November 19, 2025 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Ed Rush, plus @SteveLovesAmmo and the Higgins Boat Rum crew. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Giganic government sucks. Suit of happiness. Radio is dus.
Liberty and freedom will make you smile. Of a suit
of happinges us on your radio toil just as cheeseburgers
a liby fries at the food.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Of A Jet Blue flight made an emergency landing after
a passenger vaped weed and the crew inhaled it. Reached
for comment, a flight attendant said, dude, Jim, any idea
(00:38):
how danger it is? To dangerous? It's very dangerous to
pilot a plane when you've inhaled marijuana right after having
three whiskey sours. That's the worst part about it. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. I didn't tell that joke. Well, but
you're whatever. We moved into the radio show. We're past it.
We're past my three whiskey sours in a marijuana joint
while you're flying a Jet Blue flight joke, and we've
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moved on to bigger and better things. This afternoon. Derek
Bingham is here. He's one of my advertisers. He's gonna
hang with us and make cocktails. He runs a company
called the Higgins Boat Rum Company, and I would love
for you to purchase some of their products.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
My in studio guest this afternoon is going to be
at Steve love Zamo.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He's a firearms.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Expert and a social media He's a conservative social media
He's on Twitter. You probably follow him in case you
don He's a very interesting guy. He's coming up in
just a little bit, so stick around for that. But
in the next segment, we will be talking to a
guy named Ed Rush, a former US Marine Corps top
gun pilot. We're gonna have him on the phone in
just a little bit to stick around for that. We'll
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be talking to him. Before we get to any of that,
let me just detail what I think is a great
victory for the American country, the country that you live in.
The utterly destructive and useless US Department of Education is
about to be dismantled, according to a report I am
reading right now at Breitbart dot Com. Now they got
this information from the Washington Post, so it's come to
(02:02):
us courtesy of both the liberally and conservative media. The
Post talk to three unnamed sources, naturally unnamed, two of
whom and let's hope they are reliable, say that six
offices in the Department of Education will move to other agencies.
So the overall goal here, we hope, is to dismantle
the Education Department as much as legally possible, when only
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Congress has the ultimate authority to close it entirely. Fine, Okay,
now here's the part of the useless nonsense. The Education
Department wastes your money on that they don't really want
you to hear about. Offices that could be moved out
of the agency include the Office for Civil Rights, which
investigates allegations of discrimination based on race, sex, and disability.
Do you think that's happening a lot in public schools?
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In twenty twenty five, they're also going to get rid
of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which
administers fifteen billion dollars to individuals with disabilities, the Individuals
of Disabilities Acts, a lot of money every year. And
then something called the Indian Education Program not DOT but
probably FEATHER, and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,
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which administers K through twelve grant programs, and finally the
Office of post Secondary Education. All right, so that's a
lot of stuff. The workaround to kill this garbage is
to have the Education Department legally contract with other agencies
to handle these programs. Back in March, Trump signed an
executive order calling for the Department of Education to close,
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and he put Education Secretary Linda McMahon in charge of
that Now. More recently, she used the forty plus day
government shutdown to make her case for how useless the
Education Department is.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Students kept going to class, teachers kept getting paid. There
was no disruption in sports seasons or bus routes. The
shutdown proved an argument the conservatives have been making for
forty five years. The US Department of Education is mostly
a pass through for funds that are best managed by
the states. Issue wrong. We're pissing away all this money
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on thousands of bureaucrats instead of where it should go
to the schools. Public education is a total failure. We
allowed teachers to unionize. It was all downhill after that.
There's no reason why the government should educate children when
the government can't even fill potholes. But the very worst
idea was to nationalize education through the Jimmy Carter created
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Department of Education, which is not only a slush fund
for those unnecessary federal bureaucrats, it lays a one size
fits all template over a wild and diverse country, where
localities should be the ones deciding how best to teach
their own people how to read and write and do math.
Whatever Trump can do to destroy the Department of Education.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Do it? What a waste? Why does the Education Department
have its own civil rights department? I get it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Maybe back in the mid twentieth century there was a
need for that, but that was a really long time ago. Guys,
Why can't they be done through the Justice Department civil
Rights Department?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's ridiculous. A civil rights violation is a civil rights violation.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You don't need a whole new pile of overpaid bureaucrats
who get Cadillac Health insurance, a pension and June teenth off.
By the way, I still work on Juneteenth, and you
know they still can't handle the job.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Fire.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Everyone burn the building to the ground when it's empty.
Of course, bury the ashes, salt to the earth. Let
the locals handle it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Pursuit of that penis radio coming now, just p This
is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Not everybody knows this, and I'm not like previous Some
special information or anything. But you know, Top Gun is
a real school, the US Navy Fighter Weapons School, officially
known as the Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program. Yeah,
it's not just a film, right, although it you know,
those were some pretty good movies. No, Top Gun was
a real thing, and the Top Gun fighter pilots are
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real people and their stories are genuine experiences that really happened.
As a matter of fact, yesterday, as Donald Trump was
meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a discussion
was made, a deal happened, trillion dollars for F thirty fives,
and the US Saudi pledges aren't.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Even done making deals yet.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Saudi Arabia's ruler
as he arrived in Washington, DC. The videos have gone
widely viral, and the talks ranged for everything from security
to civil nuclear energy products, projects and partnerships. The leaders
signed a Defense Cooperation Pact, and they held discussions about
a sale of American F thirty five fighter jets to
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the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now I don't know much
about this stuff. I find it fascinating. I enjoy watching
these movies. Ed Rush is a fighter pilot and a
card carrying member of something called the Million Dollar Mistake Club.
You also wrote a new book you should check out
called God Talks Ed. What is the million Mistake Club.
(07:07):
It's not a million dollars, it's the million Mistake Club.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I think I've done the million dollar Mistake Club too, actually, Kenny,
if you had to ask me, But yeah, the million
Mistake Club is is you know, when you've lived long enough,
you start to realize, you know, you were wrong about
so many things. You've become a lot nicer, you know,
to that waitress who forgot your side of ranch. You
become a lot kinder to people who have alternate theologies
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on X and so. I think about the time you
make a million mistakes, you should get a little card
that should give you know, some sort of free deserted
Denny's or something like that. But I feel like once
you get into maybe your late thirties, that's about when
you've made your million's mistake and you get a lot
kinder about the world. But yeah, what you said about
top Gun is right. Those stories are real, I have
to say, though the stories get better over time. It's
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been about twenty years since I went to Top Guns.
So the stories do get better, but they're real.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, So the Million Mistake Club is a real thing, right,
that's not just like a clever way how you explain
how you're imperfect or what? What is it?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
No, I made that up for it's literally it's the
concept that made up for my last book to describe
you know, so I'm a it's a spiritual book.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
I'm a Christian guy, but it's not a Christian book
per se. It was written mostly for skeptics. But the
idea is, you know, people get really angry and judge,
and they sort of like, especially online, you know, people
get really serious about their opinions. And I realized, like, dude,
I've changed my mind on so many things. Like if
I had a time machine and I could go back
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fifteen years to talk to myself about how many different
things that would change my mind on. You actually just
become a lot less dogmatic about things. You actually become
a lot kinder, and you know, you can actually get
some things done actually too when it comes to it,
especially on the political side. If you're just angry at
everybody all the time and I have to say, sometimes
we conservatives can lean in that direction, we can be
wrong about being right. But if you're a member of
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the million of state club, you know, you just treat
everybody a little bit differently.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
What was what was a hot button issue you recently
changed your mind on?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
So I have to say, uh, and and by the way,
I've said this publicly, and people people lose their minds
when I tell them this. I was sitting in my chair.
I kid you, I was probably five years ago, and like,
just to put it into context, I'm not a registered Republican,
but I am. I'm a definitely right leaning, probably more libertarian,
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small libertarian than anything. Right. So I'm sitting in my
chair and I was just thinking about our country. And
I live literally like three miles away from the border
here in San Diego, I mean, Timjuana. I go across
the border several times a year to go, like visit
my dentist. So like I'm more right here, you know.
And we have a lot of people that work in
this like a lot of people that work here that
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come across the border fairly, fairly routinely. And I have
to say, like, I am a a big fan of
really really smart immigration. I think the way we do
it is completely wrong. I think it takes way, way
too long, and I actually think the problem like, I
understand the importance of tightening our borders. I lost two
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family members to fetanol. Okay, so like I understand how
important it is to have a secure border. By the way,
it's important to have a secure border for the folks
on the other side of the border too, Kiawana, Like
I said, I go, there is way safer now that
our border is secure. That's something that a lot of
people don't talk about. But yeah, I started to look
at the problem and realize the holistic problem is actually
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sitting right at Congress. Immigration is too hard. It's not
the immigrants fault. We actually incentivize them to come here illegally.
The system is just completely messed up. And then we
could fix it. Honestly, we could fix it in six
months if we had Congress actually on board with that.
So and apparently they're not, but if we did, we
could fix.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It all right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So I was in San Diego quite a bit last year.
I was dating a news anchor there. It's a long story.
I won't bother you with it, but of the things
I noticed while I was in San Diego. Someone pointed
to the water off the coast of Mission Beach or
Mission Bay or whatever it's called, and they said, you
see that line right there.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I said, yeah, what is that? There was a line
out in the water.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
They said, that's feces. The American side of the water
is real clean. The Mexico side is real dirty. That's poop.
