Is America still drowning in Bidenflation?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features White House correspondent Amanda Head and judicial candidate Todd Frankfort. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn same
sex marriage, and I'm sure I speak for all husbands
when I ask what about straight marriage? Hi Rememeddy Kenny
Webster here, Thanks so much for joining us this afternoon.
Amanda Head is here. If you don't know who that is,
I bet you'd probably recognize her if you saw. She's
a White House correspondent for Just the News and a

(00:43):
co host on a Real America voice. You've probably seen
her on cable news many times. She'll be here shortly.
We are going to talk about Biden inflation. Yeah, that's
still a thing unfortunately, and maybe some of Trump's ideas
to deal with it are good, maybe some of them suck.
Will get to all that soon. I want your take,
want I know what you guys thinks to stick around
for that. Also, stopping by Todd Frankfurt will be here.

(01:04):
He's a judicial candidate. He's going to be in studio.
We're going to be streaming at the end of the show,
so hang out for that. Before we get to any
of that, I guess the look, this is a political
talk show. I can't not talk about the shutdown. It's
finally coming to an end. Not today, obviously, Today's Veterans Day.
The hard working lawmakers, they're all taking a day off today.

(01:24):
But no, as was reported at the Washington Examiner, eighth
centrist Senate Senate Democrats stayed up late last night making
popcorn and took the brave steps of crossing their party's
rabbit base to cut a deal with the Republicans and
end the federal government shutdown. So if I'll go smoke smoothly,
the House will vote on the new continuing resolution tomorrow,

(01:47):
not today again, what did you you thought they were
going to work today? No, it's a holiday, of course
they're not working today. Washington could be open again by Thursday.
So if you need to have something shipped to you
overnight on an airplane, maybe wait till Friday to order it,
or it's going to get stuck up in the air
for a couple of days. Anyway, this will be a
big win for the public. Course, it's a crushing loss

(02:09):
for people on the far left, and it's a damning
indictment of the miserable leadership of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Guys,
what was the point the longest government shut down in history?
The deal that was offered to the Democrats at the
beginning of the shutdown is what they ultimately ended up taking.
So what happened forty days shutdown? Guys, they accomplished nothing.

(02:30):
They accomplished not knowing they inflicted pain on millions of
innocent people. And the deal cut with the Senate Republicans
includes a new continuing resolution that funds the federal government
until January thirtieth, twenty twenty six. Yeah, we're going to
be doing this again in a couple of months. The
passage of biparties and appropriation bills for Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs,

(02:53):
and the Legislative A Branch would have occurred anyway. There
will be a full funding of foods stays through September
thirtieth of next year, and a promise to vote on
an extension of COVID nineteen bonus Obamacare subsidies next month.
The suck Yeah, I agree, imaginary voice in the back
of the room so this is essentially the same deal

(03:15):
Senate Majority Leader John Thune offered Democrats weeks ago. Why
take the same deal now that they've rejected it last month?
The answers partisan politics. Guys, it's the same deal. They
were already offered it. They just didn't accept it for
forty days and forty nins. Remember Senator Tim Kane. I

(03:36):
know it's hard to tell the difference between him and
the Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, because both of them were
the cuckold, beta bitch boy running mates of two female
Democrat presidential candidates. But Tim Kaine is still a Democrat
senator from the state of Virginia, he admitted to reporters.
He said, quote, I was so focused on the Virginia elections.

(03:58):
I wasn't in this discussion on health care to see
how dug in they were. In other words, centrist Democrats
did not want to depress turnout by caving on the
shutdown before election day. But now Democrats secured big wins
in Virginia and New Jersey, at least some of them
felt free to do their jobs and open up the government,

(04:18):
but not all of them. The seven senators who caucused
with Democrats. Joining Kine were Senators Catherine Cortez Mastow. She's
from Nevada. Dick Durbin, boy, I grew up with Dick.
Dick Durbin's been in politics as long as I've been alive,
and I'm in my forties. He is the senator in Illinois,
the senior senator, and it looks like he's going to

(04:39):
retire soon, so it didn't matter to him. John Fetterman
suffered brain damage shortly before becoming a Democrat senator, had
his brain fixed, and then became a more conservative person afterwards,
maybe the only reasonable person in the party. The other
person on the list here is Maggie Hassan, Angus King,
Jackie Rosen, and Jean s Those are Democrats from New Hampshire,

(05:03):
technically an independent from Ain. Angus King, Jackie Rosen from Nevada,
and Jean Shaheen, also from New Hampshire. Guess what, it's
not a coincidence that everyone on this list is either
retiring or not up for election until twenty twenty eight.
Imagine that Senate Democrats know they cannot afford to anger
their base if they are to avoid a primary challenge

(05:25):
next year. Chuck Schumer's career is over. He just by
the way. This was a no win situation for Chuck Schumer.
If Chuck Schumer voted to keep the government open, he
would have been unpopular with his party. If Chuck Schumer
protests and closes the government, he's unpopular with everybody else.
And if he reached some kind of a deal, it
wouldn't have been good enough. He would have been widely mocked.

