?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Barber Hills in Chambers County, So you know, just just
DC and Houston there, and you had Terry Leo Wilson,
who's a state representative for that area, who has been
highlighting what she has said are some questionable dealings with
this Barber's Hill Foundation and the Barber's Hill School District,
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essentially alluding to potential legal activity in this foundation, that
the is tied to the school district. And so you
can kind of get in the weeds on that. The
main thing is that the state Representati Leo Wilson has
been highlighting this. The foundation came out earlier this month
and sued Terry Leo Wilson saying that she was, you know,
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tarnishing the foundation's good name. And charitable purposes, and then
just now, just literally like less than two weeks later,
the foundation is now quietly trying to drop its lawsuit.
Terry Leo Wilson says she wants to continue to see
this through because she believes that what she was.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Exposing was correct.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
And I think it probably does say something that if
this d foundation that's being accused of these of these
you know, nefarious dealings, if they're going to drop their
lawsuit that said that essentially they were being defamed, I
think it looks like maybe there might have been something
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to those accusations.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
All right, let's talk for just a minute before I
let you go about early voting. We all know the
most talked about race in the country right now, Horny
In Paxton, Hunt, Crockett, tallar Rico. Any predictions who do
you We're just guessing here. This isn't an endorsement by Brandon.
You've looked at the polling, You've looked at the you
know what is really anecdotal, the behavior online, what you're
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seeing out of polling locations. Do you think there's a
runoff in either of the two primaries, and if so
with who who do you think ends up in the
general election.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
No, I think if the Republican primary, you're going to
have a runoff, and I think it'll likely be just
based on the polling Cornan and Paxton, though I will
note that there's been a trend in recent polling which
has shown Wesley Hunt gaining momentum, and so whether or
not he's able to gain enough to get you know,
a second place finished to potentially be a Paxton Hunt
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runoff remains to be seen, but certainly I think there'll
be a runoff there. As far as the Democrats go,
you know, James Tallerico and Jasmine Crockett's mostly a two
way race except for the fact that there are you know,
there is at least one other candidate whose name will
be on the ballot, meaning that it is possible that
neither gets fifty percent. In that case, you know, it's
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harder for me to predict Kenny what Democrats will do,
but man, the amount of money that's been pouring in
for James tall Rico, I think, you know, if I
had to choose, I think I will probably be tall
Rico winning the Democrat nomination.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I get that impression too, and just removing myself from
this for a minute. He certainly seems like if I
was a Democrat, the more reasonable candidate.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
And that's not about sex, it's not about race.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But for the record, Jasmine Crockett has and Colin Alred,
they seem to be lobbing racism accusations at James Tallerrico.
Even state Representative Mitch Little, one of the lawmakers, one
of the attorneys that defended Ken Paxton, considered to be
on the far right, said it was absurd to call
James Tallerrico a racist. Do you think Colin Alred and
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Jasmine just shot their own party in the foot in
the sense that we're not going to see the same
effect we saw in twenty eighteen where down ballot candidates
from Beto O'Rourke end up even though Beto lost, you
know that the Democrats gained a lot from having Beto
on that ticket, even though Beto didn't win.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Any thoughts on that.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Yeah, well, I think that James Tallerco is no Beto O'Rourke.
I think that, you know, twenty eighteen, there was a
lot of unique circumstances there, and so you know, while
you can kind of maybe look at it and see
some comparisons. I don't think we're going to see the
exact same thing where you had a lot of down
ballot races turned Democrats, specifically in the Texas House, where
we saw turnover of quite a few seats in that election.
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I don't think we'll see that this time. I don't
think James Tallerico has quite the support that Beto had.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Then, Okay, what about this the other race. Everybody in
Houston's talking about Crenshaw and Toath. Do you think Tooth
can beat Crenshaw?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I think so, I actually do.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Today the House Freedom Caucus came out and endorsed Steve Toath.
You've seen turning Point to USA as well endorsed Steve Toath.
I think, you know, I think we're actually this is
an interesting situation that Texas is in right now because
I think, and look anything it happened.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
These are just my predictions.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
It's rare for incumbents to lose on the federal level,
for Congress or Senate, and I think we're in a
situation where we're going to see an incumbent senator losing
John Cornyan, and I think we're going to see two
incumbent congressmen lose as well in Tony Gonzalez and Dan Crenshaw.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Boy, it is just couldn't happened to a bigger bunch
of jerks, right. Crenshaw didn't even get the Trump endorsement. Okay,
the governor's race, I don't think any I'm no fan
of governor Rabbit, but I find none of these challengers
to be making any waves at all, even the ones
people think on social media have generated no money.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
E they're not showing up on any polls.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So skipping past the lieutenant governor race, because it's kind
of the same thing with Dan Patrick, let's talk about
the attorney general here, Ken Paxton stepping out. You got
chip Roy, Aaron Wrights, Mays Middleton, and Joan Huffman. Who
do you think you think there's a runoff? Do you
think one of these guys wins. Who do you think
ends up in the general election?
Speaker 7 (27:53):
I think there's a runoff.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I think it's chip Roy and May's Middleton, And you
know that'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
At that point.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Trump hasn't gotten involved in that race. You know, there's
a question about whether or not he would get involved
in a runoff if chip Roy is in there, and
so I think right now it's it's probably Chip Roy
and Mace Middleton in the runoff for the attorney General.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Okay, let's talk about I get the impression too. I
certainly think that's the case. Do you think the other
candidates get behind Mays. I mean, Chip is well in
the lead, but not fifty percent in the lead.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
You know, it'll be interesting to see. I mean, you know,
Joan Huffman, who's the fourth Canady in that race, is
you know, worked in the Senate, is in the State Senate,
will continue to be in the State Senate, and has
worked with Mace Middleton, and so I could see her
backing her colleague in the Senate in Mays Middleton.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Aaron Wrights, you know.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Has logged a lot of you know, he's been pretty
fiery against both Chip Roy and Mays Middleton, and so
you know where his support goes in a runoff if
he does not make it to a runoff, you know,
remains to be seen. But you could see I think
a lot of people rally around Mays Middleton in a runoff.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
All right, we talked about this in the last segment.
