August 5, 2024 • 35 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness covers the latest from the election, the market crash, and the Paris Olympics. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
An insider from the Kamala Harris campaign says, Kamala intends
to avoid all the mistakes Hillary made in twenty sixteen. Well,
she's already avoided the biggest mistake, just not being Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's a good start.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thanks for turning on the radio today, kids. Let's jump
right into the big news of the day. If you
don't mind, I I'm sure you've heard by now. The
Nasdaq and Crypto, all the tech stuff basically took a
big dive today. And it's easy to understand why this
is happening. The market's crashing, Dow Jones not doing well,
but not as bad as the digital economy that's doing
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very bad. And like we've explained so many times on
this radio show in the past, when there's an inflation crisis,
you know a market crash is inevitable.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
There's no way to avoid it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The thing that surprises me about this is how it
was three years in the making. I'm surprised it didn't
happen sooner. I'd asked a question earlier on social media,
how soon did you expect this to happen? And most
people thought it was going to happen by now. So
instead of asking why the market crashed after the three
point years of record inflation, we should be asking how
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the market was able to last so long despite the
obvious consumer crisis. My two cents, Trump's economy was robust
enough to handle three point five years of Biden's bad policy,
but not four years. I know none of you, some
of you probably.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Won't agree with that entirely.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So now there's a little more to it than that, Kenny, Now,
I know, but this is a political talk radio show
where we talk about what people who create policy can
do to affect your life. The free market's going to
go up and down regardless of what politician is sitting
in the White House. That's inevitable. A market crash can
happen no matter how good or bad the president is.
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But similarly, you better leadership less likely to have the
market crash. Yesterday, Trump fired off on Joe and Kamala
as reports indicated what we all knew was inevitable.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Today.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Over the weekend, there was this significant selloff in the
global stock markets. The Japanese market had its worst day
since nineteen eighty seven, sunk four thousand points. Japan suspended
trading after sinking nearly eight percent. South Korea's stock market
marked its worst session since two thousand and eight. So yeah,
a lot of this had to do with what's going
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on overseas. But Trump said that this was all caused
by an FDUS leadership, which is not entirely true, but
it certainly didn't help. Kamala doesn't know what's going on.
Biden is sound asleep. Trump didn't stop there. He showed
a quote from Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO, Howard Lutnick, stating that
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what happened this weekend is a preview of the world
markets without Trump. None of this happens if Trump is
in Kamala and the markets don't go together. He said,
of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is
even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will never accept the
radical left lunatic that destroyed San Francisco and California as
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a whole. Next move, the Great Depression of twenty twenty
four you can't play games with markets.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's the Kamala crash. Couldn't help. But notice.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The market crashed right after Kamala got to a position
where she's polling above Trump. Now that's not true for
every poll, but there are some polls today that suggest
Kamala has a slight lead over Trump. Six days ago,
Joe Biden claimed he had cured the economy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Don't hurt so late.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
This is he curried the economy. It's a terrible audio.
It's terrible. America won't survive.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Another four years of a Democrat president. We need to
stop Joe, We need to stop Kamala. Tom Patterson recently
published this report that explained some of the reasons why
the economy is suffering right now. High taxes, government spending.
These people never learn the federal system is aptly called
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the laboratory of democracy. Rather than learning everything from the
school of hard knocks, states can look to the experiences
of others through initiatives like charter schools or right to
work laws or taxation levels. But unfortunately a lot of
people are slow learners. The IRS just released its annual
report on net migration of people and money between states,
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and once again the high taxes bend states are losing.
California was the biggest income loser. New York was a
close second, Illinois third, New Jersey fourth, Massachusetts fifth. What
do they all have in common? I'm sure I don't
have to explain it out loud, but I will anyway.
Republicans don't control any.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Of those places. What places do Republicans control?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, not shockingly, places like Florida that just gained thirty
six billion dollars in migrating revenues, or Texas ten point
one billion, followed by South Carolina, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
What do they all have in common? You already know.
I don't even need to say it. I don't even
have to tell you what they all have in common?
