November 13, 2024 • 36 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Daniel Turner from Power the Future. ( @KennethRWebster )
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jigana government sucks. Suit of Happiness radio is DeLux. Liberty
and freedom will make you smile. Of a suit of happiness.
Us on your radio toil, just as jeezburgers a liberty
rise at food.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ba ba ba ba ba ba. Breaking news New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
New York City will no longer allow garbage on sidewalks.
Fortunately this won't affect the Jets since they play in
a stadium. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. This is a talk
radio show. You're listening to it. Yeah, imagine that. It's
called Pursuit of Happiness Radio and it's an afternoon, mid
afternoon snack to keep you going from the morning to
the evening as you get home. And you know what,
for those of you that don't know, we got a
(00:45):
lot of cool stuff going on here today. My buddy
Daniel Turner stopping by from Power the Future. Most of
what we're gonna be talking about today is Trump's conra
his selections for his cabinet. A lot of names are
getting thrown around. Some of them are maybe, some of
them are definitely, some of them are possibly. We'll we'll
pick through the trash on the sidewalks of New York
(01:05):
and let you know what's what? Give you the who, what, when, where?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That's coming up real soon. But you know what, why
don't we start off with this the latest information. The
biggest of my favorite thing to have broke in the
news over the past twenty four hours would probably be this.
Elon Musk, the Ben Franklin of our time, and Viveyk Ramaswami.
I don't know who I'd compare him to the Alexander
Hamilton of our time. I hate to compare them. They
murdered Alexander Hamilton. But the two guys that probably never
(01:32):
going to be president, but very important founding fathers of
the mag of movement will run something called the Department
of Government Efficiency. The ball has started a role in
this new era of Trump appointees being announced, plans for
a better future discussed, But as was reported today, it
not the bee. Nothing has caused quite as much excitement
(01:53):
as this. This is big, guys, this is so cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
DOGE.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's called DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. I'm going
to talk to the boomers in the audience for just
a minute. I know what I'm going to say. Sometimes
I do this, I translate things that millennials and zoomers
are doing for boomers, And I know it confuses people,
but I or maybe it sounds a bit marginalizing, but
I just want to make sure we're all up to
pace here having a conversation. Doge is a meme. Doge
(02:20):
is a famous meme. It's been around since about twenty thirteen.
It's a dog in the meme. It's a picture of
a Japanese dog called a shiba enu, generally accompanied by
multi colored words right, dogsnow much frosty, cute, wow, such freeze, omg.
You know, they're just cute memes of dogs. That's how
it started, very innocent, the doge memes. You know how
(02:43):
memes can sometimes be kind of profane or foul or
really smart or whatever. Doge memes generally were just cute, adorable,
right much noble, so much respect, sort of like how
Japanese people would speak if they were trying to speak English,
but cute, charming, but kind of like in English, isn't
your first language. You get the idea. That's the gist
of it. And at some point the meme became a
(03:07):
crypto coin. You know what bitcoin is, Well, it's not bitcoin,
it's a different crypto coin called the doge coin. Now,
I imagine a lot of people listening already know all
of this, but some of our older listeners don't, So
could everybody just be patient with them?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Please?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
This is an AM talk radio station. I know, you
know you don't have to listen to it. I AM radio.
Some people listen on our FM and a signal, and
some people listen on the internet.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But for those of you that are a little older
and still listening on AM radio, I just now we
all know what doge is.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, okay, still a little confused.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That acronym d oge is the word Doge is the
acronym for this new department. See, it's cute, it's clever,
the Department of Government Efficiency, And it's exactly what it
sounds like. They're gonna weed through all the crap that
the federal government's doing. You know how, whenever they passed
one of these giant omnibus spending bills, buried in the
(03:59):
ten thousand pages of information is something that says, oh,
and we're gonna spend two million dollars on cat bandanas,
and you're like, why would we be doing that? And well,
nobody noticed that was in there, but it was so
important to get this bill to pass because we needed
more funding for Ukraine or a border wall, or healthcare
for Canadians or whatever thing they were trying to pass. Well,
(04:21):
that's that's what Dog is gonna try to solve for us.
These two guys, with the help of possibly Ron Paul
that's a word, there's that's a name that's still getting
thrown around, are gonna are gonna pick through the weeds
and figure out what's not supposed to be there. Once
a year, this thing comes out called the Government Waste Book,
the pork Book they call it, and it highlights a
(04:42):
lot of this stuff. The problem with it is it's
written by a fiscal conservative senator usually who's kind of stuffy,
if you will, and most people don't pay any attention
to it. But Doge, Doge is gonna be fun and
punchy and funny. It's gonna it's it's gonna be kinda
kind of spicy the way they're gonna deliver this information.
It's going to be controversial, but it's gonna get it.
(05:03):
It's gonna get attention, and that's what makes it good.
Doge is good. I mean, I think it's a good idea.
Every year around Christmas time, Senator Ran Paul hops on Twitter,
and you know what Festivus is? Festivus when you're supposed
to air out your grievances. It's a joke that dates
back to the TV show Seinfeld. Well, every year on Festivus,
(05:23):
which is a fake holiday, Ran Paul gets on Twitter
right before Christmas and he tweets out all the people
in government that he didn't like, and all the people
all the waste in government that he didn't like. And
that's a funnier way than the wastebook to deliver this information.
But Doge, I think is still the best. I'm not
(05:44):
going to give you the entire message in full because
this is epic. Here's how they wrote it out. They said, Uh,
I am pleased to announce. This is Donald Trump. I
please to announce the great Elon Musk, working in conjunction
with American Patriot for vaik Ramaswami, will lead the Department
of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Do I have to keep doing the voice? It's hurting
my throat.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So together these two wonderful Americans will pave the way
for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy. Slash excess regulations,
cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies essential to the
Save America movement. This was sent shockwave through the system
and anyone involved in the government waste, which is a
lot of people. It will become potentially the Manhattan Project
(06:27):
of our time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objective
objectives of DOGE for a very long time. To drive
this kind of drastic change, the Department of Government Efficiency
will provide advice and guidance from outside of government, and
will partner with the White House and Office of Management
and Budget to drive large scale structural reform and create
(06:48):
an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before. I look
forward to Elan and Vivek making changes to the federal
bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and at the same
time make life better for all Americans. DOGE. Just imagine
how much waste these two can cut from our overspending government.
(07:10):
It's pretty amazing. I gotta tell you. The guy went
from being a seven to eleven store clerk to the
head of DOGE. Good for you, Vivig, very awesome. Yeah,
it is kind of ridiculous. How much crap we waste
in our government. Here's Senator Rampaul in to.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
A sunfish versus tequila, which would make the sunfish more aggressive.
Nearly a million dollars spent studying whether or not Japanese
quail if you give them cocaine, whether or not they're
more sexually promiscuous.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Wells people think that's a joke. This is Senator ram Paul.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these stupid studies,
and we do them every year.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Why are we doing that, Senator Rampaul? Was it one
small step for man? Or was it one small step
for a man?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
And in the end, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars later,
they couldn't decide, Wow, was it one step for man?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
One step for a man?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Two million dollars for the construction of a kelp and
shellfish nursery in Maine. One point five million to encourage
video gaming in New York.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We might be better off spending.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
One point five million to discourage kids from make playing
video games. Three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars for
Columbia University. Be giving a rich university that has thirteen
billion dollars, any money two hundred and one nine thousand
dollars for the Baltimore Symphony. Give money to all the symphonies,
and we'd make them part of government.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Amazing, Right, you get why this is crazy. People will
ask me, Kenny, why is all this wasting government? And
the answer is pretty simple. To those of you that
work in the private sector. Maybe you run a business,
work for a business, manage a business. You know that
if you can't make a profit, if you can't balance
the budget in your in your your company's expenditure report,
(08:55):
you go out of business. You got to lay off employees.
