February 16, 2026 • 37 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Tony Ortiz. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Giganic government sucks. Suone of Happiness Radio is deluxe. Liberty
and Freedom will make you smile of a suite of
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a liberty rise at food.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Former President Barack Obama says aliens are real, but he
said he's never seen them, so apparently he's never met
the Olsen Twins. Hey everybody, I'm Kenny Webster. You turned
on your radio. Happy President's Day to you. Tony Ortiz
is stopping by. We are going to talk about the
Governor Abbott and the establishment going after Don Haffines with
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some misinformation about the Jeffrey Epstein case. All great lies
have little grains of truth embedded inside of them, and.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
This is a perfect example of that. So we'll get
to that soon.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But before we have a journalist Tony Ortiz here to
tell that story, here's a different story about balance harvesting.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It starts back in the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, it actually goes back quite a bit further than that,
but for all intent and purposes, let's start in twenty twenty.
The year is well, the same year the pandemic and
the Summer of Love was happening in San Antonio. A
woman named Rachel Rodriguez was seen on hidden camera smirking
like she just invented the wheel.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I know it's illegal, she says. Actually, she probably said
it like this. I know what.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Deleco, she said, while hauling stacks of mail ballots from
low income apartments, the exact neighborhoods the Left always claims
to protect.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
She's not.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Family helping out. She's a paid operative, turning your vote
into her paycheck. Project Veritas caught her red handed. The
video went viral, and then boom, felony charges started piling up.
She's facing twenty years classic Democrat style assistance. Collect the ballots,
help fill them out if needed, deliver the blue ones,
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and pocket the cash. It's not voter turnout, it's vote manufacturing. Unfortunately,
in Texas, we're kind of lousy with these stories because
the Left keeps running the same playbook. Take fort Worth
back in twenty sixteen, Letitia Sanchez and her crew of
three women target elderly voters in Democrat leaning precincts. They
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fake mail applications, harvest the collected ballots like its Black Friday,
and hand them over for the preferred candidates thirty felony
counts later they're all arrested. Or how about this Greg
County Democrat, County Commissioner Shannon Brown and his team, I
know Shannon's a guy's name in this case shocking harvest
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mail ballots to steal his own primary, falsified applications, tampered
with votes one hundred and thirty four felony counts total.
One aid pleads guilty to possessing ballots with intent to defraud.
They weren't empowering voters, they were engineering outcomes. And then
there's Frio County, where in twenty twenty five, a whole
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crew fifteen people, including former Texas House candidate Cecilia Castellano,
a Democrat, shockingly and ex Bear County Democrat chair Juan
Manuel Medina, the county judge, and school board members all
got indicted for a year's long operation. They paid harvesters
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to raid nursing homes and apartments, influencing, as they called it, votes,
the old fashioned way coercion with a side of cash.
Raids uncovered the evidence felonies everywhere. Guys, this isn't isolated,
It's systematic. Outside Texas. It's the same song Arizona, twenty twenty.
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Former San Louis Mayer Fuentes and other Democrat and her
accomplice collect early ballots door to door, then dump them
in bulk on election day. Guilty, please for a ballot
abuse jail probation the works. In California, a council member
named Shakir Khan stashes over forty harvested ballots at home
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to flip a city race. No contest plea, two years
behind bars. The examples go on and on. Guys, this
is what ballot harvesting really looks like. Third party middlemen,
often paid by the ballot with every incentive to cheat.
They break the chain of custody, shred voter secrecy, and
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then they turn help into control. They're not really helping anyone.
They're deciding which person gets to vote. Granny in her
recliner gets pressured vote this way or no more, rides
to the doctor. Ballots gets forged, filled in, discarded if
they're the wrong color. It's like handing your tax return
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to a random guy in a parking lot and saying,
just sign it for me, buddy, No oversight, no tracking,
massive scale Once mail voting explodes, and who screams the
loudest to keep it legal.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know who it is.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's the woke left. They call bands on ballot harvesting.
Voter suppression, that's what they call it, while pretending mailing
an envelope is somehow too hard for marginalized people. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure blacks and the elderly know how to
mail in a ballot or help they vote in person.
Here's a newsflash. If your voters need paid strangers to
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collect their ballots, maybe your message isn't landing. They frame
it as compassion, but it's convenience for corruption, lower standards,
more frauds, same outcome, more power. It's the political version
of trust the process while they rewrite the process. Ballot
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harvesting wasn't always this loophole. Early America had in person
voting with secret ballots to stop exactly this kind of
machine politics nonsense. Absence he was limited. Family help was okay,
but broad third party collection banned for good reason. Then
the left pushed no excuse mail voting. California legalized unlimited
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harvesting in twenty sixteen, and suddenly it's a right.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ballot harvesting is a right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, it's not you just invented it like a decade ago,
and it's been ripe with corruption this whole time.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
When they get.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Caught, the excuses start, Oh, it's just access, sure access
to rigging an election. But here's the part that actually matters.
Texas just shut it down for good. Happened at the
end of last week February twelfth, twenty twenty sixth, the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rule three
to nothing to uphold the state's ban unpaid ballot harvesting.
It's part of Senate Bill one. They reversed a lower
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court that tried to call the law vague in a
free speech violation. Judge Edith Jones wrote the opinion. The
district judge aired and facially striking down the statute. Texas
has every right to protect elections from the cabal and
intrigue in corruption, just like the founders intended. By the way,
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the guy in charge of this case, Attorney General Ken Paxton,
he absolutely nailed it. No more paid schemes that threatened ballance, secrecy,
and invite coercion and fraud. The left has all these
special interest groups, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
They lost.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The ban is unenforceable heading into the twenty twenty six primaries,
and beyond excuse me, it's enforceable.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Is what I meant to say. You get what I meant.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Anyway, A court saying what common sense has been screaming. Guys,
you don't fix low turnout by legalizing middlemen who can
see deal votes.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Why would you? Isn't it obvious that that's problematic.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You earn votes the old fashioned way with ideas people
actually want, inspire people to go vote in person. The
left can keep screaming suppression, we'll keep calling it what
it is, cheating, And thanks to Texas, that game is
getting harder every day. God blessed Texas.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
On Kid Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, a radio show that's
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is when you're drunk at home.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The story of Nancy Gothrie is just terrible. And if
I was Savannah, i'd keep hope alive for my mom
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
But I don't get the impression they're going to find her.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
If they find her, I think at this point you're
going to discover she's dead.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I support the theory that it was a botched robbery.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It seems like this isn't normally how kidnappings are handled.
If someone did have the mom, if she was still alive,
I think they'd want to hand her over. Usually people
don't kidnap the elderly. That's a very usual thing to happen.
But all that being said, I was just looking at
a report here on brightbar dot com. Savannah Guthrie is
apparently thinking about quitting the Today Show. The report reads
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that Guthrie, who's been with NBC News since two thousand
and seven and became a permanent Today's Show co host
in twenty eleven, is not only dealing with the apparent
abduction of her eighty four year old mother, Nancy, but,
according to the report, the fear that her public profileland
more specifically a November Today's Show segment, might have made
her mother a target or wow. About three months before
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Nancy disappeared, she appeared with her daughter in a Today's
Show segment about Savannah's home coming to Tucson Hmmm. The
Daily Mail reports following her disappearance, there is growing concern
behind the scenes that the future might have inadvertently placed
Nancy in danger. There's a lot of soul searching at
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NBC about whether it was their segment that made Nancy
a target.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It is. That is terrible. If that's true, that is
just awful.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Nancy disappeared on February first, after what must have been
two agonizing weeks for the family, and it all involved
public pleas for her safe return. There was some talk
about paying a ransom. They never really got a I mean,
as far as I could tell, the people asking for money,
you don't. We have no proof that they are even
the kidnappers. Various ransom notes, who knows if they're real.