You already know, so who knew? People prefer to live
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where housing is affordable and power is reliably available, and
crime is taken seriously by authorities.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
But Kenny Hurricane Burl, Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I never said it was perfect, but certainly beats the alternative.
California not only fails on these tests, but its gas
taxes are the highest in the nation. That means gasoline
costs one to two dollars more a gallon, and electricity
bills are two or three times higher. Temperatures don't seem
to be coming down so much this year, so I'm
guessing the AC it's gonna be pretty pricey for your
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average family in California. So who benefits well, places like
Florida and Texas where one hundred and fifty to two
hundred percent more income being transferred from high spending states
than before the pandemic. Places like California, New York, and
Illinois and all those other states with Democrat governors created
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a doom loop. Fewer workers, less total income results in
lower tax revenue. The tax and spenders have to raise
taxes to maintain their social programs or to keep promises
to the union or finance their debt. Rinse and repeat.
It's not a good look. So yes, it's true. While
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market like the one we witnessed today aren't entirely caused
by the government, the government certainly didn't help. Shoo it's
what it is.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
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Speaker 2 (07:16):
Ginea hunter Biden will be sentenced toward his gun conviction
on November thirteenth. That will give his father about two
months to pardon him. Don't worry, hunter, Daddy's on his way.
We've been talking about the economy. It's not looking good today.
The crash we all knew was inevitable is happening as
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we speak. And I gotta think there's nobody better to
explain it to us than this woman.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hello, is this thing on? And now?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Vice President Kamala Harris explains the recent market crash?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Look, the stock market is a market, okay. It's a
market where people like you and me, regular people buy
and sell. You know, it's no different than the corner
market where your mem would buy groceries in Newport, Okay.
But then this corner market you buy stocks right or
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you can sell stocks. So in this special kind of market,
you could also be a vendor. But you have to
own stocks and able to sell them.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And today is the day where the stock market has
some challenges. But we are aware of these challenges. We
know about these challenges. These challenges are real, and we
are more than aware than these stock market challenges, and
we are watching these challenges with both eyes. These challenges
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are our sole focus with regards to the stock market challenges.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Boy, she's great, isn't she just a charming young woman?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What's going on with Kamala today?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, as you I have heard, poll numbers are looking
very good for Kamala right now. Not so much for Trump.
It turns out getting shot for your country and you know,
defeating your opponent in a debate, none of that really
worked out in the long run for Trump. People have
a very short memory. Bright part today reporting on the
latest polling numbers. In the two or so weeks since
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becoming the anointed and appointed one, Kamala has pretty much
erased Trump's national lead. She's also enjoying real momentum in
the swing states, they claim. Now. Last week we talked
about how we would need to wait until this week
before we could begin to understand the impact Joe Biden's
decision to drop out is having on the presidential race.
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We also explained how we would see how the Democrat
Party in the corporate media. But I'm repeating myself, are
crowning Kamala the nominee that is impacting the polls.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, now we know, and we know that.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Former President Trump went from coasting to an easy victory
to what is now a statistically tied race where Kamala
might still be on the rise, which means she could
soon be in the lead, which means she could soon win.
When Joe dropped out of the race two weeks ago,
the Real Clear Politics average poll of polls the National
poll said Trump was enjoying a stubborn and steady lead
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over Biden three point one points forty seven point nine
to forty four point eight. Pretty close, but still Trump
was at Trump's lead was also climbing then, as was
his sealing of support forty five points, leaping up to
forty eight in six weeks. But against Kamala things are different.
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He just evaporated one point two points forty seven point
seven to forty six point five percent. So the Real
Clear Politics average pole of national polls in a five
way race says Trump is actually four point two points
over Biden and eight point seven points for RFK Junior.
So Trump way in the lead, but it changes a
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little bit with Kamala. Against Kamala in a five way poll,
Trump's lead is all but gone at least the half
point or so point three percent, and that benefits Kamala
apparently disaffected by Biden. Democrats don't really care that much
about RFK Junior, and suddenly Kamala is up. The news
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is now much better in the swing states that will
decide the election. In Arizona, Trump's lead has shrunk five
point eight points to four point two. In Nevada, Trump's
lead has shrunk five point six points to four in Wisconsin.
