February 12, 2026 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Alex Swoyer and Tony Ortiz. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Today is our Sineo Hall's birthday. I hear he's going
to spend it the way he always does. Living in
Eddie Murphy's shadow. Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster here a fun
show this afternoon. And we hope I mean at least
an informative one.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Who's here? Oh yeah, Alex Sawyer.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Do you know who?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
That is?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just one of the editors of The Washington's Very beautiful,
brilliant attorney, the author author of a book called Lawless
law Fara book about Donald Trump and the Left's attempts
to try to destroy him using our judicial system. We'll
talk about that. And Current revolt dot com is the
website for Tony Ortiz. He has all the latest gossip
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from Texas politics, including a Republican congressional candidate who's been
going around destroying yard signs in a very funny and
embarrassing way. What got him caught is what It's embarrassing.
And yet I think it's going to make you giggle
when we tell the story all that, plus information about
to Save America Act vote that happened yesterday, and the
possible end of the filibuster.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But before we get to any of that, picture this Pambondi.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, she is beautiful as well, she's very blonde, but
that doesn't mean she's a good attorney general. She's the
one sold to us as the no nonsense swamp drainer.
She's the lady who promised the Epstein client list was
literally sitting on her desk like a ticking time bomb
ready to explode. Elite pedo networks, truckloads of evidence, flight logs, names,
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the full Monty February twenty twenty five hype that had
half the base ready to pop champagne. A lot of
people voted for Donald Trump because we were promised there
was going to be some kind of justice for what
happened on Epstein Island. Let's fast forward to yesterday's House
Judiciary meeting, the hearing. The question lands like a gut punch.
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You've released millions of pages, videos, images. Why aren't you
indicting anyone, not one co conspirator, not one big name
client has been hauled in Pambondy, doesn't swing, doesn't name drop,
doesn't even pretend to promise justice. She swerves like a
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drunk driver avoiding a pothole and floors it straight into
Wall Street cheerleading. She actually made this bizarre point yesterday
that we don't need to worry about justice for pedophiles
because the stock market was doing well.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
The Dow, the Dow right now is over the Dow
is over fifty thousand dollars. I don't know why you're laughing,
you're a great stock train. Or as I hear raskin,
the Dow is over fifty thousand right now, the S
and P at almost seven thousand, and the nasdaqs smashing records.
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Americans four oh one k's and retirement savings are booming.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's what we should be talking about. I'm gonna pausit
it right here. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
First of all, the Dow in the Nasdaq and the
S and P five hundred took a little dip today.
That was yesterday that she was bragging about it. It's
not awesome twenty four hours later. But guys, uh, it's
like asking a fire chief why the orphanage burned down
and he starts bragging about gas prices dropping. What does
the stock ticker have to do with children being trafficked
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and elite predators skating free. It's the political equivalent of
changing the subject to your fantasy football team at a funeral.
Oh in the stock market by this morning it was
below fifty k anyway, So whatever. But here's the real
knife twist. Our own side is turning here on Pam Bondi.
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a solid Trump ally reviewed the unredacted
files herself, and she drops this little grenade on us
yesterday with an interview with Pierce Morgan.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
But you would be.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Shocked, Pierce that some of the names that I've seen
that came across the DOJ and emails, the DJ is protecting.
And we're talking about people on both sides of the aisle.
We're talking about famous people, rich people, people in power,
prime ministers, former prime minister's, former presidents, etc. Media personalities
that are named in these files. And that's why I
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say this is going to go down as the greatest
cover up, one of the greatest cover ups in American history.
And I don't believe the girls are actually going to
see justice, which is why it's going to be incumbent
upon people like Democrat Rocanna, Republican Thomas Massey. I'm a
Republican myself who's willing to name some of those names.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I love Trump. I voted for him more than once.
I'd vote for him again if he runs. I don't
think he will. But the man delivered tax cuts, border security,
peace deals, high energy and dependence, took more shots at
the deep state than any president in my lifetime.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The economy under him is doing well. That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm not one of these fair weather fans who bails
the second something stinks. But loving Trump doesn't mean we
have to love every appointment he makes. It doesn't mean
we have to clap like a trained seal when the
Attorney General turns Epstein Accountability into a CNBC segment. You
could cheer for the wins, the border wall progress, the
Supreme Court picks the crushing inflation, and we could still
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call out the missus. That's not disloyalty, that's keeping the
pressure on so the team keeps winning. We were sold retribution.
We were sold redactions, victim names, leaking out zero prosecutions,
and an Attorney general who I will admit Pambody is
very beautiful with her long, flowing blonde hair in the
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big blue eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I admit for it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She's probably the most attractive attorney general we've ever had.
I'm sure she looks better in a bikini than Ken
Paxton does. But Ken Paxton punches hard. I guess it's
not a bikini contest. Ken Paxton actually goes out and
prosecutes bad guys. This attorney general treats Congress like it's
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a happy hour on Wall Street. The swamp didn't get
drained with Pambondy, it got a fresh coat of paint
and a stock ticker screensaver. This is what happens when
even our team pivots to portfolio porn before touching the untouchables.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Is this a little depressing yet?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But look, it doesn't change the big picture. Trump's still
the fighter we need, certainly is better than Kamala. But
Pam Bondi is a reminder that nobody's batting a thousand,
not even the guy we back. I'd love to know
what you guys think. We'll talk more about it coming up. Oh,
Alex Sawyer will be here right after this From the
Washington Times don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
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Speaker 8 (07:03):
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Speaker 3 (08:08):
We're back.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There's a new documentary you can watch about King Charles
in which he granted camera access to every aspect of
his life except for work, probably because he doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I want to talk to my next guest about what
happened yesterday at this Pam Bondi hearing and the latest
on the Save America Act. A lot happened in the
house yesterday, but before we get to any of that,
speaking of documentaries, my next guest was actually at the
Moulagna premiere, which I think is really cool. The liberal
media wanted you to believe that that documentary was going
to be a flop, and then when it wasn't, they
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had to explain the following weekend why it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Then in the second weekend it didn't do as good.
It's like, well, of course it didn't. It never does
as well. The follow up. Alex Sawyer is actually one
of the attorney one of the editors and writers at
Washington Times, an author of a book called Lawless Law Fairs.
As the first time I've ever had her on the show.
She's a Houstonian working in Washington, d C. Alex Who
(09:05):
has better food?
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Oh my gosh, hands down Houston. Whenever I'm asked about that,
I always say Houston, and people here are like, oh,
you know the one thing the California. California has such
great food. I'm like, no, no, I've been to California.
You gotta go to Houston. A Houston food better than
La definitely.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I always felt like the best five cities are Chicago,
New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Houston, in no
specific order. Everywhere else is just Cleveland. Washington, D C.
Has nice steakhouses, but there's nothing interesting about it.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
You know, Washington, d C.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Is a place to come because it really is like
the most powerful city in the world if you think
about it, and it's fun to kind of go to
some of these federal buildings, go to the National Mall,
see the sites.
Speaker 10 (09:50):
But yes, the food. You don't come here for the food.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You were at the Milania premiere at the Trump Kennedy Center.
Obviously the name is upsetting people.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
The Robert F.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Kennedy Junior doesn't seem to mind. What was the atmosphere like?
That was probably a cool experience.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Right, Oh, absolutely, it was very cool.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You know.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
One of those things that I'll share if for those
that haven't seen the documentary yet, is you get to
see a little bit of some of the work Milania
is doing in terms of advocacy. She has really done
a lot of focus with youth right before this is
the documentary captures the time from the election to basically
I think it's like the twenty days or twenty two
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days leading up to the inauguration, the second inauguration, and
she's like zooming with female leaders of different countries. Why
for example, I think it was but the French president
Macrone's wife and her. It shows them doing a zoom
session where they're talking about I think it's really she's
looking at legislation that we've seen past in other countries,
for example that ban certain age. I think it's like
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sixteen Australia from accessing social media, and it looks like
that's one of those pushes she's going to work on
in terms of mental health for youth. And we know
that she's worked a lot with the reunification of Ukrainian
children in the war on going into Russia Ukraine, and
you see a little bit about what her I guess
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mission oriented work is going to be a little preview
of that. You also get some cool moments between the
President and her that you don't really see. I think
they look a little robotic sometimes when they're out in public.