You don't want to swim out there. And I thought, Wow,
that must upset everybody, and then the person explained to me, no,
we're all used to it. The other thing that's weird
about San Diego you're so close to Mexico, and yet
it's almost entirely white people everywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I went, very strange.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, the northern part of San Diego. So I live
down here in Cheullavisa, where you will experience the complete
opposite of that of that photo negative. It's definitely like
I'm truly some of the best Mexican restaurants in town
are right here in my little town of Chula Visa.
But but yeah, it's true about the water. By the way,
I love to swim, so I swim the ocean and
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you have to go a little bit farther north. The
pollution has definitely made its way north. It's one of
the things that we could talk about this to too, Like,
it's one of the things that drives me nuts about
things like the Paris Accord and all the climate change
stuff that been coming down the pike. Is that, like
we dutifully nod our heads and we're gonna like do
everything that everyone tells us to do. And just south
of our border, literally they're just dumping I mean out
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more on radio I won't use the real world poop
into the water, and it's flowing north into our ocean.
Thank god, the ocean does a pretty good job of
cleaning that. The salt water does a bricky job of
cleaning it, but not by the time it gets to
you know, delmar So all.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, but hey, I don't want to get off topic
here because we're gonna run out of time soon. You
you worked on the F thirty five project. Now we're
selling all these F thirty five's to Shaudi Arabia.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Is what do you make of this? Is this a
good idea? Is it a bad idea?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean a lot of people think this is a
country that was involved in nine to eleven, Jamal Kashogi
is a journalist that was murdered. Accordingly, apparently that was
approved by the Saudi crown. Prints at the same time,
you know, we can't fix the Mid East? Should we
do business with them? What do you think about this?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, I mean it's a very complicated issue. You brought
up three or four or five of the of the
complicated points. I dare say, I could get on X
today and I could take one side and fight to
the death, and I can take the other side and
fight to the death, and I can be right on
both sides. I think there's really really good reasons to
not sell very complicated, statisticated aircraft to you know, someone
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who's technically our ally, but could it could very quickly
become our enemy. I think there's some really good reasons
to do it too. And I think i'd just say
I really trust the Trump administration when it comes to
foreign policy right now. I think they're making some making
some really smart moves. And I'll just say, just for background,
for those who don't understand why we sell airplanes to
other countries, we have historically sold our planes across the
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world to our allies. For example, the Brits bought the
F thirty five, UAE bought F sixteens as as some
of you know. We sold F fourteens to the Iranians
before the fall, and so they're still flying those airplanes.
I have no idea how they're flying that pig dog
of an airplane. I'm sorry to like any fourteen pilots
out there, but that thing is way, way old. And
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so we do traditionally, historically sell airplanes to other countries.
The reason we do it, by the way, is it
is almost completely impossible for us to build an airplane
without what we call FMS, which is foreign military sales.
It was a huge component of the F thirty five project.
That airplane would not have been that airplane if it
wasn't for those other countries, and so we do need
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that money. It's important for us to have other countries
involved in those projects. When it comes to a country
like Saudi Arabia, though, you do have to think twice, right,
because you have a country that I mean, like on paper,
there are our ally, but you know, there's a lot
of activity that may prove otherwise, and you don't know
what's going to happen ten years down the road. My suspicion, Kenny,
is this was actually part of the Israel deal. One
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of the crazy things that happened with this whole situation
with Hamas and how the President negotiated the release of
those hostages and the ceasefire is almost all the Middle
Eastern countries completely abandoned Hamas. I mean they just like
completely abandoned their support for them, and that was significant.
And I suspect this was actually part of the deal
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to get the Soviet Union to put or to get
Saudi Arabia to put pressure on Hamas and to create
that sees far so I think that very historic seasfire. Actually,
I think what we're seeing now is a little bit
of the payment on our side to make that happen.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh, I believe it. I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I think that the leaders of Saudi Arabia care much
less about the theological mission that supposedly the people are
supposed to be on there. I think this is all
about money and power, and I think the Saudi Crown
Prince is happy to do business with Israel if it's
good for his bottom line, which obviously doing business with
them is in the long run, is probably going to
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be better than funding terrorism and that sort of thing.
But on that note, you wrote a book about religion.
It's a book called God Talks. I've not read it.
I've heard good things God Talks, even if you've made
a million mistakes, ed Rush, top gun Fighter, Pilots selling author.
I'm a Catholic. I've not read the book. I like
reading about God. You're not Methodist, are you?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
No?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Thank God? And I cannot stand the Methodist.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
There's a lot of videos, by the way, I get
stuck on Instagram watching just you know, there's a really
amazing Methodists, Like my whole family on one side grew
up Methodist. I didn't. But there's a bunch of videos
now on Instagram of Methodists who are like, We're like,
here's the passages of the Bible and something Jesus said
that I don't like and I don't agree with. And
I'm like, dude, you can't do a sermon like that.
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That doesn't work. It doesn't work. You can't say I
disagree with you know, Luke, chapter fifteen or whatever. Anyway,
back to the book. So yeah, So I long story short,
I was a fire bottle in the Marines, got out,
started writing books, speaking to businesses. I do big business
events for folks who are entrepreneurs, and I developed this
little technique for asking God questions about almost anything in
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getting answers. Now, keep in mind, I'm not a pastor,
I'm not a necessarily religious person. I just figure that
a way to have a real conversation with God. And
every time I say that, people are like, wait, really
is that really who? And I feel like just to
give it a shot, try it. I have literally taught
tens of thousands of people. This process is a very simple,
two question a process that involves a little bit of breathing,
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a little bit of meditation, and a little bit of conversation.
It'll change your it'll blow your mind. Actually literally, I've
had atheist sit in my events and Dody's exercise and
how it works. So if an atheist can do it, Kenny,
it'll work for.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
A Catholic David atheist, because that's it. That is insanity,
ed Rash. The book is called God Talks, and I
have really enjoyed talking to you. We got to get
you back on the show sometime.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Brother. Let's do it, Kenny. The answer Freeze always yes.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Buddy, my man.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
The book is available at Amazon dot com. Quick Break,
We'll be right back with ad Steve Love, Zammo, and
Derek Bingham is here from the Higgins Bolt run Company.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Don't go Anywhere, jag Kane.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine fifty.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
All right, Waimo robo taxis are expanding to Las Vegas.
I just hope none get destroyed if the Raiders win
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Am I right? Guys? Does anyone actually think that won't happen?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You're telling me we're gonna have autonomous road and they're
gonna have them in this city too. Autonomous robot taxis
are coming to Houston, like really soon, and people's response
to this is WHOA, I won't be safe.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Do you feel safe in the vehicle with the illegal
immigrant driving with a fake driver's license. I don't think
your name is Scott. I think your name is Mack
Mood and you're not supposed to be in the country.
I don't want to get in. Why does it smell
like you were just cooking in this taxi?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Okay, so you could eat It's it's kind of a
double ashed sword it's either riding with somebody named Ji
Hot or riding with somebody that was probably like, you know,
you watch a movie.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I'm a legend of course, right, you know, so you
know I'll take the road Robot. I can't. What is
the movie with the robots? Wi Will Smith?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That's Iron, No, it's I Robot right, Derek bad Hiham's
boat Room. Hey, let me explain what's going on because
we just started. We just hit the ground running here.
I'm Kenny Webster. Most people probably know that because I
do a radio here from kp PRC Studio in Houston,
Texas to ten Percenter Studio with me right now, weekly
contributor to the show at Steve Lobzamo hiding from the camera.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You couldn't hide from the camera if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And one of our sponsors, one of our biggest supporters
and a very good friend of mine, Derek Bingham, is here,
the creator of the Higgins Boat Rum Company, and I
want to just go ahead and explain what's happening here.
We're adults. If you guys are easily offended, this is
not a show for you.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Today.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
We're gonna be talking about Epstein, Muslim terrorists. We're gonna
be talking about the Salem witch trials, mass hysteria, and
we're gonna do it all while we have some adult beverages.
Is that correct, Derek Beghams?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
That is correct when I'm here. That's apparently the thing
we do.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Derek, What is going on today? What do you got?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Well? Today?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I just brought some Well people have asked me off,
do you make a spice for him? I do not,
but I can tell you how to make a great one, okay,
And so we've got some. This was a s over
realm before I spiced it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay, So it's not supposed to be that color, not
the super it's normally supposed to be clear.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But you've made it. You put spice in it, which
means what exactly?
Speaker 8 (20:09):
So we put some whole vanilla beans, which, man, are
those things expensive these days.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
We've put some cinnamon sticks.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Cloves, all spice berries, star and east and orange zest
in there and we let it sit in.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
There for about five days.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Kiddy, hang on, pass it around instead of going over
all the expensive equipment.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I was going to put it in this cool coffee mug.
But you've given me a better glass to use than
the one I was going to use. Look how awesome.
Oh my god, it smells good too, Derek.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
And it's it's a great base for some really good
kind of like Christmas cocktails.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Cheers, gentlemen, cheers, Derek bangham, cheers.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Are you not uh not today?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You don't drink your own?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Not today? I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh oh oh right, Lee's man, that's good.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
I'm in the middle of kind of like man getting
back to fighting weight. So I've because I've been drinking
tons of cocktails lately.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
What does that entail fight? Your Are you gonna fight?
Is that? What's gonna know?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I just literally mean getting like getting lean again.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You look like you're the skinniest guy in the room.
