April 27, 2026 • 32 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Republican Jon Bonck. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
All right, crazy weekend. A lot going on in the
news right now. But of course there's this Meta is
about to lay off eight thousand employees. They're going to
close six thousand open jobs to focus on artificial intelligence.
At this rate, it won't be long before you haven't
met a person who works there, because that's what's going
to happen soon.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
AI is taking our jobs.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
John Bonk, what are you going to do when all
the politicians are artificial intelligence?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What's going to happen?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well, I think a lot of people can't.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We're always concerned when the Internet came about, right and
they thought the same thing was going to happen. Job
is going to be lost? How is this going to
impact the consumer? And I think the Internet had a
lot of good. Internet also had a lot of bad,
and I look at AI the same way.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's going to be an innovative. I think it's going
to help out a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It's going to grow the economy, but we're going to
have to adapt. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I'm saying that because I know they're listening, and
when they come, I just want to let them know
I was always loyal to you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It was John who said beware of the robot revolution.
I was for it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I have to tell you, John, you're running for office
right now in the thirty eighth district. A lot of
people think you're a shoe in to win at this point.
Wesley Hunt is outgoing, You are incoming. You like Wesley, right,
You guys get along fine?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I have the utmost respect for Contrmon Hunt. I think
he's done a lot of great things for the district
over the last four years. And man, Kenny, I've been
at campaign events, Republican Club meetings, and there's anything I've
learned is that the people in this district love Wesley Hunt,
and I think a lot of them supported him in
his race for higher office and looking forward to a
place in his big shoes.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
If you do you plan to do anything different once
you get there, then the way he do you have
any policies you don't agree with him on?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
No, I don't think from a policy standpoint, Weston and
I have any differences, I definitely think the country has
shifted since you know, he's moved into that Senate race
and now I mean to me, affordability has been the
thing that every homeowner I'm talking to, whether it's families
or young professionals, when it's healthcare, childcare, energy, housing. You know,
under President Biden, we had just a massive amount of
(02:29):
inflation hitter our economy, where goods and services reached twenty
sometimes thirty percent cumulative increases in pricing. And so families
are filling the crunch at the grocery store, they fill
in the crunch at the gas station, they're filling the
crunch at the kitchen table, trying to balance a check book.
And as Republicans, we need to figure out free market
conservative principles to fix this credit, affordability, housing that we're
(02:51):
in right now, this crisis.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
For those that don't know who John is, John was
endorsed by Trump. He is the Republican nominee. Right, if
I'm not mistaken, you're not having to a runoff. You
you're in it, right.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, Actually we do have a runoff. You have a runoff,
do you have a runoff.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
My notes are terrible, John Go, I think everyone just
kind of assumes you've got this. Why does everybody think
that yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I mean in Texas, you got to get to fifty percent,
so I had ten folks on the ballot. I ran hard,
put my name in the hat, and we put a great,
great race together. I got forty seven percent of the
vote total.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Who are you in a runoff with?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
My opponent got nineteen percent? So that's who I'm in
a runoff.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't even know who it is.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I think, okay, John, everyone thinks that you Yeah, are
you just a finish first?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Count the votes? Count the votes again? I don't believe it. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I petitioned the votes. No, I'm super thankful.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I mean it was a crowded field ten people to
get that much separation, to get that much support, getting
to forty seven and the person second only got nineteen
is a massive momentum builder.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
As we head into the runoff, I'm actually kind of embarrassed.
I didn't know that everybody's talking about what is it?
Meeler versus Kane. Everybody's talking about Paxton versus Cornyn, and
then here in this city a lot of people just
assumed it was you at that point.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I haven't heard anyone suggest that you wouldn't be going
to Washington this November.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, No, I don't think anything's wrong, would have
that mindset. I don't think it's a very competitive runoff,
like you said, although the runoff's going to be really competitive.
But again, we have the endorsements, we have the momentum,
the grassroots, we have all the moment it'll win the runoff.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But it's coming up May eighteen, it's early voting.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You're going to probably be in Washington at a time
when No, it's obviously not the most violent time in
American history, but boy, it feels like it's the most
violent time in politics during our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I can't. I mean what January obviously, the Summer of.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Love twenty twenty. Leading up to January, six months and
months of left wing riots. One afternoon of a right
wing riot. Obviously that was worse. We've been told over
and over again by the media who could question them.
Fast forward to this weekend, they tried to kill Trump again.
The conspiracy theorist tell us it's a false flag again.
Wouldn't that be amazing, Like, if it was, I don't
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believe that's fake. I don't think the government is smart
enough to pull that off. Okum's razor tells you, how
did this happen? Well, we defunded the DHS, We've defunded
the Secret Service. It's a skeleton crew. Did you notice
in the photos that same woman, the short woman, the
short chobby secret Service agent was out there on the
floor of the White House correspondence dinner, the same woman
(05:20):
from Butler, Pennsylvania. That a lot of people thought, Wow,
this is a DEI hire. What is she doing there?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, I noticed that she was there.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
But what I'll say about the shooting this weekend is
that lies have consequences, and the radical left is just
making a lie after lie that our president's a rapist
or a pedophile, or fascists and all these things. And
we have so much mental unstable people in our country
right now, and these lies end up in these people's
ears and they decide I'm gonna take action. And we've
seen three times now they've tried to assassinate our president,
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a man who doesn't need this, a man who could
be on a yacht and join his life and join
his kids and join his grandkids. But he loves his
country and he's doing everything he can to make this
country great again.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Our criticism of the left is usually they're stupid, they're
lib tarted. You guys are nuts, you know you're But
I don't usually think of them as We don't describe
them as being Nazis or monsters or baby killers or
that's how they describe us. And not surprisingly, somebody, this
guy that tried to kill the president this weekend was
teacher of the Year.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, that's that's kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Yeah, though these are educated people, you know, from a
competency standpoint, and they are just given in to all
these false narratives and they are told that is an
existential threat if you don't take action, and so I
mean there needs to be real consequences I think where
people are making threats against the president or people making
lies against the presidents, like those people. You know, we've
seen what some of the things have been said on
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TV where it's like, should we be saying that's a
mass amount of people, We don't know what people might
take action and actually believe that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know, Leslee Hunt, the guy who you're probably going
to be replacing in Congress. Great guy, And it's my
understanding just from knowing him, knowing the people around him.
People threat to kill him all the time. So you're
going to be taking the job of a guy who
has his life threatening on a regular basis. And he's
not the most controversial person in politics, not even in
the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So you know, what's that like for you?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, I know, it's a real thing you have to
consider as a family, you know. And my wife and
I we love this country. We're small business owners.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I grew up in a broken home, raised by my grandparents,
working minimum wage. After college, got to Houston oil and gas,
got into real estate, and I'm like, this country is
doing so much for my life, done so much for
my family. And Ronald Reagan's one of my favorite presidents.
He always said freedom is always a generation away from
being lost forever, and so freedom is something we have
to fight for every generation.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Freedom is something we have to teach our kids.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
And during COVID, we saw our freedoms get taken away,
shutting down churches, shutting down school shutting down businesses. And
so my wife and always like, we need to go
fight and just never knew where my lane was. So
I mean, as a household, we are unified in our
decision and we understand what we're stepping into.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
For very personal reasons, I'm a big fan of Montgomery County.