But for example, it shows the president practicing his inaugural
speech and she walks in and she sits down for
a second and he's practicing it, and she kind of
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tweaks a word and they go back and forth on it,
and then it jumps to him actually delivering the inaugural speech,
and at one point he used the word I think unifier,
that he was going to be a unifier, and that
was Milania's word she wanted. And he turns and completely
looks back at her, and she looks at him out
of the side of her eyes and then smiles.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
And looks away.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
And now you know, at the time when we all
watched that, I don't think we understood that was a
little bit of an inside joke between them.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
But when you watch it back, you can totally see it.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
So there's little moments like that that I think kind
of give a little more glimpse into their relationship. And
if you like Malania's style and that sort of thing.
You're gonna love watching it. There's a lot of fashion
in it, and there's also a lot of her like
decore tastes and picking out different play settings for the
various dinners that they had for that inauguration.
Speaker 10 (12:21):
So it was a good it was a good hour
and a half, Alex.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Not a lot of people are gonna believe this because
I tell dirty jokes and on the radio and in
nightclubs for a living. But I am a fashionista. Let's
get into it for a minute. Malanya has elegant, minimalistic esthetic.
Apparently at the premiere they had black and white popcorn.
They had black and white m and ms, chocolate covered pretzels, macarons,
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and black and white cookies and cake pops with Malania
branding and monochrome themes. The central display of white cake pops. Alex,
I'm warning you this is gonna be a controversial question.
These elegant fashionista women, are they afraid of color?
Speaker 11 (13:00):
You know what?
Speaker 9 (13:00):
I have to be honest, I am very neutral myself.
I love, love, love a black and white. I think
it's so sharp. It's interesting, though. You did you think
her inaugural her inaugural look like actually, not the not
the dress that night, but her suit was that black
and white or navy and white.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't remember what color it was, but most people
remember the.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Hat that's right, And so that's in the documentary too,
And she's very precise about how she wants it, and
it's actually she went into hant like was like, this
is the color navy I want, which I thought it
kind of looks black, but then I guess the closer
you look, it does look like a deep navy. So
that's a little fun part in a little humor too.
She's like designing the collar of it, and she tells
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her team basically that she wants it to be like
a stiffer white shirt under it in the neckline. So
they're like, okay, and then she leaves and they're like,
we can't cut this, you know, they're kind of flipping
out for a second, but before putting it back on
her after they just told her that.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
They could, so then you see them get out. So
there's it's a little there's some humor to it, you know,
you can appreciate this.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is so different from the kind of topics we normally
cover on this show. But you know, once in a
while we got to do one for the ladies and
one in ten gay men listening to the show. So
I love that we're covering this.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
And I will say, so there is black gift bags
at every seat, and you had the popcorn like you said,
and a cookie, a souvenir ticket, and her book. That
was kind of what everyone who sat down and watched
the premiere at the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
God, and the popcorn was good. And my daughter says,
the cookie was good.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I didn't need that, Alex, you understand this stuff. I
love that because this is a part of Washington, d C.
You don't usually see. It's almost the glamorous Hollywood side.
But you are more than just beautiful. You are also brilliant.
You are a lawyer who covers Capitol Hill. Yesterday, the
Save America Act passed and this isn't this shouldn't be
controversial at all, the Republican backed bill introduced by Chip
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Roy from here in Texas, Senator Michael one of my favorites.
It's basically voter id laws right on a national level. Obviously,
there's a little more to it than that you told
me off the air. Even though this passed the House,
she don't think it passes the Senate.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
There is just so much protest from even common sense
measures from Democrats that I don't see how Republicans are
going to be able to get the votes that they
need to overcome the sixty vote threshold in the Senate.
Right now, Republicans have fifty three seats. Lisa Rakowski Alaskan Republican.
She is not a Trump Republican by any means. I'm
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not sure if you and your listeners talk much about her.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Yes, she kind of likes to march.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
To the beat of her own drum, but she has
already come out and said that she's not going to
support it. I think her position is that I believe
what excuse she's using is that she thinks states should
be able to set their own determinations. But you know,
she's also not facing reelection until I think twenty twenty
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eight if she's going to run again, so she's not
quite worried about what polls say. But to your point,
this is one of those This is like one of
those eighty percent issues, right Like I was looking at
one of the latest polls, it says I think Pew
said that eighty percent of people back voter ID laws.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
That's like seventy percent of.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Democrats and Republicans, okay, seventy six percent of black voters,
eighty two percent of Latinos. So when you have Democrats
coming out here and talking about how you know this
is Jim Crow era law is requiring an ID, I
mean minority voters support this overwhelmingly. So you know, one thing,
I think it's racist to say or suggest that minority
voters wouldn't be able to get an accurate photo ID
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or proof of citizenship. And it reminds me of when
Kamala Harris made that huge gap. I think it was
like in twenty twenty one when she talked about how
people can't find but a rural Americans, which you know,
I'm from Fort ben County back when Fulsher, Texas was
like five hundred people, So I am part of that.
I consider myself part of that rural Americans. And she
said that we wouldn't be able to find photo copy
machines or Kinko's to be able to copy our ID.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
I don't know if you remember that.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
It's just so insulting to the voter and their intelligence.
I'm so cynical when you talk about like the Senate.
So I covered the Senate for years. My little desk,
my press desk was right outside the chamber, and I
would chase the senators around, Mike Lee one of them,
and ask questions. And you know, sometimes I just like
don't understand how they can't agree on issues that are
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like over seventy percent of the public agree on. I
feel like a group of average Americans who vote differently
could sit down at a roundtable and come up with
solutions or a compromise to fix some of these issues.
Yet they cannot. And it makes me just wonder, like,
how much money do they get for their campaigns in
continuing to be able to run on these issues?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Is that why they don't want them to be settled?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Fascinating analysis.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I loved hearing you explain that the Kamala Kinkos thing
always made me laugh because not only was it racist,
but Kinkos hasn't existed in a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That was like a nineties brand.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It was if she's like, Wow, when you're drinking diet
tab and driving around in your Ford.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Pento, It's like, lady, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I have a theory about I have a theory about
what your observation about the Senate and I think the
Lisa Markowski angle is really interesting. Here in Texas, Chip
Roy is running for Attorney General and John Cornyn, the incumbent,
is obviously up for reelection right now with the current
attorney general trying to take a seat, that's Ken Paxton.
There's a lot of tension between all these guys.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Patrick Jay, I would love to hear what you're hearing
and what people are saying there, because there is so
much noise here in DC about it.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
A lot of people want to weigh in on Texas
and what they think is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right, here's some hot gossip. Get the tea, Get ready,
chip Roy? Ready, Chip Roy and Ken Paxton don't like
each other. John Cornyn and Ken Paxton clearly don't like
each other. They're very open about that. Chip Roy used
to work for John Cornyn. This is chip Roy's bill,
he co sponsored it. I suspect because there's no endorsement
in either of those races yet here in Texas right now,
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there's no endorsement in the Senate race or the Attorney
general race.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Chip Roy is you know he's in the lead.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It may end up being a runoff with him in
a state senator in named Mays Middleton.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We may end up having a runoff between Cornyn and
Paxton or Cornyn and Wesley Hunt. But now, and I
like Paxton, I like Wesley Hunt. Trump, this already passed
the House. Trump doesn't necessarily need Wesley Hunt's vote. I worry,
and I'm not a fan of these guys, necessarily that
Cornyn and chip Roy are going to work out a
deal with Trump. If Trump will endorse Cornyn and possibly
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endorse chip Roy, they Cornyn will whip the votes in
the Senate in an effort to try to get this
to pass the Senate. And obviously, if it makes it
Trump's desk, He's going to sign it would be considered
a huge victory for him.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I also, while we're on the topic here, I find.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
This idea that they can't like this argument people keep
making about the filibuster, Well, we can't do that. They'll filibuster.
Make them filibuster. Mike Lee was talking about this yesterday.
