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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
A victim of two different shark attacks in Florida, a
survivor for the record two time shark attack survivor says
he cannot wait to go surfing again, and then amazing,
the guy's been attacked by a shark twice.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Can't get can't wait to get back in the water.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's kind of like the Democrats saying they can't wait
to run another female presidential candidate. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaking of women, I have a couple of very brilliant,
beautiful ones on my show this afternoon. Holly Hanson will
be stopping buying a little bit from the Texan Dot News.
She is one of the most honest journalists in Southeast Tech,
probably the most in Southeast Texas. We're going to be
talking about how last week's election is going to be
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affecting things like criminal justice reform, not just here in
Houston or in the state of Texas, but around the country.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
In fact, California.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They just passed a massive crime justice criminal justice reform
bel that actually looks like something most of us would
agree with, So.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Stick around for that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We'll talk about it then, since it is Veterans Day,
Holly Hants, it's excuse me, not Holly Hanson. Crystal Lara
More is going to be here from Wheelchairs for Warriors.
We did some really important work last night, raised a
lot of money for disabled military veterans. And moving forward,
we know so many people that listen to this radio
show want to help out with that what we call
a mission.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You can be part of it. We hope that you will.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But before we get to any of that, I mean,
it's been almost a week. Check out how CNN is
reacting to the news of Donald Trump preparing his new administration.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Marlago has basically been brimming for the last two days,
I'm told, with two kinds of people, those angling for
a job and those who are trying to influence Trump
into hiring their picks. But one person has loomed over
all of that. His name is Elon Musk. Multiple sources
tell me tonight that Musk has been seen at mar
Alago nearly every single day since Donald Trump won dining
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with him on the patio at times. Today they were
seen on the golf course together. Musk has been in
the room when world leaders have called Trump, and tonight
we've learned he's also weighing in on staffing decisions, making
clear his preference for certain roles.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Even publicly.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Tonight, Elon Musk is backing Florida Senator Rick Scott as
the next leader of the Republican Conference to replace Mitch McConnell.
While Musk himself is still not expected to take any
kind of formal position inside Trump's administration given how complicated
it would be with his companies, what's becoming clearer tonight
is that he doesn't really need to, with one source
telling me Elon Musk is having just as much influence
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from the outside.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Isn't it weird how angry she sounds as she explains
this to us. I mean, do you remember when they
liked Elon Musk? Do you remember when the liberals liked
Donald Trump? Do you remember when the liberals believed that
border security was important? Some of our older listeners certainly do.
People my age when I was starting my adult life
twenty years ago. You know, I'm in my early forties. Now,
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I know this might be hard to believe for some
of our younger listeners, but there was a time when
Democrats agreed we had to secure the border and protect
American jobs. Those were basically the Democrat policies in the
late nineties. But now, if you believe those things, you're
a garbage nazi. When you consider the fact that they'll
hate people for switching sides and joining the other team,
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even when those people still believe the same things they
believed when they were on their own side, or for
supporting policies that they previously believed previously believed, it almost
makes you wonder what exactly are Democrats mad about. Is
it just simply that we weren't on team Blue when
we advocated for things that they previously wanted with people
they previously supported.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's an interesting question.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Kirt Schlicktter at townhall dot com has offered some suggestions
to this answers to the question, you know right now,
it was supposed to be a time when we savor
the sweetness of all the victories we just had. This
was truly a red wave. It took Arizona a long
time to call those votes, but Donald Trump won Arizona.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That means he won every single swing state. So it's
a day to take a moment to identify and thank
those who got us here, the people that campaigned a
fought hard, the grassroots activists, and of course the military
veterans who sacrificed the most. That's always important on veterans today.
But maybe there's one hero that we should stop and
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acknowledge the most. Okay, I don't know the most, but
just at all. There's this guy named Scott Presler. He's
been on this radio show before. Do you know who
he is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He's a gay man, he's a Republican, He's a huge
Trump supporter, and he travels around the country mobilizing voters.