If you're a criminal and you go up to your district,
the thirty eighth district, mostly Montgomery, a little bit of Harris,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
It's mostly it's all Harris County actually is yours. I
thought part of it was Montgomery, No, No, No eight.
Tom Ball is Harris County, Yep, Yep, Tomball Cline all
that's hair.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's the normal part of the county. Then you see
that shows again that shows what I know. I know
nothing about the thirty eighth district. John is that it's
all good.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Brother.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
When I'm out by Tomball, I just assume. So that's
not like.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
What is so what you're probably thinking, though, Kenny is
Tomball is d which is the best school district in
Harris County from all levels, and Tomball I stretches into
Montgomery Cay.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's what it is, okay. And then what's the other
thing up there? District to what's that club called two
thirty eight Is that what.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's called the Republican Clubs?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Or no, No, there's some honkey tonk up there too,
for you could say it, what is it? Two forty nine?
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Have you been there? Yeah? We did a New Year's
Eve party there. That's isn't that Montgomery County?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, that's Harris County. That's Harris County, Harris County.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well, no, wonder it's such a dump. All right, hang out,
we'll be right back. You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine point fifty. What's the hotel chain?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Where they ask a guy a really complicated question and
then he gives an answer and they say, well, how
do you know what?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Are you a doctor?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He says no, but I recently stayed at a holiday
and Express.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Is that where he stayed? I think it was holiday
at Express.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That mentality was on full display last week in the
state of Virginia. A week ago, we had Daniel Turner
from Power the Future call into the show. Good friend
of the show, longtime contributor, regular part of our weekly panels.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Here.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Daniel's a break guy and he also happens to be
a resident of the state of Virginia. He was one
of the first person people out there to point out
to me that the redistricting controversy in the state of
Virginia was going to be a little different than what
happened in Texas or what happened in California for that matter.
All of Virginia had laws in place that said they
weren't supposed to do this, didn't matter, they did it anyway. Obviously,
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a judge wasn't thrilled about that last week. We'll get
to all that in a minute. But in the wake
of that vote happening Virginia deciding to jerry mander their
own state in an effort to crush Trump, the world
was introduced to a star meet Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby. Now,
I never knew who this guy was until yesterday, well
(10:27):
until Friday, when this video first went viral.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I didn't know he was out there. I didn't know
this guy existed.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
This is one of the funniest things a politician has
ever said in state government that I'm aware of. When
I first heard this clip, I thought this was from
the Chappelle Show. He is dead ass serious as he's
telling you The reason he understands rural voters is because
he's seen the TV show Dukes of Hazzard. They were
(10:55):
making the point here. If you redistrict the state, the
rural voters won't have any representation. It'll all be lawmakers
picked by the city people. It's the tales oldest time.
That's how jerrymandering works. Listen to Lamont respond to this.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
And listen. I almost took issue with the other side
saying that we don't understand. But I grew up watching.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Waltons, the Waltons.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
I grew up with Opie Opie. I even wants the
dukesa has.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Think I know a little bit about rule.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Everybody's laughing. They're laughing. He's not kidding.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And when I think about while we are.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Here, Yeah, why are we here? Lamont?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
We're not just here. I'm not just here for THEO.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
He's not just here for THEO Huxtable.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I'm not just here.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
For Arnold.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He's not just here for Arnold or Willis. No Arnold
and Willis nor mister Drummond's boy Dana Plato Topanga from
Boy Meets World. Obviously, who could forget the lovely Topanga, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's why Lamont Bagbee is a man of the people,
Daniel Turner a Powerthefuture dot com.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Isn't this just so incredibly insulting that you have to
try to pretend that this is a an air you dite, uh,
you know, and an intellectually sound argument. You know this
is and and it's it's insane. I did respond to
him on social media, and I thought, yeah, I'll get
a little bit of blowback, but you have to stop
being afraid of saying stuff. But if I told Senator
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Lamont black Bee, who your in case your audience does
not know is black? If I told Senator Blackbe, hey, Senator,
I know a lot about black America because you know,
I had a two Live Crew album, right, and I
used to watch The Martin Show as a kid. Right,
So don't tell me that you don't. I don't understand
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your concerns as Black America. I get Black America, right.
I even saw the movie that the musical Hamilton. It
was awful, by the way, Hamilton was just stupid. But
that's another conversation. Right back, Blackbe would would absolutely call
me racist, and he would yell and scream about the
you know, the belittling of his people and his culture
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and reducing it to Hollywood stereotypes. But that's rural America, right.
That's why this referendum was so important for the Democrats
because the voices they were silencing are the rural voice
voices which tend to vote very conservative and like their
guns and like their land and like their privacy. So so,
Senator Blackbee, would you know it would never be a
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two way street. And that's kind of the way things
are now in our modern politics get very frustrating.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So what's the latest in your state right now? I mean,
obviously we want a guy like Bagbee here to represent
the dukes of hazard community. Obviously that's the best thing
for them. Yeah, but is it so the judge put
a stop to this last week, and do you think
it moves forward? What happens next?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
The judge put a stop and that was overturned just
a couple of hours ago by another judge to say
it was allowed to go forward. But now that's on
appeal to I think now the last step is the
Virginia Supreme Court. So, and this was kind of expected, right,
we knew that, you know, you have your partisan judges.
One's going to say yes, one's going to say no. Ultimately,
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the Supreme Court of Virginia is going to decide the difference.
And it's important for your audience to know, because I
don't expect them to know. They're not Virginia. Mostly they're Texans, right,
But people keep saying, well, why is it what you did?
You know, You're just the Texas did the same thing.
In Texas, you are allowed to draw your redistressing maps
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at sort of the will of the governor, right, the
governor and then the legislature draws your maps. In Virginia,
it is an every ten year independent commission that is
court not appointed, but court approved to keep it bipartisan.
So that's the difference, you know. And people can say, well,
Texas did something unfair. You know what, Kenny, no offense.
(15:18):
I don't live in damn Texas. I don't care what
the hell Texas does. That's the beauty of our system.
If democrats in Texas hate what Texas is doing, fight
for Texas. I live in Virginia, and in Virginia, we
have a law that says to avoid any of this,
it can only happen on the tenth year and it
has to be a court approved. Well, Democrats said, we
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don't like that law anymore because we want to respond
to Texas. So that's why our state is a little different. You,
of course can say what California is doing is unfair,
what Texas is doing is unfair. I don't live there.
I live in Virginia, and I want my voice to
be heard in Virginia. But thanks to people like the
very wise Senator blacksby longer allowed to have my Dukes
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of Hassard voice be heard.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
What a shame. That's a real but that bothers the
crap out of me.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Hey, on an unrelated note here, I don't know if
you heard about this over the weekend, Jim Acosta.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I don't know if you heard about this.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There was some controversy at the White House correspondence dinner
this week this weekend, and of course I'm talking about
the very violent episode involving former CNN reporter Jim Acosta
being threatened to fight an independent journalist, Michael Tracy outside
of a Hampton And.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Apparently there was another incident involving a shooting. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's not as important to me as this Michael Tracy
is this anti Iran war act as kind of an
anti Israel guy, and he'll support whichever side if they're
against Israel. And as you know, Jim Acosta's Jim Acosta.
Everybody remembers him from the CNN Disgrace. Journalist Michael Tracy
wanted to fight Jim Acosta outside of Hampton in this weekend.
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I couldn't even understand what it was about. But I
love the thought of nerds fighting each other for our entertainment.