Nobody ever filibusters anymore. At least make them put a
diaper on and read from the phone book or don't
like they use that as an excuse all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I don't your thoughts.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Yeah, so a couple of things. It's funny that you're
talking about, like the different types of runoffs. A lot
of people here think it's gonna end up being between
Paxton and Hunt. That's where minds go in terms of
endorsements and Texas race like this. Some of the people
who I'll just say one of the leading like a
conservative grassroots voices.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
It used to work for President Trump.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
I talked to him, and I think the notion is,
you know, hoping that Trump just kind of stays out
of it. He's all Ken Paxton, He's featured in my
book while with law there. He has been a very
big Trump defender over the years. So it would be
surprising to I guess see President Trump go elsewhere. But
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you never know, and time will tell. So that's kind
of one of the things people are watching here. In
terms of the filibuster, yeah, like why not make them filibuster? Also,
there's so much push about this idea. When I covered
the Senate, there was such I guess a unanimous agreement
between near unanimous I should say between Republicans and Democrats
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in the Senate about wanting to keep the filibuster, that
that's for legislation purposes. They've done away with it for
certain judicial nominees, right, But like for legislation, that's they say,
that's what's so that separates them from the House. The
House is the majority vote. It can get rowdy over there.
The Senate is where legislation comes to basically cool down
and reach some sort of bipartisanship.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
That was the notion, I guess.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
I mean, I don't want to age myself, but when
I was covering the Senate was like seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So seven years and I think that was a long
time ago. I'm I'm going to be forty four this summer.
You think seven years ago is a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
In the meantime, I had a child, which it feels
like that ages meet completely. But they chased that war
kind of wild. But I will say, you know, now,
looking at just how the party has changed, and like parties,
I should say, moving further to the right or further
to the left, there is energy to do away with
the filibuster to some extent for legislation, and when Republicans
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come in and say some of these. I guess you
could say the President has even talked about the filibuster
and what's to do with it, but that say, oh,
we should get rid of it, we should nuke it,
like why do we need the sixty vot vote threshold?
If I think they're right, they say, if we don't
do it, you can guarantee yourself that a you know,
leader AOC should that be the reality in a few
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years that the Democrats will do it?
Speaker 10 (22:32):
And I think that's right. I do foresee that the.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Direction of the Democrat Party if they take control of
the Upper Chamber with that type of uh more progressive leadership,
they'll definitely do not think twice about doing that with
the filibuster. So you know, I guess it's a race
to see what happens there and who's going to do
it first. So I I you know, there's some good
points made about that, and then of course it would
be much easier to pass something like to say BacT
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with that that type of think.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I think it's inevitable. Everybody's talking about. You've got people
in both parties now, it's a popular idea. I do
wonder if he'ars from now we'll regret it, though. This
is going to speed up the growth of government, no doubt.
We've gone way long. We have sped up the growth
of this radio segment by about five minutes. We should
probably wrap it up. But the book she wrote is
called Lawless, Lawfair. We haven't even talked about it. But
like I said, Alex is a beautiful, brilliant person. You
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should check out her book, Lawless, Lawfair, Tipping the scales
of Justice to get Trump and destroy MAGA, and that
is an in depth analysis of exactly what it sounds like.
You can also check out her work on x and Instagram.
And oh, by the way, did I mention she is
one of the editors of the Washington Times. Alex, thank
you so much for your time this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Thank you for having me this happiness.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, So, according to sports analysts, the Rams and the
Seahawks have the best odds of being in the Super
Bowl next year, and the Jets aren't far behind. They're
actually far, far far behind. Hi, everybody, I was just
looking at the Washington Post. Don't by the way, I'll
do it so you don't have to. The Washington Post
just pulled off a comedy routine so bad it makes
(24:15):
a clown car look like a serious think tank.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
They dropped this breaking news bomb. I'll read it to you.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
The Trump administration is quietly withdrawn National Guard troops from
Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland. Oh sneaky, mysterious, like Trump
was hiding the troops in a witness protection program for
weekend warriors. There's just one problem. Trump announced the pull
out weeks on social media in big bold letters, probably
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with some emojis and all caps for emphasis, because you
know that's how he types. It wasn't quiet. It was
louder than a toddler discovering a megaphone. Every other news outlet,
the AP, CNN, the New York Times report it back
in December, late December, like normal humans, well, like normal
liberal news like they reported it. I'll just leave it
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at that. But the Washington Post, they apparently had a
strict no reading our own competitors or our own previous
stories policy, so they published this breathless scoop about a
remarkable turnabout and no public acknowledgement. That's how they put
it from the White House or the Pentagon with just
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one little problem. Guys, oopsie, oopsie, there was that one
tiny public acknowledgment from the guy running the White House
on social media weeks ago, and he has.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Millions and millions and millions of followers.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You know, that one acknowledgment they somehow missed while patting
themselves on the back for breaking the story. And then
when the obvious gets pointed out, they don't retract the
thing like adults. No, they sneak in a sad little update.
Here's what it says. The pullout was completed last month
with no public acknowledgment other than a social media post
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weeks earlier in which President Donald Trump announced the troop's removal.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well brilliant.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
That's like saying the bank robbery was completely silent except
for a guy yelling this is a robbery on live TV.
You know, this is probably the second face plant they had,
because they already covered the announcement themselves back in December.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I checked.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It's like, this is like forgetting you already told some
bad joke at the same party and then telling it
again louder while everyone's staring.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You know, people that do that.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
They tell a joke and they get a couple laughs,
and then more people come in the room, so they
tell the joke again. The Washington Post is basically your
drunk one goal at Thanksgiving who keeps insisting the turkey
is vegan while everyone's chewing on drumsticks. They want so
desperately to paint this as Trump slinking away in embarrassment
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after his big tough guy troops surge flopped in court,
but instead they just handed him a free win. Look, folks,
even the fake news admits I did exactly what I
said i'd do. It's a classic cell phone Washington Post
credibility now limping worse than a three legged dog trying
to chase a mail truck.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know what there? Catch? What is there?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Cut?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Democracy dies in darkness, that's what they say. They say
democracy dies in more like it trips over its own
shoelaces in broad daylight and face plants into a pie twice. Yeah,
I kind of amazed by this. Jeff Bezos still owns
the Washington Post. You guys, remember when he what did
he do? He said the Washington Post wasn't going to
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be so liberal anymore? Isn't that what he said a
couple of years back after it was pretty obvious Kamalo,
he's going to lose. He wouldn't endorse a candidate. Fast
forward two years, suddenly Trump arrangement syndrome is in full
swing again. And it's almost like the Washington Boast said, Hey,
if our nutjob neighbors can froth at the mouth over
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Donald Trump, we can too.
Speaker 12 (28:13):
According to a new report, exaggerated statements are up by
like a billion percent and now more of the highest
rated show on radio, Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I don't mean to brag, obviously I do. I do
mean to brag. I have some very funny friends I do.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
This weekend, we are performing maybe the last couple's therapy
we're ever gonna do in Houston, Texas, Saturday night at
the Community Field House. Technically it's in Spring, Texas if
you live near there, just north of the Houston area.
Hundreds of people will be gathering together for a Valentine's
Day themed comedy show. And we've done this show before.
(28:54):
We changed the show around a little bit every time
we do it, and SU's changed a bit over the
last year or two, but I think they think there's
gonna be the last one of these we do. After this,
we're gonna start doing a different comedy show called the
Right Side of Comedy. But for now, this Saturday night,
if you don't have a Valentine's Day date yet, gentlemen,
this is turnkey, come join us the Community Fieldhouse. You
got to get the tickets in advance, so go get
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them right now. For fifty nine bucks. Two adults can
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Those are the comedians, and then the before the show starts,
show up at like six six thirty, Dinner starts at seven.
There's gonna be music by Jeff Canada, a comedy show
at eight thirty, followed by DJ afterwards. This is turnkey.
(29:37):
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can grab tickets to this Saturday night. There is a
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not included, but food is included, so for fifty nine bucks.
Tickets starting at fifty nine bucks. You can get the
(29:58):
VIP package if you want to pay a little more whatever.
Like I said, I have very funny friends. Sometimes my
friends are funny when they're not even trying to be.