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The Tucson Police and the FBI seem no closer to
finding anyone responsible, and they don't seem to be working
well together. You know, the sheriff got into a spat
with the FBI for sending what was it, a DNA
sample sample data out to Florida some lab instead of
the FBI lab. Now, obviously Guthrie in the Today Show
did nothing wrong in airing that segment. You know, those
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looking at the homecoming segment that's standard fare and media.
Nancy's home was never featured. Still, can only imagine the
horrible thoughts going through Savannah's mind. After two emotionally exhausting weeks,
We're now into the third week and Savannah just released
yet another video pleading for help.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It is.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
This is hard stuff to watch. It's hard to listen
to your heart aches for her. Here's a little bit
of that audio.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Hang on, let me rewind this.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I wanted to come on and it's been two weeks
since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to
come on and say that we still have hope and
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we still believe. And I wanted to say to whoever
has her or knows where she is, diet, it's never
too late, and you're not lost or alone, and it
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is never too late to do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And we are here.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
We believe, and we believe in the essential goodness.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Boy, there's some more to that, but it's just hard
to listen to what the Guthrie family is currently going through.
The guys, this is unimaginable. This might include misplaced guilt
over the Today Show segment. That's understandable, as he's rethinking
everything in your life, including your career. Emotions running high. Sure,
all that combined with the exhaustion and the stress, but
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Guthrie is likely looking into the future and trying to
imagine that future without knowing what happened to her beloved mother.
That would cause anyone to rethink everything, and you just
got to pray for her. The investigations may still be
building in Nancy Guthrie case. They claim also very interesting.
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A legendary Houston sketch artist has unretired for the Nancy
Guthrie case. It's a former Houston Police Department sketch artist
recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the
most successful in her field. She's volunteered her expertise to
help identify a masked individual captured in the Nancy Guthrie video.
Lois Gibson, retired from the HBD in twenty twenty one
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after over four decades of service, has stepped forward to
analyze the doorbell camera footage that has become central to
the investigation. Gibson, who has achieved remarkable success in facial
reconstruction from minimal evidence, including skeletal remains, is now focusing
her skills on one of the region's most prominent recent cases.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's kind of amazing, terrible and tragic.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
As this whole thing is it is, it is bringing
out the best in people and probably the worst. Still,
Just to circle back, I suspect, given what we know here,
there's no credible evidence the ransom notes are real. Doesn't
seem to be any effort from the people sending the
ransom notes to give any kind of confirmation that Nancy's alive,
certainly not that the general public has seen, and no
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real sign of life in any way whatsoever makes me
think that this was a bot shrobbery, maybe not even
a kidnapping at all. And if that's the case, boy,
you just hope they find the person responsible.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I bet they do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't think Nancy's still alive, as sad as that
is to have mean out loud, but I will bet
at the very least at some point, if there's one
realistic thing to pray for pragmatically, it's probably justice for
the gut Three family and find the person responsible for
all of this.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I do think that's possible.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness Very Spicy Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
A new study claims blind people have four times as
many nightmares as people who can see. I don't know
much about this topic, but I'll bet most of those
nightmares are about uneven sidewalks. Oh, that's right, it's uh,
it's the music for Tony's wife.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh you don't know, Tony Ortiz.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
His wife is in Japan right now, which means he
can do anything he wants. He can go to the
strip club, he can go get wasted, he can eat
pizza all night. And instead he's decided a cameo on
this afternoon talk radio show. Boy, Tony, you really don't
know how to party, my man.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You know what, though, I wouldn't have it any other word.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
My brother from another Tony Ortiz current Revolt dot Com
keeping it real deal Holyfield all day long, Tony.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I look, I'm calling balls and strikes here.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
If somebody on our side does something I don't like,
I'm gonna call him out. I don't think Trump's handled
Epstein well. I don't think he has handled it well.
But I don't think he raped anybody, because without a
rape victim, you can't have a rape, right, there's no
allegation there from anybody. And it's the same thing with
this very bizarre news story from over the weekend. Conspiracy
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theorists on social media latched onto one tiny little piece
of information which technically has been public information for two
or three years now, and they just ran wild with it.
If you didn't know anything about this news story, you
would think Texas Comptroller notable look candidate local Liberty Republican
and Ron Paul Ally Don Haffeines is harvesting baby hearts
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on Epstein's ranch out in rural New Mexico so he
can make some kind of a bio engineered superhuman that
he's going to use to take over the world in
rape children or some crazy thing like like what people
are saying is crazy. Before we get to all this
insane conspiracy theories and how stupid they are, why don't
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you start off with this what actually happened?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, so you know, several years ago the half Finds
family purchased the Zoral ranch in New Mexico, which used
to belong to Huff to the F Jeffrey Epstein, and
this or ranch is quite quite quite often mentioned in
the Epstein Whiles right for bad happenings and things happen
and whatnot. But this is again, as you mentioned, this
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has been public record for for years, but all of
a sudden it's become a story. Conveniently four days out
from early voting, which which was it came out I
think Friday last week and early voting is tomorrow, So
if you're listening, don't forget to go vote. But it
commediately came out after several years, uh, just a couple days,
a few days ago. And you know, it initially was
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just well, you know, the half Fines purchased this ranch.
But a lot of these Internet celebrities and and fake
news journalists and and and influencers started making allegations that
the money from the ranch did not benefit the victims,
despite the fact that both Halfines and hal Fai initially
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Hal Finds a spokesperson and consultant, also confirmed that the
funds did go benefit the victims.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Okay, so a spokesperson for the Epstein estate has confirmed, like,
this guy didn't work for half Finds, He's not part
of the half Finds estate. Halfines made the claim that
the money from the purchase of the ranch, the money
actually went to the victims, and then somebody from the
the Epstein estate said, yes, that's true. Okay, So why
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what's the problem. Why is this suddenly why are people
suddenly saying otherwise now?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And what exactly are they saying? So yeah, you're right.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Like this person that was completely unattached to hal Fians
and part of the Epstein state and the part that's
kind of supposed to divvy up the funds to the
victims confirmed via email unequivocally that the funds from the
purchase benefited victims.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And you're right, it's it's not a story.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But you know, with as as is to be expected
with anything related to Epstein, a lot of people not
only make allegations but also make some crazy allegations. So
I even saw tweets out there, a posts out there
on x alleging that, you know, Halfian's bought this genetics
center and he was specifically using the dead bodies on
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the farm to do genetics testing or something like some
resident evil stuff. Like just really crazy allegations. And you know,
people want to make more want to make bad things
more exciting, and I do agree. I do agree with
some of this, Like the purchase of this ranch probably
isn't great optics and probably isn't a good idea, but
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you could argue that like two things could be true
at the same time, Like it was a bad idea
maybe from an optic standpoint, but there's also nothing else
going on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
You know, it is just amazing. The theories are crazy,
like they're so they're so fascinating. Like I was just
reading one thing that said, like, oh yeah, there's dead
children out there, and huff Fines is now protecting the
Epstein ranch and he won't let investigators go there. No
one from the government's even trying to look at this property.