The government doesn't have that problem. There are no reason
for them to there's no reason for them to care. Essentially,
if they overspend, it doesn't matter, there's no consequences. They
don't have that in government like we do in the
private sector. Here at this radio station. If we spend
(09:15):
too much money on producers or marketing or whatever, somebody's
got to get fired.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's sad, but that's the way that business works.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Fortunately, it's not the way the government works, which is
exactly why DOGE is such a welcome addition to the
Trump administration.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
America, the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Kenny Webster's pursuit of heaviness.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Doctors claim that if you spend more than ten minutes
on the toilet at a time, it could be bad
for your health. So apparently I've been dead for thirty years.
I had no idea. Hi, everybody, welcome back from break.
It's Kenny Webster. It's Pursuit of Happiness coming up in
a little bit, Daniel Turner. Stick around for that quick reminder.
If you're excited at all about any of the cool
stuff I was talking about in the last segment, Doge
and the new appointments to the Trump cabin and all
(10:00):
the awesome changes, mostly good changes happening in the United
States right now, you may want your Christmas present purchases
to reflect on those interests that you may have.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So you could do that.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You could give the gift of MAGA this Christmas season
by going to I LOOVEWJ dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's our website. I Love WJ.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, it's technically more specifically our online store for the
Walton and Johnson and Pursue a Happiness radio show.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I Love WJ dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
There's all kinds of cool stuff there right now that
you can fill stockings with dark Maga hats and Doge
T shirts and apparel and hoodies and really cool Christmas ornaments,
Maga stuff, Diehard stuff. I'm really proud of all the
neat things on our online store. I encourage you to
go check it out right now, please have a gander
at it. We have John Thune now as head of
(10:49):
the Senate. We're going to talk about that coming up
in just a little bit, so stick around for that
cause apparently, well it's we wanted Rick Scott.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We really didn't want John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
So this is kind of one of those we didn't
get the guy we wanted, but we didn't get the
guy we didn't want either, so it could be worse.
But there is something I've been wondering about. Donald Trump
said he wanted to shut down the Department of Education.
You remember he said this more than once.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We're going to take the Department of Education, close it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm going to close it. Well, have one person, could
be you, if you decide to retire, We're.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Going to take you know what. I love this idea.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Education should be determined at a state level. It should
not be a federal issue. It should not be a
one size approach all fixed to how we do education.
What kids need to learn in New York City is
very different than what children need to learn in rural Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So why do we have a federal Department of Education.
It's a waste, there's no need for it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Someone on the left door spawned this and go, yeah, well, Kenny,
Mississippi's last in the state for reading. Yeah, they're last
in the state for reading. Right now with the Department
of Education, what point do you think that you're making.
Townhall dot com just reported on this interview with former
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos responding to President elect President
(12:08):
Donald Trump's plan. That's how I say it, by the way,
president elect President Donald Trump, because he already was president,
but now he's president elect and he has his plan
to eliminate the Department of Education. Betsy says Trump will
need to partner with Congress to actually get that done.
But there are many steps that could be taken to
re empower states and local communities and more importantly, families.
The bureaucrats of the Department of Education aren't doing the job.
(12:31):
They haven't done the job for more than four decades.
To close achievement gaps, they've only widened them.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
She's right about that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The whole point of the Department of Education was that
we were supposed to provide young people with the education
and job opportunities that you know, rich people were getting.
Average folks and poor folks. Why don't they get the
same thing that rich people get. The Department of Education
was supposed to provide something that's never never done. That
education freedom and school choice need to have. The teachers'
(13:01):
unions have overplayed their hand in every area. We've all
seen it. That's the reason Trump won. The Department of
Education doesn't really add any value anywhere, I mean does it.
It's not what's best for students. It's not what's best
for America. It's what's best for lobbyists. It's what's best
for unions and lobbyists. And that's about it. Fixing Title nine,
(13:21):
passing school choice, those would be good places to start.
Title nine. What a nightmare that's been used to be.
I mean, look, it was it great idea once. Equality
for men and women. I don't you know, I don't
objectively have a problem with that men and women are
not equal in terms of physical strength, and that sort
of thing. But obviously they should have some of the
same opportunities. I'm not some misogynist most of the time.
(13:45):
Maybe in the bedroom a little bit. But I can't.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I can't. I could.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But my point is this, guys, we all know when
Trump explained how he's preparing to shut down the Department
of Education after entering office, that was the right thing
for America. They will scream, buddy murder. They will It's
the worst thing to ever happen to the country. Yet somehow, strangely,
at one point we survived without a Department of Education.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Weird, huh. Pursuit of that penis radio coming now.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Just this is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC
nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Pete Hegseth is the morning show personality on Fox News
on the weekend right now. I work in morning broadcasting,
so I understand somewhat what his job entails.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You get up early, you prep for the news, you try.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
To be spunky and fun to hang out with while
someone's in traffic or getting ready for work.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You get it. It's morning TV and morning radio are
not real different.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Of course, I think that's about where me and peg
Pete hag Seth's similarities differ a bit. He is a
military veteran, ran for Senate lost and now nobody ever
expected this. He doesn't seem like a career military guy.
He's really not. And he's the dude that Donald Trump
just picked to be Secretary of Defense, basically one of
(15:03):
the top dogs at the Pentagon, right Joint chief of Staff,
five star generals, Secretary of Defense. The Pentagon's a big place.
There's a lot of people in charge there. It's complicated.
So Hegseth immediately they want to be mad about this, Well,
they need a reason to be mad. What do you
get mad at the guy for. On CNN they said
he can't he can't run the Pentagon. He's just some
(15:24):
guy on TV. People that talk on TV don't know anything.
That's an actual conversation that happened yesterday with Scott Jennings.
People on CNN were so determined to prove that Pete
Hegseth was unqualified that they called themselves unqualified to make
that point.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
At any rate.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Whatever you think of the guy, Pete Hegseth does have
one controversial opinion and It's.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
This straight up just saying we should not have women
in combat roles.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal,
has made fighting more complicated.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We've all served with women, and they're great.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
It just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in
places traditionally not traditionally over human history, men in those
positions are more capable.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Name one female war hero. You can't.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You can't think of one, right, You could think of
a male war hero, Morgan Latrell, Marcus Latrell, Pat Tillman.
I mean, I'm sure I could come up with more.
I do wonder though, women in combat A broken nail.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Damn it, swear reloade this. I'm out of shot, so
we should totally get shots to not Yeah, that pitch
over there is where the same thing as me? Why
did you remember to DVR keeping up with the Kardashian this?
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
All right, I'm sure a lot of you would probably agree.
Is this a non issue? Even if you don't want
women in frontline combat? It's twenty twenty four, don't most women?
I mean, war is fought now at a computer keyboard.
We live in the age of drone strikes and computer hackers.
I can't be alone on this. My buddy Daniel Turner.
He's a policy analyst and a credit of government decisions.
(17:01):
He also runs a group called Power the Future. They're
advocates for the sensible solutions to the energy industry. Daniel
Pete Hagsath for Defense Secretary Women in Combat.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
What's your whole take on this?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Pete's great. I know him personally. I've been on with
him a number of times. I've hung out with him socially.
He's a great pick. He's an unconventional pick. There's no
doubt the military industrial complex doesn't like it because he
is not a warhawk. But he does have twenty years
of real combat duty. Unlike Tim Waltz, he actually did
(17:35):
carry weapons of war into war, and so he sees
the military from a different perspective. Right, he sees it
from clearly leadership. I believe he was a major, so,
you know, fairly high ranked member of the army, but
he's not. He's not a warhawk, and they hate him
(17:56):
for that. He's also not that I'm always impressed by
grad degrees and degrees because I didn't go to college.