And I was just wondering if you had a chance
to get to get a wind of this this weekend,
Daniel turn.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I did see the Michael Tracy tweet in real time,
and I laughed myself silly. Right, Jim Acosta did not
show at the appointed place in time, and of course
Tracy made fun of him. You know, this is the
stuff of children. But but I'm there. I'll be amused, right,
so you can. You can entertain me like it's Gladiator.
(17:29):
It's the level of violence though, of people unwilling to
fight is a little different, you know. I mean, like
like gentlemen used to throw out their dual challenge, and
you could reject the dual challenge or you could take it.
Democrats don't even want to offer the challenge anymore. You
just walk out the door, and they want to shoot
you in the head because that's how they want to
resolve their differences. So, yeah, you know, the White House
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Correspondence dinner, I did not go. I did not have
an invite. I probably would not have gone even if
I had been invited, because a lot of people bowl
a couple hour drives to DC. Does is it worth it?
But what is telling about it? Though? It couldn't have
happened to a better audience, because they're the drivers of this, right,
They're the drivers of a lot of lies about the president,
(18:13):
a lot of the anger about the president. You have journalists,
quote unquote who flat out says that Trump is a
convicted rapist and a known pedophile.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Right.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
They say these things so comfortably that they forget that
they are lying. And you look at the guy, the shooter,
and that was in his manifesto. He's a rapist, he's
a pedophile. I enjoy the fact that they were for
a split second cowering under their tables and afraid because
they've caused that, right, and maybe they will reflect upon
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just pedaling in the business of lies again because they
realize the damage that that it does. I doubt it though,
you know, sadly, Kenny, I I think you know, we're
already at the point now that it was staged and
and maybe he did it for the mid terms. By Friday,
it will be his fault. You know, I haven't seen
what the cows of the view said. I don't really
watch that show. I assume they assumed they said it
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was Trump's fault too.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Did you see the video of I thought it was
a journalist.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It turns out it was a retired Secret Service agent
eating spoonfuls of mashed potatoes while everyone else is laying
on the ground ducking under their table. There was a
camera shot of the room, and one guy just did
not care. This older white guy just kept eating mashed
potatoes like he hadn't been to a free dinner before.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
He's like, I don't care. I'm here, I'm eating these carrots.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
I will say, well made mashed potatoes are exceptional. And
I think it's you know, it's one of those things
about if you like food, and I love food, and
I consider myself to be a fairly accomplished cook. Mashed
potatoes are one of those things that is seemingly easy,
and yet they're ninety nine percent of the times completely mediocre.
So maybe they were just exceptionally well done mashed potatoes,
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and he's like, you know what, if I'm gonna go
out dying, I might as well go out enjoy these
these wonderful meshed potatoes. So good for him, I thought.
More embarrassing with the videos of the reporter chicks who
were sticking bottles of wine in their purse as they
were leaving. You know, they're the it's if you're gonna
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steal booze, like, don't you know, just walk it out
with you in your hand, you know, Like I'm never
gonna begrudge people from taking booze at an event I've
left a wedding or whatever. Like I'm taking this bottle,
but I don't shove it down my pants or in
my bag. I just walk at it within my hand
because I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Also funny was the what the blonde lady that was
doing a kissy face selfie to report? I don't know
if you saw that, so I don't know who she's.
Somebody named Debra Lee posted a kissy face selfie, so
she couldn't tell her followers that everyone was okay, Like Jesus, lady,
talk about tone deaf? But hey, what are you gonna do?
We gotta run Daniel Turnery closing thoughts.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
No, it's always great to be wish you can't. He's
just always stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Brother, Yeah, no kidding, we'll hit you next week.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Follow Daniel Turner power the future if you work in
oil and guess he's a good follower.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
All right, So apparently the CEO of best Buy is
about to step down. I'm told she found the same
job for a better deal on Amazon dot Com.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
That makes sense, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I agree?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
If you're an electronic store, we used to go to
radio Shack. You remember that our Circuit City.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Dude, I love Circuit City. I loved Radio Shack. I'm
a nerd.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I don't know if you can tell that everything's moved
to e commerce on Amazon. But there is something to
be said about small businesses, choices, options. I mean, that's
what capitalism is. It drives innovation, and so it's kind
of sad when you see companies not doing well, and
we only have limited options.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Back in the seventies and the eighties, I think people
thought the future of electronics consumerism was going to be
building your own stuff, soldering your own things together, manu,
fixing your own computer boards and stuff. Fast forward to
the future. It's children in China doing all of that.
So radio Shack closed. Radio Shack used to be a
store where you could buy circuits and diodes and transistors.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Fast forward to the future. It basically became a cell
phone store for geriatrics.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That that's not a business model, that's sustainable. That went
away overnight.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, I think about in video you just brought it up.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
We used to build our computer towers and change out
the video graphics card so you can play Counterstrike or
whatever it was growing up. And who would have thought
to buy in video stock back in the middle of
nineteen ninety four, nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
How much who would be worth now?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Nobody would have thought, Yeah, the biggest company in the
world now five trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
John, can you tell me we're on the radio right now,
but if you could describe for our listeners what is
on the screen in this room?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
What am I looking at?
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Right here.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, you're looking at security footage from Mama Sidas out
there right there in Sipics area.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, and that is this is that your That's where
your car was.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
That is my white F one fifty pick up right there.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And what's about to happen to your car?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Someone's gonna somebody's bought a smash and grab. You know,
it was a rainy day.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
If you remember Houstonians two tuesdays ago, it was pouring
for twelve hours straight and so I had an umbrella.
I was bringing in all the campaign brochure stuff and
I just the Holy spirit to one me probably not
to leave my work bag in there. But I left
my work bag in the back of my truck on
the floor with the iPad and computer in there, and
somebody smashed my window and grabbed it in literally thirty
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seconds and they're out.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Wow, just like that, huh. And that's all it took.
And they got your laptop And in.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
The sentimental work back, I was a work bag that
my wife got me on our second year wedding anniversary.
And so I'm probably more upset about the work bag
than that because it's sentimental.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, exactly. Still, it sucks though to have in there
you could see the guy getting out.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Is that him? Yep?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
That is the perpetrator and the alleged perpetrator.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Did they catch him?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I put in a police report with a Harris County
Sheriff's apartment, and so they got the footage, They got
the photos and go get them boys.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I left Chicago because the crime so bad when I
was in my twin I mean also because I had
this job offer in Houston, so it seemed appealing to me.
When I moved to Houston, the crime rate here was
about half of what it was in Chicago. Now I
think it said about two thirds. I haven't looked recently,
but it's catching up. Is Houston turning into Chicago?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I'm optimistic we can turn around, But the voters need
to wake up, Kenny. You know, as Republicans, even independence
of your pro public safety, pro family, pro business, you
need to wake up and get involved in politics. We
let so many liberal judges coming into Harris County cashless
bill bonds where people have been arrested fourteen, twenty times
and they're back on the streets. Actually served on a
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criminal jury probably ten years ago. This guy had the
longest rap she have ever seen, been arrested fifteen twenty times.
And he ended up driving like one hundred and twenty
miles an hour, smoking weed the under influence, and he
caused a multiple car crash and three different people died
of vehiclear manslaughter. Wow, and that was the case I
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was in. I was like this, what was this guy
doing on the streets. He's been arrested tons of times.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And then of course there's the incident with non citizens
driving trucks all over the states. Yeah, so many of these.