(05:48):
So it is that fear of angering radical Democrats that
caused the shutdown in the first place. Schumer was mercilessly
attacked by party activists after he voted with ten other
Democrats to keep the governmen opened back in March. His
approval rating among Democrats dropped faster than Mark Wahlberg's pants
back in the nineties when he was Marky Mark in

(06:09):
The Funky Bunch. This makes Chuck Shermer the only congressional
leader to have a net negative approval rating in his
own party. Chuck canville more radical members of his caucus
breathing down his neck. They want to take his job.
He didn't offer any alternative policy agenda. He just caved

(06:34):
cave to his own party. You cave to the far
left typical among those pushing his party further to the
left is what Senator Chris Murphy just did. That's the
Democrat from Kentucky recently divorced his wife and the mother
of his two children to data party activist. In a
video posted after voting to keep the shutdown going, Murphy
claimed quote, of course I want to end the shutdown too,

(06:56):
but not at any cost. Isn't that interesting how his
own personal life is affecting the way votes. What smug,
self righteous bs these wannabes are. For a guy like
Chris Murphy his ilk, we see the truth pathology of
the modern Democrat Party. The shutdown that they engineered did

(07:20):
nothing to save democracy. The sharpest indictment of Chuck Schumer's
leadership is that his most fervent supporters are trying to
defend him by pointing out that he wasn't even in
the room when the centrist Democrats were negotiating with Republicans.
So why wasn't he in the room? It's his party,
You're telling me they're making a deal with Republicans and

(07:41):
he's not part of it. That doesn't make him look better,
It makes him look worse. Of course, anything would make
him look worse again. Lose, lose, lose. The end of
the shutdown is a victory for sanity over spite. Eight
Democrats finally chose governing over grandstanding, exposing the moral and
strategic bankruptcy of their parties. Left wing regular folks like

(08:03):
you and your coworkers and your family members deserve better
than symbolic suffering. Regular people can bank a handful of
Blue Party members for finally putting country before politics. Of course,
don't hold your breath on this. It is probably not
gonna happen again anytime soon.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Kenny has always thought the best things in life are free,
free plus tax. Of course, Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
All right, kids, this is interesting. A new gene editing
drug could reduce high cholesterol with just one shot, but
that progress could be completely reversed with what one visit
to Burger King. I gotta thank hi, everybody, welcome back
from break like a lot of you. I just wonder
why things are so expensive. Look, I don't regret voting

(08:56):
for Trump. I can't imagine Kamala would have made things
any better. But do you remember when French fries were
like a buck? And now they're five dollars. Remember a
coke was seventy five cents. I could use other things
as examples too, besides just fast food, but you get
my point. Stuff is really expensive. We had a term
for this a couple of years ago. The term was
Biden inflation. It doesn't seem like Biden Inflation's gone away much.

(09:18):
I'm a millennial. Right when I finished college, that's when
the economy fell apart. It was that two thousand and
eight economic crisis. One of the ways I was able
to get a job in this industry is I was
able to do the jobs that people were a few
years you know, several years older than me, were doing,
but for a lot less money, and a lot of
them left this industry. So, you know, if the economy sucked,

(09:39):
then when did it ever get better? Of course, then
we had the pandemic, then we had Joe Biden. It
never really improved, did it. The latest idea is that
Donald Trump's throwing around include what is it, fifty year mortgages.
I've mixed feelings about that. Are you really building any equity?
It's not a terrible idea, but you know, what does
it do? Of Course, these other ideas the two thousand

(10:01):
dollars stimulus checks. We'll get to all that in just
a minute. There's an interesting article today authored by Amanda Head.
If that name sounds familiar to you, it probably should.
A lot of you have probably seen her on TV before.
She is a White House correspondent for Just the News
Great News website. She has her own podcast, the Furthermore Podcast.

(10:22):
You can see her on every day on TV on
the Real America's Voice, and so we reached out to
her to invite her on the show today. Amana, thank
you so much for your time this afternoon. I understand
you're based out of Washington, d C. What's it like
not having salt on your food?