You know, he did go to Princeton undergrad and he
went to Harvard Grad School, not as Yeah, and he
did that before he was famous. Right. But the real
reason why they hate Pete Haig Seth, and I've been
tweeting this all morning, the real reason why they hate
(18:16):
him for DoD is because Pete Haig Seth is in
the simplest terms in alpha bro and guys recognize that
and other guys. That's why Hulk Cogan and Dana White
do so well at Trump rallies. Right, Guys recognize when
guys are just awesomeness. And Pete Haig Seth is going
to make a lot of eighteen and seventeen year old
(18:38):
patriotic young men think, you know what, I'm going to
enlist because I love my country and I want to
kill the bad guy, right, and I want to make
this country awesome. And that is not the climate change
cross dressing Admiral Rachel Levine transgender military that the Obama administration,
the Biden administration has been pushing. They don't want the
(18:59):
military to be a bunch of awesome alpha bros who
want to kill bad people and love this country. They
want it to be some warped screwed up social experiment,
which is why they push women in combat and transgenderism.
And it's why Mark Millie said, you know, combating whiteness
is one of the top priorities, right, they talk about
(19:20):
climate awareness, et cetera. So that's why they hate Pete
Higgsett because he's g I freaking Joe and I love it.
And that's why Trump loves him as well.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, and you know it's a great point Pete Dudson.
The fact that he's not a part of the swamp
or the machine or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Great.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't care if he's as long as he's not
in bed with the military industrial complex. Now you know
someone who is, little Marco Marco Rubio is apparently going
to be the Secretary of State. They claim to be fair.
I don't think i've heard Trump made that make that
announcement yet, of you.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Wasn't an official thing go out, you know now that
I'm wondering.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I don't know if I actually Everyone assumes it's true,
but it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I haven't heard. Let's assume it is. Let's pretend like
the reports and early rumors are true. So Desanti's Rubio
and Trump they have a weird relationship the three of
them anyway, kind of frenemies, if you will, But at
any rate, they seem to work well together when they
do work together. If Rubio's tasked to become Secretary of
State and they leave a vacancy in this for the
one of the two Senate seats in the state of Florida,
(20:24):
that would mean that DeSantis gets to pick who replaces Rubio.
And I have a suggestion, And I know it sounds
like I'm joking, but I'm actually mostly serious.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Real changion, the rice of every male realm maeron who
was right? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Haul Hogan is a resident of the state of Florida,
and he was a key and he was a keynote
speaker at the Republican National Convention this year.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Would it be the crazy thing? Would it be the
craziest thing?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
If ul Cogan, who would probably just have a maga
voting agenda anyway, probably just going to vote the way
a Trump would have voted if he was a senator.
If it was Paul Cogan, yeah, would it be the
worst pick?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I mean, Jesse, the body Venturo was was governor of Minnesota, right,
I mean, we have had wrestlers before in political office.
So no, it wouldn't be the worst thing. Look, I
don't there's a lot of complaints about Rubio. I have
a bunch of conservative friends who are like Trump's already
came into the neo cons The secretary of State does
(21:34):
what the president orders him to do, and you all
report to the president. Right, this idea that he's going
to craft some unique foreign policy. No, everyone works for
the president and everybody takes orders. It's why the person
in charge is called the chief of staff. Everybody is
a staffer, even the Secretary of State. And on the
(21:55):
bright side, if you hate the idea that it's Marco
Rubio and you think he's a neo Cohn and you
think Trump's caving, on the bright side, we could be
having the opposite conversation. He could be saying that eight
days ago Kamala one would she be? What freak show
would she have picked to be secretary of State? You know,
man woman beard with a dress and stockings, but also
(22:17):
a combat jacket whose name is Bruce. But they give
you their pronouns, and imagine that nightmare scenario if Kamala
had won. So chin up, boys and girls, Rubio is
a great pick because Trump is a great pick.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I feel like Rubio. He's hawkish on Israel. He wouldn't
have been my choice. But on the other hand, Trump's
gonna push him around if he does become a warhawk
as top diplomat head of the State Department. I gotta
think Trump fires him. Trump fired Mattis, Trump fired John Bolton.
Does Rubio two years from now just kill us? Right exactly? Yeah,
(22:52):
there's aye. It'd be easier to tell you all the
people Trump didn't fire Amerosa, we'd be here, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, speaking guy.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Has no problem firing people absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I mean, that's why we voted for him, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Speaking of the Senate, not Rick Scott, not not not
John Cornyn, there were three choices for Senate majority leader
to in their secret vote. They all put on their
cloaks and went down into the lower chambers of the
Senate where they did a blood letting and burned black
smoke to announce that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They we we have we have a leader. We have
a leader.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And the leader's John Thune, which was not the worst
or best choice. But again, I mean, right, look, I'm
not gonna pretend like I like it, but I guess
it could have been worse.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
At least it's not Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, the same Johnson. You know, a lot of
people wanted Rick Scott. They thought he would push the
Trump agenda faster in the Senate. The Senate's not the House,
right the Senate does it has different procedures. I was
a former Senate staffer, so I'm kind of partial to
the Senate. It used to be called the world the
greatest deliberative body. The advantage of having seen there is
(24:00):
he does know the Senate and the Senate rules. He's
been there a long time, and he knows how to
play the Senate game. Well, there's one thing that I
am slightly worried about, and Kenny Alais, I'll admit this
is going to anger some people, but I love you
and I love your audience enough to respect them with
some truth. I am a little concerned that the House
(24:21):
and Senate would push a little too hard, a little
too soon, on something that would blow the whole damn
thing up. I don't want Senate Bill one to be
the put Trump on Mount Rushmore. You know something that
the left is going to gather together and say, you
see I told you they were crazy, and I think
(24:41):
thing can possibly prevent that. There's a lot of good
stuff we need to do, there's a lot of important stuff.
But my concern, my little, little little concern, was that
if you had super Maga House and Superman Maga Senate leadership,
their first piece of legislation would be something kind of
outlandish that would, you know, get the baseiccited, but more dangerously,
(25:03):
would get the left to circle the wagon. They're getting
back their power, yeah, exactly, and we got to keep
them off off their game.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But again, it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's you know, it's walking a tightrope because who who
remembers twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen when we could not get
the border bill passed and then the midterms rolled around
and we lost the House.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
You know, absolutely no, it's going to be a very
tight rope to walk. And that's where I'm hoping there's
enough support in the House, which we officially haven't really
won yet, they haven't declared it. I mean, there's still
a couple races undecided. So that's we should be more
nervous about that than who's controlling the Senate. Prediction for
you if they if their Democrats somehow do manage to
(25:46):
retain and get the House back, it will be Speaker
Pelosi again. Wow, she is not going to have President
Trump and Speaker a majority leader. Thun and let Jaking Jeffries.
He's been holding her bag for the last two years.
But if it's a Trump administration and they have the House,
Pelosi is coming back in charge.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I believe you.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
You really don't think that they really you really don't
think it's Takim Jeffries.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Why he's not the leader they wanted or what? Why
is he even there?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
There was no point in having him be minority leader
because the minority leader of the House has absolutely no power. Right.
They don't have filibuster rules, they don't have committee rules
like the Senate does. They can't stop legislation. In the Senate,
one senator can block anything, right, So the Senate that's
where I say, you have to know the Senate rules,
which are different than the House rules. The House is
(26:35):
kind of like a frat house. It's a bit of
an insanity. The only person in the House who has
power is the speaker. And so when Nancy lost the House,
she was like, well, I don't need to do any
of this nonsense. I'll just hang out in my office
and raise money in stock trade. Right. So, but if
they get the speaker back, she will be back in charge.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I guarantee you, all Right, All the offices totally unrelated
anything we just talked about.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
But I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
All the houses in the the office is for the
members of the House. In the Senate, They're not all
created the same, right, Like the Speaker of the House
gets a nicer office. Does Pelosi have to move out
of the nice office when she abandons the position? What
exactly if she's not the minority leader, Like, is Pelosi
and her team are they moving around from a crap
office to a good office?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What happens?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, the Speaker's office is in the dead center of
the Capitol. Like if you were standing on the National
Mall at the Washington Monument looking down the grass and
you see the Capitol in the distance. The very first
up the stairs, the very dead center is the Speaker's office.