My buddy that I lift weights with the other day
is a block away from our gym. Some guy plows
into his car. He's in a tow truck. He gets
hit by a tow truck. The guy takes out his ID.
What's the guy's name, Mohammed Mohammad, Mohammad, Mohammed, Hassan Jahad Mohammad.
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It's like, I don't think this guy's UH car insurance
is legitimate, Bob.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I hate to break it to you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, you bring up a great point. So love President Trump.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
He's done a lot of great things, Like I love
the golf of America, right, but sure, you're like, what
does that do? But what he did when he got
in the office is second terms. He changed changed, but
he implemented that English is now the official language of
our country.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
How could that be controversial?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Well, it was like, how is that not already a thing?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Right?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
We're two hundred and fifty years of country and we
didn't have an official language. And so now when the
federal government establishes that, hey, English is our only.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Language and you have to speak English.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Now if you want to drive our federal highways like
iten or I forty five and get a CDL, guess
what Now we can start imposing rules and regulations that
you have to be able to speak English, read English
before you get a CDL. But over the last couple
of years, we've seen a lot of immigrants that can't
read or speak English get CDLs and they've killed Americans.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
All Right, So you're a husband, you're a dad. Your
wife is Laura? Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Laura bump?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Does Laura make you double check the car now like
it's Fort Knox every time you're going somewhere? I mean,
this has probably got to freaker out a little bit, right?
How does that affected life at home for you?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I mean I think with our kids there are eight
and five, and you start talking to them about, hey,
there are bad people out there. There are people that
want to commit violence, there are people that believe in
different morality than we do, and we have to be careful,
we have to be cautious.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And we've always tried to speak truth for our kids.
We never sugarcoated things.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It's like, hey, that's why mommy and Daddy try to
park here, don't park there, or here's why we don't
go to that place.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
We choose to go here.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
And so our kids are starting to realize that, Man,
I'm thankful for the law enforcements. I'm thankful for the
police officers. My kids have police officers at their schools,
like most kids in this county do. And so our
kids are starting to realize that there is evil in
the world and there are bad people, and good people
need to do something about it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You and I both know there's this political pendulum.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
It swings back and forth, and right now it feels
like it's going back in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
We're going back towards woke again. It's woke two point zero.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Since Mayor Mom Donnie got into office, there was suddenly
the cocktail sipping. Marxist is cool to everybody is New
York City socialite socialists. How could you be a socialite socialist?
They're going viral all the time, Hassan Piker. These guys are.
They're millionaire commis who love China, but they want to
live in LA for some reason, Orks, Houston or New
(27:39):
York City. It feels like everything about what they believe
in is a contradiction.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So why is it so appealing to young people?
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
No, I think some of the affordability stuff that I
hit on.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I mean, Mom Donnie is like, we're gonna give you
free transportation and free childcare and state funded grocery stores.
And young people right now, the first time home buyer
average as is forty years old, and so young people
are not access our housing. Young people don't own any
stocks or equities, and they look at the older generations
who own real estate, who own stocks.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
They look at themselves.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
And like, I got two hundred thousand dollars student loan
debt because I've sold a lot that I go to college.
I got this great career waiting for me, and I'm stuck,
and I have credit card debt, I have auto loan debt,
and they're like, capitalism isn't working for me. I kind
of like this socialistic stuff that this mom donnie guy
is talking about. And so Charlie Kirk talked a lot
about this in the summer before he was murdered. He
(28:28):
talked about the buy now, pay later stuff, how it's
hurting young people, and how the economic system we have
right now is really putting a lot of pressure on
young people and if as Republicans we don't help them,
then they're going to start going to alternatives like communism,
and we can't let that happen.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I am, I'm a millennial. You're Milaeni, You're you're in
your thirties. Yeah, you're thirty nine, Okay, I'm in my
early forties, so we're not much older. A lot of
people in my generation blame the high cost of housing
on the Afghanistan War, the Iraqi War. These never These
wars went on for two almost three decades. Nothing came
(29:05):
from it other than a lot of inflation. We spent
a lot of money. Now people are compared. I think
it's unfair to compare the Iran War to that. I
don't love the Iran War, but it's also two months old,
it's not two decades old. I'd love to see it
wrap up before we get to the general election here,
I don't know if it will.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
What are your thoughts on that? Does that concern you?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, I mean I support President Trump.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Peace through Strength has been working, and so I always
tell people it's like, hey, it's only been a couple
of weeks, Like, we have to trust him. We elected him.
He's got the inputs insights that we don't have. We
don't have all the information that he has. But again,
I grew up. I was a sophomore in high school
when nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I remember when.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
The Patriot Act and the FISA courts and all this
big government happened. In the Afghan Wars, I don't want
prolonged wars. I don't want American boots on the ground.
I don't think that serves our country well. I think
we have a lot of domestic issues to focus on
right now. But I am proud that President Trump's taking
decisive action right now. And I know that the midterms
are coming up and we're still really far away from November.
(30:04):
We have a lot of time still to get this
wrapped up hopefully by the end of May, if not
earlier than that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We are we got to run in just a minute here,
but we are getting comments on social media because we're
live streaming. I'll just let you address one of them,
Michael asked. He says, what is your small business? He said,
he is a small business in the Tom Ball Magnoli aera.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
You're in mortgage, right, yeah, yeah, my business partner and
I have a mortgage business together. We work for a
large independent mortgage bank, and so we do just retail
residential real estate, all single family where we're helping a
lot of Texans, you know, by their first home or
they're having kids and they need more space, or they
want to move into a good school district. And then
my wife has a small real estate brokerags that she
(30:43):
runs herself called Bunk Group, And so yeah, real estate's
a great way to serve people in the city.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Well, you miss being in the free market when you
get to government.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
You know, I think right now, I have a lot
of experience and insight. Right now, in Congress, only thirty
percent of people have owned or currently own a business,
and so seventy percent of our legislators, right now in
the nation's capital. Don't know what it's like to manage
a budget, manage a P and L, or be responsible
for the livelihoods of their employees. My wife and I
have people that work for as that we feel the
(31:13):
weight when the market changes or sales aren't going well,
that we got to take care of these people. And
that does something to you, that gives you a certain burden,
that gives you a certain perspective.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And that perspective is missing right now in Congress.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
And so I'm more excited about what I have to
offer Congress, not so much focused on on what I'm
going to lose here, because it's a sacrifice and it's
a calling.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, My guest right now, John Bonk, he isn't
a runoff in Texas thirty eight. Some people may not
have even known that. Some people thought you won the
general election. I happen to be one of them, as
embarrassing as that is, but John, I think you're a
great candidate. I gave you my endorsement early on. I
know Donald Trump did as well. Any closing thoughts, anything
you want people to know before we get out of here.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, No, I just want people to get informed. Get engaged.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
I mean we have elections, special elections going on right now.
We have city council if you're in tom Ball, we
have schoolboard elections going on and the runoff starts on
May eighteenth through the twenty second. The election day is
May twenty six so you know, read up on our
website about me, my candidacy, the things that I want
to fight for. Would be honored to have your support
in your vote. And y'all join us on May sixth
(32:13):
at the Brandon Guil event in Cyprus.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It'll be a great one.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
My brother from another John, thank you so much for
your time this after.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
God bless you Kenning, Thank you brother.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
All right, crazy weekend. A lot going on in the
news right now. But of course there's this Meta is
about to lay off eight thousand employees. They're going to
close six thousand open jobs to focus on artificial intelligence.