It's my understanding that Huffines is more than willing to
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let government agents go out there and look around.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They don't want to. How's that Don's fault.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, and it's kind of silly that to assume that
the government didn't review or search the property prior to
the sale.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But you know, now you've got a Twitter user.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Trump Maga truck driver guy sixty nine to twenty is
screaming that huffeind should let him on the ranch to
search around and dig up holes, and it's it's just
very absurd.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, okay, and then but there are other ways to
go search the property. Like I'll be the first to
admit just like I don't think the government handled this well.
They didn't search that land thoroughly from the research I've done.
And while that's not Don's fault necessarily. It has aroused
a lot of suspicion. And the mansion solved in Manhattan,
nobody cared who bought it. The island sold in the Caribbean,
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nobody bought who cared who bought it. But this is
different though, because this guy's running for office against establishment Republicans.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And weirdly, even though this.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Information's existed for about two or three years, it's been public.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You could search Twitter.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
People have discussed the fact that huff Finds bought this before,
but all of a sudden, people are just talking about
it on the Friday before the election. I'm not an idiot, Tony.
I know exactly why that happened. Do you see the
same thing I'm seeing here?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, someone much smarter than us once said there's no
coincidences in Austin and in this case in politics, And
it does seem that the timing is interesting, and then well,
you know what, just just dick picking here.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like even one of the.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Journalists that wrote the story up that was being reposted
quite quite often by hof Find's opponents, consultant one of
the journalists like falsely claimed that huff Finds a state
rep and that Alan Blakemore was his attorney. Like just
just like fake news, just like one hundred percent incorrect
facts to the point where she had to issue like
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a correction.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So like the work behind this, behind the story.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Reeks of reeks of pay to play, or a minimum
at worst and at best like just convenient timing attack piece.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
If you really just look at it at face value.
And I'll be the first to admit Huffins bought this.
He never really spoke about it publicly, and then he
started running for office. That was probably a mistake, but
that doesn't that shouldn't disqualify him from getting elected. It
doesn't make him a bet. It was ten thousand acres
out in the middle of the desert. Nobody wanted it
was publicly available for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Anybody could have looked. Anybody could have bought the property.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Anybody could have looked at it, but nobody wanted it
because of the stigma. Every plot of land on Earth
is controversial to someone for some reason. And at some point,
I know it's hard to believe people will move on
from the Epstein case, just as they moved on from
John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer or anything else. And
then all that's left over is ten thousand acres of
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unused land out in the middle of New Mexico that
will increase in value and someone will eventually.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Want right yeah, and you know, yeah, like you said,
it's probably it's bad optics, right, but you know, they
probably got a steal of a deal out of it,
you know, so much so that even you know, in
the documents, it shows that they argued a property value,
lowering the property valuation because I think even citing the
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fact that you know, hey, this is bad optics, like
this is valuation of this property should be lower. So
they knew it was. They knew it was, you know,
a bad optics as well. But you know, like you said,
like somebody had to buy it, right, Like, it's not
just going to sit out there, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
We didn't get to our next topic yet. Sawer is
a news story today. This is amazing to me. Dan
Crenshaw last week was trying to make it look like
Steve Toath was using an esque sort service to send
out robot texts robotext to people. It was a number
that had previously been used by an escort service, which
was then canceled and then sometimes I don't like robotex,
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but whatever, everybody sends them out, you know, the mass
text that you get during election time. The number had
previously been used by an escort service. That company went
out of business, and then a robotext company took over
the number, and Tooth hired them to send out texts
to tell people about his campaign. Dan Crenshaw latches onto
that and make and lot basically lies to people on
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social media. Oh why Steve Toath connected to this escort service?
He's not, you know, for those that don't know what
we're talking about, the Texas District two Congressional District two
race between Toath and Crenshaw. And he puts out this
weird response. He's like, no, we're just kidding. It's a joke,
like all right. But at the same time, that's not
even the only suspicious thing they were doing. The other
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thing they were doing related to Wikipedia, Tony, would you
tell us about that?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, So, the Dan Crenshaw campaign made to at least
two payments to a company called se O four one
one LLC separate payments of two separate payments of around
three thousand dollars. And you know, it says for on
the on the payment receipt, it does say it's for
digital consulting. But what's interesting and where the story is
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is the CEO or the owner of se O four
one is a woman who then owns a Wikipedia contributor account.
So for those who don't don't know Wikipedia, a lot
of edits and news and changes are made based on users.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
But to be able to make those changes, you have
to have a certain.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Reputation score, and so you people spend a lot of
time writing little things in order to build up their
score so that bigger edits.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Can be you know, taken by them.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Well, anyway, this this, this, this woman who runs the
company that was paid for by Crenshaw. We found her
Wikipedia contributor account, and she does going going in on
Toath's page and Crenshaw's campaign page and making edits and
and commediately the edits for Tooth were quite negative and
the ones for Crenshaw were quite positive.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So just kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Imagine that, just incredible these Crenshaw Can Crenshaw just run
a normal campaign, like, dude, so desperate the public polling
numbers I've seen and look, I'm vote for Tooth, I'm
endorsing very rarely. While I tell you who to vote for,
usually I tell people who not to vote for. And
that's it. Don't vote for Crenshaw. If you're going to
vote for someone, vote for Toath. But the pulling number
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makes it look like Crenshaw's ahead a little bit. But
the way Crenshaw's behaving right now, I think the internal
polling is showing something much different.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Well, you know, and to clarify, there's nothing illegal about
about what was done here as far as Wikipedia, and
you could argue maybe it's dirty or an ethical right.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Right, you know, we did call.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
We did call and speak to the woman who who
made the edits, and she initially told she told us
that she didn't bake them at all, and then the
story changed to she didn't remember making them, and then
the story evolved into well, maybe somebody hacked my account,
which seems kind of silly that you would hack somebody's
Wikipedia account to make specific edits about a certain politician
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that you're being paid to write a campaign against.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So I don't know, it just very very odd, it
really is. It's all very peculiar.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
But anyway, look, dude, it's amazing people talk about October
surprises you got to admit the February the dirt slinging,
the stuff going on in Texas politics right now, right
before early voting which starts tomorrow, Tony is just filthy.
I mean, you and I only talked about two examples.
There's others, right.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Oh, absolutely, you know, and there's only going to be more.
I'm sure there'll be more mud slinging as early voting
goes on. But if you are listening in your voter like,
make sure you get out and early vote. Don't let
the conspiracy theory that you know, all this stuff happens
and early voting this bad stuff that happens. But you should,
genuinely I recommend early voting, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And that'd being said.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
If I want to get the latest information about inside
the inside information about what's going on in Texas politics,
is there like a news website or a sub stack
I could subscribe to that maybe would let me know
on uncensored information the mainstream media doesn't want me to
hear about.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
There is currentrevolts dot com or if you're on x
or Twitter, it's at Current Revolts and you can subscribe
there and support Texas independent news.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Son of agn that's great advice.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you so much, Tony Ortiz, Current Revolt dot Com.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Be here to talk
about something politics and government. And now let's hit and
code utchit this show.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Hit.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Ain't you average this podcast? You gotta get in town.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Damn we can this this pusuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, So yeah, it's President's Day obviously, And before we
get out of here, just a quickermind, well, it's President's Day.