It's been there historically. It was Jefferson's office that belongs
to the speaker. And you do get kicked out when
(27:41):
you lose power. You are gone the next day they're
individual private offices, right, like your representative, I think you're
in Dan Crenshaw, right, he's got an office in whatever
house building that's kind of his. They don't really kick
members out of their offices, but they do upgrade, right,
And so when someone old and famous retires, I guarantee
(28:02):
you Shila Jackson, she probably had a great office, and
then they jockey for it. And boy, you got to
see the way they fight tooth and nail because certain
office buildings are better than others. Certain or closer to
the train, certain or closer to the bathroom, et cetera,
et cetera. So I'm sure Shila Jackson Lee had a
(28:22):
beautiful office, and I'm sure she voted for Kamaala twice.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Absolutely. I know, of course she voted in this presidential election.
I bet her office had a deep prior and a
beer fridge.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I'm sure Don Young, the great congressman from Alaska, who
was there for almost fifty years, he had more dead
animals on his walls. He had the largest house office
because he had been there fifty years. He had every
animal under the sun. The guy was an avid hunter.
You would think you were in some lodge and he yeah,
So there are offices that are absolutely coveted and they
(28:57):
fight tooth and nail for them.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Imagine that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Wow, I wonder if it's somewhere in that building, you know,
as Andrew Jackson carved his initials into the bottom of
a desk, and it's still there.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Probably you know that, And a lot of their artifacts
are still there. There are little tiny closets off the
floor they like they call them, I think they call
them hideaways or something like that, where you know you
can just run in and have a quick conversation before
you run onto the floor and vote. Those are all
very coveted. If you ever get a chance to go
to Washington, DC, sadly the city is not in great
(29:31):
shape right now, but tours of the capital are absolutely
worth it. And a little fun fact for your listeners,
if you ever do go to Washington, d C. Go
to your congressman's office and ask for a private tour
because that is their job, and their staffles will take
you around because they want your vote. And so you say, hey,
I'm in district ex I would like to meet the
(29:51):
congressman and they will say, at mister Webster, we'd be
happy to give you a private tour the Capitol right now,
So do it?
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
My brother Daniel tur Herpowerthfuture dot Com follow him on
x He's a good follow.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Kenny has always thought the best things in life are free,
free plus tax. Of course, Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness
today is Sadie Hawkins Day.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
It's a day when women ask out men and men
immediately assume they're probably gonna get laid. But isn't the
Sadie Hawkins Day thing kind of offensive? Because think about it,
you don't know what gender you are?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
What is a woman? I'm not a biologist. How should
I be expected to know something like that?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Meanwhile, Papa John's has now had three consecutive losing quarters.
Evidently the public's desire for indigestible pizza is shrinking. Sad news,
my friends. Speaking of Chipotle as a new CEO, the
CEO's lucrative contract includes millions of dollars in the form
of free scoops of extra gualk jealous.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, I'm a little jealous of that too. Who wouldn't
be eight six six? I love WJ.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
You can call the show if you want. I wouldn't
recommend it. Though, because someone tells me, you're not going
to want to talk about this. This guy died at
Planet Fitness. This is a weird story.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's okay. I kint ahead in the story a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
This guy went to Planet Fitness to use a tanning
bed and he never came Home's happened in Indianapolis. Three
days later, somebody goes into the tanning bed at Planet
Fitness and they find his dead body there.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Do they not clean the tanning beds at Planet Fitness?
I'm guessing no, that'd be a no.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They don't even know which locker room their customers should
be using, because you know, men and women. That's very confusing.
I don't know why anybody goes to Planet Fitness. Seems
like a gross place.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I do know this. Chris Wallace is out at CNN.
He just got laid off.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
A lot of layoffs happening in media right now, and
I just want to point out I'm still here, so
I know. I can't believe it either. Oh, imagine you're surprised.
Imagine how surprised I am. I did not think that
was going to happen. So changes are happening around the country,
and changes are happening in the media, and changes are
happening in Hollywood as well, because one of the top
(32:04):
dogs in Hollywood looks like he's gonna be going away
to prison for a long time for human trafficking.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I don't know why, but I feel like maybe ending
the show with some news about Sean Diddy Combs might
be in order. Here, the post claims a woman saw
miners dressed up as sexy Harod Juku barbiees at a
Sean Didtycombe's sex fueled freak off party.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That term Harrod Juku Barbie might be confusing to you.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It means they were dressed like I think what they're
suggesting is they were supposed to be dressed in like
sexy Barbie Japanese Barbie outfits. That's what that means. This
woman named Tania Wallace is an aspiring singer. She talked
to TMZ recently and said she actually saw underage girls
surrounded by a wall of adults at the Fallen Music
Moguls mansion back in twenty eighteen, which to me didn't
(32:55):
feel like it was even that long ago. They had
underage girls performing sex acts. Really sick stuff here isn't it.
I mean that is that is absolutely vile. The woman claims,
by the way, this Wallace no relation to the other Walla,
so it was just talking about Chris. Wallace said she
was invited to the party by a Saudi prince who
flew from Los Angeles, and she admitted she couldn't see
(33:17):
exactly what the miners and adults were doing, but she
was alarmed because it was a grown party where they
were having sex, and then there were kids there, underage kids,
kind of weird. She saw miners dressed as sexy herod
Juku barbies. Oh it gives me the chills. Do you
remember ray j was the guy that made the famous
sex tape with Kim Kardashian. His sister was Brandy aka Moesha.
(33:40):
These are all black celebrities from He hasn't really been
relevant in a while, but he claims he knows multiple
celebrities who were so scared of their ties to Sean
Ditty Combs, they've been offering the accusers cash to stay quiet.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
It's all part of a catch and kill scheme.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
He claims the guys An R and B singer kind
of washed up at this point, but he was friends
with Sean didty homes and he told TMZ the high
profile names have been reaching out to him after allegations
started swirling that celebrities could have been who are all
part of the sex freak off parties? Are now being
blackmailed or extorted or you know, honestly, it sounds sounds
(34:15):
like they were part of something illegal and they never
thought they'd get in trouble for it. The head of TMZ,
what's that guy's name, Harvey whatever, Harvy, what's his name,
Harvey Levin? He was being interviewed about this new documentary
on News Nation. Here's what he said.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
It is true that Hollywood gets loud very quickly in
certain cases. They did, certainly with Harvey Weinstein and others.
They have been very very silent here. And I agree
with you, I don't think just.
Speaker 10 (34:46):
Be Look every celebrity in the world seems to have
gone to one of these white parties. I mean, everybody
wanted to go, and if you got an invitation, you went,
So you can pretty much count everybody high profile has
been to one of the parties. That's not disqualifying, that
doesn't mean it's untoward.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
We're not talking about white parties. We're talking.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Let's pause it right there. White parties is when they
all dress in white. I'm gonna run out of time
here in a minute. But isn't it kind of interesting
They just cleaned house in the media CNN, MSNBC, A
lot of layoffs around the country for media people because,
as you can see, the economy is not doing great
right now after four years of Joe Biden. But what's
a sowhat remarkable about this is it looks like there's
gonna be a lot of new openings for Hollywood stars,
(35:30):
movie stars, actors and actresses, and you know, social media
influencers because a lot of P Diddy's friends look like
their careers are going to end soon simply because of
their association with the guy.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Don't you feel bad for him?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Me too?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Download our smartphone app, the Walton Johnson Smartphone App, available
in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I love you all, have a great day.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
You are listening to the Pursuit Happiness Radial.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to the show
Jigana government sucks. Suit of Happiness radio is DeLux. Liberty
and freedom will make you smile. Of a suit of happiness.