I think Don Haffines wins the Comptroller race. I don't
know if there will be a runof or not, but
let's leave on this one. Land Commissioner, No, I'm sorry,
Commissioner of Agriculture. Land Commissioner is Don Buckingham's and frankly,
I think the fact that she's attractive and blonde is
part of the reason why she has no challengers. So
good for her. You know, Trump is back. Obviously, pretty
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blonde chicks are popular again. That's great, the Sydney Sweeney effect,
if you will. But as far as Commissioner of Agriculture goes,
you got Sid Miller. The incumbent Nate Sheets very well
liked by the grassroots. But is he has he do
enough people know who he is for it to matter
at this point.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
You know, he has spent a lot of money in
this race. There have been millions of dollars that have
been spent on his side. Sid Miller has frankly underperformed
in a lot of fundraising and yet you know a
lot of folks have pointed this out. I think Sid
Miller's support comes from a lot of bunch traditional places.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
I mean, know he's like it or not. The guy
has a lot.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Of followers on Facebook, right, and that usually doesn't matter,
but I would say that in his situation if you
look going back, he's been challenged in the last you know,
every every election Fragriculture Commissioner, and he's won pretty handsomely.
The latest polls have him way up over Nate Sheets,
the last poll that we saw in the University of Houston,
and so I think he's going to win. And I
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think it's going to be interesting because I think if
he does win, this isn't This is a case where
Governor Greg Abbott endorsed against Sid Miller, the first time
we've seen him actually go out publicly endorse against a
fellow statewide official, and so you know, things could be
a little awkward for the next few years between them.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
There's an article in the Chronicle from today who would
be a better ally to bee keepers? Sid Miller or
Nate Sheets? And I think Sid Miller wanted to comment
about this on his Facebook account, but unfortunately he got
locked out and oh, boomer alert, it's a boomer alert.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Oh no alert, Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
No, a boomer got locked out of their Facebook account
and said that it was censorship.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
During the campaign. Maybe it is. Who are we to say,
Brandon Waltons.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
If I wanted to subscribe to texascorecard dot com, what
would be the website for that?
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, it's easy enough. It's at texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress, take another vacation,
why don't you? Kenny Webster's pursuit of heaviness boomer alert.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Alert the Northeast.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
The upper northeast part of the country was hit with
two feet of snow last night, which breaks the previous
record for powdery white accumulations set by RFK Junior's Toilet's see.
Let's talk about him for just a minute, if you
don't mind look, I like Moha. I like RFK Junior.
I was in Colorado last weekend. Speak king of Snow.
(32:00):
I was skiing with my cousin and very liberal in
the part of Salida is the name of the town.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I was in Monarch.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Ski Resort, just a sleepy little ski resort town, a
lot of hippies and liberals and leftists around. We went
and saw a left wing improv comedy troupe. It was
just horrible. It was like Gitmo levels of torture. It
was terrible. It was painfully awful to watch. And then
afterwards someone came up to me and they're like, ah,
what do you do for a living? And I didn't
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have the heart to tell him because I knew it
would really bother They couldn't handle if I gave him
a real answer of what I was like, I would
make fun of politicians on the radio. Vague didn't really
explain it. And the guy goes, you don't like Trump,
do you, And you know, I was like, ah, here
it goes. And then he's like, I don't like Trump,
but I like RFK Junior, and I thought, well, it's
refreshing to hear from a liberal in Colorado. He said
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he didn't want to vote for Trump, he didn't want
to vote for Kamala, so he voted for RFK Junior,
even though he knew it was a waste of a vote.
Now RFK Junior is in the news today because for
you years as an environmental lawyer, he crusaded against the
controversial herbicide ingredient known as glyphasate glefazat.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
I don't know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
It's a chemical that's in that Monsanto uses in roundup.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You've heard of this before.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
RFK Junior was against this for a long time, right
up until he wasn't here to give us the who, what, When, where?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Why?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
The creator of the Libertarian Nation, the author of the
Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto, and the curator of I Love WJ
the Walton and Johnson online store, a great place to
buy merch for your upcoming spring break needs, Austin Peterson,
give us the who, what, when? Where?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Why?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Is?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Do you feel like RFK Junior is a hypocrite here?
What's your take on this?
Speaker 8 (33:42):
I think she probably has been convinced by superior argumentation
and the fact that his boss is telling him we're
going to create more glacios states. So this is a
big issue in states like Missouri, state like Texas, state
like louisianimis to do along with golf coats all across
the country, but especially in our red states in the
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Midwest and in the South, because our state legislatures are
considering whether or not there should be a right to
sue companies like Bayer, who they've got a major manufacturing
plant here in Missouri. Can they be sued for improper
labeling or not warning people about the dangers of roundup, right,
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the same stuff that everybody goes and gets the tractor store.
And the question in the air is do we allow
the FDA to set the rule, which is what Trump
wants to do, which is to say that the FEDS
will decide through the alphabet agencies that this stuff is productive,
it's good, it shouldn't be banned, and should there be
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a blanket immunity provided to companies like Beyer who manufacture
this stuff. They don't want to get a sued every
time they make a jar around up that we got
to buy down the tractor store, Kenny. And god knows,
trial lawyers are destroying everything in this country that's good
and holy. I don't know if roundup is good or holy.
I'm agnostic on it. I'm willing to like listen to
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both sides. But we have a serious problem, Kenny, whether
you're a conservative, libertarian, right leaning, or what have you.
I mean, we know the left wants to ban everything
right and tax everything. But on the right we have
a little bit more of the conflict when it comes
to the question of do we want to ban this stuff? Well,
do we know whether or not it's poisonous, yes, is
(35:29):
it cancer causing? Maybe that's the best I can determine.
So the question now comes down to if, well, you know,
if it's cancer causing and it's carcinogenic, at what level
should we even allow something like that to happen? You know,
cottage cheese has carcinogens in it, Kenny A.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Lot, I mean it.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
I mean it cottage cheese. Right now. You just saved
my life.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
So the point is is that we have a serious
problem because the question of whether or not it's it's
cancer causing is not a settled science in terms of
how much they're actually spreading. So it's a major, big corporation,
and because of the populist times that we live in
right now, it's not popular to support a big corporation,
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even if the science is on their side, which we
don't know because they're the ones who fund the science.
So it's a mess. Kenny, I say, as the farmers
choose when you don't know, err on the side of freedom.