We already explained that it's that glorious third Monday in
February where we all pretend the guys who run the
country weren't mostly a pack of power hungry grifters with
more scandals than a DC lobbyist convention, you know, back
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in the day. The history of it's quite interesting, or
is it? I guess it started in eighteen seventy nine,
Congress made Washington's birthday a federal holiday to honor the
guy who chopped down a cherry tree and basically invented
America without Twitter meltdowns?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
How did he do that?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And then in seventy one they lumped in Lincoln and
turned it into this mushy President's Day idea. So the
Post Office could get a long weekend, which was a
smart enough move, I suppose, because who doesn't like a
day off? But I guess nothing says Land of the freelight,
giving mailman a break while the rest of us keep grinding.
But let's be real, most of these presidents didn't deserve
a holiday to suggest the presidents are often corrupt as
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an understatement, Hew, the Oval Office has been a revolving
door for Brooks since day one. But I do love America.
So obviously our founding fathers weren't perfect, and I try
not to judge them by today's standards.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Everyone else does.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
That's kind of lazy, but maybe it's a little more
fair to criticize the modern ones. Obviously we criticize Nixon
for Watergate, but is what he really did any really
different than what Obama did? And then there was Clinton
in the cigar incident, Obama drone bombing people at weddings,
Biden's well, whatever the hell that is. And they're all
the same, promising the moon, delivering moonshine, leaving us with
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the bill. Yet here we are waving flags and firing
up the grill because you know, screw it, we love America.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Right, we do. We love America, we're patriotic.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
We'll celebrate a holiday for these clowns while the Deep
State laughs all the way to the bank. It's like
throwing a birthday party for your shady uncle who keeps
borrowing money and never pays it back. Look, family's family,
and America's the craziest family reunion ever, isn't it. Speaking
of crazy, let's talk about some of the real MVPs
who made this day worth a chuckle. Teddy Roosevelt one
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of my favorite. Now there's a president who could have
eaten the competition for breakfast. The guy goes bear hunting
in nineteen oh two. His guides tie up this old
black bear to a tree like it's a pinata, and
Teddy says, nah, that's on sports someone like he refused
to shoot it, orders it mercy killed instead. He still
killed it, he just didn't shoot it in a hunt.
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A cartoonist turn that into the Teddy Bear idea. They
sold a lot of Teddy Bears because's a cute idea. Right,
that's the guy who charged up. I always thought that
was a cool story about him not wanting to kill
the teddy bear. And then you know, Teddy Roosevelt actually
showed up for the West Point Academy's one hundredth birthday
in nineteen oh two, handed out a medal of honor
to some cadet mid speech, and hyped the place up
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like it was a super Bowl for soldier factor.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
He's a real cool story, I always thought.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And then a lot of interesting stories on President's Day
about what they used to eat, like William Howard taff
the human beach ball three hundred and forty pounds, scarfed
roasted possum like it was caviare possum Andater's for dinner.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
That was his thing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Richard Nixon liked cottage cheese slathered in ketchup, which is disgusting.
Trump used to drink while still does. He likes his
steaks well done with ketchup, and apparently drinks a dozen
diet cokes a day. It makes you wonder if he's
really as healthy as they claim. But I digress. You know,
with Marty gra going on this weekend and President's Day
happening right now, did you know that how Taft? President
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Taft rolled into New Orleans back in nine soaked up
the pre carnival chaos like a you know, like a
true American there went out partying. I always thought that
was cool. Eisenhower got his own float in fifty three.
Even Teddy dipped his toes in the big easy thing,
all the pageantry, all the beads.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I always thought that was a cool story.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
That on President's Day, which often falls around Marty Grosso,
of these guys went to Marty Graus. But here's kicker
that will grind your gears. Some poor bastards don't even
get the day off anymore because the FEDS crammed Juneteenth
into the holiday calendar like a participation trophy. Nobody asked for.
A President's Day is still there on paper. But some
of these blue states and woke corporations don't.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Give you a day off on President's Day. They give
you Juneteenth instead. They moved it.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Juneteenth was a holiday for people in Galveston, and I
get it. I'm glad slavery ended, but you know, those
kind of seem a little unnecessary to celebrate that in
like Maine or Washington State, or is an odd thing.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
To do, right.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Some more fun facts about President's Day. Herbert Hoover invented
his own sport called Hoover Ball. A brutal mix of volleyball, tennis,
and dodgeball, played with a heavy medicine ball. John Quincy
Adams reportedly went skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning,
and a journalist once stole his clothes as a prank
in order to force him to do an interview.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
It was probably a different time back then. They didn't
have the Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Martin van Buren was the only president whose first language
was not English, it was Dutch. He grew up in
a Dutch speaking area of New York. Very different world
back then. James Garfield could entertain people by writing in
Greek with one hand, Latin with the other, and speaking
German all at the same time. It was a party
trick he would do. I think they would still be
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entertaining today. But today we have social media and you know,
streaming video, and you know, OnlyFans and stuff, so people
aren't really entertained by stuff like that anymore. Jimmy Carter
once filed a UFO siding report in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
He called it the darnedest thing you'd ever seen.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
He promised to release government UFO info if he was elected,
and then he didn't do it. Abraham Lincoln. You know
what he's famous for. Right, of course. He was America's
first gay president. People always liked that about him. He
politely declined a gift of elephants from the King of Siam.
It was what Thailand used to be called. He said,
the US didn't have a use for them. Could you
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imagine if he said yes, think about it, we would
just have wild elephants roaming everywhere in this country. Thank
god we don't. Andrew Jackson had a foul mouthed parrot.
He was removed. The parrot had to be removed from
his funeral because it kept swearing profusely. Apparently the bird
picked up some colorful language from the president and his
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guests and it wouldn't stop during the during the funeral,
so they had to remove the parrot. Gerald Ford was
a male model before politics. He appeared on the cover
of Cosmopolitan in his younger days. That's even how he
met his wife. Calvin Coolidge had his scalp rubbed with
petrollum jelly every morning while eating breakfast. John Quincy Adams
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skinny dipped in the Potromac river. I already said that
one uh. Franklin Pierce. You don't even you don't even
remember him, do, Yeah, he was a president. Franklin Pierce
had one of the funniest campaign slogans ever. He said,
we poked you in forty four, we shall pierce you
in fifty two. It was a punny jab at a
James Polk. I do love my history, guys, I love it.
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I think Teddy Roosevelt may be my favorite president of
all time, if not Calvin Coolidge, both of them. Great
Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve as an executioner.
As the sheriff of Erie County, New York, he personally
hanged criminals twice before becoming president. Different times, guys, very
different world back then. And what about this one? James
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Monroe has a capital city named after him, Monrovia in Liberia.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, Liberia.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Founded as a settlement for freed American slaves during his presidency.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
We've come a long way, kids.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Anyway, it is President's Day today, So happy President's Day
or whatever you'd say on president. Enjoy your day off
or don't enjoy it off, enjoy the acknowledgment. Look, presidents
are mostly a rogues gallery of egomaniacs, corrupt as a
Chicago alderman on election night.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
But we do this anyway because we're Americans, damn it.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
We love the chaos, the underdogs, the wild stories, from
the naked Potomac swims to the horse whispering at West Point.
It's proof our leaders were flawed humans who occasionally did
epic stuff. So fire up the barbecue, skip the possum dinner,
and raise a beard to the holiday we pretend we earn.
Happy President's Day. Now pass the catch up for Donald
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Trump's well done steak. I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all.
