March 4, 2026 • 31 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Brandon Waltens and Tony Ortiz. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh no, this is not good. This is not good,
ladies and gentlemen. King Charles is reportedly offering Prince Andrew's
former home to Prince Harry and Megan Merkle. That's not
the bad part. The bad part is this. Apparently to
get the house they have to scrub it down themselves.
(00:42):
I know nobody wants that. Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster here
this afternoon, we will be doing a full review of
all the things that happened on election night last night.
And you know, you know what happened. There's a big
election in Texas last night. We'll give you all the deets,
the little details, things you didn't know about, the little
ceedy underbelly of our state's elections and all over. We'll
get to all that real soon. Tony Ortiz is stopping
(01:04):
by from Current Revolt. Brandon Waltons will be here from
Texas Scorecard. But first let's begin the broadcast with this,
My friend spring Break is upon us, and experts are
predicting a record breaking surge and air travel. One hundred
and seventy one million passengers cranked through the sky between
March and April, four percent up from last year. Airlines
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are going to be pumping out twenty six thousand flights
three point five million seats a day just to keep
up with the American prioritizing experience of spring break. That's
warm beaches, Gulf of America getaways. The whole nostalgic circus
is supposedly roaring back, but that robust economic forecast is
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being overshadowed by far worse news. The kids these days
are two soft to party like we did. I know,
as a battle hardened millennial, much older, much wiser, still
recovering from the psychic scars of the actual y two
K anxiety we once experienced. I'm here to tell you
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the real tragedy isn't the ticket prices or the TSA
pat downs, although we do enjoy those a little. It's
the gen Z has collectively decided spring break should be
a wellness retreat instead of a felony audition. Okay, I'm
being a little hyperbolicure but these sober, curious, boundary setting,
hydration obsessed zoomers are flooding to Galveston and Golf Shores
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and South Padre. They're gonna be sipping on mocktails, They're
gonna wear noise canceling headphones. Hmmm, and they have zero
plans to turn the Gulf of America into a crime scene.
It's a tragedy. I tell you, where's the chaos? Where's
the I blacked out and woke up in county jail
with sand in places sand shouldn't belong glow, where's the
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Darwin Award nomination reel? Back when I was there? And
clearly superiors in every reckless way. We had actual role
models guiding us through the Gulf of America Gladiator Arena.
We had Polly Shore, the weasel himself screaming wheeze the
juice on MTV spring Break specials, and shirtless dudes forming
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human pyramids. Someone inevitably got launched off a balcony like
a budget evil canevil. We had Kurt Loder. He was
a cool guy. Sure he was a little nerdy and
you wouldn't leave him alone with your daughter, but that's
besides the point. And don't even get me started on
Dan Cortes from MTV Sports, pumping us full of extreme
energy with his backwards baseball cap and perpetual dude let's
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go nuts grin making us believe that shotgunning a beer
while bungee jumping off a hotel railing was peak personal growth,
and it was unless it stunted your growth, which apparently
it often did. Those were our guiding lights, three walking
red flags who taught us that true spring break in light,
and it came from frozen T shirt chugs, quick change
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swimsuit relays in the surf like deranged Olympians, seawall riots,
and occasional headline screaming. Fifth spring break Vacationer killed this
fall like it was a weekend box office score. Galveston's
chocolate milk quicksand ate rental cars, golf shores, cops ran
arrest leaderboards like it was a video game. South pardre
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turned into a front bro aprocolypse with keg stands on
the sand and chance that collapsed under badge pressure, whatever
that means. You know, the real fun had real stakes,
sand and unfortunate crevices and county wakeups, and the pure
stupid joy of almost dying for a story. But these days,
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these poor, deprived youths are choosing functional beverages and mindful
beach walks and early bedtimes over anything poly Kurt or
Dan would have approved of. They drank four percent of
US alcohols, Virginity rates are climbing, sexlessness has doubled for
young men, and the wildest thing they'll post is a
sunrise yoga pick with hashtag self care Sunrise. They're hitting
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the Gulf of American record numbers, probably to build eco
castles and sip non alcoholic beer, probably to avoid anything
that might require a lawyer or a neck brace or
actual eye contact. Frankly, I'm devastated for them. I'm ashamed.
How will they build character without at least one disorderly
conduct souvenir Without Gravity's harsh reminder that Yolo has footnotes
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without waking up wondering how golf sediment ended up in
their soul. This so called record surge is just responsible
adults costplaying as spring breakers, hydrated, insured, and tragically uninjured.
So here's to you, gen Z. Enjoy your mildly pleasant
golf get away with zero felonies and maximum melatonin book,
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those flights hit the beaches. Keep prioritizing experiences that don't
end in viral embarrassment or a helicopter ride. Just know
you're much older, much wiser. Millennial elders over here clutching
my faded, sand crusted t shirt, whispering through my tears,
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they'll never know the golden age when Polly Shore and
Kurt Loder and Dan Cortez were our north stars, teaching
us that the path to wisdom runs straight through bad
decisions and worst hangovers right here in the Gulf of America.
It's not just tragic, it's national. It's a national catastrophe.
And honestly, kids, now that I've shared this wisdom with you,
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you're welcome. I earned it the hard way, under the watchful,
unhinged eyes of legends and the Palm beach law enforcement. Yeah. Ah,
let's get straight to discussion.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Be here to talk about something, politics and government and
knowledge hitting Cooke Cupcy. It so hit ain't to have
a bridge, because this podcast you gotta get it, so
damn we can.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
This This was of happiness. If you ever had any
doubt that there's a need to close the primaries in
the state of Texas. I would ask you to look
at the results of some of these prop votes that
took place on the ballot this week. I don't think
there was one controversial proposition vote asked on that ballot.
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If you're a real conservative, if you're a if you're
a Republican, a libertarian, a populist, a conservative, a right
wing nationalist, any anything that would fall into the spectrum
of the right ideologically, there's probably nothing on that list
that you would have voted no on. And to my point,
most people did vote yes on this stuff. But I
want to walk through these votes, right I just want
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to make the point here. Brandon Waltons is here right
now from Texas Scorecard. Brandon, these ten votes that I
think most conservatives would overwhelmingly agree with did not all
get one hundred percent? Did they? No?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean, you know, you even look at the first proposition,
which says that Texas property tax should be assessed at
the purchase price and phased out, something that I think
a lot of people would say they'd like to see.