I have a friend, he's a really funny Mexican guy,
and he's from well technically he's from Chicago, but he
lives in Dallas now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
He's lived there for a long time.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
He runs what is probably the most controversial or one
of the most controversial Texas political news outlets.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's called Current Revolt.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Years ago, before he was married, like almost a decade ago,
he was dating women and he had this conversation with
a woman online that he was going to go on
a date with, because that's how dating works nowadays. And
there's a screenshot of this conversation. It seems to go
viral from time to time. The conversation starts like this.
She texts him and says, oh God, you're a Republican,
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aren't you? And he says, I worked for the Trump
campaign in the last six months of the election. Then
she says, how disappointing. He says, I mean we could
still grab food. I actually legit love discussing politics with
people I disagree with. She says, I'm undocumented and you
worked for a campaign that much to deport me. So no,
(31:02):
and then he says, I mean at least before you leave.
It's really a funny thing to say. Uh, Tony Ortiz
put this.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He didn't. You didn't put this. Tony's on the line
right now, Tony, I.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Know this is not what technically we were supposed to
talk about on the show right now, but I see
this text conversation go viral. It's a meme, people put
It's a text conversation that became a meme and it
was never supposed to. But once every year or two
it's it resurfaces around Valentine's Day and goes viral.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And here it is again, dude, what is your react?
Explain this? What does this mean?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, it's funny because it is a screenshot from like
tender messages from twenty seventeen when I was single, of course,
and uh, you know, I sent it to my group
chat of guy friends and one if the guys posted
I think on Reddit or whatever, maybe online or on
Twitter at the time. And yeah, it goes viral every
once in a while, and it just kind of cracks
me up because it's like, oh, yeah, I remember that conversation.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, and whatever happened to her? Did she get deported?
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
She unmatched me right after after my last message to her.
What was What was the dating app you were using
back then? I think it was Tinder. I'm pretty sure
it was Tinder. Tender is it's become.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I don't know that much about dating apps, so I
briefly used them and had a bad experience. But I
do know that dating apps like Tinder are a great
way to get a message out. But while that's considered
to be new media, there's still old media, Tony. Isn't
this a great segue. Some people still use yard signs,
don't they They do, they do, and sometimes things happen
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to those yard signs.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Okay, tell me what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
There's a news story today about a candidate in Texas
who got into trouble. I never understand why people do this.
He got caught on camera tearing down yard signs.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, so in Williamson County, one of the commissioner candidates
with the last name Abrahem or Aberhem Gara Patti can't
pronounce it name, man, But anyway, he they do that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
On purpose, you know, do they?
Speaker 11 (33:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I don't know either.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I have a policy I don't vote for people whose
names I can't pronounce them, so he wouldn't get my
vote by default.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh no, So this is Congressional District thirty one candidate
Aberram Garrett Potty.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well, just I think I did it right, Yeah, something
like that. Yeah, congressional.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
He's ready for that against Valentina Gomez and oh gosh,
wow guy. So it's it's a whole mess of of
a of a race there, as you can imagine those
poor people, those poor people, right, But he got caught
on video pulling up in the middle of the night
with his truck and tearing down the incumbent and one
of the challengers, you are, signs that was like wired
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to a fence and then you know, throwing it, taking
it off the off the fence and throwing it in
the back of his truck, and so it's pretty hilarious.
I called him up to ask him for comment, and
he he initially said, O, well.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You know, it was in a fit of rage.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
I was upset I'll never do it again, like kind
of like like, why are you telling me that I'm
just media. You don't have to apologize to me. And
then I was like, okay, well what happened with the sign,
like after you took it down? He's like, well, you know,
I just I just threw it on the ground and
I left it there. And I said, sir, with all
due respect, the video shows you're putting it in your truck.
And he goes quiet for a second and he goes, yeah,
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i'd put it in my truck, and I still have it.
I'll give it back to them if they want it.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
If they want it, well, I'm sure they do it.
It's their property, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
So he went on Facebook, I think last night and
posted I'm not exaggerating. I think it's like twenty five
paragraph long response to the sign theft. I didn't read
all of it because it's really long. But he's well, yeah, yeah,
not doing well.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yard sign controversy is so ridiculous because, let's face it,
you and I both know nobody's picking a candidate based
on yard signs. It just lets your neighbors know. Hey, guys,
quick reminder election coming up.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
You might like this guy.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Maybe it's not as if seeing the name of a
candidate in your neighbor's yard.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I think very rarely does that do anything.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
In fact, in some cases, when there's animosity between neighbors,
which there often is tension in an HOA community, knowing
that the guy across the street from you is voting
for Orlando Sanchez might make you want to vote for
Marty Langton. For example, I was in where was I
River Oaks last night at Tony Busby's house for a
Marty Langton fundraiser, and I couldn't help but notice that
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the two guys in the neighborhood who became who started
with nothing and became successful, were Marty Langton supporters, and
everybody else in the neighborhood liked to the other guy,
And I thought, Wow, that just says everything right there,
doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
That's interesting. Yeah, there's signs people get really hung up
all over them. And I've heard so many people, including
a mutual friend of yours of ours, that that insists
that a candidate's gonna win because they see there's so
many signs hanging up, and that doesn't often seem to
be the case.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Speaking of River Oaks for those that don't know, that's
a boot neighborhood in Houston. And there's this really funny
Twitter account that appears to be operated by a liberal
called River Oaks Guy. But he writes a lot of
jokes about left wing politics in Texas. And so he
wrote this tweet that I found on your website here,
Texas DEM primary voters, here's a full list of reasons
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to vote for James Tallerico over Jasmine Crockett. Reason number one,
you're a racist. Case closed. And then another tweet from
the same guy. I was at a coffee shop and
the woman in front of me said to write Jasmine
on her cup.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
The woman behind me said, you go girl. Then the
whole line started clapping.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
An old man in a Tallarico shirt slammed down his muffin,
yelled the N word, and walked out.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Definite vibe shift.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I really really, I'm pretty sure it's a parody account.
I really hope it is, but you can't really tell
how it is. But that is a funny account. Yeah, Yeah,
that's a very heated race, bro, it really is.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
So if you like James Tallerico, that means that you
didn't read the Bible correctly, and if you like Jasmine
Crockett that means you hate whitey or am I getting
this backwards?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (37:08):
Something like that. I think it's like James Tallerico, you
probably liberally use the N word, which is not okay,
And then if you like Jasmine Crockett you might be
short to a few IQ points.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I can't imagine any scenario where either of them win,
but I mean, I get it. It's still a big deal.
Not since Beto O'Rourke has it really mattered. Colin Alred
really sucked the thunder. It was pointed out to me
recently I think by Evan Mens of the Houston Chronicle
that Colin Alred raised just as much money as Beto O'Rourke,
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didn't even come close to winning, got crushed in the polls.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Most people didn't even know Colin alrid was running for Senate.
This race is a little different. This is getting a
little more attention because Jasmine Crockett is on cable news
a lot. But that isn't necessarily a good thing for
the Democrats, is it.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
It's not she It really does feel like this is
a race where it just brings a lot of attention
and gets a lot of Dems hyped up. And this
could be it could be an issue. Not because I
think that those guys can win, but because they can
help carry the down ballot. You will get more Democrats
showing up excited to vote about that race and then
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just vote dem all the way down than if they
weren't on the ballot initially.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I gotta tell you a Current Revolt dot com.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
You know, when I go look at that website, I
might end up on a government list, Tony, but I
still like to look at it.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Aren't we all on lists? That's okay? Oh yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Already on a list. Follow him on x at Current Revolt.
He's easy to find. You could subscribe to his substat
Current revolt dot com get the latest, juiciest, most salacious,
nefarious news about Texas politics and more on his website.
Or you know, if you're lazy, just tune into this
radio show. We'll probably read it to you. I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I love you all.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Don't forget comedy show this Saturday night, Community Fieldhouse. Get
your tickets in advance. Couple's Therapy. We'll be back bright
and early tomorrow morning for more of which you bought
a radio for.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Dude, you are listening to.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
The Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell the government to kiss
your ass when you listen to this show, you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I will vote for James Tallerico. Oh damn it. Now
I'm a racist.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Today is our Sineo Hall's birthday. I hear he's going
to spend it the way he always does. Living in
Eddie Murphy's shadow. Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster here a fun
show this afternoon. And we hope I mean at least
an informative one.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Who's here? Oh yeah, Alex Sawyer.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Do you know who?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
That is?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just one of the editors of The Washington's Very beautiful,
brilliant attorney, the author author of a book called Lawless
law Fara book about Donald Trump and the Left's attempts
to try to destroy him using our judicial system. We'll
talk about that. And Current revolt dot com is the
website for Tony Ortiz. He has all the latest gossip
(01:00):
from Texas politics, including a Republican congressional candidate who's been
going around destroying yard signs in a very funny and
embarrassing way. What got him caught is what It's embarrassing.
