August 8, 2025 • 38 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features State Senator Mayes Middleton, journalist Holly Hansen, and January 6th prisoner Adam Johnson aka "the Lectern Guy." ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh my god, it is going to be a weird,
weird day on Pursuit of Happiness Radio. I don't know
if you've heard, but yesterday Lena Hidalgo lost her mind.
Holly Hansen stopping by, and she's going to tell us
the story. And if you hadn't heard it yet, Holly
describes it perfectly. She has actually some information about what
happened yesterday at the Harris County Commissioner's Court involving Lena
Hidalgo that you probably actually have not heard yet, some
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things you probably didn't know about how mentally unstable Lena
Hidalgo is. We're actually going to break some news coming
up here in just a minute to stick around for that.
Also stopping by, State Senator Mays Middleton. He's running for
attorney general, but he actually has the solution on how
to get rid of Lena headew is a law that
he helped pass not long ago in our state legislature.
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And if Mays Middleton has his way, Lena Hidalgo won't
be the county commissioner judge anymore. The county judge. Oh
one more guest is going to be here. This is
very interesting. What I'm about to say is going to
surprise you. You know you remember the lectern guy? Do you
know who the lectern guy is? His real name is
Adam Johnson. He's kind of famous because he was one
of the January sixth prisoners. He moved Nancy Pelosi's podium.
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It's actually called a lectern, I'd call it a podium.
And after he moved it, people were very angry. They're
very mad about it, and so he was charged with
a felony. But eventually he became a friend and ally
to Donald Trump and he was pardoned. He's a pretty cool,
funny guy. He's in town right now for Ron Paul's
birthday party. Stick around all that and more today on
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Did I mention tonight I'm
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in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, doing stand up comedy at a place
called Bruski's. Join me if you're listening to us online,
we'd love to have you there Tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm in Denham Springs doing stand up comedy at Rhythm Heritage.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I hope you could join us quick break, We'll be
right back.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You were listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. We're
everyone is welcome, even scum sucking maggots, swallowing socialist bastards
you used to refer to as mom.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, yesterday was a really fun day for Houston politics.
Unst your name's Lena Hidalgo, then yesterday was terrible. Yesterday,
Lena Hidalgo had an idea. She said, I'm going to
raise taxes on everybody, and if they don't like it,
I'm gonna use kids as political props to try to
shame them into raising taxes. And weirdly that didn't work either,
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and now people want to remove her from office, including
folks like County Commissioner Tom Ramsey and of course even
State Senator Mays Middleton.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
He'll be hearing a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But before we get to any of that, here's what
Lena Hidalgo said, followed with an explanation of what took
place by none other than local conservative New your Border
Holly Hanson, and.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
A refusal to trust the voters to decide this important issue.
There's absolutely no reason why we can't simply ask the
voters what they would like to see. The program has
been evaluated. The offices have been working on this for
four years. I've been talking about a bond election since
twenty nineteen. Unlike Travis County, we actually ran the program
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before putting it to the voters. We have been working
with the Texas Work for.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Voice Emotion and others, and we have someone not okay,
I'm recognizing the rules.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Let's let's just move on to the next item.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
And if you want to vote, know in front of
the kids, that's just judge.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The emotion has been made.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You have to call for a second. You do a
question has been called on this.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
If there's no second, then I didn't I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, what's the motion? I heard you make the motion?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No said I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Okay, so are you pulling emotion back?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
There's no motion.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
I did not make the motion.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I'm asking if my colleagues are yes or no for
just usting the voters commission.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'm yes.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Commissioner No.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Commissioner Ramsey No, commissioner says no elision.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No jud I thought they were supposed to be like
parliamentarian procedures here. I thought they had a way, a
certain order that these things are supposed to be done.
But apparently there's children playing in the background. It was
just sheer chaos yesterday at the Harris County Commissioner's court
to the point where this is becoming national news story.
If you're confused, you should be. It's confusing here to
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explain it to us none other than the Holly Hanson
from Holly Hansen Texan Dot News. Go ahead, Holly Hey, and.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
You're recording there. I only caught a little snippet of
the chaos that was in the Harris County Commissioner's courtroom yesterday.
At some point, the children were very loud. Lena Hidalgo
repeatedly interrupted her colleagues who were trying to talk about
the issue, wouldn't let them talk. Especially, had a bad
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and forth with one of her fellow commissioners, Leslie Brionez,
also with Adrian Garcia and the other commissioners, and as
you heard, the County Attorney's office there was trying to
rank things in and get them back on track, but
it was it was really chaotic, and Lena Hidalgo was
at times practically hysterical in the way she was talking
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to the children there and to her fellow members of
the Commissioner's Court. I mean, I've been covering Commissioner's Court
in twenty nineteen and I have never seen anything quite
like this. I mean, she was just very out of
control and just respectful. We do know that she has
taken a leave before for mental health issues, and so
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there's a lot of questions about whether or not this
is a recurring problem. She did, instead of taking the
vote and following the procedure, call a recess and then
didn't come back to court, and so they had to
conduct the rest of business primarily without her, except for,
you know, a brief appearance a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
In the day.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
But commissioners then moved to center her later in the meeting.
And not only did she have this outburst yesterday that
was just a bit over the top and frankly a
little bit scary, but said a previous meeting where there
was a child presence, she you know, let go with
some f bombs, and it's been just very erratic in
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her behavior and so I think there's a lot of
concerns about whether or not she's capable of remaining in
the job to finish out this second term that she
was elected to. And there's a remaining question about whether
or not so she's going to run for reelection. She
is up next year, and there are multiple candidates taking
a look at this, And now we've got at least
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one commissioner saying that perhaps she should be removed from
office before her term ends. But like you said, it
was it was one of the most chaotic, confusing meetings
that certainly I've ever seen. And you know, for anyone
who's covered local politics, you know, sometimes you get some
crazy school board meetings and things like that. I just
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don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is it possible that Lena Hidalgo just doesn't want to
be the county judge anymore?
Speaker 9 (07:22):
You know, that is a possibility. I will tell you
there was a University of Houston poll that came out
just a few weeks ago and found that she was
the least popular of all the county wide elect officials.
For net favorability rating is only about four percent. But
what's interesting is that if you take a look at
all of the information that came in that poll. She
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remains popular with Democratic voters and polls more highly than
the two other Democrats who have announced that they're going
to run for county judge this next year. And so
she's still you know, she still could run and when
a Democratic primary. Now whether or not she win a
Republican primary remains to be seen. There are two notable
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Republicans who have also announced that they are running for
the seat. There's a mayor from Piney Point Village near
Houston by the name of Eliza Dutt and then Marty Langton,
who is the president of the Houston Professional Firefighters Association,
very well known in the Houston and Harris County area
because of his leadership and conflict with the previous Houston
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mayor over fair treatment for the firefighters. So, you know,
Lena hid Allgo had some headwinds. Now, I do have
sources telling me that she has been looking at running
for a congressional seat. There is a congresswoman by the
name of Sylvia Garcia from the Houston area. Yes, quite
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a bit, right, but yeah, word is that Lena may
be eyeing that seat. Now if she announces for that,
it does trigger the state's resigned to run provision, and
so she would effectively be resigning as the Harris County judge.
But you know, you can't have the Commissioner's Court vote
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to hold her over in that position, which is something
they've already done for the county attorney, who is also
running for a congressional seat. So we don't really know
what his dollgo is going to do. In regards to
the twenty twenty six elections, everybody's sort of been on
edge waiting for that. But you know, I wouldn't presume anything. Again,
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she remains popular with Democratic primary voters, so you know
that she could go any direction, and she doesn't really
seem to mind that she has some pretty harsh critics
and people who'd like to see her removed from office.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Something I've noticed in the past. Because I don't know
if you know this about me, Holly, I you know,
I like to party. I like to have a good time,
and sometimes sometimes when I've had a few too many
to drink, I don't care what other people think of
me either. Now I'm not saying that's what happened to her,
but could it be, I mean, could it be, you know,
I you.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Know, wouldn't presume that her behavior was certainly very strange yesterday.
She was speaking in a very very fast way. I mean,
it did seem like maybe there could have been some
sort of you know, drug induced or something speeding up there.
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I don't know. And also in the clip we have
from the previous meeting where she dropped the F bomb,
her speech is slurred, and so you know, I don't know.