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Oh gosh.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
There I can report to you honestly as a journalist
and mustering all of the journalistic integory.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
That I have.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
DC's awful. It is truly awful. Now, I will put
things in perspective. I came from Los Angeles, which I
understand everybody thinks. So California is horrible. It's liberal Democrats
are destroying it.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
However, the weather's awesome, and my husband and I managed
to insulate ourselves with a wonderful little America, loving God
loving community in Burbank, So coming to Washington from there
was a shock to the census. I moved here in
February to take this job as White House correspondent. And

(11:17):
let's just say that every day I wake up and
before I get out of bed, I say, this is
the day the Lord has made.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
I will rejoice and be glad in it.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
And I really really have to cling to that throughout
the day because it's you know, I don't take for
granted the fact that I get to go to the
White House.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
And I get to go to this.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Place where, you know, the power center of the world
resides in this historic time with President Trump in the
Oval office. I don't take that for granted, and I
don't you know, I certainly appreciate that, but it is
a whole different ballgame. And I can personally attest to
the fact the fact that, I mean, you witness the

(11:58):
DC mentality, you witness the swampiness, You witness people who
come here with such hope in their eyes and such
aspirations to make the country better through rooting out corruption
and government, and eventually the swamp turns into a hot
tub and people just get really comfortable here, and it's

(12:19):
unfortunate to see.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
But it's the number one reason. Why would people ask
if I would ever run for office.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
I say, there's zero chance, because it is. There is
a it's not zero, but there is a near zero
chance that you will not be corrupted when you go
into government.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I like California. I think it's a beautiful place. I
only know what I know about you and your husband
from seeing you guys on social media, but you seem
like cool people. And in California, apparently there's eight million
of us. Now that's not enough to be the majority,
but I've heard I spent a lot of time there.
Last year. I was dating someone that worked at one
America News network, and so I spent a lot of
time in San Diego, in Orange County, and it was incredible.

(12:56):
Why doesn't that part of the state just break off
from the rest of it?

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah, I know, Well, there are pockets throughout California. I mean,
you've got areas of reading up in Norcale that are
much more conservative. Of course, the Central Valley, which is
you know, one of the highest producers of agro in
the entire country, that is an extremely red area. But
you know, I mean, looking back at what happened last

(13:21):
week with Prop fifty. Unfortunately, and I hate to constantly
rag on the Republican Party there, but the state Republican
Party in California is utter trash. Like, to be fair,
like most state parties are Republican and Democrat. They are
like that in states that are either solidly red or
solidly blue because they feel like there's no chance at

(13:43):
changing things up, so they just kind of go with
the status quo. But we you know, we had so
few Republicans show up last Tuesday to vote against Prop fifty.
It passed easily, and if Republicans had shown up, it
wouldn't have stood a chance. But the Republican Party in
California is frankly, it's stuck in the George W. Bush

(14:05):
era of Republicanism. Yeah, and until things change, you know,
that is going to be the situation. And I hate
to see it, because you're right, California is gorgeous. It
has all all of the things, All of the beautiful
things that God could pack into one state is there.
And the parts that remain in California that are beautiful

(14:26):
are the things that God created and Democrats can't destroy it.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, We kind of have the George W. Holdover problem
here in Texas too, but you know to but to
that extent, it's still a Republican state. Last weekend, your
former governor was here in Houston, Texas talking about how
terrible jerrymandering is in Texas and that's why he had
to do it. He had to do it in California
because we did it in Texas. But the other thing

(14:49):
that was weird about having him in town was like,
California is an expensive place to live. Say what you
will about Texas, but the cost of living in Houston
is low. You can buy a house here, a nice house,
a nice area, for less than five hundred thousand dollars.
And this goes back to the point I guess in
this article, you guys, you just wrote that when viral
Americans still at Biden inflation blues despite economic improvements going

(15:11):
into the holidays, the Bidens were the ones bragging about
how they were saving US fifty cents on a fourth
of July picnic and Gavin Newsom's created one of the
worst economies in America. Why should we listen to the
Democrats right now? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:26):
I mean, look, with respect to what I wrote in
that article, it's kind of it's a strange dichotomy because
one of my favorite polsters who partnered with Neapolitan News Service,
Scott Rathmuss, and he did a poll that tested sentiment
right now, and the sentiment the number of people who
feel that their finances are getting better. It pretty much

(15:48):
matches the dire numbers that we saw going into the
twenty twenty election when people were, you really, really excruciatingly
experiencing Biden inflation. And it seems to me, you know,
just getting into the philosophy side of things, you know,
people people are shocked when things get really really bad,

