August 2, 2024 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Michael Quinn Sullivan and fitness Guru JD Shipley of Starting Strength gyms. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jock Gan, government sucks. Suit of happiness Radio is DeLux.
Liberty and freedom will make you smile. Of a suit
of happiness on your radio tol just as cheeseburgers a
liberty fries. It's suit.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
A Washington Man meaning a man in Washington was arrested
for running over a flock of seagulls. The good news
is he missed Devo and Men without Hats, so they're fine. Hey,
it's Kenny Webster. It's Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You made it to the end of the week.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That means you're alive, and you know, it's more than
some people could say today. It's good to be here,
It's good to be with you. I got a couple
of good friends stopping by. I guess you could say
it's going to be good.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thank you. I'll come up with better adjectives throughout the show.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I promise Michael quint Sullivan should be here next segment.
I'm told we're having a little trouble getting a hold
of him, but we're gonna get a grip on what's
going on in the Texas political zeitgeist. Hang out for
that plus very special guest at the bottom of the
hour my personal trainer JD stopping by from Starting Strength
Houston and Starting Strength Katie. You've heard me talk about
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him before, you say, changed my life. He's an awesome guy.
We're gonna get into each other's head learn about what's
going on in the world of the very controversial world
of health and fitness. So hang out for that. But
before we go anywhere, let's start the show with this.
Why do why do liberal women do that? They clap
when they talk. They're like, you can't disrespect hey, Oh see,
yeah I can. I just did aoc He's got a
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big booty Latina. I don't care about her anyway, if
you want a good laugh. Breitbart dot com is reporting
that CNN, a news outlet known for spreading conspiracy c
theories and political violence, has had to remove their opinion
section from cnn dot com.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Can you can you believe this? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Really the opinion section at CNN dot com and that,
like the whole website. Yeah, CNN was so wedded to
the ludicrous fantasy there was a separation between its news
and opinion section that it wasted money creating an opinion section.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That is adorable. Well, the delusion's over.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Apparently CNN just announced an end to this ludicrous fantasy.
CNN Opinion is no more, and I mean CNN opinion
is no more. Obviously, CNN itself is all opinion. It's
a website and a news channel with nothing but lies
and bullying to back up their opinion. But the vertical
has shuttered. So there's that that. What does this really change?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Now that I'm looking at CNN opinion for the first time,
and that's not a joke, I've I've never gone to
CNN's website and read their opinion section.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Of you, I know you haven't. Nobody has.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
If you listen to this radio station, you're probably not
the demographic for CNN's opinion page. And considering that the
demographic for a CNN's opinion page wasn't going there, I'm
just going to guess you didn't go there either. But anyway,
when you look at the website, when you look at
that section of the website, you could tell it was
nothing more than an affirmative action program for leftists, people
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who could never survive on merit.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Here are some of the recent headlines. I'll just read
them to you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The galling mistake that led to the US to its
current debt problem. Oh that's adorable. CNN is going to
try to explain the national debt. You guys are a
website filled with articles pleading with the government to spend
more money, and now you're going to try to explain
how your advocacy might have actually caused the problem.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I doubt they admit that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Here's another fun headline, how Billie Eilish is unleashing queer imagination.
I'm sorry, isn't she heterosexual? Here's another headline, the real
significance of the Supreme Court's Chevron deference ruling. I'll just
keep reading the headlines. And Drew McCarthy deserves to be
taken seriously. Okay, dear Joe, it's time to go. Yeah,
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they probably agree with that. The real loser in Thursday's
debate probably America. The female gaze is taking over page
and screen and it is hot.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Another headline, My teenage son had an influencer in his class.
This is what it was like. Okay, fighting anti semitism
one curl at a time. CNN paid for this garbage.
Those are headlines fighting anti semitism, one curl at a time. Wow,
Here's how CNN's valued opinion contributors were informed that they
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might have to get real jobs. An opinion editor sent
an email to The Hill, you know, the news outlet,
and the headline reads, just a quick note to let
you know that unfortunately CNN has decided to shut down
the opinion section. I hope our paths cross elsewhere. That's it.
That was the whole good ye. Now the article about
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this has a little more information More from The Hill.
Reached for comment, a CNN executive told The Hill quote,
we did make the decision at the beginning of the
month to sunset the opinion vertical on cnn dot com.
As a result, we will no longer have a standalone
opinion section end quote. More from the article. The opinion
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section served as a platform for diverse voices and has
recently featured a variety of pieces about the twenty twenty
four presidential election, as well as buzzy topics buzzy top
buzzy topics like the Olympics and Generation Z social media
influencer trends. Its current homepage features a column titled Project
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twenty twenty five is Coming for Our Kids Too, by
Veronica Goodman, a director at a progressive think tank, about
Republican's policy priorities ahead of the second Donald Trump presidency. Hmm,
here's the bottom line. If CNN Opinion made money, if
it added any value other than income for left wing wankory,
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I got to think it would have survived the budget cuts,
they'd still have it. But it didn't make any money,
and it certainly didn't influence anybody with opinions. CNN Opinion
might have had a chance had it allowed for a
comment section. That's how you create a community. But CNN
will never allow unfiltered outside opinion anywhere, not on the air,
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and certainly not on their now shuttered opinion section.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So it's gone till the government started. Listening on Proceeds of.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Happiness Radio with Kea Webstergio aka producer Kenny Here, we
feel like here, we feel like history keeps repeating itself.
A few years back, your favorite morning show covered a
story from Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You may have heard.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It involved a federal judge and a heist student in
Franklinton painting Donald Trump on his parking space. We didn't
do this when I was in high school, but apparently
this is a trend now that seniors will paint their
parking spaces to decorate it when they start the school year.
And so a few years ago a young man in Franklinton, Louisiana,
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decided he wanted to paint Trump on his parking space,
and the school said he couldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Loen behold us.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
District Judge Elden Fallin of the Eastern District of Louisiana
steps in and says, yeah, actually, that kid has every
right to do that. You can certainly support them. At
the time Trump was the president. Imagine being such a
liberal d bag that you don't want kids at the
public school where you teach to support the active sitting president,
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because that's what a liberal pain in the ash you are. Well,
now it's happened again up in Keller You know where
that is. It's a nice suburb outside of Fort Worth.
My uncle lives there. I've spent a lot of time
in Keller, t As. Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas squarecards
on the line right now, Michael, what happened in Caller, Texas.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Yeah, Look, this is one of the situations where we're
after a rough start, things worked out correctly. You had
these two kids, two seniors. I'm like you like I'm
I'm old enough to remember the good old days where
you just showed up at school if you drove, and
you hope to find a parking place. Reserve parking and
painting your parking lots as like a cash grab by
the schools. But that's another rif to you. So so
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this kid, his parents ponied up the two hundred bucks
for him to be able to paint his parking space.
And one of those friends did the same thing, very respectful,
you know, kind of a you know, art deco kind
of you know, mural of Donald very creative, looked, looked
very nice. Nothing no bad words, nothing incendiary, nothing anti anything,
just to pro Trump deal.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Well, some of.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
The snowflake millennial teachers apparently got their you know, got
their panties in a wad, and so they got admit
the straighters to tell the kid, uh, the kids to
paint over their spaces because it was offensive and objectionable
all that kind of stuff. Now, never mind nothing in
school policy, the violence of the written policies. It was
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just some teachers and some probably some transgender teacher who
wants to talk about you know, his sex life or something,
you know, got got upset by that.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
That's my that's my my mental image.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Anyway, So the kid paints over but the community is outraged.
The citizens are outraged. The kid that hadn't no lawsuits here.
The community is outraged. The school board president speaks out
against it, the mayor speaks out against it, others because
you know, against the school action. And so this week
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the school has relented and they're letting him paint his
repaint his parking lot space with apparently the school board
president offering the you know, to pay the pay the
pay the cost, you buy a new paint, that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
For me, I can't believe it came to this.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
This system worked. Yeah, but it's crazy, just crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Isn't it weird that in the other case in Louisiana
that a federal judge had to get involved. For those
that haven't seen the art, the art is actually fantastic
what this kid painted up in Keller. If you've ever
seen the artwork of Shepherd Fairy, he's famous for doing
a line of artwork called Obey Giant. He kind of
famously did the Barack Obama Hope painting that was controversial
for different reasons copyright infringement. But that's what the kid
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did with Trump. It looked like Shepherd Fairies art, but
it had Trump with the sunglasses on, with the American
flag and then a headband like almost like Rambo. It
looks very cool. These kids are very clever. I'm surprised
they were punishing them.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Look, this is the kind of thing where if you're
going to say be creative, be a freethinker, you know,
you know, do neat things.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So, by the way, pay us two hundred bucks. This
is the kind of thing you'd actually want them to do.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Again, there's nothing offensive about about the art. If you
if you go go to our website, Texas core Court
dot com, you can see you can see a picture
of what the kid painted. It's actually very attractive. I
mean it's not something I would hang in my.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
House, right, but it's actually very attractive.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You know, because what we what we tend to get
when you have kids talking about politics is something angry.
