August 14, 2024 • 41 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Brandon Waltens and Holly Hansen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
A new study says listening to classical music could be
a powerful tool in treating depression. Is that the reason
why the Chicago White Sox replaced Take Me Out to
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the Ballgame with Mozart? That would explain it? Hi, everybody,
Kenny Webster, good afternoon, Thanks for joining us. Lots on
the way. Brandon Waltons is stopping by. In fact, we
have a lot going on today with Attorney General Ken Paxton,
and we have two journalists that'll be here to talk
about it, one of them Brandon Waltons of Texas scorecard
dot Com. It's going to tell you how Ken Paxton
is making efforts right now to stop powerful liberal elected
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officials in the state of Texas is from hindering the
Second Amendment rights of law abiding Texas citizens. We'll explain
that story to you and a lot more with Brandon Walton's.
Plus Holly Hanson is coming by at the end of
the show this afternoon. You may have heard there was
some charges yesterday filed against a certain local official for
his involvement in the twenty twenty two elections. And while
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justice is important and it's good that somebody's probably going
to be punished, it's not quite what you think it's
going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So hang around.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We'll give you all the details on that very soon.
But before we get to any of that, Christopher Tremgley
today at the Washington Examiner just published a report about
how there's now this group of Republicans for Harris that
have come out. You saw white guys for Kamala and
black ladies for Kamala.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, now we have Republicans for Kamala.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And it always makes me laugh when you see these
groups surface on the internet, because you can't be a
Republican for Kamala. It's an oxymoron. It's like saying they're
a smart politician. It just isn't doesn't it's not true.
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So, the Democratic ticket, excuse me, the Democrat ticket, I
hate to call them Democratic for the twenty twenty four
presidential election may very well be the most aggressive, far left,
radically Marxist ticket in the nation's history for a presidential election.
There's no doubt, the principles, the policies, the ideology of
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Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walls have so much in
common with the acolytes of the Sickle and Hammer than
the stars and stripes. It's true, Tim Walls has no
guaranteed a free speech.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Motto. Have you heard this before? He says, no, you're not.
You're not guaranteed free speech.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The same guy that let people riot in the streets
says that conservatives are limited on what they can and
can't say. Then you've got Kamala Harris as much maligned
border policies, supporting violent political activists who rioted, looted, burned cities,
support the murdering of innocent children in the womb all
the way up until moments after birth. I mean, it's
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really disturbing stuff. And speaking of disturbing, this is just
another example of the disturbing trend of radical gender ideology.
The stuff this woman is pushing, her values are dangerously
far left. So given these left wing values, it would
be impossible for any reasonable true conservative, libertarian, populist, nationalist,
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anybody that would describe themselves as being vaguely republican to
be a supporter of Kamala Harris and or Tim Walls.
But that is what happened this week when a long
list of never Trump or so called Republicans tripped over
themselves rushing to express their solidarity and their support for
Kamala and Tim. But while these people believe they're making
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a political statement about their hatred for Trump by essentially
sticking it to them, in reality, they're just showing us
we're never really conservative Republican to begin with. Hating the
fact that Trump is the Republican nominee for president wouldn't
cause drastic ideological shifts in one's values. I'll give you
an example. If one were pro life, he or she
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wouldn't suddenly support candidates who favor abortion as some misguided
response to Trump's political rise in the party to the
candidacy of presidential nominee for the Republicans. In this instance,
people either believe aborting lives in the womb is murder
or they don't. It wouldn't make sense to support Kamala
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Harris if you're pro life, whether it's abortion or any
other rogue political issues supported by the left. Genuine conservatives
and Republicans could never under any circumstance support the abortion
policies of Kamala and Tim, it would be impossible. What
most conservative Republicans believe regarding abortion compared to what Tim
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and Kamala believe are polar opposites. The same could be
said for just about anything they support. No true conservative
would support suppressing free speech, but Tim Walls does. No
true conservative would vote for a candidate who failed at
border security, but that's what Kamala did, or thought that
innocent women like Lake and Riley should be forced to
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compete against men in college sports, But that's something both
of them believe. If a conservative and Republican voter doesn't
like Trump, then she or he doesn't have to vote
for him. But you would assume that that wouldn't mean
you would vote for Kamala instead. Anyone who did would
betray her or his core values. If these people were
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who they claimed to be, none of them could even
think about supporting someone as far left as Kamala or Tim.
Are you such a never Trump conservative that it turned
you into a communist? Beginning to think you probably weren't
much of a conservative at all? Adam Kinsinger, Liz Cheney,
Joe Walsh. I could go on and on.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Kenny Webster the best looking dude on And if you've
seen the competition, that's not saying a whole hell of
a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, it's not because they are. I always find it
fascinating when.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
An organization will come along and solve a problem that
doesn't exist, usually a go I mean in this obviously
in this context, I'm talking about the government, but offices
have been known to do this as well.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Heck, the HOA, the HOA in my condominium building. I
live in a multi unit, multi story condo unit not
far away from the radio station, and not long ago,
the HOA got together and they said, you know what,
we don't want delivery drivers like you know, door dash
and pizza delivery guys to deliver to people's units anymore.
We want them to leave the food at the front desk.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And we say, well why, It's like, wow, make some
of the older women in the building uncomfortable when they
see a food delivery guy wandering around the building looking
for a unit. It's like, all right, right, well did
one of those delivery guys harass an old lady. No,
they just don't want it to happen, Oh okay. And
then it's like, all right, well, we don't really know
who they are. Wait, don't the delivery guys leave their
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ida at the front desk when they come into the building.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But still, you know, there's an old lady on the
seventh floor. She doesn't like when she sees a Mexican guy,
and she doesn't know who she is. It's a problem
that doesn't exist with a stupid solution that inconveniences everybody.
And unfortunately, there's another example of this taking place today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
This is so dumb.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I can't even believe this happened. My next guest doesn't
even know about this story yet. He's hearing me explain
it right now for the first time.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Just as you are in Al Paso, the El Paso
Middle School, one of the middle schools there, Charles Middle
School in El pasoep ID whatever they call it. Nick DeSantis,
he's the principal.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He just said, you know what, we've noticed lately, a
lot of our students are wearing black clothing because that's
what's cool right now. They're all wearing black T shirts
with black pants. There's kind of a goth thing going
on right now with adolescent kids and young younger teenagers.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Let's put an end to that. Black clothing is depressing.
Nobody can wear black clothes at school anymore. Brandon Waltons
of Texas scorecard dot Com. I'm a conservative. You're a conservative.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Based on what I just told you, Does it sound
like they solved a problem at the El Paso School District?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I this they did.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
It's a problem I've never heard of. I mean, this
is why I didn't even know this. So kids now
are dressing in black again because I know that. You know,
I'm thinking back to when I was in school. It
was a little bit after goth, but then you had
sort of uh, well you know what was it called
after that kind of emo or scene. Yep, and that
that often was kind of black. I guess everything comes back.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, you're one hundred percent correct about that. That's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
When I was an adolescent, I remember grunge was big,
and industrial.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Music it was. It was a lot of music that
sounded like this, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And then I remember one year we went away for
summer break and all the kids were wearing black clothes,
and they were wearing Doc Martin combat boots and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And then when we came back from summer vacation a
different kind of music.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Suddenly, over the summer, kids discovered it was more fun
to wear like cargo shorts and birket stocks and play
frisbee than it was to be goth and wear all
that makeup and stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And suddenly Dave Matthews was cool. Now, I just you know, Brandy,
it's just my opinion here.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But if the government had told the students you can't
wear black, I would imagine when we came back from
school they still would have been doing it right this
summer break. When you tell teenagers not to do something,
doesn't it usually have the opposite effect.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Dude, That's usually how it works. That's you know, this
is this is this is wild. Maybe this is an
argument for why school should just have uniforms. Now you
don't have to deal with any of this. I guess no,
there'll be no expression at all.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Let's do that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I actually think that's a great point because this solution
to a problem that doesn't exist actually creates another problem.
What if there's a kid at the school district that
doesn't have a lot of clothes. Now you've just told him,
like the two or three articles of clothes he could
safely wear to school.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sorry, you can't wear that anymore. It's the wrong color.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I am all for or the school uniform thing, Brandon,
because it deals with the fact that it's not a distraction.