(16:09):
Like they were shocked when things got hour. They weren't
shocked as and they were surprised, but they had sticker
shock right when Biden inflation occurred and gas prices reached
eight dollars in California and five dollars across the rest
of the country. That was shocking to people. It's not
a it's not a shock to the senses when things
are getting less bad.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
So when you look at these.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
Numbers and you see, you know, the prices of eggs dropping,
the prices the price of gas. Right now, we had
a record low over Memorial Day week, and those prices
for gas are still very, very low. And that's great
for the you know, millions of Americans that are going
to be traveling for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but that the

(16:48):
weight of Biden inflation just hasn't gone away, and we know,
I mean economically speaking, when you haven't, inflation doesn't go backwards,
and if it does, then you've got a whole lot
of other wonky things happening with the common that might
even be more concerning. But it's not like it's not
like gas where the price goes up and down and
up and down once inflation happens. And we had over
twenty two percent cumulative cumulative inflation under Joe Biden. So

(17:12):
once those prices go up, they're not going to go
back down. But the fact that inflation is less than
it was before, people still aren't feeling that.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Because grocery prices are still high. Now.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
President Trump is trying to do something to correct that.
You know, he's got these initiatives with the beef farmers.
He enraged a lot of beef farmers by saying that
that he was going to double the import quota from Argentina.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
But he's pulled back on that and has gone.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
To the place where he's saying, look, there's obviously something
within the industry that's manipulating prices, so let's instead look
at that, which I think is the right way to go.
But at the end of the day, Americans are still
feeling the pressure.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
And this goes to show you you.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Know, I know a lot of people say, well, you know,
the government moves so slow, and even the executive you know,
when they sign executive orders, it can be reversed in
the next administration. So you know, typically within a four
year presidency term, you know, not that much damage could
be done.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
This is proof positive that a.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Lot of damage can be done by one administration and
it can't just be unfurled and unraveled, you know, at
the snap of our fingers. President Trump is trying he's
trying to undo you know, a lot of the regulatory
stuff that Joe Biden did. President Trump is trying to
undo that. But it's not a quick fix and it
is going to take all of his four years to

(18:30):
get it done, which is why next year's midterms are
so important.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, So then the question becomes, if we lose the House,
if we lose the Senate. You know, John Cornyan in
our state right now is spending an insane amount of
money to try to win a primary in his own state,
and the and the Senate Republicans are helping to fund it.
It's something like three million dollars a week because he
doesn't like Ken Paxton and Wesley Hunt. If that money
eats up all the resources and then we lose Senate

(18:56):
races in the swing states, which I think right now
would be Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina, I think I'll
have a Senate race next year. What happens do they
remove him from office?

Speaker 5 (19:09):
I don't think the Senate is in as much peril,
So I don't think that, at least as of right now,
removal from office is not necessarily on my fear radar.
The thing that I am most frightened of is that
the America First Agenda will be halted in its tracks.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
And look, even if that happens, and even.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
If Democrats take over the House, and then that propels
the American people to again vote for a Republican in
twenty twenty eight, because they you know, I mean, we've
seen this fluctuating sentiment between Republicans and Democrats.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Right, it happens in the House.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
It happens with respect to the House and its relationship
to the executive So even if Democrats take back the
House and then America is ready to vote for another
Republican and let's say JD.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Dance.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
I like JD.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Dance, but there is a bombastic bull in the China
shop mentality that Donald Trump has that I don't know
if someone like JD.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Vance has.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
It's not that I questioned his patriotism or his devotion
to the America First.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Agenda, but he doesn't.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
I don't think that he would legislate and govern with
reckless abandon Yeah. President Trump has a tendency to do
and that's what concerns me.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, I've thought the same thing. I like JD. Vance.
But at the trajectory we're moving, is he going to
be tough enough? Will he be able to rage the
way Trump does in twenty twenty eight, I don't know.
I don't know. I do know this, if folks want
honest reporting from the White House from an actual good journalist,
all reporters are journalists are biased, but I bet our
listeners would probably agree with a lot of Amanda's biases.