Us on your radio toil, just as jeezburgers a liberty
rise at food.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ba ba ba ba ba ba. Breaking news New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
New York City will no longer allow garbage on sidewalks.
Fortunately this won't affect the Jets since they play in
a stadium. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. This is a talk
radio show. You're listening to it. Yeah, imagine that. It's
called Pursuit of Happiness Radio and it's an afternoon, mid
afternoon snack to keep you going from the morning to
the evening as you get home. And you know what,
for those of you that don't know, we got a
(00:45):
lot of cool stuff going on here today. My buddy
Daniel Turner stopping by from Power the Future. Most of
what we're gonna be talking about today is Trump's conra
his selections for his cabinet. A lot of names are
getting thrown around. Some of them are maybe, some of
them are definitely, some of them are possibly. We'll we'll
pick through the trash on the sidewalks of New York
(01:05):
and let you know what's what? Give you the who, what, when, where?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That's coming up real soon. But you know what, why
don't we start off with this the latest information. The
biggest of my favorite thing to have broke in the
news over the past twenty four hours would probably be this.
Elon Musk, the Ben Franklin of our time, and Viveyk Ramaswami.
I don't know who I'd compare him to the Alexander
Hamilton of our time. I hate to compare them. They
murdered Alexander Hamilton. But the two guys that probably never
(01:32):
going to be president, but very important founding fathers of
the mag of movement will run something called the Department
of Government Efficiency. The ball has started a role in
this new era of Trump appointees being announced, plans for
a better future discussed, But as was reported today, it
not the bee. Nothing has caused quite as much excitement
(01:53):
as this. This is big, guys, this is so cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
DOGE.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's called DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. I'm going
to talk to the boomers in the audience for just
a minute. I know what I'm going to say. Sometimes
I do this, I translate things that millennials and zoomers
are doing for boomers, And I know it confuses people,
but I or maybe it sounds a bit marginalizing, but
I just want to make sure we're all up to
pace here having a conversation. Doge is a meme. Doge
(02:20):
is a famous meme. It's been around since about twenty thirteen.
It's a dog in the meme. It's a picture of
a Japanese dog called a shiba enu, generally accompanied by
multi colored words right, dogsnow much frosty, cute, wow, such freeze, omg.
You know, they're just cute memes of dogs. That's how
it started, very innocent, the doge memes. You know how
(02:43):
memes can sometimes be kind of profane or foul or
really smart or whatever. Doge memes generally were just cute, adorable,
right much noble, so much respect, sort of like how
Japanese people would speak if they were trying to speak English,
but cute, charming, but kind of like in English, isn't
your first language. You get the idea. That's the gist
of it. And at some point the meme became a
(03:07):
crypto coin. You know what bitcoin is, Well, it's not bitcoin,
it's a different crypto coin called the doge coin. Now,
I imagine a lot of people listening already know all
of this, but some of our older listeners don't, So
could everybody just be patient with them?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Please?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
This is an AM talk radio station. I know, you
know you don't have to listen to it. I AM radio.
Some people listen on our FM and a signal, and
some people listen on the internet.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But for those of you that are a little older
and still listening on AM radio, I just now we
all know what doge is.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, okay, still a little confused.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That acronym d oge is the word Doge is the
acronym for this new department. See, it's cute, it's clever,
the Department of Government Efficiency, And it's exactly what it
sounds like. They're gonna weed through all the crap that
the federal government's doing. You know how, whenever they passed
one of these giant omnibus spending bills, buried in the
(03:59):
ten thousand pages of information is something that says, oh,
and we're gonna spend two million dollars on cat bandanas,
and you're like, why would we be doing that? And well,
nobody noticed that was in there, but it was so
important to get this bill to pass because we needed
more funding for Ukraine or a border wall, or healthcare
for Canadians or whatever thing they were trying to pass. Well,
(04:21):
that's that's what Dog is gonna try to solve for us.
These two guys, with the help of possibly Ron Paul
that's a word, there's that's a name that's still getting
thrown around, are gonna are gonna pick through the weeds
and figure out what's not supposed to be there. Once
a year, this thing comes out called the Government Waste Book,
the pork Book they call it, and it highlights a
(04:42):
lot of this stuff. The problem with it is it's
written by a fiscal conservative senator usually who's kind of stuffy,
if you will, and most people don't pay any attention
to it. But Doge, Doge is gonna be fun and
punchy and funny. It's gonna it's it's gonna be kinda
kind of spicy the way they're gonna deliver this information.
It's going to be controversial, but it's gonna get it.
(05:03):
It's gonna get attention, and that's what makes it good.
Doge is good. I mean, I think it's a good idea.
Every year around Christmas time, Senator Ran Paul hops on Twitter,
and you know what Festivus is? Festivus when you're supposed
to air out your grievances. It's a joke that dates
back to the TV show Seinfeld. Well, every year on Festivus,
(05:23):
which is a fake holiday, Ran Paul gets on Twitter
right before Christmas and he tweets out all the people
in government that he didn't like, and all the people
all the waste in government that he didn't like. And
that's a funnier way than the wastebook to deliver this information.
But Doge, I think is still the best. I'm not
(05:44):
going to give you the entire message in full because
this is epic. Here's how they wrote it out. They said, Uh,
I am pleased to announce. This is Donald Trump. I
please to announce the great Elon Musk, working in conjunction
with American Patriot for vaik Ramaswami, will lead the Department
of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Do I have to keep doing the voice? It's hurting
my throat.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So together these two wonderful Americans will pave the way
for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy. Slash excess regulations,
cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies essential to the
Save America movement. This was sent shockwave through the system
and anyone involved in the government waste, which is a
lot of people. It will become potentially the Manhattan Project
(06:27):
of our time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objective
objectives of DOGE for a very long time. To drive
this kind of drastic change, the Department of Government Efficiency
will provide advice and guidance from outside of government, and
will partner with the White House and Office of Management
and Budget to drive large scale structural reform and create
(06:48):
an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before. I look
forward to Elan and Vivek making changes to the federal
bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and at the same
time make life better for all Americans. DOGE. Just imagine
how much waste these two can cut from our overspending government.
(07:10):
It's pretty amazing. I gotta tell you. The guy went
from being a seven to eleven store clerk to the
head of DOGE. Good for you, Vivig, very awesome. Yeah,
it is kind of ridiculous. How much crap we waste
in our government. Here's Senator Rampaul in to.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
A sunfish versus tequila, which would make the sunfish more aggressive.
Nearly a million dollars spent studying whether or not Japanese
quail if you give them cocaine, whether or not they're
more sexually promiscuous.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Wells people think that's a joke. This is Senator ram Paul.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these stupid studies,
and we do them every year.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Why are we doing that, Senator Rampaul? Was it one
small step for man? Or was it one small step
for a man?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
And in the end, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars later,
they couldn't decide, Wow, was it one step for man?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
One step for a man?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Two million dollars for the construction of a kelp and
shellfish nursery in Maine. One point five million to encourage
video gaming in New York.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We might be better off spending.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
One point five million to discourage kids from make playing
video games. Three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars for
Columbia University. Be giving a rich university that has thirteen
billion dollars, any money two hundred and one nine thousand
dollars for the Baltimore Symphony. Give money to all the symphonies,
and we'd make them part of government.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Amazing, Right, you get why this is crazy. People will
ask me, Kenny, why is all this wasting government? And
the answer is pretty simple. To those of you that
work in the private sector. Maybe you run a business,
work for a business, manage a business. You know that
if you can't make a profit, if you can't balance
the budget in your in your your company's expenditure report,
(08:55):
you go out of business. You got to lay off employees.
