May 22, 2026 • 38 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens and GOP strategist Don Hooper. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Interesting news from the world of technology AI dolls Artificial
intelligence dolls are being used to offer companionship to the elderly.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I can't believe AI is taking jobs away from Fox
News hosts.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hi, everybody, I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today's show is going to be about Hollywood and the
Supreme Court and the Texas runoffs and a lot more
special guests. Stopping by Don Hooper, he's running for Harris
County Republican Party chairman, and Brandon Waltons will be here
from Texas scorecard dot Com. But before we get into
any of that, let's start off with this. The Supreme
Court tried to Saya donor privacy Washington were the only
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thing more predictable than a politician flipping positions faster than
a Vegas hooker on double overtime? Is a federal bureaucracy
treating the Constitution like that? Terms and conditions pop up
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Speaker 3 (01:22):
I know that was a little convoluted, wasn't it. Look,
here's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The Supreme Court, in a moment of rare clarity that
probably had the founding fathers high fiving in the afterlife,
basically said, hey, forcing nonprofits to cop up their their
donors' names is like handing the government a loaded pistol
pointed at the First Amendment. It chills speech, invites harassment,
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and turns political participation into a game of docks or
b docs. But the IRS didn't get the memo. They
took that memo, shredded it, turned the shreds into paper
mache middle fingers, and waved it's proudly while filing another
court brief demanding more names. It's like if your spouse
tells you the house is on fire and you reply,
(02:09):
cool story, honey, Now hand over the credit card statements. Classic, IRS.
Let's rewind this bureaucratic clown car for a second. Here's
what happened. For years, the IRS has been playing foot
see with donor disclosure rules that would make even the
most enthusiastic Stasi agent blush. Nonprofits are those plucky little
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engines of civil society that do everything from feeding the
homeless to suing the government for overreach, Well they had
to start spilling donor beans like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.
Transparency's good, sure, sunlight disinfectant, all that jazz, but in reality,
a velvet gloved extortion racket was taking place, involving the
government hand over your list so we can check for compliance.
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Wink wink, the kind of compliance where your average left
wing as activist group gets a gentle pat on the head,
while conservative outlets find themselves audited faster than you can
say targeted scrutiny under Lois Learner remember her. The Supreme
Court looked at this mess and they said no sorry.
In decisions that echoed through the ages like a particularly
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satisfying constitutional burp, they reminded everyone that anonymous speech isn't
some shady loophole. It's baked in the American DNA, from
the federalist papers written under pseudonyms. To those brave souls
funding causes without wanting their tire slash by the local
Chapter of Tolerance Enforcers Incorporated, Privacy protects the little guy.
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It's good without it. The only people donating are either
billionaires with private security or massachists who enjoy protesters camping
out on their lawn.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'm neither of those things.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to make
a donation to a nonprofit group without the government getting
heavily involved. Well, as it turns out, the IRS does
agree with me. Bless their power hungry little hearts. They
operate on the bureaucratic version of that old pirate code,
take what you can, give nothing back. They're in court
right now, arguing with a straight face that they're special,
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that the rules the Supremes laid down for everyone else
don't apply to their sacred quest for whatever it is
they do. Besides losing hard drives and pretending somehow millions
of records vanished, Remember that this is peak government logic,
like the DMV demanding you fill out Form forty seven
B in triplicate while the building burns down around them,
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or the TSA making you remove your shoes but somehow
missing the guy with the bomb in his underwear whose
name is Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed ikbar Machmud Mohammed. Selective competence, baby,
that's what they do with the government. They couldn't organize
a two car parade, but they can sure as hell
organize a donor fishing expedition with the enthusiasm of a
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golden retriever spotting a tennis ball. Imagine this if you will.
America is like a giant bar where free speech is
the beer flowing freely. The Supreme Court in this context
is the wise old bartender saying, hey, look, if you
force everyone to wear name tags with their home addresses,
fights are going to break out. And the irs is
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that one guy in the corner who's already three seats
to the wind yelling. But what if we need to
know who's buying the round so we could tax their
tips retroactively? And don't get me started on the select
of amnesia. These are the same folks who, during certain administrations,
certain administrations, couldn't find their own scandals with both hands
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in a GPS. Yet suddenly their layers are focused on
whether that small profit opposing, say, endless regulations or teaching
kids' actual history might have received a five hundred dollars
check from someone who doesn't want their business boycotted into oblivion.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
In a country founded.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
By people who dumped tea into a harbor rather than
fund a government they didn't like without representation. We've somehow
arrived at a point where the tax man wants to
know exactly who's funding the resistance to more taxes. It's
like the fox demanding the combination to the Henhouse safe
for you know, auditing purposes. Conservatives have been screaming about
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this for years. Government weaponization isn't a conspiracy theory when
the bureaucrats keep proving it in real time. The left
loves to clutch pearls about quote unquote dark money when
it's funding the wrong causes. But somehow, when Soros ink
is flooding the zone, it's just philanthropy. Funny how that works.
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One side's a threat to democracy and the other sides
just engaging in essential civil engagement. Past the popcorn in
the donor list. Apparently the real scandal isn't just the
IRS ignoring the Court. We tolerate an agency with the
power to ruin lives that treats constitutional guardrails like suggestions
from a fortune cookie. The Supreme Court gave the IRS
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a clear message about donor privacy. The IRS replied, the
only way it knows how by auditing the Constitution for
unreported income. America deserves better than this endless game of
bureaucratic whack a mole, where every time the court smacks
down overreach, another form pops up, demanding more of your information,
more of your money, and more of your dignity. Maybe
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one day we'll get an IRS that focuses on collecting
taxes instead of collecting enemies lists. Until then, keep your receipts,
your principles, and your donors' lists as private as possible,
because in this town, Washington, DC, the only thing more
dangerous than speaking freely is letting the wrong people know
you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Stick around.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Brandon Walton's coming up in just a little bit, and
Don Hooper's going to be here.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive.
In listening to Kinny Webster on KPRC nine point fifty plus,
you don't smell like a dead person, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Multiple wildfires have prompted evacuation warnings for more than seventeen
thousand people in South California. Now hopefully the fires will
take out some of their extra gubernatorial candidates. That's an
I'm on that's not funny. You don't laugh at that?
Brandon Waltons? How dare you?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I would never?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
How you dare you laugh at their misfortune?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Brandon Waltons is in the studio right now from Texas Scorecard.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And who else is here?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Is that Don Hooper Cindy Siegel's Worst Nightmare in the
studio as well. We are on the radio right now,
but we are also live streaming on social media. People
would like to join the conversation, you can, but I
wouldn't recommend it, but you can if you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Let's start off with this, gentlemen. Have you guys early
voted yet?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Of course I voted Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I always try to vote. I like to early vote,
but I always do it the day or two later.
Not as many things on the ballot as there were
a couple months ago. There have been a lot of
elections lately, especially here in Houston and Harris County. Any
why don't we start off with this, guys. John Cornyn
is being asked to stop negative attack ads on Paxton.
(09:22):
It's pretty obvious Cornin's probably not gonna win. I just
don't feel like the cards are in his hand at
this moment. Which means whatever he's doing to Paxton right now,
the left is going to use against the Republican Party
for the next several months. I think that's what Cornyn wants.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, and that's essentially what Abraham George, Right, the chairman
of the Republican Party of Texas, said yesterday. He said,
you know, look, we're going to be entering a competitive
race against James cal Rico. There's gonna be a lot
of a lot of money spent by the left coming
in to try to turn Texas blue and to try
to get that Senate seat in November. And he called
on both campaigns, right, both Paxton and Corny's campaigns, to
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in these final days, to stop the negative ads, to
stop giving ammo to that. And to their credit, the
Paxton campaign came out and said, look, we're we're already
changing his pro Paxston pack yesterday put out an ad
that focuses squarely on James Tallerico, who they're calling low
T tall Ico, and that ad there. Cornyn, however, said
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no that you know, a judgment day is going to
be coming for Ken Paxton, and we're gonna we're gonna
keep up this this negative advertising, which I think is
really illustrative of of where the campaign is right now.