That's my default position. Other people they like to be Karens.
They want to stop everything that exists from moving. They
want to tax everything, regulate everything. Farmers can't do this.
(36:35):
Can't build data centers, can't build flights. You know, everything
has to be made by China and shipped overseas, and
everybody's going to have to work for China one day
because we can't build anything here in the United States.
I'm the opposite of that. I'm a build, allow grow,
you know. I guess that makes me in the pocket
a big bayer. But I'm not getting paid to say it, Kenny.
I just I just believe in liberty.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, I'm the same way. And do you remember the
video of RFK Junior being McDonald's on air Force one
with Donald Trump? I think it was right after the victory.
Is that kind of when we realized that RFK Junior
could be pushed around a little.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Yeah, but I mean, you work for the big boss,
you do it. You take the King's card and sting
the King's song. It's kind of one of the reasons
why I'm glad that Trump is the one in charge.
You know, I was not a big RFK Junior fan,
because you know, he's kind of an old left the
Democrat and soon the pants off of everybody for environmental purposes.
That's like, that's the natural enemy of Libertarians. So like
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he's I kind of keep my beady eye on him,
and I think here's the thing. When he goes out
and he wants to ban snap benefits from serving junk
food and sugars, sugary foods, and oh you know what,
I don't want to subsidize diabetes. So yeah, have him
do that. Put the fat kids into camps and don't
(37:53):
let them leave until they're skinny. That's good, you know,
boy scouts, girl scouts, you know, get some fresh air
in your lungs. Those kind of help. It is great.
But you know his old enemy Monsanto, who is kind
of like he's the devil, Like it's like George Soros.
So Monsanto is like George Soros for the populist factions
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of left and right.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
So you know, the.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. There's also there's
a Bernie Sanders wing of the Republican Party right, and
some of those have crossover. Some of those have crossover
with Maha right. A lot of these are Democrats, like
you said, that came over from the Democratic Party to
vote for Donald Trump, not your Colorado ski guy. But
the question remains is, you know, are we a free market,
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limited government, conservative Republican party, or are we a crunchy
granola ban Things that have scary sounding names because they
come from big corporations, and big corporations are scary because
I don't know what corporation people do in corporation buildings
all day. Because you know, I make forty thousand dollars
a year and scrib toilet for a living. So do
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we allow the experts to decide because they're the expertsy
in a science. No, we can't trust them.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
But do we? But?
Speaker 8 (39:09):
But like, but, Kenny, do you really have any peers?
I mean, could you? Could you really be tried in
a jury of your cheers?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
You?
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Do you think there's anybody?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
There are five? There are five libertarian nationalists. I think
you and I are half of them. Your your wife.
I'm gazing who's left there. I'm sure there's a couple more.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
There are hundreds of us and I have at least
there's at least No, it's hundreds. I'll tell you about
how fast this movement has been growing in this the
second Kenny. And on one hand you have the on
the one hand, you have the science and you have
the experts, and then on the other hand. You have
Joe who picks his nose and eats it, you know,
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and puts so so who's to decide? I don't know.
I just know that it's a it's a mystery, it's
a quandary. I don't know how to fix it. But
I don't want the export to run things, and I
don't want Joe the nosepicker run things.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
What do we do, Kenny?
Speaker 8 (40:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I don't know either.
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Austin, I could talk to you for hours, but before
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more on jokes I'm not proud of coming up. But
before we get to any of that, Brandon Waltons will
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be joining us this afternoon from texascorecard dot com with
all the latest news from around the state as early
voting continues. Paxton versus Hunt versus Cornyn, We'll tell you
what's going on with Crenshawn Toath, alex Miheler and Brisco
Kane and all the other all the other big names
running for office right now that are making headlines. We'll
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get to all of it soon, but first, may I
start with this. I just wanted to tell jokes. I
didn't want to start a culture war. But here we
are guys.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I did it. I have stepped in it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When my buddies Jesse Payton, Alex Stein and I hatched
the brilliant plan to do the right side of comedy
the Golf of America Tour at the House of Blues
this June, literally a short stumble from the Texas Republican
State Convention.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
We thought we were geniuses.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Three Texas comics, a bronze peacock room, some uncensored jokes,
and that tour name because renaming the golf is peak
absurd comedy material. We pictured a packed house full of
folks who get our style, edgy but not evil, poking
fun at everybody, including ourselves, like a backyard barbecue with
Mike's instead of burgers. We booked it, posted the flyer,
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and went back to whatever losers like us do, probably
arguing over who gets the last shiner. And then the
internet happened. Liberals saw the House of Blues post first
and lost their minds faster than a Houston driver in
a modest rainstorm. This is embarrassing, unwoke, more like unbookable.
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That was the kind of stuff people were saying on
the internet. It was like we'd announced a show called
Kicking Puppies for the GOP instead of it just being
three dudes telling jokes, they were madder than a cat
in a bathtub. Next thing, you know, my favorite local
newspaper runs a story about the controversy, and conservatives swarmed
the comments section with their own unique outrage. Not at us,
(02:35):
thank god, but at the libs for being mad in
the paper for covering the story. Ignore the whiny snowflakes
kron acting like Watergate, the kind of stuff people were saying,
you get it. So we had liberals offended by the
show and conservatives offended by the coverage of the story.
It wasn't all you can eat outrage buffet. I just
sat there thinking I only wanted to make people laugh,
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not start World war meme.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Look Day and Age.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Getting canceled for comedy is practically a rite of passage.
Kevin Hard loses the Oscars gig over decade old tweets
that were dumb but not evil. Shane Gillis gets bounced
from messn L before he even gets a dressing room
because of old podcast bits. Dave Chappelle has Netflix staff
walking out over trans jokes that are mostly him calling
(03:21):
out hypocrisy, Kathy Griffin does one fake severed head photo
and poof, gig's gone, like she's actually assassinated comedy, and
Gilbert Godfrey loses affleck for being Gilbert godfreed. Sarah Silverman
and Amy Schumer have to grovel over old satirical bits.