And we do know she's has ongoing treatment for mental
health issues, notably severe depression, and she's been very public
about the fact that she has to leave on Thursday
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afternoons to go to doctor's appointments and a group therapy session.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
I mean, I am not making that up.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
In Commissioner's court. So you know what, what a lot
going on there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Why isn't that a bigger news story the county Chester reported.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
All the time, and you know, I don't know why
it's not more, uh more widely reported. But I mean,
she's it's not a secret. She says it right in
the Commissioner's Court meeting, So you know, it really.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Is the most fascinating situation. And you know, on a
serious note, Terrace County is the largest county in the
state of Texas. You know, there's what is it close
to eight million people in the county now, and you know,
a place where we can have serious emergency situations. And
this this woman, Lena Hidalgo, is the chief executive of
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the county. It's kind of like being the mayor of
the county. So you know, she's got a lot of responsibilities.
And but you know, I hope nothing happens from she's
at group therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I guess, yeah, sure, what to do is in the
background you can hear there's children and they seem to
be playing and laughing and giggling. It doesn't sound like
they care, but she has them there to try to
shame the other commissioners on the court into voting a
certain way. I guess that didn't work, and it didn't.
I mean, the kids sound like they're they're not sad
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so much as they're a jovial and they don't even
appear to be paying attention. I mean, what was that
like in the actual room?
Speaker 9 (12:29):
Yeah, no, it was really chaotic. I mean she invited
all these people. There was over an hour of testimony
as these people, you know, testified with their children sometimes
holding the babies and the kids, and you know, talking
about how they needed this this daycare program that the
county established using those COVID relief funds, which is you know,
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kind of the the issue that's going on here is
Lena hit Algo one to raise taxes so that they
could continue to offer this free daycare to about a
thousand children. Only they want to raise local taxes since
those federal relief funds are going to dry up next year.
So you know, he had all these children in there,
and at times, you know, when Commissioner Brionis was trying
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to speak, Len Hidalgo inviting the children to come down
to the to the dais to rail against Leslie Brionis
if she didn't vote for this tax increase. So, I mean,
it was really quite a circus yesterday at Harris County
Mmission's Court. And again I just can't say enough. I've
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never seen anything quite like it.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, it confuses me the most about this Holly
is that Lena Hidalgo and then she got to Stanford
and she says she's really smart, but I noticed that
she keeps doing things that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Are not smart.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Maybe you could even describe them as being objectively stupid.
So is it possible that she's just wrong about being
so smart? Like, I know, it's hard to believe, but
maybe she's not actually as intelligent as she wants us
to think she is.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
I just couldn't weigh in on that.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
I mean, she's had it.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Holly.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Do it, Holly, Holly, do it? Say it? You know
you want to. There's a lot of people listening. Holly.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh Holly, you know you want to, Holly, say it, Holly,
you know you want to say it, Holly.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
You know you know she could be very smart but
very confused.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Could be, could be?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
But the Holly Hanson Holly Hansen from the Texan Dot
News follow her on theex dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Screw you.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
All right. We're live streaming.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
This is our royalty free electronic music that we have
to play when we stream on the internet. I'm here
in studio right now along with this guy. Hang on,
we didn't fix any of the cam you think can
you fix these cameras? We're live in studio with the
lectern guys here, that would be I need you to
fix at it?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You think can you help me out with that? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And the lectern guy is here from social He was
a You were a January sixth prisoner, that is correct,
and you for the crime of moving a podium.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
They call it electn but I call it a podium.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
The difference as a podium is something you stand on.
An electron is something you speak behind.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't like it. I think it's a podium. I'm
going with podium on this one. And I'm Kenny Webster.
And for those of you that wonder before we talk
to Adam Johnson, the electern guy, before we get to him,
really big news yesterday, we may have the opportunity here
to remove from office the most powerful This is going
to sound crazy when you say it out loud, but
it's true, the most powerful elected Democrat in the state
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of Texas. Her name is Lena had down Goo and
she is not what's the word I would use to
describe her bright? Or what's another word I would use?
Mentally stable would be another. In fact, I think that's
the whole point of this thing. State Senator Mays Middleton
not long ago was able to modify it, just if
you will, previously existing policy that would do exactly that.
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It helps us to remove inept public officials from office.
But it's a little more complicated than that. So I
invited him on the show. As you guys know, I'm
a fan of Mays Middleton. I think he's done a
great job and his efforts to take down taxpayer funded lobbying.
I don't know why taxpayer funded lobbying even exists. He's
explained it many times and it still blows my mind
that there are people that are against this maze. But
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I guess a free meal ticket's a free meal ticket.
Right now, live on the show, State Senator Mays Middleton
running for AG right.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
How you doing, my brother?
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Hey, Kenny, I appreciate you having me on today. Explain
this to me so we all we. In the last segment,
Holly Hansen was just here. We played audio of Lena
Hidalgo using children as political props to try to raise
taxes in the county and it didn't seem like it
was work. It didn't even seem like the kids cared
that they were there.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Maybe it would have worked better if they had sad faces, Maze,
but it looked like they were joy fully playing in
the background.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Did you catch any of that?
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Oh, it was outrageous what she did, trying to bring
them up and use them as an excuse to raise
taxes on all of us in Harris County. And even
her own fellow Democrats on Commissioner's Court weren't buying what
she was selling.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
No, even the other Democrats in the room voted to
censure her. Now, you study law, and you're pretty well
informed about how our government works. I know the answer
to this, but I'd love to hear your take on it.
When we censure a county judge, what does that mean
for her?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Maz?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
I mean she's unfit for office.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
Frankly, from what we've seen from Lena Hidalgo, it's unethical
and she's her behavior is lunatic.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Literally, this person is not fit to hold public office
in Texas.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
And of course, Harris County is the third largest county
in America, and we have provisions under our local government
code right now to remove her from office.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But I know this is kind of a buzzkill.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
When someone gets center, does anything actually happen or is
it just like a finger wagging process.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Well, now comes the accountability.
Speaker 11 (18:07):
And that's why Chapter eighty seven and the bill I
passed this past session is so important because it provides
the process, the official process to actually remove her from office,
and then that would provide that accountability that we have
to have for incompetent, careless, and unfit local elected officials,
which she is all of those things.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay that I love the sound of the fact that.
I mean, you're stating facts here, indisputable facts that even
people in her own parties seem to agree with. I
know there's been a lot of speculation that she was
on drugs, that she had to take time off more
than once to go to a mental health facility, and
I find that a little.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Alarming, knowing that she's the highest.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Level of authority in what is the biggest municipal government
in the state of Texas. As scary as that may
be a senator at Middleton, but I'm curious, you know,
what does the process entail. It's my understanding you would
get her in front of a it would actually be
Republicans that would be making this decision.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
They take her to a Republican.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
County, that's right.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
So before the problem was is that someone files the
petition for removal for incompetence, and here are the terms here,
gross ignorance, gross carelessness, inability to discharge duties, serious physical
or mental defect. I mean, do those things sound familiar
to you with her?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
They do to me.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It sounds exactly like what she's dealing with. Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
Yeah, code was written just for her. Yeah, it was
written just for her. And so before the issue was
that it would go to a district judge in the
county in which she resides and represents in Harris County.
So of course that you know she's a George Soros
elected county judge, a George Soros elected district judge and
district attorney like Shaan Tier, they're not likely to hold
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her accountable, right, I mean, it's like a George Soros
DA prosecuting voter fraud. That's not going to happen. So
we know that is a problem. And I changed the
law this session. And what it does is that petition
for removal from office it no longer goes to the
Democrat District Court and Democrat DA and Parris County. It
goes to the Abbot appointed presiding judge of the Administrative
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Judicial Region who is a Republican and then they assign
it to a neighboring county like Brazoria or Galveston County,
which are Republican county. So we're going to have a
fair shot at this. If someone files this petition for removal,
which they should do because she is definitely eligible for removal,
we get a fair trial removal trial, and the state
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is represented in that by prosecutor locally, so that be
a Republican district attorney or county attorney.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A maze.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's music to my ears the fact that you were
able to come up with this solution so easily after
this giant what was I mean a dumpster fire of
a humiliating experience for people all over Southeast Texas yesterday.
This is now a national news story, this woman having
a meltdown in the middle of Commissioner's courty history. It
showed up in the post Fox News is talking about.
I mean, this is humiliating. Senator Middleton is, if I'm
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not mistaken, Clute, Texas does that fall within District eleven.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Clute is over in Brazori County and actually a neighboring district.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, so it's nearby you because I have, oddly enough,
I want to in studio right now.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I know this is going to sound a little odd.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I have Adam Johnson here, and he is in town
for Ron Paul's birthday party. Adam, you're famously known as
the guy that moved the podium it's called a lectern
during the January sixth protest. Some were rioting. I think
you didn't do any You weren't rioting, if I'm not mistaken.