We'll be back Brain early tomorrow morning for more of
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Former President Barack Obama says aliens are real, but he
said he's never seen them, so apparently he's never met
the Olsen Twins. Hey everybody, I'm Kenny Webster. You turned
on your radio. Happy President's Day to you. Tony Ortiz
is stopping by. We are going to talk about the
Governor Abbott and the establishment going after Don Haffines with
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some misinformation about the Jeffrey Epstein case. All great lies
have little grains of truth embedded inside of them, and.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
This is a perfect example of that. So we'll get
to that soon.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But before we have a journalist Tony Ortiz here to
tell that story, here's a different story about balance harvesting.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It starts back in the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, it actually goes back quite a bit further than that,
but for all intent and purposes, let's start in twenty twenty.
The year is well, the same year the pandemic and
the Summer of Love was happening in San Antonio. A
woman named Rachel Rodriguez was seen on hidden camera smirking
like she just invented the wheel.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I know it's illegal, she says. Actually, she probably said
it like this. I know what.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Deleco, she said, while hauling stacks of mail ballots from
low income apartments, the exact neighborhoods the Left always claims
to protect.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
She's not.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Family helping out. She's a paid operative, turning your vote
into her paycheck. Project Veritas caught her red handed. The
video went viral, and then boom, felony charges started piling up.
She's facing twenty years classic Democrat style assistance. Collect the ballots,
help fill them out if needed, deliver the blue ones,
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and pocket the cash. It's not voter turnout, it's vote manufacturing. Unfortunately,
in Texas, we're kind of lousy with these stories because
the Left keeps running the same playbook. Take fort Worth
back in twenty sixteen, Letitia Sanchez and her crew of
three women target elderly voters in Democrat leaning precincts. They
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fake mail applications, harvest the collected ballots like its Black Friday,
and hand them over for the preferred candidates thirty felony
counts later they're all arrested. Or how about this Greg
County Democrat, County Commissioner Shannon Brown and his team, I
know Shannon's a guy's name in this case shocking harvest
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mail ballots to steal his own primary, falsified applications, tampered
with votes one hundred and thirty four felony counts total.
One aid pleads guilty to possessing ballots with intent to defraud.
They weren't empowering voters, they were engineering outcomes. And then
there's Frio County, where in twenty twenty five, a whole
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crew fifteen people, including former Texas House candidate Cecilia Castellano,
a Democrat, shockingly and ex Bear County Democrat chair Juan
Manuel Medina, the county judge, and school board members all
got indicted for a year's long operation. They paid harvesters
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to raid nursing homes and apartments, influencing, as they called it, votes,
the old fashioned way coercion with a side of cash.
Raids uncovered the evidence felonies everywhere. Guys, this isn't isolated,
It's systematic. Outside Texas. It's the same song Arizona, twenty twenty.
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Former San Louis Mayer Fuentes and other Democrat and her
accomplice collect early ballots door to door, then dump them
in bulk on election day. Guilty, please for a ballot
abuse jail probation the works. In California, a council member
named Shakir Khan stashes over forty harvested ballots at home
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to flip a city race. No contest plea, two years
behind bars. The examples go on and on. Guys, this
is what ballot harvesting really looks like. Third party middlemen,
often paid by the ballot with every incentive to cheat.
They break the chain of custody, shred voter secrecy, and
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then they turn help into control. They're not really helping anyone.
They're deciding which person gets to vote. Granny in her
recliner gets pressured vote this way or no more, rides
to the doctor. Ballots gets forged, filled in, discarded if
they're the wrong color. It's like handing your tax return
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to a random guy in a parking lot and saying,
just sign it for me, buddy, No oversight, no tracking,
massive scale Once mail voting explodes, and who screams the
loudest to keep it legal.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know who it is.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's the woke left. They call bands on ballot harvesting.
Voter suppression, that's what they call it, while pretending mailing
an envelope is somehow too hard for marginalized people. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure blacks and the elderly know how to
mail in a ballot or help they vote in person.
Here's a newsflash. If your voters need paid strangers to
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collect their ballots, maybe your message isn't landing. They frame
it as compassion, but it's convenience for corruption, lower standards,
more frauds, same outcome, more power. It's the political version
of trust the process while they rewrite the process. Ballot
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harvesting wasn't always this loophole. Early America had in person
voting with secret ballots to stop exactly this kind of
machine politics nonsense. Absence he was limited. Family help was okay,
but broad third party collection banned for good reason. Then
the left pushed no excuse mail voting. California legalized unlimited
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harvesting in twenty sixteen, and suddenly it's a right.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ballot harvesting is a right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, it's not you just invented it like a decade ago,
and it's been ripe with corruption this whole time.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
When they get.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Caught, the excuses start, Oh, it's just access, sure access
to rigging an election. But here's the part that actually matters.
Texas just shut it down for good. Happened at the
end of last week February twelfth, twenty twenty sixth, the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rule three
to nothing to uphold the state's ban unpaid ballot harvesting.
It's part of Senate Bill one. They reversed a lower
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court that tried to call the law vague in a
free speech violation. Judge Edith Jones wrote the opinion. The
district judge aired and facially striking down the statute. Texas
has every right to protect elections from the cabal and
intrigue in corruption, just like the founders intended. By the way,
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the guy in charge of this case, Attorney General Ken Paxton,
he absolutely nailed it. No more paid schemes that threatened ballance, secrecy,
and invite coercion and fraud. The left has all these
special interest groups, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
They lost.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The ban is unenforceable heading into the twenty twenty six primaries,
and beyond excuse me, it's enforceable.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Is what I meant to say. You get what I meant.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Anyway, A court saying what common sense has been screaming. Guys,
you don't fix low turnout by legalizing middlemen who can
see deal votes.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Why would you? Isn't it obvious that that's problematic.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You earn votes the old fashioned way with ideas people
actually want, inspire people to go vote in person. The
left can keep screaming suppression, we'll keep calling it what
it is, cheating, And thanks to Texas, that game is
getting harder every day. God blessed Texas.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
On Kid Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, a radio show that's
just as good when you're driving around Soba as it
is when you're drunk at home.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The story of Nancy Gothrie is just terrible. And if
I was Savannah, i'd keep hope alive for my mom
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
But I don't get the impression they're going to find her.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
If they find her, I think at this point you're
going to discover she's dead.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I support the theory that it was a botched robbery.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It seems like this isn't normally how kidnappings are handled.
If someone did have the mom, if she was still alive,
I think they'd want to hand her over. Usually people
don't kidnap the elderly. That's a very usual thing to happen.
But all that being said, I was just looking at
a report here on brightbar dot com. Savannah Guthrie is
apparently thinking about quitting the Today Show. The report reads
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that Guthrie, who's been with NBC News since two thousand
and seven and became a permanent Today's Show co host
in twenty eleven, is not only dealing with the apparent
abduction of her eighty four year old mother, Nancy, but,
according to the report, the fear that her public profileland
more specifically a November Today's Show segment, might have made
her mother a target or wow. About three months before
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Nancy disappeared, she appeared with her daughter in a Today's
Show segment about Savannah's home coming to Tucson Hmmm. The
Daily Mail reports following her disappearance, there is growing concern
behind the scenes that the future might have inadvertently placed
Nancy in danger. There's a lot of soul searching at
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NBC about whether it was their segment that made Nancy
a target.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It is. That is terrible. If that's true, that is
just awful.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Nancy disappeared on February first, after what must have been
two agonizing weeks for the family, and it all involved
public pleas for her safe return. There was some talk
about paying a ransom. They never really got a I mean,
as far as I could tell, the people asking for money,
you don't. We have no proof that they are even
the kidnappers. Various ransom notes, who knows if they're real.