They want to get rid of property taxes. Eighty eight
percent who approves that? That's certainly a high number, but
it does make you wonder who are these twelve percent
that don't want to see property taxes phased out right exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So twelve percent of Republicans want to pay more property
tax do you believe that? I don't buy that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I don't know. I mean, I think, look, I think
maybe you can probably chalk up a few percent of
it to people who maybe you know, misunderstand the wording
of the proposition, or you know, I don't know they
vote know when they meant to vote. Yes, there's always
a little bit of that, but you know, it is
it is strange. But I'll say, you know, the proposition
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that I think and I'd have to go back and
look at them, but it has one of the highest
approval ratings is one that I think had actually generated
maybe the most mention before the election, which was the
last one proposition ten on banning sharia law in Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean, this is another one like what conservative
would not agree with this? What were there results on this?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
There was.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Last book and you know, there's still votes trickling in
in some parts of the state, But it looks like
that one passes with about ninety five percent of Republican
voters voting yes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, soem I mean, five percent of Republican voters don't
think we should pass a law that would prevent us
from chopping off someone's hand if they get accused of shoplifting.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yes, hard to imagine who that one in twenty you know,
Republican voter is It's kind of another way to put it,
but yeah, it is. It is a strange thing, you know.
That being said, though, this definitely does I think gives
some help to lawmakers right now. As we know, there's
been a big push at the state level and in
Congress as well against sharia law and radical Islam in
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Texas and across the country, especially at the last several months,
and so this, you know, I think definitely is another
indication that this is an issue that right now is
getting a lot of attention among Republican voters.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, okay, so let's talk about this. I feel like
most people would agree with this prop three. You can't
deny healthcare to somebody because they didn't get a vaccine.
Isn't that just base? I mean that sounds like what
is it, the hippocratic oath? What do they call it?
Isn't that just basic ethics for your average healthcare provide
that somebody working in the healthcare industry has a sick
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patient walk in and you're not going to treat them
because they didn't get a vaccine. What if the person's
from a third world country, what if they're Amish, what
if they're from what if they're Christian scientists. I mean,
it feels like there's a long list of reasons why
someone might not have gotten a vact They didn't have
access to it, they grew up in a bunker. You're
telling me there were people that disagreed with this.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I were about one and four. The proposition passed with
about seventy three percent of Republican voters voting yes. So
you know, even then you had about a quarter of
voters saying no.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Okay, So this goes back to what I was talking
about in my op ed this week in the Houston Chronicle.
I am one of those people that thinks we should
close the primaries. Brandon, and I don't. It's not like
I believe that fifty percent of the voters in the
GOP primaries or Democrats. But let's say it's five percent.
Let's say it's two percent, let's say it's three percent. Well,
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what the hell do the critics of this idea, Why
would they if the numbers so low as they're suggesting,
then why would they care if we close it?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, in these races, right, there are a lot of
races that are decided on those kinds of margins. Right,
if it's five percent, I mean, there are a lot
of the people who win by one to three percent
in these races, often by Democrats. Coming in Now, I
will say that this election is a little bit different,
and I think Republicans actually benefited from the contentious Democrat
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Senate race. I think a lot of Democrats who otherwise
would have voted in the Republican primary vote in the
voted in the Democrat primary last night because they wanted
to vote for either James Callerico or Jasmine Crockett. But
most years there's not a big contentious Democrat race, and
in those years, I think you see even more Democrats
voting over in the Republican side.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, can we talk about that for a minute. We
heard James what was it? Jasmine Crockett blamed Republicans for
the fact that they didn't we got the election results
last night. We just didn't get it. The minute she
wanted it, like by nine thirty. I think by midnight
we knew that she lost. But she made this point
that it was Republicans fault. You really got to do
a logistical contortionist act to try to figure out what
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her reason was on it. Can you make any sense
of it? I feel like I followed politics pretty closely
and I couldn't understand why it was Ken Paxton's fault.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, Well, her contention was essentially that in Dallas County,
Dallas was one of the counties or other counties in
Texas that have moved to precinct voting locations, meaning that
on election day you have to vote in your precinct.
And you know, folks who have been voting for a
long time, they recognize that this was actually how elections
were conducted for the most part before like ten fifteen
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years ago, where we sort of moved to these voting
centers where you can go vote anywhere in the county.
And there's a lot of reasons that the Republican Party
moved to do that, but Dallas is one of the
counties that did that, and you know, I think her
contention was that, oh, well, Democrat voters might have been
too confused about how exactly that worked. You even had
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a judge last night extending voting in Dallas County from
seven o'clock till nine o'clock. Even then, you know, taller
Rico I think beat her pretty handily once those final
numbers have come in, and we can see now that
she finally did concede this morning, so you know, all
too bad. I would say, if you're a Republican, I
think a lot of Republican candidates were hoping that Jasmine
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Crockett would be the Democrat nominee.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh that's who I wanted. Would you who would you look?
Would you? And I both know that James Tallerco isn't
as much of a moderate as he markets himself as.
But for the record, you know a lot of people
thought Pete Chambers was a real cowboy. Sometimes when you
market yourself as something you're not, it works. And James Tallerico,
the soft spoken what is it a seminary school student,
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seems like more of a threat to the Republican candidate
than future View co host Jasmine Crockett exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And that's and that's what I think a lot of
Republicans thought going into last night. But ultimately, whoever you know,
ends up winning this this runoff for the Senate on
the Republican side of things. And man, if you thought
this was already a heated battle between Cornet and Paxton,
I mean, you haven't seen anything yet. This is already
the most expensive Senate primary in history, and it's about
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to get a lot more expensive. But either one of them,
Ken Paxter or John Corny, whoever ends up winning this runoff,
is going to be facing Tall Rico in November.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay, So let's talk about that for a minute. Cornin
spent seventy eight million dollars. There was a point at
recently where he was spending a million dollars a day.
That means every day he was spending enough money to
basically take any single mother out of poverty you like
in around the state of Texas, multiplied by ten. But no, instead,
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he was spending that kind of money to stop Paxton
Wesley Hunt. And to his point, he stopped Wesley Hunt,
but he basically came in a tie with Paxton, who
spent four million dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What does that tell you, Well, I think it just
shows you that Cordon is deeply unpopular among the Republican voters.
