February 26, 2026 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Michael Quinn Sullivan and Ethan Buchanan. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Jigana government sucks. The Suit of Happiness Radio is DeLux.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
A new report claims that Nevada ranks is the most
deceitful state in America. I believe that. I mean, I'll
give you an example here. Look how they lie about
the Las Vegas Raiders being a professional football team. Hi everyone,
thanks for joining us. I'm Kenny Webster. Today's afternoon show
will be all about early voting, what's going on in
the elections, the latest from the Senate race, Ken Paxton,
Wesley Hunt, John Cornyn, new polling data from the University
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of Texas. Michael Quinn Sullivan joins us in just a
short bit, and Ethan Buchanan will be here this afternoon
from KTRH Stick around.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Pursuit of Happiness Radio coming now, Chu Speker.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC Nin Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh, this is interesting. There's an article at texascorecard dot
com authored by Maddie Hayworth that name doesn't immediately mean
something to you. That's okay. I wouldn't expect you to
know who she is. The article starts off with this,
I'll read you the first paragraph. My dad is Ken Paxton,
and as you may know, he's running for the United
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States Senate. I'm not a political strategist or a pundit.
I'm his daughter, and I know him better than almost anyone.
So when his an opponent, I think she's talking about
John Cornyn, unable to compete on record, on results, or
on values, resorts to attacking my father's character in personal life,
I feel compelled to speak up, not as a campaign surrogate,
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but as his daughter. And from there the article goes
on to detail some of his accomplishments, and then, from
the words of his own daughter, detail how she thinks
her dad is a good guy. I have to assume
Ken Paxton's daughter only knows Ken Paxton a little better
than gosh. I don't know Matt mccoyac, the calm director
for John Cornyn, but I digress. Instead of me telling
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you guys what I think of this article, I decided
to ask Michael quinn Sullivan, the editor of Texas scorecard
dot Com, to join us this afternoon and tell us
what he thinks about it. Michael, thanks for joining the show,
my man, it's great to be with you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Kenny. Look, you know the I think I think a
lot of us are accustomed to candidate families being used
as silent props in in their in their in their campaigns.
You know, it's the you know, the the slightly faded
uh spouse and kids and dog and grandkids and whatever
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else you know, make it in there is kind of
you know, b roll shots. It's a lot more rare
for a for a, for the for the child, particularly
the child of a candidate, to take this kind of
role in defending her father's character, and the face would
have been some you know, nasty attacks. Look some of
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the texts, as she says, you know, he hasn't always
done everything right. Okay, that's that's that's true for all
of us. But the fact that that that that she's
speaking at, I think says says a lot then in
the same way about each one of our families where
things are complicated, and that maybe you know, we need
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to make sure that we are judging our candidates not
based on the scurreless tabloid rumors, but rather on who's
who's going to do the job we want done? My
my friend Chris Putnam from Dallas Express. You know, we're
going back and forth on Twitter last night, you know,
to go make an agreement on something, and and then
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he made the note and you know, we need to
make sure that you know, you find her role models
and other parts of your life for politicians hire them
to do a job. You know. And I think that
that you see her doing is saying my dad can
do the job, and uh ands and of men of
character where it matters most. It's a it's a different
take to take in the final days of a campaign.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It does not mesh well with the narrative that Ken
Paxton is somehow bad for family values and you know whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's right, that's try. And then look, if you want
to feel beat for family values, let's talk about and
if you want to do that, then let's have a
conversation about using vinmo to to get deck work done.
Mister Mcalliac, Oh my god, let's talk about not being
faithful to the constitution. Sinator Cornyn. What you know, we
we we can talk about a lot of those kind
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of things if we want. And I think voters have
been you know, voters have looked at the Ken Paxton record,
and they've looked at some of the you know, some
of the bad decisions maybe he's made personally, well not
maybe that he has made personally for Dixon to keep
hiring him because in his day job, he gets things done.
And I think that's what Texans are looking at. Percally
contrasted j On Horny.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
One person who's helping to push this narrative against Ken
Paxton is Carl the infamous Neocon political strategist. And look,
there's a lot of people listening to us talk right now, Michael,
who have been divorced, half of marriages and in divorce.
It's very sad. Carl Rove has been divorced a couple
of times, according to a brief, you know, a description
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of his personal life. I'm reading online here. It's interesting
that he's so involved in this, isn't it. Yeah, Look, I.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Mean this is the this is the very very classic
don't look at my problems, let's talk about my opponent's
problems kind of thing. And maybe what we need to
do rather than looking at people's problems is let's look
at what they can deliver. Carl Rove does not want
you looking at John Cornyn's record. And let's be very
clear here. Karl Rove, who claims to be a Texans.
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You know, he shows up, you know, acting like a
Textan on Fox News fairly regularly. But I'm not sure
he's had a real conversation with a real Texan in years,
if not decades. And it's apparent because for at least
a decade, Karl Rove has been telling people that if
Ken Paxton is the nominee for Texas Attorney General, a
Democrat will win the seat. Well, he's been wrong, literally
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every time he said that for a decade and a half,
and now he's trying to say it again. You know, somehow,
it's somehow this time he can will it into truth
simply by bloviating it enough. It's simply not true, Carl,
and Carl, if you would talk to real Texans, you
would know that it's not true. But he's not talking
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to real Texans. He's talking to lobbyists and lobbyists in
Austin and swampy donors in Washington, d C. All of
whom do pretty well under the likes of John Cornyn,
all of whom are worried they won't do as well
under a Ki Paxton.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I see a lot of pulling data that some that
contradicts each other, some that seems to align with each other.
The vast majority of it says Ken Paxton's in first place.
The question of who's in second varies from what hole
you choose. I do think that most of the polling data,
if I've learned one thing from it, it makes me
think that, if anything, Wesley Hunt's taking votes away from Cornyan,
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not so much from Ken Paxton. What are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think you're right. I think that that that Wesley
Hunt is kind of a good grand If you know
that Cornyn's goose is cooked, Wesley Hunt would would be
your neck like and and and I'm in no way
trying to impune Wesley Hunt's Charactersen's a good guy, good record,
everything else. But I think to a uh, you know,
to to a voter who's more inclined to like the
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John Cornyn's style of governing, maybe, you know, no kind
of the hope is well, maybe Wesley Hunt won't be
you know, you know what, won't be as bad as
can Paxton? Right, you know whatever that means, not to
say Meldow. I think that when you look if you're
to have both of them in the US, and at
the same time, my gut tells me that Paxton and
Hunt would have an indistinguishable record, right, I think their
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records would look a whole lot alike. But so I
think one you're you're correct on that. You know, the
big question going into Tuesday night is number one. John
Cornyn's staff told Brandon Walton's on the Texas Scorecard team
that they're not going to do an election night party.
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They're not going to they're not going to do election
watch party. They're not going to have people gathered around
John Gornan on election night because they're really worried and
this is what one told Politico last night. They're really
worried about Ken Paxson kicking his butt. They're really worried
about that. And so they're not going to do an
election night party where where Cornyn would be somewhat obligated
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to come out and say something. So the big question
for John Cornyn is going to be is he going
to spend is he going to let his grifter campaign
advisors like Matt Mcalliac let them spend another one hundred
million dollars. He's spent close to one hundred million dollars already,
spend another one hundred million dollars in run off that
he will absolutely lose the majority. No matter what you
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take from any poll, Kinney, no matter what you take
from poll, take this, a big majority of Texas Republicans
are not going to vote for John Cornyn. That's the
number one talking point. So if Cornyn's going into a runoff,
John Cornyn is going to have to decide does he
really want to go down as the guy who's going
to have a massive defeat in a runoff election, or
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does he want to do the right thing for the party.
John Cornyn's my experience, he's always been a gentleman, always
been a nice guy, you know, fairly, self effacing, all
all these kind He's a gentleman. He's a Texas gentleman. Right.
His campaign not so much. And his campaign got a
lot of people cashing big checks. They won another one
hundred million dollars spent. We'll have to see what John
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Cornyn does.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Look Michael, when I heard the news from Brandon Waltons
and the fantastic reporting at Texas scorecard dot Com that
John Cornyn wasn't going to have an election night party.