You get something that's anti and I'm anti this, I'm
anti that. Instead, this is just a fun, respectful piece
of art that this kid. I mean, I wouldn't even
want to put my car in this parking place because
I wouldn't want to mess up the up the art.
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But yet, you know, this kid's been a lot, clear's
been a lot of time on it. This is the
kind of thing we should be celebrating. But unfortunately, Kenny,
the state of government education is uh is. You've got
all these snowflake teachers and snowflake administrators who they want
to clamp down on anyone who is speaking outside the
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leftist narrative. They want to shut down on anyone who
wants to have a thought that is in opposition to
the leftist mind think. And I would addrest to you, Kenny,
this is why we're seeing all around the state school
district's losing enrollment despite Texas having this new crazy population explosion,
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people moving here from all over the country and all
over the world, most legally so I'm not legally, but
yet our schools are seeing declines and enrollment because people
are fed up with this kind of crap. And again,
in Keller, it ended well, it ended correctly. You didn't
have to have a laws anything. You know, people, the
grown ups you know, kind of stepped in. But unfortunately
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this is the exception, not the rule.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Being young and conservative and I've made this point so
many times during our radio segments together. Michael, being young
and conservative right now in the twenty first century is
the new counterculture. That is the new punk rock. Back
in the twentieth century, if you were Christian and conservative,
that was mainstream.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
That was what most people were. Now we're the alternative.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And absolutely it's cool to be edgy, but it's also
a little scary, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Look, I mean, you know, you know, to think of
this poor kid, he's kind of outed himself on on
social media. Oh yeah, I'm the students, you know kind
of thing, and and and it.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Seemed like one of those kind of.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Kids you would hope that your kids are friends with,
because he says, Look, I don't want anything bad to
happen to the principal people.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Shouldn't you know, go after the teachers. You know.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Look, let's just you know, I wanted to make something
fun that I enjoyed. I hope everyone kind of cools down,
you know, kind of thing, and like, you know, we
need more of that, please, we want more of that.
And and to your point, though we have this entire
you know, we we we've allowed ourselves to adopt this
position where you know, kids either have to shut up
or they have to be raving, lunatic a left us
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And that's that's really not that's really not the only
choices here. But but you know, you're now in school,
if you're a conservative, you're a Christian, you are counter
the culture of the leadership of schools. Even though you
know you find in polling data and survey work this,
you know, this new generation, the Zoomers, I guess they're called,
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you know, you know, they are more pro life, they're
more free market, they are more conservative than any previous
generation at this age. And I think it's in part
because they see the lunacy that they're getting from the
from the adults that they're shackled to for eight or
nine hours to day in the public schools. They're realizing
there has to be something better.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Michael, as always, you guys do amazing work at Texas
scorecard dot com. I'm so glad you covered this story.
I don't see a lot of other people even talking
about this. I think this is information that Texans need
to hear about, and the only way to get it
is go to Texas scorecard dot com. You could subscribe
to their email list I do. It's short and concise
and quick. Rather than paying money for the Dallas Morning
(14:54):
Snooze or the Houston Comical, Texas Scorecard gives you free
news every day. It's one of the places I do
show prep for our radio show. I recommend you check
it out, and while you're at it, follow my buddy
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will be right back.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Who listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I guess it's not available in Canada.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Run there's supposed to be a little inter screen, but
I didn't. I didn't set this up correctly. But anyway,
we're live streaming, so people are looking, so.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We better talk.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Hey everybody, Kenny Webster, We're live on the radio right now, Houston,
Texas KPRC nine fifty, the oldest radio station in Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And I'm not alone today.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I got my buddy JD here, my coach from Starting
Strength Houston and Starting Strength Katie is in the room.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
JD.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Normally, when I do these live streams, the person sitting
across from me as a political person, and so when
I put myself on camera and then I put them
on camera. I often look very fit and trim and
athletic by comparison to whoever's no offense to whoever's sitting across
from me. I'm not making fun of anyone specifically, but you,
on the other hand, having you across from me sitting
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in the room kind of makes me look like one
of the political people, which is the opposite of here.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Let me turn your mic on.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'm just I'm just a year or two ahead of you.
That's all it is. You'll, you'll, you'll, you'll be there eventually.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That's not true. You're not a year or two ahead
of me. You're way ahead of me.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
For those that don't know what starting strength is or
who Mark rippleto is, you guys are in the fitness
world kind of controversial and edgy, but I think in
a very cool way.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Can you explain that to people? Why is that?
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Because it's because it's a no bs nobs approach to things, right,
we go, we go with what works, and we don't
we don't compromise on it. So you know, we hope
people get strong and we don't worry about everything else
because everything else generally tends to take care of itself.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, if you can get stronger and during the pandemic,
I think that's when Mark Rippletow, who created the program,
that's kind of when he first showed up on the map,
which means everybody in his under his umbrella, people such
as you, of course, one of the top guys in Texas.
And that was mostly because you were the people that
point it out how all of the science methodology for
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dealing with the pandemic wasn't scientific at all.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Was Yeah, we were, you know, we were.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
We were considerably outspoken with uh you know, with with
all with all the nonsense that was being pushed down,
uh down everybody's throat. So yeah, so you know, we
gained a little bit of I would I don't know,
notoriety is the right way to say it. Or gained
a little bit of uh yeah, I call it notoriety.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I guess. You know, for lack of a better word.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You were one of the first gems in America to
say that closing the gym during the pandemic didn't make
any sense.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I mean, it makes it. It's completely unscientific.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
If it's if we're supposed to be healthy, why are
we encouraging people to stay at home any Crispy creams.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And this is this is so obvious now three years later.
But at the time do.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You want to get you want to get conspiracy theory
and control and uh and uh and political about it?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I do, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Ultimately, I think is control right?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Nobody nobody's gonna say it that way, and and uh,
you know the people that that did it, I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
You could even argue that that that that wasn't their
their intention out outright, but uh, I think, al that's
that's what it came down to, right, you know, they
doubled down on control because because I say so.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I mean, that was it?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It was a big experiment. It was a social experiment.
Will people do it?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I had a friend that was working in Singapore at
the time doing oil and gas work, and he said,
it's so different there. Americans are so different from people
in the Far East. And I said, why is that?
And he said, if the government told people in Singapore
you have to crawl on your knees and lick the
pavement in order to prevent yourself from getting sick, everyone
would just do that, unquestionably, whereas in America only about
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a third of Americans would say, yeah, I'll crawl on
the floor and lick the pavement. And we know who
they are and we don't have to say it, but
you know which who they vote for and what you
know who these people are.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
But I think I think it comes down to roots, right,
you know, we we you know we we started out
as a rebellious, rebellious colony and uh buck the system
and you know we you know that's that's just in our.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
In our blood and so hallelujah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, And that's part of what bugs me about watching
the Olympics because I love putting American is on display
for the world. I think it's very cool watching American
athletes and how we compete differently, we behave differently. I
know there's some people on the right that will tell
you the Olympics are for globalists or whatever, but I
think it predates that. I think the Olympics have been
around for a long time. There's something very cool about it.
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Although you can't deny the fact that this particular Olympic
Games that it's very strange this time, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
It's it's it's saddening, is what it is. I think.
With with with the with the stuff that's going on.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
But that's you know, uh uh you've you've got it.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You've got it on TV right now.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I can see that, you know, the medal count and
all that sort of stuff. But you know, I haven't
really been following it for this reason that I think,
you know, all the all the fascination is is being
is is gone and you know, overshadowed by all the
all the nonsense that's you know that that's involved.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I think it's very funny that Peyton Manning does commentary
for a sporting event and his sports not part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
You know, whatever pays the bills, man, But you know
I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, that check clears you can't blame the guy. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You're Christian, you're conservative, you lean to the right, and
you're not like an extremist or anything like that. That's
not you're not a political guy. But as a Christian
you certainly go to church enough. You have a family,
you have children. The opening ceremony is still getting a
lot of attention. It was a week ago.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Today against uh, you know, saddening more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Did you watch it?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I didn't, I didn't know, you know, I saw I
saw the stuff on on social media that that that
came out came out of you know, afterwards, and and
what it is.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's saddening.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I mean, right was it Elon must said something about
Christianity perishing and one that's never gonna be the case, right, Uh,
you know it. You know, Christ is everlasting and and
and will always be. But it's just it's just it's
just sad to see you know, people, you know, people
making a mockery of it for for you know, to
be provocative.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And during the opening ceremonies, there's the Last Supper thing
and there's a little kid, and there's the allegations that
some guy at is junk dangling out while you know,
I some people said it was an optical illusion, it
was his leggings, and I don't know, it did look weird.