I mean, it's absolutely flailing. He canceled his appearances his
his campaign rallies. On Wednesday, yesterday, he was hosting a
quote unquote rally that if you google try to find
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some way to go to it. You know, there's nothing
posted online. He posted pictures. It's I don't know if
we have the pictures on his Twitter, but they were
sitting around like a boardroom table. It looked like the
lamest political quote unquote rally I've ever seen. Uh, and
you know this is this is this. This is sad.
On one hand, you know, you can criticize John corn
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for his record, a lot of people do, certainly, but
there is even regardless of how you feel about it,
it's sad to see somebody who's been there for four terms,
who's been you know, this senior senator here end his
political career in this sad way.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, it is a very sad way to watch him go.
Don Hooper, what do you think has done more damage
to Cornyn here at the end of his career? The
gun control thing from twenty twenty two, him and Tony Gonzalez,
how Biden passed a red flag funding while around the country,
or Matt Venmo mkoyak following pornbots with Cornyan's Twitter account.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Your answer when he was booed at the state convention.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Sure, but that was because of the gun rights thing. Yeah,
red flag laws.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, it's that in a whole host of other things.
But I think it was the beginning of the end
of that of this particular campaign. But you have to
think about it. The entire apparatic and political consulting class
had anticiated that if you spend one hundred and fifty
million dollars against Ken Paxton, Cornyn was going to win.
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And that didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
One hundred and fifty Most people think it's one hundred million.
We're in a one hundred and fifty million now, Well,
when you count the packs, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Now, it is. It's absolutely crazy studying.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Actually, Okay, So Ken Paxton passionately goes out and files
lawsuits against big corporations that piss off middle Americans in Texas.
John Cornyn passionately goes out and votes yes on foreign
aid bills. Brennan, I mean, at what point does this
kind of republicanism end?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Is this the end of it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This year, Tony Gonzalez is out, Crenshaw's out.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We're saying goodbye.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I mean, it could be the end of a Chip
Roy after this election, Bill Cassidy no more.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I think Cornin is about to say goodbye to politics.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Tony Buzzby, the famous lawyer who was representing, of course,
Ken Paxton during the impeachment trial a couple of years back,
said pretty famously now that the Bush era in Texas
polics is over, and he said that a few years ago,
but it really does look like that is coming to fruition.
I mean, look at all these people that are gone.
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You Ken Paxton himself. People forget this, but just just
four years ago beat George P. Bush, an actual Bush
right and it was not even particularly close in that
run off. It was like two to one. And so
you keep seeing this rejection of the Bush political machine
that is still here in Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
There are still some hangers on, you know, Karl Rove
is still getting involved in some campaigns and certainly you
see him on Fox News and the rest of it.
But a lot of those those remaining vestiges are on
their way out, which is certainly hopeful. And is a
good sign that hopefully that is being eradicated in a
big way this cycle.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
All right, So Rick Perry just wrote a book about
how taking psychedelic mushrooms will help you get closer to God.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Morgan Latrella had something to do with the book, not,
you know.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
On a side note here, if psychedelic mushroom helps cure
PTSD seems to be working a lot better than alcohol
and suicide. But okay, he took a break from that
yesterday to write this tweet where he attacks Ken Paxton
for what I would describe as being a very misleading
news story Texas Tribune reports inside the child sex abuse
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case that resulted in Ken Paxton's office offering a plea
deal of just one day in jail. Now that I
think it came out to sixty days in jail in
the end, if I'm not mistaken. I date a woman
who prosecutes and investigates child molesters for a living, and
one of the things that she tells me is it's
almost impossible to get a conviction without a witness, and
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the witness is almost always the victim if the victim
doesn't want to testify, which is what happened in this case.
You don't really have a case here. There was a mistrial,
there was a hung jury. These are just facts. This
is not my opinion. And the mother of the victim said,
my son doesn't want to testify again. Often is the
case that in these kinds of trials, the the victim
feels like they're on trial because the defense attorneys picking
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apart their story, blame the victim. You know, why were
you dressed a certain way? You know, why were you
there at this time? We all hear these questions from
defense attorneys and rape cases. Along comes Rick Perry. Ken
Paxton initially offered a plea deal. He's explaining the case.
He's not even explaining it right in this tweet. Is
Rick Perry taking too much mescal in and LSD? Your answer,
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Brandon Walton's, well, I don't know what the former governor's doing.
But what is clear is that John Cordon and his
campaign surrogates to include Rick Perry. But you've also seen
people like State Representative Jeff Leach, some other lawmakers that
have been out there talking a lot about this issue
over the last couple of weeks. What is frustrating is
that anybody who knows. And look, this is obviously I
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think people see this and they think, wow, a child
molester got sixty days. That's terrible, because I think that's
a terrible outcome. Nobody would say that's a fair or
good outcome. But to completely ignore the context of it,
like you put in here, Kenny, that it's impossible, it's
almost impossible to get these that there had already been
a trial on this and he didn't want to testify again,
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all of these facts that put it in context. These
are people that are ignoring it, and they're ignoring it
because they're trying to hurt the Attorney General, right, I mean,
that's obviously what this is about. It's very politically expedient
for them. And it's just unfortunate to see an issue
like protecting children, something that I think most everybody should
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should care about and take seriously, to see it being
used as a political weapon like this, and especially in
the last days of a flailing campaign like John Cornyn's,
is you know, I keep saying it.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
It's sad.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, it's sick and disgusting to me that they're exploiting
a child rape victim to see if they could make
an eleventh hour switch and it's not going to work.
But all that being said, Don Hooper, no matter what
happens here, we lose the best Attorney General Texas has
had in the twenty first century. Let you get the
last thought here before we go to break.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Well, seven to five guilty. The five not guilties were
strong not guilties in that particular case. There were lots
of problems with the case. But the one thing that
hasn't been said is that the two people that tried
the case were Democrats. How about that that worked in
Ken Paxton's office.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And that's Ken Paxtig's fault.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's Ken Paxton's fault that these Democrats didn't work harder
to get a.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Conviction for this kid. We're gonna go to break.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We'll be right back more with Brandon Waltins from Texas
scorecard dot Com and a candidate I proudly endorsed Don
Hooper for Chairman of Harris County Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its slime behind. You're listening to Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Oh this is really sad, well or interesting, depending on
how you look at it. Netflix has released a science
fiction show set in a retirement community.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's a TV show called The Story of Bill Cassidy
and John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Would you watch it? Don Hooper? No, No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't. Take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Don Hooper is running for office right now against a
woman named Cindy Siegel. Brandon Walton's also in the building
right now. Texas Scorecard. Grateful to have both of you
guys here. Houston is really its own machine, Brandon, wouldn't
you agree? I mean, in the state of Texas, there's Dallas,
and in the state wide stuff in the Panhandle, Harris
County might as well.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It's the size of Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
It's it's certainly its own thing. And when I speak
to people in different parts of the state, even small places,
I always tell them that, look, we talk sometimes about
what's happening in Harris County and Houston and all that.
And it's easy for people who live in Midland or
the Panhandle or wherever to tune out, but they do
so at their own peril, because what happens in Harris
County affects the entire state. Right if Democrats, for example,
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turn Texas blue, it's going to be through big counties like,
of course, the state's largest county, Harris County. And so
it's important, and it's especially important is leadership at the
local level, right, and so county judge, county commissioner, all
of that, party chair and party chair, certain party chair
as well. Right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, for those that don't know, if you're not from
Harris County, what happens here affects the rest of the state.