I just presumed, like everyone else did, that it was
because he can't stay up that late. I mean, the
guy goes to bed at seven.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That may also be true. Look, I mean the I
think the biggest sigh of relief when that word went
out came from the Austin Lobby and the DC swamp
who were not going to be feel compelled to go
to a John Cornyn campaign death watch party. You know,
they didn't want to do that, but they were all
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glad they wouldn't have to show their faces. Because they're
a party, they have to be there. So I think
the Austin Lobby crowd super super duper happy that he's
not not doing that party.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay, I have not seen any polling data that suggests
that Dan Patrick doesn't get I mean, somewhere between eighty
and ninety percent of the vote. So not much to
say about the lieutenant governor's race. I kind of get
the impression the governor's governor's race is the same way.
I know some people like this, they're underdog candidates. We'll
leave it at that that some people like but those
candidates have failed to raise any money, and they don't
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really seem to be shown up on any polls, do they.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
No, they don't. Look this is weird. Think too many
folks have decided to live their lives online, and they've
decided to live their lives on Twitter and on social media,
and it's real easy on Twitter and social media to
make a lot of noise. My grandfather, who ended his
career as a colonel and at Air Force, began his
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career as an enlisted man in the United States Armies
cavalry when they had actual forces, and the part of
always was kind of like a calvary man. And he
said that he had a staff sergeant tell him at
one point that if you're when he was a private,
telling him, when you look out over the plane and
you see a big cloud of dust, it can be
an approaching army. It can be an approaching storm, or
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it can be an idiot running around in circles and
social Yeah, and the way you prepare for the first
two is really radical. A storm versus an army, that's
that's really radical. Social media, though, tends tends to make
idiots running around in circle goals look a whole lot
like approaching storms or approaching armies. And I think that's
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why all of us have to do a gut check sometimes,
step away from the little screen in your hands, step
away from social media and go to a Republican Women's
club meeting, go to the heck, go to a Democrat
X person. I don't know what they call themselves, and
if they had democrat women anymore or not, I don't know.
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They can call it women with a Y maybe anyway,
you know, go to those I mean to go to
a roadby club meeting, Go to a lion have a
real conversation with your neighbors, not on the hoa website right.
Go to those kind of things, and I think you'll
find that sometimes you're seeing online doesn't mesh with reality.
I think that's where we all need to make sure
we have that gut check about social media.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So that sounds like what you're saying is if some
guy moved to our state, bought a cowboy hat, voted
in one single election, lives in an RV park, raised
twenty thousand dollars, and is pulling at les than six percent,
he's probably not going to save Texas from Islam or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
He said that that is probably a really really good
fault on your part.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
All Right, the side quest here because I want to
ask you more about the different pulling data we're looking
at today, especially this pulling data from UT. But did
you see some young woman on social media made a
list of all the stuff that was passed during Dustin
Burrow's tenure in the Texas House, in the Texas Legislature
to tribute Islam, anything from like Ramadan Day to like
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Pakistani Day. Why is there so much of that and
why was there suddenly a need for it?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Michael, Well, I mean one, I mean, I hate to
break it to anyone, but this is why it's really
important to I mean, it's good to start paying attention today,
all right, it's really good to today start paying attention. Yeah,
But if you're going to start paying attention today, I
would argue that all the SOS citizens had an obligation
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to to look at what came before today, because the
world did not begin when Dustin Burroughs became the speaker
in January twenty twenty five. There were actually members of
the Texas Legislature passing resolutions, passing laws, all that kind
of stuff going back to eighteen thirty six, there was
a Republic of Texas Congress that in eighteen forty six
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became the state legislature. And throughout that time they passed resolutions,
passed all all sorts of laws. And there have been
now for years resolutions honoring you know, Muslims, and honoring
Hindus and honoring by and Protestants and Catholics. And that's
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kind of what they do. And this is where you
know it sounds it sounds really big. Oh my gosh,
they passed they passed a resolution for Islam. Okay, a
resolution is different than than the legislation.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's kay.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
When you don't yah, you know that, you know it
is literally they will do hundreds and day, thousands of
these things, honoring j D girls soccer teams. Hey, the
girls soccer team. None of them were drunk for one game.
It was great, congratulations, you know what, whatever it may be.
You know, all these resolutions get passed. They don't have
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any effective all. So one that's where you need to
make sure you're you're checking that kind of stuff, you know.
And and just because the Texas House says Tuesday February first,
is you know, honor Kenny Webster day. That's the exact
same thing as you know. This is everyone go eat
raw fish day. I mean, it means nothing, right, and
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I think that's where we need to make sure that
we're separating those things out. Now you can ask the
question why why are more and more people have that
to honor Islam? Well, that's a good question to ask,
but I would note that it's been going on a
lot longer. Justin's Dustin Burroughs the came speaker.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All Right, one more question for you and then I'll
let you go. I'm looking at the polling data here.
Uh look, I like Aaron Wrights. I think he's a
good guy. I don't understand why John Huffman is even
in this race, but it seems to me like the
Attorney General has really come down to a Maze and
Chip here, And in fact, credit to Maze, because when
Chip jumped into this thing, it looked like there might
not even be a runoff, and now those guys seem
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to be neck and neck.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah. I have known May's Middleton a long time. I've
known Chip Roy a long time, and I can tell
you the the the single dumbest thing a person can
do is underestimate the uh the sheer uh work work
ethic of either one of those two guys. And and
and I would suggest to you that, you know, on
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the on the real world side of things, this is
where mays Middleton. You know, bless bless his heart, as
my grandmother would say, you know, he has burned up
a lot of Texas Highway going to a lot of events.
I'm amazed at how Alton I am that I've been
at something the past almost year and he'd been there
the previous month. Was come the next month and I
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go there. Anyone who advites me, I show up and
uh and and Middleton has been doing that as well.
There's really see I think that the talking point against them,
Oh he's just a rich guy. He's gonna try to
buy the seat. Well, he is spending a lot of
his own money, but he is. But he's also just
been working his backside off. The same thing with with
chip Roy working his backside off on the sound chip
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Roy's law of name id. Because of the National TV
and other things, and all the polling for months now
has indicated those two guys are going to be in
a primary. And I've said this to you before, and
we'll say it again when you're talking about Aaron Wright's
Joan Huffman, uh Chip Roy Mays Middleton, which in any
one of the four of them, more than likely, when
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it's all said and done, will be at least the
second best attorney general in Texas history. We this is
where all of us need to take a moment. Set
aside our you know, our our cults, the cults of
personality that we are in in this race, and you
can look objectively at four of them, and all four
of them would do a would literally be Mexican Paxson
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the best attorney general Texas has ever had. And I
think that that's that's an indicative of where Texas politics
has moved, that we now have four strong choices rather
than you know, one choice who well maybe maybe that
candidate won't embarrass us as much. All four of them
I would do a good job, good place today.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Wait a second, Michael, are you saying John Cornyn wasn't
the best attorney general?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I am saying one of those four would be far
better than John Cornton.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
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Speaker 4 (18:46):
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Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
A pair of Michigan men set a record by playing
pickleball for twenty eight straight hours. The record was longest
game of pickleball without dying. Hey, speaking of not dying,
did you know today is National Letter to an Elder Day?
So it's time to get out a pen and paper
and write to people who still know how to read
cursive writing. Imagine that it's National.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Letter to an elder day. Can't think of an old
person to write to who will help you find one,
because old people are everywhere. Like your neighbor whose yard
is covered with ceramic nomes, that's right, the woman who's
holding up the line at the grocery store to pay
by check, customers at the shoe store who say.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Can I get this?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Engage anyone who starts a sentence with according to what
I read on Facebook, and of course any player screaming
oh my back at your local pickleball court, just like
that Letter to an Elder Day, isn't so hard to celebrate,
after all, no old people.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Who they're all around us.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But I just want to right now, that's true. I
just want to remind the older people listening to radio station,
we you, we value you. You're not going anywhere, and
we're not going anywhere. We'll be back with the Ethan
Buchanan right after this, Kay's King.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. On KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Bill Gates admitted to multiple affairs with multiple different Russian women.
You know the worst part of that, Ethan Buchanan was
the nickname that they gave him Microsoft. They called him Microsoft.
I didn't think that was funny, Ethan Buchan. That was mean,
wasn't it. That was a mean thing to say.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
That's so hurtful, that's so hurtful.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
What did Bill Gates ever do wrong besides monopolize the
tech industry, destroy all the little guys who tried to
come up, steal other people's intellectual property, help push the
pandemic narrative even when it wasn't necessarily helpful, and give
his wife an ariial disease, and then Spiker drinks with antibiotics.