These aren't hate crimes, they're punchlines. But apparently a joke
(03:42):
is scarier than actual bad guys these days.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And don't get me started on priorities.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Our little show on the right Side of comedy, the
Gulf of America tour sparks some online fury, more so
than a Houston summer heat wave. But where's the same
energy for the real tragedies and mess is happening right
here in our own town, in our own backyard, Folks
hammering unfunny and embarrassing under our flyer like it's a
full time gig. But the same crowd barely bats an
(04:08):
eye at local shootings or violent crimes popping up across
the city, or even big political scandals involving our own
Texas reps. I'm looking at you, Tony Gonzalez. Real heartbreak, families,
torn up, investigations dragging on headlines about everyday danger and
shady politics, and mostly silence or quick like and scroll
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kind of reactions. The three comments booking a laugh night
at a convention Suddenly it's apocalypse level outrage, petitions in
the comments section, and endless threads. Priorities are more twisted
than a bad tender date and rush hour traffic. Oh
and here's the part the canceled crowd conveniently ignores. We
do a ton of charity work with our shows and events.
(04:53):
We've raised money for veterans, local causes, children's with cancer
at the Sunshine Kids, you name it. Comedy Therapy is
one of our biggest events. You know, those benefit nights
where tickets go to good stuff like disabled military veterans
and wheelchairs for warriors, or finding homes for shelter dogs
at Citizens for Animal Protection. Laughter with a side of
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helping people. But sure keep calling us the bad guys
while pretending that part doesn't exist. Real classy, It's fine,
will be okay.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
This isn't new.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
SNL boss Lauren Michaels nailed it years ago. Republicans are
easier to roast because Democrats take it personally. Republicans just laugh.
Mel Brooks turned Hitler into a singing fool in The
Producers because ridicule. Ridicule shrinks tyrants to size, Comedy robs
them of fear and unites the rest of us in absurdity.
Rodney Dangerfield built a career on I Get No Respect Improved.
(05:47):
If you can't laugh at yourself, you're the real joke.
Lenny Bruce took on the prudes and fanatics because comedy's
the best weapon against bullies. It mocks without mercy but
binds with belly laughs. So Houston, come see Jesse, Alex
and Me on June twelfth at the House of Blues
for the Right Side of Comedy the Gulf of America Tour.
It's not a hate rally, it's a laugh ryot. All
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are welcome, including communists and nihilists. We poke Republicans plenty
of material there, but we also poke woke nonsense, and
we even poke ourselves the hardest, although our doctors.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Don't recommend it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
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But hey, at least our show's got more sting than complaints,
and probably better punchlines too.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income. Yeah that Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
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Speaker 4 (07:09):
Hi, everybody, welcome back from break. Good to be here
with you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Lots of things happening today in the news. It is Texas.
We are the greatest state in the Union. We're the
only state that is a country. We have the best food,
the best music, the best people, the best comedy, the
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Speaker 4 (07:23):
Mah on the weather.
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Speaker 4 (07:28):
With all that being said, it's early voting time.
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I'm just kidding. No, get out and vote though, seriously,
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Speaker 4 (07:53):
Today.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
My buddy Brandon Waltons just did a deep dive into
who's financing the campaigns right now. Fascinating to learn Mark
Zuckerberg Zuckerbucks we used to call him. A lot of
money was pumped into the Democrat Party several years ago,
and then we learned that Mark Zuckerberg got an injection
of testosterone, started doing mixed martial arts, became a Joe
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a set of balls, my friends, or has he? Let's
find out a meta backed super pack is pumping one
point two million dollars into the Texas Republican primaries. Here
to explain who, what, when, where and why, it's Brandon
Waltons with Texas scorecard dot Com.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah, this is crazy, because I mean it was just
a few years ago that we were talking about, you know,
these zucker Bucks that were pumped into elections in twenty
twenty and then later on in twenty twenty two, going
almost exclusively to Democrats. And here we have Meta, right,
the Facebook parent company, and this AI focused pack essentially
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putting this money into Texas Republican primaries.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Now is this a good thing? Is this a bad thing?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Well, you know, it depends, I guess how much you
trust Meta and what their goals are. But this is
a lot of money, and it's interesting. You know, it
went to a number of state representative candidates, a couple
of state senate candidates, but the primary recipient who received
nearly half of the money, half a million dollars, is
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Kelly Hancock, who's the acting comptroller, who's running for comptroller.
And so an interesting sort of question there about what
Meta thinks that the comptroller can do for them.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, okay, so what do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Why is it that all of a sudden they're backing
the Hancock Not, well, like, doesn't he in third place now?
Or I mean I feel like this is Don Haffin's
race to win or lose.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
That's certainly.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
What you know, the latest polls would suggest usually has
Kelly Hancock in third place, despite the fact that Hancock
is coming in with you know, a good amount of
money and Governor Abbott's endorsement and the fact that he's
been made the acting comptroller, so he's sort of a
quasi incumbent that's been holding that office for you know,
at least the last half year or so. But yeah,
(10:09):
you're right, I mean, he's not doing too well in
the polls. I don't know if this extra money will
help him at all. What I should say, what Meta
actually wants. You know, they haven't been very specific or
very public about what their legislative goals are for the
next session, but it is expected that the legislature will
be dealing with things like artificial intelligence, like data centers,
which is a big issue, especially in some of the
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rural areas where these are popping up, and so you know,
this could be sort of maybe setting the table and
trying to build some inroads before the next session.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Do you think part of the reason why Kelly Hancock's
unpopular is his name. I mean, think about it. His
first name is a girl's name, and then his last
name well, it sounds a little salacious without going too
deep into the weeds there, he's kind of like the
Dick Weekly of the comptroller candidates.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I don't know what you want me to say to that,
but I just wanted to laugh, That's all I wanted.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Brandon, your reaction was great. I don't expect you to
play topper on that. You're a real journalist. You don't
deserve this. This isn't fair. Brandon Walton's working hard on
any other candidates that he's backing that we should not
I got.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Cole Hefner appears in the article what's that about?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Yeah, Cole Hefner's in there.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Some interesting sort of smattering of state House incumbents, right,
Cole Hefner, Pat Curry, Lacey Hle just to name a few.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
I mean, it's sort of interesting.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
You know, it's not really clear why exactly they've picked
these incumbents yet, and it is possible that they could
be funding even more. These reports were just released yesterday.