He went to Pennsylvania and worked tires tirelessly to rally
the low propensity voters who won Trump the Keystone State
and elected the great fellow Gulf War that Dave McCormick
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himself another hero to the Senate. So that's very awesome
of you, Scott Presler. My favorite part of that story
apparently one of the groups of people that he went
out and mobilized to vote were the Amish. Could you
imagine a gay guy showing up in an Amish community
and encouraging them to go out and vote for Donald
Trump by explaining to them that Donald Trump's policies and
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values were actually their policies and values. Now and almost
sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? A gay guy trying to convince
homage people to vote for Trump? Honestly, it kind of
sounds like to be the plot line. Knew a really
funny movie. If Hollywood had any merit, any principles, any intelligence,
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I think they would make that movie.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
But they probably won't, probably not. It'd be fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But anyway, the Democrat governors around the country, Gretchen whitmerr,
Gavin Newsom, they're so angry right now.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Those are losers.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Elon Musk is a hero guy purchased Twitter and allowed
the majority of Americans to have a voice in opposition
to the United Democrat propaganda machine that is the regime media.
Is it possible that Elon Musk has played a pivotal
role in helping to destroy legacy media considering these election results, Yeah,
I'd say that's probably pretty accurate.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress take another vacation.
Why don't you Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
This is actually a punk band. It's not even a
metal band.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You'd think I would play metal music on National Metal Day,
but I'm not because I don't conform to your standards
and requirements or what's expected to happen on commercial radio.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm Kenny Webster. I live by my own rule book.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Actually it's pretty much the same rolebook we always lived by.
But there's a few things I do know. I'm grateful
for where we're at right now as a country. I'm
grateful for how last night went. Last night was so
much fun. Thank you so much again to everybody who
came out and joined us for our annual stand up
comedy show to raise money for wheelchairs for warriors. Crystal
will be joining us from that organization a bit later
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in the program.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But you know who else was there last night? There
were a lot of local public figures at.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The event, politicians, activists, musicians, obviously, comedians, and at least
a couple of blonde hair journalists. One of them was
Holly Hansen of Vtexan Dot News. Holly, did you have
fun last night?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Oh? I had a blast. It was a lot of fun,
and kudos to you for your twenty push ups on
stage there, although I could probably do twenty push ups too,
So the next time invite me up there.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Did you see?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What's interesting the funny coincidence about that. The Mayo Clinic,
which I think is in Minnesota, put out a study
today on how many push ups a healthy person should
be able to do, and the gist of it was this,
a man in his early twenties should be able to
do twenty five, a woman in her early twenties should
be able to do twenty, and then as you get older,
you're supposed to do less up until they stopped at
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the age sixty and they said, essentially, a sixty year
old man or woman should be able.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
To do ten push ups. I don't really feel like
that's a lot of pushups.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
No, it's not. Well it God, is a reflection of
the downgrade in requirements for entering the military now, right,
haven't they softened those the physical requirements?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Holly, that is such an awesome point that you just made.
I mean, DEI is destroying everything. Look at Angel Reese,
the WNBA player. Angel Reese is mad that her salary
isn't higher, completely ignoring the fact that last year the
WNBA lost forty million dollars. She also doesn't understand why
Kamala Harris, a woman who never got a single primary vote,
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somehow isn't president right now.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Isn't that amazing, Holly, That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of weeping and whaling and nashing
his teeth as people try to examine what went wrong.
I think for some candidates and some policies on the
general election last week.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
DEI is actually destroying people's brains, and DEI is just
a consequence of cultural Marxism. You see it on full
display all over the country. I have a not too
distant family member who is a moderate Democrat in the
state of California. He tells me that in California, people
were very excited to vote yes on Prop.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Thirty six, which.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think essentially was just a vote that, among other things,
decided that they were going to keep putting criminals in
jail when they commit crimes, which doesn't seem that controversial,
but I guess in California was among the things on
the proposition which just passed in California was this decision
that we were no longer going to allow people to shoplift.