But other than that, what did he do?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Hey? I mean to sit here and try to diminish
his achievements. I mean, let's not forget how much we
love their their little web browserer. I'm blanking on the
name because no one ever uses it, but the one
that comes with every Windows ten PC.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It used to be called I E but it's called
something else name Internet.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Yeah, it went from Internet Explorer to the They put
a new fancy name on it.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But everyone uses it to download Google.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
But that is a download Chrome Microsoft Edge. Yeah, there,
it is Microsoft Edge. Without Microsoft Edge, Google would be nowhere.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Without Microsoft Edge, how would you download Chrome onto your computer? Exactly?
All right, Well, I'm that note photo just surfed us
it of there's new pictures. Is Stephen Hawking allegedly on
Epstein Island with several women in bikinis.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Do you know why?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Hey, they just happened to be there. He would never
do anything wrong himself. He's only a rich, powerful elite.
So to insinuate that he might have done something wrong
when he was on Epstein Island multiple times for a
physics conference, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, you're you're missing the big picture here there's a
reason why he does this.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
What's the reason?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's just how he rolls aha. You know, in his defense,
he has always had a passion for exploring black holes.
That's terribly I ain't know, Hey, what what do you want.
I'm just you know, I'm just here.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
That's horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm just here telling I'm asking the tough questions. All right,
I want to talk about polling data for a minute.
We were here with Michael Quinn Sullivan a little bit
earlier in the show, and some people didn't like, you know,
the polling data for some of their underdog candidates. It
is what it is. There's also this report today that
just Republicans just aren't early voting in the same numbers
as Democrats, which makes people think that is a sign
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that it will that in the general election in November,
that the Republicans will get smoked. Historically that's never been true,
but still it's maybe concerning to someone. Would you share
with us what you've learned?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah, so the Texas Tribune did, I think this is
rare for them, but they did a actual good report
about this and they kind of highlighted some of the numbers.
So as of last Monday, the early voting data was
about six hundred and sixty five thousand, six hundred and
sixty four Democrats had went and gone and early voted
in their party primary. Now, by contrast, the Republicans, they're
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sitting around five hundred and ninety three thousand, six hundred
and some change. So that's not a huge huge difference,
that's less than one hundred thousand difference. And we know
that Republicans love to vote day of. So this idea
that oh, there's just all this passion on the Democrat
side that's going to carry through to November and Republicans
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just don't have that, and so we're gonna get swamped
because we're getting swamped right now. I mean, it's really
easy to kind of pull that out of the numbers
if you want to make the numbers say what you
want them to say. But what the numbers are actually
saying is this is fairly normal. Republicans just vote day of,
that's what we do. This actually shows that Republicans are
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turning up in early voting, they're just not doing it
as much as the Democrats, which is nothing shocking. And
as far as the excess turnout, well, yeah, we got
a big Senate race here in Texas that's motivating everybody.
The Democrats are really motivated to go out and vote
for Jasmin Crockett versus James Tylerrego because that's been a
contentious race. And then we've got on the Republican side
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of the aisle, another big contentious race that's motivating people.
I predict that as early voting draws to a close
and then we have election Day next week, you're gonna
see those numbers balance out.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
They're going to be pretty close to even.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
And then come November, I'm really not worried about Democrats
swamping the state and flipping it blue. It hasn't happened
in thirty years. I would be shocked if Jasmine Yas
Queen Crockett is the one who finally breaks that cycle
for them.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I had no idea her middle name was an urban colloquialism. Yes,
she covers that up real good, but it's fantastic. You
can find that in the documents. All right, So Trump
has a great economy. I mean it certainly is about
it's better than what Kamalas would have had. I don't
love the tariffs. I've made that point but I do
like how he uses them as a bartering chip. Here's
a few things I noticed about it economy right now,
strong GDP growth, There's no question about that record job creation.
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It's seven million added. That's great, Historical low unemployment right now.
Nobody's talking about that tax cuts, business reform. Suddenly we
are more entrepreneurial again, despite all those regulations the Biden
administration put into play. Trump has made it so that
people can actually thrive and grow a business here. That's great.
Nobody wants to talk about how the Tax Cuts and
(25:26):
Jobs Act is giving three point two trillion in relief.
Wage increases. Yeah, actually, blue collar wages have seen the
largest growth in nearly sixty years under Trump, with private
sector real earnings up to eleven hundred annually. That's fantastic.
Let's talk about controlled inflation. Inflation actually slowed down under Trump.
It was out of control under Biden. You could pretend
(25:46):
that it's worse, but it's not, despite what the Democrats
are saying, despite what the tariffs are doing. And then
there's this, I think this is really important. Gas prices
are finally below three dollars per gallon in most states.
The lowest and nearly five years. Obviously, this is because
of domestic energy production and exports, which Donald Trump's ramped up.
The manufacturing boom. Have you ever heard this before? There
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was a time in America Ethan when there were more
jobs in manufacturing than in government. That was way before
you were born. Go well, now, manufacturing jobs grew at
the fastest rate in over three decades, four hundred thousand
jobs added in his first term. Stock market performance the
S and P five hundred rows significantly. This is just
another reflection on the investor confidence people have in Trump's
(26:28):
pro growth agenda. These are all good things. The problem
is everything I just said. You understand it. I think
our listeners understand it. I'll bet the average Republican voter
probably understands it. Do independence understand this stuff?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I think the real issue here is just kind of
the messaging, and not that the messaging has been necessarily bad, because,
like you pointed out, the actual data on the ground
shows that all of this stuff is working. It's not
working overnight. It's not magically fixing all of the problems
left by bionomics. But what we've seen over the last
year and a month is measurable progress. The problem is
(27:04):
how they're pitching it. And the line has always been
we're gonna bring prices down. We're gonna bring prices down,
We're gonna bring inflation down. And what people think is okay, great,
so when I go into the store, stuff will be cheaper.
That's not how this works. What they need to be
saying is, rather than we're gonna bring prices down, say
we're going to bring your paychecks up, because the prices
(27:24):
aren't gonna go back down. Inflation doesn't turn around. You
don't have negative inflation unless it's a recession, and we
don't want a recession. What you want to do is say, hey,
we are now having price increases at two percent every year.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
That's the Fed's target for inflation.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
You're getting effectively a four percent raise every year or
something like that.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Your real income is.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Increasing by four percent every year, so you're outpacing inflation.
The prices are gonna continue to rise. They're not gonna
go back down. There's never gonna be a day where
you walk in and all of a sudden something is
ten or fifteen dollars cheaper than it was the day before.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
That's how it is yeah, well, unless the market crashes
in a dangerous the market crashes, but probably Well, if
you have ten to fifteen more dollars to play around
with every single day, well there you go.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
And obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit. That's not the
pace in which the real rages will grow. But real
rages can grow and will grow. And that's what the
Republicans should be messaging. Not bringing prices down. Focus on
bringing paychecks up, and you'll effectively bring the real prices down.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
But obviously that price tag at Kroger is going to
stay the same. Yeah, it's very unlikely that once the
price goes up, it comes down. Of course, one way
to bring the prices down on things more competition, get
people the opportunity to buy more things. More people could
start businesses, and suddenly you notice the prices come down
on stuff. You are Last time I checked a zoomer,
you're twenty three years old. People your age do they
(28:53):
understand any of this? I mean, I know you're a
little nerdy, but what about your buddies, what about other
kids you play Fortnite with?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Vaguely?
Speaker 7 (28:59):
First of all, they vaguely. I think people understand that
a lot of the narrative isn't accurate or isn't correct,
even if they don't kind of understand the fiscal science
behind it. A lot of people aren't sitting here worried
about necessarily the intimate details of tariffs and how that
(29:20):
inflects various price various prices and different you know, supply
chains and the all of the minutia behind it. But
they understand that the economy is on paper getting better.
They can sense that out, even if they can't explain
to you why. And so I think the real key
(29:41):
if you want to lock down those voters is just
give them a very basic, simple answer. Like they're telling
you the economy is not getting any better. You know
that's not true. I can explain it to you and
all the little details. Or I can just say, real
wages are up. Prices aren't dropping, but real wages are up,
and they'll they'll catch that, they'll acknowledge that, they'll respond
to it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I think I like that. So you voted already, I'm
taking it.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Yes, I did early vote, Yeah, yeah, go early vote.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Guys. Was what was your most controversial vote? Ethan?
Speaker 7 (30:12):
This is this is gonna get me in trouble and
it's gonna come back to bite me in the ass.