They run through the twenty first, so there's still time
left in this election. There's still some of these days
that have gone unreported, so we'll see exactly what what
else they decide to do before the March third primary.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Is it possible that these candidates were these all Paxton
impeachment guys or no?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
No, no no, And in fact you get kind of
a mix there. I mean, people like Helen Kirwin, who's
wasn't there when when the Paxistan peachrant took place, but
as somebody who ran against somebody who supported the Paxtan
petriot and was a conservative challenger, So you know, she
doesn't really fit them all there. So no, I think
these uh, these definitely run run the gamba super unusual.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I mean what pro crypto or anti censorship or I
guess if you don't know, you don't know. I'm just
trying to pick of the weeds here.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Yeah, I mean I think it's uh, they've they said
essentially that it's about AI and that's obviously been a
big topic. And you know, right now actually in Hood
County up in North Texas, you've got the sort of
Northwest Texas, I guess you have the the county actually
considering a moratorium on building data centers because citizens have
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complained about that and they don't want those projects in
their backyard. And so I think, you know, they're actually
meeting on that today their county commissioners, so that that
does not I don't actually believe deal directly with Meta,
but it is an issue that they would certainly be
sympathetic too, because obviously they want to continue to build
these data centers and even though there has been some
(13:18):
pushback from the citizens who live in these places.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, okay, well that's a pretty good way of explaining it, Brandon,
you always do a good job of that. Let's talk
about this, speaking of online censorship, Bookkeeper alleges nonprofit power
grab after founders meme arrest. There's some people that argued
that this guy that got arrested for a meme, it
wasn't really for a meme. So we, you know, talk
about getting into the weeds here. Can you explain what
(13:41):
happened on November fifth, twenty twenty five in Hood County.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yeah, this is actually segues right into this story actually,
because this takes place in Hood County where this this
whole data center scandal has been taking place.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
But you had a separate story.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Okay, so last November, folks might remember a little bit.
You had this guy, Colton Kroninger, who was arrested after
posting what was essentially a meme on a Facebook group, right,
just an image sort of joking that somebody supported the
candidate that they didn't and actually got.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Arrested by the sheriff there. Now the charges were dropped.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
There was a lot of attention put on this by
folks saying that, you know, this needs to be dropped,
and they did. But now you have actually somebody out
there who is alleging that this was actually part of
maybe a bigger power grab to alse Coulton from a
nonprofit organization that he is the leader of and that
(14:39):
he started that provides mental health services to veterans for
the reason of essentially this nonprofit, Anxiety Solutions of America,
operates this twenty two acre retreat in Granbury, and the
accusation is that actually there were some parties that wanted
to tell that property and put those data centers on there,
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the same data centers that people are fighting against right
now in Hood County today.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
And so sort of one.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Of those interesting things where you see that I think
the smaller the town, the bigger some of these stories
can really be in some of the potential corruption that
we see.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
All right, let's talk about this in fact, boy, wait
a lot more to talk about. Can you hang with
us through break?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Brandon? I want to know what's going on it Galveston County.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Apparently there's an elected official connected to a game room raid.
We'll tell you the story more with Brandon Walton's Texas
Scorecard dot Com.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Right after this late last night, after a few beers,
we discovered the art of deceiving politicians.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Just tell them the truth and they'll never believe you.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
A fentyl vaccine is in the works. To make sure it's.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Distributed to the right people, it will only be available
at Walmart.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Two Walmart jokes in a row. I am on a
roll this afternoon, aren't I Thanks for joining us. We're
back for more with Brandon Walton's We're gonna go to
Galveston County in just a minute, where a local elected
official is in trouble for a game room gambling on
illegal But before we get to any of that, I
just want to remind everybody that sometimes the stars align.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Oh they really do you know?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
There's two people that have gotten a lot of attention
on this radio show in Texas politics over the last
few months. It's the lawmaker from South Texas, Tony Gonzalez,
who some might say his penis caused a woman to die.
All right, fine, that's a loaded statement. But the guy
was clearly bullying, grooming one of his staff members into
cheating on her husband. When you read the text conversations
(16:42):
with her and Tony Gonzalez, it doesn't look like she
was interested in what he was saying to his staff member.
And then she killed herself. So Tony Gonzalez is a
bad guy. And then look he's a Forget about what
he did for a second. Let's just talk about who
he is as a lawmaker. The guy helped to push
open border policy, gun control, red flag laws. He's as
(17:03):
bad as John Corny is, I mean worse probably, But
John Cornyn is a more powerful lawmaker being a Senator.
And what is the common denominator between John redflag laws
Cornyn and Tony self emilation Gonzales. I think it would
be Matt Venmo mkoyak is. Did you know that Matt
mccoyac previously worked for Tony Gonzalez. He denies it now,
(17:26):
but apparently he was doing consulting work for Tony Gonzalez
a while back, and now report today at texascorecard dot
com reveals alleged explicit messages between Representative Tony Gonzalez and
a staffer. Immediately, the world has learned Tony Gonzalez is
a horrible person. Mainstream Republicans all over Washington, DC are
(17:47):
disavowing him. Brandon Herrera, his primary opponent, is shooting up
in the polls.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Thank god, he deserves it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
But isn't the real super villain here in all of
this Brandon Waltons. Isn't it really Matt mccoyac because he
liked the Lex luthor of the Republican Party.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Gosh, well, you know, he certainly has been focused on
the Cornyan campaign this cycle. And I think that if
you're somebody who doesn't like John Cornyn, if you're somebody
who wants to see John Cornyn unelected, who wants to
see Ken Paxton or Wesley Hunt in the Senate instead,
I think that you probably owe Matt mccoback a dead
(18:22):
of gratitude. He has been a you know, he has
been I just say this to somebody who's watched his campaigns.
I mean, I don't think anybody could say that Matt
mccoback has been helpful in any way to John Cornyn's campaign.
He's been a drag on it. He has caused multiple,
you know, self inflicted injuries to the campaign. You remember,
(18:44):
of course, the the when he docksed Wesley Hunt and
his family just a couple of weeks ago, and you
know that that's really only the beginning. Uh, And so
it is unsurprising that he would also be tied to
Tony Gonzalez, who's having his own meltdown right now.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Remarkable, It's like wow, It's like sometimes the universe just
makes perfect sense. Sometimes the world's a confusing place. And
sometimes when you see all the bad people hanging out
together at a cocktail party, a cocktail party probably as
suspicious as one being held by Bill Cosby, it really
makes perfect sense to you, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
It, Brandon?