Now they're sort of spending last night's results, especially because
I think once once all is said and done, it
looks like Cornyn might just narrowly have gotten the first
place spot, you know, about a point above where Ken
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Paxton is, and they're spending that as a big positive.
But I mean, let's take a step back right and say,
this is a case where a incumbent four term senator
you know, is barely getting forty percent to the vote
in his own parties primary. That's a bad position for
John Cornyon.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
To be in.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
There's going to be I think a lot more money
coming into this race, and he has ten weeks now
to try to you know, fight for his life basically
in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Wow, And that really is all this basically boils down
to at this point. As always, will I be able
to get the latest up to date information on this
hard hitting, daily changing by the minute news story about
the Texas Senate race at Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, as always, you could follow us on X at
Texas Scorecard or follow me at b Waltons.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
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Iaho professor arranged the twenty twenty two killings of four students,
now owes that professor ten million dollars. Wow. Hopefully this
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won't damage the public's faith and the legitimacy of TikTok
tarot card readings. Am I right? Yeah, you guys get it.
Oh you're wondering why I'm playing Turning Japanese. My friend
Tony Ortiz from curR Vault is on the line right now,
and you got a thing for those Japanese girls, don't you. Tony.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's that's real news. That's true.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
That is real news. That's not fake news by any means. Tony,
you and I are not always beloved by people in
this industry. You're a journalist. I'm some kind of a comedian,
and we often make fun of people that we mock
sacred institutions and in this case, politicians, people that are
beloved by the establishment, people that are beloved by the grassroots.
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I don't know why people can't see what we see.
A guy dressed from head to toe in the clearance
rack from the Cavender's Cowboy store, who just moved to
Texas five minutes ago, lives in an RV park, and
ran for governor. Never voted in a Texas Republican primary,
and I think maybe he shouldn't be in charge of
the state. And then people look at me and they're like,
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you must work for Governor Abbitt. Well, it turns out
I was. I was correct to think that Doc Pete
Chambers would not do well in the primary yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Did he No?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
He did horrible, you know, and and you know we
we saw it coming.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Uh he pulled ten percent or eleven percent.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Higher than I would have guessed.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, same, same.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I genuinely thought the guy would only get five percent,
So he did. He did double what I thought he
was gonna get. Yeah, I guess at least there's that
if for Doc pe Chambers, at least there's that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Policy wise, I didn't hate I didn't hate any of
the AG candidates. I know, people had their beef with
Chip Roy because he once called MAGA supporters the F word,
and you know, was opposed Trump on more than one occasion.
A little arrogant. I get that, But unlike Dan Crenshaw,
he actually had a good voting record. Joan Huffman. I
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don't like her just because she would never sit down
and do an interview with us on this radio show
until she was running for office. I hate that, Tony.
That drives me nuts. But the person on Twitter everybody
thought was gonna run again policy wise, I didn't have
a problem with him. But the person on Twitter everybody
thought was gonna run, was gonna win, was Aaron Wrights.
How did he do?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, many such cases, got last, last place out of everybody,
even lost, even even behind Joan Huffman, who you know,
we posted a lot of people didn't even know was running,
which is kind of funny. But yeah, if elections were
held on Twitter dot com, Aaron Wrights would be in
office right now. He'd probably be governor of Texas even
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but unfortunately maybe for him and the supporters that he
didn't he didn't live up to those expectations in real
life and he got last. And you know what, like,
like you said, all the AG candidates were phenomenal all
I think.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I think they're all.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Great policy wise, policy wise right.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Policy wise for sure, for sure, And you know, I
do anticipate Aaron Wright's moving on to do really good
things in Texas politics.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But just ag was in his calling.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, uh, and he's not a bad guy, right, like
I don't dislike I thought Aaron. Aaron and I both
were booked at a speaking event back in January, the
Trump the Trump Reagan Dinner in Montgomery County. I was
telling jokes in between the speakers, because you know what
I do for a living. Aaron was the only guy
who played off those jokes he got. I made a
joke about Mayor whit meyers haircut, and then Aaron went
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on stage and he made a joke about how he
thought Mayor whit meyers haircut made him a better mayor.
Nobody else said they you know what I mean. I
was like, I admire that, but still I Outside of Twitter,
nobody knew who this guy was. And that's just the
reality of it. On Twitter, nobody seemed to know who
May's Middleton was. But people that keep up with State
Senate news certainly knew who he was. He's been a
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power player for the last several years, right.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And certainly voters did May's Middleton you know, was prop
with in my predictions? I would I would have I
predicted that May's Middleton would have gotten second, definitely going
to the runoff, but Mays Middleton pulled off first. Uh
it was a shocking guy think to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
So now he him and ship Roy go off to
the runoffs.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
And uh, they're they're going to face each other for
attorney General to State of Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
You know, it's interesting too because I get the impression
Joan and Aaron will probably endorse May's, but I don't know.
I get the impression Wesley will probably endorse Paxton, but
I don't know. He said on my radio show earlier
this week he would never support Cornyn. The question is
where do Wesley's votes go in the runoff?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah? Or did they even show up to the runoff?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Right, Like, if you're if you're a Wesley Hudsbutter supporter,
you probably didn't vote for Paxston because you thought maybe
Paxson had some.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Skeletons of the clause that you weren't happy with it.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
He didn't vote for corn And maybe because he thought
he was too moderate or to Rhinoy. Right, So if
you're a if you're a Wesley Hudt supporter, do you
do you even show up to the runoffs. Maybe maybe not,
but I don't anticipate many of those votes going to
Corn and I anticipate most of those probably going to Paxton.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
All Right. The article you wrote is called Victims of
the Algorithm, and it talks about how people on social
media get a very misleading view of this election. On x,
you would have thought Paxton would win without a runoff. Oddly,
on TikTok, you would have thought Wesley Hunt would have
run would have won without a runoff. Obviously, note neither
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of those things ended up happening. One example of victims
of the algorithm, correct, right, right?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And you know, God love them.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I love some of these influencers, and I like the
staffers too, But they're on Twitter and social media constantly
glazing these candidates, right like they You can't open up
Twitter dot com without somebody just talking about how amazing
kid Paxson is and it gets a little exhausting. But
people forget that a lot of these influencers, whether they're
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doing it for free or that they're doing it for money,
they have an agenda, right, And you've got some packs
and staffers online that people forget that literally their their
entire livelihood depends that Packston winning in the race, and
they forget that, Oh, this person is promoting this guy
because their whole well being relies on this guy winning.