But I did vote for Greg Abbott even though I
don't like the guy. I don't care for Greg Abbott
on a political level. But here's the reality that a
lot of grassroots folks will crucify you if you point
out right there is no alternative to Greg Abbott. Doc
(30:35):
Pete Chambers is not the alternative to Greg Abbott. He's
not going to win. He's not going to get close
to winning. His most recent polling shows him around five percent.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'm looking at it right now. So you're not an
Evelyn Brooks guy. You're not interested in Mark Goliby, Charles Crouch,
Kenneth Hyde.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yeah, none of those people really really ring the bell
for me.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
So I mean, I could have just skipped the governor's
page and gone on with my voting, or I could
have just voted for Greg Abbott. At that point, it's
effectively doing the same thing regardless of what I do.
Greg Abbitt is going to win this race even if
you don't like it, even if I don't like it.
So I didn't do it because I support Greg Abbot,
(31:16):
but I mean, he's better than a Democrat. That's objectively true,
and again there is no alternative on the Republican side
of the aisle, even if you really want it to
be the guy in the RV.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, I love that, explaining to me, you've been to
Whatburger before, haven't you?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I have been to whataburger? Whataburger? Ficionado?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
What's your order?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
I get the number five and I have him take
all the vegetables off of it except the lettuce, and
then I put mayo and ketchup on it.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
What's the number five? Double bacon or something?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Yeah, it's the bacon one I see.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
To me, sweet and spicy burger, better sauce, it's still bacon.
I'm with you on the lettuce and tomato thing. I
think it adds nothing to a burger. Cheese, bacon, sauce, pickles,
that's what goes on a burger. I like the because
it doesn't add flavor, but it's a texture thing for me.
And yeah, other than that, yeah, I just I'm fifty
to fifty on pickles. Sometimes I love him, sometimes I
hate him. But I can't do spicy food. I drink
(32:12):
milk and that's about a spicies. I go, why can't
you're a Texas man, Why can't you do spicy? I
am what has been sometimes medically referred to as a cracker.
I can't handle it, all right? Well, whataburger manager in
Texas was forced to subdue a customer. This happened up
in the Paris, Texas area, you're familiar. The customer jumped
behind the counter and was apparently attacking the employees there,
(32:35):
because you know how people are. So the manager beat
him with a trash can after he allegedly assaulted the
workers there. So here's some of the audio of the
trash can impacts to the man that was assaulting. As
the audio, you can have a listed bit, all right,
(32:56):
I have a confession to make. Sadly, it never sounds
like it does in the cartoons. So we did that
to the end there with the audio. We didn't really
it's in. Really, I would have believed you. I would
have believed you. You had me, all right. Worst french
fries and fast food go McDonald's. That's considered to be
the catalog in the front, and it's bull crap.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
I have never had a McDonald's french fry and thought,
oh my god, this is amazing. If you really want
the best French fries in fast food, it's Freddy's.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Have you ever heard this before? That Freddy's is good,
but it's not common. Have you ever heard this before
that back in the twentieth century, before you were born,
beef tallow was used in the French fries at McDonald's.
But the reason they stopped using it, and I'm sorry
to do this to you Indian Americans, but apparently there
was a lawsuit with a Hindu guy or some people
were mad. That's how always explained to me. I'm not
(33:42):
an attorney, and I certainly wasn't one back then, but
that some people sued McDonald's. They said, this is bs.
How can you put beef tallow in the French fries?
We've been eating this because we're vegetarians.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
I believe that, and I believe that because having worked
in fast food before. I worked at Chick fil A
several years ago when they were testing a new product
which was bacon baked beans. It was really good baked beans.
It had bacon bits in it. It was fantastic. And
I know of at least one instance where a Muslim
woman came in ordered that, and I guess she didn't
(34:14):
know it was bacon, and she ordered the bacon baked
beans and ate the bacon baked beans, and she was
not pleased about it. So I believe it because I've
seen it happen.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Have you ever heard of hallal bacon?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
You know what that is?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It sounds terrible. Hellel bacon is just I don't know
how to explain. It's beef bacon. It's bacon, big bacon,
turkey baconer well, I guess no, I think it's with beef,
if I'm not mistaken. In Canada, there's a fast food
place up there that switched at some point to hallel bacon,
and in order to convince Americans it was better, they
(34:48):
did a TV commercial with white people, like some kid
goes there with his grandma and they're clearly not Muslim,
but the hallal bacon is on the menu, and so
the grandmothers deserves it to her kid, and he's so
excited to eat it. This little white boy is just irate.
He's hysterical with excitement. I think I actually have. It's
(35:08):
called the Burger Factory in Canada, and up there, this
is very normal to them because they're so overrun with Islam.
Here plays sound like Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
For freaking on, you love your helal bacon. I can't
believe you let him eat that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
He tried it once and he couldn't get enough.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Who's my little Hellal boy?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Guys, it's a white kid with his Judeo Christian family. Yeah,
that's never happened this celebrating his Muslim friendly bacon with
two lesbian grandmas and their son. Wasn't that remarkable?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
What a TV?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's what's gonna ethan, That's what's going to happen to
Texas if we keep letting the door slide open here
to the Mideast. You know, I know that makes me
a racist, but I'm and I'm a Republican. I've been
called that for years.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Yeah, why do we have to keep pretending this is normal?
I mean, it's it's not normal, and it's okay for
it to not be normal. It's okay to not cater
to everybody. I mean, some things just don't have to
be for everyone. Obviously, bacon is one of those things,
and I would argue that hallal bacon is probably.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
One of those things.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
For me.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
I don't want hullal bacon. I want my bacon to
be bacon. I want my beef to be beef. I
love them both. Why are we trying to pretend that
we have to cater to the smallest groups of people.
If they don't want regular bacon or they don't like
the fact that regular bacon is being served in various
times and places, there are options for you. There are
(36:32):
Sharia law countries where you can go and live and
you never have to make contact with a pig. Again,
it's not Texas. We like bacon here. It's not the
United States of America. Yeah, I get what you're saying,
My man, Do you you're married?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Now?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
If I'm not mistaken, did you you met your wife at?
What a burger? Is that where you guys had the
ceremony at?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
No mail order?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
She's a mail all mill order. Okay, Well, it turns
out sixty percent of Americans now prefer open relationships, according
to a new study. On top of that, a nationwide
analysis rank Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, and New York as
the top five most polyamorous states.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
Okay, in Texas's defense, those numbers are being skewed by Austin.
You think so, I don't know anyone in a polyamorous relationship.
Are they talking about Mormons or is this like a
religious thing? Are they just talking about the Libs? I
think it's the Libs.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Would people talk about polyamor polyamorous relationships? They never what
they're talking about, freedom of marriage, gays and lesbians and
you know you can have you can scissor sister with
nine people. But they never bring the Mormons into this.
There's never been a movement for them. Why is that?
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Well, you gotta kind of dance around the Mormons. They've
got a history.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
What have they done wrong? Ethan?
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Oh, you know, just all of the all of the
eighteen seventies really okay?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Well, as a therapist, I have advised a number of
couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains
emotionally committed but free to explore extramarital encounters.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Well, did it work for those? No, it never does.
My brother, Ethan, you're a fantastic radio personality for a
guy in his early twenties, and I always love when
you come visit the studio. Tell us about your show
on Sunday evenings right after Ted Cruise. After Ted Cruz
sets the stage for a Sunday evening of talk radio excellence.
What happens on the The Next Gen Report Thanks to report. Yeah,
(38:22):
we talk about everything. We talk about politics, news, culture.
We try to have fun with it. I mean, I
don't take myself too seriously. It was a hassle trying
to talk Ted Cruz into opening for me, but I
got him to commit to it.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
And so, Yeah, Sunday's a seven on k PRC nine
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like to view it as, you know, the same type
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when we are hanging out eating dinner and we start
talking politics. That's really what it is. I'm not trying
to lecture you, I'm not trying to over explain to you.
I'm just this is how I see things going on
(38:57):
and just kind of bounce ideas off.
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I love to hear at Ethan Buchanan. Listen to downloads
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
A new report claims that Nevada ranks is the most
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the Las Vegas Raiders being a professional football team. Hi everyone,
thanks for joining us. I'm Kenny Webster. Today's afternoon show
will be all about early voting, what's going on in
the elections, the latest from the Senate race, Ken Paxton,
Wesley Hunt, John Cornyn, new polling data from the University
(00:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh, this is interesting. There's an article at texascorecard dot
com authored by Maddie Hayworth that name doesn't immediately mean
something to you. That's okay. I wouldn't expect you to
know who she is. The article starts off with this,
I'll read you the first paragraph. My dad is Ken Paxton,
and as you may know, he's running for the United
(01:24):
States Senate. I'm not a political strategist or a pundit.