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The Tucson Police and the FBI seem no closer to
finding anyone responsible, and they don't seem to be working
well together. You know, the sheriff got into a spat
with the FBI for sending what was it, a DNA
sample sample data out to Florida some lab instead of
the FBI lab. Now, obviously Guthrie in the Today Show
did nothing wrong in airing that segment. You know, those
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looking at the homecoming segment that's standard fare and media.
Nancy's home was never featured. Still, can only imagine the
horrible thoughts going through Savannah's mind. After two emotionally exhausting weeks,
We're now into the third week and Savannah just released
yet another video pleading for help.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It is.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
This is hard stuff to watch. It's hard to listen
to your heart aches for her. Here's a little bit
of that audio.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Hang on, let me rewind this.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I wanted to come on and it's been two weeks
since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to
come on and say that we still have hope and
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we still believe. And I wanted to say to whoever
has her or knows where she is, diet, it's never
too late, and you're not lost or alone, and it
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is never too late to do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And we are here.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
We believe, and we believe in the essential goodness.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Boy, there's some more to that, but it's just hard
to listen to what the Guthrie family is currently going through.
The guys, this is unimaginable. This might include misplaced guilt
over the Today Show segment. That's understandable, as he's rethinking
everything in your life, including your career. Emotions running high. Sure,
all that combined with the exhaustion and the stress, but
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Guthrie is likely looking into the future and trying to
imagine that future without knowing what happened to her beloved mother.
That would cause anyone to rethink everything, and you just
got to pray for her. The investigations may still be
building in Nancy Guthrie case. They claim also very interesting.
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A legendary Houston sketch artist has unretired for the Nancy
Guthrie case. It's a former Houston Police Department sketch artist
recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the
most successful in her field. She's volunteered her expertise to
help identify a masked individual captured in the Nancy Guthrie video.
Lois Gibson, retired from the HBD in twenty twenty one
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after over four decades of service, has stepped forward to
analyze the doorbell camera footage that has become central to
the investigation. Gibson, who has achieved remarkable success in facial
reconstruction from minimal evidence, including skeletal remains, is now focusing
her skills on one of the region's most prominent recent cases.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's kind of amazing, terrible and tragic.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
As this whole thing is it is, it is bringing
out the best in people and probably the worst. Still,
Just to circle back, I suspect, given what we know here,
there's no credible evidence the ransom notes are real. Doesn't
seem to be any effort from the people sending the
ransom notes to give any kind of confirmation that Nancy's alive,
certainly not that the general public has seen, and no
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real sign of life in any way whatsoever makes me
think that this was a bot shrobbery, maybe not even
a kidnapping at all. And if that's the case, boy,
you just hope they find the person responsible.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I bet they do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't think Nancy's still alive, as sad as that
is to have mean out loud, but I will bet
at the very least at some point, if there's one
realistic thing to pray for pragmatically, it's probably justice for
the gut Three family and find the person responsible for
all of this.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I do think that's possible.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
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Speaker 2 (15:00):
A new study claims blind people have four times as
many nightmares as people who can see. I don't know
much about this topic, but I'll bet most of those
nightmares are about uneven sidewalks. Oh, that's right, it's uh,
it's the music for Tony's wife.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh you don't know, Tony Ortiz.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
His wife is in Japan right now, which means he
can do anything he wants. He can go to the
strip club, he can go get wasted, he can eat
pizza all night. And instead he's decided a cameo on
this afternoon talk radio show. Boy, Tony, you really don't
know how to party, my man.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You know what, though, I wouldn't have it any other word.
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My brother from another Tony Ortiz current Revolt dot Com
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Speaker 3 (15:49):
I look, I'm calling balls and strikes here.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
If somebody on our side does something I don't like,
I'm gonna call him out. I don't think Trump's handled
Epstein well. I don't think he has handled it well.
But I don't think he raped anybody, because without a
rape victim, you can't have a rape, right, there's no
allegation there from anybody. And it's the same thing with
this very bizarre news story from over the weekend. Conspiracy
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theorists on social media latched onto one tiny little piece
of information which technically has been public information for two
or three years now, and they just ran wild with it.
If you didn't know anything about this news story, you
would think Texas Comptroller notable look candidate local Liberty Republican
and Ron Paul Ally Don Haffeines is harvesting baby hearts
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on Epstein's ranch out in rural New Mexico so he
can make some kind of a bio engineered superhuman that
he's going to use to take over the world in
rape children or some crazy thing like like what people
are saying is crazy. Before we get to all this
insane conspiracy theories and how stupid they are, why don't
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you start off with this what actually happened?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, so you know, several years ago the half Finds
family purchased the Zoral ranch in New Mexico, which used
to belong to Huff to the F Jeffrey Epstein, and
this or ranch is quite quite quite often mentioned in
the Epstein Whiles right for bad happenings and things happen
and whatnot. But this is again, as you mentioned, this
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has been public record for for years, but all of
a sudden it's become a story. Conveniently four days out
from early voting, which which was it came out I
think Friday last week and early voting is tomorrow, So
if you're listening, don't forget to go vote. But it
commediately came out after several years, uh, just a couple days,
a few days ago. And you know, it initially was
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just well, you know, the half Fines purchased this ranch.
But a lot of these Internet celebrities and and fake
news journalists and and and influencers started making allegations that
the money from the ranch did not benefit the victims,
despite the fact that both Halfines and hal Fai initially
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Hal Finds a spokesperson and consultant, also confirmed that the
funds did go benefit the victims.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Okay, so a spokesperson for the Epstein estate has confirmed, like,
this guy didn't work for half Finds, He's not part
of the half Finds estate. Halfines made the claim that
the money from the purchase of the ranch, the money
actually went to the victims, and then somebody from the
the Epstein estate said, yes, that's true. Okay, So why
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what's the problem. Why is this suddenly why are people
suddenly saying otherwise now?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And what exactly are they saying? So yeah, you're right.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Like this person that was completely unattached to hal Fians
and part of the Epstein state and the part that's
kind of supposed to divvy up the funds to the
victims confirmed via email unequivocally that the funds from the
purchase benefited victims.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And you're right, it's it's not a story.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But you know, with as as is to be expected
with anything related to Epstein, a lot of people not
only make allegations but also make some crazy allegations. So
I even saw tweets out there, a posts out there
on x alleging that, you know, Halfian's bought this genetics
center and he was specifically using the dead bodies on
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the farm to do genetics testing or something like some
resident evil stuff. Like just really crazy allegations. And you know,
people want to make more want to make bad things
more exciting, and I do agree. I do agree with
some of this, Like the purchase of this ranch probably
isn't great optics and probably isn't a good idea, but
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you could argue that like two things could be true
at the same time, Like it was a bad idea
maybe from an optic standpoint, but there's also nothing else
going on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
You know, it is just amazing. The theories are crazy,
like they're so they're so fascinating. Like I was just
reading one thing that said, like, oh yeah, there's dead
children out there, and huff Fines is now protecting the
Epstein ranch and he won't let investigators go there. No
one from the government's even trying to look at this property.