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And you know, you end up drinking this kool aid
of whatever it is they're serving and you forget that
that's not real life.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, like people really wanted us to get behind Doc
Pete Chambers. The guy one of his supporters posted my
home address on the internet. He endorsed the woman who
told people to violently attack me if they see me
in the streets. Sorry, guy that just moved to Texas
five minutes ago. I had questions about your background. This
is how you react to this. Apparently he didn't like
you either. And again I'm surprised he got ten percent
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of the vote.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, I am too.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
And you know, I'm sure it's not the last we've
seen of Doc Pete Chambers. You know, rumor just swirling
and he's gonna run for a Republican Party of Texas chairman,
which would be, uh, which would be very fun and
very hilarious. So I do hope he considers, but we'll see.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
I don't I don't anticipate ofim go aningwhere maybe he'll
become an influencer YouTuber. I don't know what he's gonna
do with all the following he's built up, but he's
surely gonna do something.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay. So there's a photo of him that's gone viral
where he's walking around at a political event holding a
saddle bag. He's got a cowboy hat on and he
has a very what looks like a really fancy saddle
bag that doesn't look like it's ever been on a
horse before, with lots of embroidery on it and stuff
like that. What's in that saddle bag? Why is he
carrying that at political events? Does that is it? Does
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he use it to give speeches or something?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
That's where he keeps his biagrik in?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
What that's what many people are saying this, that's where
the viagre's kept. I mean, these these conservative women, they
love the whole bit.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
The guy gets out of his RV, he slings over
his saddle bags and he's got his little playing cards
and his cowboy and he walks around events keeping it
on his shoulder. I mean it's a good bit. It's
a really good bit. And the women eat that. Heats
that stuff up.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I love I love that you self sunsered. That was fantastic.
I also noticed a lot of his supporters are these
like TikTok social media influencers. A woman named Kaylie Campbell,
I'm sure she's a nice person. A guy named Alexander
Duncan seems like a nice enough guy. They never voted
in a single Texas Republican primary, and now they're out
campaigning telling us who's going to save Texas. Look, I
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don't know, how do you know who's going to save
Texas if you just got here five minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Well, dunk is one of these guys that was running
for Senate. He was running initially running against Paxton and
Cornyn and Hunt. And you know, I called her from
the very beginning that this guy wasn't serious and he
was going to drop. And he did this whole social
media bit where he all he did was screen about
Islam every day, and he of course dropped before the
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filings were due. And now he runs a a what's
it called nicotine pouch company? And Kaylie Campbell is one
of these influencers that was washed up from years ago,
and she's never voted in a Republican primary, and here
she is online telling people who to vote for. Just
a bunch of bunch of losers, a bunch of weirdos.
And you know that kind of just sums up the
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doc Pea Chambers release.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
All right, there's so much to unpack here. Congratulations to
Steve Toth. We have an interview. We're going to play
him in the next segment. Actually, an actual conservative took
down somebody we all agree is a sellout Republican, an
actual guy. You know, Look, you and I were trying
to warn people there were people in that race that
were clearly con artists. Somehow the good guy, the cream
(27:40):
rose to the top. I'm excited about that, But something
I was a little something else. I was a little
surprised about Sid Miller lost. Now, you and I both
know Sid Miller has scandals. They're not real scandalous, Like
didn't we have a staffer that was selling CBD HEMP
licenses out the back door? At least that's what he
was accused of. But US people understand that, Like, why
(28:01):
did Sid Miller lose? I feel like if the scandal
is uh not overly reported, or it doesn't seem like
it affects people, it usually doesn't matter in a primary,
but in this case it did.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
So when when Nate Sheets, who is now going to
be our ad commissioner, likely when he announced his run,
you know, I was one of the first, I think
I was the first to interview him. And the guy
is like incredibly intelligent life, that nice guy, really really
really smart.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
And you know, he announced.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
His run for Sigmillar and a lot of people forget
Signilla has the highest social media following of any Texas politician.
And you know, it didn't seem likely that he was going.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
To beat Miller.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
And but as as polling progressed, and as we got
closer to election day, the gap between Miller and Sheets
decreased every week, and then you know, yeah, come election
Day yesterday, Miller Sheets just destroy it.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It is brutal, and.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I don't think a lot of people saw it coming,
but clearly she's did.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
All right, can you explain for some of our older listeners,
the baby boomers that don't get it, who's Valentina Gomez
and why was her loss so absolutely fantastic? Man?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Valentina Gomez is a miserable, miserable pile of grifting She
is a carpetbagger who moved to text, is registered to
vote out of a po box and announced her run
for Congress. And this is after she's run in other
areas and lost those areas too. She has this bit
where you know she she shows up to a place
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and shoves the camera in somebody's face and says a
bunch of things in a very thick foreign accent that
you know I can't often understand. But but she ran
for Congress and he was. She raised quite a bit
of money. Her brother works on her campaign and is
taking an eight thousand dollars a month's salary to take
photos and record video of her much She ran for
(30:01):
ren for Congress and lost yesterday. I think she got
eight percent of the vote, after many, many, many months
of grifting and promoting herself.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
How about that, so Valentina Gomez, this butch Colombian carpetbagger
came here. She lost. Pete Chambers, the fake cowboy from
the Cavender's Outlet store also did terrible. Apparently a masculine
trans foreigner from South America and a geriatric pseudo cowboy
dressed from head to toe in the clearance section of
the Houston Rodeo. Both of them never voted in a
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Texas GOP primary. Is not what Texas voters actually wanted,
Tony Ortiz. Is that the real lesson we learned yesterday.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
That's what it seems to be, And you know, you know,
it gives me a little bit of hope. Maybe everything's
gonna be okay. Knowing that these grifters and these weirdos
didn't win their races, maybe you know, maybe we're going
to be okay.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Amen to that, Tony Ortiz. Current revolt dot Com is
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh no, this is not good. This is not good,
ladies and gentlemen. King Charles is reportedly offering Prince Andrew's
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I know nobody wants that. Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster here
this afternoon, we will be doing a full review of
all the things that happened on election night last night.