You don't have to think about what you're gonna wear
to school that day. There's no gang colors. And like,
if a kid's family doesn't have a lot of money,
no one's gonna know if he's worn the same clothes
two or three times the same week.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Everyone's wearing those clothes, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Look, I'm in favor of Una Farms. I'm on team uniforms.
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, all that being said, Brandon didn't even know I
was gonna ask him about that. I just wanted his
take on it. Brandon is, however, today reporting on what
just happened at the Dallas State Fair. For a long time,
you were allowed to bring a gun to the Dallas
State Fair. It's the Texas State Fair, it's in Dallas,
and now you can't anymore. And apparently Attorney General Ken
Paxton has a problem with that. What's the latest on this?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yeah, so last week, Texas State Fair rolls out a
new announcement saying we're not gonna let people carry firearms
into the fair. They had previously allowed licensed firearmholders to
do so. Last year there was a shooting. It was
like a targeted shooting. Someone came in and shot a
few people at the food court. That actually this person
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snuck in and reportedly also didn't have a license to carry,
so he was carrying in there illegally to begin with.
And so, as is typical, they've created a response to
the problem that wouldn't have fixed the original issue, which
is to prevent all lawfully licensed firearmholders from carrying. Now,
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the State Fair says, well, we're a private organization, but
the Attorney General can paxton, They said, a letter to
the City of Dallas saying, you know, not so fast,
because it turns out that the State Fair actually, as
part of an agreement with the City of Dallas, gets
a leaf on the fair grounds and are actually entrusted.
You know, there's sort of a quasi governmental agency at
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least for you know, the months or a few weeks
that the fair is there. And so he's arguing that
under state law right now, you can't prevent they can't
prevent lawful licensed firearm holders from coming in from doing
that you had a group of I think seventy lawmakers
as well send a letter to the state fair. So
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right now the clock is ticking. Terry General Paxton gave
the City of Dallas fifteen days. We'll see what they
do this he ends up needing to sue them.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, very interesting. Good to see at Paxton stand up
for what's right in this state. I mean, this is Texas.
Law abiding gun owners aren't allowed to participate in their
own God given free rights.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It's unbelievable, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
In the meantime, I can't if I made a short
list of the biggest national security concerns, I don't know
where exactly Chinese agents buying farmland near military bases would
fall on that list, but it would certainly be on
the list. And that is a concern of a lot
of lawmakers in the state, except, of course, for State
Representative Jean Wu. He loves the idea of Chinese state
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agents buying farmland near our military basis. He's defended at
many times. Apparently the Texas Farm Bureau sees us a
bit differently. What's the latest going on with this issue?
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Yeah, this is an issue that frankly should have been
solved a long time ago. I mean, the legislature could
have passed this last year passed the Texas Senate daide feeling,
and the Texas House killed it. And so now they're
sort of playing catch up. Right now. The legislature's not
in session, but they're holding interim hearings where they sort
of study these issues. And you've had an interesting thing
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happened a couple of weeks ago. There was a hearing
on exactly this issue, saying let's not let foreign hostile
entities like China come in and buy Texas land. And
whenever they held that hearing, the Texas Farm Bureau, huge
organization represents a ton of farmers here in Texas, big
agricultural center of the country, came in and said, well,
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you know, we want to see legislation that protects private
property rights, essentially saying that people should be allowed to
have the right to sell their land to Chinese nationals
or whoever they want. And they essentially said, you know,
maybe if we had a we would support if you know,
there was just they were just notified who they were
selling their land to, but they were seemingly against an
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outright dan Well, we reported on that hearing what happened.
That was about two three weeks ago, and since then
they've received a lot of pressures you can imagine, because
you know, Texans buy and large according to the polling,
and I would say, especially especially rural Texans who are
members of the Farm Bureau, don't want this to happen.
They don't want China coming in and buying up land.
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And so there was a hearing yesterday at the Capitol,
and you've seen a shift already from the Texas Farm
Bureau where they say, look, we're not going to pose this.
You know, they sort of said, we're clarifying our position, right,
and it's completely different than the position they held before,
but they clarified that we're not going to pose this.
In fact, we think we might end up supporting a
ban on Chinese land sales. And so, you know, this
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is good. I'm glad to see that they came around.
I think this is due to a large amount of
folks who spoke out against this, because you're right, this
is one of the I guess national security concerns that's
facing our country and it's something that the state can
take action on, and unfortunately, thus far has it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, perfectly explained and great work reporting on this. I
couldn't help, but notice you threw the name Dave Falin
in there, the Texas House Speaker. I don't know if
he'll still be the House Speaker, but he still will.
He'll be a lawmaker come November. I gotta think he
probably does get re elected. And I also noticed that
he makes a lot of money in his family business,
investing in real estate, renting out buildings, that sort of thing.
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Is it possible that he dragged his feet on stopping
Chinese government agents from buying farmland around military bases in
the Texas State because that's something that benefits his family financially,
even if it's at the cost of national security.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I mean, you know, I don't know. I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Do we know that it's not true?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Yeah, exactly. I haven't anything that suggests that he is
currently benefiting from that. But you know, maybe he's trying
to keep his options open, right. I think it's actually
more likely though. This is something that unfortunately a lot
of Democrats opposed in the Texas legislature, people like especially
Jean Wu, like you mentioned, and unfortunately this is another
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side effective whenever you have a coalition in the Texas
House that is based on giving Democrats power, which is
what we have now under Dave Feeling. This is the
consequences of that. Is that good legislation, common sense legislation
like this to keep Texans safe and frankly keep the
whole country safe, gets killed as a means of, you know,
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sacrifice in order to maintain Democrat support. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
My brother Brandon Walton's Texas scorecard dot com. Do we
have time for one more? There were a couple other
stories here.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I wanted to ask you about why is the US
Department of Education, why were they going to investigate carol
iss D and why is it being paused?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I remember this story, but I haven't been following it actively.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Yeah, well you CAROLSD. Actually, that's got a prety conservative
school board. They've been leading there. They were one of
the first organizations said look, we're going to lead the
Texas Association of school Boards. They've been really leading on
a lot of conservative issues. So of course they've raised
the ire of Joe Biden's Department of Education, which had
been investigating the school, saying that they were discriminating against
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students who are LGBTQ plus based on the race, etc. Well,
Carol's been fighting back and now the Department of Education
has actually put a pause on the investigation. So it's
just good news for Carol ISD. But it's just again
another example of the weaponization of several agencies that we've
come to expect under President Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And to those of you that do oppose school choice
and think the government should educate all of our kids,
a quick reminder, folks, Yet another teacher, this time in
East Texas. The Atlanta ISD has a teacher and a
coach that we use using Snapchat to solicit nude picks
from little boys. He just got sentenced to sixty years
in prison for sex crimes against kids. I'm glad he
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got caught, but imagine how many people don't Brandon.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Exactly. And that's the shame, is that for every story
that we report on or every story you see of
this stuff, there's a lot, there's you know how many others, right,
countless others that unfortunately we don't know about, or at
least don't know about yet. It's one of the biggest arguments,
I think biggest selling points to school choice out there.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Amazing work today.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
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Speaker 3 (18:30):
You guys do awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
We got another awesome reporter covering Texas politics coming up,
Holly Hanson'll be here shortly. Stick around in the meantime.
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Speaker 3 (18:49):
You should.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
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Speaker 3 (19:05):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
The mayonnaise thing very bizarre. I thought this was a
joke when I first heard about it.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's not a joke.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Helman's released a fragment. A fragrance. Excuse me, that's easy
for you to say. There's a perfume. Helmans just put
out a perfume and it smells like mayonnaise. Now they
come out with it, yelled the ghost of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Why is this the thing? Why did we need mayonnaise?
I don't get it. Helman's is coming out with a
fragrance inspired by their most popular product.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Kind of wonder what happens if you wear it for
too long? In the sun.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
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Speaker 10 (20:19):
It's time once again for voicemail messages from you, oh me.
The following voicemail messages were sent from listeners just like
you using the Iheard radio app or not man. If
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iHeartRadio smartphone app and push the talk back button. You
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Speaker 3 (20:41):
So what are you waiting for?
Speaker 10 (20:42):
Download the app and leave us a message today.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
All right, So the only rules are don't swear and
try to make a quiet in the background, like if
you're listening to the radio, turn the radio down and
then leave the message, or you know, roll the window
up and then definitely don't swear. I'd be kind of
bad about playing these lateies, so I apologize. Let's uh
if you left me of let's hear something right now.