What you did was pretty innocent. But you're here in
town right now, just learning about this for the first time.
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Do you have any thoughts on this?
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I mean, it seems pretty simple to me that there
should be an aptitude test that our politicians have to
take before assuming office. Yeah, if they're this incompetent that
we're having to change law and go against law, fair,
I mean, maybe there should be a stop gap up
front before they get into office.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
State Senator May's Middleton and aptitude test for County judge.
I mean it's a pretty radical idea, But could something
like that actually be imposed or is this sort of
a post aptitude test that she would have to adhere to?
According to the process you just described to us.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Well, I guarantee you if there is any aptitude tests,
she would fail it.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
But I'll point this out.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
You know, I'm running for Attorney General, and this is
exactly why I want to start in any corruption division
in the AG's office that investigates politicians that are profiting
off their position, that are ripping off taxpayers and are
committing waste, fraud and abuse. And on day one I
promised to do that in this case with Judge Lena Hidalgo.
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We have reason to believe that there's wrongdoing, we have
reason to believe that there's incompetence, and unfortunately, the taxpayers
and the voters of Harris County have suffered when you
investigate George Soros as well, by the way, for his
role in all the riots and also the donations that
we've seen to the runaway Democrats. But this is a
top priority of mine. I have zero tolerance for incompetence
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local elected officials that are profiting off their position. And
she needs to be removed from office, and I'm hoping
someone files that petition for removal here soon she meets
all the elements of it, and I think that would
be successful, frankly from what I've seen.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
All right, let's talk about this real quick before we
say goodbye. I got to get your take on this.
Ken Paxton, our current attorney general, is making some pretty
bold claims right now about how an Illinois court could
enforce the Texas arrest warrants against all the Democrats that
are hanging out right now in Aurora, Illinois with Wayne
and Garth. Now, look, I loved Wayne's world. I don't
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know why they went to Aurora. I thought that was
a weird choice. I've heard Stan Makita's Donuts is delicious.
But while they're all hanging out out there, they're clearly
in violation of the law. Now, you are running for
attorney general right now. For those that don't know, Mays
was one of the no votes on removing Ken Paxton
from office a couple of summers ago. Maz, what is
your thoughts on all this? Can we actually do this?
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Will FBI agents be sent in? What is that process entail?
If we actually forced them to come back to work
or arrested them would what would happen today or tomorrow
if that process actually took place?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yeah, this is really simple.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Every other Texan had to show up to work today,
and why should politicians get an exemption from that? And
it's very simple. You don't show up, you get fired.
And the Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Adams County, Illinois,
and I'll point this out that was a very important
place to do it. Adams County is not Cook County.
Cook County is where the pathetic failed governor of Illinois JB.
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Pritzker lives, and one of the worst round states in America,
most highest amount of local government debt, worst crime. But
Adams County actually voted seventy two percent Republican in twenty
twenty four And so I think we've got a very
good chance in that litigation to enforce these warrants and
also hold these runaway Democrats in contempt and get them
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back to Texas. And we're only five votes short, and
once we get those five back, we can pass the
big Beautiful Man app which we'll draw five more Republican
seats in Congress, and literally that could save this entire nation.
We don't know what the margin is going to be
in the twenty twenty sixth election in Congress after that,
so those five seats could be the margin for President
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Trump to be able to pass his America First agenda.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
State Senator Mays Midleton, if people want to support your
candidacy to replace Ken Paxton after he is clearly going
to be replacing Jen Cornyn over the next year, here
what can they do to help support you?
Speaker 11 (25:27):
Go to Maze Middleton dot com, m A y E
S m id L E t O N dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
My brother, Hey, Mace, can you keep us up to
date on this if news breaks over the weekend or
next week.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
We'd love to get you back here to give us
an update on this.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Absolutely I appreciate it. Kenny, thanks for me.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
On today, State Senator Maze Middleton following him on X
quick Break.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We'll be right back with elected guy right for this.
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
They could make you shoot at text collectors and miss.
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Cusin.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
People often ask, they say, when you're live streaming on
the internet, you always play such obnoxious electronic music.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Is the only thing I have the royalties too.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
If I live stream on book face and I play
like Ted Nugent or Nirvana or something, then they'll take
the video down. Adam Johnson, aka the Lectern Guy, Aren't
I a victim of unfair government rules? Just like you
and all the January six prisoners are. It's the same thing, really, it's.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
The same thing. I mean, I listened to it with
some speaker fund in Walmart's, but I can't play it
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Live in studio.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Right now, it's the Lectern Guy, and you've a massed
a humongous following on social media.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You have a lot of supporters.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I think when people look at the January sixth thing
from a distance, they see the worst or the silliest
or most ridiculous of it. You know, obviously the Buffalo
Viking guy, the QAnon shaman. You probably know him, Jacob Chansley.
He seems like a nice enough guy. They walked him
onto the floor of the Senate. I mean, if you
drove through a red light, you'd get a ticket. But
(27:01):
if the police wave you through, did you run the
red light? I would say you probably didn't. And I
think that vividly describes what happened to him. But because
there's footage of people breaking windows or of course we
all know about the person that got shot. That's very sad.
They equate what happened to those people with what happened
to you. And it was a very different experience, wasn't it.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Absolutely Well, that's because we saw the ten thousand foot
you know, footage with this. We saw the same videos
over and over again. It was, you know, a couple
cops getting salted. It was when it was being broken,
but they withheld most of the footage and they still
withhold most of it now. A lot of it is
still censored. A lot of it you can't get to.
They're a handful of people who are still going through it.
But if we if you look at it now as
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compared to four almost five years ago, now you can
see a lot of people really did just walk through
open doors or were let in in some cases actually
pulled in by other agitators.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I would describe that as almost being like entrapment. Right
if someone wasn't gonna buy crack and then there was
an audio recording of a cop undercover talking them into
buying crack. I mean, I'm one of those radical libertarians,
so don't listen to me. But that sounds unfair, and
I would equate that to. I think there's a correlation.
I think that lives adjacent to what happened to you.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Yep, they call those conspiracy charges, and federal prisons are
full of people that happen.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
To Speaking of the being a libertarian, you're one. If
I'm not mistaken, you're one of the You're a liberty Republican.
You're in town for Ron Paul's birthday. That is correct,
And I like you. It's not like I'm anti MAGA.
My policies are similar, a little different, but I just
always figured, you know, anti war, low taxes, pro gun,
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supporting the MAGA movement.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
If not Ron Paul, then Donald Trump. That was my position.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
That's always my position as well. I think the MAGA
movement is actually a new wave of conservative movement and
it has picked up a lot of first time voters.
A lot of libertarians were excited about the policies that
were being talked about. Whether they come to fruition or
not remains to be seen. Yeah, you know, the hiring
practices of twenty twenty there were a lot worse than
the ones that happened this time around. And like Tulsi,
(29:00):
I like what RFK Junior is doing as well, so
we have. We have a couple of great people in
positions trying to do some good things.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It really is the greatest admitting.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I mean it's in terms of the lineup, like it's
I'm not saying everyone's perfect, but RFK Junior Tall Sea fantastic.
I miss Elon, I missed. I mean, did you see
this week they buried the hatchet. Trump came out and
said he thinks Elon's a good guy yet a bad day.
Elon said he regrets what he said. I mean, I
want I want my dad and my uncle to get
along with each other. I don't want him to fight
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
You know, No, he's been busy making self core porn
on a you know is one crock?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Is that true? Oh, I get what you're talking. You're
you didn't actually do porn, you're tying. Some people are
bothered by the fact that Elon's using AI. Are you
one of those people that thinks we should outlaw porn?
Is that a thing you get behind.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
I don't think it's okay any studies you look on it.
It's not good for the human brain. We show great seriation.