And you know, you know what happened. There's a big
election in Texas last night. We'll give you all the deets,
the little details, things you didn't know about, the little
ceedy underbelly of our state's elections and all over. We'll
get to all that real soon. Tony Ortiz is stopping
(01:04):
by from Current Revolt. Brandon Waltons will be here from
Texas Scorecard. But first let's begin the broadcast with this,
My friend spring Break is upon us, and experts are
predicting a record breaking surge and air travel. One hundred
and seventy one million passengers cranked through the sky between
March and April, four percent up from last year. Airlines
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are going to be pumping out twenty six thousand flights
three point five million seats a day just to keep
up with the American prioritizing experience of spring break. That's
warm beaches, Gulf of America getaways. The whole nostalgic circus
is supposedly roaring back, but that robust economic forecast is
(01:47):
being overshadowed by far worse news. The kids these days
are two soft to party like we did. I know,
as a battle hardened millennial, much older, much wiser, still
recovering from the psychic scars of the actual y two
K anxiety we once experienced. I'm here to tell you
(02:10):
the real tragedy isn't the ticket prices or the TSA
pat downs, although we do enjoy those a little. It's
the gen Z has collectively decided spring break should be
a wellness retreat instead of a felony audition. Okay, I'm
being a little hyperbolicure but these sober, curious, boundary setting,
hydration obsessed zoomers are flooding to Galveston and Golf Shores
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and South Padre. They're gonna be sipping on mocktails, They're
gonna wear noise canceling headphones. Hmmm, and they have zero
plans to turn the Gulf of America into a crime scene.
It's a tragedy. I tell you, where's the chaos? Where's
the I blacked out and woke up in county jail
with sand in places sand shouldn't belong glow, where's the
(02:56):
Darwin Award nomination reel? Back when I was there? And
clearly superiors in every reckless way. We had actual role
models guiding us through the Gulf of America Gladiator Arena.
We had Polly Shore, the weasel himself screaming wheeze the
juice on MTV spring Break specials, and shirtless dudes forming
(03:18):
human pyramids. Someone inevitably got launched off a balcony like
a budget evil canevil. We had Kurt Loder. He was
a cool guy. Sure he was a little nerdy and
you wouldn't leave him alone with your daughter, but that's
besides the point. And don't even get me started on
Dan Cortes from MTV Sports, pumping us full of extreme
energy with his backwards baseball cap and perpetual dude let's
(03:40):
go nuts grin making us believe that shotgunning a beer
while bungee jumping off a hotel railing was peak personal growth,
and it was unless it stunted your growth, which apparently
it often did. Those were our guiding lights, three walking
red flags who taught us that true spring break in light,
and it came from frozen T shirt chugs, quick change
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swimsuit relays in the surf like deranged Olympians, seawall riots,
and occasional headline screaming. Fifth spring break Vacationer killed this
fall like it was a weekend box office score. Galveston's
chocolate milk quicksand ate rental cars, golf shores, cops ran
arrest leaderboards like it was a video game. South pardre
(04:27):
turned into a front bro aprocolypse with keg stands on
the sand and chance that collapsed under badge pressure, whatever
that means. You know, the real fun had real stakes,
sand and unfortunate crevices and county wakeups, and the pure
stupid joy of almost dying for a story. But these days,
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these poor, deprived youths are choosing functional beverages and mindful
beach walks and early bedtimes over anything poly Kurt or
Dan would have approved of. They drank four percent of
US alcohols, Virginity rates are climbing, sexlessness has doubled for
young men, and the wildest thing they'll post is a
sunrise yoga pick with hashtag self care Sunrise. They're hitting
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the Gulf of American record numbers, probably to build eco
castles and sip non alcoholic beer, probably to avoid anything
that might require a lawyer or a neck brace or
actual eye contact. Frankly, I'm devastated for them. I'm ashamed.
How will they build character without at least one disorderly
conduct souvenir Without Gravity's harsh reminder that Yolo has footnotes
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without waking up wondering how golf sediment ended up in
their soul. This so called record surge is just responsible
adults costplaying as spring breakers, hydrated, insured, and tragically uninjured.
So here's to you, gen Z. Enjoy your mildly pleasant
golf get away with zero felonies and maximum melatonin book,
(06:00):
those flights hit the beaches. Keep prioritizing experiences that don't
end in viral embarrassment or a helicopter ride. Just know
you're much older, much wiser. Millennial elders over here clutching
my faded, sand crusted t shirt, whispering through my tears,
(06:20):
they'll never know the golden age when Polly Shore and
Kurt Loder and Dan Cortez were our north stars, teaching
us that the path to wisdom runs straight through bad
decisions and worst hangovers right here in the Gulf of America.
It's not just tragic, it's national. It's a national catastrophe.
And honestly, kids, now that I've shared this wisdom with you,
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you're welcome. I earned it the hard way, under the watchful,
unhinged eyes of legends and the Palm beach law enforcement. Yeah. Ah,
let's get straight to discussion.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Be here to talk about something, politics and government and
knowledge hitting Cooke Cupcy. It so hit ain't to have
a bridge, because this podcast you gotta get it, so
damn we can.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
This This was of happiness. If you ever had any
doubt that there's a need to close the primaries in
the state of Texas. I would ask you to look
at the results of some of these prop votes that
took place on the ballot this week. I don't think
there was one controversial proposition vote asked on that ballot.
(07:27):
If you're a real conservative, if you're a if you're
a Republican, a libertarian, a populist, a conservative, a right
wing nationalist, any anything that would fall into the spectrum
of the right ideologically, there's probably nothing on that list
that you would have voted no on. And to my point,
most people did vote yes on this stuff. But I
want to walk through these votes, right I just want
(07:49):
to make the point here. Brandon Waltons is here right
now from Texas Scorecard. Brandon, these ten votes that I
think most conservatives would overwhelmingly agree with did not all
get one hundred percent? Did they? No?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean, you know, you even look at the first proposition,
which says that Texas property tax should be assessed at
the purchase price and phased out, something that I think
a lot of people would say they'd like to see.