At this rate, it won't be long before you haven't
met a person who works there, because that's what's going
to happen soon.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
AI is taking our jobs.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
John Bonk, what are you going to do when all
the politicians are artificial intelligence?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What's going to happen?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well, I think a lot of people can't.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We're always concerned when the Internet came about, right and
they thought the same thing was going to happen. Job
is going to be lost? How is this going to
impact the consumer? And I think the Internet had a
lot of good. Internet also had a lot of bad,
and I look at AI the same way.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's going to be an innovative. I think it's going
to help out a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It's going to grow the economy, but we're going to
have to adapt. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I'm saying that because I know they're listening, and
when they come, I just want to let them know
I was always loyal to you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It was John who said beware of the robot revolution.
I was for it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I have to tell you, John, you're running for office
right now in the thirty eighth district. A lot of
people think you're a shoe in to win at this point.
Wesley Hunt is outgoing, You are incoming. You like Wesley, right,
You guys get along fine?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I have the utmost respect for Contrmon Hunt. I think
he's done a lot of great things for the district
over the last four years. And man, Kenny, I've been
at campaign events, Republican Club meetings, and there's anything I've
learned is that the people in this district love Wesley Hunt,
and I think a lot of them supported him in
his race for higher office and looking forward to a
place in his big shoes.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
If you do you plan to do anything different once
you get there, then the way he do you have
any policies you don't agree with him on?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
No, I don't think from a policy standpoint, Weston and
I have any differences, I definitely think the country has
shifted since you know, he's moved into that Senate race
and now I mean to me, affordability has been the
thing that every homeowner I'm talking to, whether it's families
or young professionals, when it's healthcare, childcare, energy, housing. You know,
under President Biden, we had just a massive amount of
(02:29):
inflation hitter our economy, where goods and services reached twenty
sometimes thirty percent cumulative increases in pricing. And so families
are filling the crunch at the grocery store, they fill
in the crunch at the gas station, they're filling the
crunch at the kitchen table, trying to balance a check book.
And as Republicans, we need to figure out free market
conservative principles to fix this credit, affordability, housing that we're
(02:51):
in right now, this crisis.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
For those that don't know who John is, John was
endorsed by Trump. He is the Republican nominee. Right, if
I'm not mistaken, you're not having to a runoff. You
you're in it, right.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, Actually we do have a runoff. You have a runoff,
do you have a runoff.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
My notes are terrible, John Go, I think everyone just
kind of assumes you've got this. Why does everybody think
that yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I mean in Texas, you got to get to fifty percent,
so I had ten folks on the ballot. I ran hard,
put my name in the hat, and we put a great,
great race together. I got forty seven percent of the
vote total.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Who are you in a runoff with?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
My opponent got nineteen percent? So that's who I'm in
a runoff.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't even know who it is.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I think, okay, John, everyone thinks that you Yeah, are
you just a finish first?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Count the votes? Count the votes again? I don't believe it. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I petitioned the votes. No, I'm super thankful.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I mean it was a crowded field ten people to
get that much separation, to get that much support, getting
to forty seven and the person second only got nineteen
is a massive momentum builder.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
As we head into the runoff, I'm actually kind of embarrassed.
I didn't know that everybody's talking about what is it?
Meeler versus Kane. Everybody's talking about Paxton versus Cornyn, and
then here in this city a lot of people just
assumed it was you at that point.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I haven't heard anyone suggest that you wouldn't be going
to Washington this November.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, No, I don't think anything's wrong, would have
that mindset. I don't think it's a very competitive runoff,
like you said, although the runoff's going to be really competitive.
But again, we have the endorsements, we have the momentum,
the grassroots, we have all the moment it'll win the runoff.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But it's coming up May eighteen, it's early voting.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You're going to probably be in Washington at a time
when No, it's obviously not the most violent time in
American history, but boy, it feels like it's the most
violent time in politics during our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I can't. I mean what January obviously, the Summer of.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Love twenty twenty. Leading up to January, six months and
months of left wing riots. One afternoon of a right
wing riot. Obviously that was worse. We've been told over
and over again by the media who could question them.
Fast forward to this weekend, they tried to kill Trump again.
The conspiracy theorist tell us it's a false flag again.
Wouldn't that be amazing, Like, if it was, I don't
(04:59):
believe that's fake. I don't think the government is smart
enough to pull that off. Okum's razor tells you, how
did this happen? Well, we defunded the DHS, We've defunded
the Secret Service. It's a skeleton crew. Did you notice
in the photos that same woman, the short woman, the
short chobby secret Service agent was out there on the
floor of the White House correspondence dinner, the same woman
(05:20):
from Butler, Pennsylvania. That a lot of people thought, Wow,
this is a DEI hire. What is she doing there?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, I noticed that she was there.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
But what I'll say about the shooting this weekend is
that lies have consequences, and the radical left is just
making a lie after lie that our president's a rapist
or a pedophile, or fascists and all these things. And
we have so much mental unstable people in our country
right now, and these lies end up in these people's
ears and they decide I'm gonna take action. And we've
seen three times now they've tried to assassinate our president,
(05:50):
a man who doesn't need this, a man who could
be on a yacht and join his life and join
his kids and join his grandkids. But he loves his
country and he's doing everything he can to make this
country great again.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Our criticism of the left is usually they're stupid, they're
lib tarted. You guys are nuts, you know you're But
I don't usually think of them as We don't describe
them as being Nazis or monsters or baby killers or
that's how they describe us. And not surprisingly, somebody, this
guy that tried to kill the president this weekend was
teacher of the Year.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, that's that's kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Yeah, though these are educated people, you know, from a
competency standpoint, and they are just given in to all
these false narratives and they are told that is an
existential threat if you don't take action, and so I
mean there needs to be real consequences I think where
people are making threats against the president or people making
lies against the presidents, like those people. You know, we've
seen what some of the things have been said on
(06:43):
TV where it's like, should we be saying that's a
mass amount of people, We don't know what people might
take action and actually believe that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know, Leslee Hunt, the guy who you're probably going
to be replacing in Congress. Great guy, And it's my
understanding just from knowing him, knowing the people around him.
People threat to kill him all the time. So you're
going to be taking the job of a guy who
has his life threatening on a regular basis. And he's
not the most controversial person in politics, not even in
the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So you know, what's that like for you?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, I know, it's a real thing you have to
consider as a family, you know. And my wife and
I we love this country. We're small business owners.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I grew up in a broken home, raised by my grandparents,
working minimum wage. After college, got to Houston oil and gas,
got into real estate, and I'm like, this country is
doing so much for my life, done so much for
my family. And Ronald Reagan's one of my favorite presidents.
He always said freedom is always a generation away from
being lost forever, and so freedom is something we have
to fight for every generation.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Freedom is something we have to teach our kids.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
And during COVID, we saw our freedoms get taken away,
shutting down churches, shutting down school shutting down businesses. And
so my wife and always like, we need to go
fight and just never knew where my lane was. So
I mean, as a household, we are unified in our
decision and we understand what we're stepping into.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
For very personal reasons, I'm a big fan of Montgomery County.
If you're a criminal and you go up to your district,
the thirty eighth district, mostly Montgomery, a little bit of Harris,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
It's mostly it's all Harris County actually is yours. I
thought part of it was Montgomery, No, No, No eight.