The woman in charge of our local Republican party right now,
she's a nice lady. I find Cindy to be a
sweet woman. I don't think she ever remembers meeting me,
and I've defended her on this radio I interviewed her
on this radio show after she got mugged ones. She
called me back a few months later and said, Hi,
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you probably don't know me. My name's Cindy. I got
your phone number from someone. It's like, what are you,
Joe Biden. It was a very awkward and uncomfortable moment. Anyway,
Critics view her as being too aligned with the old
school Republicans. Senator Paul Bettencourt, for example, the John Cornins
of our state she's done nothing to help flip Harris
County back to being read. Many people have suggested she's
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not been forceful enough on election integrity. She wasn't much
help with Alex Mieler a couple of years ago. A
few years ago when we should have won the Harris
County judge race. I think we all remember what happened.
There no connection with the grassroots. I'm not really sure
what she does. She's tried this strategy of losing all
the local elections.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Don could we try the opposite for a change.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
We're definitely going to try the opposite. And the thing
about it is out on the campaign trail with her,
it's always interesting to talk about the twenty twenty four race,
and there were fourteen or twelve fourteen Republican judges on
the Democrat side that went unopposed, and you have to
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think about that, Well, what was happening in twenty twenty four.
What was happening in twenty twenty four was that that
Nicki Hayley was telling everybody to wait until she got
to Texas and all the Democrats were going to cross
over and vote for her, and that will be and
then she would be our nominee because Donald Trump was
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going to drag her down and drag down the ticket,
and Donald Trump is unelectable and all of those things. Well,
my opponent is very much part of the Nicky Haley
wing of our party. And it makes it very difficult
to recruit judges when you're telling people that, and that
is the reason why we didn't have a munch of
judges in the twenty twenty four cycle. But you know,
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I support the president. I've always supported the President's agenda
and the powers that be. I mean, we live where
George Bush lived, and it is definitely an establishment county.
But I will say, and I say it out on
the campaign trail, Harris County at one point was responsible
for thirty percent of all the Republican votes in Texas.
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So you got to think about that. Sure, thirty percent
of all the votes came from Harris County. We're now
closer to twenty percent, which means the smaller counties have
to vote eighty six percent to keep Texas red. And
we have just disenfranchised conservative voters. And when you see
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the president running in Harris County, he wins things like
the east side of Harris County, the Hispanic side, Leslie
Brionez's County Commissioner's Court district, and Donald Trump doesn't spend
a dime. Could you imagine what would happen if we
actually campaigned as conservatives in Harris County. We might win
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an election.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Abbot and Trump's sure do love to come here to fundraise,
but I don't see them spending a lot of money here. Sadly, Brandon,
you do politics all over the state, you guys Texas scorecard,
I think a leading voice in conservative political media, not
just in the state, but in the country certainly in
the state. You look around at the different party chairs,
both French outgoing now from Arrant County. You see what
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Cindy Siegel is doing. Of the big communities here, do
you see anyone doing a good job?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Well, I think you look at these big counties, especially
it's challenging now, you know Dallas County. I think you
could look at and say, well, they just had their
own challenge where they had Alan West resigned sort of
abruptly after the primary election, and now they've got a
new chair in there as they're heading into these and
have these runoffs right now, and so certainly, other other
counties certainly have their challenges, but you know, to speak
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more broadly, I mean the challenge for any county chair
in these big parties, right is getting those Republican voters
to turn out. I mean, that's what we've that's the
issue we've seen over these special elections and so some
of what we've seen even during the primaries and as
we head into November, that's going to be a major
task for these big counties is bringing these people out.
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Turnouts obviously important, but when you have big counties like
Harris County, right, that can decide the race. If voters
in Harris County don't feel motivated, Republican voters I'm talking about,
don't feel motivated by the party to go out and
vote in November, it doesn't matter if people in Amarillo
or wherever to go vote out because of just the
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sheer numbers that we have here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, you see guys like Avid come to town fundraising
hundreds of millions of dollars around the state, but getting
a lot of it from right here in our own backyard.
Dan Patrick has gotten a lot from Harris County political donors.
You think he'd smile more, Don Hooper.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Well, Harris County is important. Well, first of all, you
can't get elected to statewide office without winning Harris County.
So if you're governor, lieutenant governor comtroll or whatever, you
have to win Harris County. And you can't win the
presidency without winning Texas, which means you better win Harris
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County and you better win Texas if you're going to
be the president of the United States. Harris County is
very important. By the way, Harris County is the largest
Republican county in the country.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Hard to believe.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Well, we have more Republican voters here.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Sure, but it's like saying there's eight million Republicans in California.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
It's all right, but the kind of outnumbered, you know, right,
Well we ever get it back.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well, yeah, and actually if the people with Republican voting
histories over fifty percent of them don't vote, but they
do come out and vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Okay, yeah, let's talk about this before we go. Obviously
I want people to vote for Don. I think he's
a great guy. Another friend of the show, Mary Tailey Bowden,
a fantastic woman.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Mary's a beautiful person. Is calling attention today to the
fact that Doc Pete Chambers is getting sued by Colony Ridge.
Doc Pea Chambers did about ten percent of the vote
in the gubernatorial primary, better than I think most people thought.
He and Alex Jones are both being sued by Colony Ridge.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I am no fan of Colony Ridge, but they made
this claim that Colony Ridge is supposedly owned by cartel groups.
Supposedly Colony Ridge sent a cease and desist, they took
the video down. They kept making the claim clips of
it exist in other places. Now they're being sued. Mary
has pointed out that the same lawyers represented Colony Ridge
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also represented the Texas Medical Board in a case against her.
She's suggesting that Greg Abbott is behind all of this. Now,
in my humble opinion, this lawsuit was avoidable. You took
the video down, kind of an admission of guilt. There
you're saying something you can't prove. That wasn't very smart.
All right, Fine, all that being said, these guys don't
really have anything to take from them. What are you
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going to take because double wide trailer, what is Alex
Jones have left?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Is Abbot behind this? What do you think Brandon, you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I think it's important to remember that with this Colony
Ridge issue, for you know, in specific, you had just
earlier this year because the Attorney General as well as
the Department of Justice federal we're going after Colony Ridge
in part for attracting and literally marketing themselves to illegal
aliens to move in that they could get home loans,
that there'd be no problem, there'd be no.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Pre predatory line.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
That was the in predatory loans, and that's why the
Biden DOJ that was essentially the motivator behind them, was
that these were predatory huge rates. That was the accusation
against Colin Ridge. I had not personally over the last
couple of years going through this, I have not heard
or reported on anything like like you're talking about with
the cartels running the neighborhood, anything like that. There was
(27:11):
a settlement announced earlier this year where Colnie Ridge says
that they will now verify the ID and citizenship status
of or legal status of those that are buying in
the in the neighborhood and we'll see if that fixes
the problem. But that's that's the latest. That's kind of
the last we had heard out of Connie Ridge was
back in February. I think it was when the settlement
(27:33):
was announced, and then now you have this, Uh well
that was lasses.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Yeah, that was the state settlement. So the state settlement
I think required a sixty five million dollar fine and
they and I think they've suspended home or lot sales
for two years I remember correctly, And.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Oh dang, so I'm too late. I can't get one. Well.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Part of the criticism too, is that they were just
putting in this, you know, massive amount of people and
the neighbors essentially were having a problem because they didn't
have the infrastructure for you as well.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, sure, hey, we got it.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Run.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I know you got it. Run Brandon. You're in Houston
right now. But I want people to follow you on
social media. Brandon Waltons. I check his page at least
once a day. We're on radio stations all over the South.