And yet I think it's going to make you giggle
when we tell the story all that, plus information about
to Save America Act vote that happened yesterday, and the
possible end of the filibuster.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But before we get to any of that, picture this Pambondi.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, she is beautiful as well, she's very blonde, but
that doesn't mean she's a good attorney general. She's the
one sold to us as the no nonsense swamp drainer.
She's the lady who promised the Epstein client list was
literally sitting on her desk like a ticking time bomb
ready to explode. Elite pedo networks, truckloads of evidence, flight logs, names,
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the full Monty February twenty twenty five hype that had
half the base ready to pop champagne. A lot of
people voted for Donald Trump because we were promised there
was going to be some kind of justice for what
happened on Epstein Island. Let's fast forward to yesterday's House
Judiciary meeting, the hearing. The question lands like a gut punch.
(02:11):
You've released millions of pages, videos, images. Why aren't you
indicting anyone, not one co conspirator, not one big name
client has been hauled in Pambondy, doesn't swing, doesn't name drop,
doesn't even pretend to promise justice. She swerves like a
(02:35):
drunk driver avoiding a pothole and floors it straight into
Wall Street cheerleading. She actually made this bizarre point yesterday
that we don't need to worry about justice for pedophiles
because the stock market was doing well.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
The Dow, the Dow right now is over the Dow
is over fifty thousand dollars. I don't know why you're laughing,
you're a great stock train. Or as I hear raskin,
the Dow is over fifty thousand right now, the S
and P at almost seven thousand, and the nasdaqs smashing records.
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Americans four oh one k's and retirement savings are booming.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's what we should be talking about. I'm gonna pausit
it right here. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
First of all, the Dow in the Nasdaq and the
S and P five hundred took a little dip today.
That was yesterday that she was bragging about it. It's
not awesome twenty four hours later. But guys, uh, it's
like asking a fire chief why the orphanage burned down
and he starts bragging about gas prices dropping. What does
the stock ticker have to do with children being trafficked
(03:42):
and elite predators skating free. It's the political equivalent of
changing the subject to your fantasy football team at a funeral.
Oh in the stock market by this morning it was
below fifty k anyway, So whatever. But here's the real
knife twist. Our own side is turning here on Pam Bondi.
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a solid Trump ally reviewed the unredacted
files herself, and she drops this little grenade on us
yesterday with an interview with Pierce Morgan.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
But you would be.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Shocked, Pierce that some of the names that I've seen
that came across the DOJ and emails, the DJ is protecting.
And we're talking about people on both sides of the aisle.
We're talking about famous people, rich people, people in power,
prime ministers, former prime minister's, former presidents, etc. Media personalities
that are named in these files. And that's why I
(04:35):
say this is going to go down as the greatest
cover up, one of the greatest cover ups in American history.
And I don't believe the girls are actually going to
see justice, which is why it's going to be incumbent
upon people like Democrat Rocanna, Republican Thomas Massey. I'm a
Republican myself who's willing to name some of those names.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I love Trump. I voted for him more than once.
I'd vote for him again if he runs. I don't
think he will. But the man delivered tax cuts, border security,
peace deals, high energy and dependence, took more shots at
the deep state than any president in my lifetime.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The economy under him is doing well. That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm not one of these fair weather fans who bails
the second something stinks. But loving Trump doesn't mean we
have to love every appointment he makes. It doesn't mean
we have to clap like a trained seal when the
Attorney General turns Epstein Accountability into a CNBC segment. You
could cheer for the wins, the border wall progress, the
Supreme Court picks the crushing inflation, and we could still
(05:37):
call out the missus. That's not disloyalty, that's keeping the
pressure on so the team keeps winning. We were sold retribution.
We were sold redactions, victim names, leaking out zero prosecutions,
and an Attorney general who I will admit Pambody is
very beautiful with her long, flowing blonde hair in the
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big blue eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I admit for it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She's probably the most attractive attorney general we've ever had.
I'm sure she looks better in a bikini than Ken
Paxton does. But Ken Paxton punches hard. I guess it's
not a bikini contest. Ken Paxton actually goes out and
prosecutes bad guys. This attorney general treats Congress like it's
(06:21):
a happy hour on Wall Street. The swamp didn't get
drained with Pambondy, it got a fresh coat of paint
and a stock ticker screensaver. This is what happens when
even our team pivots to portfolio porn before touching the untouchables.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Is this a little depressing yet?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But look, it doesn't change the big picture. Trump's still
the fighter we need, certainly is better than Kamala. But
Pam Bondi is a reminder that nobody's batting a thousand,
not even the guy we back. I'd love to know
what you guys think. We'll talk more about it coming up. Oh,
Alex Sawyer will be here right after this From the
Washington Times don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
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Speaker 3 (08:08):
We're back.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There's a new documentary you can watch about King Charles
in which he granted camera access to every aspect of
his life except for work, probably because he doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I want to talk to my next guest about what
happened yesterday at this Pam Bondi hearing and the latest
on the Save America Act. A lot happened in the
house yesterday, but before we get to any of that,
speaking of documentaries, my next guest was actually at the
Moulagna premiere, which I think is really cool. The liberal
media wanted you to believe that that documentary was going
to be a flop, and then when it wasn't, they
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had to explain the following weekend why it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Then in the second weekend it didn't do as good.
It's like, well, of course it didn't. It never does
as well. The follow up. Alex Sawyer is actually one
of the attorney one of the editors and writers at
Washington Times, an author of a book called Lawless Law Fairs.
As the first time I've ever had her on the show.
She's a Houstonian working in Washington, d C. Alex Who
(09:05):
has better food?
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Oh my gosh, hands down Houston. Whenever I'm asked about that,
I always say Houston, and people here are like, oh,
you know the one thing the California. California has such
great food. I'm like, no, no, I've been to California.
You gotta go to Houston. A Houston food better than
La definitely.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I always felt like the best five cities are Chicago,
New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Houston, in no
specific order. Everywhere else is just Cleveland. Washington, D C.
Has nice steakhouses, but there's nothing interesting about it.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
You know, Washington, d C.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Is a place to come because it really is like
the most powerful city in the world if you think
about it, and it's fun to kind of go to
some of these federal buildings, go to the National Mall,
see the sites.
Speaker 10 (09:50):
But yes, the food. You don't come here for the food.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You were at the Milania premiere at the Trump Kennedy Center.
Obviously the name is upsetting people.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
The Robert F.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Kennedy Junior doesn't seem to mind. What was the atmosphere like?
That was probably a cool experience.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Right, Oh, absolutely, it was very cool.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You know.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
One of those things that I'll share if for those
that haven't seen the documentary yet, is you get to
see a little bit of some of the work Milania
is doing in terms of advocacy. She has really done
a lot of focus with youth right before this is
the documentary captures the time from the election to basically
I think it's like the twenty days or twenty two
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days leading up to the inauguration, the second inauguration, and
she's like zooming with female leaders of different countries. Why
for example, I think it was but the French president
Macrone's wife and her. It shows them doing a zoom
session where they're talking about I think it's really she's
looking at legislation that we've seen past in other countries,
for example that ban certain age. I think it's like
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sixteen Australia from accessing social media, and it looks like
that's one of those pushes she's going to work on
in terms of mental health for youth. And we know
that she's worked a lot with the reunification of Ukrainian
children in the war on going into Russia Ukraine, and
you see a little bit about what her I guess
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mission oriented work is going to be a little preview
of that. You also get some cool moments between the
President and her that you don't really see. I think
they look a little robotic sometimes when they're out in public.