I'm his daughter, and I know him better than almost anyone.
So when his an opponent, I think she's talking about
John Cornyn, unable to compete on record, on results, or
on values, resorts to attacking my father's character in personal life,
I feel compelled to speak up, not as a campaign surrogate,
(01:46):
but as his daughter. And from there the article goes
on to detail some of his accomplishments, and then, from
the words of his own daughter, detail how she thinks
her dad is a good guy. I have to assume
Ken Paxton's daughter only knows Ken Paxton a little better
than gosh. I don't know Matt mccoyac, the calm director
for John Cornyn, but I digress. Instead of me telling
(02:07):
you guys what I think of this article, I decided
to ask Michael quinn Sullivan, the editor of Texas scorecard
dot Com, to join us this afternoon and tell us
what he thinks about it. Michael, thanks for joining the show,
my man, it's great to be with you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Kenny. Look, you know the I think I think a
lot of us are accustomed to candidate families being used
as silent props in in their in their in their campaigns.
You know, it's the you know, the the slightly faded
uh spouse and kids and dog and grandkids and whatever
(02:40):
else you know, make it in there is kind of
you know, b roll shots. It's a lot more rare
for a for a, for the for the child, particularly
the child of a candidate, to take this kind of
role in defending her father's character, and the face would
have been some you know, nasty attacks. Look some of
(03:02):
the texts, as she says, you know, he hasn't always
done everything right. Okay, that's that's that's true for all
of us. But the fact that that that that she's
speaking at, I think says says a lot then in
the same way about each one of our families where
things are complicated, and that maybe you know, we need
(03:24):
to make sure that we are judging our candidates not
based on the scurreless tabloid rumors, but rather on who's
who's going to do the job we want done? My
my friend Chris Putnam from Dallas Express. You know, we're
going back and forth on Twitter last night, you know,
to go make an agreement on something, and and then
(03:45):
he made the note and you know, we need to
make sure that you know, you find her role models
and other parts of your life for politicians hire them
to do a job. You know. And I think that
that you see her doing is saying my dad can
do the job, and uh ands and of men of
character where it matters most. It's a it's a different
take to take in the final days of a campaign.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It does not mesh well with the narrative that Ken
Paxton is somehow bad for family values and you know whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's right, that's try. And then look, if you want
to feel beat for family values, let's talk about and
if you want to do that, then let's have a
conversation about using vinmo to to get deck work done.
Mister Mcalliac, Oh my god, let's talk about not being
faithful to the constitution. Sinator Cornyn. What you know, we
we we can talk about a lot of those kind
(04:35):
of things if we want. And I think voters have
been you know, voters have looked at the Ken Paxton record,
and they've looked at some of the you know, some
of the bad decisions maybe he's made personally, well not
maybe that he has made personally for Dixon to keep
hiring him because in his day job, he gets things done.
And I think that's what Texans are looking at. Percally
contrasted j On Horny.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
One person who's helping to push this narrative against Ken
Paxton is Carl the infamous Neocon political strategist. And look,
there's a lot of people listening to us talk right now, Michael,
who have been divorced, half of marriages and in divorce.
It's very sad. Carl Rove has been divorced a couple
of times, according to a brief, you know, a description
(05:17):
of his personal life. I'm reading online here. It's interesting
that he's so involved in this, isn't it. Yeah, Look, I.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Mean this is the this is the very very classic
don't look at my problems, let's talk about my opponent's
problems kind of thing. And maybe what we need to
do rather than looking at people's problems is let's look
at what they can deliver. Carl Rove does not want
you looking at John Cornyn's record. And let's be very
clear here. Karl Rove, who claims to be a Texans.
(05:46):
You know, he shows up, you know, acting like a
Textan on Fox News fairly regularly. But I'm not sure
he's had a real conversation with a real Texan in years,
if not decades. And it's apparent because for at least
a decade, Karl Rove has been telling people that if
Ken Paxton is the nominee for Texas Attorney General, a
Democrat will win the seat. Well, he's been wrong, literally
(06:10):
every time he said that for a decade and a half,
and now he's trying to say it again. You know, somehow,
it's somehow this time he can will it into truth
simply by bloviating it enough. It's simply not true, Carl,
and Carl, if you would talk to real Texans, you
would know that it's not true. But he's not talking
(06:31):
to real Texans. He's talking to lobbyists and lobbyists in
Austin and swampy donors in Washington, d C. All of
whom do pretty well under the likes of John Cornyn,
all of whom are worried they won't do as well
under a Ki Paxton.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I see a lot of pulling data that some that
contradicts each other, some that seems to align with each other.
The vast majority of it says Ken Paxton's in first place.
The question of who's in second varies from what hole
you choose. I do think that most of the polling data,
if I've learned one thing from it, it makes me
think that, if anything, Wesley Hunt's taking votes away from Cornyan,
(07:09):
not so much from Ken Paxton. What are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think you're right. I think that that that Wesley
Hunt is kind of a good grand If you know
that Cornyn's goose is cooked, Wesley Hunt would would be
your neck like and and and I'm in no way
trying to impune Wesley Hunt's Charactersen's a good guy, good record,
everything else. But I think to a uh, you know,
to to a voter who's more inclined to like the
(07:33):
John Cornyn's style of governing, maybe, you know, no kind
of the hope is well, maybe Wesley Hunt won't be
you know, you know what, won't be as bad as
can Paxton? Right, you know whatever that means, not to
say Meldow. I think that when you look if you're
to have both of them in the US, and at
the same time, my gut tells me that Paxton and
Hunt would have an indistinguishable record, right, I think their
(07:55):
records would look a whole lot alike. But so I
think one you're you're correct on that. You know, the
big question going into Tuesday night is number one. John
Cornyn's staff told Brandon Walton's on the Texas Scorecard team
that they're not going to do an election night party.
(08:15):
They're not going to they're not going to do election
watch party. They're not going to have people gathered around
John Gornan on election night because they're really worried and
this is what one told Politico last night. They're really
worried about Ken Paxson kicking his butt. They're really worried
about that. And so they're not going to do an
election night party where where Cornyn would be somewhat obligated
(08:37):
to come out and say something. So the big question
for John Cornyn is going to be is he going
to spend is he going to let his grifter campaign
advisors like Matt Mcalliac let them spend another one hundred
million dollars. He's spent close to one hundred million dollars already,
spend another one hundred million dollars in run off that
he will absolutely lose the majority. No matter what you
(08:59):
take from any poll, Kinney, no matter what you take
from poll, take this, a big majority of Texas Republicans
are not going to vote for John Cornyn. That's the
number one talking point. So if Cornyn's going into a runoff,
John Cornyn is going to have to decide does he
really want to go down as the guy who's going
to have a massive defeat in a runoff election, or
(09:23):
does he want to do the right thing for the party.
John Cornyn's my experience, he's always been a gentleman, always
been a nice guy, you know, fairly, self effacing, all
all these kind He's a gentleman. He's a Texas gentleman. Right.
His campaign not so much. And his campaign got a
lot of people cashing big checks. They won another one
hundred million dollars spent. We'll have to see what John
(09:44):
Cornyn does.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Look Michael, when I heard the news from Brandon Waltons
and the fantastic reporting at Texas scorecard dot Com that
John Cornyn wasn't going to have an election night party.
I just presumed, like everyone else did, that it was
because he can't stay up that late. I mean, the
guy goes to bed at seven.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That may also be true. Look, I mean the I
think the biggest sigh of relief when that word went
out came from the Austin Lobby and the DC swamp
who were not going to be feel compelled to go
to a John Cornyn campaign death watch party. You know,
they didn't want to do that, but they were all
(10:23):
glad they wouldn't have to show their faces. Because they're
a party, they have to be there. So I think
the Austin Lobby crowd super super duper happy that he's
not not doing that party.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay, I have not seen any polling data that suggests
that Dan Patrick doesn't get I mean, somewhere between eighty
and ninety percent of the vote. So not much to
say about the lieutenant governor's race. I kind of get
the impression the governor's governor's race is the same way.