What does that say about us? Well, I I think.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
At about twenty pounds over what I was sitting out
a lot that was probably.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
In water weight, but just a.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Combination of making tons and tons of cocktails way more
than like with sugar num where I'm normally a neat
spirits guy and drinking more often than I normally would.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
So what's the difference between like a neat spirit and
like a unclean spirit?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't know how it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Means no ice, just straight up eat or yeah, like
so drinking it by itself our our he can gooat reserve.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Like we considered a good sipping realm. It's we called
a bourbon drinker's rum. It's something that like, if you
like a good bourbon, you'll like it. And uh, tell
me about all.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I just want to show this out for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
If y'all are looking for Christmas presents, can I make
a recommendation?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Shane Gillis says that a fascination.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
With World War II history is a sign of early Republicanism.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And he's correct about that.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
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will like this rum, this is gonna look damn cool
on your liquor shelf. Higgins Boat Rum Company, go to
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Speaker 3 (22:09):
This is a cool gift for.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Anybody that loves drinking or World War two history a
very awesome thing.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Like if you're a nager or an anti nager, you
have to pronounce that really carefully, but this would actually
pair really well with egnog.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's right, Yeah, I saw, I saw one of the
biggest naggers I've ever seen in my life right down.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
The hallway, kind of aggravating. Right, Yeah, it was a lot.
It was a lot of nonogging going on. Anyway, You
have fatigue, I do, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
I make eggnog and I carry a sig pistol, So
I have to be very careful.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Quickly changing the topic here just a minute, all right,
So everybody's talking about the Epstein files today, rightfully. So
there's an email from I'm surprised how many right wingers
don't know what I'm about to say, but like, we
really live in two different news cycles simultaneous. All the
liberals at my gym are obsessed with one single line
(23:04):
from the Epstein estate emails where he says something I'm
paraphrasing here about how Putin might have a photo of
Donald Trump doing something generous with his mouth to Bubba,
and so presumably now liberals think, oh, that means that
Donald Trump performed a generous act on on Bill Clinton,
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which I don't think is true. If it was, dreamily
would have seem weird that he'd only done that once
in his life, and he did it with a former president.
That seems kind of statistically unlikely. But fine, even if
it is true, doesn't this make all the liberals homophobes?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Man, they're kind of like, they're kind of hypocrites in
that I don't think Donald Trump would stoop to the
level of Monica Lewinsky, you know, in My Things. But anyways,
this is the same guy that got caught on a
hot mic saying he can grab any woman he wants
by the p and I'm trying to keep it PG. Yeah, yeah,
access Hollywood like that. This guy could he can get
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anyone he wants. There's no way he'd do that. Derek,
do you believe it? I don't believe it's true.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
No, you don't.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You don't think one single off putting joke by Jeffrey
Epstein made it an email years ago somehow proof that
two of the most famous American politicians of our lifetime
just where I Okay, fine, I'm gonna have to agree
with you.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
But for the record, it is funny. Can we just
play a Self Park episode, Oh your politics aside for
a minute. It's funny. Come on, everybody, It's funny, right
of course.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yeah, I love Self Park in every single episode, all right.
In the meantime, Thomas Massey.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I know we're not supposed to like Thomas Massey because
he's anti Trump or whatever. I like that there's a
guy in the Republican Party that makes all the other
Republicans have to be more conservative or more libertarian in
order to get a bill passed. I'm fine with that.
I would not even if he doesn't. Even though I
like Trump as a president, I also like Thomas Massey.
You know, you can like Bubblegum and Cashews at the
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same time. It's fine. Thomas Massey made this point. He
says he thinks Epstein was an intelligence agent. He says
Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agencies and
Israel's intelligence agencies. That's why there's so much effort to
try to stop this thing.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Some people think that's an anti Semitic troupe. I think
he's telling the truth. I'm gonna play a little audio
and we'll react to it.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
That's simple.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Why do you think he is working so hard not
to get them released for so many months?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
What do you think the real reason is?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
These files implicate billionaires and friends of him, of his
and of political donors that he's trying to protect and
Epstein also had close ties to our own intelligence agencies
and Israel's intelligence agencies. That's why there's so much effort
in trying to stop this, and I do believe they'll
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try to stop it somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay, to be the president you have to be a
little pragmatic. You have to be to be a congressman.
On the other hand, you can just be principled. Yes,
And so it's was Donald Trump trying to protect the
royal family? Was he trying to protect the vice president
of Deutsche Bank?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Was he Like?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What do you really think if what Thomas Massey is
saying is true, which it probably is. You know, Steve,
why don't you start us off at Steve loves am Man.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
So this is a very touchy subject, right because you
have the president saying one thing like who who's this
Jeffrey Epstein guy, and like, you know, kind of you know,
downplaying the whole situation. But then this is the same
thing that he campaigned on and he ran so him.
For him to say something like that kind of raises
eyes for many people. But I do believe that what
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Massey is saying right now is probably very accurate, and Okay,
Imagine this. Imagine if every like major CEO politician throughout
the world they were this gigantic list was released. How
would the public react to something like that? Right forks
and torches, Right.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
We kind of already had and from the early document
dump we had an understanding of who was on the list,
and it wasn't like George Clooney and Tom Hanks and
like everybody wanted to believe it was, you know, Seth
MacFarlane or something like why would they have gone there?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking went to the island that
we know, Bill Clinton went to the island. But most
of the people that were on this list weren't names
you would know they were executives at Giant Global Banks.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
And that actually.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Does make a lot of sense because these are people
that controlled billions of dollars in money. Derek, you're like
just a regular guy that makes run for a living.
What's your take on this whole thing?
Speaker 8 (27:34):
Well, this seems to be like the opinion of a
lot of people I've heard kind of share this stuff.
I think the biggest thing for the average Joe's been
keeping up with this stuff is this the back and
forth of like, hey, here's these folders and we're gonna
share them. And then that was a nothing burger. And
then it's back and forth, and I think the average
guy out there wants to know what's on the list,
and maybe we need some torches and pitchforks.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Also unpopular opinion. This is a distraction, guys. The primaries
are right around the corner. They've basically already started. We
spent over a trillion dollars in less than two months
from roughly mid August to late October.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's gonna happen again.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
We're gonna spend another trillion dollars right before Christmas happens.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Imagine we're all on a bus and we're about to
drive off a cliff.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And this cliff, in my analogy, represents the economy, obviously,
and Donald Trump's driving and he's about to hit the brake,
and right as he hits the break, some of you
in the backseat goes, wait a second, guys, Donald Trump
knows Jeffrey Epstein, what is that a good reason to
drive off the cliff?
Speaker 7 (28:32):
No, it's given me a new take to Filma Luise right,
you know. Yeah, it's a different ending, which, of course,
which makes sense. In this analogy because women can't handle
money makes perfect sense, you like repeal the nineteenth Commandment anyways,
So anyways, but like, so this whole thing is taking
up a lot of airtime, right, and I'm not a
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single issue voter, so I'm not going to like throw
away what Trump has done for for this country because
of the list. And some people are willing to do that,
but they're like, for example, like we're deporting illegals. I
think three thousand a day. The economy is better, Like
I don't know the last time I would say a
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grocery storials a lot better than it has been in
the past. So I think this is just kind of
like one piece in the puzzle, but there does need
to be some sort of resolution behind it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right, Derek Bingham, I'm gonna let you get the
last word here.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
This is gonna be a visual gag, so it won't
work well for people on the on the radio unfortunately.
But how much Higgins boat rum would I have to
drink to get this image of Jeffrey Epstein in his
tidy whities.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
This is all over the news today. There's a photo
of Jeffrey Epstein with three other what looks like I'm
gonna guess middle aged Jewish guys. I mean, I don't
know if these two guys are your antisem but that guy,
for sure is a Jewish guy. And they're all in
their underwear together.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Jeffrey Epstein's seen in infamous birthday book photo from the
House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
And we please stop scrolling down a lot of a
lot of Higgins boat rum.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Am I right?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I didn't bring enough?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You didn't bring enough.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Maybe when I was seventeen I would have been in
a picture somewhat like that, but these days.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's a weird photo to take when you're in your sixties. Yeah, Yeah,
Teddy Wady, I'm gonna have to agree.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Radio this is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC
nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So there's more than one song on the radio right now.
Two hit country songs on the radio right now are
AI generated. Wow, hard to believe AI figured out how
to replicate a genre where ninety nine percent of the
songs are about dirt roads and girls with bikinis.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
How did they pull that off? That's amazing. Is there
any crying and alcohol involved? Probably? Probably? It's usually about ice.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Cold beer driving down a dirt road in a truck,
and somehow AI figured out the I mean amazing.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
That they bro We can blame Lars Oric for this. Yeah,
like this, this is the press, Like my intro for
my live stream. It's Ai who had a birthday yesterday?
Kurt Hammett from a Yeah, you brought up Metallica. I
don't know why I know all this stuff. It's useless information.
Never work in radio where.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
You'll know that. All right, I have a theory.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Bill Belichick was spotted at Jordan Hudson's cheer competition after
his team loss. Now I know everybody thinks Bill Belichick sucks.
Now he's not a good coach anymore. I disagree. This
guy is scoring points off the field. No one really
cares if you u NC wins, Like I don't care.
Does anybody couldn't care. Somehow, because of this pretty little
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number right here, seventy nine year old Bill Belichick or
however old he is, he has become my favorite guy
in professional sports. And some people wonder, how did this happen?
How did Jordan Hudson. It's like she hypnotized this guy.