But I will say this, you can mock Christians, you
can't mock God can't be done. God isn't defended by
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your mockery. It doesn't affect him. I think that's the
only thing that Christians got wrong. And I watching the display,
they're like, well, they're making fun of the Last Supper.
And at first I wanted to accept the narrative that
it was the Feast of Dionysus, and it was the
feast of God.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was some painting.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
But then the woman that's in the middle of all
of it, the DJ Barbara Butch I guess is her name,
posted on social media before the opening ceremony. She posted
something like it's time to go play Olympic Jesus. It's like, oh, okay, well,
then it was the Last Supper by your own admission.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I mean that's what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Did you get that impression when you watched it?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Well, so one, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I didn't see it, but yeah, that was that was
That was the immediate That was the immediate impression that
I got whenever I saw, you know, saw the picture
of it.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The other the other thing that's kind of strange about
it is and this is another thing people missed. During
the opening ceremony, they show the drag queens and the
trains and the weird fashion show, and then they shoot
to camera shots of the very conservative Islamic athletes. Because
I had some people tell me they'd never mock his
Islam the way they mocked Christianity.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Well, they kind of did, I mean a little bit
right God?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, they show well, yeah, exactly, there's one I think
that I think that same God, Abrahamic God.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
We don't agree on the details, is the same God.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I've always thought so.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And I know they're Christians that disagree with us on that,
but it's a monothystheistic religion based off Judeo Christian values.
And if they're showing drag queens and then they show
the very conservative Saudi Arabian athletes on TV, that that
is kind of disrespecting Islam, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I mean I thought so too.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
All right, Well, all that being said, the takeaway since
then a few big reactions to trans in the Olympics.
From one thing to the next. Now it's about the boxer,
this boxer from I don't have the story in front
of me, so I don't remember what her name is
because I don't memorize the names of transgender boxers.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
No, here we go.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
If Emaine Kellith, if they claim this Algerian boxer isn't
even trans and I don't know what the term is
for this, because there's not a politically correct term for it,
but it used to be the term we used to
have in the twentieth century was hermaphrodite, right, Like remember
they claimed Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You remember that back of the day when they had
the thing about what's his name with the gerbils or you.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Like these are like the weird urban myths from before
the internet became commonplace. Marilyn Manson was missing a rib
in his cage, or you know, the things we talked
about before the Internet was common One of them was
that Jamie Lee Curtis was a hermaphrodite.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
And when you read the explanation of who.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
This boxer was, she was disqualified for having an X
Y chromosome and she but she was born a woman.
She just has high testosterone levels. Sounds like a gray
area for we got a guide a box that technically qualifies.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
As I mean, it seems like a guy to me.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, what am I missing here?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
So to be honest, exactly what we're missing I don't know,
But I think a lot of this could be solved
with with a with a with a you know, one
one simple blood test, right, is there a y chrome
zone and and you know anywhere in there. If that's
the case, then you don't compete with the women.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, it's x Y. She's got sim has.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Somewhere somewhere in there, right somewhere in there.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
If there's a y chrome zone like you don't, it's
you're not competing on the on the same level. Could
you compete on the same level with with with men
right or with with you know, x Y men.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well that's the ultimate question.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But I mean maybe maybe maybe we need a trans division,
Maybe we need a you know, as crazy as that is,
I think we do. I think we're at a point
now where there's enough trans and sports. It's all over
the place now, it's in youth sports, it's showing up
at the Olympics. This isn't even the first time. Do
you remember Laurel Hubbard. A few years back we had
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this hap We had a weightlifter, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Is the one from New Zealand from city to New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And some people think that she him.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
They then took a dive because this guy was in
forties or fifties, much older than all the other people
that that he or she was competing with. Whatever pronoun
you want to use, I'm not going to go there.
I don't care, but I'll call a trans person or her.
But it's but I draw the line at now you
get to compete with my daughter, and that's.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
What this was.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You have to punch my daughter in the face. You
get to punch my daughter in the well. You have daughters,
Come on, man, And also that's your sport.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You do weightlift.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You've done competitive weightlifting? Uh no, I haven't. Well are
a few of our coaches have? Yeah, at a high
high level junior or junior Olympic level competitive weightlifting.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You hang on.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You have students in your class that can't lift one
eighth of what you can lift.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
JD.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I'm in your class. What do you what do you bench.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
High threes?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
High threes? What do you press.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
To sixty?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You could press to sixty. I can't even press half
of that. What do you squat.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Mid for?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's it's not not as high as i'd like, but
that's a lot. What do you that's four plates? What
do you deadlift of high fives? There are people in
your class that can't do half of that, and they
go to competitions. You don't go to competitions. It's been
a while because you're busy. Well well so I mean so, yes,
I have, I have competed to meet. But these are
all these are all amateur, you know, for fun type stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
But you're amateur and tel you're pro, so you're you
know what I mean, like you're I feel like you
qualify for that.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life,
but what you do is that you run a business,
and that's a lot more time consuming. I gotta think
let's talk about that. Stick around if you just turn
it on your radio. I'm hanging out with my buddy
JD from Starting Strength. They have two gyms, one in Houston,
one and Katie. I'm gonna tell you why going to
their gym changed my life and saved my life. Right
after this, if you're watching a streaming line on social media,
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of ups and downs in life. Sometimes life takes you
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In fact, every great victory comes from many, many failures.
Failure is a necessary ingredient to success. It's true, and
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I haven't had a lot of health. I haven't had
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for me was my divorce was very hard for me.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And men will do anything to avoid going to therapy.
So what I did to avoid going to therapy is
I went to Starting Strength in Houston and I trained
with this guy j D, which to me was was
better than sitting on a couch talking to a therapist.
I lifted heavy things above my head, and I learned
that there is there is more to this existence than
what meets the eye, and that the things that we
(28:23):
worry about don't matter as much as we think they
probably do. And often what you think your limitations are
are You're wrong there exactly right. Mark Ripto is a
great quote about this, doesn't he Uh, he's got he's
got several quotes.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Right.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
One of the things you learned from the deadlift is
often what you're it's on the.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Wall in your gym.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I forget.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
It's it's all the it's all the bathroom, right, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Probably no wonder that I looked at it so many times.
Then yeah, that's right, it's in the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah, we were you were you yeah? Oh good lord,
I'm gonna mess it up. So so Uh, I'm not
even gonna try to try to do it. But basically,
your limits are not where you think where you think
they are right, they're off.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
They're often significantly significantly.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
You're limiting yourself way way before you're you're actually you
feel your own physical and mental abilities will we'll limit you.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
How did you get to meet Mark Rippitou.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Mark Ripto is this very controversial guy in the world
of fitness and health, you know, the the greeny weenie
vegan types. They hate him, yep, the people that do
yoga and pilates and the people that wanted everybody to
mask up at the mall. And they don't like Markpitel either.
But clearly you and Mark don't agree with most people.
How did you and him come to get connected with
(29:36):
each other?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
So I started.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
I had been active, you know, ever since high school.
My wife is is is athletic as well, and so
we we'd go train for a marathon, and we go
do this, and we essentially jumped around from one physical move,
from one fitness modality to another, and one day I
got I got fed up with it. I was tall
and skinny, and and I was nowhere near as strong
as a guy my side as I thought my side
should be. And so I just said, screw it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
One.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
You know, I'm gonna I am going to drop all
the cardio and I'm just gonna strength train and see
how strong I can get. And and I found Starting Strength.
And so then a couple of years later, I ended
up going to a seminar. I ended up going to
going to a seminar. And then a little while after that,
the opportunity to franchise, you know, to open up a
gym came up. And Uh, part of the interview process
(30:24):
was to to head up to witch Stuff Falls and
talk to Rip.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
And what did Rip tell you when you met him?
Did he tell you were squatting wrong? That you squat
like as hey do?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
He told me I was?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
I was, Uh, I thought I was getting stronger, and
he told me that I was. I was still still
plenty week and had had a long way to go before.
For you know, I could boast, boast about any numbers
when I when.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I started your program or the Starting Strength program, I
could not squat, deadlift press, My weight couldn't get half there.