I know some people like this, they're underdog candidates. We'll
leave it at that that some people like but those
candidates have failed to raise any money, and they don't
(10:54):
really seem to be shown up on any polls, do they.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
No, they don't. Look this is weird. Think too many
folks have decided to live their lives online, and they've
decided to live their lives on Twitter and on social media,
and it's real easy on Twitter and social media to
make a lot of noise. My grandfather, who ended his
career as a colonel and at Air Force, began his
(11:19):
career as an enlisted man in the United States Armies
cavalry when they had actual forces, and the part of
always was kind of like a calvary man. And he
said that he had a staff sergeant tell him at
one point that if you're when he was a private,
telling him, when you look out over the plane and
you see a big cloud of dust, it can be
an approaching army. It can be an approaching storm, or
(11:41):
it can be an idiot running around in circles and
social Yeah, and the way you prepare for the first
two is really radical. A storm versus an army, that's
that's really radical. Social media, though, tends tends to make
idiots running around in circle goals look a whole lot
like approaching storms or approaching armies. And I think that's
(12:05):
why all of us have to do a gut check sometimes,
step away from the little screen in your hands, step
away from social media and go to a Republican Women's
club meeting, go to the heck, go to a Democrat
X person. I don't know what they call themselves, and
if they had democrat women anymore or not, I don't know.
(12:27):
They can call it women with a Y maybe anyway,
you know, go to those I mean to go to
a roadby club meeting, Go to a lion have a
real conversation with your neighbors, not on the hoa website right.
Go to those kind of things, and I think you'll
find that sometimes you're seeing online doesn't mesh with reality.
I think that's where we all need to make sure
we have that gut check about social media.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So that sounds like what you're saying is if some
guy moved to our state, bought a cowboy hat, voted
in one single election, lives in an RV park, raised
twenty thousand dollars, and is pulling at les than six percent,
he's probably not going to save Texas from Islam or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
He said that that is probably a really really good
fault on your part.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
All Right, the side quest here because I want to
ask you more about the different pulling data we're looking
at today, especially this pulling data from UT. But did
you see some young woman on social media made a
list of all the stuff that was passed during Dustin
Burrow's tenure in the Texas House, in the Texas Legislature
to tribute Islam, anything from like Ramadan Day to like
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Pakistani Day. Why is there so much of that and
why was there suddenly a need for it?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Michael, Well, I mean one, I mean, I hate to
break it to anyone, but this is why it's really
important to I mean, it's good to start paying attention today,
all right, it's really good to today start paying attention. Yeah,
But if you're going to start paying attention today, I
would argue that all the SOS citizens had an obligation
(13:59):
to to look at what came before today, because the
world did not begin when Dustin Burroughs became the speaker
in January twenty twenty five. There were actually members of
the Texas Legislature passing resolutions, passing laws, all that kind
of stuff going back to eighteen thirty six, there was
a Republic of Texas Congress that in eighteen forty six
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became the state legislature. And throughout that time they passed resolutions,
passed all all sorts of laws. And there have been
now for years resolutions honoring you know, Muslims, and honoring
Hindus and honoring by and Protestants and Catholics. And that's
(14:45):
kind of what they do. And this is where you
know it sounds it sounds really big. Oh my gosh,
they passed they passed a resolution for Islam. Okay, a
resolution is different than than the legislation.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's kay.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
When you don't yah, you know that, you know it
is literally they will do hundreds and day, thousands of
these things, honoring j D girls soccer teams. Hey, the
girls soccer team. None of them were drunk for one game.
It was great, congratulations, you know what, whatever it may be.
You know, all these resolutions get passed. They don't have
(15:19):
any effective all. So one that's where you need to
make sure you're you're checking that kind of stuff, you know.
And and just because the Texas House says Tuesday February first,
is you know, honor Kenny Webster day. That's the exact
same thing as you know. This is everyone go eat
raw fish day. I mean, it means nothing, right, and
(15:40):
I think that's where we need to make sure that
we're separating those things out. Now you can ask the
question why why are more and more people have that
to honor Islam? Well, that's a good question to ask,
but I would note that it's been going on a
lot longer. Justin's Dustin Burroughs the came speaker.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All Right, one more question for you and then I'll
let you go. I'm looking at the polling data here.
Uh look, I like Aaron Wrights. I think he's a
good guy. I don't understand why John Huffman is even
in this race, but it seems to me like the
Attorney General has really come down to a Maze and
Chip here, And in fact, credit to Maze, because when
Chip jumped into this thing, it looked like there might
not even be a runoff, and now those guys seem
(16:16):
to be neck and neck.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah. I have known May's Middleton a long time. I've
known Chip Roy a long time, and I can tell
you the the the single dumbest thing a person can
do is underestimate the uh the sheer uh work work
ethic of either one of those two guys. And and
and I would suggest to you that, you know, on
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the on the real world side of things, this is
where mays Middleton. You know, bless bless his heart, as
my grandmother would say, you know, he has burned up
a lot of Texas Highway going to a lot of events.
I'm amazed at how Alton I am that I've been
at something the past almost year and he'd been there
the previous month. Was come the next month and I
(16:59):
go there. Anyone who advites me, I show up and
uh and and Middleton has been doing that as well.
There's really see I think that the talking point against them,
Oh he's just a rich guy. He's gonna try to
buy the seat. Well, he is spending a lot of
his own money, but he is. But he's also just
been working his backside off. The same thing with with
chip Roy working his backside off on the sound chip
(17:22):
Roy's law of name id. Because of the National TV
and other things, and all the polling for months now
has indicated those two guys are going to be in
a primary. And I've said this to you before, and
we'll say it again when you're talking about Aaron Wright's
Joan Huffman, uh Chip Roy Mays Middleton, which in any
one of the four of them, more than likely, when
(17:43):
it's all said and done, will be at least the
second best attorney general in Texas history. We this is
where all of us need to take a moment. Set
aside our you know, our our cults, the cults of
personality that we are in in this race, and you
can look objectively at four of them, and all four
of them would do a would literally be Mexican Paxson
(18:05):
the best attorney general Texas has ever had. And I
think that that's that's an indicative of where Texas politics
has moved, that we now have four strong choices rather
than you know, one choice who well maybe maybe that
candidate won't embarrass us as much. All four of them
I would do a good job, good place today.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Wait a second, Michael, are you saying John Cornyn wasn't
the best attorney general?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I am saying one of those four would be far
better than John Cornton.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Texas scorecard dot Com Michael Clint Sullivan. I have often
said he is the most dangerous man in Texas political
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Speaker 4 (18:46):
America the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
A pair of Michigan men set a record by playing
pickleball for twenty eight straight hours. The record was longest
game of pickleball without dying. Hey, speaking of not dying,
did you know today is National Letter to an Elder Day?
So it's time to get out a pen and paper
and write to people who still know how to read
cursive writing. Imagine that it's National.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Letter to an elder day. Can't think of an old
person to write to who will help you find one,
because old people are everywhere. Like your neighbor whose yard
is covered with ceramic nomes, that's right, the woman who's
holding up the line at the grocery store to pay
by check, customers at the shoe store who say.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Can I get this?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Engage anyone who starts a sentence with according to what
I read on Facebook, and of course any player screaming
oh my back at your local pickleball court, just like
that Letter to an Elder Day, isn't so hard to celebrate,
after all, no old people.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Who they're all around us.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But I just want to right now, that's true. I
just want to remind the older people listening to radio station,
we you, we value you. You're not going anywhere, and
we're not going anywhere. We'll be back with the Ethan
Buchanan right after this, Kay's King.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. On KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Bill Gates admitted to multiple affairs with multiple different Russian women.
You know the worst part of that, Ethan Buchanan was
the nickname that they gave him Microsoft. They called him Microsoft.
I didn't think that was funny, Ethan Buchan. That was mean,
wasn't it. That was a mean thing to say.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
That's so hurtful, that's so hurtful.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
What did Bill Gates ever do wrong besides monopolize the
tech industry, destroy all the little guys who tried to
come up, steal other people's intellectual property, help push the
pandemic narrative even when it wasn't necessarily helpful, and give
his wife an ariial disease, and then Spiker drinks with antibiotics.
But other than that, what did he do?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Hey? I mean to sit here and try to diminish
his achievements. I mean, let's not forget how much we
love their their little web browserer. I'm blanking on the
name because no one ever uses it, but the one
that comes with every Windows ten PC.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It used to be called I E but it's called
something else name Internet.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Yeah, it went from Internet Explorer to the They put
a new fancy name on it.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But everyone uses it to download Google.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
But that is a download Chrome Microsoft Edge. Yeah, there,
it is Microsoft Edge. Without Microsoft Edge, Google would be nowhere.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Without Microsoft Edge, how would you download Chrome onto your computer? Exactly?