It's almost like witchcraft at Steve Lazana, Right.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Money, Yeah, money, and money's a big driving factor.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Okay, So I have a theory about this. Is Jordan
Hudson a witch? Did she do magic? On?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
On?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Bill Belichick proved that she didn't. Hmmm. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Maybe we can bring out the Salem witch trials and
what they did in the past, because we.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Really can't figure out looking at Jordan Hudson and then
looking at Bill Belichick, what is it?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
You know, like, what is it that he sees in
her that he left is? You know? It's it mean,
he's not like a GQ model or anything. You know,
How is it?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Why is it that this very young, attractive woman and
this older guy who has tens of millions, maybe one
hundred million dollars in his bank account?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
What do they see in each other? There's no way
of explaining it. No, one really can't understand it. Derek Bingham,
Higgins Bolt Rum Company, what do you think it is?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Normally it's the quarterback has got the cheerleader, you know,
and so this is a Normally when a coach is
dating a cheerleader that that's a problem.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
But they found a loophole.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Dude, Come on, he's a cool guy. Look at Bill.
I know, even if you hated the Patriots, even if
you hate this guy, even if he beat your team
every year in a row, look at what a cool
guy Bill bellich Check is.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Come on, guys, I don't know, man, he well, okay,
I'm not saying she's a gold digga, but she ain't.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Okay, he's got am I saying with no unemployed coaches
right now?
Speaker 7 (33:13):
You know, maybe he's just got a lot of money
and just a gigantic meat iguana.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I don't know, all right, Well, I don't know if
she's a witch either. It was a good segue into
this though. Yeah, once upon a time people believed in witches.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
They believed as silly as that explanation I just gave was,
there were people that would have actually believed that people were.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Using magic to hypnotize other people. In fact, back in
the heyday, there used to be I don't know if
you guys are into Wikipedia or not, but back before.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
The Wikipedia college, is that how you did it?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Back before Wikipedia became just like a terrible, like a
bastion of like left wing political theories and someone's opinions
being passed off as actual facts. Some of the old
articles on Wikipedia are just fascinating, like this website list
of mass panic cases. Now, if we were being objectively
honest about modern day society, this historical list of all
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the different occurrences of mass panics, starting with the witch trials,
the Dancing plague of fifteen eighty eight, the Chinese sorcery scares.
Somewhere on this list we would include the twenty twenty pandemic.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
We would have abolutely, we would have to put it here.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
But really fascinating stuff on this website wore the world's
radio broadcast all the different times in human history when people,
large groups of people became paranoid and terrified of something,
and we act like this doesn't happen anymore, you know,
something seemingly mundane in overreaction to something like the mad
Gasser of Matoon, Illinois, was an event in which an
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alleged mass hysteria took place during the nineteen forties. More
than two dozen separate cases of gassings were reported by
the police. It turned out to be nothing at the time,
But doesn't this essentially happen all the time? In twenty
twenty five, just from people watching fake news. Derek Bingham
Higgins Boat Rum Company.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
Oh yeah, well, you know a lot of people have
kind of learned not to think for themselves, and they
kind of accept that the average journalist is like this
authority figure and not just like ron Ron Burgundy, reading
exactly what they put in front of him.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
And I do that. I just read anything on the screen.
That's kind of my thing. Look at how great this
list is, Steve Yeah. Tokyo Sea Monster broadcast nineteen forty seven.
May twenty ninth, the United States Armed Forces radio station
in Tokyo broadcasted a news bulletin that a twenty foot
tall sea monster was spotted in Tokyo Bay and traveling inland, and.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
People believed it. They thought it was a real thing.
What would you prefer to have today's fake news about
Donald Trump performing something generous with his mouth on Bill Clinton?
Or Tokyo Sea Monster broadcast? This is vastly more interesting.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
I mean, dude, was it like whether everyone would come
out and say, go Jira.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
The movies hadn't even happened yet, right, they were in
the fifties.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
That's true, Yeah, but radio was like, what was it
the War of the world's broadcast, dude, Like so many
people thought the world was ending and all of this stuff.
But you see it now, like with the pandemic, like
everyone was like people were actually getting in fistfights. They
were stealing our mass hoarding toilet paper, right, Like it
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was just insane.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
That's the first thing you think about when there's a
respiontory mark or like can good you're a bung hole.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That's the first thing. But look at this right here,
this information we just got.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Because everything on Wikipedia has to be cited, there's still
some peer reviewed academic standards. Fine, so somebody took an
old book, media Hoaxes, which was published by Iowa State
University in nineteen eighty nine, journalists created thousands of hosts
just for the fun of it. Now, this was back
in the nineteen eighties. People probably thought, well, thank god,
that doesn't happen anymore. I think it does still happen.
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If we were being honest, guys, this book would you'd
never stop printing this book.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Every month you'd come out with a new edition of
this book New York Times bestseller. Like, I mean, I
want to read into this now? How many pages?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
All right, we were.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Talking about off the air. Obviously, this is a long
walk to the beach. It's like a three hour drive
to spend twenty minutes at the beach. But off the air,
we were talking about the Salem witch trials, and Steve,
you had some interesting theories about this.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So what do you think was happening?
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Okay, So in my theory, all right, there was a
group of men that were tired of their wives, and
they were like, you know what, let's come up with
a genius idea to you know, get rid of them. So,
you know, Cornelius and Thomas, they were sitting around the
table drinking some Higgins both boat rum I would be,
you know, smoking cigars, you know, and just talking about
World War.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Kind of have men time.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Obviously, like you know, Cornelius, I am really tired of
my wife, and let's come up with a way to
get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Right.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
So obviously they they thought of, you know, the drowning
of their wives. But they were like, okay, hang on,
we can't like I cannot claim my wife to you know,
be a witch, so why don't someone else do it?
So at first, right, and let's think of a sure
fire away to get rid of them. So let's throw
them in the water.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
One. If they drown, obviously not a witch. Sorry.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
And if you know what, if they do survive and
they able to swim and come to shore, then we'll
burn them at the stake because obviously they're a witch.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I feel like that's a very good theory. But I just,
at the end of the day, hating your wife such
a I feel like I shouldn't add anything to that
because I'm the only guy here that's divorced, right is.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And you guys are. Actually, maybe I'm a better spokesperson
for this than you guys are.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Derek, you're married and married seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
You would never accuse your wife of witchcraft in order
to get out of marriage during a time when divorce
was considered socially unacceptable.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Right. I haven't seen her consort with the devil yet?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Okay, what is this? What is the secret to seventeen
years in marriage? Derek? How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That's a long time. You don't look like you're old
enough to be married for seventeen years.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
You got married when I was twenty three. I'm forty.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Yeah, that's it. That's basically the met one in a
couple of days.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
What are you gonna do happy birthday?
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (38:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
What's the seat to making it work? How did you
too meet? Were you high school sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (39:02):
You were high school sweethearts?
Speaker 8 (39:04):
And then I went to Rice University, where the guys
on the football team kind of agreed it's easy to
keep a girl friend from back home there.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Uh, it's easy. White explain that it's easy to.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Keep a girlfriend from back home when you go to
Rice University?
Speaker 8 (39:14):
Why is there? It was back when I went there?
Everyone there is now incredibly beautiful and nice, But.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
When you were going there, they were all ugly nerds
or something. Is that what you're insinuating?
Speaker 5 (39:23):
There was?
Speaker 6 (39:24):
There wasn't a large dating pool there.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Well?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Very small undergrad There was like twenty seven hundred total
undergrads there.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It's not a big school.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Yeah no, Now it's gotten, it's doubled in size, and
it's still a small school since I went there.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So it's hard to date just because it was a
small community. But there's other universities in Houston. Did you
guys not consort with the U of H kids or
were they too? I mean we went out those were
the plaibs. I guess, well, we went out to wild
West on Richmond.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
That's kind of was our hangout back in the day,
and then there was there was a a wild creature
referred to as a cougar there who would buy a
drinks and dance with us. But then I would tell
my then girlfriend at the time, like, hey, honey, I
didn't have to buy a single beer tonight.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
And an older woman bought me.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Honestly, honesty is a very good key.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Do you think now that you've started this alcohol brand,
do you think you could call that woman up and
sell her a few bottles?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I mean, she's interested in buying alcohol, right, maybe, Yeah,
she's out there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Not really a cougar anymore, though, more of a I
don't know what she'd work for that.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Well, how long ago was this?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Twenty years?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Okay? So if she was a cougar, and she's probably
a guilt by now.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
For sure, a gilf. Yeah, not really a trophy wife anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Less of a less of a Stanley Cott, more of
a bowling trophy.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
At this point, I think the trophy's looking a little
tarnish to these days.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Gentlemen, all right, you gotta dust the trophy. All right,
we got to get out of here. I'm Kenny Webster.
I've been I've enjoyed my time hanging out with you, guys.
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Speaker 6 (40:57):
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Speaker 8 (41:00):
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Speaker 2 (41:03):
A very honesome Christmas Caft and Steve loves Ammo. I'll
let you get the final word. What do you want
to say?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
My man?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (41:08):
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Speaker 3 (41:35):
I'm told.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Also you're gonna be getting a face tattoo to commemorate
the occasion.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (41:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Actually I'm getting the same one that Mike Tyson has.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Is that right, Yes, A tribal tattoo from the early
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I love you all. We'll be back bright and early
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To the show.
The Giganic government sucks. Suit of happiness. Radio is dus.