Tom Ball is Harris County, Yep, Yep, Tomball Cline all
that's hair.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's the normal part of the county. Then you see
that shows again that shows what I know. I know
nothing about the thirty eighth district. John is that it's
all good.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Brother.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
When I'm out by Tomball, I just assume. So that's
not like.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
What is so what you're probably thinking, though, Kenny is
Tomball is d which is the best school district in
Harris County from all levels, and Tomball I stretches into
Montgomery Cay.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's what it is, okay. And then what's the other
thing up there? District to what's that club called two
thirty eight Is that what.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's called the Republican Clubs?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Or no, No, there's some honkey tonk up there too,
for you could say it, what is it? Two forty nine?
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Have you been there? Yeah? We did a New Year's
Eve party there. That's isn't that Montgomery County?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, that's Harris County. That's Harris County, Harris County.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well, no, wonder it's such a dump. All right, hang out,
we'll be right back. You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine point fifty. What's the hotel chain?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Where they ask a guy a really complicated question and
then he gives an answer and they say, well, how
do you know what?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Are you a doctor?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He says no, but I recently stayed at a holiday
and Express.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Is that where he stayed? I think it was holiday
at Express.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That mentality was on full display last week in the
state of Virginia. A week ago, we had Daniel Turner
from Power the Future call into the show. Good friend
of the show, longtime contributor, regular part of our weekly panels.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Here.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Daniel's a break guy and he also happens to be
a resident of the state of Virginia. He was one
of the first person people out there to point out
to me that the redistricting controversy in the state of
Virginia was going to be a little different than what
happened in Texas or what happened in California for that matter.
All of Virginia had laws in place that said they
weren't supposed to do this, didn't matter, they did it anyway. Obviously,
(10:06):
a judge wasn't thrilled about that last week. We'll get
to all that in a minute. But in the wake
of that vote happening Virginia deciding to jerry mander their
own state in an effort to crush Trump, the world
was introduced to a star meet Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby. Now,
I never knew who this guy was until yesterday, well
(10:27):
until Friday, when this video first went viral.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I didn't know he was out there. I didn't know
this guy existed.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
This is one of the funniest things a politician has
ever said in state government that I'm aware of. When
I first heard this clip, I thought this was from
the Chappelle Show. He is dead ass serious as he's
telling you The reason he understands rural voters is because
he's seen the TV show Dukes of Hazzard. They were
(10:55):
making the point here. If you redistrict the state, the
rural voters won't have any representation. It'll all be lawmakers
picked by the city people. It's the tales oldest time.
That's how jerrymandering works. Listen to Lamont respond to this.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
And listen. I almost took issue with the other side
saying that we don't understand. But I grew up watching.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Waltons, the Waltons.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
I grew up with Opie Opie. I even wants the
dukesa has.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Think I know a little bit about rule.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Everybody's laughing. They're laughing. He's not kidding.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And when I think about while we are.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Here, Yeah, why are we here? Lamont?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
We're not just here. I'm not just here for THEO.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
He's not just here for THEO Huxtable.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I'm not just here.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
For Arnold.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He's not just here for Arnold or Willis. No Arnold
and Willis nor mister Drummond's boy Dana Plato Topanga from
Boy Meets World. Obviously, who could forget the lovely Topanga, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's why Lamont Bagbee is a man of the people,
Daniel Turner a Powerthefuture dot com.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Isn't this just so incredibly insulting that you have to
try to pretend that this is a an air you dite, uh,
you know, and an intellectually sound argument. You know this
is and and it's it's insane. I did respond to
him on social media, and I thought, yeah, I'll get
a little bit of blowback, but you have to stop
being afraid of saying stuff. But if I told Senator
(12:49):
Lamont black Bee, who your in case your audience does
not know is black? If I told Senator Blackbe, hey, Senator,
I know a lot about black America because you know,
I had a two Live Crew album, right, and I
used to watch The Martin Show as a kid. Right,
So don't tell me that you don't. I don't understand
(13:10):
your concerns as Black America. I get Black America, right.
I even saw the movie that the musical Hamilton. It
was awful, by the way, Hamilton was just stupid. But
that's another conversation. Right back, Blackbe would would absolutely call
me racist, and he would yell and scream about the
you know, the belittling of his people and his culture
(13:31):
and reducing it to Hollywood stereotypes. But that's rural America, right.
That's why this referendum was so important for the Democrats
because the voices they were silencing are the rural voice
voices which tend to vote very conservative and like their
guns and like their land and like their privacy. So so,
Senator Blackbee, would you know it would never be a
(13:53):
two way street. And that's kind of the way things
are now in our modern politics get very frustrating.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So what's the latest in your state right now? I mean,
obviously we want a guy like Bagbee here to represent
the dukes of hazard community. Obviously that's the best thing
for them. Yeah, but is it so the judge put
a stop to this last week, and do you think
it moves forward? What happens next?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
The judge put a stop and that was overturned just
a couple of hours ago by another judge to say
it was allowed to go forward. But now that's on
appeal to I think now the last step is the
Virginia Supreme Court. So, and this was kind of expected, right,
we knew that, you know, you have your partisan judges.
One's going to say yes, one's going to say no. Ultimately,
(14:36):
the Supreme Court of Virginia is going to decide the difference.
And it's important for your audience to know, because I
don't expect them to know. They're not Virginia. Mostly they're Texans, right,
But people keep saying, well, why is it what you did?
You know, You're just the Texas did the same thing.
In Texas, you are allowed to draw your redistressing maps
(14:56):
at sort of the will of the governor, right, the
governor and then the legislature draws your maps. In Virginia,
it is an every ten year independent commission that is
court not appointed, but court approved to keep it bipartisan.
So that's the difference, you know. And people can say, well,
Texas did something unfair. You know what, Kenny, no offense.
(15:18):
I don't live in damn Texas. I don't care what
the hell Texas does. That's the beauty of our system.
If democrats in Texas hate what Texas is doing, fight
for Texas. I live in Virginia, and in Virginia, we
have a law that says to avoid any of this,
it can only happen on the tenth year and it
has to be a court approved. Well, Democrats said, we
(15:39):
don't like that law anymore because we want to respond
to Texas. So that's why our state is a little different. You,
of course can say what California is doing is unfair,
what Texas is doing is unfair. I don't live there.
I live in Virginia, and I want my voice to
be heard in Virginia. But thanks to people like the
very wise Senator blacksby longer allowed to have my Dukes
(16:02):
of Hassard voice be heard.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
What a shame. That's a real but that bothers the
crap out of me.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Hey, on an unrelated note here, I don't know if
you heard about this over the weekend, Jim Acosta.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I don't know if you heard about this.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There was some controversy at the White House correspondence dinner
this week this weekend, and of course I'm talking about
the very violent episode involving former CNN reporter Jim Acosta
being threatened to fight an independent journalist, Michael Tracy outside
of a Hampton And.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Apparently there was another incident involving a shooting. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's not as important to me as this Michael Tracy
is this anti Iran war act as kind of an
anti Israel guy, and he'll support whichever side if they're
against Israel. And as you know, Jim Acosta's Jim Acosta.
Everybody remembers him from the CNN Disgrace. Journalist Michael Tracy
wanted to fight Jim Acosta outside of Hampton in this weekend.
(16:58):
I couldn't even understand what it was about. But I
love the thought of nerds fighting each other for our entertainment.