You can either do it during the morning show or
the afternoon show. Here's what you said. Oh okay, I
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should probably point out I don't listen to these ahead
of time. Maybe I should. It would probably save us
more time on the air. But I like my response
to be candid. You know, sometimes people don't even know
that they're recording it, like this guy. Okay, clearly he's
got the phone in his pocket.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I bet this next one will be a real voicemail.
Just to get a question like that from a reporter.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Just showed the slippery slope that we're already on, you know,
them willing to ask them straight out in their face.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Are they going to block an interview? Are they going
to block free speech? This is herb from Houston. Okay, yeah,
we thank you very much for the comments.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
We played a sound bite yesterday. Let me see if
I could find it real quick.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
A Washington Post reporter asked Kamala Harris if they should
permit Trump to interview Elon Musk. Excuse me, it wasn't
even an interview. If they should allow Elon Musk and
Trump to have a conversation this week on X on
spaces on the Twitter platform. A bold question to ask,
like what how dare you suggest that two fully grown
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men can't have a conversation in public?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
But that's what the Washington Post wanted to know.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tomorrow tonight
on on X.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I don't know if the President is going today. Go
free to say if he is or not. But I
think that.
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue, it's
a you know, it's an America issue. What role does
the White House or the President have in sort of
stopping that, or stopping the spread of that, or sort
of intervening in that. Some of that was about campaign
this information, but you know it's a wider thing.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
Right, Yeah, No, I mean you've heard us talk about
this many times from here about the responsibility of these
that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation disinformation.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Don't have anything to read.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
Out from here about specific ways that we're working on it,
but we believe that that they have the responsibility. These
are private companies, so we're also mindful of that too.
But look, it is uh, I think it is incredibly
important to call that out as you are you're doing.
I just don't have any specifics on what we've been
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doing internally as it relates to the interviews and not
something that I'm tracking and I'm sure the President's.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Not tracking it either.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
What are you doing right now to combat the misinformation
that Burger King is spreading about Ronald McDonald?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That's what I want to know. What are we doing
right now to come on, guys, what a bunch of jackasses?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Are you kidding? You don't think that two free individuals too, America?
What misinformation?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Tell us?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
What the misinformation is? As far as I could tell,
the misinformation that they're spreading on X is simply the
news that you guys at the Washington Post refused to
report on because you guys are a bunch of hacks
masquerading as journalists. All right, more voicemail messages from you.
This one comes from I think this is from Waco.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I just want to say you guys rock baby, Yay.
Thanks man, We like we like you too. Thanks bro.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Well yeah, he used to call it Falt the s
Flagger back in the unit. But that's about all I
can say about him.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Sometimes when people leave these voicemail messages, I don't know
what it's in response to, but so thank you for
the voicemail.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
This is Eddie and Abilene and I'm reading Hillbilly Elogy.
I'm just on chapter three, but I went to page one.
Two is chapter eleven, and it just talks about his
time at Ohio State University and working port Tom to
pay his way through college. There's nothing about a couch.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, there's nothing in the book about having sex with
the couch. There never was.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That's just a thing liberals started saying, and then it
caught and I'll admit I didn't read the book, so
when I heard him saying it, I thought it was funny.
But for the record, JD. Vance never had sex with
the couch, the vice presidential nominee to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And you know, once again, people are just idiots apparently so.
But thank you for doing the research, sir. When y'all
were talking about Lawrence Fifthburne and Peewee's Playhouse, he played
cowboy Carl, who we pee wee.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That's true and then he went on to starring The Matrix.
I'm glad you cleared that up, sir. I feel better already.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Do you realize that the traffic manager's feed for programming
is coming over only air telling what commercial's coming up?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I think somebody's sloping up.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, what's going on here? That's a voice my message
from New Orleans. It doesn't affect us at all.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Hey, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
I really don't understand how anybody Kane afford to live
right now unless making good money. I'm an engineer, right,
but main just for an average person. I don't know
how to get in by. I love you, love a
good show, a great show all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Thanks brother, I love you too, my man.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah for me, Like I as you guys know, I'm
not a rich guy, but I do pretty well, I'm
a pretty big radio personality compared to other radio personalities.
This is a very popular afternoon show. And this isn't
even my main job. It's my part time job. My
main job is co hosting an executive producer for what
is probably the biggest morning show in the regional part
of the South and the south region of the country.
(26:27):
And so I make, you know, pretty good living doing
something I really enjoy, very grateful for that. I thank
God every day for that. But I do notice when
I go to pay my bills lately that things cost more,
a lot more, a lot more. And then I noticed
I can't spend quite as much money as I could
a couple of years ago, which is weird because technically
I make a little more money than I did. And
(26:48):
I'm believing I'm not complaining. This isn't my employer's fault
or the idea, not at all. No, this is a
serious issue that has been caused by our own government,
the Federal Reserve, and Elon Musk get a great job.
I don't know if you guys heard this. Elon Musk
suggested that we come up with it. Sorry, that's a
different voicemail. I didn't want to play. Elon Musk and
Donald Trump were discussing earlier this week how there should
(27:10):
be maybe a commission kind of like a tribunal court,
if you will, in the federal government. Make one more
branch of the federal government. But this would be a
regulator for the regulators, somebody that simply goes through bills
that recently passed and cuts out all the fat, all
the unnecessary spending, all the people in the government that
have a job but don't really do anything all day.
(27:30):
Cut all that out, Quit spending so much money. Quit
printing out money with no backing. The government can never
bounce a check because they have a money printing machine.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
And that's the problem. That's the reason why hamburger costs
so much.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
the bit about it is little Kenny. Oh sorry, bro,
I mean big Kenny. You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit
of happiness.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's above average for sure. I feel like I know
something that the rest of you don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And if you knew what I knew, you would probably
feel like you knew something that other people wanted to
know too, and you'd have a certain sense of like
an ego drive, maybe a little arrogancy.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Knowing what I know and you don't know like I
happen to know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
The most eligible bachelorette slash right leaning conservative journalist in
Houston is on hold right now. She's beautiful, she's intelligent,
she's classy, and she's not going to go on a
date with you. You're trash. She's not interested in you.
Ladies and gentlemen. Live from wherever she is. My platonic friend,
Holly Hanson of the Texan Dot News, Holly, what's going
on with you lately?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
How you doing?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Oh my goodness, that was the sweetest intro I've ever had.
But yeah, just trying to keep up with the news,
and boy, we've had a lot again. We've got whiplash.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Let's start with this. Okay, So kim Ogg is smoking.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
She is.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Leaving no ammunition left in her revolver figuratively speaking, as
she walks out the door at the Harris County DA's office. Apparently,
there is a gentleman who's in a lot of trouble
right now. Multiple felonies for his role in the twenty
twenty Harris County elections. Now you might hear that and think, oh,
they're finally going to put Clifford Tatum in jail for
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all the things he did to rig the election, appolling
locations opening late, closing early, not enough paper ballots in
the conservative part of town.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
But that isn't at all what's going on, is it?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
No, it's not at all. A lot of people were
really disappointed with the announcement yesterday, but it was in
some sense a little bit entertaining kim Ogg. It's fresh
off of endorsing Senator ped Cruise for reelection, and yesterday
she announced that they were handing down criminal charges against
this worker in Harris County Elections office. But whereas a
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lot of people got excited about election fraud or maybe
Clifford Tatum or somebody higher up in government, this is
a data analyst who was essentially double dipping and falsifying
his timesheets. So the problem was that he was in
charge of allocating resources and it says a criminal offense
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not to provide polling sites with enough resources to conduct
an election, and so he is taking the blame for
all of those polling places that did not get enough
ballot paper on election day in November twenty twenty two.
Apparently this guy, whose name is Darryl Blackburn, was working
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for the county full time, theoretically earning about forty three
dollars an hour, but also working for oil and gas
private company and earning about two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars there at the same time. On a election day
twenty twenty two, he reported working eighteen hours for Harris
County but also worked eighteen excuse me, eight hours at
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his other employer. But because he shorted those pulling places,
he's charged with some felonies. He's facing six felony charges.
He could do up to twenty years in prison. Although
I think that she probably no, No.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
He won't. He'll be fine. Come on, you and I
both know this guy's he's good.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's very unlikely anything happens to this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But even if he does, we all know full well
that the people that the people that were all mad
at because of the twenty twenty two elections in Harris County,
they're never going to actually get into trouble. This sounded
like it was going to be a much bigger thing
than it was when the early reports came out that
there was going to be a press conference. That's twice recently. Look,
I don't have a problem with kim Og. I think
she's mostly done a great job as a good enough job.