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Of A Jet Blue flight made an emergency landing after
a passenger vaped weed and the crew inhaled it. Reached
for comment, a flight attendant said, dude, Jim, any idea
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how danger it is? To dangerous? It's very dangerous to
pilot a plane when you've inhaled marijuana right after having
three whiskey sours. That's the worst part about it. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. I didn't tell that joke. Well, but
you're whatever. We moved into the radio show. We're past it.
We're past my three whiskey sours in a marijuana joint
while you're flying a Jet Blue flight joke, and we've
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moved on to bigger and better things. This afternoon. Derek
Bingham is here. He's one of my advertisers. He's gonna
hang with us and make cocktails. He runs a company
called the Higgins Boat Rum Company, and I would love
for you to purchase some of their products.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
My in studio guest this afternoon is going to be
at Steve love Zamo.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He's a firearms.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Expert and a social media He's a conservative social media
He's on Twitter. You probably follow him in case you
don He's a very interesting guy. He's coming up in
just a little bit, so stick around for that. But
in the next segment, we will be talking to a
guy named Ed Rush, a former US Marine Corps top
gun pilot. We're gonna have him on the phone in
just a little bit to stick around for that. We'll
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be talking to him. Before we get to any of that,
let me just detail what I think is a great
victory for the American country, the country that you live in.
The utterly destructive and useless US Department of Education is
about to be dismantled, according to a report I am
reading right now at Breitbart dot Com. Now they got
this information from the Washington Post, so it's come to
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us courtesy of both the liberally and conservative media. The
Post talk to three unnamed sources, naturally unnamed, two of
whom and let's hope they are reliable, say that six
offices in the Department of Education will move to other agencies.
So the overall goal here, we hope, is to dismantle
the Education Department as much as legally possible, when only
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Congress has the ultimate authority to close it entirely. Fine, Okay,
now here's the part of the useless nonsense. The Education
Department wastes your money on that they don't really want
you to hear about. Offices that could be moved out
of the agency include the Office for Civil Rights, which
investigates allegations of discrimination based on race, sex, and disability.
Do you think that's happening a lot in public schools?
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In twenty twenty five, they're also going to get rid
of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which
administers fifteen billion dollars to individuals with disabilities, the Individuals
of Disabilities Acts, a lot of money every year. And
then something called the Indian Education Program not DOT but
probably FEATHER, and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,
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which administers K through twelve grant programs, and finally the
Office of post Secondary Education. All right, so that's a
lot of stuff. The workaround to kill this garbage is
to have the Education Department legally contract with other agencies
to handle these programs. Back in March, Trump signed an
executive order calling for the Department of Education to close,
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and he put Education Secretary Linda McMahon in charge of
that Now. More recently, she used the forty plus day
government shutdown to make her case for how useless the
Education Department is.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Students kept going to class, teachers kept getting paid. There
was no disruption in sports seasons or bus routes. The
shutdown proved an argument the conservatives have been making for
forty five years. The US Department of Education is mostly
a pass through for funds that are best managed by
the states. Issue wrong. We're pissing away all this money
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on thousands of bureaucrats instead of where it should go
to the schools. Public education is a total failure. We
allowed teachers to unionize. It was all downhill after that.
There's no reason why the government should educate children when
the government can't even fill potholes. But the very worst
idea was to nationalize education through the Jimmy Carter created
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Department of Education, which is not only a slush fund
for those unnecessary federal bureaucrats, it lays a one size
fits all template over a wild and diverse country, where
localities should be the ones deciding how best to teach
their own people how to read and write and do math.
Whatever Trump can do to destroy the Department of Education.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Do it? What a waste? Why does the Education Department
have its own civil rights department? I get it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Maybe back in the mid twentieth century there was a
need for that, but that was a really long time ago. Guys,
Why can't they be done through the Justice Department civil
Rights Department?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's ridiculous. A civil rights violation is a civil rights violation.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You don't need a whole new pile of overpaid bureaucrats
who get Cadillac Health insurance, a pension and June teenth off.
By the way, I still work on Juneteenth, and you
know they still can't handle the job.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Fire.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Everyone burn the building to the ground when it's empty.
Of course, bury the ashes, salt to the earth. Let
the locals handle it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Pursuit of that penis radio coming now, just p This
is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Not everybody knows this, and I'm not like previous Some
special information or anything. But you know, Top Gun is
a real school, the US Navy Fighter Weapons School, officially
known as the Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program. Yeah,
it's not just a film, right, although it you know,
those were some pretty good movies. No, Top Gun was
a real thing, and the Top Gun fighter pilots are
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real people and their stories are genuine experiences that really happened.
As a matter of fact, yesterday, as Donald Trump was
meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a discussion
was made, a deal happened, trillion dollars for F thirty fives,
and the US Saudi pledges aren't.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Even done making deals yet.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Saudi Arabia's ruler
as he arrived in Washington, DC. The videos have gone
widely viral, and the talks ranged for everything from security
to civil nuclear energy products, projects and partnerships. The leaders
signed a Defense Cooperation Pact, and they held discussions about
a sale of American F thirty five fighter jets to
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the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now I don't know much
about this stuff. I find it fascinating. I enjoy watching
these movies. Ed Rush is a fighter pilot and a
card carrying member of something called the Million Dollar Mistake Club.
You also wrote a new book you should check out
called God Talks Ed. What is the million Mistake Club.
(07:07):
It's not a million dollars, it's the million Mistake Club.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I think I've done the million dollar Mistake Club too, actually, Kenny,
if you had to ask me, But yeah, the million
Mistake Club is is you know, when you've lived long enough,
you start to realize, you know, you were wrong about
so many things. You've become a lot nicer, you know,
to that waitress who forgot your side of ranch. You
become a lot kinder to people who have alternate theologies
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on X and so. I think about the time you
make a million mistakes, you should get a little card
that should give you know, some sort of free deserted
Denny's or something like that. But I feel like once
you get into maybe your late thirties, that's about when
you've made your million's mistake and you get a lot
kinder about the world. But yeah, what you said about
top Gun is right. Those stories are real, I have
to say, though the stories get better over time. It's
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been about twenty years since I went to Top Guns.
So the stories do get better, but they're real.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, So the Million Mistake Club is a real thing, right,
that's not just like a clever way how you explain
how you're imperfect or what? What is it?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
No, I made that up for it's literally it's the
concept that made up for my last book to describe
you know, so I'm a it's a spiritual book.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
I'm a Christian guy, but it's not a Christian book
per se. It was written mostly for skeptics. But the
idea is, you know, people get really angry and judge,
and they sort of like, especially online, you know, people
get really serious about their opinions. And I realized, like, dude,
I've changed my mind on so many things. Like if
I had a time machine and I could go back
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fifteen years to talk to myself about how many different
things that would change my mind on. You actually just
become a lot less dogmatic about things. You actually become
a lot kinder, and you know, you can actually get
some things done actually too when it comes to it,
especially on the political side. If you're just angry at
everybody all the time and I have to say, sometimes
we conservatives can lean in that direction, we can be
wrong about being right. But if you're a member of
(09:01):
the million of state club, you know, you just treat
everybody a little bit differently.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
What was what was a hot button issue you recently
changed your mind on?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
So I have to say, uh, and and by the way,
I've said this publicly, and people people lose their minds
when I tell them this. I was sitting in my chair.
I kid you, I was probably five years ago, and like,
just to put it into context, I'm not a registered Republican,
but I am. I'm a definitely right leaning, probably more libertarian,
(09:33):
small libertarian than anything. Right. So I'm sitting in my
chair and I was just thinking about our country. And
I live literally like three miles away from the border
here in San Diego, I mean, Timjuana. I go across
the border several times a year to go, like visit
my dentist. So like I'm more right here, you know.
And we have a lot of people that work in
this like a lot of people that work here that
(09:54):
come across the border fairly, fairly routinely. And I have
to say, like, I am a a big fan of
really really smart immigration. I think the way we do
it is completely wrong. I think it takes way, way
too long, and I actually think the problem like, I
understand the importance of tightening our borders. I lost two
(10:14):
family members to fetanol. Okay, so like I understand how
important it is to have a secure border. By the way,
it's important to have a secure border for the folks
on the other side of the border too, Kiawana, Like
I said, I go, there is way safer now that
our border is secure. That's something that a lot of
people don't talk about. But yeah, I started to look
at the problem and realize the holistic problem is actually
(10:35):
sitting right at Congress. Immigration is too hard. It's not
the immigrants fault. We actually incentivize them to come here illegally.
The system is just completely messed up. And then we
could fix it. Honestly, we could fix it in six
months if we had Congress actually on board with that.
So and apparently they're not, but if we did, we
could fix.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It all right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So I was in San Diego quite a bit last year.
I was dating a news anchor there. It's a long story.
I won't bother you with it, but of the things
I noticed while I was in San Diego. Someone pointed
to the water off the coast of Mission Beach or
Mission Bay or whatever it's called, and they said, you
see that line right there.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I said, yeah, what is that? There was a line
out in the water.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
They said, that's feces. The American side of the water
is real clean. The Mexico side is real dirty. That's poop.
You don't want to swim out there. And I thought, Wow,
that must upset everybody, and then the person explained to me, no,
we're all used to it. The other thing that's weird
about San Diego you're so close to Mexico, and yet
it's almost entirely white people everywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I went, very strange.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, the northern part of San Diego. So I live
down here in Cheullavisa, where you will experience the complete
opposite of that of that photo negative. It's definitely like
I'm truly some of the best Mexican restaurants in town
are right here in my little town of Chula Visa.