And I was just wondering if you had a chance
to get to get a wind of this this weekend,
Daniel turn.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I did see the Michael Tracy tweet in real time,
and I laughed myself silly. Right, Jim Acosta did not
show at the appointed place in time, and of course
Tracy made fun of him. You know, this is the
stuff of children. But but I'm there. I'll be amused, right,
so you can. You can entertain me like it's Gladiator.
(17:29):
It's the level of violence though, of people unwilling to
fight is a little different, you know. I mean, like
like gentlemen used to throw out their dual challenge, and
you could reject the dual challenge or you could take it.
Democrats don't even want to offer the challenge anymore. You
just walk out the door, and they want to shoot
you in the head because that's how they want to
resolve their differences. So, yeah, you know, the White House
(17:52):
Correspondence dinner, I did not go. I did not have
an invite. I probably would not have gone even if
I had been invited, because a lot of people bowl
a couple hour drives to DC. Does is it worth it?
But what is telling about it? Though? It couldn't have
happened to a better audience, because they're the drivers of this, right,
They're the drivers of a lot of lies about the president,
(18:13):
a lot of the anger about the president. You have journalists,
quote unquote who flat out says that Trump is a
convicted rapist and a known pedophile.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Right.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
They say these things so comfortably that they forget that
they are lying. And you look at the guy, the shooter,
and that was in his manifesto. He's a rapist, he's
a pedophile. I enjoy the fact that they were for
a split second cowering under their tables and afraid because
they've caused that, right, and maybe they will reflect upon
(18:45):
just pedaling in the business of lies again because they
realize the damage that that it does. I doubt it though,
you know, sadly, Kenny, I I think you know, we're
already at the point now that it was staged and
and maybe he did it for the mid terms. By Friday,
it will be his fault. You know, I haven't seen
what the cows of the view said. I don't really
watch that show. I assume they assumed they said it
(19:07):
was Trump's fault too.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Did you see the video of I thought it was
a journalist.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It turns out it was a retired Secret Service agent
eating spoonfuls of mashed potatoes while everyone else is laying
on the ground ducking under their table. There was a
camera shot of the room, and one guy just did
not care. This older white guy just kept eating mashed
potatoes like he hadn't been to a free dinner before.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
He's like, I don't care. I'm here, I'm eating these carrots.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
I will say, well made mashed potatoes are exceptional. And
I think it's you know, it's one of those things
about if you like food, and I love food, and
I consider myself to be a fairly accomplished cook. Mashed
potatoes are one of those things that is seemingly easy,
and yet they're ninety nine percent of the times completely mediocre.
So maybe they were just exceptionally well done mashed potatoes,
(19:57):
and he's like, you know what, if I'm gonna go
out dying, I might as well go out enjoy these
these wonderful meshed potatoes. So good for him, I thought.
More embarrassing with the videos of the reporter chicks who
were sticking bottles of wine in their purse as they
were leaving. You know, they're the it's if you're gonna
(20:17):
steal booze, like, don't you know, just walk it out
with you in your hand, you know, Like I'm never
gonna begrudge people from taking booze at an event I've
left a wedding or whatever. Like I'm taking this bottle,
but I don't shove it down my pants or in
my bag. I just walk at it within my hand
because I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Also funny was the what the blonde lady that was
doing a kissy face selfie to report? I don't know
if you saw that, so I don't know who she's.
Somebody named Debra Lee posted a kissy face selfie, so
she couldn't tell her followers that everyone was okay, Like Jesus, lady,
talk about tone deaf? But hey, what are you gonna do?
We gotta run Daniel Turnery closing thoughts.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
No, it's always great to be wish you can't. He's
just always stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Brother, Yeah, no kidding, we'll hit you next week.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Follow Daniel Turner power the future if you work in
oil and guess he's a good follower.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
All right, So apparently the CEO of best Buy is
about to step down. I'm told she found the same
job for a better deal on Amazon dot Com.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
That makes sense, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I agree?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
If you're an electronic store, we used to go to
radio Shack. You remember that our Circuit City.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Dude, I love Circuit City. I loved Radio Shack. I'm
a nerd.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I don't know if you can tell that everything's moved
to e commerce on Amazon. But there is something to
be said about small businesses, choices, options. I mean, that's
what capitalism is. It drives innovation, and so it's kind
of sad when you see companies not doing well, and
we only have limited options.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Back in the seventies and the eighties, I think people
thought the future of electronics consumerism was going to be
building your own stuff, soldering your own things together, manu,
fixing your own computer boards and stuff. Fast forward to
the future. It's children in China doing all of that.
So radio Shack closed. Radio Shack used to be a
store where you could buy circuits and diodes and transistors.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Fast forward to the future. It basically became a cell
phone store for geriatrics.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That that's not a business model, that's sustainable. That went
away overnight.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, I think about in video you just brought it up.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
We used to build our computer towers and change out
the video graphics card so you can play Counterstrike or
whatever it was growing up. And who would have thought
to buy in video stock back in the middle of
nineteen ninety four, nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
How much who would be worth now?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Nobody would have thought, Yeah, the biggest company in the
world now five trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
John, can you tell me we're on the radio right now,
but if you could describe for our listeners what is
on the screen in this room?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
What am I looking at?
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Right here.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, you're looking at security footage from Mama Sidas out
there right there in Sipics area.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, and that is this is that your That's where
your car was.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
That is my white F one fifty pick up right there.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And what's about to happen to your car?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Someone's gonna somebody's bought a smash and grab. You know,
it was a rainy day.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
If you remember Houstonians two tuesdays ago, it was pouring
for twelve hours straight and so I had an umbrella.
I was bringing in all the campaign brochure stuff and
I just the Holy spirit to one me probably not
to leave my work bag in there. But I left
my work bag in the back of my truck on
the floor with the iPad and computer in there, and
somebody smashed my window and grabbed it in literally thirty
(23:25):
seconds and they're out.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Wow, just like that, huh. And that's all it took.
And they got your laptop And in.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
The sentimental work back, I was a work bag that
my wife got me on our second year wedding anniversary.
And so I'm probably more upset about the work bag
than that because it's sentimental.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, exactly. Still, it sucks though to have in there
you could see the guy getting out.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Is that him? Yep?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
That is the perpetrator and the alleged perpetrator.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Did they catch him?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I put in a police report with a Harris County
Sheriff's apartment, and so they got the footage, They got
the photos and go get them boys.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I left Chicago because the crime so bad when I
was in my twin I mean also because I had
this job offer in Houston, so it seemed appealing to me.
When I moved to Houston, the crime rate here was
about half of what it was in Chicago. Now I
think it said about two thirds. I haven't looked recently,
but it's catching up. Is Houston turning into Chicago?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I'm optimistic we can turn around, But the voters need
to wake up, Kenny. You know, as Republicans, even independence
of your pro public safety, pro family, pro business, you
need to wake up and get involved in politics. We
let so many liberal judges coming into Harris County cashless
bill bonds where people have been arrested fourteen, twenty times
and they're back on the streets. Actually served on a
(24:39):
criminal jury probably ten years ago. This guy had the
longest rap she have ever seen, been arrested fifteen twenty times.
And he ended up driving like one hundred and twenty
miles an hour, smoking weed the under influence, and he
caused a multiple car crash and three different people died
of vehiclear manslaughter. Wow, and that was the case I
(24:59):
was in. I was like this, what was this guy
doing on the streets. He's been arrested tons of times.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And then of course there's the incident with non citizens
driving trucks all over the states. Yeah, so many of these.