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Now I'm exaggerating a little, but up until what this week,
I guess when this thing passed or last week, I
think they said that in California, in most places in California,
you could shoplift up to nine hundred and fifty dollars
without being arrested. You would just get a ticket. And
that's not again, like, why why would it be controversial
to overturn that? I don't know, But off the air,
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you had pointed out something else about Prop thirty six.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It was interesting.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Well, yeah, so this is super interesting, right because in
California about ten years ago, they passed another proposition that
basically said that you can commit fraud, forgery, write bad check,
shock lift, or engage in theft for amounts of up
to nine hundred and fifty dollars and it's just a misdemeanor.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
And that kind of led to a watering down of
the prosecution of these crimes that you know, what the
reformers try to say is that these are nonviolent crimes
and you know, it doesn't really hurt anybody. Of course,
we know that it does, especially if you're poor. You
knowest of nine hundred and fifty dollars can mean whether
or not you make your bills this month. So it
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is a crime that is very painful for a lot
of the victims. But what's really interesting is that in
the state of California, which still voted for Democrats at
the top of the ticket, they firmly repudiated that policy,
and I think every county in the state of California
voted for the new proposition that says, no, we're going
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to go ahead and prosecute these crimes. We want there
to be some kind of crackdown on these sets. They're
also they also approved within this proposition a rollback of
some of the softer attitudes towards very how would you say,
it's a very dangerous drug use. So they had more
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or less decriminalized. I think decriminalized is probably exaggerating a
little bit, because they reduced the crime from a felony
to a misdemeanor. And what they've done now is said, okay,
you know, especially if you are on your third offense
for you know, possession of things like sentinel, we're going
to mandate that you go into some rehabilitation programs. So
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some of these penalties actually provide a venue for helping
some of the people who are suffering from drug addiction.
So it's really interesting though to see this trend where again,
at the top of the ticket, we're voting for a
Tamala Harris, but further down ballot they're voting for tougher
on crime kind of policies. And of course we saw
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that here in Houston Harris County, where you had voters
to Kamala Harris by fifty two percent at the top
of the ticket, but down ballot ten Republicans won their
races for judicial bitches. Not all of them were criminal courts,
but it was really kind of a repudiation of this
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criminal justice reform movement that seems to be correlated with
a pick in crime. Of course, there's a lot of
debate about the crime statistics. We did see the SBI
revise their numbers from two years ago and kind of say, oh, whoops,
we said it was down, always actually up. So I
think you're seeing voters respond to this they knew all along.
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I think that those statistics were off because they see
it every day in their communities.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, the issue with illegal drug use as a liberty
minded person. It's such a catch twenty two because on
one hand, you think, okay, dangerous drugs, no doubt, in
my mind, dangerous drugs. It should be illegal to traffic,
then we should put those people in prison. But it's
a little more complicated with drug users, like it's not
necessarily somebody that's trafficking drugs. In this case, it's somebody
that's using illegal, dangerous drugs. I'm not talking about pod
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and mushrooms and ecstasy, although you could argue those are dangerous. Fine,
I'm talking about fentyl heroin, crack, cocaine, math, that stuff.
If somebody is addicted to that stuff and you send
them to prison, you're not solving a problem because in
prison there's nothing to do but drugs. A junkie that's
sent to prison is going to keep doing drugs all
the time. In fact, they'll probably do more drugs. They're depressed,
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and there's nothing else to do but be depressed in
a small, confined space where you could keep using drugs.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Is that solving the problem? It's certainly not right.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So in a sense, this rehabilitation program seems like the
best solution. But even that's a little complicated because nobody's
going to sober up unless they want to.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
So what do you do?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah, yeah, I think well, and I think that's the
debate we're having, right, And I think you make a
great point. You know, how do you help someone who
has an addiction to one of these very severe what
the terminology is. But some of these drugs that.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Are a lot narcotics.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Right, We're not talking about mushrooms, We're not talking about pot.