But but yeah, it's true about the water. By the way,
I love to swim, so I swim the ocean and
(11:54):
you have to go a little bit farther north. The
pollution has definitely made its way north. It's one of
the things that we could talk about this to too, Like,
it's one of the things that drives me nuts about
things like the Paris Accord and all the climate change
stuff that been coming down the pike. Is that, like
we dutifully nod our heads and we're gonna like do
everything that everyone tells us to do. And just south
of our border, literally they're just dumping I mean out
(12:17):
more on radio I won't use the real world poop
into the water, and it's flowing north into our ocean.
Thank god, the ocean does a pretty good job of
cleaning that. The salt water does a bricky job of
cleaning it, but not by the time it gets to
you know, delmar So all.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, but hey, I don't want to get off topic
here because we're gonna run out of time soon. You
you worked on the F thirty five project. Now we're
selling all these F thirty five's to Shaudi Arabia.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Is what do you make of this? Is this a
good idea? Is it a bad idea?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean a lot of people think this is a
country that was involved in nine to eleven, Jamal Kashogi
is a journalist that was murdered. Accordingly, apparently that was
approved by the Saudi crown. Prints at the same time,
you know, we can't fix the Mid East? Should we
do business with them? What do you think about this?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, I mean it's a very complicated issue. You brought
up three or four or five of the of the
complicated points. I dare say, I could get on X
today and I could take one side and fight to
the death, and I can take the other side and
fight to the death, and I can be right on
both sides. I think there's really really good reasons to
not sell very complicated, statisticated aircraft to you know, someone
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who's technically our ally, but could it could very quickly
become our enemy. I think there's some really good reasons
to do it too. And I think i'd just say
I really trust the Trump administration when it comes to
foreign policy right now. I think they're making some making
some really smart moves. And I'll just say, just for background,
for those who don't understand why we sell airplanes to
other countries, we have historically sold our planes across the
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world to our allies. For example, the Brits bought the
F thirty five, UAE bought F sixteens as as some
of you know. We sold F fourteens to the Iranians
before the fall, and so they're still flying those airplanes.
I have no idea how they're flying that pig dog
of an airplane. I'm sorry to like any fourteen pilots
out there, but that thing is way, way old. And
(14:03):
so we do traditionally, historically sell airplanes to other countries.
The reason we do it, by the way, is it
is almost completely impossible for us to build an airplane
without what we call FMS, which is foreign military sales.
It was a huge component of the F thirty five project.
That airplane would not have been that airplane if it
wasn't for those other countries, and so we do need
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that money. It's important for us to have other countries
involved in those projects. When it comes to a country
like Saudi Arabia, though, you do have to think twice, right,
because you have a country that I mean, like on paper,
there are our ally, but you know, there's a lot
of activity that may prove otherwise, and you don't know
what's going to happen ten years down the road. My suspicion, Kenny,
is this was actually part of the Israel deal. One
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of the crazy things that happened with this whole situation
with Hamas and how the President negotiated the release of
those hostages and the ceasefire is almost all the Middle
Eastern countries completely abandoned Hamas. I mean they just like
completely abandoned their support for them, and that was significant.
And I suspect this was actually part of the deal
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to get the Soviet Union to put or to get
Saudi Arabia to put pressure on Hamas and to create
that sees far so I think that very historic seasfire. Actually,
I think what we're seeing now is a little bit
of the payment on our side to make that happen.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh, I believe it. I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I think that the leaders of Saudi Arabia care much
less about the theological mission that supposedly the people are
supposed to be on there. I think this is all
about money and power, and I think the Saudi Crown
Prince is happy to do business with Israel if it's
good for his bottom line, which obviously doing business with
them is in the long run, is probably going to
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be better than funding terrorism and that sort of thing.
But on that note, you wrote a book about religion.
It's a book called God Talks. I've not read it.
I've heard good things God Talks, even if you've made
a million mistakes, ed Rush, top gun Fighter, Pilots selling author.
I'm a Catholic. I've not read the book. I like
reading about God. You're not Methodist, are you?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
No?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Thank God? And I cannot stand the Methodist.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
There's a lot of videos, by the way, I get
stuck on Instagram watching just you know, there's a really
amazing Methodists, Like my whole family on one side grew
up Methodist. I didn't. But there's a bunch of videos
now on Instagram of Methodists who are like, We're like,
here's the passages of the Bible and something Jesus said
that I don't like and I don't agree with. And
I'm like, dude, you can't do a sermon like that.
(16:32):
That doesn't work. It doesn't work. You can't say I
disagree with you know, Luke, chapter fifteen or whatever. Anyway,
back to the book. So yeah, So I long story short,
I was a fire bottle in the Marines, got out,
started writing books, speaking to businesses. I do big business
events for folks who are entrepreneurs, and I developed this
little technique for asking God questions about almost anything in
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getting answers. Now, keep in mind, I'm not a pastor,
I'm not a necessarily religious person. I just figure that
a way to have a real conversation with God. And
every time I say that, people are like, wait, really
is that really who? And I feel like just to
give it a shot, try it. I have literally taught
tens of thousands of people. This process is a very simple,
two question a process that involves a little bit of breathing,
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a little bit of meditation, and a little bit of conversation.
It'll change your it'll blow your mind. Actually literally, I've
had atheist sit in my events and Dody's exercise and
how it works. So if an atheist can do it, Kenny,
it'll work for.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
A Catholic David atheist, because that's it. That is insanity,
ed Rash. The book is called God Talks, and I
have really enjoyed talking to you. We got to get
you back on the show sometime.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Brother. Let's do it, Kenny. The answer Freeze always yes.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Buddy, my man.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
The book is available at Amazon dot com. Quick Break,
We'll be right back with ad Steve Love, Zammo, and
Derek Bingham is here from the Higgins Bolt run Company.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Don't go Anywhere, jag Kane.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine fifty.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
All right, Waimo robo taxis are expanding to Las Vegas.
I just hope none get destroyed if the Raiders win
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Am I right? Guys? Does anyone actually think that won't happen?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You're telling me we're gonna have autonomous road and they're
gonna have them in this city too. Autonomous robot taxis
are coming to Houston, like really soon, and people's response
to this is WHOA, I won't be safe.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Do you feel safe in the vehicle with the illegal
immigrant driving with a fake driver's license. I don't think
your name is Scott. I think your name is Mack
Mood and you're not supposed to be in the country.
I don't want to get in. Why does it smell
like you were just cooking in this taxi?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Okay, so you could eat It's it's kind of a
double ashed sword it's either riding with somebody named Ji
Hot or riding with somebody that was probably like, you know,
you watch a movie.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I'm a legend of course, right, you know, so you
know I'll take the road Robot. I can't. What is
the movie with the robots? Wi Will Smith?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That's Iron, No, it's I Robot right, Derek bad Hiham's
boat Room. Hey, let me explain what's going on because
we just started. We just hit the ground running here.
I'm Kenny Webster. Most people probably know that because I
do a radio here from kp PRC Studio in Houston,
Texas to ten Percenter Studio with me right now, weekly
contributor to the show at Steve Lobzamo hiding from the camera.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You couldn't hide from the camera if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And one of our sponsors, one of our biggest supporters
and a very good friend of mine, Derek Bingham, is here,
the creator of the Higgins Boat Rum Company, and I
want to just go ahead and explain what's happening here.
We're adults. If you guys are easily offended, this is
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Speaker 3 (19:35):
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Speaker 2 (19:35):
We're gonna be talking about Epstein, Muslim terrorists. We're gonna
be talking about the Salem witch trials, mass hysteria, and
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Is that correct, Derek Beghams?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
That is correct when I'm here. That's apparently the thing
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Speaker 3 (19:47):
Derek, What is going on today? What do you got?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
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Speaker 8 (19:50):
I just brought some Well people have asked me off,
do you make a spice for him? I do not,
but I can tell you how to make a great one, okay,
And so we've got some. This was a s over
realm before I spiced it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay, So it's not supposed to be that color, not
the super it's normally supposed to be clear.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But you've made it. You put spice in it, which
means what exactly?
Speaker 8 (20:09):
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those things expensive these days.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
We've put some cinnamon sticks.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
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in there and we let it sit in.
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Speaker 8 (20:23):
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all the expensive equipment.
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But you've given me a better glass to use than
the one I was going to use. Look how awesome.
Oh my god, it smells good too, Derek.
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Speaker 3 (20:46):
You don't drink your own?
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Not today? I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh oh oh right, Lee's man, that's good.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
I'm in the middle of kind of like man getting
back to fighting weight. So I've because I've been drinking
tons of cocktails lately.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
What does that entail fight? Your Are you gonna fight?
Is that? What's gonna know?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
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Speaker 3 (21:06):
You look like you're the skinniest guy in the room.
What does that say about us? Well, I I think.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
At about twenty pounds over what I was sitting out
a lot that was probably.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
In water weight, but just a.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Combination of making tons and tons of cocktails way more
than like with sugar num where I'm normally a neat
spirits guy and drinking more often than I normally would.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
So what's the difference between like a neat spirit and
like a unclean spirit?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't know how it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Means no ice, just straight up eat or yeah, like
so drinking it by itself our our he can gooat reserve.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Like we considered a good sipping realm. It's we called
a bourbon drinker's rum. It's something that like, if you
like a good bourbon, you'll like it. And uh, tell
me about all.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I just want to show this out for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
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Shane Gillis says that a fascination.