But I think about a third of my affiliates or
in Texas. I can't do my job without information from
texascorecard dot com. I love these guys. Please follow my buddy.
Brandon Walton's on X. Don Hooper has an event tomorrow.
(28:28):
If I'm not mistaken with Scott Presler, you guys are
going to be at the Kirby Ice House ten fifteen
guestner from eleven to one pm, last ditch voting effort.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Not a lot of people show up on a.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Tuesday after Memorial Day on election day, but hopefully people will.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Brandon, you think anybody comes out and votes.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I think I think people who do vote should know
that their vote is going to count even more on
this runoff than it did in the primary.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Such a good point.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That is such a good point, Brandon Waltons Don Hooper
closing point.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
H Yeah, come out. If you haven't met Scott Prestler,
which I hadn't seen him in a long time, and
I told him the story that I was helping somebody
that had been an elected party chair briefly and I
was cleaning out a desk at party headquarters and found
his ID from the desk and.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Did you use it to register to vote? Yeah, well
I made a mistake. Done well.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
I told him about it. He goes, I lost that
in twenty fifteen. I said, I found it in twenty
twenty and it was still in the desk.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
It was still there.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's how little they're spending going through there were That's
how little work they do at the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
We're gonna run.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for tuning in this afternoon.
Stick around, Don and Brandon are going to run. But
if you're listening to us on the radio, more Pursuit
of Happiness radio on the way, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Screw you.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
Pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
People keep talking about how bad the enemy's doing, but
it's not all terrible. Trader Joe's just announced they plan
to open at least twenty five new locations this year,
and those twenty five new locations will come with a
grand total of fifteen parking spaces. That'll be great, very exciting,
and then you can get your pumpkin cookies and your
mango laundry detergent. Hey, before we get out of here
(30:20):
this afternoon, can we just talk about God for a minute.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I know it's Memorial Day weekend. You got a lot
to be grateful for.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
People always get weird about saying happy Memorial Day or
somber Memorial day. I gotta think the men and women
who died on the beaches in Normandy wouldn't be mad
if you were happy this weekend while you grow a
burger by the pool or watch baseball.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I bet they don't mind. It'll be okay, but they
do want you to remember God. I'm not a big
fan of Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House in Washington, DC,
but when he's right, he's right.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Listen to this very awkward exchange that happened on MSNBC
yesterday where they just suddenly remembered during ged level banter
that you might hear in an inner city bus stop
that Christianity, the most popular religion in the world, generally,
is made up of people who seem to worship God,
(31:12):
not the government.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our
rights do not derive from government. They come from you,
our creator and heavenly Father. Is this him putting God
over the Declaration of Independence? Okay?
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Well, you know, I actually think that idea is not
wholly uncommon. I mean, the idea that we have certain
inalienable rights that come from God can be read in
a fairly benign way, which is basically that we have
innate human rights that our constitution and our government, our
democratic government, are meant to codify right. That idea is
(31:55):
not totally abnormal. I think that the thing that.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Guys this is a fifth grade level social studies question.
Where did the founding fathers get these ideas from about
free expression and the right to self defense? Well, it
turns out it was from God. It was from the Bible.
It's couldn't be the first time these people in MSNBC have.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Heard this, Could it? Could it? Well? Could it?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
If you're shocked to learn that people on the left
hate Christianity and hate God, hold on tight. It's about
to get a lot weirder. Do you guys remember this?
You remember this noise?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I asked, have got a speeding bullet.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
More powerful than to look about him?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You know it's going to happen up in the sky.
It's a bird and feminism. Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Brightbart dot com today reporting that the public relations genius
and Supergirl star Milli Alcock has decided alienating and insulting
and antagonizing the mostly male superhero fan base is the
way to go. If you don't know who Milly Alcock is,
you'd probably know where if you saar. She's a cute, petite,
(33:17):
little blonde who has no lips. Does that sound from me?
If you saw a photo, you'd probably recognize her. She
just went full Rachel Zegler. For those that haven't heard,
back in March, this delicate, little entitled princess who's currently
starring in a major HBO show and will soon arrive
on four thousand screens as the title character in the
two hundred and fifty million dollars Supergirl actually played the victim.
(33:41):
She told Vanity Fair in an interview. She's playing a
female superhero and she's no stranger to dealing with intense fandoms,
having broke out as the young Rayarna Targarian. She was
on Game of Thrones House of Dragged. Do you remember
she was the star of the Game of Thrones prequel Anyway,
(34:01):
In this interview, she basically said she doesn't like Christian dads.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That was the gist of it.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
She said being on HBO's Game of Thrones made me
aware that simply existing as a woman in a space
is something that people comment on. Yeah, I think being
a man on that TV show is something that people
would comment on too. She said, I can only be myself.
I think that it might be part of the problem.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Ma'am.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Let's all bring out the violins for this twenty five
year old millionaire living a dream life. Worse still, she's
not only LARPing as a victim, but also as some
kind of trailblazer. Linda Carter would like a word, young lady,
and let's not overlook what she just did when she
flat outled this country's embraced female heroes and superheroes going
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back decades. There's been plenty of female stars before in
action roles. You're not the first person to do it.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
She said. She's worried this movie is gonna tank.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Because men don't want to watch super they don't want
to watch a woman play Supergirl, and there's going to
be backlash. There was no backlash against Wonder Woman fifty
years ago, no backlash against Ripley and Alien and Aliens
over forty years ago. Linda Hamilton, Pam Greer, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, all of them were loved and embraced and
are now iconic. Anyway, after starting this fight back in March,
(35:26):
Little mis entitled fake Trailblazer is now responding to the
criticism she desperately sought by ridiculing and I quote Christian dads.
She said, I guess women know that this is just
how it's always been, unfortunately, and it's from a lot
of those people whose profiles have no photo with burner
(35:47):
accounts on social media. Someone named dad for Christian, which
is hilarious to me. How could a Christian dad not
like Supergirl because the movie hasn't even come out yet.
Man alive. Look, it's not all her fault. She's pretty
young and was even younger when fame arrived a few
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years ago with HBO's House of Dragon. Fame morps you,
especially that age, and especially in a Hollywood that no
longer stops its young stars from imploding like this. Sure,
Mickey Rooney was an unholy terror in real life, but
his public persona was so expertly managed that he became
the biggest movie star in the.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
World for a few years.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
There's only one commodity that makes you a movie star,
and that's goodwill. Denzel Washington and Sandra Bullock are still
major draws, even in their old age. Why do you
think that is it's because we like them. They don't
crap on our religious beliefs, Sir macus because we're Dad's
afore if Supergirl flops and it's unsufferable, Star Sure seems
(36:52):
determined to make that happen. Hollywood's going to call us sexist,
aren't they. They're gonna say we're sexist, We're misogynistic because
we didn't want to watch a person star in a
film after she told us not to go see the film.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Shocking I know. I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
For those of you who haven't heard, we have a
comedy show coming up Friday, June twelfth. Please get some
tickets to it before it sells out. We've already sold
over one hundred ticket I think there's a couple dozen
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They're going quick Friday, June twelfth at the House of Blues.