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I'll leave it at that as a DA for Harris County.
But twice recently there's been some big announcement that something
wild was going to happen at a press conference with
kim Ogg, And then you show up at the press
conference and its kind of lacks a daisical am I.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Right, well, it kind of is.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
And in her defense, you know, she got criminal complaints
about the election. Her job, by law is to turn
those complaints over for investigations, to turn them over to
the Texas Rangers. It was up to them to look
into everything. And I think a lot of people are
really frustrated because even though this guy apparently didn't do
his job and allocate these resources according to the affidavits,
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there's questions about who was supervising him. It was it
just solely on him and this guy everybody trusted or
you know, who else should be held accountable here. We
already had state lawmakers moved to change the law so
that we no longer have an elections administrator in Harris County.
So Clifford Tatum has been relieved of his job and
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the elections have been turned over to elected officials. But
Clifford is still in the county, works for county government.
They just moved him to another position.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And you know, we still what's his new position? What
is his new role?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Well, you know what, I cannot remember. I think he
went to work. He went to work in another department
within Harris County, but he has not left Houston, so
he's still in the area. You know, no punishment for
just a really terrible election that resulted in all these
election contests and legal battles.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Listen to this headline.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
One.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Listen to this headline from the Houston Landing. Harris County
prosecutor says probe finds no evidence of crimes connected to
twenty twenty two election. They published that nineteen hours ago.
Does that sound to you like that was the news
from yesterday?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, no, no, that's not what the news was.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
It's not what it was. And I noticed that the
Houston Chronicle also had a similar headline saying no fraud found.
But you know, no mention of these criminal charges, and
you know, the Secretary of State's office audit found that
the county violated the law in operating these elections. But
you know, it seems like just this kind of low
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level guy is going to take the fall. Nothing really,
elections for.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
All who cares. All right, let's move on to the
next one here.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So yesterday the big news congratulations to Congressman Sylvester Turner,
the latest Washington d C. Lawmaker. Oh no, I know
the election hasn't happened yet, but he's won this thing.
Amanda Edwards, as a lot of people probably know, was
the one who challenged Shila Jackson Lee and came close
ish not long ago, while Shila was dying and didn't
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tell any of us. Is it possible Sheila Jackson Lee
didn't like she must have known she was dying when
she was running against Amanda Edwards. This position should have
gone to Amanda Edwards. I hate to defend a communist,
but really she's Amanda kind of got screwed here, didn't she.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
It is It is really interesting and so you know,
just for your listeners to understand, it's a little bit
weird because what happened is when Sheila Jackson Lee died
the Democratic precinct chair, so that part of the Democratic
Party apparatus in Harrison County, they get to choose who
replaces Sheila Jackson Lee on the ballot for the new
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term that starts in January. And so it wasn't you know,
voters selecting. And you know, I think there's a pretty
good chance that Amanda Edwards may have won, you know,
a primary election here. But so that's her Turner through
his hat in the ring and a lot of people.
I think there were a couple of rounds and it
was it was pretty close, but you know, Turner ends
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up getting the nod from these Democrat Party officials. Kind
of similar to Kamala Harris being replacing Joe Biden on
the presidential ticket, right, So it's not the voice of
the voters.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Now.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Just to make things more complicated, there is a special
election to fulfill Sheila Jackson Lee's unexpired term. That election
does not take place until November with the other general election,
So voters in Congressional District eighteen are going to vote twice.
They're going to vote for somebody to fill the seat
through the end of twenty twenty four and then they're
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going to be voting for someone to permanently replace Sila
Jackson Lee in Congress in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Okay, so in the meantime, in the meantime, the seat
remains open.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Yeah, right now it's open, which is kind of an
interesting thing. You know, it was up to Governor Abbott
to decide when that special election would take place, and
contravened on the November ballot. Yeah, it leaves one fewer
Democrat in Congress right now.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
All right, before we run out of time here. I
know everybody's forgotten about Hurricane Burrell, but I haven't. I'm
still pissed off that I was out without power for
much longer than I should have been.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
And there are businesses in Houston that actually went weeks.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
There was some restaurant out on the West Side that
was two weeks after Hurricane Burl still still didn't have power.
I don't know what the latest is on that, but
this is asinine. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going
to investigate center points. Burl response once again best ag
in the country. But you know, still Ken Paxton can't
fix the problem overnight. What's the latest with this?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, So Ken Paxton announced on Monday that he had
opened an investigation, and I think really his investigation is
going to be focused on the bidding process for those
mega generators at Center Point Lease. There's a lot of
questions about this contract. Apparently it's an eight hundred million
dollars lease agreement for these fifteen huge generators that could
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not be used in the aftermath of Hurricane Barrel, and
the next highest bid for this lease agreement was about
half that. So there's a lot of questions about why
this particular company got this, why they leased giant generators
that couldn't be moved around easily. Just so your listeners know,
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each one of these generators takes a couple of days
to put together and each one requires three semi trucks
to move into position, so they were completely useless. And
a lot of lawmakers are saying, well that that doesn't
even comply with the law we passed that allowed these
energy providers to get these generators. And so yeah, he's
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probably going to be looking into, you know, whether or
not everything was on the up and up on that bid,
and what is the relationship between the Center Point executive
team and the leaders at this particular company which has
a few scandals too. You know, I don't know too
much about it, but life Cycle Power that provided the generators.
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Their CEO has been in trouble with the law in
the past.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Hally, I gotta tell you, you're the only journalist in
Houston that I don't think we should put in prison.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I am so really that's very comforting.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
When I meet a journalist in this town.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
My first reaction is I'm so glad Guantanamo Bay still exists,
so we have a place for people like you.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
But you're the only one I don't feel that way about.
Speaker 8 (39:13):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
That's that's extremely flattering.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I think normally, normally when I meet a journalist, I
say right to the Gulags with you. But as far
as Holly Hanson goes, I would send her to a
Sandals resort, maybe a club med, depending on where.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
We were going to go.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Perfect. I'm all for it, Holly.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
In the meantime, what if I wanted to find the
club Med of Twitter accounts? Your Twitter account on X
is that you're still Holly S.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Hanson.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
I'm Hollys Hanson on X formerly known as Twitter and
the love to have your listeners follow and.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
The sandals resorts of Texas based news websites should probably
be the Texan dot News, right.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
That sounds right.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
And apparently you guys haven't you have an all you
can drink option?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Is that right? I'll have to check with our marketing
team on that one, but it sounds familiar. We do
have some awesome merch, though, so check it out. Some
great hats and some you know, beer glasses and wine tumblers.
They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Oh I love a good wine tumbler. But I want
to remind people the merch we have it I love
WJ dot com is much better than their merch. If
you're going to buy merch, buy our merch, don't buy
it from Holly Holly. We got we have to wrap
up the show right now. At the top of the hour.
Here there's going to be a Fox News report. Now,
it's my understanding the reporter in the Fox News report
is not from Texas. Therefore we shouldn't put this person
in a goolag.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
Yeah, well, I don't know. I will have to love
to see what this report is all about.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
I hope it's a good news report, because you know
about the crazy thing that just happened, and they're going
to explain it here at the top of the hour.
You know the thing, we don't even want to talk
about it. It's it's it's so fascinating and engaging. We'll
let the We'll let the very professional Fox News reporter
at the top of the hour here explain it to
our listeners.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Perfect.
Speaker 11 (40:58):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
If only there was like a short people have heard
millions of times before that they could hear before the
news report. But yet somehow that song gets better every
time they hear it.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
Is it the Pursuit of Happiness radio jingle?
Speaker 3 (41:12):
No, actually, yeah it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I love you all.
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I have a great afternoon. Drive safe.
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We'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
A new study says listening to classical music could be
a powerful tool in treating depression. Is that the reason
why the Chicago White Sox replaced Take Me Out to
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the Ballgame with Mozart? That would explain it? Hi, everybody,
Kenny Webster, good afternoon, Thanks for joining us. Lots on
the way. Brandon Waltons is stopping by. In fact, we
have a lot going on today with Attorney General Ken Paxton,
and we have two journalists that'll be here to talk
about it, one of them Brandon Waltons of Texas scorecard
dot Com. It's going to tell you how Ken Paxton
is making efforts right now to stop powerful liberal elected
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officials in the state of Texas is from hindering the
Second Amendment rights of law abiding Texas citizens. We'll explain
that story to you and a lot more with Brandon Walton's.