It ruins marriages. I think it ruins young males. I
think it actually created the entire OnlyFans culture that we
have with females. Yeah, yes, absolutely so. Do I think
there should be Are I ban for it? No? I
think adults can do what adults want to do. But
(30:05):
it is one of those How how is it legal
that I get in trouble here? How is it legal
that you can make porn make money doing that? A
prostitution is illegal? I can't reconcile those two things.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Adam, there's a camera in the corner. What do you
not understanding? The camera is right there? That makes it okay? Adam,
what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Well, I'm saying if we say that prostitution is illegal
in this wrong, then yes, I would lean towards we
should probab apply that to porn as well.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I'm not like the guy that's gonna defend porn because
this is the one hundred thousandth most important thing to me,
the question I always ask my very paleo conservative friends
when they talk about outlying porn, which to me, it's like,
all right, outlaw porn.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
But I go to the art gallery a lot. I'm
a connoisseur of fine culture. What's the difference between a
nude painting in the art gallery and porn.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I think it's a fine line, right.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
You get arrested for doing things in a gallery that
you wouldn't at home.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's a great no.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
He's right now, Adam, that checks out, dude, He's right, Adam, Adam,
touche check made my man?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
My man. I thought we were playing checkers.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's a four dimensional chess. That is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So Adam, your your whole thing now that you become
you know, you were an unexpected celebrity.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
You were in you were in Washington, c DC on
January sixth.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Just to make the point here that if we if
we're Americans with free speech, we should certainly be allowed
to at least question election results. I mean, whether it's
legitimate or not.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
We should be allowed to ask that question.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And obviously what came next was just insanity, pure insanity.
Nancy Pelosi trying to prevent the National Guard from getting
involved FBI agents on the ground, how many a lot.
The person in charge of the FBI at the time
was the same person who I would say staged a
fake kidnapping of the Michigan governor, they promoted that person.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Of suspicious stuff, kind of like Epstein's death that you
have to ignore to think that what happened on January
sixth was a bunch of maga guys taking over the country. Weirdly,
a little few to none of them. I think we're
even armed. The pipe bomb thing, they could never explain that,
where's the evidence, Where are.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
The pipe bombs? Who's what? We had?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Pipe bombs? And now there's no investigation. Nobody cares about that.
That feels like the biggest deal to me. And after
all that happened, you become an unexpected celebrity, public figure,
whatever you would describe yourself as. And you're using that
now to raise money for charity. You're not using it
to launch and only fans. You're not using it to
sell coozies or you know.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I think that's admirable.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I think you have actually played this in a for
people that watch from a distance, who vaguely know who
you are. I think that's a pretty classy thing of
you to do.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
I appreciate a lot of it. Started up my plea
deal stipulated that I was not allowed to make money,
have a Geits and go have a go fund me
or anything to help me raise funds for the one
hundred thousand dollars worth of attorneys that we had to
hire out of pocket. So they wanted a lifetime band
for I got it down to five years. And during
those five years, you know, it was difficult, but God
(33:05):
was good. We my wife bonus, like you said our
bonus before. So things that think God was good, I'll
put it there. In the middle of this, there were
a lot of Gen six ers who were still struggling
their kids. You know, their their fathers are in prison,
their mothers are in prison, the kids are struggling. I
have five kids and myself, so that really pulled out
my heartstrings. So what I did. I'm a carpenter. I
started building little lecterns, and I told the DOJ listen.
(33:27):
You know, stipulates that I can't make money, but what
if I give it all away? So I started building
little lecturns and we started auctioning them off and they
were selling for over one thousand dollars apiece, and we
just gave all of the money away to families soon
needed it. So out of that spurred the idea that
I want to continue doing this because I don't know.
It feels good. It feels good.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
You're throwing a lot of information at me here.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You're right, you're a long haired humanitarian who's a carpenter.
It does sound a little familiar to me, Adam. Where
have I heard that story before?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (33:55):
Okay, I did go into a temple and move some furniture.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And you're in five kids? Catholic? Are Mormon? I'm a
guest Catholic, h Christian? Oh what not? Methodist?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
No?
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Southern Baptist?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Thank god?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I hate the Methodist. I cannot stand them. Methodists are
not allowed in the studio, Adam. You know they have
a bangel bar at the local Methodist church?
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Do they really?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Unbelievable bagel bars? They didn't even have everything. I enjoy
what you're doing. I think it's great work. If I
assume people are gonna want to support what you do.
Some of our listeners are going to be at Ron
Paul's birthday this summer, this weekend. I've been to this
thing many times. Who puts its Young Americans for Liberty?
You're the ones organizing it. If I'm not mistaken, that's correct,
and you are a member supporter guest. What's your involvement,
(34:35):
what's your connection to them?
Speaker 8 (34:36):
I am a guest. A lot of my friends are
going out. Spike Cohen got me linked up with some
people there. He said I should come on out. So
I'm coming on out.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Spike Cohen is the coolest guy.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
There's probably the second coolest guy named Spike who's ever existed?
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Spike Lee.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, well, I don't know, probably somebody else. No, this
guy Spike that I buy weed from.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Ethan?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Did you Ethan Buchanan's here, one of our weekend talk
show hosts Ethan, did you want to ask the electern
guy anything? I mean, great opportunity here for you to
talk to somebody that kind of changed the world.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I mean, you know, no, no offense, but you haven't
done that yet.
Speaker 12 (35:05):
I've always been curious about one thing it how heavy
was it?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Like?
Speaker 12 (35:12):
Are we talking like solid wood oak like? Or was
this kind of like so much so many other things
in our government was just kind of made to look
nice but was actually kind of hollowed out on the
inside and cheap and crappy.
Speaker 8 (35:23):
I would say it was gonna being fifty sixty pounds
fifty six, So.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I mean that took some and it's not small. Do
that again. If on camera it took what did.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You just do?
Speaker 12 (35:35):
I believe this is like the sign for core gumption.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
You know, you had to lift.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
You had to hoist that sucker.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That's how he would handle the wood, is what he
means by that. All right, Now, hold on a minute, Kenny.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
I'm a modest guy. We don't really do. Uh, you
don't know, but actually I lived quite a bit. I'm
in jiu jitsu, been training for seven years, so it's
you know, terrible.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You're a redheaded ninja. That's unbelievable. There's like five of
you guys on earth. That's amazing.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
If people come up to you at.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Ron Paul's birthday this weekend, they want a photograph, or
they want an autograph, or they want a you know,
a souvenir or something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You have a piece of the lectern you can give them.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Or little fragment, you know, I didn't bring it with me.
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It was so interesting about you is that you are
one more example of how whenever there's a big national
news story, the.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Media usually gets everything wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
And then when you actually meet the person in the
news story and you're like, so what was that Like,
They're like, well, every detail because most people that don't
know your story think you stole that podium, took it
home to your house, like you know, like did crack
on it or something.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's not at all what happened.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
I dressed it up and made it mine. I need
bride waltz on the beach, put some wheels on it.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Adam Johnson.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
There are a lot of interesting people that have come
in this studio. I've interviewed a lot of famous people.
A lot of you know, big media personalities, influencers, politicians, musicians, comedians,
journalists have been on the show. I am never going
to forget the day I met the lectern guy, Adam Johnson.
And I will tell you you are a very reasonable,
normal person.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
Well, thanks, I appreciate you. I try to be just.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Is that gonna work? Have you ever just not a
freaking out once in a while to get back in
the news.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Again, or.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Well, I got a couple of things going on behind
the scenes. At some point I may run for something.
We'll announce that when it comes, like.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
In a marathon, or do you mean for office?
Speaker 8 (37:19):
We need a county judge for office. Maybe something local.
Start local?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Are you not aware of how awful elected officials are?
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I love that idea, you and local. Everybody always wants
to be congressman or whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
He's like.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, dude, local politics have way more of an effect
on your life than what's going on in DC.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Weird to think, but true. Well, okay, so this is
where it's wrong. You're not going to fix things in
four years. You're not going to fix things in eight years.
It's a generational problem that we have because the Communists
have been walking on us for the past eighty years.
So if you think you're gonna turn things around in
a couple of years, that's that's not true. Need to
start local in your backyard and your family's at your workplace.
That's where he needs to start.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Adam, you have just earned my endorsement for whatever you
run for, dog Walker of York South, whatever it is,
You've got the endorsement.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Hey, guys, I got to run.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
If you run into my buddy Adam this weekend at
Ron Paul's birthday party, come say hi to him, shake
his hand, take a selfie. He's a pretty cool guy,
I think Ethan Buchanan Show air Sunday night on KPRC,
right after Ted Cruise's show, right here on our flagship station.
I will be at Bruskies tonight in Hattiesburg with Jesse
Payton doing stand up comedy. You could see us tomorrow
night in Denham Springs, the bougiest honky tonk in the
(38:25):
suburbs of Baton Rouge Southern Rhythm. I love you all,
have a great afternoon. We'll be back bright and early
Monday morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh my god, it is going to be a weird,
weird day on Pursuit of Happiness Radio. I don't know
if you've heard, but yesterday Lena Hidalgo lost her mind.