It's called The Right Side of Comedy. Me Jesse Payton,
Alex Stein, Steve Johnson, some very special guests will be
(37:30):
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(37:51):
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rest of you. I love you all. I hope you
have an awesome Memorial Day weekend. We'll be back bright
and early after the weekend over for more of what
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Speaker 4 (38:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Interesting news from the world of technology AI dolls Artificial
intelligence dolls are being used to offer companionship to the elderly.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I can't believe AI is taking jobs away from Fox
News hosts.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hi, everybody, I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today's show is going to be about Hollywood and the
Supreme Court and the Texas runoffs and a lot more
special guests. Stopping by Don Hooper, he's running for Harris
County Republican Party chairman, and Brandon Waltons will be here
from Texas scorecard dot Com. But before we get into
any of that, let's start off with this. The Supreme
Court tried to Saya donor privacy Washington were the only
(01:05):
thing more predictable than a politician flipping positions faster than
a Vegas hooker on double overtime? Is a federal bureaucracy
treating the Constitution like that? Terms and conditions pop up
you click passed without reading when downloading the new update
to Apple iOS.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I know that was a little convoluted, wasn't it. Look,
here's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The Supreme Court, in a moment of rare clarity that
probably had the founding fathers high fiving in the afterlife,
basically said, hey, forcing nonprofits to cop up their their
donors' names is like handing the government a loaded pistol
pointed at the First Amendment. It chills speech, invites harassment,
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and turns political participation into a game of docks or
b docs. But the IRS didn't get the memo. They
took that memo, shredded it, turned the shreds into paper
mache middle fingers, and waved it's proudly while filing another
court brief demanding more names. It's like if your spouse
tells you the house is on fire and you reply,
(02:09):
cool story, honey, Now hand over the credit card statements. Classic, IRS.
Let's rewind this bureaucratic clown car for a second. Here's
what happened. For years, the IRS has been playing foot
see with donor disclosure rules that would make even the
most enthusiastic Stasi agent blush. Nonprofits are those plucky little
(02:31):
engines of civil society that do everything from feeding the
homeless to suing the government for overreach, Well they had
to start spilling donor beans like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.
Transparency's good, sure, sunlight disinfectant, all that jazz, but in reality,
a velvet gloved extortion racket was taking place, involving the
government hand over your list so we can check for compliance.
(02:56):
Wink wink, the kind of compliance where your average left
wing as activist group gets a gentle pat on the head,
while conservative outlets find themselves audited faster than you can
say targeted scrutiny under Lois Learner remember her. The Supreme
Court looked at this mess and they said no sorry.
In decisions that echoed through the ages like a particularly
(03:17):
satisfying constitutional burp, they reminded everyone that anonymous speech isn't
some shady loophole. It's baked in the American DNA, from
the federalist papers written under pseudonyms. To those brave souls
funding causes without wanting their tire slash by the local
Chapter of Tolerance Enforcers Incorporated, Privacy protects the little guy.
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It's good without it. The only people donating are either
billionaires with private security or massachists who enjoy protesters camping
out on their lawn.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'm neither of those things.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to make
a donation to a nonprofit group without the government getting
heavily involved. Well, as it turns out, the IRS does
agree with me. Bless their power hungry little hearts. They
operate on the bureaucratic version of that old pirate code,
take what you can, give nothing back. They're in court
right now, arguing with a straight face that they're special,
(04:14):
that the rules the Supremes laid down for everyone else
don't apply to their sacred quest for whatever it is
they do. Besides losing hard drives and pretending somehow millions
of records vanished, Remember that this is peak government logic,
like the DMV demanding you fill out Form forty seven
B in triplicate while the building burns down around them,
(04:37):
or the TSA making you remove your shoes but somehow
missing the guy with the bomb in his underwear whose
name is Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed ikbar Machmud Mohammed. Selective competence, baby,
that's what they do with the government. They couldn't organize
a two car parade, but they can sure as hell
organize a donor fishing expedition with the enthusiasm of a
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golden retriever spotting a tennis ball. Imagine this if you will.
America is like a giant bar where free speech is
the beer flowing freely. The Supreme Court in this context
is the wise old bartender saying, hey, look, if you
force everyone to wear name tags with their home addresses,
fights are going to break out. And the irs is
(05:22):
that one guy in the corner who's already three seats
to the wind yelling. But what if we need to
know who's buying the round so we could tax their
tips retroactively? And don't get me started on the select
of amnesia. These are the same folks who, during certain administrations,
certain administrations, couldn't find their own scandals with both hands
(05:42):
in a GPS. Yet suddenly their layers are focused on
whether that small profit opposing, say, endless regulations or teaching
kids' actual history might have received a five hundred dollars
check from someone who doesn't want their business boycotted into oblivion.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
In a country founded.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
By people who dumped tea into a harbor rather than
fund a government they didn't like without representation. We've somehow
arrived at a point where the tax man wants to
know exactly who's funding the resistance to more taxes. It's
like the fox demanding the combination to the Henhouse safe
for you know, auditing purposes. Conservatives have been screaming about
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this for years. Government weaponization isn't a conspiracy theory when
the bureaucrats keep proving it in real time. The left
loves to clutch pearls about quote unquote dark money when
it's funding the wrong causes. But somehow, when Soros ink
is flooding the zone, it's just philanthropy. Funny how that works.
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One side's a threat to democracy and the other sides
just engaging in essential civil engagement. Past the popcorn in
the donor list. Apparently the real scandal isn't just the
IRS ignoring the Court. We tolerate an agency with the
power to ruin lives that treats constitutional guardrails like suggestions
from a fortune cookie. The Supreme Court gave the IRS
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a clear message about donor privacy. The IRS replied, the
only way it knows how by auditing the Constitution for
unreported income. America deserves better than this endless game of
bureaucratic whack a mole, where every time the court smacks
down overreach, another form pops up, demanding more of your information,
more of your money, and more of your dignity. Maybe
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one day we'll get an IRS that focuses on collecting
taxes instead of collecting enemies lists. Until then, keep your receipts,
your principles, and your donors' lists as private as possible,
because in this town, Washington, DC, the only thing more
dangerous than speaking freely is letting the wrong people know
you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Stick around.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Brandon Walton's coming up in just a little bit, and
Don Hooper's going to be here.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive.
In listening to Kinny Webster on KPRC nine point fifty plus,
you don't smell like a dead person, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Multiple wildfires have prompted evacuation warnings for more than seventeen
thousand people in South California. Now hopefully the fires will
take out some of their extra gubernatorial candidates. That's an
I'm on that's not funny. You don't laugh at that?
Brandon Waltons? How dare you?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I would never?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
How you dare you laugh at their misfortune?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Brandon Waltons is in the studio right now from Texas Scorecard.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And who else is here?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Is that Don Hooper Cindy Siegel's Worst Nightmare in the
studio as well. We are on the radio right now,
but we are also live streaming on social media. People
would like to join the conversation, you can, but I
wouldn't recommend it, but you can if you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Let's start off with this, gentlemen. Have you guys early
voted yet?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Of course I voted Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I always try to vote. I like to early vote,
but I always do it the day or two later.
Not as many things on the ballot as there were
a couple months ago. There have been a lot of
elections lately, especially here in Houston and Harris County. Any
why don't we start off with this, guys. John Cornyn
is being asked to stop negative attack ads on Paxton.
(09:22):
It's pretty obvious Cornin's probably not gonna win. I just
don't feel like the cards are in his hand at
this moment. Which means whatever he's doing to Paxton right now,
the left is going to use against the Republican Party
for the next several months. I think that's what Cornyn wants.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, and that's essentially what Abraham George, Right, the chairman
of the Republican Party of Texas, said yesterday. He said,
you know, look, we're going to be entering a competitive
race against James cal Rico. There's gonna be a lot
of a lot of money spent by the left coming
in to try to turn Texas blue and to try
to get that Senate seat in November. And he called
on both campaigns, right, both Paxton and Corny's campaigns, to
(09:58):
in these final days, to stop the negative ads, to
stop giving ammo to that. And to their credit, the
Paxton campaign came out and said, look, we're we're already
changing his pro Paxston pack yesterday put out an ad
that focuses squarely on James Tallerico, who they're calling low
T tall Ico, and that ad there. Cornyn, however, said
(10:20):
no that you know, a judgment day is going to
be coming for Ken Paxton, and we're gonna we're gonna
keep up this this negative advertising, which I think is
really illustrative of of where the campaign is right now.