(20:48):
Follow her on x at Amanda Head spelled exactly how
you think it would be spelled. Subscribe to the Furthermore podcast.
Sounds like they're doing cool work there as well, and
of course you can watch her on Real America's Voice.
Thank you so much for your time today, Man, this.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Is awesome, Thanks so much.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig It.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yesterday was the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Marines.
Cole Leier, a columnist, recently said that like many Global
War on Terror veterans, he had personal experiences with PTSD.
He joined the Marines right out of high school, spent
six years there, including a twenty eleven deployment to Afghanistan,

(21:32):
and that is where he saw more battlefield damage than
he cares to remember. And when he got home he
took a post deployment health assessment that indicated a need
to seek treatment for post traumatic stress. He went through
talk therapy, It didn't help. Then came the prescription medications.
The drugs, they only exacerbated his symptoms. One night, he

(21:54):
was less than a pound of trigger pull from becoming
a suicide. Statistic if their marine hadn't stepped in, he
wouldn't be here. We cannot do enough to help these people.
I mean, we need to try. Don't get me wrong.
We know there's so many of these stories. Did you

(22:15):
know the FDA recently fact fast tracked nine life saving
drugs as part of the agency's Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program.
What's that you wonder? Good question. It's designed to speed
up treatments that address urgent national health priorities. Review times
that once took nearly a year can now drop two

(22:36):
as little as one or two months. That's good news
for cancer patients, people with rare diseases, people with critical needs.
The problem is when you're a veteran with mental health challenges,
two months in a long time, guys, that could lead
to suicidal ideation. And we need some sense of urgency

(22:56):
to help these people. Every day that we don't act
to help them, we lose more veterans to this crisis.
There was a study conducted not long ago by Yale,
and they found that fourteen percent of younger American veterans
roughly people in their twenties, thirties, and forties, meet the
criteria for probable PTSD. That is triple the rate of

(23:19):
the older vets. Among Iraq and Afghan veterans, fourteen to
sixteen percent deal with PTSD or depression, and fewer than
half who need mental health treatment receive it, and only
one third get evidence based care. Now, there's a lot
of reasons why this is true. Sometimes it's pride. Sometimes
it's fear of red flag laws. These guys worry about

(23:40):
losing their gun rights. Sometimes they're just too busy trying
to hold up the world. And in the meantime, the
fd eight has just approved two drugs for PTSD treatment. Well,
I mean since the nineties they've approved too. They didn't
just do it. There was Paxel and Zoloft, and both
of these things are effective, they are decades old, and

(24:03):
they don't deal with the underlying causes. According to most research,
about eighty percent of PTSD patients who use VA prescribed
medication continue to need new or better treatments. So it's
probably time to act. We got to do something to
help these people. The FDA has already shown it can
move fast when a disease is seen as urgent. We

(24:25):
saw what happened during the pandemic. Did it solve the problem. No,
but this is obviously a little different than a disease
that was just created in a laboratory. PTSD does need
a operation warp speed of its own. I don't mean
we need to create some sketchy vaccine. I mean we
need the government to quickly address this issue. We need

(24:46):
new therapies, ones that are proven to be effective. Veterans
don't need more committees or press releases, they need results.
If Washington can move mountains to get other drugs to
market in record time, I think it could do something
for the men and women who fought for our country.
The number always changes. I think it was twenty two
now I think it's seventeen. Vets die every day. It

(25:07):
goes up and down. Part of the reason why it
goes down is well, you can only kill yourself once.
You know, seventeen vets a day. Many of them were
caught in the same cycle, as as other vets we
talked about on the show. They're all struggling to find help,

(25:27):
drowning in red tape, running out of hope. The government
needs to move with the same sense of urgency our
military shows on the battlefield. I'm not a doctor, I
don't develop drugs for a living. But I know what
we're currently doing isn't working, and I think on Veterans Day,
of all days, maybe it's time to address that. Don't

(25:51):
you wish society cared about veterans as much as they
care about the LGBTUVWXYZ characters. Switching topics here for just
a minute. I know it's a weird segue, but I
wanted to squeeze both of these into the show today.
According to the far left fascists at GLAD, there were

(26:11):
four hundred and eighty nine gay characters on TV and
forty one percent of them are about to disappear due
to their shows being canceled. I didn't read that at GLAD,
by the way. I read it on Breitbart dot com. Naturally,
GLAD thinks this is a bad thing. Wait, there are
only four hundred and eighty nine queer characters on TV

(26:32):
out of how many total characters five hundred. It seems
like everyone on TV's gay these days. Look, I don't
watch much TV. I relate with Al Bundy, Gail Bundy
not so much anyway. Que the winding they report this
year's study found four hundred eighty nine lgbt T characters
across scripted, primetime, broadcast, cable and streaming originals forty seven

(26:56):
characters in the first edition twenty years ago, the first
time to the report. This year, forty one percent of
those characters are about to be removed from TV because
their shows are being canceled. I'm gonna climb out on
a limb here, and I'm gonna guess it. Sounds like
the market is working. It sounds like free markets doing
what it's supposed to do. Sounds like our culture is
finally healing after being force fed a woke tard sandwich