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And he's correct about that.
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Speaker 3 (22:09):
This is a cool gift for.
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Anybody that loves drinking or World War two history a
very awesome thing.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Like if you're a nager or an anti nager, you
have to pronounce that really carefully, but this would actually
pair really well with egnog.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's right, Yeah, I saw, I saw one of the
biggest naggers I've ever seen in my life right down.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
The hallway, kind of aggravating. Right, Yeah, it was a lot.
It was a lot of nonogging going on. Anyway, You
have fatigue, I do, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
I make eggnog and I carry a sig pistol, So
I have to be very careful.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Quickly changing the topic here just a minute, all right,
So everybody's talking about the Epstein files today, rightfully. So
there's an email from I'm surprised how many right wingers
don't know what I'm about to say, but like, we
really live in two different news cycles simultaneous. All the
liberals at my gym are obsessed with one single line
(23:04):
from the Epstein estate emails where he says something I'm
paraphrasing here about how Putin might have a photo of
Donald Trump doing something generous with his mouth to Bubba,
and so presumably now liberals think, oh, that means that
Donald Trump performed a generous act on on Bill Clinton,
(23:24):
which I don't think is true. If it was, dreamily
would have seem weird that he'd only done that once
in his life, and he did it with a former president.
That seems kind of statistically unlikely. But fine, even if
it is true, doesn't this make all the liberals homophobes?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Man, they're kind of like, they're kind of hypocrites in
that I don't think Donald Trump would stoop to the
level of Monica Lewinsky, you know, in My Things. But anyways,
this is the same guy that got caught on a
hot mic saying he can grab any woman he wants
by the p and I'm trying to keep it PG. Yeah, yeah,
access Hollywood like that. This guy could he can get
(23:59):
anyone he wants. There's no way he'd do that. Derek,
do you believe it? I don't believe it's true.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
No, you don't.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You don't think one single off putting joke by Jeffrey
Epstein made it an email years ago somehow proof that
two of the most famous American politicians of our lifetime
just where I Okay, fine, I'm gonna have to agree
with you.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
But for the record, it is funny. Can we just
play a Self Park episode, Oh your politics aside for
a minute. It's funny. Come on, everybody, It's funny, right
of course.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yeah, I love Self Park in every single episode, all right.
In the meantime, Thomas Massey.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I know we're not supposed to like Thomas Massey because
he's anti Trump or whatever. I like that there's a
guy in the Republican Party that makes all the other
Republicans have to be more conservative or more libertarian in
order to get a bill passed. I'm fine with that.
I would not even if he doesn't. Even though I
like Trump as a president, I also like Thomas Massey.
You know, you can like Bubblegum and Cashews at the
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same time. It's fine. Thomas Massey made this point. He
says he thinks Epstein was an intelligence agent. He says
Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agencies and
Israel's intelligence agencies. That's why there's so much effort to
try to stop this thing.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Some people think that's an anti Semitic troupe. I think
he's telling the truth. I'm gonna play a little audio
and we'll react to it.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
That's simple.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Why do you think he is working so hard not
to get them released for so many months?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
What do you think the real reason is?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
These files implicate billionaires and friends of him, of his
and of political donors that he's trying to protect and
Epstein also had close ties to our own intelligence agencies
and Israel's intelligence agencies. That's why there's so much effort
in trying to stop this, and I do believe they'll
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try to stop it somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay, to be the president you have to be a
little pragmatic. You have to be to be a congressman.
On the other hand, you can just be principled. Yes,
And so it's was Donald Trump trying to protect the
royal family? Was he trying to protect the vice president
of Deutsche Bank?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Was he Like?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What do you really think if what Thomas Massey is
saying is true, which it probably is. You know, Steve,
why don't you start us off at Steve loves am Man.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
So this is a very touchy subject, right because you
have the president saying one thing like who who's this
Jeffrey Epstein guy, and like, you know, kind of you know,
downplaying the whole situation. But then this is the same
thing that he campaigned on and he ran so him.
For him to say something like that kind of raises
eyes for many people. But I do believe that what
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Massey is saying right now is probably very accurate, and Okay,
Imagine this. Imagine if every like major CEO politician throughout
the world they were this gigantic list was released. How
would the public react to something like that? Right forks
and torches, Right.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
We kind of already had and from the early document
dump we had an understanding of who was on the list,
and it wasn't like George Clooney and Tom Hanks and
like everybody wanted to believe it was, you know, Seth
MacFarlane or something like why would they have gone there?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking went to the island that
we know, Bill Clinton went to the island. But most
of the people that were on this list weren't names
you would know they were executives at Giant Global Banks.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
And that actually.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Does make a lot of sense because these are people
that controlled billions of dollars in money. Derek, you're like
just a regular guy that makes run for a living.
What's your take on this whole thing?
Speaker 8 (27:34):
Well, this seems to be like the opinion of a
lot of people I've heard kind of share this stuff.
I think the biggest thing for the average Joe's been
keeping up with this stuff is this the back and
forth of like, hey, here's these folders and we're gonna
share them. And then that was a nothing burger. And
then it's back and forth, and I think the average
guy out there wants to know what's on the list,
and maybe we need some torches and pitchforks.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Also unpopular opinion. This is a distraction, guys. The primaries
are right around the corner. They've basically already started. We
spent over a trillion dollars in less than two months
from roughly mid August to late October.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's gonna happen again.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
We're gonna spend another trillion dollars right before Christmas happens.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Imagine we're all on a bus and we're about to
drive off a cliff.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And this cliff, in my analogy, represents the economy, obviously,
and Donald Trump's driving and he's about to hit the brake,
and right as he hits the break, some of you
in the backseat goes, wait a second, guys, Donald Trump
knows Jeffrey Epstein, what is that a good reason to
drive off the cliff?
Speaker 7 (28:32):
No, it's given me a new take to Filma Luise right,
you know. Yeah, it's a different ending, which, of course,
which makes sense. In this analogy because women can't handle
money makes perfect sense, you like repeal the nineteenth Commandment anyways,
So anyways, but like, so this whole thing is taking
up a lot of airtime, right, and I'm not a
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single issue voter, so I'm not going to like throw
away what Trump has done for for this country because
of the list. And some people are willing to do that,
but they're like, for example, like we're deporting illegals. I
think three thousand a day. The economy is better, Like
I don't know the last time I would say a
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grocery storials a lot better than it has been in
the past. So I think this is just kind of
like one piece in the puzzle, but there does need
to be some sort of resolution behind it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right, Derek Bingham, I'm gonna let you get the
last word here.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
This is gonna be a visual gag, so it won't
work well for people on the on the radio unfortunately.
But how much Higgins boat rum would I have to
drink to get this image of Jeffrey Epstein in his
tidy whities.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
This is all over the news today. There's a photo
of Jeffrey Epstein with three other what looks like I'm
gonna guess middle aged Jewish guys. I mean, I don't
know if these two guys are your antisem but that guy,
for sure is a Jewish guy. And they're all in
their underwear together.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Jeffrey Epstein's seen in infamous birthday book photo from the
House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
And we please stop scrolling down a lot of a
lot of Higgins boat rum.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Am I right?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I didn't bring enough?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You didn't bring enough.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Maybe when I was seventeen I would have been in
a picture somewhat like that, but these days.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's a weird photo to take when you're in your sixties. Yeah, Yeah,
Teddy Wady, I'm gonna have to agree.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Radio this is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC
nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So there's more than one song on the radio right now.
Two hit country songs on the radio right now are
AI generated. Wow, hard to believe AI figured out how
to replicate a genre where ninety nine percent of the
songs are about dirt roads and girls with bikinis.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
How did they pull that off? That's amazing. Is there
any crying and alcohol involved? Probably? Probably? It's usually about ice.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Cold beer driving down a dirt road in a truck,
and somehow AI figured out the I mean amazing.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
That they bro We can blame Lars Oric for this. Yeah,
like this, this is the press, Like my intro for
my live stream. It's Ai who had a birthday yesterday?
Kurt Hammett from a Yeah, you brought up Metallica. I
don't know why I know all this stuff. It's useless information.
Never work in radio where.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
You'll know that. All right, I have a theory.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Bill Belichick was spotted at Jordan Hudson's cheer competition after
his team loss. Now I know everybody thinks Bill Belichick sucks.
Now he's not a good coach anymore. I disagree. This
guy is scoring points off the field. No one really
cares if you u NC wins, Like I don't care.
Does anybody couldn't care. Somehow, because of this pretty little
(31:34):
number right here, seventy nine year old Bill Belichick or
however old he is, he has become my favorite guy
in professional sports. And some people wonder, how did this happen?
How did Jordan Hudson. It's like she hypnotized this guy.
It's almost like witchcraft at Steve Lazana, Right.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Money, Yeah, money, and money's a big driving factor.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Okay, So I have a theory about this. Is Jordan
Hudson a witch? Did she do magic? On?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
On?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Bill Belichick proved that she didn't. Hmmm. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Maybe we can bring out the Salem witch trials and
what they did in the past, because we.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Really can't figure out looking at Jordan Hudson and then
looking at Bill Belichick, what is it?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
You know, like, what is it that he sees in
her that he left is? You know? It's it mean,
he's not like a GQ model or anything. You know,
How is it?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Why is it that this very young, attractive woman and
this older guy who has tens of millions, maybe one
hundred million dollars in his bank account?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
What do they see in each other? There's no way
of explaining it. No, one really can't understand it. Derek Bingham,
Higgins Bolt Rum Company, what do you think it is?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Normally it's the quarterback has got the cheerleader, you know,
and so this is a Normally when a coach is
dating a cheerleader that that's a problem.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
But they found a loophole.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Dude, Come on, he's a cool guy. Look at Bill.