Holly Hansen stopping by, and she's going to tell us
the story. And if you hadn't heard it yet, Holly
describes it perfectly. She has actually some information about what
happened yesterday at the Harris County Commissioner's Court involving Lena
Hidalgo that you probably actually have not heard yet, some
(00:44):
things you probably didn't know about how mentally unstable Lena
Hidalgo is. We're actually going to break some news coming
up here in just a minute to stick around for that.
Also stopping by, State Senator Mays Middleton. He's running for
attorney general, but he actually has the solution on how
to get rid of Lena headew is a law that
he helped pass not long ago in our state legislature.
(01:04):
And if Mays Middleton has his way, Lena Hidalgo won't
be the county commissioner judge anymore. The county judge. Oh
one more guest is going to be here. This is
very interesting. What I'm about to say is going to
surprise you. You know you remember the lectern guy? Do you
know who the lectern guy is? His real name is
Adam Johnson. He's kind of famous because he was one
of the January sixth prisoners. He moved Nancy Pelosi's podium.
(01:26):
It's actually called a lectern, I'd call it a podium.
And after he moved it, people were very angry. They're
very mad about it, and so he was charged with
a felony. But eventually he became a friend and ally
to Donald Trump and he was pardoned. He's a pretty cool,
funny guy. He's in town right now for Ron Paul's
birthday party. Stick around all that and more today on
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Did I mention tonight I'm
(01:47):
in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, doing stand up comedy at a place
called Bruski's. Join me if you're listening to us online,
we'd love to have you there Tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm in Denham Springs doing stand up comedy at Rhythm Heritage.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I hope you could join us quick break, We'll be
right back.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You were listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. We're
everyone is welcome, even scum sucking maggots, swallowing socialist bastards
you used to refer to as mom.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, yesterday was a really fun day for Houston politics.
Unst your name's Lena Hidalgo, then yesterday was terrible. Yesterday,
Lena Hidalgo had an idea. She said, I'm going to
raise taxes on everybody, and if they don't like it,
I'm gonna use kids as political props to try to
shame them into raising taxes. And weirdly that didn't work either,
(02:41):
and now people want to remove her from office, including
folks like County Commissioner Tom Ramsey and of course even
State Senator Mays Middleton.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
He'll be hearing a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But before we get to any of that, here's what
Lena Hidalgo said, followed with an explanation of what took
place by none other than local conservative New your Border
Holly Hanson, and.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
A refusal to trust the voters to decide this important issue.
There's absolutely no reason why we can't simply ask the
voters what they would like to see. The program has
been evaluated. The offices have been working on this for
four years. I've been talking about a bond election since
twenty nineteen. Unlike Travis County, we actually ran the program
(03:24):
before putting it to the voters. We have been working
with the Texas Work for.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Voice Emotion and others, and we have someone not okay,
I'm recognizing the rules.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Let's let's just move on to the next item.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
And if you want to vote, know in front of
the kids, that's just judge.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The emotion has been made.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You have to call for a second. You do a
question has been called on this.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
If there's no second, then I didn't I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, what's the motion? I heard you make the motion?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No said I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Okay, so are you pulling emotion back?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
There's no motion.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
I did not make the motion.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I'm asking if my colleagues are yes or no for
just usting the voters commission.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'm yes.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Commissioner No.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Commissioner Ramsey No, commissioner says no elision.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No jud I thought they were supposed to be like
parliamentarian procedures here. I thought they had a way, a
certain order that these things are supposed to be done.
But apparently there's children playing in the background. It was
just sheer chaos yesterday at the Harris County Commissioner's court
to the point where this is becoming national news story.
If you're confused, you should be. It's confusing here to
(04:32):
explain it to us none other than the Holly Hanson
from Holly Hansen Texan Dot News. Go ahead, Holly Hey, and.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
You're recording there. I only caught a little snippet of
the chaos that was in the Harris County Commissioner's courtroom yesterday.
At some point, the children were very loud. Lena Hidalgo
repeatedly interrupted her colleagues who were trying to talk about
the issue, wouldn't let them talk. Especially, had a bad
(05:00):
and forth with one of her fellow commissioners, Leslie Brionez,
also with Adrian Garcia and the other commissioners, and as
you heard, the County Attorney's office there was trying to
rank things in and get them back on track, but
it was it was really chaotic, and Lena Hidalgo was
at times practically hysterical in the way she was talking
(05:23):
to the children there and to her fellow members of
the Commissioner's Court. I mean, I've been covering Commissioner's Court
in twenty nineteen and I have never seen anything quite
like this. I mean, she was just very out of
control and just respectful. We do know that she has
taken a leave before for mental health issues, and so
(05:45):
there's a lot of questions about whether or not this
is a recurring problem. She did, instead of taking the
vote and following the procedure, call a recess and then
didn't come back to court, and so they had to
conduct the rest of business primarily without her, except for,
you know, a brief appearance a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
In the day.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
But commissioners then moved to center her later in the meeting.
And not only did she have this outburst yesterday that
was just a bit over the top and frankly a
little bit scary, but said a previous meeting where there
was a child presence, she you know, let go with
some f bombs, and it's been just very erratic in
(06:30):
her behavior and so I think there's a lot of
concerns about whether or not she's capable of remaining in
the job to finish out this second term that she
was elected to. And there's a remaining question about whether
or not so she's going to run for reelection. She
is up next year, and there are multiple candidates taking
a look at this, And now we've got at least
(06:52):
one commissioner saying that perhaps she should be removed from
office before her term ends. But like you said, it
was it was one of the most chaotic, confusing meetings
that certainly I've ever seen. And you know, for anyone
who's covered local politics, you know, sometimes you get some
crazy school board meetings and things like that. I just
(07:13):
don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is it possible that Lena Hidalgo just doesn't want to
be the county judge anymore?
Speaker 9 (07:22):
You know, that is a possibility. I will tell you
there was a University of Houston poll that came out
just a few weeks ago and found that she was
the least popular of all the county wide elect officials.
For net favorability rating is only about four percent. But
what's interesting is that if you take a look at
all of the information that came in that poll. She
(07:44):
remains popular with Democratic voters and polls more highly than
the two other Democrats who have announced that they're going
to run for county judge this next year. And so
she's still you know, she still could run and when
a Democratic primary. Now whether or not she win a
Republican primary remains to be seen. There are two notable
(08:08):
Republicans who have also announced that they are running for
the seat. There's a mayor from Piney Point Village near
Houston by the name of Eliza Dutt and then Marty Langton,
who is the president of the Houston Professional Firefighters Association,
very well known in the Houston and Harris County area
because of his leadership and conflict with the previous Houston
(08:32):
mayor over fair treatment for the firefighters. So, you know,
Lena hid Allgo had some headwinds. Now, I do have
sources telling me that she has been looking at running
for a congressional seat. There is a congresswoman by the
name of Sylvia Garcia from the Houston area. Yes, quite
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a bit, right, but yeah, word is that Lena may
be eyeing that seat. Now if she announces for that,
it does trigger the state's resigned to run provision, and
so she would effectively be resigning as the Harris County judge.
But you know, you can't have the Commissioner's Court vote
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to hold her over in that position, which is something
they've already done for the county attorney, who is also
running for a congressional seat. So we don't really know
what his dollgo is going to do. In regards to
the twenty twenty six elections, everybody's sort of been on
edge waiting for that. But you know, I wouldn't presume anything. Again,
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she remains popular with Democratic primary voters, so you know
that she could go any direction, and she doesn't really
seem to mind that she has some pretty harsh critics
and people who'd like to see her removed from office.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Something I've noticed in the past. Because I don't know
if you know this about me, Holly, I you know,
I like to party. I like to have a good time,
and sometimes sometimes when I've had a few too many
to drink, I don't care what other people think of
me either. Now I'm not saying that's what happened to her,
but could it be, I mean, could it be, you know,
I you.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Know, wouldn't presume that her behavior was certainly very strange yesterday.
She was speaking in a very very fast way. I mean,
it did seem like maybe there could have been some
sort of you know, drug induced or something speeding up there.
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I don't know. And also in the clip we have
from the previous meeting where she dropped the F bomb,
her speech is slurred, and so you know, I don't know.