Speaker 7 (19:23):
It does?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yes, Thank you you handled that very tactfully. All right,
Let's move along real quick. Off to Galveston County. Thirty
three people, including the mayor of Hitchcock, were arrested after
Galveston County authorities executed search warrants to twenty locations tied
to allege illegal gambling operations. You know, This will confuse
(19:45):
some people, Brandon, because we have poker rooms all over
the place in the greater Houston area, certainly the Galveston area.
But there are some things that aren't in the gray
area here, and this is one of them. You're clearly
not allowed to do this, right.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Yeah, you're not allowed to operate machines, right, and you
know if you were, they would be everywhere, right, So
of course they're illegal. And in this case, you actually
had these these slot machines seized by this major Galveston County.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Raid.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
But the real notable thing here, these things happen from
time to time that these they're kind of called these
eight liner machines that will pop up sort of in
the back of some gas stations or laundromats, and they're
supposed to you know, they're not necessarily on their face illegal, right,
because they're supposed to be. Okay, you can win like
a small prize that's not a money prize, something of
(20:41):
little value. But the way these actually work in practices, Okay,
you might win a stuffed animal or something, and then
you can trade it in for money. There's sort of
the these loopholes that they try to do. It's all
illegal in any case.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Though.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
An interesting thing here though, is that you know who
else gets tied up in all this but the city's
mayor of Hitchcock, the mayor, mister Mayor Chris Armacost, who's
now being charged with engaging in organized criminal activity at
because these were taking place at businesses that were a
business that is tied to him, and so you know,
(21:17):
he says he intends to fight the charges. This is
part of a bigger sweep. But not a good day
when you've got the mayor getting arrested in your town.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's also interesting too that this happened on State Highway Sex.
Is that what Texas six refers to, because apparently there
is a reputation. I have been told by our listeners
as that is a highway where you'll find like prostitution,
sketchy massage parlors, illegal gambling rooms, and it goes all
the way up into Houston. Our older listeners have told
(21:47):
me this has been happening for years, and I guess
some things just never change, like organized crime in Chicago.
Texas six they call it Highway Sex. Apparently it's Brandon
avoid It would be my advice from what I'm told
A nice young man like you doesn't belong there, Brandon.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yes, yes, and well and sure enough, officials say these
locations might be linked to things like prostitution and drugs
as well, So that investigation is still ongoing.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, you guys have another article today about a
lawsuit involving Barber's Hill Education Foundation trying to drop its
lawsuit against a state lawmaker. What is First of all,
where's Barber's Hill in what happened?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Barber Hills in Chambers County, So you know, just just
DC and Houston there, and you had Terry Leo Wilson,
who's a state representative for that area, who has been
highlighting what she has said are some questionable dealings with
this Barber's Hill Foundation and the Barber's Hill School District,
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essentially alluding to potential legal activity in this foundation, that
the is tied to the school district. And so you
can kind of get in the weeds on that. The
main thing is that the state Representati Leo Wilson has
been highlighting this. The foundation came out earlier this month
and sued Terry Leo Wilson saying that she was, you know,
(23:09):
tarnishing the foundation's good name. And charitable purposes, and then
just now, just literally like less than two weeks later,
the foundation is now quietly trying to drop its lawsuit.
Terry Leo Wilson says she wants to continue to see
this through because she believes that what she was.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Exposing was correct.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
And I think it probably does say something that if
this d foundation that's being accused of these of these
you know, nefarious dealings, if they're going to drop their
lawsuit that said that essentially they were being defamed, I
think it looks like maybe there might have been something
(23:51):
to those accusations.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
All right, let's talk for just a minute before I
let you go about early voting. We all know the
most talked about race in the country right now, Horny
In Paxton, Hunt, Crockett, tallar Rico. Any predictions who do
you We're just guessing here. This isn't an endorsement by Brandon.
You've looked at the polling, You've looked at the you
know what is really anecdotal, the behavior online, what you're
(24:14):
seeing out of polling locations. Do you think there's a
runoff in either of the two primaries, and if so
with who who do you think ends up in the
general election.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
No, I think if the Republican primary, you're going to
have a runoff, and I think it'll likely be just
based on the polling Cornan and Paxton, though I will
note that there's been a trend in recent polling which
has shown Wesley Hunt gaining momentum, and so whether or
not he's able to gain enough to get you know,
a second place finished to potentially be a Paxton Hunt
(24:44):
runoff remains to be seen, but certainly I think there'll
be a runoff there. As far as the Democrats go,
you know, James Tallerico and Jasmine Crockett's mostly a two
way race except for the fact that there are you know,
there is at least one other candidate whose name will
be on the ballot, meaning that it is possible that
neither gets fifty percent. In that case, you know, it's
(25:05):
harder for me to predict Kenny what Democrats will do,
but man, the amount of money that's been pouring in
for James tall Rico, I think, you know, if I
had to choose, I think I will probably be tall
Rico winning the Democrat nomination.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I get that impression too, and just removing myself from
this for a minute. He certainly seems like if I
was a Democrat, the more reasonable candidate.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
And that's not about sex, it's not about race.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But for the record, Jasmine Crockett has and Colin Alred,
they seem to be lobbing racism accusations at James Tallerrico.
Even state Representative Mitch Little, one of the lawmakers, one
of the attorneys that defended Ken Paxton, considered to be
on the far right, said it was absurd to call
James Tallerrico a racist. Do you think Colin Alred and
(25:50):
Jasmine just shot their own party in the foot in
the sense that we're not going to see the same
effect we saw in twenty eighteen where down ballot candidates
from Beto O'Rourke end up even though Beto lost, you
know that the Democrats gained a lot from having Beto
on that ticket, even though Beto didn't win.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Any thoughts on that.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Yeah, well, I think that James Tallerco is no Beto O'Rourke.
I think that, you know, twenty eighteen, there was a
lot of unique circumstances there, and so you know, while
you can kind of maybe look at it and see
some comparisons. I don't think we're going to see the
exact same thing where you had a lot of down
ballot races turned Democrats, specifically in the Texas House, where
we saw turnover of quite a few seats in that election.