They want to get rid of property taxes. Eighty eight
percent who approves that? That's certainly a high number, but
it does make you wonder who are these twelve percent
that don't want to see property taxes phased out right exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So twelve percent of Republicans want to pay more property
tax do you believe that? I don't buy that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I don't know. I mean, I think, look, I think
maybe you can probably chalk up a few percent of
it to people who maybe you know, misunderstand the wording
of the proposition, or you know, I don't know they
vote know when they meant to vote. Yes, there's always
a little bit of that, but you know, it is
it is strange. But I'll say, you know, the proposition
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that I think and I'd have to go back and
look at them, but it has one of the highest
approval ratings is one that I think had actually generated
maybe the most mention before the election, which was the
last one proposition ten on banning sharia law in Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean, this is another one like what conservative
would not agree with this? What were there results on this?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
There was.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Last book and you know, there's still votes trickling in
in some parts of the state, But it looks like
that one passes with about ninety five percent of Republican
voters voting yes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, soem I mean, five percent of Republican voters don't
think we should pass a law that would prevent us
from chopping off someone's hand if they get accused of shoplifting.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yes, hard to imagine who that one in twenty you know,
Republican voter is It's kind of another way to put it,
but yeah, it is. It is a strange thing, you know.
That being said, though, this definitely does I think gives
some help to lawmakers right now. As we know, there's
been a big push at the state level and in
Congress as well against sharia law and radical Islam in
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Texas and across the country, especially at the last several months,
and so this, you know, I think definitely is another
indication that this is an issue that right now is
getting a lot of attention among Republican voters.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, okay, so let's talk about this. I feel like
most people would agree with this prop three. You can't
deny healthcare to somebody because they didn't get a vaccine.
Isn't that just base? I mean that sounds like what
is it, the hippocratic oath? What do they call it?
Isn't that just basic ethics for your average healthcare provide
that somebody working in the healthcare industry has a sick
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patient walk in and you're not going to treat them
because they didn't get a vaccine. What if the person's
from a third world country, what if they're Amish, what
if they're from what if they're Christian scientists. I mean,
it feels like there's a long list of reasons why
someone might not have gotten a vact They didn't have
access to it, they grew up in a bunker. You're
telling me there were people that disagreed with this.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I were about one and four. The proposition passed with
about seventy three percent of Republican voters voting yes. So
you know, even then you had about a quarter of
voters saying no.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Okay, So this goes back to what I was talking
about in my op ed this week in the Houston Chronicle.
I am one of those people that thinks we should
close the primaries. Brandon, and I don't. It's not like
I believe that fifty percent of the voters in the
GOP primaries or Democrats. But let's say it's five percent.
Let's say it's two percent, let's say it's three percent. Well,
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what the hell do the critics of this idea, Why
would they if the numbers so low as they're suggesting,
then why would they care if we close it?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, in these races, right, there are a lot of
races that are decided on those kinds of margins. Right,
if it's five percent, I mean, there are a lot
of the people who win by one to three percent
in these races, often by Democrats. Coming in Now, I
will say that this election is a little bit different,
and I think Republicans actually benefited from the contentious Democrat
(11:59):
Senate race. I think a lot of Democrats who otherwise
would have voted in the Republican primary vote in the
voted in the Democrat primary last night because they wanted
to vote for either James Callerico or Jasmine Crockett. But
most years there's not a big contentious Democrat race, and
in those years, I think you see even more Democrats
voting over in the Republican side.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, can we talk about that for a minute. We
heard James what was it? Jasmine Crockett blamed Republicans for
the fact that they didn't we got the election results
last night. We just didn't get it. The minute she
wanted it, like by nine thirty. I think by midnight
we knew that she lost. But she made this point
that it was Republicans fault. You really got to do
a logistical contortionist act to try to figure out what
(12:43):
her reason was on it. Can you make any sense
of it? I feel like I followed politics pretty closely
and I couldn't understand why it was Ken Paxton's fault.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, Well, her contention was essentially that in Dallas County,
Dallas was one of the counties or other counties in
Texas that have moved to precinct voting locations, meaning that
on election day you have to vote in your precinct.
And you know, folks who have been voting for a
long time, they recognize that this was actually how elections
were conducted for the most part before like ten fifteen
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years ago, where we sort of moved to these voting
centers where you can go vote anywhere in the county.
And there's a lot of reasons that the Republican Party
moved to do that, but Dallas is one of the
counties that did that, and you know, I think her
contention was that, oh, well, Democrat voters might have been
too confused about how exactly that worked. You even had
(13:34):
a judge last night extending voting in Dallas County from
seven o'clock till nine o'clock. Even then, you know, taller
Rico I think beat her pretty handily once those final
numbers have come in, and we can see now that
she finally did concede this morning, so you know, all
too bad. I would say, if you're a Republican, I
think a lot of Republican candidates were hoping that Jasmine
(13:56):
Crockett would be the Democrat nominee.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh that's who I wanted. Would you who would you look?
Would you? And I both know that James Tallerco isn't
as much of a moderate as he markets himself as.
But for the record, you know a lot of people
thought Pete Chambers was a real cowboy. Sometimes when you
market yourself as something you're not, it works. And James Tallerico,
the soft spoken what is it a seminary school student,
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seems like more of a threat to the Republican candidate
than future View co host Jasmine Crockett exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And that's and that's what I think a lot of
Republicans thought going into last night. But ultimately, whoever you know,
ends up winning this this runoff for the Senate on
the Republican side of things. And man, if you thought
this was already a heated battle between Cornet and Paxton,
I mean, you haven't seen anything yet. This is already
the most expensive Senate primary in history, and it's about
(14:53):
to get a lot more expensive. But either one of them,
Ken Paxter or John Corny, whoever ends up winning this runoff,
is going to be facing Tall Rico in November.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay, So let's talk about that for a minute. Cornin
spent seventy eight million dollars. There was a point at
recently where he was spending a million dollars a day.
That means every day he was spending enough money to
basically take any single mother out of poverty you like
in around the state of Texas, multiplied by ten. But no, instead,
(15:23):
he was spending that kind of money to stop Paxton
Wesley Hunt. And to his point, he stopped Wesley Hunt,
but he basically came in a tie with Paxton, who
spent four million dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What does that tell you, Well, I think it just
shows you that Cordon is deeply unpopular among the Republican voters.
Now they're sort of spending last night's results, especially because
I think once once all is said and done, it
looks like Cornyn might just narrowly have gotten the first
place spot, you know, about a point above where Ken
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Paxton is, and they're spending that as a big positive.