(27:17):
for the last decade. Is it possible? I mean, there's
two ways of looking at this. One way of looking
at this is those shows are being removed from TV
because people don't care that much about having all these
gay characters on TV. But it's also possible those characters
are being removed from TV because lots of shows get
canceled every season. They cancel shows all the time. You

(27:39):
don't know what the new shows are going to be like,
they haven't come out yet. Maybe they'll have lots of
queer people on them. Who knows, sure queer people should
be on TV? They're a portion of society, but please
us leave the rest of us out of this. Here's
what I mean by that. This report warns that a
concerning number of transgender inclusive series were canceled or otherwise ended,

(27:59):
including groundbreaking titles like nine to one one Lone Star, Chaos,
and Clean Slate. I'm sorry they put a transsexual and
nine to one to one lone Star? What the hell
did they expect from? It was a show about nine
to one to one officers in Texas? Why did we
need a trans person in that show? If you're the
kind of person that wants to show watch a show

(28:20):
about cops in Texas, what would you probably assume about that?
TV consumer? I EU probably don't care that much about
trans characters. You're probably conservative. Try as they might for
a decade, and they tried as hard as they possibly could,
but Hollywood's propaganda push to normalize the woe agenda throughout

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mainstream cultures failed. Unless you're queer, you probably don't care
that much about seeing shows with queer people. You want
to be gay, go be gay. I don't care. No
one's saying you can't be gay. No one's saying TVs
and movies should not be produced for all people, including
the gays, and the rest of us tolerate it. We
always have. I didn't care when there were gay people
on TV when I was a little kid, but back

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then it was rare, right, Remember there was like a
gay character on Roseanne, what was another one back? And
there weren't all over the place, and usually they were funny.
In a free country, we could still change the channel
and if anyone cares about representation and being seen, you
could sure as hell bet there aren't four hundred and
eighty nine Christian Trump voters and TV shows, where's the

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representation for them? In a free country, there should be representation.
I swear Netflix could increase its subscriber base by millions
if they simply created a vertical scroll on the side
of the screen that assured viewers click any of these shows,
there will be no gay stuff. Yeah, imagine that, you'd

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watch all of it.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
America, the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
News from the Empire City, the Empire State. The Rockefeller
Christmas Tree has arrived in New York City. Very exciting.
Enjoy it. Why you can next year, it will take
longer to arrive because Mayor Mom Donnie will force it
to take a free city bus. Nobody wants that. Nobody
wants a free city bus. Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster. I
got a guest in studio, a good friend of mine.

(30:18):
As a matter of fact, Todd Frankfurt is here. Todd,
you are a lawyer, and despite that, I still like you.
I will tell you, and I appreciate that. And you know,
inspite your being a radio host, I still like you. No,
I get it, absolutely fair point, Todd. You're running for judge.
You're running for a pellet court for those that don't know.
In in Texas, we've had some problems with judges over

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the last several years, and you are. One of the
things I like about you is you've not been corrupted
by the system yet. You've spent most of your life
in the private industry, running a private practice, and that's good.
I think.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Think you know, I've been in private practice for over
thirty years, and I've I ran for a district court
bench a few years ago and was good. It was fine,
and I lost with all the most of the other Republicans.
I think five of us won black Girl Magic, Black
girl Magic.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
So I was in Harrison County, you know where that is.
It was in full effect.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
So white guy white guy magic did not did not
win a day. And so I was having dinner back
in March with a good friend of mine and he
asked if I was ever going to run again, and
I said no, And then I thought about it for
a second, said no, maybe maybe the Court of Appeals.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
And what's different about that.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
What's different about running for the Court of Appeals for
me anyway, is it's a ten county race. So it's
not just it's not just Harris County that gets to
decide the race. It's Harris and Fort Bend and Galveston
and Brazoria. And it includes a whole bunch of really
red areas. So those the red votes in those areas

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can carry a good conservative onto the bench in spite
of maybe of losing.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't want to jink sast but and in fact
I don't think this is good. At JINXA. Last year,
a bunch of women ran for those other Appellate Court
seat judge positions sat in this room, in the different
chairs surrounding us right now, and they won and they won.
And I'm not saying this radio shows why. But it
didn't hurt. No, I'm sure it didn't.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
And those women who sat in this room, I'm friends
with them all and they have been very encouraging of
me as well.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Right, I'm excited. So you decided to run. Now you
want to be a judge again. And what is it about,
like just you know, public you want to be hated?
What is it about public service that I it's a
few things. I mean, people like you. You go to
jam band concerts, you have cool friends. If you're in government,
then you're part of the machine. Todd. I hope to

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still be cool in spite of my being part of
the machine. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
I Houston has been really good to my family and
really good to me. And so you grew up here.
I grew up here. I was born and my parents
were born and raised here. They met when they were
fu Beller High School. And I feel like it's important
to give back to our community. Yeah, and that's what
I'm about doing it. It's about service for me, all right.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
So obviously it was your experiences as a lawyer running
a private firm that you hopefully you think prepared you
for the unique elements of being in a palette to
court judge. What were those experiences like? Your background's a
little different than most lawyers that want to do this.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
I mean, I've been in private practice for over thirty years,
and most of those thirty years have been doing family
law cases. Yeah, and I could write a book on
the stuff I've seen as a family lawyer.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Can you talk without naming names or anything. What's one
of the weirdest things you ever witnessed?