Now I'm way over all those numbers. And it happened
in a relatively short period of time, which I if
you told me that going into it, I wouldn't have
believed you. Od it's very skeptical. Yeah, and looking back
on it, I'm glad I was wrong. Is that most
people's reaction?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, for the most part.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
You know, when we start, we start off considerably light,
way lighter than what a lot of people expect. And
uh so you add, you add weight every time you
had five, you know, generally five pounds every session, and
uh you know, little, you know, a little little, you know,
that person gets gets stronger, and they're different. They're a
different persons a little by little every time they come
into the gym physically and mentally.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What is of all the people you've seen come in there?
You don't have to name names, but like, there must
be an example of a guy or a girl who
came in and just completely I can't be the one
that made the biggest transformation. I think my experience is
probably pretty typical, isn't it fairly?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Yeah, I mean we've oh my gosh, we've had we
had We've had members that have that have you know,
lost forty pounds, uh you know, you know since you know,
since starting training. Yeah, We've had members that have while
they're with us, you know, gone through hip or placement
and then uh you know, and then done their rehab with.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Us, and within you know, within within you know, really.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
A handful of weeks, they're they're back to you know,
back to to to the weights that they were that
they were moving prior you know, pre uh pre surgery,
yea even more because now they're able to move move better.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
You know, we've had we've had you know, uh, you
know members that have you know that you know, they're
essentially grown up, grown up with us, right, that have
uh you know, become completely different people because now.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
They're stronger and forget all the muscles, right, I forget
all the all the muscles and the looks like that's
all that's all secondary benefit, right. But they've gone through
this hard process and they've can and they've come through
it changed, right, and so you know now things like
like you said, you know, there they know that their
limits are.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Not where they where they think they are.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And and uh so they're you know, they're comfortable with
with pushing with push beyond that.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It is life changing.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
The other thing I like that's about that one of
the coolest things about starting Strength. It's not it's not
a cult, but in a way, it's cultish every gym.
Every gym is kind of a cult, isn't it. When
you go to Dallas, Plane, l Austin, you got to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Do you guys have a gym in Denver?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
We do? We got to there's two and there's two
in Denver.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I talked about it on the radio and apparently one
of the coaches in Denver is a listener to our
morning show.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Is he really?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And we didn't know that?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, he just reached out to us. We thought that
was pretty wild. Yeah, you know, it's very cool. Right,
where's the gym that you wouldn't expect? Does Memphis have one?
Speaker 7 (33:22):
So Memphis has got one and it is extremely successful. Yeah, yeah,
for you know, that would be that would be what
you consider, you know, secondary market. It's not a very
big market, right, you know, that's sort of that sort
of stuff. The Denver gym is is wildly successful. Yeah,
why do you think that is?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
So?
Speaker 7 (33:39):
The the guy that the guy that owns it and
the team that that run it are are just you know, fantastic.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
They they're great at building relationships. So They're great at
meeting people where where they're at and and then and
then helping them to understand why get strong and and
uh and and go through that process.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Part of what's interesting about the Starting Strength program is
that there are gyms called Starting Strength Denver, Miami, Houston, Chicago, obviously,
but they are also gyms doing the program that aren't
part of the Starting Strength family.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
So yeah, there's there's there's several right there.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
So there's a Starting Gym's franchise, which is which is
what you're talking about, and then there are gym affiliates
Starting Strength excuse me, starting Strength affiliates, Like for example,
there's one in Detroit who's owned by a he's a
former er doctor and so he he he let that
go and now he only trains people over over forty
years old. Yeah, and he's got several members that are
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that are in their nineties that are, you know, pulling
two hundred two hundred pounds off the floor, right right.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I've had three ski injuries, one of them before I
started going to your gym, too, while I was going
to your gym.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
One of them that involved surgery.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I've never had a surgery before every one of those incidents.
I used your gym to recover from it lifting weights,
which is exactly the opposite of what you would think.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Very counterintuitive, but it is exactly what's needed.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
And and and then the other thing that always shocks
people older people, Ye, the elderly, Yep, they benefit from
this because that's even more so than you and me,
even more so than you and me.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Why is that, Well, so we've we've all heard this, right.
So the older you get, you know, the you know,
you lose muscle mass. And then you know as you
get even old, as you get older, that that that
loss accelerates, right, So it starts, it starts when we're
you know, in our I don't know, it was like
you know, forties, that sort of thing. But then but
then you know, that's what leads to, you know, to
to the decline that that people experience. But as they
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get older, you know, now they're losing way more than
when they first started losing.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah, right, And so muscle mass is the foundation of health.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Right.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
If you don't have that, you don't have anything.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So so you know, these you know, these older people,
We have so many older ladies who come into us
with a with an osteoporosis diagnosis that they don't they
don't want to take medication for right, and and so
they you know, they they this is kind of their
last ditch effort before they move on to medication. And
you know, the train for six months. They go into
their doctor, the doctor says, well, there's.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
No need for medication. I don't want to see you
for another six months. Keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Right, And now they're stronger. They can get on the
floor with their grandkids. They can you know, move grocery,
they can you know, bring groceries into the house. It
facilitates their independence.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I had an interesting experience with your gym because I
was overweight, out of shape, no upper body, had a
big beer gut. Started lifting at your gym while I
ran right, did some nutritional stuff and you know, I
won't bore people with all the details. Lost about fifty pounds,
gain ten pounds back, all muscle. Right, I don't even
recognize myself anymore. That changed my life. My friends will
(36:36):
ask me, Kenny, what'd you do? And I tell them
that I go to this gym called Starting Strength. You
should try it. Oh, yeah, that sounds great. They'll give
you a free introductory workout. Oh that sounds awesome. Should
I sign you up for one? I'll let you know,
let me take my schedule. What are they afraid of?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Good Lord?
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Because I think a lot of what we do is counterintuitive, right,
you know? I think I would say that most smokers
know that they're that they need to stop smoke, stop smoking, right?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
But will they?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Right?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Most people know that they need to get get into
shape or that they need to do something to to
improve the health.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
But but will they Yeah? I think that's that's what's
the play.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
I mean, our biggest competition are people's own self limitation.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
People could take classes online. So there's a few hundred
people watching us right now on Twitter and Facebook. And
if people want to take a class online, they can
do that, but also the easiest ways to come in
and do it in person. You got a location in Houston,
you got a location in Katie. Does the free introduction
thing is that still offered? Can you explain that? Well?
Speaker 7 (37:39):
So so when you when you start, we have you,
you know, we we have you come in for an intro.
The intro, you know, allows us to teach the lifts,
figure out starting weights and figure out what sort of
modifications we need to make to accommodate injuries and limitations
and and and that sort of thing. And there's a
there's a you know that across across the franchise across
locations costs one hundred and eighty five bucks and uh
(37:59):
and and certain certain you know, certain locations have that
waived to be able to you know, to to just
to help facilitate the sign up process.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Right.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
So yeah, if you you know, if you want to
reach out to the Houston or Katie, you give us
a call and we'll we'll we'll, you know, we will
absolutely wave the the intro.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
So the easiest way to get signed up go to
your favorite search engine, whether it I'm not going to
promote Google, but obviously you could do type starting Strength Houston, yep,
starting Strength Katie ye us. You could type starting strength Memphis.
We have listeners. There is there a Jim in Louisiana.
I don't think there is? Yeah, why is what's Louisiana's
Probably they don't have a BUCkies either?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Why is that? Maybe there's a correlation.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah, what is the deal with that?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I don't know. I think it's I think it's just
just the pace of of of of sign ups.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Okay, not not in you know, not the right amount,
not the right amount of interest or there, or the
right franchise. He hasn't hasn't shown hasn't shown up yet.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
It's huge in Texas, it's huge in Florida.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
And those are obviously the two most based red pill
states in.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
America, as Ohio. This guy is another one, so it's
probably not a coincidence. Yeah, and then one in Chicago.
Just one more coming Chicago. Chicago's doing really really well good.
I think more coming pretty soon, all right, folks, Look,
people ask me about this a lot. I know influencers
will say that on social media. People are always asking
me about my skincare regime, and no one's asking them
(39:17):
about their skincare regime. But people do actually ask me, Kenny,
since your divorce, you've lost a lot of way, you've
gotten a lot healthier.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
What did you do.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I've just explained it to you. I went to Starting Strength,
changed my life. It's good for your physical health, it's
good for your mental health.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I would not use air time to talk about.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
This if I wasn't a loyal brand evangelist of it,
and I say that with all my heart. Thank you
so much, brother, from my brothers of Iron at starting strength,
I highly recommend checking it out. Hey, to the rest
of you, I love you all. I say God bless you.
I hope you have an awesome weekend. Drive safe out there,
get back bright and early Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
A Washington Man meaning a man in Washington was arrested
for running over a flock of seagulls. The good news
is he missed Devo and Men without Hats, so they're fine. Hey,
it's Kenny Webster. It's Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You made it to the end of the week.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That means you're alive, and you know, it's more than
some people could say today. It's good to be here,
It's good to be with you. I got a couple
of good friends stopping by. I guess you could say
it's going to be good.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thank you. I'll come up with better adjectives throughout the show.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I promise Michael quint Sullivan should be here next segment.