Trump's leader is shrunk two point nine to point two
in Michigan. In Pennsylvania, North Carolina, you did the idea
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Georgia should worry Trump. Against Biden, the state looked pretty safe,
But against Kamala it's different. The question is what is
Kamala's ceiling? When does there momentum top out? What plans
do the Trump Advance twenty twenty four campaign have to
blunt this momentum as it stands right now, at this
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exact specific moment, the corporate media are running a two
phased campaign to elect this failed radical. The first is
the Obama celebrity make history campaign. The second is the
Biden twenty twenty basement campaign, where she hides from media.
She's not doing any interviews, she's not accepting the invitation
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to debate Trump, and so far that's working, but we
still got a long way to go. Donald Trump is
not John McCain, so don't write him off yet. Anything
could happen here. As a resident of Southeast Texas, I
got to think of all the policies that Kamala has
that concern me, her position on energy is the most concerning.
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Doctor May Angelou famous for saying, when someone shows you
who they are, believe them the first time. And if
that's true with Kamala Harris letting everybody know where she
stands on things like fracking and energy, we should believe her.
Fox dot Com Today, Foxnews dot Com Today, reporting on
Kamala Harris's history with wanting to ban fracking, abolishing the filibuster,
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supporting the Green New Deal. You'd think that stuff would
be coming back to haunt her, but she doesn't actually
have any current policy positions, so it doesn't really matter.
Harris in the years past has said that she supports
getting rid of the filibuster and eliminating fracking and forcing
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people to hand over their guns to the government, But
now she seems to have changed her mind, or at
least that sort of staff claims. A campaign spokesmer person
said she would not ban fracking. They said that on
July twenty eighth. Now she wanted to do it in
twenty nineteen. Now in twenty twenty four, she doesn't. Kamala
proposed fracking bans many times in the past, but no, no,
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not the case anymore. I got to think, if you
want to win Pennsylvania, where fracking is a big part
of their economy, telling people you're gonna eliminate their jobs
isn't gonna throw them. Pennsylvanians are no strangers to green
energy policy battles, and people in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Matter. They will affect this race big time.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In recent polling, most Pennsylvania voters a poll opposed joining
the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. That's a multi state carbon
tax policy that Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro is fighting to
keep in Pennsylvania. It's very unpopular. It has hurt his
polling numbers. If Kamala chooses him as a running mate,
it's gonna hurt hers. Josh Shapiro says he favors having
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a carbon tax. Are you not paying enough for fuel
right now? Josh Shapiro doesn't think so. The carbon tax
is basically a economy wide energy tax. It's going to
raise utility costs, it's going to make everything more expensive,
and energy affordability is paramount to Pennsylvania voters. Polling shows
sixty seven percent of Pennsylvania voters wouldn't spend a dollar
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more out of their pocket to combat climate change. They'd
rather just have their average cost of living drop. Seventy
percent agree with expanding natural gas infrastructure they think it'll
reduce costs. Sixty eight percent believe we should reduce regulatory
burdens on our energy industry. So Pennsylvanians are very unlikely
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to openly embrace Green New dealism, and there's a lot
of video clips of Kamala saying she does embrace it.
I wonder how that's going to sit with Pennsylvania voters.
Apparently right now it's not doesn't matter according to the
way to polling numbers.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Maybe that's a conversation we need to be having more
on a national level, lest we not forget Kamali Harris
co sponsored some of the most destructive in viro alarmist
policies to date, the Green New Deal.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Kamala owns this.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
She wants to completely decarbonize the United States by twenty fifty. Now,
looking around you right now at all the fuel combustion
vehicles and plastic iPhones, that seem like something we're on
track to do, Kamala thinks.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
So this guy got arrested for licking and sucking a
woman's hair hair. I set hair at a mall in Atlanta,
And even though it's really gross, still not the most
disgusting thing you could see at a mall in Atlanta.