Plus Holly Hanson is coming by at the end of
the show this afternoon. You may have heard there was
some charges yesterday filed against a certain local official for
his involvement in the twenty twenty two elections. And while
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justice is important and it's good that somebody's probably going
to be punished, it's not quite what you think it's
going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So hang around.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We'll give you all the details on that very soon.
But before we get to any of that, Christopher Tremgley
today at the Washington Examiner just published a report about
how there's now this group of Republicans for Harris that
have come out. You saw white guys for Kamala and
black ladies for Kamala.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, now we have Republicans for Kamala.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And it always makes me laugh when you see these
groups surface on the internet, because you can't be a
Republican for Kamala. It's an oxymoron. It's like saying they're
a smart politician. It just isn't doesn't it's not true.
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So, the Democratic ticket, excuse me, the Democrat ticket, I
hate to call them Democratic for the twenty twenty four
presidential election may very well be the most aggressive, far left,
radically Marxist ticket in the nation's history for a presidential election.
There's no doubt, the principles, the policies, the ideology of
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Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walls have so much in
common with the acolytes of the Sickle and Hammer than
the stars and stripes. It's true, Tim Walls has no
guaranteed a free speech.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Motto. Have you heard this before? He says, no, you're not.
You're not guaranteed free speech.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The same guy that let people riot in the streets
says that conservatives are limited on what they can and
can't say. Then you've got Kamala Harris as much maligned
border policies, supporting violent political activists who rioted, looted, burned cities,
support the murdering of innocent children in the womb all
the way up until moments after birth. I mean, it's
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really disturbing stuff. And speaking of disturbing, this is just
another example of the disturbing trend of radical gender ideology.
The stuff this woman is pushing, her values are dangerously
far left. So given these left wing values, it would
be impossible for any reasonable true conservative, libertarian, populist, nationalist,
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anybody that would describe themselves as being vaguely republican to
be a supporter of Kamala Harris and or Tim Walls.
But that is what happened this week when a long
list of never Trump or so called Republicans tripped over
themselves rushing to express their solidarity and their support for
Kamala and Tim. But while these people believe they're making
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a political statement about their hatred for Trump by essentially
sticking it to them, in reality, they're just showing us
we're never really conservative Republican to begin with. Hating the
fact that Trump is the Republican nominee for president wouldn't
cause drastic ideological shifts in one's values. I'll give you
an example. If one were pro life, he or she
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wouldn't suddenly support candidates who favor abortion as some misguided
response to Trump's political rise in the party to the
candidacy of presidential nominee for the Republicans. In this instance,
people either believe aborting lives in the womb is murder
or they don't. It wouldn't make sense to support Kamala
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Harris if you're pro life, whether it's abortion or any
other rogue political issues supported by the left. Genuine conservatives
and Republicans could never under any circumstance support the abortion
policies of Kamala and Tim, it would be impossible. What
most conservative Republicans believe regarding abortion compared to what Tim
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and Kamala believe are polar opposites. The same could be
said for just about anything they support. No true conservative
would support suppressing free speech, but Tim Walls does. No
true conservative would vote for a candidate who failed at
border security, but that's what Kamala did, or thought that
innocent women like Lake and Riley should be forced to
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compete against men in college sports, But that's something both
of them believe. If a conservative and Republican voter doesn't
like Trump, then she or he doesn't have to vote
for him. But you would assume that that wouldn't mean
you would vote for Kamala instead. Anyone who did would
betray her or his core values. If these people were
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who they claimed to be, none of them could even
think about supporting someone as far left as Kamala or Tim.
Are you such a never Trump conservative that it turned
you into a communist? Beginning to think you probably weren't
much of a conservative at all? Adam Kinsinger, Liz Cheney,
Joe Walsh. I could go on and on.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Kenny Webster the best looking dude on And if you've
seen the competition, that's not saying a whole hell of
a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, it's not because they are. I always find it
fascinating when.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
An organization will come along and solve a problem that
doesn't exist, usually a go I mean in this obviously
in this context, I'm talking about the government, but offices
have been known to do this as well.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Heck, the HOA, the HOA in my condominium building. I
live in a multi unit, multi story condo unit not
far away from the radio station, and not long ago,
the HOA got together and they said, you know what,
we don't want delivery drivers like you know, door dash
and pizza delivery guys to deliver to people's units anymore.
We want them to leave the food at the front desk.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And we say, well why, It's like, wow, make some
of the older women in the building uncomfortable when they
see a food delivery guy wandering around the building looking
for a unit. It's like, all right, right, well did
one of those delivery guys harass an old lady. No,
they just don't want it to happen, Oh okay. And
then it's like, all right, well, we don't really know
who they are. Wait, don't the delivery guys leave their
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ida at the front desk when they come into the building.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But still, you know, there's an old lady on the
seventh floor. She doesn't like when she sees a Mexican guy,
and she doesn't know who she is. It's a problem
that doesn't exist with a stupid solution that inconveniences everybody.
And unfortunately, there's another example of this taking place today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
This is so dumb.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I can't even believe this happened. My next guest doesn't
even know about this story yet. He's hearing me explain
it right now for the first time.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Just as you are in Al Paso, the El Paso
Middle School, one of the middle schools there, Charles Middle
School in El pasoep ID whatever they call it. Nick DeSantis,
he's the principal.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He just said, you know what, we've noticed lately, a
lot of our students are wearing black clothing because that's
what's cool right now. They're all wearing black T shirts
with black pants. There's kind of a goth thing going
on right now with adolescent kids and young younger teenagers.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Let's put an end to that. Black clothing is depressing.
Nobody can wear black clothes at school anymore. Brandon Waltons
of Texas scorecard dot Com. I'm a conservative. You're a conservative.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Based on what I just told you, Does it sound
like they solved a problem at the El Paso School District?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I this they did.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
It's a problem I've never heard of. I mean, this
is why I didn't even know this. So kids now
are dressing in black again because I know that. You know,
I'm thinking back to when I was in school. It
was a little bit after goth, but then you had
sort of uh, well you know what was it called
after that kind of emo or scene. Yep, and that
that often was kind of black. I guess everything comes back.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, you're one hundred percent correct about that. That's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
When I was an adolescent, I remember grunge was big,
and industrial.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Music it was. It was a lot of music that
sounded like this, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And then I remember one year we went away for
summer break and all the kids were wearing black clothes,
and they were wearing Doc Martin combat boots and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And then when we came back from summer vacation a
different kind of music.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Suddenly, over the summer, kids discovered it was more fun
to wear like cargo shorts and birket stocks and play
frisbee than it was to be goth and wear all
that makeup and stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And suddenly Dave Matthews was cool. Now, I just you know, Brandy,
it's just my opinion here.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But if the government had told the students you can't
wear black, I would imagine when we came back from
school they still would have been doing it right this
summer break. When you tell teenagers not to do something,
doesn't it usually have the opposite effect.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Dude, That's usually how it works. That's you know, this
is this is this is wild. Maybe this is an
argument for why school should just have uniforms. Now you
don't have to deal with any of this. I guess no,
there'll be no expression at all.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Let's do that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I actually think that's a great point because this solution
to a problem that doesn't exist actually creates another problem.
What if there's a kid at the school district that
doesn't have a lot of clothes. Now you've just told him,
like the two or three articles of clothes he could
safely wear to school.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sorry, you can't wear that anymore. It's the wrong color.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I am all for or the school uniform thing, Brandon,
because it deals with the fact that it's not a distraction.
You don't have to think about what you're gonna wear
to school that day. There's no gang colors. And like,
if a kid's family doesn't have a lot of money,
no one's gonna know if he's worn the same clothes
two or three times the same week.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Everyone's wearing those clothes, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Look, I'm in favor of Una Farms. I'm on team uniforms.