But I mean, let's take a step back right and say,
this is a case where a incumbent four term senator
you know, is barely getting forty percent to the vote
in his own parties primary. That's a bad position for
John Cornyon.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
To be in.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
There's going to be I think a lot more money
coming into this race, and he has ten weeks now
to try to you know, fight for his life basically
in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Wow, And that really is all this basically boils down
to at this point. As always, will I be able
to get the latest up to date information on this
hard hitting, daily changing by the minute news story about
the Texas Senate race at Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, as always, you could follow us on X at
Texas Scorecard or follow me at b Waltons.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
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now owes that professor ten million dollars. Wow. Hopefully this
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won't damage the public's faith and the legitimacy of TikTok
tarot card readings. Am I right? Yeah, you guys get it.
Oh you're wondering why I'm playing Turning Japanese. My friend
Tony Ortiz from curR Vault is on the line right now,
and you got a thing for those Japanese girls, don't you. Tony.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's that's real news. That's true.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
That is real news. That's not fake news by any means. Tony,
you and I are not always beloved by people in
this industry. You're a journalist. I'm some kind of a comedian,
and we often make fun of people that we mock
sacred institutions and in this case, politicians, people that are
beloved by the establishment, people that are beloved by the grassroots.
(18:56):
I don't know why people can't see what we see.
A guy dressed from head to toe in the clearance
rack from the Cavender's Cowboy store, who just moved to
Texas five minutes ago, lives in an RV park, and
ran for governor. Never voted in a Texas Republican primary,
and I think maybe he shouldn't be in charge of
the state. And then people look at me and they're like,
(19:18):
you must work for Governor Abbitt. Well, it turns out
I was. I was correct to think that Doc Pete
Chambers would not do well in the primary yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Did he No?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
He did horrible, you know, and and you know we
we saw it coming.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Uh he pulled ten percent or eleven percent.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Higher than I would have guessed.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, same, same.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I genuinely thought the guy would only get five percent,
So he did. He did double what I thought he
was gonna get. Yeah, I guess at least there's that
if for Doc pe Chambers, at least there's that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Policy wise, I didn't hate I didn't hate any of
the AG candidates. I know, people had their beef with
Chip Roy because he once called MAGA supporters the F word,
and you know, was opposed Trump on more than one occasion.
A little arrogant. I get that, But unlike Dan Crenshaw,
he actually had a good voting record. Joan Huffman. I
(20:09):
don't like her just because she would never sit down
and do an interview with us on this radio show
until she was running for office. I hate that, Tony.
That drives me nuts. But the person on Twitter everybody
thought was gonna run again policy wise, I didn't have
a problem with him. But the person on Twitter everybody
thought was gonna run, was gonna win, was Aaron Wrights.
How did he do?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, many such cases, got last, last place out of everybody,
even lost, even even behind Joan Huffman, who you know,
we posted a lot of people didn't even know was running,
which is kind of funny. But yeah, if elections were
held on Twitter dot com, Aaron Wrights would be in
office right now. He'd probably be governor of Texas even
(20:49):
but unfortunately maybe for him and the supporters that he
didn't he didn't live up to those expectations in real
life and he got last. And you know what, like,
like you said, all the AG candidates were phenomenal all
I think.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I think they're all.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Great policy wise, policy wise right.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Policy wise for sure, for sure, And you know, I
do anticipate Aaron Wright's moving on to do really good
things in Texas politics.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But just ag was in his calling.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, uh, and he's not a bad guy, right, like
I don't dislike I thought Aaron. Aaron and I both
were booked at a speaking event back in January, the
Trump the Trump Reagan Dinner in Montgomery County. I was
telling jokes in between the speakers, because you know what
I do for a living. Aaron was the only guy
who played off those jokes he got. I made a
joke about Mayor whit meyers haircut, and then Aaron went
(21:36):
on stage and he made a joke about how he
thought Mayor whit meyers haircut made him a better mayor.
Nobody else said they you know what I mean. I
was like, I admire that, but still I Outside of Twitter,
nobody knew who this guy was. And that's just the
reality of it. On Twitter, nobody seemed to know who
May's Middleton was. But people that keep up with State
Senate news certainly knew who he was. He's been a
(21:57):
power player for the last several years, right.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And certainly voters did May's Middleton you know, was prop
with in my predictions? I would I would have I
predicted that May's Middleton would have gotten second, definitely going
to the runoff, but Mays Middleton pulled off first. Uh
it was a shocking guy think to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
So now he him and ship Roy go off to
the runoffs.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
And uh, they're they're going to face each other for
attorney General to State of Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
You know, it's interesting too because I get the impression
Joan and Aaron will probably endorse May's, but I don't know.
I get the impression Wesley will probably endorse Paxton, but
I don't know. He said on my radio show earlier
this week he would never support Cornyn. The question is
where do Wesley's votes go in the runoff?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah? Or did they even show up to the runoff?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Right, Like, if you're if you're a Wesley Hudsbutter supporter,
you probably didn't vote for Paxston because you thought maybe
Paxson had some.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Skeletons of the clause that you weren't happy with it.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
He didn't vote for corn And maybe because he thought
he was too moderate or to Rhinoy. Right, So if
you're a if you're a Wesley Hudt supporter, do you
do you even show up to the runoffs. Maybe maybe not,
but I don't anticipate many of those votes going to
Corn and I anticipate most of those probably going to Paxton.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
All Right. The article you wrote is called Victims of
the Algorithm, and it talks about how people on social
media get a very misleading view of this election. On x,
you would have thought Paxton would win without a runoff. Oddly,
on TikTok, you would have thought Wesley Hunt would have
run would have won without a runoff. Obviously, note neither
(23:29):
of those things ended up happening. One example of victims
of the algorithm, correct, right, right?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And you know, God love them.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I love some of these influencers, and I like the
staffers too, But they're on Twitter and social media constantly
glazing these candidates, right like they You can't open up
Twitter dot com without somebody just talking about how amazing
kid Paxson is and it gets a little exhausting. But
people forget that a lot of these influencers, whether they're
(23:59):
doing it for free or that they're doing it for money,
they have an agenda, right, And you've got some packs
and staffers online that people forget that literally their their
entire livelihood depends that Packston winning in the race, and
they forget that, Oh, this person is promoting this guy
because their whole well being relies on this guy winning.