We're not talking about something that grows safely out of
the earth or something that a psychiatrist could argue could
be used for treating PTSD.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That's not the stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
We're talking We're talking about heroin, right, That stuff's really.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Bad, exactly. And so here's here's the things I think about, right,
And I think this extends to a lot of other
areas of criminal justice. So when you talk about homelessness,
there's a big debate about whether or not you should
make certain kinds of homeless behavior of crime. And when
you say, we have a camping band and the police
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can arrest you for you know, always hanging out on
this street in front of the library where children are
going in and out, that gives the police a tool
to get somebody who may be sitting out there, you know,
shooting heroin or whatever, and get them into a rehab facility,
because they're penalties for their ongoing behavior, right, especially when
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it disrupts the public safety and you know these public spaces.
And I think the same as true. So we saw
these things in some of these very progressive jurisdictions where
you know, they're not just ignoring drug use but actually
facilitating it. Here's here's a needle, here's a hair or
crack pipe, and you know, just kind of in facilitating, encouraging,
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enabling this drug use that is very dangerous and leads
to uh, you know, it's kind of a downgrade in
the area. Right, And so sometimes you have to give
law enforcement the tools. I would add to that, anytime
you're given law enforcement the tools, you also have to
have some kind of check on law enforcement too, right,
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So you need to make sure your police are are
on the up and up, not like what we had
here in Houston with the harding street raids and and
some of the really bad pots.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Oh yeah, what do you do about that? Yeah, You're
you're making a lot of interesting points here. What do
you do when the when the when the drug police
are involved in the drug trade, which they often are.
And then and then similarly, you just pointed out another
thing that I forgot about early on in the Biden era,
which now is wrapping up, thank god. One of the
first big fake news stories, the Washington Freebeacon comes out
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with this report about how there's a government website that
says we're going to be spending I don't remember what
the amount was, tens of millions of dollars on safe
crack smoking kits and we're going to send them to
nonprofit groups all over the country. And immediately the liberal
media comes out and goes, that's not true. But it's
on Joe Biden. It's on a government website. I think
it was like the FDA or the DEA. I forget
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who had it up, but there it was, and it
was only recently added after Biden got elected president.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And then videos start popping up.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
All over the country from drug rehabilitation facilities of these
kits showing up peop funding for them. People making the kits,
either the organizations themselves, the NGAs, the non government organizations
were making them with funding they got from the government,
or they were providing them to rehab clinics. It's going
to be really interesting to see how the drug war
changes now that we're getting back into Trump two point
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zero because there's a very libertarian I feel like this
era of Trump Republicanism is more libertarian than the last
one when you look at Elon Musk getting involved, the
potential of Ron Paul being involved.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
So many people like that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
But similarly, it's not like they're pro drug you know
what I mean, agreed.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Agreed, And I think that's you know, it's an important
debate to have, right, is where do you find the
balance between you know, kind of the libertarian I don't know,
affirmation of freedoms in the United States and also, you know,
keeping some behaviors that lead to worse behavior or you know,
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just totally destructive things from going too far right and
preserving order and public safety. So I think a lot
of Americans would agree. They really don't want their tax
dollars to be providing crack pipes. They also don't want,
you know, some the homeless person who may be suffering
from all kinds of things laying in front of the
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public library, you know, shooting up and maybe lying there
in their feces as you're trying to bring your kids
in for story out right?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. We just want a drag queen to
read books to our kids. For crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, Holly, you reminded.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Me something over the weekend I almost forgot about. As
a friend of mine, I was looking at this video.
This is a crime video. Is a news reporter on
the streets of what I think is Compton, Los Angeles,
interviewing the mother or the adopted mother of a young
man who'd just been shot and it looks like killed.
And the news reporter asks the mother, you know, what
do you think about this? And she basically says, well,
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it's it's the weekend. It gonna do what it do.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
It's the weekid and I don't know, I can't speak
for everybody else but off of Santana Black Crib.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So it's gonna do what it do. It's gonna do
what it do. Is it possible? Holly?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And look, I have I have empathy for these people
that are affected by the criminal street drug gang drug war,
because that's really what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
But is it possible?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
The best way to solve this problem is just take
the warning labels off of everything and let nature kind
of solve its own problem.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
No, I can't agree with that. That's that's a shocking video.