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, all that being said, Brandon didn't even know I
was gonna ask him about that. I just wanted his
take on it. Brandon is, however, today reporting on what
just happened at the Dallas State Fair. For a long time,
you were allowed to bring a gun to the Dallas
State Fair. It's the Texas State Fair, it's in Dallas,
and now you can't anymore. And apparently Attorney General Ken
Paxton has a problem with that. What's the latest on this?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yeah, so last week, Texas State Fair rolls out a
new announcement saying we're not gonna let people carry firearms
into the fair. They had previously allowed licensed firearmholders to
do so. Last year there was a shooting. It was
like a targeted shooting. Someone came in and shot a
few people at the food court. That actually this person
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snuck in and reportedly also didn't have a license to carry,
so he was carrying in there illegally to begin with.
And so, as is typical, they've created a response to
the problem that wouldn't have fixed the original issue, which
is to prevent all lawfully licensed firearmholders from carrying. Now,
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the State Fair says, well, we're a private organization, but
the Attorney General can paxton, They said, a letter to
the City of Dallas saying, you know, not so fast,
because it turns out that the State Fair actually, as
part of an agreement with the City of Dallas, gets
a leaf on the fair grounds and are actually entrusted.
You know, there's sort of a quasi governmental agency at
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least for you know, the months or a few weeks
that the fair is there. And so he's arguing that
under state law right now, you can't prevent they can't
prevent lawful licensed firearm holders from coming in from doing
that you had a group of I think seventy lawmakers
as well send a letter to the state fair. So
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right now the clock is ticking. Terry General Paxton gave
the City of Dallas fifteen days. We'll see what they
do this he ends up needing to sue them.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, very interesting. Good to see at Paxton stand up
for what's right in this state. I mean, this is Texas.
Law abiding gun owners aren't allowed to participate in their
own God given free rights.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It's unbelievable, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
In the meantime, I can't if I made a short
list of the biggest national security concerns, I don't know
where exactly Chinese agents buying farmland near military bases would
fall on that list, but it would certainly be on
the list. And that is a concern of a lot
of lawmakers in the state, except, of course, for State
Representative Jean Wu. He loves the idea of Chinese state
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agents buying farmland near our military basis. He's defended at
many times. Apparently the Texas Farm Bureau sees us a
bit differently. What's the latest going on with this issue?
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Yeah, this is an issue that frankly should have been
solved a long time ago. I mean, the legislature could
have passed this last year passed the Texas Senate daide feeling,
and the Texas House killed it. And so now they're
sort of playing catch up. Right now. The legislature's not
in session, but they're holding interim hearings where they sort
of study these issues. And you've had an interesting thing
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happened a couple of weeks ago. There was a hearing
on exactly this issue, saying let's not let foreign hostile
entities like China come in and buy Texas land. And
whenever they held that hearing, the Texas Farm Bureau, huge
organization represents a ton of farmers here in Texas, big
agricultural center of the country, came in and said, well,
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you know, we want to see legislation that protects private
property rights, essentially saying that people should be allowed to
have the right to sell their land to Chinese nationals
or whoever they want. And they essentially said, you know,
maybe if we had a we would support if you know,
there was just they were just notified who they were
selling their land to, but they were seemingly against an
(14:09):
outright dan Well, we reported on that hearing what happened.
That was about two three weeks ago, and since then
they've received a lot of pressures you can imagine, because
you know, Texans buy and large according to the polling,
and I would say, especially especially rural Texans who are
members of the Farm Bureau, don't want this to happen.
They don't want China coming in and buying up land.
(14:30):
And so there was a hearing yesterday at the Capitol,
and you've seen a shift already from the Texas Farm
Bureau where they say, look, we're not going to pose this.
You know, they sort of said, we're clarifying our position, right,
and it's completely different than the position they held before,
but they clarified that we're not going to pose this.
In fact, we think we might end up supporting a
ban on Chinese land sales. And so, you know, this
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is good. I'm glad to see that they came around.
I think this is due to a large amount of
folks who spoke out against this, because you're right, this
is one of the I guess national security concerns that's
facing our country and it's something that the state can
take action on, and unfortunately, thus far has it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, perfectly explained and great work reporting on this. I
couldn't help, but notice you threw the name Dave Falin
in there, the Texas House Speaker. I don't know if
he'll still be the House Speaker, but he still will.
He'll be a lawmaker come November. I gotta think he
probably does get re elected. And I also noticed that
he makes a lot of money in his family business,
investing in real estate, renting out buildings, that sort of thing.
(15:30):
Is it possible that he dragged his feet on stopping
Chinese government agents from buying farmland around military bases in
the Texas State because that's something that benefits his family financially,
even if it's at the cost of national security.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I mean, you know, I don't know. I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Do we know that it's not true?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Yeah, exactly. I haven't anything that suggests that he is
currently benefiting from that. But you know, maybe he's trying
to keep his options open, right. I think it's actually
more likely though. This is something that unfortunately a lot
of Democrats opposed in the Texas legislature, people like especially
Jean Wu, like you mentioned, and unfortunately this is another
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side effective whenever you have a coalition in the Texas
House that is based on giving Democrats power, which is
what we have now under Dave Feeling. This is the
consequences of that. Is that good legislation, common sense legislation
like this to keep Texans safe and frankly keep the
whole country safe, gets killed as a means of, you know,
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sacrifice in order to maintain Democrat support. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
My brother Brandon Walton's Texas scorecard dot com. Do we
have time for one more? There were a couple other
stories here.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I wanted to ask you about why is the US
Department of Education, why were they going to investigate carol
iss D and why is it being paused?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I remember this story, but I haven't been following it actively.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Yeah, well you CAROLSD. Actually, that's got a prety conservative
school board. They've been leading there. They were one of
the first organizations said look, we're going to lead the
Texas Association of school Boards. They've been really leading on
a lot of conservative issues. So of course they've raised
the ire of Joe Biden's Department of Education, which had
been investigating the school, saying that they were discriminating against
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students who are LGBTQ plus based on the race, etc. Well,
Carol's been fighting back and now the Department of Education
has actually put a pause on the investigation. So it's
just good news for Carol ISD. But it's just again
another example of the weaponization of several agencies that we've
come to expect under President Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And to those of you that do oppose school choice
and think the government should educate all of our kids,
a quick reminder, folks, Yet another teacher, this time in
East Texas. The Atlanta ISD has a teacher and a
coach that we use using Snapchat to solicit nude picks
from little boys. He just got sentenced to sixty years
in prison for sex crimes against kids. I'm glad he
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got caught, but imagine how many people don't Brandon.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Exactly. And that's the shame, is that for every story
that we report on or every story you see of
this stuff, there's a lot, there's you know how many others, right,
countless others that unfortunately we don't know about, or at
least don't know about yet. It's one of the biggest arguments,
I think biggest selling points to school choice out there.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Amazing work today.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Texas Scorecard dot com as always leading the charge for
conservative based news all around the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You guys do awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
We got another awesome reporter covering Texas politics coming up,
Holly Hanson'll be here shortly. Stick around in the meantime.
Subscribe to the Texas Scorecard email list. You could do
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I'm not you, but if I was you, I would
be much funnier and better looking. No, I'm just kidding.
If I was you, I would I would follow Brandon
Waltons on social media.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You should.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Please, if
you're offended by anything you heard to get a piece
of paper, write down a detailed description what bothered you,
and facts it to one eight eight eight. Nobody gives
a fight.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
The mayonnaise thing very bizarre. I thought this was a
joke when I first heard about it.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's not a joke.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Helman's released a fragment. A fragrance. Excuse me, that's easy
for you to say. There's a perfume. Helmans just put
out a perfume and it smells like mayonnaise. Now they
come out with it, yelled the ghost of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Why is this the thing? Why did we need mayonnaise?
I don't get it. Helman's is coming out with a
fragrance inspired by their most popular product.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Kind of wonder what happens if you wear it for
too long? In the sun.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Introducing the latest fragrance from Hellman's Mayonnaise. Salmonellas experienced the tantalizing.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Blend of eggs, lemon, dijon and garlics salmon savory notes
that will leave you feeling bold, sophisticated, nauseous.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
And cramped sound. This fragrance is sure to give you
a cell So many Illmans Salmonilla available now in the
continent's aisle of your local crucy store.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
It's time once again for voicemail messages from you, oh me.
The following voicemail messages were sent from listeners just like
you using the Iheard radio app or not man. If
you want to send us a voicemail, just download the
iHeartRadio smartphone app and push the talk back button. You
can send us a thirty second audio recording that we
will play on the show at a future date.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So what are you waiting for?