(26:29):
I don't think we'll see that this time. I don't
think James Tallerico has quite the support that Beto had.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Then, Okay, what about this the other race. Everybody in
Houston's talking about Crenshaw and Toath. Do you think Tooth
can beat Crenshaw?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I think so, I actually do.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Today the House Freedom Caucus came out and endorsed Steve Toath.
You've seen turning Point to USA as well endorsed Steve Toath.
I think, you know, I think we're actually this is
an interesting situation that Texas is in right now because
I think, and look anything it happened.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
These are just my predictions.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
It's rare for incumbents to lose on the federal level,
for Congress or Senate, and I think we're in a
situation where we're going to see an incumbent senator losing
John Cornyan, and I think we're going to see two
incumbent congressmen lose as well in Tony Gonzalez and Dan Crenshaw.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Boy, it is just couldn't happened to a bigger bunch
of jerks, right. Crenshaw didn't even get the Trump endorsement. Okay,
the governor's race, I don't think any I'm no fan
of governor Rabbit, but I find none of these challengers
to be making any waves at all, even the ones
people think on social media have generated no money.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
E they're not showing up on any polls.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So skipping past the lieutenant governor race, because it's kind
of the same thing with Dan Patrick, let's talk about
the attorney general here, Ken Paxton stepping out. You got
chip Roy, Aaron Wrights, Mays Middleton, and Joan Huffman. Who
do you think you think there's a runoff? Do you
think one of these guys wins. Who do you think
ends up in the general election?
Speaker 7 (27:53):
I think there's a runoff.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I think it's chip Roy and May's Middleton, And you
know that'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
At that point.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Trump hasn't gotten involved in that race. You know, there's
a question about whether or not he would get involved
in a runoff if chip Roy is in there, and
so I think right now it's it's probably Chip Roy
and Mace Middleton in the runoff for the attorney General.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Okay, let's talk about I get the impression too. I
certainly think that's the case. Do you think the other
candidates get behind Mays. I mean, Chip is well in
the lead, but not fifty percent in the lead.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
You know, it'll be interesting to see. I mean, you know,
Joan Huffman, who's the fourth Canady in that race, is
you know, worked in the Senate, is in the State Senate,
will continue to be in the State Senate, and has
worked with Mace Middleton, and so I could see her
backing her colleague in the Senate in Mays Middleton.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Aaron Wrights, you know.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Has logged a lot of you know, he's been pretty
fiery against both Chip Roy and Mays Middleton, and so
you know where his support goes in a runoff if
he does not make it to a runoff, you know,
remains to be seen. But you could see I think
a lot of people rally around Mays Middleton in a runoff.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
All right, we talked about this in the last segment.
I think Don Haffines wins the Comptroller race. I don't
know if there will be a runof or not, but
let's leave on this one. Land Commissioner, No, I'm sorry,
Commissioner of Agriculture. Land Commissioner is Don Buckingham's and frankly,
I think the fact that she's attractive and blonde is
part of the reason why she has no challengers. So
good for her. You know, Trump is back. Obviously, pretty
(29:24):
blonde chicks are popular again. That's great, the Sydney Sweeney effect,
if you will. But as far as Commissioner of Agriculture goes,
you got Sid Miller. The incumbent Nate Sheets very well
liked by the grassroots. But is he has he do
enough people know who he is for it to matter
at this point.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
You know, he has spent a lot of money in
this race. There have been millions of dollars that have
been spent on his side. Sid Miller has frankly underperformed
in a lot of fundraising and yet you know a
lot of folks have pointed this out. I think Sid
Miller's support comes from a lot of bunch traditional places.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
I mean, know he's like it or not. The guy
has a lot.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Of followers on Facebook, right, and that usually doesn't matter,
but I would say that in his situation if you
look going back, he's been challenged in the last you know,
every every election Fragriculture Commissioner, and he's won pretty handsomely.
The latest polls have him way up over Nate Sheets,
the last poll that we saw in the University of Houston,
and so I think he's going to win. And I
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think it's going to be interesting because I think if
he does win, this isn't This is a case where
Governor Greg Abbott endorsed against Sid Miller, the first time
we've seen him actually go out publicly endorse against a
fellow statewide official, and so you know, things could be
a little awkward for the next few years between them.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
There's an article in the Chronicle from today who would
be a better ally to bee keepers? Sid Miller or
Nate Sheets? And I think Sid Miller wanted to comment
about this on his Facebook account, but unfortunately he got
locked out and oh, boomer alert, it's a boomer alert.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Oh no alert, Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
No, a boomer got locked out of their Facebook account
and said that it was censorship.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
During the campaign. Maybe it is. Who are we to say,
Brandon Waltons.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
If I wanted to subscribe to texascorecard dot com, what
would be the website for that?
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, it's easy enough. It's at texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress, take another vacation,
why don't you? Kenny Webster's pursuit of heaviness boomer alert.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Alert the Northeast.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
The upper northeast part of the country was hit with
two feet of snow last night, which breaks the previous
record for powdery white accumulations set by RFK Junior's Toilet's see.
Let's talk about him for just a minute, if you
don't mind look, I like Moha. I like RFK Junior.
I was in Colorado last weekend. Speak king of Snow.
(32:00):
I was skiing with my cousin and very liberal in
the part of Salida is the name of the town.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I was in Monarch.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Ski Resort, just a sleepy little ski resort town, a
lot of hippies and liberals and leftists around. We went
and saw a left wing improv comedy troupe. It was
just horrible. It was like Gitmo levels of torture. It
was terrible. It was painfully awful to watch. And then
afterwards someone came up to me and they're like, ah,
what do you do for a living? And I didn't
(32:28):
have the heart to tell him because I knew it
would really bother They couldn't handle if I gave him
a real answer of what I was like, I would
make fun of politicians on the radio. Vague didn't really
explain it. And the guy goes, you don't like Trump,
do you, And you know, I was like, ah, here
it goes. And then he's like, I don't like Trump,
but I like RFK Junior, and I thought, well, it's
refreshing to hear from a liberal in Colorado. He said
(32:48):
he didn't want to vote for Trump, he didn't want
to vote for Kamala, so he voted for RFK Junior,
even though he knew it was a waste of a vote.