I'm told we're having a little trouble getting a hold
of him, but we're gonna get a grip on what's
going on in the Texas political zeitgeist. Hang out for
that plus very special guest at the bottom of the
hour my personal trainer JD stopping by from Starting Strength
Houston and Starting Strength Katie. You've heard me talk about
(01:19):
him before, you say, changed my life. He's an awesome guy.
We're gonna get into each other's head learn about what's
going on in the world of the very controversial world
of health and fitness. So hang out for that. But
before we go anywhere, let's start the show with this.
Why do why do liberal women do that? They clap
when they talk. They're like, you can't disrespect hey, Oh see,
yeah I can. I just did aoc He's got a
(01:40):
big booty Latina. I don't care about her anyway, if
you want a good laugh. Breitbart dot com is reporting
that CNN, a news outlet known for spreading conspiracy c
theories and political violence, has had to remove their opinion
section from cnn dot com.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Can you can you believe this? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Really the opinion section at CNN dot com and that,
like the whole website. Yeah, CNN was so wedded to
the ludicrous fantasy there was a separation between its news
and opinion section that it wasted money creating an opinion section.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That is adorable. Well, the delusion's over.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Apparently CNN just announced an end to this ludicrous fantasy.
CNN Opinion is no more, and I mean CNN opinion
is no more. Obviously, CNN itself is all opinion. It's
a website and a news channel with nothing but lies
and bullying to back up their opinion. But the vertical
has shuttered. So there's that that. What does this really change?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Now that I'm looking at CNN opinion for the first time,
and that's not a joke, I've I've never gone to
CNN's website and read their opinion section.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Of you, I know you haven't. Nobody has.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
If you listen to this radio station, you're probably not
the demographic for CNN's opinion page. And considering that the
demographic for a CNN's opinion page wasn't going there, I'm
just going to guess you didn't go there either. But anyway,
when you look at the website, when you look at
that section of the website, you could tell it was
nothing more than an affirmative action program for leftists, people
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who could never survive on merit.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Here are some of the recent headlines. I'll just read
them to you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The galling mistake that led to the US to its
current debt problem. Oh that's adorable. CNN is going to
try to explain the national debt. You guys are a
website filled with articles pleading with the government to spend
more money, and now you're going to try to explain
how your advocacy might have actually caused the problem.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I doubt they admit that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Here's another fun headline, how Billie Eilish is unleashing queer imagination.
I'm sorry, isn't she heterosexual? Here's another headline, the real
significance of the Supreme Court's Chevron deference ruling. I'll just
keep reading the headlines. And Drew McCarthy deserves to be
taken seriously. Okay, dear Joe, it's time to go. Yeah,
(04:06):
they probably agree with that. The real loser in Thursday's
debate probably America. The female gaze is taking over page
and screen and it is hot.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Another headline, My teenage son had an influencer in his class.
This is what it was like. Okay, fighting anti semitism
one curl at a time. CNN paid for this garbage.
Those are headlines fighting anti semitism, one curl at a time. Wow,
Here's how CNN's valued opinion contributors were informed that they
(04:41):
might have to get real jobs. An opinion editor sent
an email to The Hill, you know, the news outlet,
and the headline reads, just a quick note to let
you know that unfortunately CNN has decided to shut down
the opinion section. I hope our paths cross elsewhere. That's it.
That was the whole good ye. Now the article about
(05:03):
this has a little more information More from The Hill.
Reached for comment, a CNN executive told The Hill quote,
we did make the decision at the beginning of the
month to sunset the opinion vertical on cnn dot com.
As a result, we will no longer have a standalone
opinion section end quote. More from the article. The opinion
(05:24):
section served as a platform for diverse voices and has
recently featured a variety of pieces about the twenty twenty
four presidential election, as well as buzzy topics buzzy top
buzzy topics like the Olympics and Generation Z social media
influencer trends. Its current homepage features a column titled Project
(05:44):
twenty twenty five is Coming for Our Kids Too, by
Veronica Goodman, a director at a progressive think tank, about
Republican's policy priorities ahead of the second Donald Trump presidency. Hmm,
here's the bottom line. If CNN Opinion made money, if
it added any value other than income for left wing wankory,
(06:07):
I got to think it would have survived the budget cuts,
they'd still have it. But it didn't make any money,
and it certainly didn't influence anybody with opinions. CNN Opinion
might have had a chance had it allowed for a
comment section. That's how you create a community. But CNN
will never allow unfiltered outside opinion anywhere, not on the air,
(06:28):
and certainly not on their now shuttered opinion section.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So it's gone till the government started. Listening on Proceeds of.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Happiness Radio with Kea Webstergio aka producer Kenny Here, we
feel like here, we feel like history keeps repeating itself.
A few years back, your favorite morning show covered a
story from Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You may have heard.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It involved a federal judge and a heist student in
Franklinton painting Donald Trump on his parking space. We didn't
do this when I was in high school, but apparently
this is a trend now that seniors will paint their
parking spaces to decorate it when they start the school year.
And so a few years ago a young man in Franklinton, Louisiana,
(07:19):
decided he wanted to paint Trump on his parking space,
and the school said he couldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Loen behold us.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
District Judge Elden Fallin of the Eastern District of Louisiana
steps in and says, yeah, actually, that kid has every
right to do that. You can certainly support them. At
the time Trump was the president. Imagine being such a
liberal d bag that you don't want kids at the
public school where you teach to support the active sitting president,
(07:47):
because that's what a liberal pain in the ash you are. Well,
now it's happened again up in Keller You know where
that is. It's a nice suburb outside of Fort Worth.
My uncle lives there. I've spent a lot of time
in Keller, t As. Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas squarecards
on the line right now, Michael, what happened in Caller, Texas.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Yeah, Look, this is one of the situations where we're
after a rough start, things worked out correctly. You had
these two kids, two seniors. I'm like you like I'm
I'm old enough to remember the good old days where
you just showed up at school if you drove, and
you hope to find a parking place. Reserve parking and
painting your parking lots as like a cash grab by
the schools. But that's another rif to you. So so
(08:27):
this kid, his parents ponied up the two hundred bucks
for him to be able to paint his parking space.
And one of those friends did the same thing, very respectful,
you know, kind of a you know, art deco kind
of you know, mural of Donald very creative, looked, looked
very nice. Nothing no bad words, nothing incendiary, nothing anti anything,
just to pro Trump deal.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Well, some of.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
The snowflake millennial teachers apparently got their you know, got
their panties in a wad, and so they got admit
the straighters to tell the kid, uh, the kids to
paint over their spaces because it was offensive and objectionable
all that kind of stuff. Now, never mind nothing in
school policy, the violence of the written policies. It was
(09:14):
just some teachers and some probably some transgender teacher who
wants to talk about you know, his sex life or something,
you know, got got upset by that.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
That's my that's my my mental image.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Anyway, So the kid paints over but the community is outraged.
The citizens are outraged. The kid that hadn't no lawsuits here.
The community is outraged. The school board president speaks out
against it, the mayor speaks out against it, others because
you know, against the school action. And so this week
(09:46):
the school has relented and they're letting him paint his
repaint his parking lot space with apparently the school board
president offering the you know, to pay the pay the
pay the cost, you buy a new paint, that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
For me, I can't believe it came to this.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
This system worked. Yeah, but it's crazy, just crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Isn't it weird that in the other case in Louisiana
that a federal judge had to get involved. For those
that haven't seen the art, the art is actually fantastic
what this kid painted up in Keller. If you've ever
seen the artwork of Shepherd Fairy, he's famous for doing
a line of artwork called Obey Giant. He kind of
famously did the Barack Obama Hope painting that was controversial
for different reasons copyright infringement. But that's what the kid
(10:28):
did with Trump. It looked like Shepherd Fairies art, but
it had Trump with the sunglasses on, with the American
flag and then a headband like almost like Rambo. It
looks very cool. These kids are very clever. I'm surprised
they were punishing them.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Look, this is the kind of thing where if you're
going to say be creative, be a freethinker, you know,
you know, do neat things.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So, by the way, pay us two hundred bucks. This
is the kind of thing you'd actually want them to do.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Again, there's nothing offensive about about the art. If you
if you go go to our website, Texas core Court
dot com, you can see you can see a picture
of what the kid painted. It's actually very attractive. I
mean it's not something I would hang in my.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
House, right, but it's actually very attractive.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You know, because what we what we tend to get
when you have kids talking about politics is something angry.