I need to go watch that. That's just heartbreaking. Right,
is the acceptance of this level of violence within your culture.
The problem is it doesn't just affect the people who
are engaging in that behavior, right, It carries through society.
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I mean, it has ripple effects. And that's what a
lot of these policies we have to look at. That's
why I have to look at the balance, Right, what
are the ripple effects of what's happening. I'm sure there
are people in that woman's neighborhood who, you know, really
don't have the means to move to a safer, safer neighborhood,
but they would really like for there to stop being
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you know, drug wars and gang wars on the weekends.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You too, You have two sons, Holly.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Could you imagine one of them just got shot and
probably killed and a news reporter asks you your thoughts
on it, and you say, well, it's the weekend.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It gont do what it do?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Oh yeah, I can't even get my mind around that.
I would be devastated, right, And you know what here
in Houston, we know a lot of these families who
their son's, daughters, nieces, nephews have been victims of crime,
and that is not the response. They are us in arms.
They you know, helped this stop Houston Murder's pack, get
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the advertisements out about what's happening in Houston Harris County
with some of these judges in this soft on crime
attitudes and policies, and I mean for most people, it's devastating,
and it's not you know, just Holly Hanson, that's what
we're going to accept.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
All great points. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I don't know if we know exactly what the solution
is some of these problems is. But we know what
the solution is in letting criminals out of jail and
letting them run free on the streets after they demonstrate
that they're not safe to be around for those of
us that are following at least most of the rules, Yeah,
that's probably not the solution.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Going forward.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Late last night, after a few beers, we discovered the
art of deceiving politicians. Just tell them the truth and
they'll never believe you. Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh yeah, Holly Hansen the Texan News. Check out her work,
follow her on Twitter. Jimmy Carter seems to be having
a much better year than Joe Biden, which is weird
because he's on his deathbed. But he just became the
oldest Grammy nominee at the age of one hundred. Congratulations
to Jimmy Carter, the oldest Grammy Grammy nominee ever.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
That's that's pretty old, although Keith Richards still holds the
record is the oldest.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Looking Grammy nominee. Oh that reminds me, Hollywood News.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what?
Or what?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Breitbart dot Com Today report it's George Clooney. George Clooney
is going to step back from politics after this whole
thing with Joe Biden. He got Joe Biden to drop out.
Apparently he played a pivotal role in it. George Clooney
was very important here. But now a report just published
late last night says George Clooney feels he is being
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used as a scapegoat in the furious blame game over
who could have cost Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris a victory
that's hilarious, The report says, Clony Clooney, Clony, sorry, I
had a late night, guys. Clooney quote threw his support
behind Harris after penning a blistering up at on why
Joe Biden would cost the Democrats to win if he
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didn't abandon the campaign, but it still wasn't enough to
prevent a historic victory for Donald Trump. Clooney has since
been criticized by Democrats for his influence during the election,
with some claiming Harris's loss was his fault.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Hang on a second, hang on.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Guys, ha ha ha.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Ah, you gotta love it. We know Democrats are blindly
lashing out because this makes no sense. Let's take these
one by one here, guys. Do they believe Clooney's op
ed calling for Biden to drop out caused the Democrats
to lose the presidency because Biden could have won? Do
they really think Biden could have won? Over the weekend,
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we watched sand kick Joe Biden's ass. No, really, that's
a thing this weekend, did you guys, did you guys
see that Biden battling the sand at his beach house
in Delaware. There's a video of him trying to walk
across the beach and he's having a real hard time. Now,
there's nothing unique about the sand on the beach that
he's trying that he's stumbling to walk on. Doctor Joe
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Biden is walking right next to him on the beach.
She's having no trouble at all, one foot in front
of the other. Step step step, step step. But in
the video you see Joe Biden really struggling to walk.