And we do know she's has ongoing treatment for mental
health issues, notably severe depression, and she's been very public
about the fact that she has to leave on Thursday
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afternoons to go to doctor's appointments and a group therapy session.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
I mean, I am not making that up.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
In Commissioner's court. So you know what, what a lot
going on there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Why isn't that a bigger news story the county Chester reported.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
All the time, and you know, I don't know why
it's not more, uh more widely reported. But I mean,
she's it's not a secret. She says it right in
the Commissioner's Court meeting, So you know, it really.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Is the most fascinating situation. And you know, on a
serious note, Terrace County is the largest county in the
state of Texas. You know, there's what is it close
to eight million people in the county now, and you know,
a place where we can have serious emergency situations. And
this this woman, Lena Hidalgo, is the chief executive of
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the county. It's kind of like being the mayor of
the county. So you know, she's got a lot of responsibilities.
And but you know, I hope nothing happens from she's
at group therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I guess, yeah, sure, what to do is in the
background you can hear there's children and they seem to
be playing and laughing and giggling. It doesn't sound like
they care, but she has them there to try to
shame the other commissioners on the court into voting a
certain way. I guess that didn't work, and it didn't.
I mean, the kids sound like they're they're not sad
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so much as they're a jovial and they don't even
appear to be paying attention. I mean, what was that
like in the actual room?
Speaker 9 (12:29):
Yeah, no, it was really chaotic. I mean she invited
all these people. There was over an hour of testimony
as these people, you know, testified with their children sometimes
holding the babies and the kids, and you know, talking
about how they needed this this daycare program that the
county established using those COVID relief funds, which is you know,
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kind of the the issue that's going on here is
Lena hit Algo one to raise taxes so that they
could continue to offer this free daycare to about a
thousand children. Only they want to raise local taxes since
those federal relief funds are going to dry up next year.
So you know, he had all these children in there,
and at times, you know, when Commissioner Brionis was trying
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to speak, Len Hidalgo inviting the children to come down
to the to the dais to rail against Leslie Brionis
if she didn't vote for this tax increase. So, I mean,
it was really quite a circus yesterday at Harris County
Mmission's Court. And again I just can't say enough. I've
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never seen anything quite like it.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, it confuses me the most about this Holly
is that Lena Hidalgo and then she got to Stanford
and she says she's really smart, but I noticed that
she keeps doing things that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Are not smart.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Maybe you could even describe them as being objectively stupid.
So is it possible that she's just wrong about being
so smart? Like, I know, it's hard to believe, but
maybe she's not actually as intelligent as she wants us
to think she is.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
I just couldn't weigh in on that.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
I mean, she's had it.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Holly.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Do it, Holly, Holly, do it? Say it? You know
you want to. There's a lot of people listening. Holly.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh Holly, you know you want to, Holly, say it, Holly,
you know you want to say it, Holly.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
You know you know she could be very smart but
very confused.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Could be, could be?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
But the Holly Hanson Holly Hansen from the Texan Dot
News follow her on theex dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Screw you.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
All right. We're live streaming.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
This is our royalty free electronic music that we have
to play when we stream on the internet. I'm here
in studio right now along with this guy. Hang on,
we didn't fix any of the cam you think can
you fix these cameras? We're live in studio with the
lectern guys here, that would be I need you to
fix at it?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You think can you help me out with that? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And the lectern guy is here from social He was
a You were a January sixth prisoner, that is correct,
and you for the crime of moving a podium.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
They call it electn but I call it a podium.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
The difference as a podium is something you stand on.
An electron is something you speak behind.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't like it. I think it's a podium. I'm
going with podium on this one. And I'm Kenny Webster.
And for those of you that wonder before we talk
to Adam Johnson, the electern guy, before we get to him,
really big news yesterday, we may have the opportunity here
to remove from office the most powerful This is going
to sound crazy when you say it out loud, but
it's true, the most powerful elected Democrat in the state
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of Texas. Her name is Lena had down Goo and
she is not what's the word I would use to
describe her bright? Or what's another word I would use?
Mentally stable would be another. In fact, I think that's
the whole point of this thing. State Senator Mays Middleton
not long ago was able to modify it, just if
you will, previously existing policy that would do exactly that.
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It helps us to remove inept public officials from office.
But it's a little more complicated than that. So I
invited him on the show. As you guys know, I'm
a fan of Mays Middleton. I think he's done a
great job and his efforts to take down taxpayer funded lobbying.
I don't know why taxpayer funded lobbying even exists. He's
explained it many times and it still blows my mind
that there are people that are against this maze. But
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I guess a free meal ticket's a free meal ticket.
Right now, live on the show, State Senator Mays Middleton
running for AG right.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
How you doing, my brother?
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Hey, Kenny, I appreciate you having me on today. Explain
this to me so we all we. In the last segment,
Holly Hansen was just here. We played audio of Lena
Hidalgo using children as political props to try to raise
taxes in the county and it didn't seem like it
was work. It didn't even seem like the kids cared
that they were there.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Maybe it would have worked better if they had sad faces, Maze,
but it looked like they were joy fully playing in
the background.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Did you catch any of that?
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Oh, it was outrageous what she did, trying to bring
them up and use them as an excuse to raise
taxes on all of us in Harris County. And even
her own fellow Democrats on Commissioner's Court weren't buying what
she was selling.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
No, even the other Democrats in the room voted to
censure her. Now, you study law, and you're pretty well
informed about how our government works. I know the answer
to this, but I'd love to hear your take on it.
When we censure a county judge, what does that mean
for her?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Maz?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
I mean she's unfit for office.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
Frankly, from what we've seen from Lena Hidalgo, it's unethical
and she's her behavior is lunatic.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Literally, this person is not fit to hold public office
in Texas.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
And of course, Harris County is the third largest county
in America, and we have provisions under our local government
code right now to remove her from office.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But I know this is kind of a buzzkill.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
When someone gets center, does anything actually happen or is
it just like a finger wagging process.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Well, now comes the accountability.
Speaker 11 (18:07):
And that's why Chapter eighty seven and the bill I
passed this past session is so important because it provides
the process, the official process to actually remove her from office,
and then that would provide that accountability that we have
to have for incompetent, careless, and unfit local elected officials,
which she is all of those things.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay that I love the sound of the fact that.
I mean, you're stating facts here, indisputable facts that even
people in her own parties seem to agree with. I
know there's been a lot of speculation that she was
on drugs, that she had to take time off more
than once to go to a mental health facility, and
I find that a little.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Alarming, knowing that she's the highest.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Level of authority in what is the biggest municipal government
in the state of Texas. As scary as that may
be a senator at Middleton, but I'm curious, you know,
what does the process entail. It's my understanding you would
get her in front of a it would actually be
Republicans that would be making this decision.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
They take her to a Republican.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
County, that's right.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
So before the problem was is that someone files the
petition for removal for incompetence, and here are the terms here,
gross ignorance, gross carelessness, inability to discharge duties, serious physical
or mental defect. I mean, do those things sound familiar
to you with her?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
They do to me.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It sounds exactly like what she's dealing with. Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
Yeah, code was written just for her. Yeah, it was
written just for her. And so before the issue was
that it would go to a district judge in the
county in which she resides and represents in Harris County.
So of course that you know she's a George Soros
elected county judge, a George Soros elected district judge and
district attorney like Shaan Tier, they're not likely to hold
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her accountable, right, I mean, it's like a George Soros
DA prosecuting voter fraud. That's not going to happen. So
we know that is a problem. And I changed the
law this session. And what it does is that petition
for removal from office it no longer goes to the
Democrat District Court and Democrat DA and Parris County. It
goes to the Abbot appointed presiding judge of the Administrative
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Judicial Region who is a Republican and then they assign
it to a neighboring county like Brazoria or Galveston County,
which are Republican county. So we're going to have a
fair shot at this. If someone files this petition for removal,
which they should do because she is definitely eligible for removal,
we get a fair trial removal trial, and the state
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is represented in that by prosecutor locally, so that be
a Republican district attorney or county attorney.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A maze.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's music to my ears the fact that you were
able to come up with this solution so easily after
this giant what was I mean a dumpster fire of
a humiliating experience for people all over Southeast Texas yesterday.
This is now a national news story, this woman having
a meltdown in the middle of Commissioner's courty history. It
showed up in the post Fox News is talking about.
I mean, this is humiliating. Senator Middleton is, if I'm
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not mistaken, Clute, Texas does that fall within District eleven.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Clute is over in Brazori County and actually a neighboring district.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, so it's nearby you because I have, oddly enough,
I want to in studio right now.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I know this is going to sound a little odd.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I have Adam Johnson here, and he is in town
for Ron Paul's birthday party. Adam, you're famously known as
the guy that moved the podium it's called a lectern
during the January sixth protest. Some were rioting. I think
you didn't do any You weren't rioting, if I'm not mistaken.