Speaker 6 (33:40):
I mean, it's pretty I mean, I've seriously nothing. I'll
put it this way, nothing surprises me.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
What's just one thing you'll never forget? Right, and not
the weirdest necessary, but just a thing that the first
thing you think of, that was your first thing I
think of. That's unique.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Is a fellow thought he was being clever by buying
a piece of property in the name of his mother,
of his girlfriend's mom, not his mother in law. He
was cheating on his wife. I represented wife, and he's
cheating on wife with this girl. He buys a lake
house in the name of the girlfriend's mother. And we

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found it, and we like, we found it. We found
the deed and then I asked him about it, like,
have you bought any other property?

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Oh? No, like what I mean? Nothing? There's financial records
of everything, especially property. It's not like buying It's.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
Not like buying a stereo thing where you can go
pay cash for it and it goes away. But so
I had him dead to rice. I showed him the deed.
Guy turned white as a ghost and settled the case immediately.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Why would you think he'd get away with that? You'd
have to ask him. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
He was a reasonably intelligent guy, made a bunch of money.
But that's I mean, that happened all right. So that
was the first thing I came to money. Obviously, to
be a judge you have to know the law. You
can't be a judge without being a good lawyer. But
what other specific skills or accomplishments think you better than
the other candidates. I think I've got a breadth of
experience that my opponents don't have. I've been in private

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like I said, private practice for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
All thirty of.

Speaker 6 (35:09):
Those years have been in the courtroom. I've been trying
cases almost that whole time. And so when you try
a case, you build a record. You build a case,
you take it from the very beginning. You win the
case at trial, and then someone appeals, You write the
brief on appeal, and you win the appeal. I have
that whole experience won my opponents her ran her name

(35:32):
through the appellate court records. I didn't see a single
record of any appeal that she had handled ever, at
least not in Harris County. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe
the clerk missed something.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
How many challenges do you have right now?

Speaker 6 (35:46):
There are four of us in this race now, so
that's one of them. Another one has been he's been
working at the DA's office for his entire career, Harris
County DA.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
So like the very liberal Soros funded DA. Sure Sean
Sean Tierre Shan tier and kim Ogg. Kim Ogg was
on the show yesterday and to your point, she was
chased out of that office for not being George sorosy enough. Right,
They didn't want her once she revealed the fact that
she actually cared about cracking down on crime and just
enforcing the law. I don't even think that's a part

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is an issue. Enforce the laws, forced the law.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
Even if you don't like the law, you got to
enforce the law the way it's written. I would hope,
one would hope. But the problem with some of the
Democrat judges that we have now is all the judicial
activism where they're like just kind of going off into
left field and doing what they want, and you're not
supposed to do that.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
That's why we have a legislator. But to your point,
years ago, Kim Ogg was reported to be a George
Soros funded candidate in the Houston Chronicle and that's what
got her elected. And then sometime later she came out
and said she didn't know who George Soros was, she
didn't want his money, and then they chased her out
of the party. I mean, that's kind of crazy.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Chased her out of the party, and now we've got
Chantier and one of his emissaries is running in my
in my race.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Also, can you describe how about this instead your judicial
philosophy and playing terms? Is that something you could talk about? Yeah,
follow the law.

Speaker 6 (37:13):
Yeah, it's and it's funny that like it's kind of
a joke, but you're supposed to follow the law.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
You're supposed to follow the law as.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
As written. You know, the even if you don't like it.
It's the law in Texas, and that's that's what I
would do.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're considered to be a very relatable guy. You listen
to rock music. You're known in the music scene for.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
You know, you're not known in the music Well, you're
a you're a fish fan if I am a fish fan.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
And Heyla what was her name? And culture was obsessed
with the grateful dead. I like the dead. Sometimes Republicans
are not who you think they are in real life. Absolutely. Now,
one of your opponents caught wind of this. There was
an ad featuring you wearing a pair of blue jeans,
and he lost his mind. I would you explain that?