You think a guy that can't walk on the beach
on an average day with nice weather somehow qualified to
beat Donald Trump at a presidency Do they believe in
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earlier endorsement from Clooney would have affected the election outcome?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's just dumb. The only thing you.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Could blame Clooney for is what all elite Democrats can
be blamed for, and that's covering up for Biden's mental
and physical deterioration until the cover up imploded during that
presidential debate. Okay, so he wrote an op ad what
was it in USA Today? And Clooney admitted he knew
Biden wasn't up to the job. Weeks earlier during a
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glitzy Hollywood fundraiser. Why didn't he say something sooner? Everyone
knew Biden wasn't up to running again long before that
op ed. Hell, I he wasn't up to running in
twenty nineteen. Do you remember he ran a shadow campaign
with Barack Obama in the twenty twenty election. The guy
sat in his basement for months and did nothing. Everybody knew.
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We all knew we the people knew it. But instead
of something of saying something about it for the good
of the country, Democrats in the media tried to gaslight us,
told us he was sharp as attack, and then it
was too late. It's doubtful anyone could have defeated Trump
in a presidential year where the results of the Democrat
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agenda were undeniably catastrophic.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
There's no question a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Robust primary to choose Biden's replacement would have helped the
Democrat brand and better prepared the nominee to sharpen his
or her message and handle media interviews. I'm not sure
it would have helped Kamala. She had one hundred and
seven days to campaign. She never got better, she never improved,
she certainly never won a primary. Whatever regardless, let's not
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allow ourselves to get caught up in the Democrat blame game.
It wasn't messaging, it wasn't timing that drove a majority
of Americans to drump. It was one single thing policy.
Open borders not very popular. Emptying out the jails so
criminals all over the country could run free in previously
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peaceful and safe neighborhoods not a popular idea. Allowing multiple
wars to begin all over the planet not a popular idea.
Record inflation not a popular idea. I could go on.
What would be the point? Biden gave the far left
everything they ever wanted. He campaigned as a moderate. Remember
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in twenty twenty he bragged, I'm not Bernie Sanders. I'm
a moderate, he told us. And then after taking office
January sixth, kind of emboldened the liberals and the progressives.
The so called progressives didn't it. January sixth, I think
was their excuse to go as far to the left
as they wanted. And they did get to go as
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far to the left as they wanted. The problem is elections,
they happen again. You don't You don't just have to
win once. You got to keep coming back every two
to six years and win another election, and people will remember.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Your bad policies, your bad decision making. Biden gave the
far left all their wishes.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Didn't end well for our economy, for our city, for
the world, and certainly not for our children. And that's
why Joe Biden won. Sorry, guys, you can blame George
Clooney if you want, and I get it. I think
he sucks too, but it's not his fault.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income. Yeah, that Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Veterans Day is not Memorial Day. There's a difference, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Memorial Day we remember those who have fell fallen, those
who are gone. Veterans Day is a day to remember
those who served but could potentially still be here are
those who are still serving. As a matter of fact,
a Memorial Day comes from Civil war Civil War commemorations
specifically honoring those who died while in military service. Veterans'
Day started his Armistice Day. It was a day to
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remember those who served in World War One. And I
know you know this. I know everybody, But I just
feel like as a good reminder, it's very appropriate time
to point out why we're here, where we came from,
where we're going. Yesterday, for the Marine Corps Birthday, many
of you joined us at the Badass You're Not Brewing
Company here in Houston, Texas, as we enjoyed a very
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hilarious group of right leaning, somewhat conservative, I don't know
if that's the right word, patriotic comedians loving their country.
A lot of MAGA supporters out in the audience last night,
and we raised a healthy chunk of change for our
friends at Wheelchairs for Warriors. It was just a bunch
of average folks hanging out, drink of beer, listening to
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funny local comedians cracking jokes. And the woman that helped
us organize the whole thing was Crystal from Wheelchairs for Warriors.