What you did was pretty innocent. But you're here in
town right now, just learning about this for the first time.
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Do you have any thoughts on this?
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I mean, it seems pretty simple to me that there
should be an aptitude test that our politicians have to
take before assuming office. Yeah, if they're this incompetent that
we're having to change law and go against law, fair,
I mean, maybe there should be a stop gap up
front before they get into office.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
State Senator May's Middleton and aptitude test for County judge.
I mean it's a pretty radical idea, But could something
like that actually be imposed or is this sort of
a post aptitude test that she would have to adhere to?
According to the process you just described to us.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Well, I guarantee you if there is any aptitude tests,
she would fail it.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
But I'll point this out.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
You know, I'm running for Attorney General, and this is
exactly why I want to start in any corruption division
in the AG's office that investigates politicians that are profiting
off their position, that are ripping off taxpayers and are
committing waste, fraud and abuse. And on day one I
promised to do that in this case with Judge Lena Hidalgo.
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We have reason to believe that there's wrongdoing, we have
reason to believe that there's incompetence, and unfortunately, the taxpayers
and the voters of Harris County have suffered when you
investigate George Soros as well, by the way, for his
role in all the riots and also the donations that
we've seen to the runaway Democrats. But this is a
top priority of mine. I have zero tolerance for incompetence
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local elected officials that are profiting off their position. And
she needs to be removed from office, and I'm hoping
someone files that petition for removal here soon she meets
all the elements of it, and I think that would
be successful, frankly from what I've seen.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
All right, let's talk about this real quick before we
say goodbye. I got to get your take on this.
Ken Paxton, our current attorney general, is making some pretty
bold claims right now about how an Illinois court could
enforce the Texas arrest warrants against all the Democrats that
are hanging out right now in Aurora, Illinois with Wayne
and Garth. Now, look, I loved Wayne's world. I don't
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know why they went to Aurora. I thought that was
a weird choice. I've heard Stan Makita's Donuts is delicious.
But while they're all hanging out out there, they're clearly
in violation of the law. Now, you are running for
attorney general right now. For those that don't know, Mays
was one of the no votes on removing Ken Paxton
from office a couple of summers ago. Maz, what is
your thoughts on all this? Can we actually do this?
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Will FBI agents be sent in? What is that process entail?
If we actually forced them to come back to work
or arrested them would what would happen today or tomorrow
if that process actually took place?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yeah, this is really simple.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Every other Texan had to show up to work today,
and why should politicians get an exemption from that? And
it's very simple. You don't show up, you get fired.
And the Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Adams County, Illinois,
and I'll point this out that was a very important
place to do it. Adams County is not Cook County.
Cook County is where the pathetic failed governor of Illinois JB.
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Pritzker lives, and one of the worst round states in America,
most highest amount of local government debt, worst crime. But
Adams County actually voted seventy two percent Republican in twenty
twenty four And so I think we've got a very
good chance in that litigation to enforce these warrants and
also hold these runaway Democrats in contempt and get them
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back to Texas. And we're only five votes short, and
once we get those five back, we can pass the
big Beautiful Man app which we'll draw five more Republican
seats in Congress, and literally that could save this entire nation.
We don't know what the margin is going to be
in the twenty twenty sixth election in Congress after that,
so those five seats could be the margin for President
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Trump to be able to pass his America First agenda.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
State Senator Mays Midleton, if people want to support your
candidacy to replace Ken Paxton after he is clearly going
to be replacing Jen Cornyn over the next year, here
what can they do to help support you?
Speaker 11 (25:27):
Go to Maze Middleton dot com, m A y E
S m id L E t O N dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
My brother, Hey, Mace, can you keep us up to
date on this if news breaks over the weekend or
next week.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
We'd love to get you back here to give us
an update on this.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Absolutely I appreciate it. Kenny, thanks for me.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
On today, State Senator Maze Middleton following him on X
quick Break.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We'll be right back with elected guy right for this.
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
They could make you shoot at text collectors and miss.
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Cusin.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
People often ask, they say, when you're live streaming on
the internet, you always play such obnoxious electronic music.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Is the only thing I have the royalties too.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
If I live stream on book face and I play
like Ted Nugent or Nirvana or something, then they'll take
the video down. Adam Johnson, aka the Lectern Guy, Aren't
I a victim of unfair government rules? Just like you
and all the January six prisoners are. It's the same thing, really, it's.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
The same thing. I mean, I listened to it with
some speaker fund in Walmart's, but I can't play it
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Live in studio.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Right now, it's the Lectern Guy, and you've a massed
a humongous following on social media.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You have a lot of supporters.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I think when people look at the January sixth thing
from a distance, they see the worst or the silliest
or most ridiculous of it. You know, obviously the Buffalo
Viking guy, the QAnon shaman. You probably know him, Jacob Chansley.
He seems like a nice enough guy. They walked him
onto the floor of the Senate. I mean, if you
drove through a red light, you'd get a ticket. But
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if the police wave you through, did you run the
red light? I would say you probably didn't. And I
think that vividly describes what happened to him. But because
there's footage of people breaking windows or of course we
all know about the person that got shot. That's very sad.
They equate what happened to those people with what happened
to you. And it was a very different experience, wasn't it.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Absolutely Well, that's because we saw the ten thousand foot
you know, footage with this. We saw the same videos
over and over again. It was, you know, a couple
cops getting salted. It was when it was being broken,
but they withheld most of the footage and they still
withhold most of it now. A lot of it is
still censored. A lot of it you can't get to.
They're a handful of people who are still going through it.
But if we if you look at it now as
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compared to four almost five years ago, now you can
see a lot of people really did just walk through
open doors or were let in in some cases actually
pulled in by other agitators.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I would describe that as almost being like entrapment. Right
if someone wasn't gonna buy crack and then there was
an audio recording of a cop undercover talking them into
buying crack. I mean, I'm one of those radical libertarians,
so don't listen to me. But that sounds unfair, and
I would equate that to. I think there's a correlation.
I think that lives adjacent to what happened to you.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Yep, they call those conspiracy charges, and federal prisons are
full of people that happen.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
To Speaking of the being a libertarian, you're one. If
I'm not mistaken, you're one of the You're a liberty Republican.
You're in town for Ron Paul's birthday. That is correct,
And I like you. It's not like I'm anti MAGA.
My policies are similar, a little different, but I just
always figured, you know, anti war, low taxes, pro gun,
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supporting the MAGA movement.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
If not Ron Paul, then Donald Trump. That was my position.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
That's always my position as well. I think the MAGA
movement is actually a new wave of conservative movement and
it has picked up a lot of first time voters.
A lot of libertarians were excited about the policies that
were being talked about. Whether they come to fruition or
not remains to be seen. Yeah, you know, the hiring
practices of twenty twenty there were a lot worse than
the ones that happened this time around. And like Tulsi,
(29:00):
I like what RFK Junior is doing as well, so
we have. We have a couple of great people in
positions trying to do some good things.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It really is the greatest admitting.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I mean it's in terms of the lineup, like it's
I'm not saying everyone's perfect, but RFK Junior Tall Sea fantastic.
I miss Elon, I missed. I mean, did you see
this week they buried the hatchet. Trump came out and
said he thinks Elon's a good guy yet a bad day.
Elon said he regrets what he said. I mean, I
want I want my dad and my uncle to get
along with each other. I don't want him to fight
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
You know, No, he's been busy making self core porn
on a you know is one crock?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Is that true? Oh, I get what you're talking. You're
you didn't actually do porn, you're tying. Some people are
bothered by the fact that Elon's using AI. Are you
one of those people that thinks we should outlaw porn?
Is that a thing you get behind.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
I don't think it's okay any studies you look on it.
It's not good for the human brain. We show great seriation.