My buddy that I lift weights with the other day
is a block away from our gym. Some guy plows
into his car. He's in a tow truck. He gets
hit by a tow truck. The guy takes out his ID.
What's the guy's name, Mohammed Mohammad, Mohammad, Mohammed, Hassan Jahad Mohammad.
(25:26):
It's like, I don't think this guy's UH car insurance
is legitimate, Bob.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I hate to break it to you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, you bring up a great point. So love President Trump.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
He's done a lot of great things, Like I love
the golf of America, right, but sure, you're like, what
does that do? But what he did when he got
in the office is second terms. He changed changed, but
he implemented that English is now the official language of
our country.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
How could that be controversial?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Well, it was like, how is that not already a thing?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Right?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
We're two hundred and fifty years of country and we
didn't have an official language. And so now when the
federal government establishes that, hey, English is our only.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Language and you have to speak English.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Now if you want to drive our federal highways like
iten or I forty five and get a CDL, guess
what Now we can start imposing rules and regulations that
you have to be able to speak English, read English
before you get a CDL. But over the last couple
of years, we've seen a lot of immigrants that can't
read or speak English get CDLs and they've killed Americans.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
All Right, So you're a husband, you're a dad. Your
wife is Laura? Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Laura bump?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Does Laura make you double check the car now like
it's Fort Knox every time you're going somewhere? I mean,
this has probably got to freaker out a little bit, right?
How does that affected life at home for you?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I mean I think with our kids there are eight
and five, and you start talking to them about, hey,
there are bad people out there. There are people that
want to commit violence, there are people that believe in
different morality than we do, and we have to be careful,
we have to be cautious.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And we've always tried to speak truth for our kids.
We never sugarcoated things.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It's like, hey, that's why mommy and Daddy try to
park here, don't park there, or here's why we don't
go to that place.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
We choose to go here.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
And so our kids are starting to realize that, Man,
I'm thankful for the law enforcements. I'm thankful for the
police officers. My kids have police officers at their schools,
like most kids in this county do. And so our
kids are starting to realize that there is evil in
the world and there are bad people, and good people
need to do something about it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You and I both know there's this political pendulum.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
It swings back and forth, and right now it feels
like it's going back in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
We're going back towards woke again. It's woke two point zero.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Since Mayor Mom Donnie got into office, there was suddenly
the cocktail sipping. Marxist is cool to everybody is New
York City socialite socialists. How could you be a socialite socialist?
They're going viral all the time, Hassan Piker. These guys are.
They're millionaire commis who love China, but they want to
live in LA for some reason, Orks, Houston or New
(27:39):
York City. It feels like everything about what they believe
in is a contradiction.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So why is it so appealing to young people?
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
No, I think some of the affordability stuff that I
hit on.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I mean, Mom Donnie is like, we're gonna give you
free transportation and free childcare and state funded grocery stores.
And young people right now, the first time home buyer
average as is forty years old, and so young people
are not access our housing. Young people don't own any
stocks or equities, and they look at the older generations
who own real estate, who own stocks.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
They look at themselves.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
And like, I got two hundred thousand dollars student loan
debt because I've sold a lot that I go to college.
I got this great career waiting for me, and I'm stuck,
and I have credit card debt, I have auto loan debt,
and they're like, capitalism isn't working for me. I kind
of like this socialistic stuff that this mom donnie guy
is talking about. And so Charlie Kirk talked a lot
about this in the summer before he was murdered. He
(28:28):
talked about the buy now, pay later stuff, how it's
hurting young people, and how the economic system we have
right now is really putting a lot of pressure on
young people and if as Republicans we don't help them,
then they're going to start going to alternatives like communism,
and we can't let that happen.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I am, I'm a millennial. You're Milaeni, You're you're in
your thirties. Yeah, you're thirty nine, Okay, I'm in my
early forties, so we're not much older. A lot of
people in my generation blame the high cost of housing
on the Afghanistan War, the Iraqi War. These never These
wars went on for two almost three decades. Nothing came
(29:05):
from it other than a lot of inflation. We spent
a lot of money. Now people are compared. I think
it's unfair to compare the Iran War to that. I
don't love the Iran War, but it's also two months old,
it's not two decades old. I'd love to see it
wrap up before we get to the general election here,
I don't know if it will.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
What are your thoughts on that? Does that concern you?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, I mean I support President Trump.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Peace through Strength has been working, and so I always
tell people it's like, hey, it's only been a couple
of weeks, Like, we have to trust him. We elected him.
He's got the inputs insights that we don't have. We
don't have all the information that he has. But again,
I grew up. I was a sophomore in high school
when nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I remember when.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
The Patriot Act and the FISA courts and all this
big government happened. In the Afghan Wars, I don't want
prolonged wars. I don't want American boots on the ground.
I don't think that serves our country well. I think
we have a lot of domestic issues to focus on
right now. But I am proud that President Trump's taking
decisive action right now. And I know that the midterms
are coming up and we're still really far away from November.
(30:04):
We have a lot of time still to get this
wrapped up hopefully by the end of May, if not
earlier than that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We are we got to run in just a minute here,
but we are getting comments on social media because we're
live streaming. I'll just let you address one of them,
Michael asked. He says, what is your small business? He said,
he is a small business in the Tom Ball Magnoli aera.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
You're in mortgage, right, yeah, yeah, my business partner and
I have a mortgage business together. We work for a
large independent mortgage bank, and so we do just retail
residential real estate, all single family where we're helping a
lot of Texans, you know, by their first home or
they're having kids and they need more space, or they
want to move into a good school district. And then
my wife has a small real estate brokerags that she
(30:43):
runs herself called Bunk Group, And so yeah, real estate's
a great way to serve people in the city.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Well, you miss being in the free market when you
get to government.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
You know, I think right now, I have a lot
of experience and insight. Right now, in Congress, only thirty
percent of people have owned or currently own a business,
and so seventy percent of our legislators, right now in
the nation's capital. Don't know what it's like to manage
a budget, manage a P and L, or be responsible
for the livelihoods of their employees. My wife and I
have people that work for as that we feel the
(31:13):
weight when the market changes or sales aren't going well,
that we got to take care of these people. And
that does something to you, that gives you a certain burden,
that gives you a certain perspective.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And that perspective is missing right now in Congress.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
And so I'm more excited about what I have to
offer Congress, not so much focused on on what I'm
going to lose here, because it's a sacrifice and it's
a calling.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, My guest right now, John Bonk, he isn't
a runoff in Texas thirty eight. Some people may not
have even known that. Some people thought you won the
general election. I happen to be one of them, as
embarrassing as that is, but John, I think you're a
great candidate. I gave you my endorsement early on. I
know Donald Trump did as well. Any closing thoughts, anything
you want people to know before we get out of here.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, No, I just want people to get informed. Get engaged.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
I mean we have elections, special elections going on right now.
We have city council if you're in tom Ball, we
have schoolboard elections going on and the runoff starts on
May eighteenth through the twenty second. The election day is
May twenty six so you know, read up on our
website about me, my candidacy, the things that I want
to fight for. Would be honored to have your support
in your vote. And y'all join us on May sixth
(32:13):
at the Brandon Guil event in Cyprus.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It'll be a great one.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
My brother from another John, thank you so much for
your time this after.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
God bless you Kenning, Thank you brother.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio for
the Government to kiss You're ass when you listen to
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