The government doesn't have that problem. There are no reason
for them to there's no reason for them to care. Essentially,
if they overspend, it doesn't matter, there's no consequences. They
don't have that in government like we do in the
private sector. Here at this radio station. If we spend
(09:15):
too much money on producers or marketing or whatever, somebody's
got to get fired.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's sad, but that's the way that business works.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Fortunately, it's not the way the government works, which is
exactly why DOGE is such a welcome addition to the
Trump administration.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
America, the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Kenny Webster's pursuit of heaviness.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Doctors claim that if you spend more than ten minutes
on the toilet at a time, it could be bad
for your health. So apparently I've been dead for thirty years.
I had no idea. Hi, everybody, welcome back from break.
It's Kenny Webster. It's Pursuit of Happiness coming up in
a little bit, Daniel Turner. Stick around for that quick reminder.
If you're excited at all about any of the cool
stuff I was talking about in the last segment, Doge
and the new appointments to the Trump cabin and all
(10:00):
the awesome changes, mostly good changes happening in the United
States right now, you may want your Christmas present purchases
to reflect on those interests that you may have.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So you could do that.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You could give the gift of MAGA this Christmas season
by going to I LOOVEWJ dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's our website. I Love WJ.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, it's technically more specifically our online store for the
Walton and Johnson and Pursue a Happiness radio show.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I Love WJ dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
There's all kinds of cool stuff there right now that
you can fill stockings with dark Maga hats and Doge
T shirts and apparel and hoodies and really cool Christmas ornaments,
Maga stuff, Diehard stuff. I'm really proud of all the
neat things on our online store. I encourage you to
go check it out right now, please have a gander
at it. We have John Thune now as head of
(10:49):
the Senate. We're going to talk about that coming up
in just a little bit, so stick around for that
cause apparently, well it's we wanted Rick Scott.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We really didn't want John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
So this is kind of one of those we didn't
get the guy we wanted, but we didn't get the
guy we didn't want either, so it could be worse.
But there is something I've been wondering about. Donald Trump
said he wanted to shut down the Department of Education.
You remember he said this more than once.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We're going to take the Department of Education, close it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm going to close it. Well, have one person, could
be you, if you decide to retire, We're.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Going to take you know what. I love this idea.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Education should be determined at a state level. It should
not be a federal issue. It should not be a
one size approach all fixed to how we do education.
What kids need to learn in New York City is
very different than what children need to learn in rural Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So why do we have a federal Department of Education.
It's a waste, there's no need for it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Someone on the left door spawned this and go, yeah, well, Kenny,
Mississippi's last in the state for reading. Yeah, they're last
in the state for reading. Right now with the Department
of Education, what point do you think that you're making.
Townhall dot com just reported on this interview with former
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos responding to President elect President
(12:08):
Donald Trump's plan. That's how I say it, by the way,
president elect President Donald Trump, because he already was president,
but now he's president elect and he has his plan
to eliminate the Department of Education. Betsy says Trump will
need to partner with Congress to actually get that done.
But there are many steps that could be taken to
re empower states and local communities and more importantly, families.
The bureaucrats of the Department of Education aren't doing the job.
(12:31):
They haven't done the job for more than four decades.
To close achievement gaps, they've only widened them.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
She's right about that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The whole point of the Department of Education was that
we were supposed to provide young people with the education
and job opportunities that you know, rich people were getting.
Average folks and poor folks. Why don't they get the
same thing that rich people get. The Department of Education
was supposed to provide something that's never never done. That
education freedom and school choice need to have. The teachers'
(13:01):
unions have overplayed their hand in every area. We've all
seen it. That's the reason Trump won. The Department of
Education doesn't really add any value anywhere, I mean does it.
It's not what's best for students. It's not what's best
for America. It's what's best for lobbyists. It's what's best
for unions and lobbyists. And that's about it. Fixing Title nine,
(13:21):
passing school choice, those would be good places to start.
Title nine. What a nightmare that's been used to be.
I mean, look, it was it great idea once. Equality
for men and women. I don't you know, I don't
objectively have a problem with that men and women are
not equal in terms of physical strength, and that sort
of thing. But obviously they should have some of the
same opportunities. I'm not some misogynist most of the time.
(13:45):
Maybe in the bedroom a little bit. But I can't.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I can't. I could.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But my point is this, guys, we all know when
Trump explained how he's preparing to shut down the Department
of Education after entering office, that was the right thing
for America. They will scream, buddy murder. They will It's
the worst thing to ever happen to the country. Yet somehow, strangely,
at one point we survived without a Department of Education.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Weird, huh. Pursuit of that penis radio coming now.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Just this is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC
nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Pete Hegseth is the morning show personality on Fox News
on the weekend right now. I work in morning broadcasting,
so I understand somewhat what his job entails.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You get up early, you prep for the news, you try.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
To be spunky and fun to hang out with while
someone's in traffic or getting ready for work.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You get it. It's morning TV and morning radio are
not real different.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Of course, I think that's about where me and peg
Pete hag Seth's similarities differ a bit. He is a
military veteran, ran for Senate lost and now nobody ever
expected this. He doesn't seem like a career military guy.
He's really not. And he's the dude that Donald Trump
just picked to be Secretary of Defense, basically one of
(15:03):
the top dogs at the Pentagon, right Joint chief of Staff,
five star generals, Secretary of Defense. The Pentagon's a big place.
There's a lot of people in charge there. It's complicated.
So Hegseth immediately they want to be mad about this, Well,
they need a reason to be mad. What do you
get mad at the guy for. On CNN they said
he can't he can't run the Pentagon. He's just some
(15:24):
guy on TV. People that talk on TV don't know anything.
That's an actual conversation that happened yesterday with Scott Jennings.
People on CNN were so determined to prove that Pete
Hegseth was unqualified that they called themselves unqualified to make
that point.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
At any rate.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Whatever you think of the guy, Pete Hegseth does have
one controversial opinion and It's.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
This straight up just saying we should not have women
in combat roles.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal,
has made fighting more complicated.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We've all served with women, and they're great.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
It just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in
places traditionally not traditionally over human history, men in those
positions are more capable.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Name one female war hero. You can't.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You can't think of one, right, You could think of
a male war hero, Morgan Latrell, Marcus Latrell, Pat Tillman.
I mean, I'm sure I could come up with more.
I do wonder though, women in combat A broken nail.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Damn it, swear reloade this. I'm out of shot, so
we should totally get shots to not Yeah, that pitch
over there is where the same thing as me? Why
did you remember to DVR keeping up with the Kardashian this?
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
All right, I'm sure a lot of you would probably agree.
Is this a non issue? Even if you don't want
women in frontline combat? It's twenty twenty four, don't most women?
I mean, war is fought now at a computer keyboard.
We live in the age of drone strikes and computer hackers.
I can't be alone on this. My buddy Daniel Turner.
He's a policy analyst and a credit of government decisions.
(17:01):
He also runs a group called Power the Future. They're
advocates for the sensible solutions to the energy industry. Daniel
Pete Hagsath for Defense Secretary Women in Combat.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
What's your whole take on this?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Pete's great. I know him personally. I've been on with
him a number of times. I've hung out with him socially.
He's a great pick. He's an unconventional pick. There's no
doubt the military industrial complex doesn't like it because he
is not a warhawk. But he does have twenty years
of real combat duty. Unlike Tim Waltz, he actually did
(17:35):
carry weapons of war into war, and so he sees
the military from a different perspective. Right, he sees it
from clearly leadership. I believe he was a major, so,
you know, fairly high ranked member of the army, but
he's not. He's not a warhawk, and they hate him
(17:56):
for that. He's also not that I'm always impressed by
grad degrees and degrees because I didn't go to college.