You get something that's anti and I'm anti this, I'm
anti that. Instead, this is just a fun, respectful piece
of art that this kid. I mean, I wouldn't even
want to put my car in this parking place because
I wouldn't want to mess up the up the art.
(11:36):
But yet, you know, this kid's been a lot, clear's
been a lot of time on it. This is the
kind of thing we should be celebrating. But unfortunately, Kenny,
the state of government education is uh is. You've got
all these snowflake teachers and snowflake administrators who they want
to clamp down on anyone who is speaking outside the
(11:57):
leftist narrative. They want to shut down on anyone who
wants to have a thought that is in opposition to
the leftist mind think. And I would addrest to you, Kenny,
this is why we're seeing all around the state school
district's losing enrollment despite Texas having this new crazy population explosion,
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people moving here from all over the country and all
over the world, most legally so I'm not legally, but
yet our schools are seeing declines and enrollment because people
are fed up with this kind of crap. And again,
in Keller, it ended well, it ended correctly. You didn't
have to have a laws anything. You know, people, the
grown ups you know, kind of stepped in. But unfortunately
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this is the exception, not the rule.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Being young and conservative and I've made this point so
many times during our radio segments together. Michael, being young
and conservative right now in the twenty first century is
the new counterculture. That is the new punk rock. Back
in the twentieth century, if you were Christian and conservative,
that was mainstream.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
That was what most people were. Now we're the alternative.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And absolutely it's cool to be edgy, but it's also
a little scary, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Look, I mean, you know, you know, to think of
this poor kid, he's kind of outed himself on on
social media. Oh yeah, I'm the students, you know kind
of thing, and and and it.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Seemed like one of those kind of.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Kids you would hope that your kids are friends with,
because he says, Look, I don't want anything bad to
happen to the principal people.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Shouldn't you know, go after the teachers. You know.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Look, let's just you know, I wanted to make something
fun that I enjoyed. I hope everyone kind of cools down,
you know, kind of thing, and like, you know, we
need more of that, please, we want more of that.
And and to your point, though we have this entire
you know, we we we've allowed ourselves to adopt this
position where you know, kids either have to shut up
or they have to be raving, lunatic a left us
(13:51):
And that's that's really not that's really not the only
choices here. But but you know, you're now in school,
if you're a conservative, you're a Christian, you are counter
the culture of the leadership of schools. Even though you
know you find in polling data and survey work this,
you know, this new generation, the Zoomers, I guess they're called,
(14:13):
you know, you know, they are more pro life, they're
more free market, they are more conservative than any previous
generation at this age. And I think it's in part
because they see the lunacy that they're getting from the
from the adults that they're shackled to for eight or
nine hours to day in the public schools. They're realizing
there has to be something better.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Michael, as always, you guys do amazing work at Texas
scorecard dot com. I'm so glad you covered this story.
I don't see a lot of other people even talking
about this. I think this is information that Texans need
to hear about, and the only way to get it
is go to Texas scorecard dot com. You could subscribe
to their email list I do. It's short and concise
and quick. Rather than paying money for the Dallas Morning
(14:54):
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show prep for our radio show. I recommend you check
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will be right back.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Who listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I guess it's not available in Canada.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Run there's supposed to be a little inter screen, but
I didn't. I didn't set this up correctly. But anyway,
we're live streaming, so people are looking, so.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We better talk.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Hey everybody, Kenny Webster, We're live on the radio right now, Houston,
Texas KPRC nine fifty, the oldest radio station in Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And I'm not alone today.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I got my buddy JD here, my coach from Starting
Strength Houston and Starting Strength Katie is in the room.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
JD.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Normally, when I do these live streams, the person sitting
across from me as a political person, and so when
I put myself on camera and then I put them
on camera. I often look very fit and trim and
athletic by comparison to whoever's no offense to whoever's sitting across
from me. I'm not making fun of anyone specifically, but you,
on the other hand, having you across from me sitting
(16:02):
in the room kind of makes me look like one
of the political people, which is the opposite of here.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Let me turn your mic on.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'm just I'm just a year or two ahead of you.
That's all it is. You'll, you'll, you'll, you'll be there eventually.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That's not true. You're not a year or two ahead
of me. You're way ahead of me.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
For those that don't know what starting strength is or
who Mark rippleto is, you guys are in the fitness
world kind of controversial and edgy, but I think in
a very cool way.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Can you explain that to people? Why is that?
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Because it's because it's a no bs nobs approach to things, right,
we go, we go with what works, and we don't
we don't compromise on it. So you know, we hope
people get strong and we don't worry about everything else
because everything else generally tends to take care of itself.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, if you can get stronger and during the pandemic,
I think that's when Mark Rippletow, who created the program,
that's kind of when he first showed up on the map,
which means everybody in his under his umbrella, people such
as you, of course, one of the top guys in Texas.
And that was mostly because you were the people that
point it out how all of the science methodology for
(17:04):
dealing with the pandemic wasn't scientific at all.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Was Yeah, we were, you know, we were.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
We were considerably outspoken with uh you know, with with
all with all the nonsense that was being pushed down,
uh down everybody's throat. So yeah, so you know, we
gained a little bit of I would I don't know,
notoriety is the right way to say it. Or gained
a little bit of uh yeah, I call it notoriety.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I guess. You know, for lack of a better word.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You were one of the first gems in America to
say that closing the gym during the pandemic didn't make
any sense.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I mean, it makes it. It's completely unscientific.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
If it's if we're supposed to be healthy, why are
we encouraging people to stay at home any Crispy creams.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And this is this is so obvious now three years later.
But at the time do.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You want to get you want to get conspiracy theory
and control and uh and uh and political about it?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I do, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Ultimately, I think is control right?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Nobody nobody's gonna say it that way, and and uh,
you know the people that that did it, I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
You could even argue that that that that wasn't their
their intention out outright, but uh, I think, al that's
that's what it came down to, right, you know, they
doubled down on control because because I say so.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I mean, that was it?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It was a big experiment. It was a social experiment.
Will people do it?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I had a friend that was working in Singapore at
the time doing oil and gas work, and he said,
it's so different there. Americans are so different from people
in the Far East. And I said, why is that?
And he said, if the government told people in Singapore
you have to crawl on your knees and lick the
pavement in order to prevent yourself from getting sick, everyone
would just do that, unquestionably, whereas in America only about
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a third of Americans would say, yeah, I'll crawl on
the floor and lick the pavement. And we know who
they are and we don't have to say it, but
you know which who they vote for and what you
know who these people are.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
But I think I think it comes down to roots, right,
you know, we we you know we we started out
as a rebellious, rebellious colony and uh buck the system
and you know we you know that's that's just in our.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
In our blood and so hallelujah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, And that's part of what bugs me about watching
the Olympics because I love putting American is on display
for the world. I think it's very cool watching American
athletes and how we compete differently, we behave differently. I
know there's some people on the right that will tell
you the Olympics are for globalists or whatever, but I
think it predates that. I think the Olympics have been
around for a long time. There's something very cool about it.
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Although you can't deny the fact that this particular Olympic
Games that it's very strange this time, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
It's it's it's saddening, is what it is. I think.
With with with the with the stuff that's going on.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
But that's you know, uh uh you've you've got it.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You've got it on TV right now.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I can see that, you know, the medal count and
all that sort of stuff. But you know, I haven't
really been following it for this reason that I think,
you know, all the all the fascination is is being
is is gone and you know, overshadowed by all the
all the nonsense that's you know that that's involved.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I think it's very funny that Peyton Manning does commentary
for a sporting event and his sports not part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
You know, whatever pays the bills, man, But you know
I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, that check clears you can't blame the guy. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You're Christian, you're conservative, you lean to the right, and
you're not like an extremist or anything like that. That's
not you're not a political guy. But as a Christian
you certainly go to church enough. You have a family,
you have children. The opening ceremony is still getting a
lot of attention. It was a week ago.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Today against uh, you know, saddening more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Did you watch it?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I didn't, I didn't know, you know, I saw I
saw the stuff on on social media that that that
came out came out of you know, afterwards, and and
what it is.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's saddening.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I mean, right was it Elon must said something about
Christianity perishing and one that's never gonna be the case, right, Uh,
you know it. You know, Christ is everlasting and and
and will always be. But it's just it's just it's
just sad to see you know, people, you know, people
making a mockery of it for for you know, to
be provocative.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And during the opening ceremonies, there's the Last Supper thing
and there's a little kid, and there's the allegations that
some guy at is junk dangling out while you know,
I some people said it was an optical illusion, it
was his leggings, and I don't know, it did look weird.
But I will say this, you can mock Christians, you
can't mock God can't be done. God isn't defended by
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your mockery. It doesn't affect him. I think that's the
only thing that Christians got wrong. And I watching the display,
they're like, well, they're making fun of the Last Supper.