All right, Well, I'm that note photo just surfed us
it of there's new pictures. Is Stephen Hawking allegedly on
Epstein Island with several women in bikinis.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Do you know why?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Hey, they just happened to be there. He would never
do anything wrong himself. He's only a rich, powerful elite.
So to insinuate that he might have done something wrong
when he was on Epstein Island multiple times for a
physics conference, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, you're you're missing the big picture here there's a
reason why he does this.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
What's the reason?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's just how he rolls aha. You know, in his defense,
he has always had a passion for exploring black holes.
That's terribly I ain't know, Hey, what what do you want.
I'm just you know, I'm just here.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
That's horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm just here telling I'm asking the tough questions. All right,
I want to talk about polling data for a minute.
We were here with Michael Quinn Sullivan a little bit
earlier in the show, and some people didn't like, you know,
the polling data for some of their underdog candidates. It
is what it is. There's also this report today that
just Republicans just aren't early voting in the same numbers
as Democrats, which makes people think that is a sign
(22:37):
that it will that in the general election in November,
that the Republicans will get smoked. Historically that's never been true,
but still it's maybe concerning to someone. Would you share
with us what you've learned?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah, so the Texas Tribune did, I think this is
rare for them, but they did a actual good report
about this and they kind of highlighted some of the numbers.
So as of last Monday, the early voting data was
about six hundred and sixty five thousand, six hundred and
sixty four Democrats had went and gone and early voted
in their party primary. Now, by contrast, the Republicans, they're
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sitting around five hundred and ninety three thousand, six hundred
and some change. So that's not a huge huge difference,
that's less than one hundred thousand difference. And we know
that Republicans love to vote day of. So this idea
that oh, there's just all this passion on the Democrat
side that's going to carry through to November and Republicans
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just don't have that, and so we're gonna get swamped
because we're getting swamped right now. I mean, it's really
easy to kind of pull that out of the numbers
if you want to make the numbers say what you
want them to say. But what the numbers are actually
saying is this is fairly normal. Republicans just vote day of,
that's what we do. This actually shows that Republicans are
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turning up in early voting, they're just not doing it
as much as the Democrats, which is nothing shocking. And
as far as the excess turnout, well, yeah, we got
a big Senate race here in Texas that's motivating everybody.
The Democrats are really motivated to go out and vote
for Jasmin Crockett versus James Tylerrego because that's been a
contentious race. And then we've got on the Republican side
(24:15):
of the aisle, another big contentious race that's motivating people.
I predict that as early voting draws to a close
and then we have election Day next week, you're gonna
see those numbers balance out.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
They're going to be pretty close to even.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
And then come November, I'm really not worried about Democrats
swamping the state and flipping it blue. It hasn't happened
in thirty years. I would be shocked if Jasmine Yas
Queen Crockett is the one who finally breaks that cycle
for them.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I had no idea her middle name was an urban colloquialism. Yes,
she covers that up real good, but it's fantastic. You
can find that in the documents. All right, So Trump
has a great economy. I mean it certainly is about
it's better than what Kamalas would have had. I don't
love the tariffs. I've made that point but I do
like how he uses them as a bartering chip. Here's
a few things I noticed about it economy right now,
strong GDP growth, There's no question about that record job creation.
(25:05):
It's seven million added. That's great, Historical low unemployment right now.
Nobody's talking about that tax cuts, business reform. Suddenly we
are more entrepreneurial again, despite all those regulations the Biden
administration put into play. Trump has made it so that
people can actually thrive and grow a business here. That's great.
Nobody wants to talk about how the Tax Cuts and
(25:26):
Jobs Act is giving three point two trillion in relief.
Wage increases. Yeah, actually, blue collar wages have seen the
largest growth in nearly sixty years under Trump, with private
sector real earnings up to eleven hundred annually. That's fantastic.
Let's talk about controlled inflation. Inflation actually slowed down under Trump.
It was out of control under Biden. You could pretend
(25:46):
that it's worse, but it's not, despite what the Democrats
are saying, despite what the tariffs are doing. And then
there's this, I think this is really important. Gas prices
are finally below three dollars per gallon in most states.
The lowest and nearly five years. Obviously, this is because
of domestic energy production and exports, which Donald Trump's ramped up.
The manufacturing boom. Have you ever heard this before? There
(26:07):
was a time in America Ethan when there were more
jobs in manufacturing than in government. That was way before
you were born. Go well, now, manufacturing jobs grew at
the fastest rate in over three decades, four hundred thousand
jobs added in his first term. Stock market performance the
S and P five hundred rows significantly. This is just
another reflection on the investor confidence people have in Trump's
(26:28):
pro growth agenda. These are all good things. The problem
is everything I just said. You understand it. I think
our listeners understand it. I'll bet the average Republican voter
probably understands it. Do independence understand this stuff?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I think the real issue here is just kind of
the messaging, and not that the messaging has been necessarily bad, because,
like you pointed out, the actual data on the ground
shows that all of this stuff is working. It's not
working overnight. It's not magically fixing all of the problems
left by bionomics. But what we've seen over the last
year and a month is measurable progress. The problem is
(27:04):
how they're pitching it. And the line has always been
we're gonna bring prices down. We're gonna bring prices down,
We're gonna bring inflation down. And what people think is okay, great,
so when I go into the store, stuff will be cheaper.
That's not how this works. What they need to be
saying is, rather than we're gonna bring prices down, say
we're going to bring your paychecks up, because the prices
(27:24):
aren't gonna go back down. Inflation doesn't turn around. You
don't have negative inflation unless it's a recession, and we
don't want a recession. What you want to do is say, hey,
we are now having price increases at two percent every year.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
That's the Fed's target for inflation.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
You're getting effectively a four percent raise every year or
something like that.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Your real income is.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Increasing by four percent every year, so you're outpacing inflation.
The prices are gonna continue to rise. They're not gonna
go back down. There's never gonna be a day where
you walk in and all of a sudden something is
ten or fifteen dollars cheaper than it was the day before.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
That's how it is yeah, well, unless the market crashes
in a dangerous the market crashes, but probably Well, if
you have ten to fifteen more dollars to play around
with every single day, well there you go.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
And obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit. That's not the
pace in which the real rages will grow. But real
rages can grow and will grow. And that's what the
Republicans should be messaging. Not bringing prices down. Focus on
bringing paychecks up, and you'll effectively bring the real prices down.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
But obviously that price tag at Kroger is going to
stay the same. Yeah, it's very unlikely that once the
price goes up, it comes down. Of course, one way
to bring the prices down on things more competition, get
people the opportunity to buy more things. More people could
start businesses, and suddenly you notice the prices come down
on stuff. You are Last time I checked a zoomer,
you're twenty three years old. People your age do they
(28:53):
understand any of this? I mean, I know you're a
little nerdy, but what about your buddies, what about other
kids you play Fortnite with?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Vaguely?
Speaker 7 (28:59):
First of all, they vaguely. I think people understand that
a lot of the narrative isn't accurate or isn't correct,
even if they don't kind of understand the fiscal science
behind it. A lot of people aren't sitting here worried
about necessarily the intimate details of tariffs and how that
(29:20):
inflects various price various prices and different you know, supply
chains and the all of the minutia behind it. But
they understand that the economy is on paper getting better.
They can sense that out, even if they can't explain
to you why. And so I think the real key
(29:41):
if you want to lock down those voters is just
give them a very basic, simple answer. Like they're telling
you the economy is not getting any better. You know
that's not true. I can explain it to you and
all the little details. Or I can just say, real
wages are up. Prices aren't dropping, but real wages are up,
and they'll they'll catch that, they'll acknowledge that, they'll respond
to it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I think I like that. So you voted already, I'm
taking it.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Yes, I did early vote, Yeah, yeah, go early vote.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Guys. Was what was your most controversial vote? Ethan?
Speaker 7 (30:12):
This is this is gonna get me in trouble and
it's gonna come back to bite me in the ass.