Now RFK Junior is in the news today because for
you years as an environmental lawyer, he crusaded against the
controversial herbicide ingredient known as glyphasate glefazat.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
I don't know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
It's a chemical that's in that Monsanto uses in roundup.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You've heard of this before.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
RFK Junior was against this for a long time, right
up until he wasn't here to give us the who, what, When, where?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Why?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
The creator of the Libertarian Nation, the author of the
Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto, and the curator of I Love WJ
the Walton and Johnson online store, a great place to
buy merch for your upcoming spring break needs, Austin Peterson,
give us the who, what, when? Where?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Why?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Is?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Do you feel like RFK Junior is a hypocrite here?
What's your take on this?
Speaker 8 (33:42):
I think she probably has been convinced by superior argumentation
and the fact that his boss is telling him we're
going to create more glacios states. So this is a
big issue in states like Missouri, state like Texas, state
like louisianimis to do along with golf coats all across
the country, but especially in our red states in the
(34:04):
Midwest and in the South, because our state legislatures are
considering whether or not there should be a right to
sue companies like Bayer, who they've got a major manufacturing
plant here in Missouri. Can they be sued for improper
labeling or not warning people about the dangers of roundup, right,
(34:27):
the same stuff that everybody goes and gets the tractor store.
And the question in the air is do we allow
the FDA to set the rule, which is what Trump
wants to do, which is to say that the FEDS
will decide through the alphabet agencies that this stuff is productive,
it's good, it shouldn't be banned, and should there be
(34:47):
a blanket immunity provided to companies like Beyer who manufacture
this stuff. They don't want to get a sued every
time they make a jar around up that we got
to buy down the tractor store, Kenny. And god knows,
trial lawyers are destroying everything in this country that's good
and holy. I don't know if roundup is good or holy.
I'm agnostic on it. I'm willing to like listen to
(35:08):
both sides. But we have a serious problem, Kenny, whether
you're a conservative, libertarian, right leaning, or what have you.
I mean, we know the left wants to ban everything
right and tax everything. But on the right we have
a little bit more of the conflict when it comes
to the question of do we want to ban this stuff? Well,
do we know whether or not it's poisonous, yes, is
(35:29):
it cancer causing? Maybe that's the best I can determine.
So the question now comes down to if, well, you know,
if it's cancer causing and it's carcinogenic, at what level
should we even allow something like that to happen? You know,
cottage cheese has carcinogens in it, Kenny A.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Lot, I mean it.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
I mean it cottage cheese. Right now. You just saved
my life.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
So the point is is that we have a serious
problem because the question of whether or not it's it's
cancer causing is not a settled science in terms of
how much they're actually spreading. So it's a major, big corporation,
and because of the populist times that we live in
right now, it's not popular to support a big corporation,
(36:14):
even if the science is on their side, which we
don't know because they're the ones who fund the science.
So it's a mess. Kenny, I say, as the farmers
choose when you don't know, err on the side of freedom.
That's my default position. Other people they like to be Karens.
They want to stop everything that exists from moving. They
want to tax everything, regulate everything. Farmers can't do this.
(36:35):
Can't build data centers, can't build flights. You know, everything
has to be made by China and shipped overseas, and
everybody's going to have to work for China one day
because we can't build anything here in the United States.
I'm the opposite of that. I'm a build, allow grow,
you know. I guess that makes me in the pocket
a big bayer. But I'm not getting paid to say it, Kenny.
I just I just believe in liberty.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, I'm the same way. And do you remember the
video of RFK Junior being McDonald's on air Force one
with Donald Trump? I think it was right after the victory.
Is that kind of when we realized that RFK Junior
could be pushed around a little.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Yeah, but I mean, you work for the big boss,
you do it. You take the King's card and sting
the King's song. It's kind of one of the reasons
why I'm glad that Trump is the one in charge.
You know, I was not a big RFK Junior fan,
because you know, he's kind of an old left the
Democrat and soon the pants off of everybody for environmental purposes.
That's like, that's the natural enemy of Libertarians. So like
(37:32):
he's I kind of keep my beady eye on him,
and I think here's the thing. When he goes out
and he wants to ban snap benefits from serving junk
food and sugars, sugary foods, and oh you know what,
I don't want to subsidize diabetes. So yeah, have him
do that. Put the fat kids into camps and don't
(37:53):
let them leave until they're skinny. That's good, you know,
boy scouts, girl scouts, you know, get some fresh air
in your lungs. Those kind of help. It is great.
But you know his old enemy Monsanto, who is kind
of like he's the devil, Like it's like George Soros.
So Monsanto is like George Soros for the populist factions
(38:13):
of left and right.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
So you know, the.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. There's also there's
a Bernie Sanders wing of the Republican Party right, and
some of those have crossover. Some of those have crossover
with Maha right. A lot of these are Democrats, like
you said, that came over from the Democratic Party to
vote for Donald Trump, not your Colorado ski guy. But
the question remains is, you know, are we a free market,
(38:39):
limited government, conservative Republican party, or are we a crunchy
granola ban Things that have scary sounding names because they
come from big corporations, and big corporations are scary because
I don't know what corporation people do in corporation buildings
all day. Because you know, I make forty thousand dollars
a year and scrib toilet for a living. So do
(39:01):
we allow the experts to decide because they're the expertsy
in a science. No, we can't trust them.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
But do we? But?
Speaker 8 (39:09):
But like, but, Kenny, do you really have any peers?
I mean, could you? Could you really be tried in
a jury of your cheers?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
You?
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Do you think there's anybody?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
There are five? There are five libertarian nationalists. I think
you and I are half of them. Your your wife.
I'm gazing who's left there. I'm sure there's a couple more.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
There are hundreds of us and I have at least
there's at least No, it's hundreds. I'll tell you about
how fast this movement has been growing in this the
second Kenny. And on one hand you have the on
the one hand, you have the science and you have
the experts, and then on the other hand. You have
Joe who picks his nose and eats it, you know,
(39:50):
and puts so so who's to decide? I don't know.
I just know that it's a it's a mystery, it's
a quandary. I don't know how to fix it. But
I don't want the export to run things, and I
don't want Joe the nosepicker run things.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
What do we do, Kenny?
Speaker 8 (40:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I don't know either.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
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