And at first I wanted to accept the narrative that
it was the Feast of Dionysus, and it was the
feast of God.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was some painting.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
But then the woman that's in the middle of all
of it, the DJ Barbara Butch I guess is her name,
posted on social media before the opening ceremony. She posted
something like it's time to go play Olympic Jesus. It's like, oh, okay, well,
then it was the Last Supper by your own admission.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I mean that's what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Did you get that impression when you watched it?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Well, so one, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I didn't see it, but yeah, that was that was
That was the immediate That was the immediate impression that
I got whenever I saw, you know, saw the picture
of it.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The other the other thing that's kind of strange about
it is and this is another thing people missed. During
the opening ceremony, they show the drag queens and the
trains and the weird fashion show, and then they shoot
to camera shots of the very conservative Islamic athletes. Because
I had some people tell me they'd never mock his
Islam the way they mocked Christianity.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Well, they kind of did, I mean a little bit
right God?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, they show well, yeah, exactly, there's one I think
that I think that same God, Abrahamic God.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
We don't agree on the details, is the same God.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I've always thought so.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And I know they're Christians that disagree with us on that,
but it's a monothystheistic religion based off Judeo Christian values.
And if they're showing drag queens and then they show
the very conservative Saudi Arabian athletes on TV, that that
is kind of disrespecting Islam, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I mean I thought so too.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
All right, Well, all that being said, the takeaway since
then a few big reactions to trans in the Olympics.
From one thing to the next. Now it's about the boxer,
this boxer from I don't have the story in front
of me, so I don't remember what her name is
because I don't memorize the names of transgender boxers.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
No, here we go.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
If Emaine Kellith, if they claim this Algerian boxer isn't
even trans and I don't know what the term is
for this, because there's not a politically correct term for it,
but it used to be the term we used to
have in the twentieth century was hermaphrodite, right, Like remember
they claimed Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You remember that back of the day when they had
the thing about what's his name with the gerbils or you.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Like these are like the weird urban myths from before
the internet became commonplace. Marilyn Manson was missing a rib
in his cage, or you know, the things we talked
about before the Internet was common One of them was
that Jamie Lee Curtis was a hermaphrodite.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
And when you read the explanation of who.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
This boxer was, she was disqualified for having an X
Y chromosome and she but she was born a woman.
She just has high testosterone levels. Sounds like a gray
area for we got a guide a box that technically qualifies.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
As I mean, it seems like a guy to me.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, what am I missing here?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
So to be honest, exactly what we're missing I don't know,
But I think a lot of this could be solved
with with a with a with a you know, one
one simple blood test, right, is there a y chrome
zone and and you know anywhere in there. If that's
the case, then you don't compete with the women.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, it's x Y. She's got sim has.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Somewhere somewhere in there, right somewhere in there.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
If there's a y chrome zone like you don't, it's
you're not competing on the on the same level. Could
you compete on the same level with with with men
right or with with you know, x Y men.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well that's the ultimate question.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But I mean maybe maybe maybe we need a trans division,
Maybe we need a you know, as crazy as that is,
I think we do. I think we're at a point
now where there's enough trans and sports. It's all over
the place now, it's in youth sports, it's showing up
at the Olympics. This isn't even the first time. Do
you remember Laurel Hubbard. A few years back we had
(24:46):
this hap We had a weightlifter, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Is the one from New Zealand from city to New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And some people think that she him.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
They then took a dive because this guy was in
forties or fifties, much older than all the other people
that that he or she was competing with. Whatever pronoun
you want to use, I'm not going to go there.
I don't care, but I'll call a trans person or her.
But it's but I draw the line at now you
get to compete with my daughter, and that's.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
What this was.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You have to punch my daughter in the face. You
get to punch my daughter in the well. You have daughters,
Come on, man, And also that's your sport.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You do weightlift.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You've done competitive weightlifting? Uh no, I haven't. Well are
a few of our coaches have? Yeah, at a high
high level junior or junior Olympic level competitive weightlifting.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You hang on.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You have students in your class that can't lift one
eighth of what you can lift.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
JD.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I'm in your class. What do you what do you bench.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
High threes?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
High threes? What do you press.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
To sixty?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You could press to sixty. I can't even press half
of that. What do you squat.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Mid for?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's it's not not as high as i'd like, but
that's a lot. What do you that's four plates? What
do you deadlift of high fives? There are people in
your class that can't do half of that, and they
go to competitions. You don't go to competitions. It's been
a while because you're busy. Well well so I mean so, yes,
I have, I have competed to meet. But these are
all these are all amateur, you know, for fun type stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
But you're amateur and tel you're pro, so you're you
know what I mean, like you're I feel like you
qualify for that.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life,
but what you do is that you run a business,
and that's a lot more time consuming. I gotta think
let's talk about that. Stick around if you just turn
it on your radio. I'm hanging out with my buddy
JD from Starting Strength. They have two gyms, one in Houston,
one and Katie. I'm gonna tell you why going to
their gym changed my life and saved my life. Right
after this, if you're watching a streaming line on social media,
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It's never too early to learn that the government is
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Speaker 3 (26:57):
The Pursuit of Happiness Radio on a nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Like a lot of men out there listening to this
radio show, I have found that I've had a lot
of ups and downs in life. Sometimes life takes you
to good places, sometimes it doesn't. We all have w's,
we have l's. You can't have a victory without a failure.
In fact, every great victory comes from many, many failures.
Failure is a necessary ingredient to success. It's true, and
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it's just just true in business, as it is in
fitness and health and life and finances, as it is
in love and romance, and strangely, all these things are interchangeable.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
They all connect together.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
For those of you with half a brain who have
lived longer than a few months on this planet, I
know I'm explaining the obvious here, but I say all
that to get to this point. For me going through
I'm very lucky. I've had a good life. I'm healthy,
I haven't had a lot of health. I haven't had
a lot of bad things happen to me. But one
thing I would say that happened to me that was
terrible at least, you know, objectively speaking, relative subjectively speaking
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for me was my divorce was very hard for me.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And men will do anything to avoid going to therapy.
So what I did to avoid going to therapy is
I went to Starting Strength in Houston and I trained
with this guy j D, which to me was was
better than sitting on a couch talking to a therapist.
I lifted heavy things above my head, and I learned
that there is there is more to this existence than
what meets the eye, and that the things that we
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worry about don't matter as much as we think they
probably do. And often what you think your limitations are
are You're wrong there exactly right. Mark Ripto is a
great quote about this, doesn't he Uh, he's got he's
got several quotes.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Right.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
One of the things you learned from the deadlift is
often what you're it's on the.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Wall in your gym.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I forget.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
It's it's all the it's all the bathroom, right, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Probably no wonder that I looked at it so many times.
Then yeah, that's right, it's in the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah, we were you were you yeah? Oh good lord,
I'm gonna mess it up. So so Uh, I'm not
even gonna try to try to do it. But basically,
your limits are not where you think where you think
they are right, they're off.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
They're often significantly significantly.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
You're limiting yourself way way before you're you're actually you
feel your own physical and mental abilities will we'll limit you.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
How did you get to meet Mark Rippitou.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Mark Ripto is this very controversial guy in the world
of fitness and health, you know, the the greeny weenie
vegan types. They hate him, yep, the people that do
yoga and pilates and the people that wanted everybody to
mask up at the mall. And they don't like Markpitel either.
But clearly you and Mark don't agree with most people.
How did you and him come to get connected with
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each other?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
So I started.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
I had been active, you know, ever since high school.
My wife is is is athletic as well, and so
we we'd go train for a marathon, and we go
do this, and we essentially jumped around from one physical move,
from one fitness modality to another, and one day I
got I got fed up with it. I was tall
and skinny, and and I was nowhere near as strong
as a guy my side as I thought my side
should be. And so I just said, screw it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
One.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
You know, I'm gonna I am going to drop all
the cardio and I'm just gonna strength train and see
how strong I can get. And and I found Starting Strength.
And so then a couple of years later, I ended
up going to a seminar. I ended up going to
going to a seminar. And then a little while after that,
the opportunity to franchise, you know, to open up a
gym came up. And Uh, part of the interview process
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was to to head up to witch Stuff Falls and
talk to Rip.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
And what did Rip tell you when you met him?
Did he tell you were squatting wrong? That you squat
like as hey do?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
He told me I was?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
I was, Uh, I thought I was getting stronger, and
he told me that I was. I was still still
plenty week and had had a long way to go before.
For you know, I could boast, boast about any numbers
when I when.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I started your program or the Starting Strength program, I
could not squat, deadlift press, My weight couldn't get half there.