But for example, it shows the president practicing his inaugural
speech and she walks in and she sits down for
a second and he's practicing it, and she kind of
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tweaks a word and they go back and forth on it,
and then it jumps to him actually delivering the inaugural speech,
and at one point he used the word I think unifier,
that he was going to be a unifier, and that
was Milania's word she wanted. And he turns and completely
looks back at her, and she looks at him out
of the side of her eyes and then smiles.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
And looks away.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
And now you know, at the time when we all
watched that, I don't think we understood that was a
little bit of an inside joke between them.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
But when you watch it back, you can totally see it.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
So there's little moments like that that I think kind
of give a little more glimpse into their relationship. And
if you like Malania's style and that sort of thing.
You're gonna love watching it. There's a lot of fashion
in it, and there's also a lot of her like
decore tastes and picking out different play settings for the
various dinners that they had for that inauguration.
Speaker 10 (12:21):
So it was a good it was a good hour
and a half, Alex.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Not a lot of people are gonna believe this because
I tell dirty jokes and on the radio and in
nightclubs for a living. But I am a fashionista. Let's
get into it for a minute. Malanya has elegant, minimalistic esthetic.
Apparently at the premiere they had black and white popcorn.
They had black and white m and ms, chocolate covered pretzels, macarons,
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and black and white cookies and cake pops with Malania
branding and monochrome themes. The central display of white cake pops. Alex,
I'm warning you this is gonna be a controversial question.
These elegant fashionista women, are they afraid of color?
Speaker 11 (13:00):
You know what?
Speaker 9 (13:00):
I have to be honest, I am very neutral myself.
I love, love, love a black and white. I think
it's so sharp. It's interesting, though. You did you think
her inaugural her inaugural look like actually, not the not
the dress that night, but her suit was that black
and white or navy and white.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't remember what color it was, but most people
remember the.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Hat that's right, And so that's in the documentary too,
And she's very precise about how she wants it, and
it's actually she went into hant like was like, this
is the color navy I want, which I thought it
kind of looks black, but then I guess the closer
you look, it does look like a deep navy. So
that's a little fun part in a little humor too.
She's like designing the collar of it, and she tells
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her team basically that she wants it to be like
a stiffer white shirt under it in the neckline. So
they're like, okay, and then she leaves and they're like,
we can't cut this, you know, they're kind of flipping
out for a second, but before putting it back on
her after they just told her that.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
They could, so then you see them get out. So
there's it's a little there's some humor to it, you know,
you can appreciate this.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is so different from the kind of topics we normally
cover on this show. But you know, once in a
while we got to do one for the ladies and
one in ten gay men listening to the show. So
I love that we're covering this.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
And I will say, so there is black gift bags
at every seat, and you had the popcorn like you said,
and a cookie, a souvenir ticket, and her book. That
was kind of what everyone who sat down and watched
the premiere at the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
God, and the popcorn was good. And my daughter says,
the cookie was good.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I didn't need that, Alex, you understand this stuff. I
love that because this is a part of Washington, d C.
You don't usually see. It's almost the glamorous Hollywood side.
But you are more than just beautiful. You are also brilliant.
You are a lawyer who covers Capitol Hill. Yesterday, the
Save America Act passed and this isn't this shouldn't be
controversial at all, the Republican backed bill introduced by Chip
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Roy from here in Texas, Senator Michael one of my favorites.
It's basically voter id laws right on a national level. Obviously,
there's a little more to it than that you told
me off the air. Even though this passed the House,
she don't think it passes the Senate.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
There is just so much protest from even common sense
measures from Democrats that I don't see how Republicans are
going to be able to get the votes that they
need to overcome the sixty vote threshold in the Senate.
Right now, Republicans have fifty three seats. Lisa Rakowski Alaskan Republican.
She is not a Trump Republican by any means. I'm
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not sure if you and your listeners talk much about her.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Yes, she kind of likes to march.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
To the beat of her own drum, but she has
already come out and said that she's not going to
support it. I think her position is that I believe
what excuse she's using is that she thinks states should
be able to set their own determinations. But you know,
she's also not facing reelection until I think twenty twenty
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eight if she's going to run again, so she's not
quite worried about what polls say. But to your point,
this is one of those This is like one of
those eighty percent issues, right Like I was looking at
one of the latest polls, it says I think Pew
said that eighty percent of people back voter ID laws.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
That's like seventy percent of.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Democrats and Republicans, okay, seventy six percent of black voters,
eighty two percent of Latinos. So when you have Democrats
coming out here and talking about how you know this
is Jim Crow era law is requiring an ID, I
mean minority voters support this overwhelmingly. So you know, one thing,
I think it's racist to say or suggest that minority
voters wouldn't be able to get an accurate photo ID
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or proof of citizenship. And it reminds me of when
Kamala Harris made that huge gap. I think it was
like in twenty twenty one when she talked about how
people can't find but a rural Americans, which you know,
I'm from Fort ben County back when Fulsher, Texas was
like five hundred people, So I am part of that.
I consider myself part of that rural Americans. And she
said that we wouldn't be able to find photo copy
machines or Kinko's to be able to copy our ID.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
I don't know if you remember that.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
It's just so insulting to the voter and their intelligence.
I'm so cynical when you talk about like the Senate.
So I covered the Senate for years. My little desk,
my press desk was right outside the chamber, and I
would chase the senators around, Mike Lee one of them,
and ask questions. And you know, sometimes I just like
don't understand how they can't agree on issues that are
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like over seventy percent of the public agree on. I
feel like a group of average Americans who vote differently
could sit down at a roundtable and come up with
solutions or a compromise to fix some of these issues.
Yet they cannot. And it makes me just wonder, like,
how much money do they get for their campaigns in
continuing to be able to run on these issues?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Is that why they don't want them to be settled?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Fascinating analysis.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I loved hearing you explain that the Kamala Kinkos thing
always made me laugh because not only was it racist,
but Kinkos hasn't existed in a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That was like a nineties brand.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It was if she's like, Wow, when you're drinking diet
tab and driving around in your Ford.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Pento, It's like, lady, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I have a theory about I have a theory about
what your observation about the Senate and I think the
Lisa Markowski angle is really interesting. Here in Texas, Chip
Roy is running for Attorney General and John Cornyn, the incumbent,
is obviously up for reelection right now with the current
attorney general trying to take a seat, that's Ken Paxton.
There's a lot of tension between all these guys.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Patrick Jay, I would love to hear what you're hearing
and what people are saying there, because there is so
much noise here in DC about it.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
A lot of people want to weigh in on Texas
and what they think is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right, here's some hot gossip. Get the tea, Get ready,
chip Roy? Ready, Chip Roy and Ken Paxton don't like
each other. John Cornyn and Ken Paxton clearly don't like
each other. They're very open about that. Chip Roy used
to work for John Cornyn. This is chip Roy's bill,
he co sponsored it. I suspect because there's no endorsement
in either of those races yet here in Texas right now,
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there's no endorsement in the Senate race or the Attorney
general race.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Chip Roy is you know he's in the lead.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It may end up being a runoff with him in
a state senator in named Mays Middleton.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We may end up having a runoff between Cornyn and
Paxton or Cornyn and Wesley Hunt. But now, and I
like Paxton, I like Wesley Hunt. Trump, this already passed
the House. Trump doesn't necessarily need Wesley Hunt's vote. I worry,
and I'm not a fan of these guys, necessarily that
Cornyn and chip Roy are going to work out a
deal with Trump. If Trump will endorse Cornyn and possibly
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endorse chip Roy, they Cornyn will whip the votes in
the Senate in an effort to try to get this
to pass the Senate. And obviously, if it makes it
Trump's desk, He's going to sign it would be considered
a huge victory for him.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I also, while we're on the topic here, I find.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
This idea that they can't like this argument people keep
making about the filibuster, Well, we can't do that. They'll filibuster.
Make them filibuster. Mike Lee was talking about this yesterday.