Speaker 10 (20:42):
Download the app and leave us a message today.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
All right, So the only rules are don't swear and
try to make a quiet in the background, like if
you're listening to the radio, turn the radio down and
then leave the message, or you know, roll the window
up and then definitely don't swear. I'd be kind of
bad about playing these lateies, so I apologize. Let's uh
if you left me of let's hear something right now.
You can either do it during the morning show or
the afternoon show. Here's what you said. Oh okay, I
(21:12):
should probably point out I don't listen to these ahead
of time. Maybe I should. It would probably save us
more time on the air. But I like my response
to be candid. You know, sometimes people don't even know
that they're recording it, like this guy. Okay, clearly he's
got the phone in his pocket.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I bet this next one will be a real voicemail.
Just to get a question like that from a reporter.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Just showed the slippery slope that we're already on, you know,
them willing to ask them straight out in their face.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Are they going to block an interview? Are they going
to block free speech? This is herb from Houston. Okay, yeah,
we thank you very much for the comments.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
We played a sound bite yesterday. Let me see if
I could find it real quick.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
A Washington Post reporter asked Kamala Harris if they should
permit Trump to interview Elon Musk. Excuse me, it wasn't
even an interview. If they should allow Elon Musk and
Trump to have a conversation this week on X on
spaces on the Twitter platform. A bold question to ask,
like what how dare you suggest that two fully grown
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men can't have a conversation in public?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
But that's what the Washington Post wanted to know.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tomorrow tonight
on on X.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I don't know if the President is going today. Go
free to say if he is or not. But I
think that.
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue, it's
a you know, it's an America issue. What role does
the White House or the President have in sort of
stopping that, or stopping the spread of that, or sort
of intervening in that. Some of that was about campaign
this information, but you know it's a wider thing.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
Right, Yeah, No, I mean you've heard us talk about
this many times from here about the responsibility of these
that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation disinformation.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Don't have anything to read.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
Out from here about specific ways that we're working on it,
but we believe that that they have the responsibility. These
are private companies, so we're also mindful of that too.
But look, it is uh, I think it is incredibly
important to call that out as you are you're doing.
I just don't have any specifics on what we've been
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doing internally as it relates to the interviews and not
something that I'm tracking and I'm sure the President's.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Not tracking it either.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
What are you doing right now to combat the misinformation
that Burger King is spreading about Ronald McDonald?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That's what I want to know. What are we doing
right now to come on, guys, what a bunch of jackasses?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Are you kidding? You don't think that two free individuals too, America?
What misinformation?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Tell us?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
What the misinformation is? As far as I could tell,
the misinformation that they're spreading on X is simply the
news that you guys at the Washington Post refused to
report on because you guys are a bunch of hacks
masquerading as journalists. All right, more voicemail messages from you.
This one comes from I think this is from Waco.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I just want to say you guys rock baby, Yay.
Thanks man, We like we like you too. Thanks bro.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Well yeah, he used to call it Falt the s
Flagger back in the unit. But that's about all I
can say about him.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Sometimes when people leave these voicemail messages, I don't know
what it's in response to, but so thank you for
the voicemail.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
This is Eddie and Abilene and I'm reading Hillbilly Elogy.
I'm just on chapter three, but I went to page one.
Two is chapter eleven, and it just talks about his
time at Ohio State University and working port Tom to
pay his way through college. There's nothing about a couch.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, there's nothing in the book about having sex with
the couch. There never was.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That's just a thing liberals started saying, and then it
caught and I'll admit I didn't read the book, so
when I heard him saying it, I thought it was funny.
But for the record, JD. Vance never had sex with
the couch, the vice presidential nominee to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And you know, once again, people are just idiots apparently so.
But thank you for doing the research, sir. When y'all
were talking about Lawrence Fifthburne and Peewee's Playhouse, he played
cowboy Carl, who we pee wee.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That's true and then he went on to starring The Matrix.
I'm glad you cleared that up, sir. I feel better already.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Do you realize that the traffic manager's feed for programming
is coming over only air telling what commercial's coming up?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I think somebody's sloping up.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, what's going on here? That's a voice my message
from New Orleans. It doesn't affect us at all.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Hey, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
I really don't understand how anybody Kane afford to live
right now unless making good money. I'm an engineer, right,
but main just for an average person. I don't know
how to get in by. I love you, love a
good show, a great show all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Thanks brother, I love you too, my man.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah for me, Like I as you guys know, I'm
not a rich guy, but I do pretty well, I'm
a pretty big radio personality compared to other radio personalities.
This is a very popular afternoon show. And this isn't
even my main job. It's my part time job. My
main job is co hosting an executive producer for what
is probably the biggest morning show in the regional part
of the South and the south region of the country.
(26:27):
And so I make, you know, pretty good living doing
something I really enjoy, very grateful for that. I thank
God every day for that. But I do notice when
I go to pay my bills lately that things cost more,
a lot more, a lot more. And then I noticed
I can't spend quite as much money as I could
a couple of years ago, which is weird because technically
I make a little more money than I did. And
(26:48):
I'm believing I'm not complaining. This isn't my employer's fault
or the idea, not at all. No, this is a
serious issue that has been caused by our own government,
the Federal Reserve, and Elon Musk get a great job.
I don't know if you guys heard this. Elon Musk
suggested that we come up with it. Sorry, that's a
different voicemail. I didn't want to play. Elon Musk and
Donald Trump were discussing earlier this week how there should
(27:10):
be maybe a commission kind of like a tribunal court,
if you will, in the federal government. Make one more
branch of the federal government. But this would be a
regulator for the regulators, somebody that simply goes through bills
that recently passed and cuts out all the fat, all
the unnecessary spending, all the people in the government that
have a job but don't really do anything all day.
(27:30):
Cut all that out, Quit spending so much money. Quit
printing out money with no backing. The government can never
bounce a check because they have a money printing machine.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
And that's the problem. That's the reason why hamburger costs
so much.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
the bit about it is little Kenny. Oh sorry, bro,
I mean big Kenny. You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit
of happiness.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's above average for sure. I feel like I know
something that the rest of you don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And if you knew what I knew, you would probably
feel like you knew something that other people wanted to
know too, and you'd have a certain sense of like
an ego drive, maybe a little arrogancy.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Knowing what I know and you don't know like I
happen to know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
The most eligible bachelorette slash right leaning conservative journalist in
Houston is on hold right now. She's beautiful, she's intelligent,
she's classy, and she's not going to go on a
date with you. You're trash. She's not interested in you.
Ladies and gentlemen. Live from wherever she is. My platonic friend,
Holly Hanson of the Texan Dot News, Holly, what's going
on with you lately?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
How you doing?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Oh my goodness, that was the sweetest intro I've ever had.
But yeah, just trying to keep up with the news,
and boy, we've had a lot again. We've got whiplash.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Let's start with this. Okay, So kim Ogg is smoking.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
She is.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Leaving no ammunition left in her revolver figuratively speaking, as
she walks out the door at the Harris County DA's office. Apparently,
there is a gentleman who's in a lot of trouble
right now. Multiple felonies for his role in the twenty
twenty Harris County elections. Now you might hear that and think, oh,
they're finally going to put Clifford Tatum in jail for
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all the things he did to rig the election, appolling
locations opening late, closing early, not enough paper ballots in
the conservative part of town.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
But that isn't at all what's going on, is it?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
No, it's not at all. A lot of people were
really disappointed with the announcement yesterday, but it was in
some sense a little bit entertaining kim Ogg. It's fresh
off of endorsing Senator ped Cruise for reelection, and yesterday
she announced that they were handing down criminal charges against
this worker in Harris County Elections office. But whereas a
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lot of people got excited about election fraud or maybe
Clifford Tatum or somebody higher up in government, this is
a data analyst who was essentially double dipping and falsifying
his timesheets. So the problem was that he was in
charge of allocating resources and it says a criminal offense
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not to provide polling sites with enough resources to conduct
an election, and so he is taking the blame for
all of those polling places that did not get enough
ballot paper on election day in November twenty twenty two.
Apparently this guy, whose name is Darryl Blackburn, was working
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for the county full time, theoretically earning about forty three
dollars an hour, but also working for oil and gas
private company and earning about two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars there at the same time. On a election day
twenty twenty two, he reported working eighteen hours for Harris
County but also worked eighteen excuse me, eight hours at
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his other employer. But because he shorted those pulling places,
he's charged with some felonies. He's facing six felony charges.