It ruins marriages. I think it ruins young males. I
think it actually created the entire OnlyFans culture that we
have with females. Yeah, yes, absolutely so. Do I think
there should be Are I ban for it? No? I
think adults can do what adults want to do. But
(30:05):
it is one of those How how is it legal
that I get in trouble here? How is it legal
that you can make porn make money doing that? A
prostitution is illegal? I can't reconcile those two things.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Adam, there's a camera in the corner. What do you
not understanding? The camera is right there? That makes it okay? Adam,
what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Well, I'm saying if we say that prostitution is illegal
in this wrong, then yes, I would lean towards we
should probab apply that to porn as well.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I'm not like the guy that's gonna defend porn because
this is the one hundred thousandth most important thing to me,
the question I always ask my very paleo conservative friends
when they talk about outlying porn, which to me, it's like,
all right, outlaw porn.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
But I go to the art gallery a lot. I'm
a connoisseur of fine culture. What's the difference between a
nude painting in the art gallery and porn.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I think it's a fine line, right.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
You get arrested for doing things in a gallery that
you wouldn't at home.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's a great no.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
He's right now, Adam, that checks out, dude, He's right, Adam, Adam,
touche check made my man?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
My man. I thought we were playing checkers.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's a four dimensional chess. That is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So Adam, your your whole thing now that you become
you know, you were an unexpected celebrity.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
You were in you were in Washington, c DC on
January sixth.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Just to make the point here that if we if
we're Americans with free speech, we should certainly be allowed
to at least question election results. I mean, whether it's
legitimate or not.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
We should be allowed to ask that question.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And obviously what came next was just insanity, pure insanity.
Nancy Pelosi trying to prevent the National Guard from getting
involved FBI agents on the ground, how many a lot.
The person in charge of the FBI at the time
was the same person who I would say staged a
fake kidnapping of the Michigan governor, they promoted that person.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Of suspicious stuff, kind of like Epstein's death that you
have to ignore to think that what happened on January
sixth was a bunch of maga guys taking over the country. Weirdly,
a little few to none of them. I think we're
even armed. The pipe bomb thing, they could never explain that,
where's the evidence, Where are.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
The pipe bombs? Who's what? We had?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Pipe bombs? And now there's no investigation. Nobody cares about that.
That feels like the biggest deal to me. And after
all that happened, you become an unexpected celebrity, public figure,
whatever you would describe yourself as. And you're using that
now to raise money for charity. You're not using it
to launch and only fans. You're not using it to
sell coozies or you know.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I think that's admirable.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I think you have actually played this in a for
people that watch from a distance, who vaguely know who
you are. I think that's a pretty classy thing of
you to do.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
I appreciate a lot of it. Started up my plea
deal stipulated that I was not allowed to make money,
have a Geits and go have a go fund me
or anything to help me raise funds for the one
hundred thousand dollars worth of attorneys that we had to
hire out of pocket. So they wanted a lifetime band
for I got it down to five years. And during
those five years, you know, it was difficult, but God
(33:05):
was good. We my wife bonus, like you said our
bonus before. So things that think God was good, I'll
put it there. In the middle of this, there were
a lot of Gen six ers who were still struggling
their kids. You know, their their fathers are in prison,
their mothers are in prison, the kids are struggling. I
have five kids and myself, so that really pulled out
my heartstrings. So what I did. I'm a carpenter. I
started building little lecterns, and I told the DOJ listen.
(33:27):
You know, stipulates that I can't make money, but what
if I give it all away? So I started building
little lecturns and we started auctioning them off and they
were selling for over one thousand dollars apiece, and we
just gave all of the money away to families soon
needed it. So out of that spurred the idea that
I want to continue doing this because I don't know.
It feels good. It feels good.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
You're throwing a lot of information at me here.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You're right, you're a long haired humanitarian who's a carpenter.
It does sound a little familiar to me, Adam. Where
have I heard that story before?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (33:55):
Okay, I did go into a temple and move some furniture.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And you're in five kids? Catholic? Are Mormon? I'm a
guest Catholic, h Christian? Oh what not? Methodist?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
No?
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Southern Baptist?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Thank god?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I hate the Methodist. I cannot stand them. Methodists are
not allowed in the studio, Adam. You know they have
a bangel bar at the local Methodist church?
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Do they really?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Unbelievable bagel bars? They didn't even have everything. I enjoy
what you're doing. I think it's great work. If I
assume people are gonna want to support what you do.
Some of our listeners are going to be at Ron
Paul's birthday this summer, this weekend. I've been to this
thing many times. Who puts its Young Americans for Liberty?
You're the ones organizing it. If I'm not mistaken, that's correct,
and you are a member supporter guest. What's your involvement,
(34:35):
what's your connection to them?
Speaker 8 (34:36):
I am a guest. A lot of my friends are
going out. Spike Cohen got me linked up with some
people there. He said I should come on out. So
I'm coming on out.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Spike Cohen is the coolest guy.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
There's probably the second coolest guy named Spike who's ever existed?
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Spike Lee.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, well, I don't know, probably somebody else. No, this
guy Spike that I buy weed from.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Ethan?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Did you Ethan Buchanan's here, one of our weekend talk
show hosts Ethan, did you want to ask the electern
guy anything? I mean, great opportunity here for you to
talk to somebody that kind of changed the world.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I mean, you know, no, no offense, but you haven't
done that yet.
Speaker 12 (35:05):
I've always been curious about one thing it how heavy
was it?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Like?
Speaker 12 (35:12):
Are we talking like solid wood oak like? Or was
this kind of like so much so many other things
in our government was just kind of made to look
nice but was actually kind of hollowed out on the
inside and cheap and crappy.
Speaker 8 (35:23):
I would say it was gonna being fifty sixty pounds
fifty six, So.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I mean that took some and it's not small. Do
that again. If on camera it took what did.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You just do?
Speaker 12 (35:35):
I believe this is like the sign for core gumption.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
You know, you had to lift.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
You had to hoist that sucker.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That's how he would handle the wood, is what he
means by that. All right, Now, hold on a minute, Kenny.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
I'm a modest guy. We don't really do. Uh, you
don't know, but actually I lived quite a bit. I'm
in jiu jitsu, been training for seven years, so it's
you know, terrible.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You're a redheaded ninja. That's unbelievable. There's like five of
you guys on earth. That's amazing.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
If people come up to you at.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Ron Paul's birthday this weekend, they want a photograph, or
they want an autograph, or they want a you know,
a souvenir or something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You have a piece of the lectern you can give them.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Or little fragment, you know, I didn't bring it with me.
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It was so interesting about you is that you are
one more example of how whenever there's a big national
news story, the.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Media usually gets everything wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
And then when you actually meet the person in the
news story and you're like, so what was that Like,
They're like, well, every detail because most people that don't
know your story think you stole that podium, took it
home to your house, like you know, like did crack
on it or something.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's not at all what happened.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
I dressed it up and made it mine. I need
bride waltz on the beach, put some wheels on it.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Adam Johnson.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
There are a lot of interesting people that have come
in this studio. I've interviewed a lot of famous people.
A lot of you know, big media personalities, influencers, politicians, musicians, comedians,
journalists have been on the show. I am never going
to forget the day I met the lectern guy, Adam Johnson.
And I will tell you you are a very reasonable,
normal person.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
Well, thanks, I appreciate you. I try to be just.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Is that gonna work? Have you ever just not a
freaking out once in a while to get back in
the news.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Again, or.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Well, I got a couple of things going on behind
the scenes. At some point I may run for something.
We'll announce that when it comes, like.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
In a marathon, or do you mean for office?
Speaker 8 (37:19):
We need a county judge for office. Maybe something local.
Start local?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Are you not aware of how awful elected officials are?
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I love that idea, you and local. Everybody always wants
to be congressman or whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
He's like.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, dude, local politics have way more of an effect
on your life than what's going on in DC.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Weird to think, but true. Well, okay, so this is
where it's wrong. You're not going to fix things in
four years. You're not going to fix things in eight years.
It's a generational problem that we have because the Communists
have been walking on us for the past eighty years.
So if you think you're gonna turn things around in
a couple of years, that's that's not true. Need to
start local in your backyard and your family's at your workplace.
That's where he needs to start.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Adam, you have just earned my endorsement for whatever you
run for, dog Walker of York South, whatever it is,
You've got the endorsement.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Hey, guys, I got to run.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
If you run into my buddy Adam this weekend at
Ron Paul's birthday party, come say hi to him, shake
his hand, take a selfie. He's a pretty cool guy,
I think Ethan Buchanan Show air Sunday night on KPRC,
right after Ted Cruise's show, right here on our flagship station.
I will be at Bruskies tonight in Hattiesburg with Jesse
Payton doing stand up comedy. You could see us tomorrow
night in Denham Springs, the bougiest honky tonk in the
(38:25):
suburbs of Baton Rouge Southern Rhythm. I love you all,
have a great afternoon. We'll be back bright and early
Monday morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 13 (38:38):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell
the government to kiss your ass when you listen to
this show.
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