I mean, it's absolutely flailing. He canceled his appearances his
his campaign rallies. On Wednesday, yesterday, he was hosting a
quote unquote rally that if you google try to find
(10:42):
some way to go to it. You know, there's nothing
posted online. He posted pictures. It's I don't know if
we have the pictures on his Twitter, but they were
sitting around like a boardroom table. It looked like the
lamest political quote unquote rally I've ever seen. Uh, and
you know this is this is this. This is sad.
On one hand, you know, you can criticize John corn
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for his record, a lot of people do, certainly, but
there is even regardless of how you feel about it,
it's sad to see somebody who's been there for four terms,
who's been you know, this senior senator here end his
political career in this sad way.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, it is a very sad way to watch him go.
Don Hooper, what do you think has done more damage
to Cornyn here at the end of his career? The
gun control thing from twenty twenty two, him and Tony Gonzalez,
how Biden passed a red flag funding while around the country,
or Matt Venmo mkoyak following pornbots with Cornyan's Twitter account.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Your answer when he was booed at the state convention.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Sure, but that was because of the gun rights thing. Yeah,
red flag laws.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, it's that in a whole host of other things.
But I think it was the beginning of the end
of that of this particular campaign. But you have to
think about it. The entire apparatic and political consulting class
had anticiated that if you spend one hundred and fifty
million dollars against Ken Paxton, Cornyn was going to win.
(12:07):
And that didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
One hundred and fifty Most people think it's one hundred million.
We're in a one hundred and fifty million now, Well,
when you count the packs, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Now, it is. It's absolutely crazy studying.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Actually, Okay, So Ken Paxton passionately goes out and files
lawsuits against big corporations that piss off middle Americans in Texas.
John Cornyn passionately goes out and votes yes on foreign
aid bills. Brennan, I mean, at what point does this
kind of republicanism end?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Is this the end of it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This year, Tony Gonzalez is out, Crenshaw's out.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We're saying goodbye.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I mean, it could be the end of a Chip
Roy after this election, Bill Cassidy no more.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I think Cornin is about to say goodbye to politics.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Tony Buzzby, the famous lawyer who was representing, of course,
Ken Paxton during the impeachment trial a couple of years back,
said pretty famously now that the Bush era in Texas
polics is over, and he said that a few years ago,
but it really does look like that is coming to fruition.
I mean, look at all these people that are gone.
(13:08):
You Ken Paxton himself. People forget this, but just just
four years ago beat George P. Bush, an actual Bush
right and it was not even particularly close in that
run off. It was like two to one. And so
you keep seeing this rejection of the Bush political machine
that is still here in Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
There are still some hangers on, you know, Karl Rove
is still getting involved in some campaigns and certainly you
see him on Fox News and the rest of it.
But a lot of those those remaining vestiges are on
their way out, which is certainly hopeful. And is a
good sign that hopefully that is being eradicated in a
big way this cycle.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
All right, So Rick Perry just wrote a book about
how taking psychedelic mushrooms will help you get closer to God.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Morgan Latrella had something to do with the book, not,
you know.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
On a side note here, if psychedelic mushroom helps cure
PTSD seems to be working a lot better than alcohol
and suicide. But okay, he took a break from that
yesterday to write this tweet where he attacks Ken Paxton
for what I would describe as being a very misleading
news story Texas Tribune reports inside the child sex abuse
(14:18):
case that resulted in Ken Paxton's office offering a plea
deal of just one day in jail. Now that I
think it came out to sixty days in jail in
the end, if I'm not mistaken. I date a woman
who prosecutes and investigates child molesters for a living, and
one of the things that she tells me is it's
almost impossible to get a conviction without a witness, and
(14:40):
the witness is almost always the victim if the victim
doesn't want to testify, which is what happened in this case.
You don't really have a case here. There was a mistrial,
there was a hung jury. These are just facts. This
is not my opinion. And the mother of the victim said,
my son doesn't want to testify again. Often is the
case that in these kinds of trials, the the victim
feels like they're on trial because the defense attorneys picking
(15:04):
apart their story, blame the victim. You know, why were
you dressed a certain way? You know, why were you
there at this time? We all hear these questions from
defense attorneys and rape cases. Along comes Rick Perry. Ken
Paxton initially offered a plea deal. He's explaining the case.
He's not even explaining it right in this tweet. Is
Rick Perry taking too much mescal in and LSD? Your answer,
(15:27):
Brandon Walton's, well, I don't know what the former governor's doing.
But what is clear is that John Cordon and his
campaign surrogates to include Rick Perry. But you've also seen
people like State Representative Jeff Leach, some other lawmakers that
have been out there talking a lot about this issue
over the last couple of weeks. What is frustrating is
that anybody who knows. And look, this is obviously I
(15:47):
think people see this and they think, wow, a child
molester got sixty days. That's terrible, because I think that's
a terrible outcome. Nobody would say that's a fair or
good outcome. But to completely ignore the context of it,
like you put in here, Kenny, that it's impossible, it's
almost impossible to get these that there had already been
a trial on this and he didn't want to testify again,
(16:10):
all of these facts that put it in context. These
are people that are ignoring it, and they're ignoring it
because they're trying to hurt the Attorney General, right, I mean,
that's obviously what this is about. It's very politically expedient
for them. And it's just unfortunate to see an issue
like protecting children, something that I think most everybody should
(16:31):
should care about and take seriously, to see it being
used as a political weapon like this, and especially in
the last days of a flailing campaign like John Cornyn's,
is you know, I keep saying it.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
It's sad.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, it's sick and disgusting to me that they're exploiting
a child rape victim to see if they could make
an eleventh hour switch and it's not going to work.
But all that being said, Don Hooper, no matter what
happens here, we lose the best Attorney General Texas has
had in the twenty first century. Let you get the
last thought here before we go to break.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Well, seven to five guilty. The five not guilties were
strong not guilties in that particular case. There were lots
of problems with the case. But the one thing that
hasn't been said is that the two people that tried
the case were Democrats. How about that that worked in
Ken Paxton's office.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And that's Ken Paxtig's fault.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's Ken Paxton's fault that these Democrats didn't work harder
to get a.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Conviction for this kid. We're gonna go to break.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We'll be right back more with Brandon Waltins from Texas
scorecard dot Com and a candidate I proudly endorsed Don
Hooper for Chairman of Harris County Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its slime behind. You're listening to Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Oh this is really sad, well or interesting, depending on
how you look at it. Netflix has released a science
fiction show set in a retirement community.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's a TV show called The Story of Bill Cassidy
and John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Would you watch it? Don Hooper? No, No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't. Take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Don Hooper is running for office right now against a
woman named Cindy Siegel. Brandon Walton's also in the building
right now. Texas Scorecard. Grateful to have both of you
guys here. Houston is really its own machine, Brandon, wouldn't
you agree? I mean, in the state of Texas, there's Dallas,
and in the state wide stuff in the Panhandle, Harris
County might as well.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It's the size of Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
It's it's certainly its own thing. And when I speak
to people in different parts of the state, even small places,
I always tell them that, look, we talk sometimes about
what's happening in Harris County and Houston and all that.
And it's easy for people who live in Midland or
the Panhandle or wherever to tune out, but they do
so at their own peril, because what happens in Harris
County affects the entire state. Right if Democrats, for example,
(18:51):
turn Texas blue, it's going to be through big counties like,
of course, the state's largest county, Harris County. And so
it's important, and it's especially important is leadership at the
local level, right, and so county judge, county commissioner, all
of that, party chair and party chair, certain party chair
as well. Right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, for those that don't know, if you're not from
Harris County, what happens here affects the rest of the state.