But I did vote for Greg Abbott even though I
don't like the guy. I don't care for Greg Abbott
on a political level. But here's the reality that a
lot of grassroots folks will crucify you if you point
out right there is no alternative to Greg Abbott. Doc
(30:35):
Pete Chambers is not the alternative to Greg Abbott. He's
not going to win. He's not going to get close
to winning. His most recent polling shows him around five percent.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'm looking at it right now. So you're not an
Evelyn Brooks guy. You're not interested in Mark Goliby, Charles Crouch,
Kenneth Hyde.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yeah, none of those people really really ring the bell
for me.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
So I mean, I could have just skipped the governor's
page and gone on with my voting, or I could
have just voted for Greg Abbott. At that point, it's
effectively doing the same thing regardless of what I do.
Greg Abbitt is going to win this race even if
you don't like it, even if I don't like it.
So I didn't do it because I support Greg Abbot,
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but I mean, he's better than a Democrat. That's objectively true,
and again there is no alternative on the Republican side
of the aisle, even if you really want it to
be the guy in the RV.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, I love that, explaining to me, you've been to
Whatburger before, haven't you?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I have been to whataburger? Whataburger? Ficionado?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
What's your order?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
I get the number five and I have him take
all the vegetables off of it except the lettuce, and
then I put mayo and ketchup on it.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
What's the number five? Double bacon or something?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Yeah, it's the bacon one I see.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
To me, sweet and spicy burger, better sauce, it's still bacon.
I'm with you on the lettuce and tomato thing. I
think it adds nothing to a burger. Cheese, bacon, sauce, pickles,
that's what goes on a burger. I like the because
it doesn't add flavor, but it's a texture thing for me.
And yeah, other than that, yeah, I just I'm fifty
to fifty on pickles. Sometimes I love him, sometimes I
hate him. But I can't do spicy food. I drink
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milk and that's about a spicies. I go, why can't
you're a Texas man, Why can't you do spicy? I
am what has been sometimes medically referred to as a cracker.
I can't handle it, all right? Well, whataburger manager in
Texas was forced to subdue a customer. This happened up
in the Paris, Texas area, you're familiar. The customer jumped
behind the counter and was apparently attacking the employees there,
(32:35):
because you know how people are. So the manager beat
him with a trash can after he allegedly assaulted the
workers there. So here's some of the audio of the
trash can impacts to the man that was assaulting. As
the audio, you can have a listed bit, all right,
(32:56):
I have a confession to make. Sadly, it never sounds
like it does in the cartoons. So we did that
to the end there with the audio. We didn't really
it's in. Really, I would have believed you. I would
have believed you. You had me, all right. Worst french
fries and fast food go McDonald's. That's considered to be
the catalog in the front, and it's bull crap.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
I have never had a McDonald's french fry and thought,
oh my god, this is amazing. If you really want
the best French fries in fast food, it's Freddy's.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Have you ever heard this before? That Freddy's is good,
but it's not common. Have you ever heard this before
that back in the twentieth century, before you were born,
beef tallow was used in the French fries at McDonald's.
But the reason they stopped using it, and I'm sorry
to do this to you Indian Americans, but apparently there
was a lawsuit with a Hindu guy or some people
were mad. That's how always explained to me. I'm not
(33:42):
an attorney, and I certainly wasn't one back then, but
that some people sued McDonald's. They said, this is bs.
How can you put beef tallow in the French fries?
We've been eating this because we're vegetarians.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
I believe that, and I believe that because having worked
in fast food before. I worked at Chick fil A
several years ago when they were testing a new product
which was bacon baked beans. It was really good baked beans.
It had bacon bits in it. It was fantastic. And
I know of at least one instance where a Muslim
woman came in ordered that, and I guess she didn't
(34:14):
know it was bacon, and she ordered the bacon baked
beans and ate the bacon baked beans, and she was
not pleased about it. So I believe it because I've
seen it happen.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Have you ever heard of hallal bacon?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
You know what that is?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It sounds terrible. Hellel bacon is just I don't know
how to explain. It's beef bacon. It's bacon, big bacon,
turkey baconer well, I guess no, I think it's with beef,
if I'm not mistaken. In Canada, there's a fast food
place up there that switched at some point to hallel bacon,
and in order to convince Americans it was better, they
(34:48):
did a TV commercial with white people, like some kid
goes there with his grandma and they're clearly not Muslim,
but the hallal bacon is on the menu, and so
the grandmothers deserves it to her kid, and he's so
excited to eat it. This little white boy is just irate.
He's hysterical with excitement. I think I actually have. It's
(35:08):
called the Burger Factory in Canada, and up there, this
is very normal to them because they're so overrun with Islam.
Here plays sound like Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
For freaking on, you love your helal bacon. I can't
believe you let him eat that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
He tried it once and he couldn't get enough.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Who's my little Hellal boy?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Guys, it's a white kid with his Judeo Christian family. Yeah,
that's never happened this celebrating his Muslim friendly bacon with
two lesbian grandmas and their son. Wasn't that remarkable?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
What a TV?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's what's gonna ethan, That's what's going to happen to
Texas if we keep letting the door slide open here
to the Mideast. You know, I know that makes me
a racist, but I'm and I'm a Republican. I've been
called that for years.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Yeah, why do we have to keep pretending this is normal?
I mean, it's it's not normal, and it's okay for
it to not be normal. It's okay to not cater
to everybody. I mean, some things just don't have to
be for everyone. Obviously, bacon is one of those things,
and I would argue that hallal bacon is probably.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
One of those things.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
For me.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
I don't want hullal bacon. I want my bacon to
be bacon. I want my beef to be beef. I
love them both. Why are we trying to pretend that
we have to cater to the smallest groups of people.
If they don't want regular bacon or they don't like
the fact that regular bacon is being served in various
times and places, there are options for you. There are
(36:32):
Sharia law countries where you can go and live and
you never have to make contact with a pig. Again,
it's not Texas. We like bacon here. It's not the
United States of America. Yeah, I get what you're saying,
My man, Do you you're married?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Now?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
If I'm not mistaken, did you you met your wife at?
What a burger? Is that where you guys had the
ceremony at?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
No mail order?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
She's a mail all mill order. Okay, Well, it turns
out sixty percent of Americans now prefer open relationships, according
to a new study. On top of that, a nationwide
analysis rank Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, and New York as
the top five most polyamorous states.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
Okay, in Texas's defense, those numbers are being skewed by Austin.
You think so, I don't know anyone in a polyamorous relationship.
Are they talking about Mormons or is this like a
religious thing? Are they just talking about the Libs? I
think it's the Libs.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Would people talk about polyamor polyamorous relationships? They never what
they're talking about, freedom of marriage, gays and lesbians and
you know you can have you can scissor sister with
nine people. But they never bring the Mormons into this.
There's never been a movement for them. Why is that?
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Well, you gotta kind of dance around the Mormons. They've
got a history.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
What have they done wrong? Ethan?
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Oh, you know, just all of the all of the
eighteen seventies really okay?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Well, as a therapist, I have advised a number of
couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains
emotionally committed but free to explore extramarital encounters.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Well, did it work for those? No, it never does.
My brother, Ethan, you're a fantastic radio personality for a
guy in his early twenties, and I always love when
you come visit the studio. Tell us about your show
on Sunday evenings right after Ted Cruise. After Ted Cruz
sets the stage for a Sunday evening of talk radio excellence.
What happens on the The Next Gen Report Thanks to report. Yeah,
(38:22):
we talk about everything. We talk about politics, news, culture.
We try to have fun with it. I mean, I
don't take myself too seriously. It was a hassle trying
to talk Ted Cruz into opening for me, but I
got him to commit to it.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
And so, Yeah, Sunday's a seven on k PRC nine
point fifty. You can tune in and just it's really
a hangout. That's how I like to view it. I
like to view it as, you know, the same type
of conversations that I have with some of my friends
when we are hanging out eating dinner and we start
talking politics. That's really what it is. I'm not trying
to lecture you, I'm not trying to over explain to you.
I'm just this is how I see things going on
(38:57):
and just kind of bounce ideas off.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I love to hear at Ethan Buchanan. Listen to downloads
podcast today. Hey to the rest of you, don't forget
we got comedy shows next week at Denham Springs. We're
gonna be in Denham Springs at a venue called Southern Rhythm.
For those of you who listen online to the rest
of you, get your tickets now for Friday, June twelfth,
House the Blues Right Side of Comedy. It's gonna sell out.
You're gonna want to be there. And all that being said,
(39:21):
I hope you all have an awesome afternoon. We'll be
back bright early tomorrow morning for more of what you
bought a radio for. Dude, you are listening to.
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