It's my understanding that Huffines is more than willing to
(20:13):
let government agents go out there and look around.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They don't want to. How's that Don's fault.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, and it's kind of silly that to assume that
the government didn't review or search the property prior to
the sale.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But you know, now you've got a Twitter user.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Trump Maga truck driver guy sixty nine to twenty is
screaming that huffeind should let him on the ranch to
search around and dig up holes, and it's it's just
very absurd.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, okay, and then but there are other ways to
go search the property. Like I'll be the first to
admit just like I don't think the government handled this well.
They didn't search that land thoroughly from the research I've done.
And while that's not Don's fault necessarily. It has aroused
a lot of suspicion. And the mansion solved in Manhattan,
nobody cared who bought it. The island sold in the Caribbean,
(21:04):
nobody bought who cared who bought it. But this is
different though, because this guy's running for office against establishment Republicans.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And weirdly, even though this.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Information's existed for about two or three years, it's been public.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You could search Twitter.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
People have discussed the fact that huff Finds bought this before,
but all of a sudden, people are just talking about
it on the Friday before the election. I'm not an idiot, Tony.
I know exactly why that happened. Do you see the
same thing I'm seeing here?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, someone much smarter than us once said there's no
coincidences in Austin and in this case in politics, And
it does seem that the timing is interesting, and then well,
you know what, just just dick picking here.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like even one of the.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Journalists that wrote the story up that was being reposted
quite quite often by hof Find's opponents, consultant one of
the journalists like falsely claimed that huff Finds a state
rep and that Alan Blakemore was his attorney. Like just
just like fake news, just like one hundred percent incorrect
facts to the point where she had to issue like
(22:09):
a correction.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So like the work behind this, behind the story.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Reeks of reeks of pay to play, or a minimum
at worst and at best like just convenient timing attack piece.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
If you really just look at it at face value.
And I'll be the first to admit Huffins bought this.
He never really spoke about it publicly, and then he
started running for office. That was probably a mistake, but
that doesn't that shouldn't disqualify him from getting elected. It
doesn't make him a bet. It was ten thousand acres
out in the middle of the desert. Nobody wanted it
was publicly available for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Anybody could have looked. Anybody could have bought the property.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Anybody could have looked at it, but nobody wanted it
because of the stigma. Every plot of land on Earth
is controversial to someone for some reason. And at some point,
I know it's hard to believe people will move on
from the Epstein case, just as they moved on from
John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer or anything else. And
then all that's left over is ten thousand acres of
(23:09):
unused land out in the middle of New Mexico that
will increase in value and someone will eventually.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Want right yeah, and you know, yeah, like you said,
it's probably it's bad optics, right, but you know, they
probably got a steal of a deal out of it,
you know, so much so that even you know, in
the documents, it shows that they argued a property value,
lowering the property valuation because I think even citing the
(23:35):
fact that you know, hey, this is bad optics, like
this is valuation of this property should be lower. So
they knew it was. They knew it was, you know,
a bad optics as well. But you know, like you said,
like somebody had to buy it, right, Like, it's not
just going to sit out there, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
We didn't get to our next topic yet. Sawer is
a news story today. This is amazing to me. Dan
Crenshaw last week was trying to make it look like
Steve Toath was using an esque sort service to send
out robot texts robotext to people. It was a number
that had previously been used by an escort service, which
was then canceled and then sometimes I don't like robotex,
(24:12):
but whatever, everybody sends them out, you know, the mass
text that you get during election time. The number had
previously been used by an escort service. That company went
out of business, and then a robotext company took over
the number, and Tooth hired them to send out texts
to tell people about his campaign. Dan Crenshaw latches onto
that and make and lot basically lies to people on
(24:34):
social media. Oh why Steve Toath connected to this escort service?
He's not, you know, for those that don't know what
we're talking about, the Texas District two Congressional District two
race between Toath and Crenshaw. And he puts out this
weird response. He's like, no, we're just kidding. It's a joke,
like all right. But at the same time, that's not
even the only suspicious thing they were doing. The other
(24:56):
thing they were doing related to Wikipedia, Tony, would you
tell us about that?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, So, the Dan Crenshaw campaign made to at least
two payments to a company called se O four one
one LLC separate payments of two separate payments of around
three thousand dollars. And you know, it says for on
the on the payment receipt, it does say it's for
digital consulting. But what's interesting and where the story is
(25:23):
is the CEO or the owner of se O four
one is a woman who then owns a Wikipedia contributor account.
So for those who don't don't know Wikipedia, a lot
of edits and news and changes are made based on users.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
But to be able to make those changes, you have
to have a certain.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Reputation score, and so you people spend a lot of
time writing little things in order to build up their
score so that bigger edits.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Can be you know, taken by them.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Well, anyway, this this, this, this woman who runs the
company that was paid for by Crenshaw. We found her
Wikipedia contributor account, and she does going going in on
Toath's page and Crenshaw's campaign page and making edits and
and commediately the edits for Tooth were quite negative and
the ones for Crenshaw were quite positive.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So just kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Imagine that, just incredible these Crenshaw Can Crenshaw just run
a normal campaign, like, dude, so desperate the public polling
numbers I've seen and look, I'm vote for Tooth, I'm
endorsing very rarely. While I tell you who to vote for,
usually I tell people who not to vote for. And
that's it. Don't vote for Crenshaw. If you're going to
vote for someone, vote for Toath. But the pulling number
(26:36):
makes it look like Crenshaw's ahead a little bit. But
the way Crenshaw's behaving right now, I think the internal
polling is showing something much different.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Well, you know, and to clarify, there's nothing illegal about
about what was done here as far as Wikipedia, and
you could argue maybe it's dirty or an ethical right.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Right, you know, we did call.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
We did call and speak to the woman who who
made the edits, and she initially told she told us
that she didn't bake them at all, and then the
story changed to she didn't remember making them, and then
the story evolved into well, maybe somebody hacked my account,
which seems kind of silly that you would hack somebody's
Wikipedia account to make specific edits about a certain politician
(27:19):
that you're being paid to write a campaign against.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So I don't know, it just very very odd, it
really is. It's all very peculiar.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
But anyway, look, dude, it's amazing people talk about October
surprises you got to admit the February the dirt slinging,
the stuff going on in Texas politics right now, right
before early voting which starts tomorrow, Tony is just filthy.
I mean, you and I only talked about two examples.
There's others, right.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Oh, absolutely, you know, and there's only going to be more.
I'm sure there'll be more mud slinging as early voting
goes on. But if you are listening in your voter like,
make sure you get out and early vote. Don't let
the conspiracy theory that you know, all this stuff happens
and early voting this bad stuff that happens. But you should,
genuinely I recommend early voting, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And that'd being said.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
If I want to get the latest information about inside
the inside information about what's going on in Texas politics,
is there like a news website or a sub stack
I could subscribe to that maybe would let me know
on uncensored information the mainstream media doesn't want me to
hear about.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
There is currentrevolts dot com or if you're on x
or Twitter, it's at Current Revolts and you can subscribe
there and support Texas independent news.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Son of agn that's great advice.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you so much, Tony Ortiz, Current Revolt dot Com.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Be here to talk
about something politics and government. And now let's hit and
code utchit this show.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Hit.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Ain't you average this podcast? You gotta get in town.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Damn we can this this pusuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, So yeah, it's President's Day obviously, And before we
get out of here, just a quickermind, well, it's President's Day.