You know, he did go to Princeton undergrad and he
went to Harvard Grad School, not as Yeah, and he
did that before he was famous. Right. But the real
reason why they hate Pete Haig Seth, and I've been
tweeting this all morning, the real reason why they hate
(18:16):
him for DoD is because Pete Haig Seth is in
the simplest terms in alpha bro and guys recognize that
and other guys. That's why Hulk Cogan and Dana White
do so well at Trump rallies. Right, Guys recognize when
guys are just awesomeness. And Pete Haig Seth is going
to make a lot of eighteen and seventeen year old
(18:38):
patriotic young men think, you know what, I'm going to
enlist because I love my country and I want to
kill the bad guy, right, and I want to make
this country awesome. And that is not the climate change
cross dressing Admiral Rachel Levine transgender military that the Obama administration,
the Biden administration has been pushing. They don't want the
(18:59):
military to be a bunch of awesome alpha bros who
want to kill bad people and love this country. They
want it to be some warped screwed up social experiment,
which is why they push women in combat and transgenderism.
And it's why Mark Millie said, you know, combating whiteness
is one of the top priorities, right, they talk about
(19:20):
climate awareness, et cetera. So that's why they hate Pete
Higgsett because he's g I freaking Joe and I love it.
And that's why Trump loves him as well.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, and you know it's a great point Pete Dudson.
The fact that he's not a part of the swamp
or the machine or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Great.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't care if he's as long as he's not
in bed with the military industrial complex. Now you know
someone who is, little Marco Marco Rubio is apparently going
to be the Secretary of State. They claim to be fair.
I don't think i've heard Trump made that make that
announcement yet, of you.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Wasn't an official thing go out, you know now that
I'm wondering.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I don't know if I actually Everyone assumes it's true,
but it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I haven't heard. Let's assume it is. Let's pretend like
the reports and early rumors are true. So Desanti's Rubio
and Trump they have a weird relationship the three of
them anyway, kind of frenemies, if you will, But at
any rate, they seem to work well together when they
do work together. If Rubio's tasked to become Secretary of
State and they leave a vacancy in this for the
one of the two Senate seats in the state of Florida,
(20:24):
that would mean that DeSantis gets to pick who replaces Rubio.
And I have a suggestion, And I know it sounds
like I'm joking, but I'm actually mostly serious.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Real changion, the rice of every male realm maeron who
was right? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Haul Hogan is a resident of the state of Florida,
and he was a key and he was a keynote
speaker at the Republican National Convention this year.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Would it be the crazy thing? Would it be the
craziest thing?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
If ul Cogan, who would probably just have a maga
voting agenda anyway, probably just going to vote the way
a Trump would have voted if he was a senator.
If it was Paul Cogan, yeah, would it be the
worst pick?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I mean, Jesse, the body Venturo was was governor of Minnesota, right,
I mean, we have had wrestlers before in political office.
So no, it wouldn't be the worst thing. Look, I
don't there's a lot of complaints about Rubio. I have
a bunch of conservative friends who are like Trump's already
came into the neo cons The secretary of State does
(21:34):
what the president orders him to do, and you all
report to the president. Right, this idea that he's going
to craft some unique foreign policy. No, everyone works for
the president and everybody takes orders. It's why the person
in charge is called the chief of staff. Everybody is
a staffer, even the Secretary of State. And on the
(21:55):
bright side, if you hate the idea that it's Marco
Rubio and you think he's a neo Cohn and you
think Trump's caving, on the bright side, we could be
having the opposite conversation. He could be saying that eight
days ago Kamala one would she be? What freak show
would she have picked to be secretary of State? You know,
man woman beard with a dress and stockings, but also
(22:17):
a combat jacket whose name is Bruce. But they give
you their pronouns, and imagine that nightmare scenario if Kamala
had won. So chin up, boys and girls, Rubio is
a great pick because Trump is a great pick.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I feel like Rubio. He's hawkish on Israel. He wouldn't
have been my choice. But on the other hand, Trump's
gonna push him around if he does become a warhawk
as top diplomat head of the State Department. I gotta
think Trump fires him. Trump fired Mattis, Trump fired John Bolton.
Does Rubio two years from now just kill us? Right exactly? Yeah,
(22:52):
there's aye. It'd be easier to tell you all the
people Trump didn't fire Amerosa, we'd be here, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, speaking guy.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Has no problem firing people absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I mean, that's why we voted for him, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Speaking of the Senate, not Rick Scott, not not not
John Cornyn, there were three choices for Senate majority leader
to in their secret vote. They all put on their
cloaks and went down into the lower chambers of the
Senate where they did a blood letting and burned black
smoke to announce that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They we we have we have a leader. We have
a leader.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And the leader's John Thune, which was not the worst
or best choice. But again, I mean, right, look, I'm
not gonna pretend like I like it, but I guess
it could have been worse.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
At least it's not Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, the same Johnson. You know, a lot of
people wanted Rick Scott. They thought he would push the
Trump agenda faster in the Senate. The Senate's not the House,
right the Senate does it has different procedures. I was
a former Senate staffer, so I'm kind of partial to
the Senate. It used to be called the world the
greatest deliberative body. The advantage of having seen there is
(24:00):
he does know the Senate and the Senate rules. He's
been there a long time, and he knows how to
play the Senate game. Well, there's one thing that I
am slightly worried about, and Kenny Alais, I'll admit this
is going to anger some people, but I love you
and I love your audience enough to respect them with
some truth. I am a little concerned that the House
(24:21):
and Senate would push a little too hard, a little
too soon, on something that would blow the whole damn
thing up. I don't want Senate Bill one to be
the put Trump on Mount Rushmore. You know something that
the left is going to gather together and say, you
see I told you they were crazy, and I think
(24:41):
thing can possibly prevent that. There's a lot of good
stuff we need to do, there's a lot of important stuff.
But my concern, my little, little little concern, was that
if you had super Maga House and Superman Maga Senate leadership,
their first piece of legislation would be something kind of
outlandish that would, you know, get the baseiccited, but more dangerously,
(25:03):
would get the left to circle the wagon. They're getting
back their power, yeah, exactly, and we got to keep
them off off their game.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But again, it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's you know, it's walking a tightrope because who who
remembers twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen when we could not get
the border bill passed and then the midterms rolled around
and we lost the House.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
You know, absolutely no, it's going to be a very
tight rope to walk. And that's where I'm hoping there's
enough support in the House, which we officially haven't really
won yet, they haven't declared it. I mean, there's still
a couple races undecided. So that's we should be more
nervous about that than who's controlling the Senate. Prediction for
you if they if their Democrats somehow do manage to
(25:46):
retain and get the House back, it will be Speaker
Pelosi again. Wow, she is not going to have President
Trump and Speaker a majority leader. Thun and let Jaking Jeffries.
He's been holding her bag for the last two years.
But if it's a Trump administration and they have the House,
Pelosi is coming back in charge.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I believe you.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
You really don't think that they really you really don't
think it's Takim Jeffries.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Why he's not the leader they wanted or what? Why
is he even there?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
There was no point in having him be minority leader
because the minority leader of the House has absolutely no power. Right.
They don't have filibuster rules, they don't have committee rules
like the Senate does. They can't stop legislation. In the Senate,
one senator can block anything, right, So the Senate that's
where I say, you have to know the Senate rules,
which are different than the House rules. The House is
(26:35):
kind of like a frat house. It's a bit of
an insanity. The only person in the House who has
power is the speaker. And so when Nancy lost the House,
she was like, well, I don't need to do any
of this nonsense. I'll just hang out in my office
and raise money in stock trade. Right. So, but if
they get the speaker back, she will be back in charge.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I guarantee you, all Right, All the offices totally unrelated
anything we just talked about.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
But I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
All the houses in the the office is for the
members of the House. In the Senate, They're not all
created the same, right, Like the Speaker of the House
gets a nicer office. Does Pelosi have to move out
of the nice office when she abandons the position? What
exactly if she's not the minority leader, Like, is Pelosi
and her team are they moving around from a crap
office to a good office?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What happens?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, the Speaker's office is in the dead center of
the Capitol. Like if you were standing on the National
Mall at the Washington Monument looking down the grass and
you see the Capitol in the distance. The very first
up the stairs, the very dead center is the Speaker's office.