Nobody ever filibusters anymore. At least make them put a
diaper on and read from the phone book or don't
like they use that as an excuse all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I don't your thoughts.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Yeah, so a couple of things. It's funny that you're
talking about, like the different types of runoffs. A lot
of people here think it's gonna end up being between
Paxton and Hunt. That's where minds go in terms of
endorsements and Texas race like this. Some of the people
who I'll just say one of the leading like a
conservative grassroots voices.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
It used to work for President Trump.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
I talked to him, and I think the notion is,
you know, hoping that Trump just kind of stays out
of it. He's all Ken Paxton, He's featured in my
book while with law there. He has been a very
big Trump defender over the years. So it would be
surprising to I guess see President Trump go elsewhere. But
(20:48):
you never know, and time will tell. So that's kind
of one of the things people are watching here. In
terms of the filibuster, yeah, like why not make them filibuster? Also,
there's so much push about this idea. When I covered
the Senate, there was such I guess a unanimous agreement
between near unanimous I should say between Republicans and Democrats
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in the Senate about wanting to keep the filibuster, that
that's for legislation purposes. They've done away with it for
certain judicial nominees, right, But like for legislation, that's they say,
that's what's so that separates them from the House. The
House is the majority vote. It can get rowdy over there.
The Senate is where legislation comes to basically cool down
and reach some sort of bipartisanship.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
That was the notion, I guess.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
I mean, I don't want to age myself, but when
I was covering the Senate was like seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So seven years and I think that was a long
time ago. I'm I'm going to be forty four this summer.
You think seven years ago is a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
In the meantime, I had a child, which it feels
like that ages meet completely. But they chased that war
kind of wild. But I will say, you know, now,
looking at just how the party has changed, and like parties,
I should say, moving further to the right or further
to the left, there is energy to do away with
the filibuster to some extent for legislation, and when Republicans
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come in and say some of these. I guess you
could say the President has even talked about the filibuster
and what's to do with it, but that say, oh,
we should get rid of it, we should nuke it,
like why do we need the sixty vot vote threshold?
If I think they're right, they say, if we don't
do it, you can guarantee yourself that a you know,
leader AOC should that be the reality in a few
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years that the Democrats will do it?
Speaker 10 (22:32):
And I think that's right. I do foresee that the.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Direction of the Democrat Party if they take control of
the Upper Chamber with that type of uh more progressive leadership,
they'll definitely do not think twice about doing that with
the filibuster. So you know, I guess it's a race
to see what happens there and who's going to do
it first. So I I you know, there's some good
points made about that, and then of course it would
be much easier to pass something like to say BacT
(22:56):
with that that type of think.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I think it's inevitable. Everybody's talking about. You've got people
in both parties now, it's a popular idea. I do
wonder if he'ars from now we'll regret it, though. This
is going to speed up the growth of government, no doubt.
We've gone way long. We have sped up the growth
of this radio segment by about five minutes. We should
probably wrap it up. But the book she wrote is
called Lawless, Lawfair. We haven't even talked about it. But
like I said, Alex is a beautiful, brilliant person. You
(23:21):
should check out her book, Lawless, Lawfair, Tipping the scales
of Justice to get Trump and destroy MAGA, and that
is an in depth analysis of exactly what it sounds like.
You can also check out her work on x and Instagram.
And oh, by the way, did I mention she is
one of the editors of the Washington Times. Alex, thank
you so much for your time this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Thank you for having me this happiness.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, So, according to sports analysts, the Rams and the
Seahawks have the best odds of being in the Super
Bowl next year, and the Jets aren't far behind. They're
actually far, far far behind. Hi, everybody, I was just
looking at the Washington Post. Don't by the way, I'll
do it so you don't have to. The Washington Post
just pulled off a comedy routine so bad it makes
(24:15):
a clown car look like a serious think tank.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
They dropped this breaking news bomb. I'll read it to you.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
The Trump administration is quietly withdrawn National Guard troops from
Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland. Oh sneaky, mysterious, like Trump
was hiding the troops in a witness protection program for
weekend warriors. There's just one problem. Trump announced the pull
out weeks on social media in big bold letters, probably
(24:46):
with some emojis and all caps for emphasis, because you
know that's how he types. It wasn't quiet. It was
louder than a toddler discovering a megaphone. Every other news outlet,
the AP, CNN, the New York Times report it back
in December, late December, like normal humans, well, like normal
liberal news like they reported it. I'll just leave it
(25:08):
at that. But the Washington Post, they apparently had a
strict no reading our own competitors or our own previous
stories policy, so they published this breathless scoop about a
remarkable turnabout and no public acknowledgement. That's how they put
it from the White House or the Pentagon with just
(25:28):
one little problem. Guys, oopsie, oopsie, there was that one
tiny public acknowledgment from the guy running the White House
on social media weeks ago, and he has.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Millions and millions and millions of followers.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You know, that one acknowledgment they somehow missed while patting
themselves on the back for breaking the story. And then
when the obvious gets pointed out, they don't retract the
thing like adults. No, they sneak in a sad little update.
Here's what it says. The pullout was completed last month
with no public acknowledgment other than a social media post
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weeks earlier in which President Donald Trump announced the troop's removal.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well brilliant.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
That's like saying the bank robbery was completely silent except
for a guy yelling this is a robbery on live TV.
You know, this is probably the second face plant they had,
because they already covered the announcement themselves back in December.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I checked.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It's like, this is like forgetting you already told some
bad joke at the same party and then telling it
again louder while everyone's staring.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You know, people that do that.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
They tell a joke and they get a couple laughs,
and then more people come in the room, so they
tell the joke again. The Washington Post is basically your
drunk one goal at Thanksgiving who keeps insisting the turkey
is vegan while everyone's chewing on drumsticks. They want so
desperately to paint this as Trump slinking away in embarrassment
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after his big tough guy troops surge flopped in court,
but instead they just handed him a free win. Look, folks,
even the fake news admits I did exactly what I
said i'd do. It's a classic cell phone Washington Post
credibility now limping worse than a three legged dog trying
to chase a mail truck.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know what there? Catch? What is there?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Cut?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Democracy dies in darkness, that's what they say. They say
democracy dies in more like it trips over its own
shoelaces in broad daylight and face plants into a pie twice. Yeah,
I kind of amazed by this. Jeff Bezos still owns
the Washington Post. You guys, remember when he what did
he do? He said the Washington Post wasn't going to
(27:50):
be so liberal anymore? Isn't that what he said a
couple of years back after it was pretty obvious Kamalo,
he's going to lose. He wouldn't endorse a candidate. Fast
forward two years, suddenly Trump arrangement syndrome is in full
swing again. And it's almost like the Washington Boast said, Hey,
if our nutjob neighbors can froth at the mouth over
(28:10):
Donald Trump, we can too.
Speaker 12 (28:13):
According to a new report, exaggerated statements are up by
like a billion percent and now more of the highest
rated show on radio, Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I don't mean to brag, obviously I do. I do
mean to brag. I have some very funny friends I do.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
This weekend, we are performing maybe the last couple's therapy
we're ever gonna do in Houston, Texas, Saturday night at
the Community Field House. Technically it's in Spring, Texas if
you live near there, just north of the Houston area.
Hundreds of people will be gathering together for a Valentine's
Day themed comedy show. And we've done this show before.
(28:54):
We changed the show around a little bit every time
we do it, and SU's changed a bit over the
last year or two, but I think they think there's
gonna be the last one of these we do. After this,
we're gonna start doing a different comedy show called the
Right Side of Comedy. But for now, this Saturday night,
if you don't have a Valentine's Day date yet, gentlemen,
this is turnkey, come join us the Community Fieldhouse. You
got to get the tickets in advance, so go get
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them right now. For fifty nine bucks. Two adults can
attend couple's Therapy with Jesse Payton seriously, Melissa Kenny Webster.
Those are the comedians, and then the before the show starts,
show up at like six six thirty, Dinner starts at seven.
There's gonna be music by Jeff Canada, a comedy show
at eight thirty, followed by DJ afterwards. This is turnkey.
(29:37):
You don't do it, just show up and it takes
care of itself, no other work to do. Tickets are
available at jessesfunny dot com or just check any of
our social media accounts. You'll find a link where you
can grab tickets to this Saturday night. There is a
full bar. You got to buy your own alcohol that's
not included, but food is included, so for fifty nine bucks.
Tickets starting at fifty nine bucks. You can get the
(29:58):
VIP package if you want to pay a little more whatever.
Like I said, I have very funny friends. Sometimes my
friends are funny when they're not even trying to be.