Of course, my buddy Jesse Payton was there, had great
comics and I'm curious how last night went. I know
we all had fun, right The night ended with me
doing pushups on stage while people threw money at me
so we could try to get some cash for funding
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for wheelchairs for disabled military veterans on the line right now,
Crystal from Wheelchairs for Warriors, Crystal, did you have a
good time last night?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Everybody except what the two or four people who left
early had a good time.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
A couple of people stumbled into the comedy show that
weren't supposed to be there.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Is that what happened?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I think so most.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
People didn't even notice them, but we noticed them, you know,
because we were keeping track of everybody that was coming
and going from the venue. There were a couple of
people that stumbled in who were COMMALSS supporters, and I
don't think that they enjoyed what was referred to as
a mega comedy show last night.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Oh my gosh, it was so much fun. I had
a blast. And to your credit, people weren't just throwing
dollar bills at you. They were throwing one hundred dollar
bills at you. I mean, that was quite impressive.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I'm really glad I was able to do twenty push
ups that would have been embarrassing if I couldn't do it.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Crystal, you did a fantastic job. I don't know if
you noticed, but I turned around and pretended like I
was gonna sit on your back, and everybody kind of chuckled,
and they were like do it, and I was like, no,
I'll break his back.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh I would have failed. No, you don't weigh that
much though. I would have been fine. But I will admit,
when you're drunk and you start doing push ups while
hundreds of people are watching, it's a little harder than
it normally would be to do pushups, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
What I mean? That's right?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (31:37):
So you did good, kid, You did good.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
One person gave a thousand bucks to watch me do that,
and so he was very well, what was his name,
do we remember?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Uh? Travisentry.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Travisentry actually gave more than just one thousand dollars, didn't they.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Yes, they did. They actually wanted to fund an entire wheelchair,
and the average cost of a wheelchair about ten to
twelve grand, and they are sending a big fat check.
So they donated eleven thousand dollars last night, and.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Did that just about double the amount of money we'd
earned for the evening.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yes, so I think we're really close to about twenty
twenty thousand dollars for the entire evening for ticket sales
and for straight out donations. And also, let me just say,
how long ago did you do the first comedy show
for Wheelchairs for Warriors. You did the comedy shows previously,
you did comic Relief, and then you wanted to turn
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it into a fundraiser for Wheelchairs for Warriors, and then
we've just kept on doing it and it was huge
last night, like it was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Well, it was the first year that you guys partnered
with us. What year was that?
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Four years ago or five together? A time? We've been
dating a long time.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
It had to be longer ago than that. That doesn't
that four years. It had to be longer than four
year years ago.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Maybe that's crazy. And then Jesse Peyton got involved in
like boom, like oh, we're all in.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, we've been doing it for a long long time.
And yeah, Operation Comedy Therapy, which is sort of the
unofficial name of this event, has existed. Man, let's see,
I don't know exactly what year it was. I'm looking
through my Maybe you're right, maybe it was. I thought
it was longer than four years.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Was it few?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
You had been doing it previously, so then we've been
doing it with you since we started.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
With twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
I want to say, Wow, that's a long time.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, that's what I think it was.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Huge. We almost were probably we were really close to
being sold out last night again and it was the
biggest venue yet.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I think we actually did sell out, but the room
didn't fill up. And here's what I mean by that.
We had two hundred and forty RSVPs. We had about
two We had about two hundred seats, So I had
some anxiety early on in the night.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
But then but then again, the good news is I mean,
you know, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Not everybody that bought a ticket or RSVP'd ended up
showing up, so ultimately, which is you know, which is fine,
because that just meant we had enough chairs, so that
was good for us.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yeah, it was fantastic. I got the highest compliment last
night from the bartender. Stephen Christine said, if you want
something to drink, you can put it on our tab
and I said, okay. So I went up to the
bar to get a water, of course, and I told
the bartender, you could put this on Stephen Christine's tab
and he goes, well, Jesse opened up a tap for
the comics, I can put it on that and I went, dude,
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I'm not one of the comics. He said, well, that
was a really great set for somebody not being a comic.