(24:22):
And you know, you end up drinking this kool aid
of whatever it is they're serving and you forget that
that's not real life.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, like people really wanted us to get behind Doc
Pete Chambers. The guy one of his supporters posted my
home address on the internet. He endorsed the woman who
told people to violently attack me if they see me
in the streets. Sorry, guy that just moved to Texas
five minutes ago. I had questions about your background. This
is how you react to this. Apparently he didn't like
you either. And again I'm surprised he got ten percent
(24:52):
of the vote.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, I am too.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
And you know, I'm sure it's not the last we've
seen of Doc Pete Chambers. You know, rumor just swirling
and he's gonna run for a Republican Party of Texas chairman,
which would be, uh, which would be very fun and
very hilarious. So I do hope he considers, but we'll see.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
I don't I don't anticipate ofim go aningwhere maybe he'll
become an influencer YouTuber. I don't know what he's gonna
do with all the following he's built up, but he's
surely gonna do something.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay. So there's a photo of him that's gone viral
where he's walking around at a political event holding a
saddle bag. He's got a cowboy hat on and he
has a very what looks like a really fancy saddle
bag that doesn't look like it's ever been on a
horse before, with lots of embroidery on it and stuff
like that. What's in that saddle bag? Why is he
carrying that at political events? Does that is it? Does
(25:40):
he use it to give speeches or something?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
That's where he keeps his biagrik in?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
What that's what many people are saying this, that's where
the viagre's kept. I mean, these these conservative women, they
love the whole bit.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
The guy gets out of his RV, he slings over
his saddle bags and he's got his little playing cards
and his cowboy and he walks around events keeping it
on his shoulder. I mean it's a good bit. It's
a really good bit. And the women eat that. Heats
that stuff up.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I love I love that you self sunsered. That was fantastic.
I also noticed a lot of his supporters are these
like TikTok social media influencers. A woman named Kaylie Campbell,
I'm sure she's a nice person. A guy named Alexander
Duncan seems like a nice enough guy. They never voted
in a single Texas Republican primary, and now they're out
campaigning telling us who's going to save Texas. Look, I
(26:31):
don't know, how do you know who's going to save
Texas if you just got here five minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Well, dunk is one of these guys that was running
for Senate. He was running initially running against Paxton and
Cornyn and Hunt. And you know, I called her from
the very beginning that this guy wasn't serious and he
was going to drop. And he did this whole social
media bit where he all he did was screen about
Islam every day, and he of course dropped before the
(26:56):
filings were due. And now he runs a a what's
it called nicotine pouch company? And Kaylie Campbell is one
of these influencers that was washed up from years ago,
and she's never voted in a Republican primary, and here
she is online telling people who to vote for. Just
a bunch of bunch of losers, a bunch of weirdos.
And you know that kind of just sums up the
(27:17):
doc Pea Chambers release.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
All right, there's so much to unpack here. Congratulations to
Steve Toth. We have an interview. We're going to play
him in the next segment. Actually, an actual conservative took
down somebody we all agree is a sellout Republican, an
actual guy. You know, Look, you and I were trying
to warn people there were people in that race that
were clearly con artists. Somehow the good guy, the cream
(27:40):
rose to the top. I'm excited about that, But something
I was a little something else. I was a little
surprised about Sid Miller lost. Now, you and I both
know Sid Miller has scandals. They're not real scandalous, Like
didn't we have a staffer that was selling CBD HEMP
licenses out the back door? At least that's what he
was accused of. But US people understand that, Like, why
(28:01):
did Sid Miller lose? I feel like if the scandal
is uh not overly reported, or it doesn't seem like
it affects people, it usually doesn't matter in a primary,
but in this case it did.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
So when when Nate Sheets, who is now going to
be our ad commissioner, likely when he announced his run,
you know, I was one of the first, I think
I was the first to interview him. And the guy
is like incredibly intelligent life, that nice guy, really really
really smart.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
And you know, he announced.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
His run for Sigmillar and a lot of people forget
Signilla has the highest social media following of any Texas politician.
And you know, it didn't seem likely that he was going.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
To beat Miller.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
And but as as polling progressed, and as we got
closer to election day, the gap between Miller and Sheets
decreased every week, and then you know, yeah, come election
Day yesterday, Miller Sheets just destroy it.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It is brutal, and.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I don't think a lot of people saw it coming,
but clearly she's did.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
All right, can you explain for some of our older listeners,
the baby boomers that don't get it, who's Valentina Gomez
and why was her loss so absolutely fantastic? Man?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Valentina Gomez is a miserable, miserable pile of grifting She
is a carpetbagger who moved to text, is registered to
vote out of a po box and announced her run
for Congress. And this is after she's run in other
areas and lost those areas too. She has this bit
where you know she she shows up to a place
(29:38):
and shoves the camera in somebody's face and says a
bunch of things in a very thick foreign accent that
you know I can't often understand. But but she ran
for Congress and he was. She raised quite a bit
of money. Her brother works on her campaign and is
taking an eight thousand dollars a month's salary to take
photos and record video of her much She ran for
(30:01):
ren for Congress and lost yesterday. I think she got
eight percent of the vote, after many, many, many months
of grifting and promoting herself.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
How about that, so Valentina Gomez, this butch Colombian carpetbagger
came here. She lost. Pete Chambers, the fake cowboy from
the Cavender's Outlet store also did terrible. Apparently a masculine
trans foreigner from South America and a geriatric pseudo cowboy
dressed from head to toe in the clearance section of
the Houston Rodeo. Both of them never voted in a
(30:34):
Texas GOP primary. Is not what Texas voters actually wanted,
Tony Ortiz. Is that the real lesson we learned yesterday.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
That's what it seems to be, And you know, you know,
it gives me a little bit of hope. Maybe everything's
gonna be okay. Knowing that these grifters and these weirdos
didn't win their races, maybe you know, maybe we're going
to be okay.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Amen to that, Tony Ortiz. Current revolt dot Com is
the website monitoring the situation many people are saying, and
all the other fun right wing conservative media cliche phrases
that he has turned into the columns on his website.
You should subscribe to it. I'm a big fan. I'm
one of their biggest supporters. I love Current Revolt dot Com.
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