He could do up to twenty years in prison. Although
I think that she probably no, No.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
He won't. He'll be fine. Come on, you and I
both know this guy's he's good.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's very unlikely anything happens to this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But even if he does, we all know full well
that the people that the people that were all mad
at because of the twenty twenty two elections in Harris County,
they're never going to actually get into trouble. This sounded
like it was going to be a much bigger thing
than it was when the early reports came out that
there was going to be a press conference. That's twice recently. Look,
I don't have a problem with kim Og. I think
she's mostly done a great job as a good enough job.
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I'll leave it at that as a DA for Harris County.
But twice recently there's been some big announcement that something
wild was going to happen at a press conference with
kim Ogg, And then you show up at the press
conference and its kind of lacks a daisical am I.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Right, well, it kind of is.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
And in her defense, you know, she got criminal complaints
about the election. Her job, by law is to turn
those complaints over for investigations, to turn them over to
the Texas Rangers. It was up to them to look
into everything. And I think a lot of people are
really frustrated because even though this guy apparently didn't do
his job and allocate these resources according to the affidavits,
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there's questions about who was supervising him. It was it
just solely on him and this guy everybody trusted or
you know, who else should be held accountable here. We
already had state lawmakers moved to change the law so
that we no longer have an elections administrator in Harris County.
So Clifford Tatum has been relieved of his job and
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the elections have been turned over to elected officials. But
Clifford is still in the county, works for county government.
They just moved him to another position.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And you know, we still what's his new position? What
is his new role?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Well, you know what, I cannot remember. I think he
went to work. He went to work in another department
within Harris County, but he has not left Houston, so
he's still in the area. You know, no punishment for
just a really terrible election that resulted in all these
election contests and legal battles.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Listen to this headline.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
One.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Listen to this headline from the Houston Landing. Harris County
prosecutor says probe finds no evidence of crimes connected to
twenty twenty two election. They published that nineteen hours ago.
Does that sound to you like that was the news
from yesterday?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, no, no, that's not what the news was.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
It's not what it was. And I noticed that the
Houston Chronicle also had a similar headline saying no fraud found.
But you know, no mention of these criminal charges, and
you know, the Secretary of State's office audit found that
the county violated the law in operating these elections. But
you know, it seems like just this kind of low
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level guy is going to take the fall. Nothing really,
elections for.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
All who cares. All right, let's move on to the
next one here.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So yesterday the big news congratulations to Congressman Sylvester Turner,
the latest Washington d C. Lawmaker. Oh no, I know
the election hasn't happened yet, but he's won this thing.
Amanda Edwards, as a lot of people probably know, was
the one who challenged Shila Jackson Lee and came close
ish not long ago, while Shila was dying and didn't
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tell any of us. Is it possible Sheila Jackson Lee
didn't like she must have known she was dying when
she was running against Amanda Edwards. This position should have
gone to Amanda Edwards. I hate to defend a communist,
but really she's Amanda kind of got screwed here, didn't she.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
It is It is really interesting and so you know,
just for your listeners to understand, it's a little bit
weird because what happened is when Sheila Jackson Lee died
the Democratic precinct chair, so that part of the Democratic
Party apparatus in Harrison County, they get to choose who
replaces Sheila Jackson Lee on the ballot for the new
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term that starts in January. And so it wasn't you know,
voters selecting. And you know, I think there's a pretty
good chance that Amanda Edwards may have won, you know,
a primary election here. But so that's her Turner through
his hat in the ring and a lot of people.
I think there were a couple of rounds and it
was it was pretty close, but you know, Turner ends
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up getting the nod from these Democrat Party officials. Kind
of similar to Kamala Harris being replacing Joe Biden on
the presidential ticket, right, So it's not the voice of
the voters.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Now.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Just to make things more complicated, there is a special
election to fulfill Sheila Jackson Lee's unexpired term. That election
does not take place until November with the other general election,
So voters in Congressional District eighteen are going to vote twice.
They're going to vote for somebody to fill the seat
through the end of twenty twenty four and then they're
(36:16):
going to be voting for someone to permanently replace Sila
Jackson Lee in Congress in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Okay, so in the meantime, in the meantime, the seat
remains open.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Yeah, right now it's open, which is kind of an
interesting thing. You know, it was up to Governor Abbott
to decide when that special election would take place, and
contravened on the November ballot. Yeah, it leaves one fewer
Democrat in Congress right now.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
All right, before we run out of time here. I
know everybody's forgotten about Hurricane Burrell, but I haven't. I'm
still pissed off that I was out without power for
much longer than I should have been.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
And there are businesses in Houston that actually went weeks.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
There was some restaurant out on the West Side that
was two weeks after Hurricane Burl still still didn't have power.
I don't know what the latest is on that, but
this is asinine. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going
to investigate center points. Burl response once again best ag
in the country. But you know, still Ken Paxton can't
fix the problem overnight. What's the latest with this?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, So Ken Paxton announced on Monday that he had
opened an investigation, and I think really his investigation is
going to be focused on the bidding process for those
mega generators at Center Point Lease. There's a lot of
questions about this contract. Apparently it's an eight hundred million
dollars lease agreement for these fifteen huge generators that could
(37:44):
not be used in the aftermath of Hurricane Barrel, and
the next highest bid for this lease agreement was about
half that. So there's a lot of questions about why
this particular company got this, why they leased giant generators
that couldn't be moved around easily. Just so your listeners know,
(38:05):
each one of these generators takes a couple of days
to put together and each one requires three semi trucks
to move into position, so they were completely useless. And
a lot of lawmakers are saying, well that that doesn't
even comply with the law we passed that allowed these
energy providers to get these generators. And so yeah, he's
(38:25):
probably going to be looking into, you know, whether or
not everything was on the up and up on that bid,
and what is the relationship between the Center Point executive
team and the leaders at this particular company which has
a few scandals too. You know, I don't know too
much about it, but life Cycle Power that provided the generators.
(38:46):
Their CEO has been in trouble with the law in
the past.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Hally, I gotta tell you, you're the only journalist in
Houston that I don't think we should put in prison.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I am so really that's very comforting.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
When I meet a journalist in this town.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
My first reaction is I'm so glad Guantanamo Bay still exists,
so we have a place for people like you.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
But you're the only one I don't feel that way about.
Speaker 8 (39:13):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
That's that's extremely flattering.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I think normally, normally when I meet a journalist, I
say right to the Gulags with you. But as far
as Holly Hanson goes, I would send her to a
Sandals resort, maybe a club med, depending on where.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
We were going to go.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Perfect. I'm all for it, Holly.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
In the meantime, what if I wanted to find the
club Med of Twitter accounts? Your Twitter account on X
is that you're still Holly S.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Hanson.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
I'm Hollys Hanson on X formerly known as Twitter and
the love to have your listeners follow and.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
The sandals resorts of Texas based news websites should probably
be the Texan dot News, right.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
That sounds right.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
And apparently you guys haven't you have an all you
can drink option?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Is that right? I'll have to check with our marketing
team on that one, but it sounds familiar. We do
have some awesome merch, though, so check it out. Some
great hats and some you know, beer glasses and wine tumblers.
They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Oh I love a good wine tumbler. But I want
to remind people the merch we have it I love
WJ dot com is much better than their merch. If
you're going to buy merch, buy our merch, don't buy
it from Holly Holly. We got we have to wrap
up the show right now. At the top of the hour.
Here there's going to be a Fox News report. Now,
it's my understanding the reporter in the Fox News report
is not from Texas. Therefore we shouldn't put this person
in a goolag.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
Yeah, well, I don't know. I will have to love
to see what this report is all about.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
I hope it's a good news report, because you know
about the crazy thing that just happened, and they're going
to explain it here at the top of the hour.
You know the thing, we don't even want to talk
about it. It's it's it's so fascinating and engaging. We'll
let the We'll let the very professional Fox News reporter
at the top of the hour here explain it to
our listeners.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Perfect.
Speaker 11 (40:58):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
If only there was like a short people have heard
millions of times before that they could hear before the
news report. But yet somehow that song gets better every
time they hear it.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
Is it the Pursuit of Happiness radio jingle?
Speaker 3 (41:12):
No, actually, yeah it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I love you all.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
I have a great afternoon. Drive safe.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
We'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more
of what you bought a radio for listening.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
To the Pursuit of Happy Thiss Radio.
Speaker 11 (41:26):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.
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