Now I'm way over all those numbers. And it happened
in a relatively short period of time, which I if
you told me that going into it, I wouldn't have
believed you. Od it's very skeptical. Yeah, and looking back
on it, I'm glad I was wrong. Is that most
people's reaction?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, for the most part.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
You know, when we start, we start off considerably light,
way lighter than what a lot of people expect. And
uh so you add, you add weight every time you
had five, you know, generally five pounds every session, and
uh you know, little, you know, a little little, you know,
that person gets gets stronger, and they're different. They're a
different persons a little by little every time they come
into the gym physically and mentally.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What is of all the people you've seen come in there?
You don't have to name names, but like, there must
be an example of a guy or a girl who
came in and just completely I can't be the one
that made the biggest transformation. I think my experience is
probably pretty typical, isn't it fairly?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Yeah, I mean we've oh my gosh, we've had we
had We've had members that have that have you know,
lost forty pounds, uh you know, you know since you know,
since starting training. Yeah, We've had members that have while
they're with us, you know, gone through hip or placement
and then uh you know, and then done their rehab with.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Us, and within you know, within within you know, really.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
A handful of weeks, they're they're back to you know,
back to to to the weights that they were that
they were moving prior you know, pre uh pre surgery,
yea even more because now they're able to move move better.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
You know, we've had we've had you know, uh, you
know members that have you know that you know, they're
essentially grown up, grown up with us, right, that have
uh you know, become completely different people because now.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
They're stronger and forget all the muscles, right, I forget
all the all the muscles and the looks like that's
all that's all secondary benefit, right. But they've gone through
this hard process and they've can and they've come through
it changed, right, and so you know now things like
like you said, you know, there they know that their
limits are.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Not where they where they think they are.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And and uh so they're you know, they're comfortable with
with pushing with push beyond that.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It is life changing.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
The other thing I like that's about that one of
the coolest things about starting Strength. It's not it's not
a cult, but in a way, it's cultish every gym.
Every gym is kind of a cult, isn't it. When
you go to Dallas, Plane, l Austin, you got to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Do you guys have a gym in Denver?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
We do? We got to there's two and there's two
in Denver.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I talked about it on the radio and apparently one
of the coaches in Denver is a listener to our
morning show.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Is he really?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And we didn't know that?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, he just reached out to us. We thought that
was pretty wild. Yeah, you know, it's very cool. Right,
where's the gym that you wouldn't expect? Does Memphis have one?
Speaker 7 (33:22):
So Memphis has got one and it is extremely successful. Yeah, yeah,
for you know, that would be that would be what
you consider, you know, secondary market. It's not a very
big market, right, you know, that's sort of that sort
of stuff. The Denver gym is is wildly successful. Yeah,
why do you think that is?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
So?
Speaker 7 (33:39):
The the guy that the guy that owns it and
the team that that run it are are just you know, fantastic.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
They they're great at building relationships. So They're great at
meeting people where where they're at and and then and
then helping them to understand why get strong and and
uh and and go through that process.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Part of what's interesting about the Starting Strength program is
that there are gyms called Starting Strength Denver, Miami, Houston, Chicago, obviously,
but they are also gyms doing the program that aren't
part of the Starting Strength family.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
So yeah, there's there's there's several right there.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
So there's a Starting Gym's franchise, which is which is
what you're talking about, and then there are gym affiliates
Starting Strength excuse me, starting Strength affiliates, Like for example,
there's one in Detroit who's owned by a he's a
former er doctor and so he he he let that
go and now he only trains people over over forty
years old. Yeah, and he's got several members that are
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that are in their nineties that are, you know, pulling
two hundred two hundred pounds off the floor, right right.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I've had three ski injuries, one of them before I
started going to your gym, too, while I was going
to your gym.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
One of them that involved surgery.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I've never had a surgery before every one of those incidents.
I used your gym to recover from it lifting weights,
which is exactly the opposite of what you would think.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Very counterintuitive, but it is exactly what's needed.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
And and and then the other thing that always shocks
people older people, Ye, the elderly, Yep, they benefit from
this because that's even more so than you and me,
even more so than you and me.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Why is that, Well, so we've we've all heard this, right.
So the older you get, you know, the you know,
you lose muscle mass. And then you know as you
get even old, as you get older, that that that
loss accelerates, right, So it starts, it starts when we're
you know, in our I don't know, it was like
you know, forties, that sort of thing. But then but
then you know, that's what leads to, you know, to
to the decline that that people experience. But as they
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get older, you know, now they're losing way more than
when they first started losing.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah, right, And so muscle mass is the foundation of health.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Right.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
If you don't have that, you don't have anything.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So so you know, these you know, these older people,
We have so many older ladies who come into us
with a with an osteoporosis diagnosis that they don't they
don't want to take medication for right, and and so
they you know, they they this is kind of their
last ditch effort before they move on to medication. And
you know, the train for six months. They go into
their doctor, the doctor says, well, there's.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
No need for medication. I don't want to see you
for another six months. Keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Right, And now they're stronger. They can get on the
floor with their grandkids. They can you know, move grocery,
they can you know, bring groceries into the house. It
facilitates their independence.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I had an interesting experience with your gym because I
was overweight, out of shape, no upper body, had a
big beer gut. Started lifting at your gym while I
ran right, did some nutritional stuff and you know, I
won't bore people with all the details. Lost about fifty pounds,
gain ten pounds back, all muscle. Right, I don't even
recognize myself anymore. That changed my life. My friends will
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ask me, Kenny, what'd you do? And I tell them
that I go to this gym called Starting Strength. You
should try it. Oh, yeah, that sounds great. They'll give
you a free introductory workout. Oh that sounds awesome. Should
I sign you up for one? I'll let you know,
let me take my schedule. What are they afraid of?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Good Lord?
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Because I think a lot of what we do is counterintuitive, right,
you know? I think I would say that most smokers
know that they're that they need to stop smoke, stop smoking, right?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
But will they?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Right?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Most people know that they need to get get into
shape or that they need to do something to to
improve the health.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
But but will they Yeah? I think that's that's what's
the play.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
I mean, our biggest competition are people's own self limitation.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
People could take classes online. So there's a few hundred
people watching us right now on Twitter and Facebook. And
if people want to take a class online, they can
do that, but also the easiest ways to come in
and do it in person. You got a location in Houston,
you got a location in Katie. Does the free introduction
thing is that still offered? Can you explain that? Well?
Speaker 7 (37:39):
So so when you when you start, we have you,
you know, we we have you come in for an intro.
The intro, you know, allows us to teach the lifts,
figure out starting weights and figure out what sort of
modifications we need to make to accommodate injuries and limitations
and and and that sort of thing. And there's a
there's a you know that across across the franchise across
locations costs one hundred and eighty five bucks and uh
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and and certain certain you know, certain locations have that
waived to be able to you know, to to just
to help facilitate the sign up process.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Right.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
So yeah, if you you know, if you want to
reach out to the Houston or Katie, you give us
a call and we'll we'll we'll, you know, we will
absolutely wave the the intro.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
So the easiest way to get signed up go to
your favorite search engine, whether it I'm not going to
promote Google, but obviously you could do type starting Strength Houston, yep,
starting Strength Katie ye us. You could type starting strength Memphis.
We have listeners. There is there a Jim in Louisiana.
I don't think there is? Yeah, why is what's Louisiana's
Probably they don't have a BUCkies either?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Why is that? Maybe there's a correlation.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah, what is the deal with that?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I don't know. I think it's I think it's just
just the pace of of of of sign ups.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Okay, not not in you know, not the right amount,
not the right amount of interest or there, or the
right franchise. He hasn't hasn't shown hasn't shown up yet.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
It's huge in Texas, it's huge in Florida.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
And those are obviously the two most based red pill
states in.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
America, as Ohio. This guy is another one, so it's
probably not a coincidence. Yeah, and then one in Chicago.
Just one more coming Chicago. Chicago's doing really really well good.
I think more coming pretty soon, all right, folks, Look,
people ask me about this a lot. I know influencers
will say that on social media. People are always asking
me about my skincare regime, and no one's asking them
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about their skincare regime. But people do actually ask me, Kenny,
since your divorce, you've lost a lot of way, you've
gotten a lot healthier.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
What did you do.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I've just explained it to you. I went to Starting Strength,
changed my life. It's good for your physical health, it's
good for your mental health.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I would not use air time to talk about.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
This if I wasn't a loyal brand evangelist of it,
and I say that with all my heart. Thank you
so much, brother, from my brothers of Iron at starting strength,
I highly recommend checking it out. Hey, to the rest
of you, I love you all. I say God bless you.
I hope you have an awesome weekend. Drive safe out there,
get back bright and early Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
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