Speaker 6 (37:55):
He he showed my photo of me wearing blue jeans
and a blazer.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, that is in a magazine.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
He showed that to someone who had endorsed me and said,
is this who you want to be endorsing?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
And like, well, and it wasn't like a video you
doing a bong rip.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
I don't get hey not talking about me and bong reps.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Every single person listening to this radio show right now
owns a pair of blue jeans. I just don't understand
why you're opponent. That almost made you look better by
him making a big deal out of it.

Speaker 6 (38:26):
He wants to make a big deal out of the
fact that I wear blue jeans and sneakers. I mean,
I would guess that everyone listening to the show right
now owns at least one pair of blue jeans and
probably several pair of sneakers.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
All right, give me a break. What advice would you
give so you if you become a judge. You're not
a lawyer anymore technically, I mean, technically you're still a lawyer.
But I'm a lawyer, but I'm not practicing. What advice
would you give to new young lawyers that want to
replace you in that industry?

Speaker 6 (38:51):
Gosh, get a mentor. Get a mentor and learn from
people who've been doing it for a while, don't you.
You don't have to show up and try to gut
the other side in every single case. It's important to
have some be careful of your temperament and and really

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learn learn the craft, and then and and kind of
follow that path.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
All right, people are watching us streaming right now on
social media. Somebody asked this question, So I'm just going
to read it the way that they wrote it. If selected,
if elected, I think is what they mean. How would
you approach collaborating with colleagues on the bench to foster thoughtful,
unanimous opinions where possible. What is the answer? What would
you be your answer to that? That's absolutely what I
would do.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
I'm I'm already friends with a lot of the judges
on the First Court of Appeals, and is that something
I look forward to doing? When when I was talking
about running, I spoke to some friends of mine, including
the women who were who were here, and I said,
you know, is this something that I can y'all think
I can do it? And they're like, absolutely, because we
all it's all about collaborating, and it's all about you know,

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you've got great negotiation skills, so you can negotiate with
other justices to reach a unanimous opinion on whatever issue
is before you.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
All right, a couple of questions left here today's Veterans Day. Obviously, you,
as a person that practices a law, probably have a
great deal of appreciation for what kind of sacrificed people
have put forth. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
I mean, my grandfather was in the army in World
War Two, so I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Where did they send him?

Speaker 6 (40:27):
He actually he wanted to be in the Army Air Corps,
and that's what he wanted, and he like, he was sure.
He's a short Jewish kid, and so he did not
get in the Army Air Corps. He was stuck in
an office somewhere and that's what he did. But he
when he went through Basic, one of his friends was
sent over to Germany.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah, and he like killed the Nazi.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
And used his bayonet and cut the Nazi label off
of the insignia off the guy's chest.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Wow, and mailed it back to my grandfather. Bro gave
it to me. That's kind of so you have it.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
He showed it to me and said, when I die,
you can have this. And then I think my cousin
took it.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Bastard, I know, all right? Bottom line me right here,
what's the worst place to get barbecue in Houston? What's
the best? Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
I'm not going to name the worst. I think right now.
My favorite is probably truth.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Truth is good. Truth is really good.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
But you know, a close second for me would be
Pinkerton's I Love It or Blood Brothers.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
They're building a new Pinkertons. This is a very Houston eccentric.
Part of the segmentary they're building a new Pinkertons on Shepherd.
Did you see that over there by Shepherd and Richmond.
It's probable. Oh it's by my gym. It's where there
used to be that diner at.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Yes, yeah, okay, by Hollal guys.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
By hellel guys. But it used to be Fishing One diner.
That's exactly right. Yeah, okay, So I'm excited about that
because it's by my gym. Todd Frankfurt. I I'm obviously
biased here, but he is a friend. I want Todd
to do well in this. I'm not going to tell
anybody who to vote for it, but if I was you,
I would vote for Todd when I saw his name
on the upcoming primaries here in March. If people want
to find out about your campaign, support you, help you out,

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what can they do?

Speaker 6 (42:10):
Go to Frankfurt for judge dot com. That's and you
can check me out and there's all kinds of information
about me, about my practice, about me personally, and if,
of course, if you want to make a donation, there's
a little donate button you can click and give me
some money.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
To Frankfurt for Judge dot com. It's f R A
n K f o r T and what fr n
K f o r T and what percentage of that
money will you be sending to Palestine or too extremist
groups zero. Apparently that's been a problem lately for some candidates.
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. Thank you so
much for listening. Folks. Check out Todd's website, follow him

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on social media. To the rest of you, I love
you all. We'll be back bright and early for more
of what you bought a radio for tomorrow morning. Have
a great day.

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