I know, even if you hated the Patriots, even if
you hate this guy, even if he beat your team
every year in a row, look at what a cool
guy Bill bellich Check is.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Come on, guys, I don't know, man, he well, okay,
I'm not saying she's a gold digga, but she ain't.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Okay, he's got am I saying with no unemployed coaches
right now?
Speaker 7 (33:13):
You know, maybe he's just got a lot of money
and just a gigantic meat iguana.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I don't know, all right, Well, I don't know if
she's a witch either. It was a good segue into
this though. Yeah, once upon a time people believed in witches.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
They believed as silly as that explanation I just gave was,
there were people that would have actually believed that people were.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Using magic to hypnotize other people. In fact, back in
the heyday, there used to be I don't know if
you guys are into Wikipedia or not, but back before.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
The Wikipedia college, is that how you did it?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Back before Wikipedia became just like a terrible, like a
bastion of like left wing political theories and someone's opinions
being passed off as actual facts. Some of the old
articles on Wikipedia are just fascinating, like this website list
of mass panic cases. Now, if we were being objectively
honest about modern day society, this historical list of all
(34:06):
the different occurrences of mass panics, starting with the witch trials,
the Dancing plague of fifteen eighty eight, the Chinese sorcery scares.
Somewhere on this list we would include the twenty twenty pandemic.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
We would have abolutely, we would have to put it here.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
But really fascinating stuff on this website wore the world's
radio broadcast all the different times in human history when people,
large groups of people became paranoid and terrified of something,
and we act like this doesn't happen anymore, you know,
something seemingly mundane in overreaction to something like the mad
Gasser of Matoon, Illinois, was an event in which an
(34:44):
alleged mass hysteria took place during the nineteen forties. More
than two dozen separate cases of gassings were reported by
the police. It turned out to be nothing at the time,
But doesn't this essentially happen all the time? In twenty
twenty five, just from people watching fake news. Derek Bingham
Higgins Boat Rum Company.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
Oh yeah, well, you know a lot of people have
kind of learned not to think for themselves, and they
kind of accept that the average journalist is like this
authority figure and not just like ron Ron Burgundy, reading
exactly what they put in front of him.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
And I do that. I just read anything on the screen.
That's kind of my thing. Look at how great this
list is, Steve Yeah. Tokyo Sea Monster broadcast nineteen forty seven.
May twenty ninth, the United States Armed Forces radio station
in Tokyo broadcasted a news bulletin that a twenty foot
tall sea monster was spotted in Tokyo Bay and traveling inland, and.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
People believed it. They thought it was a real thing.
What would you prefer to have today's fake news about
Donald Trump performing something generous with his mouth on Bill Clinton?
Or Tokyo Sea Monster broadcast? This is vastly more interesting.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
I mean, dude, was it like whether everyone would come
out and say, go Jira.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
The movies hadn't even happened yet, right, they were in
the fifties.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
That's true, Yeah, but radio was like, what was it
the War of the world's broadcast, dude, Like so many
people thought the world was ending and all of this stuff.
But you see it now, like with the pandemic, like
everyone was like people were actually getting in fistfights. They
were stealing our mass hoarding toilet paper, right, Like it
(36:17):
was just insane.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
That's the first thing you think about when there's a
respiontory mark or like can good you're a bung hole.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That's the first thing. But look at this right here,
this information we just got.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Because everything on Wikipedia has to be cited, there's still
some peer reviewed academic standards. Fine, so somebody took an
old book, media Hoaxes, which was published by Iowa State
University in nineteen eighty nine, journalists created thousands of hosts
just for the fun of it. Now, this was back
in the nineteen eighties. People probably thought, well, thank god,
that doesn't happen anymore. I think it does still happen.
(36:49):
If we were being honest, guys, this book would you'd
never stop printing this book.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Every month you'd come out with a new edition of
this book New York Times bestseller. Like, I mean, I
want to read into this now? How many pages?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
All right, we were.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Talking about off the air. Obviously, this is a long
walk to the beach. It's like a three hour drive
to spend twenty minutes at the beach. But off the air,
we were talking about the Salem witch trials, and Steve,
you had some interesting theories about this.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So what do you think was happening?
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Okay, So in my theory, all right, there was a
group of men that were tired of their wives, and
they were like, you know what, let's come up with
a genius idea to you know, get rid of them. So,
you know, Cornelius and Thomas, they were sitting around the
table drinking some Higgins both boat rum I would be,
you know, smoking cigars, you know, and just talking about
World War.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Kind of have men time.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Obviously, like you know, Cornelius, I am really tired of
my wife, and let's come up with a way to
get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Right.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
So obviously they they thought of, you know, the drowning
of their wives. But they were like, okay, hang on,
we can't like I cannot claim my wife to you know,
be a witch, so why don't someone else do it?
So at first, right, and let's think of a sure
fire away to get rid of them. So let's throw
them in the water.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
One. If they drown, obviously not a witch. Sorry.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
And if you know what, if they do survive and
they able to swim and come to shore, then we'll
burn them at the stake because obviously they're a witch.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I feel like that's a very good theory. But I just,
at the end of the day, hating your wife such
a I feel like I shouldn't add anything to that
because I'm the only guy here that's divorced, right is.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And you guys are. Actually, maybe I'm a better spokesperson
for this than you guys are.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Derek, you're married and married seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
You would never accuse your wife of witchcraft in order
to get out of marriage during a time when divorce
was considered socially unacceptable.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Right. I haven't seen her consort with the devil yet?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Okay, what is this? What is the secret to seventeen
years in marriage? Derek? How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That's a long time. You don't look like you're old
enough to be married for seventeen years.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
You got married when I was twenty three. I'm forty.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Yeah, that's it. That's basically the met one in a
couple of days.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
What are you gonna do happy birthday?
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (38:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
What's the seat to making it work? How did you
too meet? Were you high school sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (39:02):
You were high school sweethearts?
Speaker 8 (39:04):
And then I went to Rice University, where the guys
on the football team kind of agreed it's easy to
keep a girl friend from back home there.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Uh, it's easy. White explain that it's easy to.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Keep a girlfriend from back home when you go to
Rice University?
Speaker 8 (39:14):
Why is there? It was back when I went there?
Everyone there is now incredibly beautiful and nice, But.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
When you were going there, they were all ugly nerds
or something. Is that what you're insinuating?
Speaker 5 (39:23):
There was?
Speaker 6 (39:24):
There wasn't a large dating pool there.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Well?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Very small undergrad There was like twenty seven hundred total
undergrads there.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It's not a big school.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Yeah no, Now it's gotten, it's doubled in size, and
it's still a small school since I went there.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So it's hard to date just because it was a
small community. But there's other universities in Houston. Did you
guys not consort with the U of H kids or
were they too? I mean we went out those were
the plaibs. I guess, well, we went out to wild
West on Richmond.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
That's kind of was our hangout back in the day,
and then there was there was a a wild creature
referred to as a cougar there who would buy a
drinks and dance with us. But then I would tell
my then girlfriend at the time, like, hey, honey, I
didn't have to buy a single beer tonight.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
And an older woman bought me.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Honestly, honesty is a very good key.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Do you think now that you've started this alcohol brand,
do you think you could call that woman up and
sell her a few bottles?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I mean, she's interested in buying alcohol, right, maybe, Yeah,
she's out there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Not really a cougar anymore, though, more of a I
don't know what she'd work for that.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Well, how long ago was this?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Twenty years?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Okay? So if she was a cougar, and she's probably
a guilt by now.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
For sure, a gilf. Yeah, not really a trophy wife anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Less of a less of a Stanley Cott, more of
a bowling trophy.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
At this point, I think the trophy's looking a little
tarnish to these days.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Gentlemen, all right, you gotta dust the trophy. All right,
we got to get out of here. I'm Kenny Webster.
I've been I've enjoyed my time hanging out with you, guys.
Derek Bigham's Boat Rum give us the final word on
how to get.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
It, Yeah, higginsba Rum dot com. You can order on there.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Check out our list of on the website for the
retailers that keep us in stuck.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
A very honesome Christmas Caft and Steve loves Ammo. I'll
let you get the final word. What do you want
to say?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
My man?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (41:08):
First off, I want to say Happy birthday to Crusade Enjoyer.
He's one of my followers and subscribers on X. Happy Birthday,
Happy Birthday, Brady Birthday. Thanks for watching bro. This Friday, guys,
if you're on X, follow me at Steve loves Mo,
I will be hosting a space with Tom McDonald. Yes,
the number one independent artist in the country. He is
going to join a space with me. We are going
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to give away autograph CDs to veterans, so please join
the space. Follow me at Steve loves SAMO and uh
and I'm told.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
I'm told.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Also you're gonna be getting a face tattoo to commemorate
the occasion.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (41:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Actually I'm getting the same one that Mike Tyson has.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Is that right, Yes, A tribal tattoo from the early
nineties time wait for you, Hey to the rest of you,
I love you all. We'll be back bright and early
tomorrow morning. For more of what you bought a radio
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