It's been there historically. It was Jefferson's office that belongs
to the speaker. And you do get kicked out when
(27:41):
you lose power. You are gone the next day they're
individual private offices, right, like your representative, I think you're
in Dan Crenshaw, right, he's got an office in whatever
house building that's kind of his. They don't really kick
members out of their offices, but they do upgrade, right,
And so when someone old and famous retires, I guarantee
(28:02):
you Shila Jackson, she probably had a great office, and
then they jockey for it. And boy, you got to
see the way they fight tooth and nail because certain
office buildings are better than others. Certain or closer to
the train, certain or closer to the bathroom, et cetera,
et cetera. So I'm sure Shila Jackson Lee had a
(28:22):
beautiful office, and I'm sure she voted for Kamaala twice.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Absolutely. I know, of course she voted in this presidential election.
I bet her office had a deep prior and a
beer fridge.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I'm sure Don Young, the great congressman from Alaska, who
was there for almost fifty years, he had more dead
animals on his walls. He had the largest house office
because he had been there fifty years. He had every
animal under the sun. The guy was an avid hunter.
You would think you were in some lodge and he yeah,
So there are offices that are absolutely coveted and they
(28:57):
fight tooth and nail for them.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Imagine that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Wow, I wonder if it's somewhere in that building, you know,
as Andrew Jackson carved his initials into the bottom of
a desk, and it's still there.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Probably you know that, And a lot of their artifacts
are still there. There are little tiny closets off the
floor they like they call them, I think they call
them hideaways or something like that, where you know you
can just run in and have a quick conversation before
you run onto the floor and vote. Those are all
very coveted. If you ever get a chance to go
to Washington, DC, sadly the city is not in great
(29:31):
shape right now, but tours of the capital are absolutely
worth it. And a little fun fact for your listeners,
if you ever do go to Washington, d C. Go
to your congressman's office and ask for a private tour
because that is their job, and their staffles will take
you around because they want your vote. And so you say, hey,
I'm in district ex I would like to meet the
(29:51):
congressman and they will say, at mister Webster, we'd be
happy to give you a private tour the Capitol right now,
So do it?
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
My brother Daniel tur Herpowerthfuture dot Com follow him on
x He's a good follow.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Kenny has always thought the best things in life are free,
free plus tax. Of course, Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness
today is Sadie Hawkins Day.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
It's a day when women ask out men and men
immediately assume they're probably gonna get laid. But isn't the
Sadie Hawkins Day thing kind of offensive? Because think about it,
you don't know what gender you are?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
What is a woman? I'm not a biologist. How should
I be expected to know something like that?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Meanwhile, Papa John's has now had three consecutive losing quarters.
Evidently the public's desire for indigestible pizza is shrinking. Sad news,
my friends. Speaking of Chipotle as a new CEO, the
CEO's lucrative contract includes millions of dollars in the form
of free scoops of extra gualk jealous.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, I'm a little jealous of that too. Who wouldn't
be eight six six? I love WJ.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
You can call the show if you want. I wouldn't
recommend it. Though, because someone tells me, you're not going
to want to talk about this. This guy died at
Planet Fitness. This is a weird story.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's okay. I kint ahead in the story a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
This guy went to Planet Fitness to use a tanning
bed and he never came Home's happened in Indianapolis. Three
days later, somebody goes into the tanning bed at Planet
Fitness and they find his dead body there.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Do they not clean the tanning beds at Planet Fitness?
I'm guessing no, that'd be a no.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They don't even know which locker room their customers should
be using, because you know, men and women. That's very confusing.
I don't know why anybody goes to Planet Fitness. Seems
like a gross place.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I do know this. Chris Wallace is out at CNN.
He just got laid off.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
A lot of layoffs happening in media right now, and
I just want to point out I'm still here, so
I know. I can't believe it either. Oh, imagine you're surprised.
Imagine how surprised I am. I did not think that
was going to happen. So changes are happening around the country,
and changes are happening in the media, and changes are
happening in Hollywood as well, because one of the top
(32:04):
dogs in Hollywood looks like he's gonna be going away
to prison for a long time for human trafficking.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I don't know why, but I feel like maybe ending
the show with some news about Sean Diddy Combs might
be in order. Here, the post claims a woman saw
miners dressed up as sexy Harod Juku barbiees at a
Sean Didtycombe's sex fueled freak off party.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That term Harrod Juku Barbie might be confusing to you.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It means they were dressed like I think what they're
suggesting is they were supposed to be dressed in like
sexy Barbie Japanese Barbie outfits. That's what that means. This
woman named Tania Wallace is an aspiring singer. She talked
to TMZ recently and said she actually saw underage girls
surrounded by a wall of adults at the Fallen Music
Moguls mansion back in twenty eighteen, which to me didn't
(32:55):
feel like it was even that long ago. They had
underage girls performing sex acts. Really sick stuff here isn't it.
I mean that is that is absolutely vile. The woman claims,
by the way, this Wallace no relation to the other Walla,
so it was just talking about Chris. Wallace said she
was invited to the party by a Saudi prince who
flew from Los Angeles, and she admitted she couldn't see
(33:17):
exactly what the miners and adults were doing, but she
was alarmed because it was a grown party where they
were having sex, and then there were kids there, underage kids,
kind of weird. She saw miners dressed as sexy herod
Juku barbies. Oh it gives me the chills. Do you
remember ray j was the guy that made the famous
sex tape with Kim Kardashian. His sister was Brandy aka Moesha.
(33:40):
These are all black celebrities from He hasn't really been
relevant in a while, but he claims he knows multiple
celebrities who were so scared of their ties to Sean
Ditty Combs, they've been offering the accusers cash to stay quiet.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
It's all part of a catch and kill scheme.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
He claims the guys An R and B singer kind
of washed up at this point, but he was friends
with Sean didty homes and he told TMZ the high
profile names have been reaching out to him after allegations
started swirling that celebrities could have been who are all
part of the sex freak off parties? Are now being
blackmailed or extorted or you know, honestly, it sounds sounds
(34:15):
like they were part of something illegal and they never
thought they'd get in trouble for it. The head of TMZ,
what's that guy's name, Harvey whatever, Harvy, what's his name,
Harvey Levin? He was being interviewed about this new documentary
on News Nation. Here's what he said.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
It is true that Hollywood gets loud very quickly in
certain cases. They did, certainly with Harvey Weinstein and others.
They have been very very silent here. And I agree
with you, I don't think just.
Speaker 10 (34:46):
Be Look every celebrity in the world seems to have
gone to one of these white parties. I mean, everybody
wanted to go, and if you got an invitation, you went,
So you can pretty much count everybody high profile has
been to one of the parties. That's not disqualifying, that
doesn't mean it's untoward.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
We're not talking about white parties. We're talking.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Let's pause it right there. White parties is when they
all dress in white. I'm gonna run out of time
here in a minute. But isn't it kind of interesting
They just cleaned house in the media CNN, MSNBC, A
lot of layoffs around the country for media people because,
as you can see, the economy is not doing great
right now after four years of Joe Biden. But what's
a sowhat remarkable about this is it looks like there's
gonna be a lot of new openings for Hollywood stars,
(35:30):
movie stars, actors and actresses, and you know, social media
influencers because a lot of P Diddy's friends look like
their careers are going to end soon simply because of
their association with the guy.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Don't you feel bad for him?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Me too?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Download our smartphone app, the Walton Johnson Smartphone App, available
in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I love you all, have a great day.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
You are listening to the Pursuit Happiness Radial.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to the show
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com