The woman in charge of our local Republican party right now,
she's a nice lady. I find Cindy to be a
sweet woman. I don't think she ever remembers meeting me,
and I've defended her on this radio I interviewed her
on this radio show after she got mugged ones. She
called me back a few months later and said, Hi,
(19:30):
you probably don't know me. My name's Cindy. I got
your phone number from someone. It's like, what are you,
Joe Biden. It was a very awkward and uncomfortable moment. Anyway,
Critics view her as being too aligned with the old
school Republicans. Senator Paul Bettencourt, for example, the John Cornins
of our state she's done nothing to help flip Harris
County back to being read. Many people have suggested she's
(19:52):
not been forceful enough on election integrity. She wasn't much
help with Alex Mieler a couple of years ago. A
few years ago when we should have won the Harris
County judge race. I think we all remember what happened.
There no connection with the grassroots. I'm not really sure
what she does. She's tried this strategy of losing all
the local elections.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Don could we try the opposite for a change.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
We're definitely going to try the opposite. And the thing
about it is out on the campaign trail with her,
it's always interesting to talk about the twenty twenty four race,
and there were fourteen or twelve fourteen Republican judges on
the Democrat side that went unopposed, and you have to
(20:37):
think about that, Well, what was happening in twenty twenty four.
What was happening in twenty twenty four was that that
Nicki Hayley was telling everybody to wait until she got
to Texas and all the Democrats were going to cross
over and vote for her, and that will be and
then she would be our nominee because Donald Trump was
(20:58):
going to drag her down and drag down the ticket,
and Donald Trump is unelectable and all of those things. Well,
my opponent is very much part of the Nicky Haley
wing of our party. And it makes it very difficult
to recruit judges when you're telling people that, and that
is the reason why we didn't have a munch of
judges in the twenty twenty four cycle. But you know,
(21:22):
I support the president. I've always supported the President's agenda
and the powers that be. I mean, we live where
George Bush lived, and it is definitely an establishment county.
But I will say, and I say it out on
the campaign trail, Harris County at one point was responsible
for thirty percent of all the Republican votes in Texas.
(21:46):
So you got to think about that. Sure, thirty percent
of all the votes came from Harris County. We're now
closer to twenty percent, which means the smaller counties have
to vote eighty six percent to keep Texas red. And
we have just disenfranchised conservative voters. And when you see
(22:07):
the president running in Harris County, he wins things like
the east side of Harris County, the Hispanic side, Leslie
Brionez's County Commissioner's Court district, and Donald Trump doesn't spend
a dime. Could you imagine what would happen if we
actually campaigned as conservatives in Harris County. We might win
(22:28):
an election.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Abbot and Trump's sure do love to come here to fundraise,
but I don't see them spending a lot of money here. Sadly, Brandon,
you do politics all over the state, you guys Texas scorecard,
I think a leading voice in conservative political media, not
just in the state, but in the country certainly in
the state. You look around at the different party chairs,
both French outgoing now from Arrant County. You see what
(22:51):
Cindy Siegel is doing. Of the big communities here, do
you see anyone doing a good job?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Well, I think you look at these big counties, especially
it's challenging now, you know Dallas County. I think you
could look at and say, well, they just had their
own challenge where they had Alan West resigned sort of
abruptly after the primary election, and now they've got a
new chair in there as they're heading into these and
have these runoffs right now, and so certainly, other other
counties certainly have their challenges, but you know, to speak
(23:20):
more broadly, I mean the challenge for any county chair
in these big parties, right is getting those Republican voters
to turn out. I mean, that's what we've that's the
issue we've seen over these special elections and so some
of what we've seen even during the primaries and as
we head into November, that's going to be a major
task for these big counties is bringing these people out.
(23:41):
Turnouts obviously important, but when you have big counties like
Harris County, right, that can decide the race. If voters
in Harris County don't feel motivated, Republican voters I'm talking about,
don't feel motivated by the party to go out and
vote in November, it doesn't matter if people in Amarillo
or wherever to go vote out because of just the
(24:02):
sheer numbers that we have here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, you see guys like Avid come to town fundraising
hundreds of millions of dollars around the state, but getting
a lot of it from right here in our own backyard.
Dan Patrick has gotten a lot from Harris County political donors.
You think he'd smile more, Don Hooper.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Well, Harris County is important. Well, first of all, you
can't get elected to statewide office without winning Harris County.
So if you're governor, lieutenant governor comtroll or whatever, you
have to win Harris County. And you can't win the
presidency without winning Texas, which means you better win Harris
(24:43):
County and you better win Texas if you're going to
be the president of the United States. Harris County is
very important. By the way, Harris County is the largest
Republican county in the country.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Hard to believe.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Well, we have more Republican voters here.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Sure, but it's like saying there's eight million Republicans in California.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
It's all right, but the kind of outnumbered, you know, right,
Well we ever get it back.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well, yeah, and actually if the people with Republican voting
histories over fifty percent of them don't vote, but they
do come out and vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Okay, yeah, let's talk about this before we go. Obviously
I want people to vote for Don. I think he's
a great guy. Another friend of the show, Mary Tailey Bowden,
a fantastic woman.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Mary's a beautiful person. Is calling attention today to the
fact that Doc Pete Chambers is getting sued by Colony Ridge.
Doc Pea Chambers did about ten percent of the vote
in the gubernatorial primary, better than I think most people thought.
He and Alex Jones are both being sued by Colony Ridge.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I am no fan of Colony Ridge, but they made
this claim that Colony Ridge is supposedly owned by cartel groups.
Supposedly Colony Ridge sent a cease and desist, they took
the video down. They kept making the claim clips of
it exist in other places. Now they're being sued. Mary
has pointed out that the same lawyers represented Colony Ridge
(26:00):
also represented the Texas Medical Board in a case against her.
She's suggesting that Greg Abbott is behind all of this. Now,
in my humble opinion, this lawsuit was avoidable. You took
the video down, kind of an admission of guilt. There
you're saying something you can't prove. That wasn't very smart.
All right, Fine, all that being said, these guys don't
really have anything to take from them. What are you
(26:22):
going to take because double wide trailer, what is Alex
Jones have left?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Is Abbot behind this? What do you think Brandon, you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I think it's important to remember that with this Colony
Ridge issue, for you know, in specific, you had just
earlier this year because the Attorney General as well as
the Department of Justice federal we're going after Colony Ridge
in part for attracting and literally marketing themselves to illegal
aliens to move in that they could get home loans,
that there'd be no problem, there'd be no.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Pre predatory line.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
That was the in predatory loans, and that's why the
Biden DOJ that was essentially the motivator behind them, was
that these were predatory huge rates. That was the accusation
against Colin Ridge. I had not personally over the last
couple of years going through this, I have not heard
or reported on anything like like you're talking about with
the cartels running the neighborhood, anything like that. There was
(27:11):
a settlement announced earlier this year where Colnie Ridge says
that they will now verify the ID and citizenship status
of or legal status of those that are buying in
the in the neighborhood and we'll see if that fixes
the problem. But that's that's the latest. That's kind of
the last we had heard out of Connie Ridge was
back in February. I think it was when the settlement
(27:33):
was announced, and then now you have this, Uh well
that was lasses.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Yeah, that was the state settlement. So the state settlement
I think required a sixty five million dollar fine and
they and I think they've suspended home or lot sales
for two years I remember correctly, And.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Oh dang, so I'm too late. I can't get one. Well.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Part of the criticism too, is that they were just
putting in this, you know, massive amount of people and
the neighbors essentially were having a problem because they didn't
have the infrastructure for you as well.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, sure, hey, we got it.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Run.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I know you got it. Run Brandon. You're in Houston
right now. But I want people to follow you on
social media. Brandon Waltons. I check his page at least
once a day. We're on radio stations all over the South.