I was like, oh, I just so appreciate Jesse trusting
me enough to let to let me give a little
bit of my.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, we had mostly professional comedians last night except a
couple of except except a couple of opening acts. That
was you and our buddy James Parker, is a rate
personality up in Dallas, and both of.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
You, guys.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I think everybody crushed it, but you. You were just
fantastic last night. We loved having.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
You and it was so much fun. I was geeking
out the whole time of all the celebrities that were
there that had been on drive bar comedy ESPN Jesse
to all the guys, and it was so good.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, it wasn't just comedians. It was some of the
top comedians from around the city and the state. And yeah,
what a great honor. It was so all right. So
we raised twenty thousand dollars, so I guess you guys
don't need money anymore.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Crystal.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Well, actually that paid for a couple of wheelchairs. And
we have thirty one veterans on our list and first responders,
so we have If you do the math, you know,
it's close to four hundred thousand dollars deficit in our
bank account right now. But we did just have a
golf tournament that raised thirty thousand dollars. Comedy show raised
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close to twenty, So we're getting there.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Okay, that's an important point to make.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
There is that, But there's still a lot of disabled
military veterans out there who need a mobility solution so
that they could still enjoy their life or at least
just you know, having as close to normal as we
could imagine at this point. I don't know I was
gonna head you guys have events coming up. I think
your next event is actually a golf tournament in January
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in Florida, And I have no idea if I can
get people to go to Daytona Beach in mid January,
but I know that right now there's probably a handful
of people listening. They could go to Wheelchairs for Warriors
dot org and make a donation before the taxiar ends,
and of course they get a write off for that.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
And I don't know if anybody is cognizant of the
fact that it's been a tough four years, and when
it's tough on you and your business and your personal finances,
think about what it's like for the veterans and first responders,
because for some reason, even though the Feds are still
taking the same amount of money from us, they're not
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dishing it out as liberally as they were, you know,
four years ago, and as liberally as they will be
in the future. So even though the number of recipients
who need our services doubled, the amount of money that
came into our organization did not double. And that has
been it's been the first time in the eight years
we've been in existence that we've really been tweating sweating this,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I'm so glad you pointed that out.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Obviously, Wheelchairs for Warriors dot org would benefit from your donations,
which your tax deductible. It's a five oh one C
three charity. But a couple other points I want to
make for those of you that are also feeling a
little tight in the pocketbook right now, we get it.
Maybe maybe you could volunteer go to Wheelchairs for Warriors
dot org. See if you could volunteer some time to
help them out with organizing events, doing leg work for them.
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And you know, one more little tiny thing I think
people could do, not for nothing here, but it's the
easiest thing.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Follow them on social media.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
If your friends and family members see you following this
group on social media, that helps create attention for them,
and it shows people that this is a charity that's
worth our time. It might not be a big deal
to you clicking the follow button on a Twitter account
for Wheelchairs for Warriors, but if enough people do it
and they get a bigger following on social media, can
help them spread the word and get more people find
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find more people out there who can donate some money.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Right share the mission. It's a word because.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Man, Kristal, you are a saint and I'm grateful to
have you as a friend and you are a saint.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Well start No, I'm kidding, Crystal, You're awesome. Wheelchairs for
Warrior dot org is the website. It's Veterans Day. If
you could do just one thing today on Veterans Day,
let it be this, go to Wheelchairs for Warriors dot org.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
A little goes a long way.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Five ten, twenty one hundred bucks is nice, A thousands
even better if you can afford it again, you can
write it all off. If you run a business and
you have a surplus this quarter or at the end
of the year, consider Wheelchairs for Warriors. Dot org is
a place where you make your donations. I'm Kenny Webster.
I love you all. I'm so grateful to have you
as a listener to this radio show. I pray for
you and your health and your family and your prosperity,
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and I hope you'll be back bright and early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Have a great day, and have a good Veterans Day.
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