I have a friend, he's a really funny Mexican guy,
and he's from well technically he's from Chicago, but he
lives in Dallas now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
He's lived there for a long time.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
He runs what is probably the most controversial or one
of the most controversial Texas political news outlets.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's called Current Revolt.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Years ago, before he was married, like almost a decade ago,
he was dating women and he had this conversation with
a woman online that he was going to go on
a date with, because that's how dating works nowadays. And
there's a screenshot of this conversation. It seems to go
viral from time to time. The conversation starts like this.
She texts him and says, oh God, you're a Republican,
(30:42):
aren't you? And he says, I worked for the Trump
campaign in the last six months of the election. Then
she says, how disappointing. He says, I mean we could
still grab food. I actually legit love discussing politics with
people I disagree with. She says, I'm undocumented and you
worked for a campaign that much to deport me. So no,
(31:02):
and then he says, I mean at least before you leave.
It's really a funny thing to say. Uh, Tony Ortiz
put this.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He didn't. You didn't put this. Tony's on the line
right now, Tony, I.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Know this is not what technically we were supposed to
talk about on the show right now, but I see
this text conversation go viral. It's a meme, people put
It's a text conversation that became a meme and it
was never supposed to. But once every year or two
it's it resurfaces around Valentine's Day and goes viral.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And here it is again, dude, what is your react?
Explain this? What does this mean?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, it's funny because it is a screenshot from like
tender messages from twenty seventeen when I was single, of course,
and uh, you know, I sent it to my group
chat of guy friends and one if the guys posted
I think on Reddit or whatever, maybe online or on
Twitter at the time. And yeah, it goes viral every
once in a while, and it just kind of cracks
me up because it's like, oh, yeah, I remember that conversation.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, and whatever happened to her? Did she get deported?
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
She unmatched me right after after my last message to her.
What was What was the dating app you were using
back then? I think it was Tinder. I'm pretty sure
it was Tinder. Tender is it's become.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I don't know that much about dating apps, so I
briefly used them and had a bad experience. But I
do know that dating apps like Tinder are a great
way to get a message out. But while that's considered
to be new media, there's still old media, Tony. Isn't
this a great segue. Some people still use yard signs,
don't they They do, they do, and sometimes things happen
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to those yard signs.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Okay, tell me what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
There's a news story today about a candidate in Texas
who got into trouble. I never understand why people do this.
He got caught on camera tearing down yard signs.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, so in Williamson County, one of the commissioner candidates
with the last name Abrahem or Aberhem Gara Patti can't
pronounce it name, man, But anyway, he they do that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
On purpose, you know, do they?
Speaker 11 (33:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I don't know either.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I have a policy I don't vote for people whose
names I can't pronounce them, so he wouldn't get my
vote by default.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh no, So this is Congressional District thirty one candidate
Aberram Garrett Potty.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well, just I think I did it right, Yeah, something
like that. Yeah, congressional.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
He's ready for that against Valentina Gomez and oh gosh,
wow guy. So it's it's a whole mess of of
a of a race there, as you can imagine those
poor people, those poor people, right, But he got caught
on video pulling up in the middle of the night
with his truck and tearing down the incumbent and one
of the challengers, you are, signs that was like wired
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to a fence and then you know, throwing it, taking
it off the off the fence and throwing it in
the back of his truck, and so it's pretty hilarious.
I called him up to ask him for comment, and
he he initially said, O, well.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You know, it was in a fit of rage.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
I was upset I'll never do it again, like kind
of like like, why are you telling me that I'm
just media. You don't have to apologize to me. And
then I was like, okay, well what happened with the sign,
like after you took it down? He's like, well, you know,
I just I just threw it on the ground and
I left it there. And I said, sir, with all
due respect, the video shows you're putting it in your truck.
And he goes quiet for a second and he goes, yeah,
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i'd put it in my truck, and I still have it.
I'll give it back to them if they want it.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
If they want it, well, I'm sure they do it.
It's their property, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
So he went on Facebook, I think last night and
posted I'm not exaggerating. I think it's like twenty five
paragraph long response to the sign theft. I didn't read
all of it because it's really long. But he's well, yeah, yeah,
not doing well.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yard sign controversy is so ridiculous because, let's face it,
you and I both know nobody's picking a candidate based
on yard signs. It just lets your neighbors know. Hey, guys,
quick reminder election coming up.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
You might like this guy.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Maybe it's not as if seeing the name of a
candidate in your neighbor's yard.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I think very rarely does that do anything.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
In fact, in some cases, when there's animosity between neighbors,
which there often is tension in an HOA community, knowing
that the guy across the street from you is voting
for Orlando Sanchez might make you want to vote for
Marty Langton. For example, I was in where was I
River Oaks last night at Tony Busby's house for a
Marty Langton fundraiser, and I couldn't help but notice that
(35:28):
the two guys in the neighborhood who became who started
with nothing and became successful, were Marty Langton supporters, and
everybody else in the neighborhood liked to the other guy,
And I thought, Wow, that just says everything right there,
doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
That's interesting. Yeah, there's signs people get really hung up
all over them. And I've heard so many people, including
a mutual friend of yours of ours, that that insists
that a candidate's gonna win because they see there's so
many signs hanging up, and that doesn't often seem to
be the case.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Speaking of River Oaks for those that don't know, that's
a boot neighborhood in Houston. And there's this really funny
Twitter account that appears to be operated by a liberal
called River Oaks Guy. But he writes a lot of
jokes about left wing politics in Texas. And so he
wrote this tweet that I found on your website here,
Texas DEM primary voters, here's a full list of reasons
(36:19):
to vote for James Tallerico over Jasmine Crockett. Reason number one,
you're a racist. Case closed. And then another tweet from
the same guy. I was at a coffee shop and
the woman in front of me said to write Jasmine
on her cup.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
The woman behind me said, you go girl. Then the
whole line started clapping.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
An old man in a Tallarico shirt slammed down his muffin,
yelled the N word, and walked out.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Definite vibe shift.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I really really, I'm pretty sure it's a parody account.
I really hope it is, but you can't really tell
how it is. But that is a funny account. Yeah, Yeah,
that's a very heated race, bro, it really is.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
So if you like James Tallerico, that means that you
didn't read the Bible correctly, and if you like Jasmine
Crockett that means you hate whitey or am I getting
this backwards?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (37:08):
Something like that. I think it's like James Tallerico, you
probably liberally use the N word, which is not okay,
And then if you like Jasmine Crockett you might be
short to a few IQ points.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I can't imagine any scenario where either of them win,
but I mean, I get it. It's still a big deal.
Not since Beto O'Rourke has it really mattered. Colin Alred
really sucked the thunder. It was pointed out to me
recently I think by Evan Mens of the Houston Chronicle
that Colin Alred raised just as much money as Beto O'Rourke,
(37:38):
didn't even come close to winning, got crushed in the polls.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Most people didn't even know Colin alrid was running for Senate.
This race is a little different. This is getting a
little more attention because Jasmine Crockett is on cable news
a lot. But that isn't necessarily a good thing for
the Democrats, is it.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
It's not she It really does feel like this is
a race where it just brings a lot of attention
and gets a lot of Dems hyped up. And this
could be it could be an issue. Not because I
think that those guys can win, but because they can
help carry the down ballot. You will get more Democrats
showing up excited to vote about that race and then
(38:16):
just vote dem all the way down than if they
weren't on the ballot initially.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I gotta tell you a Current Revolt dot com.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
You know, when I go look at that website, I
might end up on a government list, Tony, but I
still like to look at it.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Aren't we all on lists? That's okay? Oh yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Already on a list. Follow him on x at Current Revolt.
He's easy to find. You could subscribe to his substat
Current revolt dot com get the latest, juiciest, most salacious,
nefarious news about Texas politics and more on his website.
Or you know, if you're lazy, just tune into this
radio show. We'll probably read it to you. I'm Kenny Webster.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I love you all.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Don't forget comedy show this Saturday night, Community Fieldhouse. Get
your tickets in advance. Couple's Therapy. We'll be back bright
and early tomorrow morning for more of which you bought
a radio for.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Dude, you are listening to.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
The Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell the government to kiss
your ass when you listen to this show, you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I will vote for James Tallerico. Oh damn it. Now
I'm a racist.
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