But I think about a third of my affiliates or
in Texas. I can't do my job without information from
texascorecard dot com. I love these guys. Please follow my buddy.
Brandon Walton's on X. Don Hooper has an event tomorrow.
(28:28):
If I'm not mistaken with Scott Presler, you guys are
going to be at the Kirby Ice House ten fifteen
guestner from eleven to one pm, last ditch voting effort.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Not a lot of people show up on a.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Tuesday after Memorial Day on election day, but hopefully people will.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Brandon, you think anybody comes out and votes.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I think I think people who do vote should know
that their vote is going to count even more on
this runoff than it did in the primary.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Such a good point.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That is such a good point, Brandon Waltons Don Hooper
closing point.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
H Yeah, come out. If you haven't met Scott Prestler,
which I hadn't seen him in a long time, and
I told him the story that I was helping somebody
that had been an elected party chair briefly and I
was cleaning out a desk at party headquarters and found
his ID from the desk and.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Did you use it to register to vote? Yeah, well
I made a mistake. Done well.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
I told him about it. He goes, I lost that
in twenty fifteen. I said, I found it in twenty
twenty and it was still in the desk.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
It was still there.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's how little they're spending going through there were That's
how little work they do at the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
We're gonna run.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for tuning in this afternoon.
Stick around, Don and Brandon are going to run. But
if you're listening to us on the radio, more Pursuit
of Happiness radio on the way, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Screw you.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
Pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
People keep talking about how bad the enemy's doing, but
it's not all terrible. Trader Joe's just announced they plan
to open at least twenty five new locations this year,
and those twenty five new locations will come with a
grand total of fifteen parking spaces. That'll be great, very exciting,
and then you can get your pumpkin cookies and your
mango laundry detergent. Hey, before we get out of here
(30:20):
this afternoon, can we just talk about God for a minute.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I know it's Memorial Day weekend. You got a lot
to be grateful for.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
People always get weird about saying happy Memorial Day or
somber Memorial day. I gotta think the men and women
who died on the beaches in Normandy wouldn't be mad
if you were happy this weekend while you grow a
burger by the pool or watch baseball.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I bet they don't mind. It'll be okay, but they
do want you to remember God. I'm not a big
fan of Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House in Washington, DC,
but when he's right, he's right.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Listen to this very awkward exchange that happened on MSNBC
yesterday where they just suddenly remembered during ged level banter
that you might hear in an inner city bus stop
that Christianity, the most popular religion in the world, generally,
is made up of people who seem to worship God,
(31:12):
not the government.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our
rights do not derive from government. They come from you,
our creator and heavenly Father. Is this him putting God
over the Declaration of Independence? Okay?
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Well, you know, I actually think that idea is not
wholly uncommon. I mean, the idea that we have certain
inalienable rights that come from God can be read in
a fairly benign way, which is basically that we have
innate human rights that our constitution and our government, our
democratic government, are meant to codify right. That idea is
(31:55):
not totally abnormal. I think that the thing that.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Guys this is a fifth grade level social studies question.
Where did the founding fathers get these ideas from about
free expression and the right to self defense? Well, it
turns out it was from God. It was from the Bible.
It's couldn't be the first time these people in MSNBC have.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Heard this, Could it? Could it? Well? Could it?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
If you're shocked to learn that people on the left
hate Christianity and hate God, hold on tight. It's about
to get a lot weirder. Do you guys remember this?
You remember this noise?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I asked, have got a speeding bullet.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
More powerful than to look about him?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You know it's going to happen up in the sky.
It's a bird and feminism. Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Brightbart dot com today reporting that the public relations genius
and Supergirl star Milli Alcock has decided alienating and insulting
and antagonizing the mostly male superhero fan base is the
way to go. If you don't know who Milly Alcock is,
you'd probably know where if you saar. She's a cute, petite,
(33:17):
little blonde who has no lips. Does that sound from me?
If you saw a photo, you'd probably recognize her. She
just went full Rachel Zegler. For those that haven't heard,
back in March, this delicate, little entitled princess who's currently
starring in a major HBO show and will soon arrive
on four thousand screens as the title character in the
two hundred and fifty million dollars Supergirl actually played the victim.
(33:41):
She told Vanity Fair in an interview. She's playing a
female superhero and she's no stranger to dealing with intense fandoms,
having broke out as the young Rayarna Targarian. She was
on Game of Thrones House of Dragged. Do you remember
she was the star of the Game of Thrones prequel Anyway,
(34:01):
In this interview, she basically said she doesn't like Christian dads.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That was the gist of it.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
She said being on HBO's Game of Thrones made me
aware that simply existing as a woman in a space
is something that people comment on. Yeah, I think being
a man on that TV show is something that people
would comment on too. She said, I can only be myself.
I think that it might be part of the problem.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Ma'am.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Let's all bring out the violins for this twenty five
year old millionaire living a dream life. Worse still, she's
not only LARPing as a victim, but also as some
kind of trailblazer. Linda Carter would like a word, young lady,
and let's not overlook what she just did when she
flat outled this country's embraced female heroes and superheroes going
(34:48):
back decades. There's been plenty of female stars before in
action roles. You're not the first person to do it.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
She said. She's worried this movie is gonna tank.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Because men don't want to watch super they don't want
to watch a woman play Supergirl, and there's going to
be backlash. There was no backlash against Wonder Woman fifty
years ago, no backlash against Ripley and Alien and Aliens
over forty years ago. Linda Hamilton, Pam Greer, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, all of them were loved and embraced and
are now iconic. Anyway, after starting this fight back in March,
(35:26):
Little mis entitled fake Trailblazer is now responding to the
criticism she desperately sought by ridiculing and I quote Christian dads.
She said, I guess women know that this is just
how it's always been, unfortunately, and it's from a lot
of those people whose profiles have no photo with burner
(35:47):
accounts on social media. Someone named dad for Christian, which
is hilarious to me. How could a Christian dad not
like Supergirl because the movie hasn't even come out yet.
Man alive. Look, it's not all her fault. She's pretty
young and was even younger when fame arrived a few
(36:08):
years ago with HBO's House of Dragon. Fame morps you,
especially that age, and especially in a Hollywood that no
longer stops its young stars from imploding like this. Sure,
Mickey Rooney was an unholy terror in real life, but
his public persona was so expertly managed that he became
the biggest movie star in the.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
World for a few years.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
There's only one commodity that makes you a movie star,
and that's goodwill. Denzel Washington and Sandra Bullock are still
major draws, even in their old age. Why do you
think that is it's because we like them. They don't
crap on our religious beliefs, Sir macus because we're Dad's
afore if Supergirl flops and it's unsufferable, Star Sure seems
(36:52):
determined to make that happen. Hollywood's going to call us sexist,
aren't they. They're gonna say we're sexist, We're misogynistic because
we didn't want to watch a person star in a
film after she told us not to go see the film.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Shocking I know. I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
For those of you who haven't heard, we have a
comedy show coming up Friday, June twelfth. Please get some
tickets to it before it sells out. We've already sold
over one hundred ticket I think there's a couple dozen
tickets left. It's not going to be available for much longer.
They're going quick Friday, June twelfth at the House of Blues.
It's called The Right Side of Comedy. Me Jesse Payton,
Alex Stein, Steve Johnson, some very special guests will be
(37:30):
both on stage and in the audience. It's one block
away from the Republican State Convention. If you're going to
the convention and you're not going to the gala. This
is going to be so much better than that. This
is going to be the best party at the twenty
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talking about this. You want to be there, Just go
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(37:51):
of Comedy Houston. It's easy to find tickets to the
rest of you. I love you all. I hope you
have an awesome Memorial Day weekend. We'll be back bright
and early after the weekend over for more of what
you bought a radio for.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
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