We already explained that it's that glorious third Monday in
February where we all pretend the guys who run the
country weren't mostly a pack of power hungry grifters with
more scandals than a DC lobbyist convention, you know, back
(29:16):
in the day. The history of it's quite interesting, or
is it? I guess it started in eighteen seventy nine,
Congress made Washington's birthday a federal holiday to honor the
guy who chopped down a cherry tree and basically invented
America without Twitter meltdowns?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
How did he do that?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And then in seventy one they lumped in Lincoln and
turned it into this mushy President's Day idea. So the
Post Office could get a long weekend, which was a
smart enough move, I suppose, because who doesn't like a
day off? But I guess nothing says Land of the freelight,
giving mailman a break while the rest of us keep grinding.
But let's be real, most of these presidents didn't deserve
a holiday to suggest the presidents are often corrupt as
(29:56):
an understatement, Hew, the Oval Office has been a revolving
door for Brooks since day one. But I do love America.
So obviously our founding fathers weren't perfect, and I try
not to judge them by today's standards.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Everyone else does.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
That's kind of lazy, but maybe it's a little more
fair to criticize the modern ones. Obviously we criticize Nixon
for Watergate, but is what he really did any really
different than what Obama did? And then there was Clinton
in the cigar incident, Obama drone bombing people at weddings,
Biden's well, whatever the hell that is. And they're all
the same, promising the moon, delivering moonshine, leaving us with
(30:33):
the bill. Yet here we are waving flags and firing
up the grill because you know, screw it, we love America.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Right, we do. We love America, we're patriotic.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
We'll celebrate a holiday for these clowns while the Deep
State laughs all the way to the bank. It's like
throwing a birthday party for your shady uncle who keeps
borrowing money and never pays it back. Look, family's family,
and America's the craziest family reunion ever, isn't it. Speaking
of crazy, let's talk about some of the real MVPs
who made this day worth a chuckle. Teddy Roosevelt one
(31:04):
of my favorite. Now there's a president who could have
eaten the competition for breakfast. The guy goes bear hunting
in nineteen oh two. His guides tie up this old
black bear to a tree like it's a pinata, and
Teddy says, nah, that's on sports someone like he refused
to shoot it, orders it mercy killed instead. He still
killed it, he just didn't shoot it in a hunt.
(31:26):
A cartoonist turn that into the Teddy Bear idea. They
sold a lot of Teddy Bears because's a cute idea. Right,
that's the guy who charged up. I always thought that
was a cool story about him not wanting to kill
the teddy bear. And then you know, Teddy Roosevelt actually
showed up for the West Point Academy's one hundredth birthday
in nineteen oh two, handed out a medal of honor
to some cadet mid speech, and hyped the place up
(31:48):
like it was a super Bowl for soldier factor.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
He's a real cool story, I always thought.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And then a lot of interesting stories on President's Day
about what they used to eat, like William Howard taff
the human beach ball three hundred and forty pounds, scarfed
roasted possum like it was caviare possum Andater's for dinner.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
That was his thing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Richard Nixon liked cottage cheese slathered in ketchup, which is disgusting.
Trump used to drink while still does. He likes his
steaks well done with ketchup, and apparently drinks a dozen
diet cokes a day. It makes you wonder if he's
really as healthy as they claim. But I digress. You know,
with Marty gra going on this weekend and President's Day
happening right now, did you know that how Taft? President
(32:32):
Taft rolled into New Orleans back in nine soaked up
the pre carnival chaos like a you know, like a
true American there went out partying. I always thought that
was cool. Eisenhower got his own float in fifty three.
Even Teddy dipped his toes in the big easy thing,
all the pageantry, all the beads.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I always thought that was a cool story.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
That on President's Day, which often falls around Marty Grosso,
of these guys went to Marty Graus. But here's kicker
that will grind your gears. Some poor bastards don't even
get the day off anymore because the FEDS crammed Juneteenth
into the holiday calendar like a participation trophy. Nobody asked for.
A President's Day is still there on paper. But some
of these blue states and woke corporations don't.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Give you a day off on President's Day. They give
you Juneteenth instead. They moved it.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Juneteenth was a holiday for people in Galveston, and I
get it. I'm glad slavery ended, but you know, those
kind of seem a little unnecessary to celebrate that in
like Maine or Washington State, or is an odd thing.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
To do, right.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Some more fun facts about President's Day. Herbert Hoover invented
his own sport called Hoover Ball. A brutal mix of volleyball, tennis,
and dodgeball, played with a heavy medicine ball. John Quincy
Adams reportedly went skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning,
and a journalist once stole his clothes as a prank
in order to force him to do an interview.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
It was probably a different time back then. They didn't
have the Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Martin van Buren was the only president whose first language
was not English, it was Dutch. He grew up in
a Dutch speaking area of New York. Very different world
back then. James Garfield could entertain people by writing in
Greek with one hand, Latin with the other, and speaking
German all at the same time. It was a party
trick he would do. I think they would still be
(34:22):
entertaining today. But today we have social media and you know,
streaming video, and you know, OnlyFans and stuff, so people
aren't really entertained by stuff like that anymore. Jimmy Carter
once filed a UFO siding report in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
He called it the darnedest thing you'd ever seen.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
He promised to release government UFO info if he was elected,
and then he didn't do it. Abraham Lincoln. You know
what he's famous for. Right, of course. He was America's
first gay president. People always liked that about him. He
politely declined a gift of elephants from the King of Siam.
It was what Thailand used to be called. He said,
the US didn't have a use for them. Could you
(35:00):
imagine if he said yes, think about it, we would
just have wild elephants roaming everywhere in this country. Thank
god we don't. Andrew Jackson had a foul mouthed parrot.
He was removed. The parrot had to be removed from
his funeral because it kept swearing profusely. Apparently the bird
picked up some colorful language from the president and his
(35:21):
guests and it wouldn't stop during the during the funeral,
so they had to remove the parrot. Gerald Ford was
a male model before politics. He appeared on the cover
of Cosmopolitan in his younger days. That's even how he
met his wife. Calvin Coolidge had his scalp rubbed with
petrollum jelly every morning while eating breakfast. John Quincy Adams
(35:43):
skinny dipped in the Potromac river. I already said that
one uh. Franklin Pierce. You don't even you don't even
remember him, do, Yeah, he was a president. Franklin Pierce
had one of the funniest campaign slogans ever. He said,
we poked you in forty four, we shall pierce you
in fifty two. It was a punny jab at a
James Polk. I do love my history, guys, I love it.
(36:04):
I think Teddy Roosevelt may be my favorite president of
all time, if not Calvin Coolidge, both of them. Great
Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve as an executioner.
As the sheriff of Erie County, New York, he personally
hanged criminals twice before becoming president. Different times, guys, very
different world back then. And what about this one? James
(36:27):
Monroe has a capital city named after him, Monrovia in Liberia.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, Liberia.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Founded as a settlement for freed American slaves during his presidency.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
We've come a long way, kids.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Anyway, it is President's Day today, So happy President's Day
or whatever you'd say on president. Enjoy your day off
or don't enjoy it off, enjoy the acknowledgment. Look, presidents
are mostly a rogues gallery of egomaniacs, corrupt as a
Chicago alderman on election night.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
But we do this anyway because we're Americans, damn it.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
We love the chaos, the underdogs, the wild stories, from
the naked Potomac swims to the horse whispering at West Point.
It's proof our leaders were flawed humans who occasionally did
epic stuff. So fire up the barbecue, skip the possum dinner,
and raise a beard to the holiday we pretend we earn.
Happy President's Day. Now pass the catch up for Donald
(37:20):
Trump's well done steak. I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all.
We'll be back Brain early tomorrow morning for more of
what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
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