I gotta think it's probably grosser things like sparrow pizza,
for example.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Who eats sparro pizza? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I do know if you want to see something not gross,
maybe something kind of entertaining. Over the weekend, Joe Rogan
did a live performance of a new stand up comedy
special It's on Netflix. I just canceled my Netflix subscription,
but I watched a little bit this week.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I thought it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't know, there's just nothing on Netflix anymore that
I thought was good except this, I guess, so maybe
I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Anyway, here's a clip.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
You know, it's just good to see everybody having a
good time.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
The country's almost back to normal. Before World War III,
COVID was just so strange.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
We lost a lot of people during COVID, and most
of them are still alive.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, right, right, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And I don't think with anymore.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Before COVID, I would have told you that vaccines are
the most important invention in human history. After COVID, I'm like,
I don't think we went to the moon. Michelle Obamas
got a I think again his room.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I think there's the.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Town.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I don't think Michelle Obama's gonna do it, but I
believe all that.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Others All right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Reason dot Com Today is reporting there is a prostitution
surveillance tower that just went up in San Diego. Apparently
there are so many hookers in San Diego they need
a tower to surveil them. Moral panic about sex work
is leading law enforcement in southern California to do some
stuff they've never done before. Cops are putting up these
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surveillance towers to stop sex sellers and sex buyers for meeting.
I guess there's just a guy that sits up in
there in the tower. He's got a whistle and he
blows it. It's very strange. The prostitution surveillance tower, stationed
along National City's Roosevelt Avenue will record a video of
anyone who happens to be in the area. And I
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don't know what they hope to accomplish from this. I
don't know a lot about sex work.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Like.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's not like I don't judge people for doing I
don't care. I really don't. I'm not one of those
staunch social conservatives you'll hear on a lot of right
wing talk radio stations. I don't care to consenting adults
with a man and woman or two. As long as
they're adults and it's consenting, it does not bother me.
But if they're putting up towers around the city to
stop hookers, the first thing I always assume is that
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they've never heard of the Internet in that where most
of this stuff happens nowadays. According to the report, a
supporter of this surveillance tower told CBS News that it's
supposed to help reduce prostitution by recording the license plate
numbers of people who enter the area to pick up
sex workers. So they got these schemes to catch people
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who want to pay other consenting adults. It feels like
this is kind of a waste of money and manpower.
Also sounds like a violation of privacy and free association
and bodily autonomy, of course, But even if you think
that punishing prostitution or customers of prostitute is a swell idea,
it's hard to see how the surveillance tower makes any sense.
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You can't charge someone for simply picking another person up
off the street, even if police think or even know
that person's a sex worker. Even if money is visibly
exchanging hands, it's not a crime to give someone cash
unless the entire sexual exchange happens right in front of
the cameras. It's hard to imagine on what basis cops
could possibly make any charges stick unintended. Besides, the tower
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is very visible. Local media has been publicizing it. They're
talking about it on TV. When you just assume that
sex workers and customers would know not to stand in
the area near the tower. If the surveillance tower has
any impact at all. It's just going to drive prostitution
from one part of the city to a different part
of the city. That's all it's going to do. I'm guessing.
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I mean, I've never we've never seen this happen before.
It's not like we could compare other cases of this.
While prostitution surveillance tower in my city's very effective, No,
it's not. There are no prostitution surveillance towers in this
city anywhere that I'm aware of.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Are there? Do we have them in Houston? If I'm wrong,
please let me know.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
It just seems kind of clear that the idea here
isn't actually cracking down on prostitution. This is just a
way for authorities to look like they're doing something about
sex trafficking while normalizing the idea of conducting broad, warrantless
surveillance of everyone. It's not actually making you safer. It's
certainly not protecting you from hookers. So local reporting on
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the new surveillance tower has been heavy on human trafficking
myths and dubious statistics. There's this group called the Ugly Truth,
and they told Fox five San Diego that there are
over three thousand to eight thousand sex trafficking victims in
the county each year. Guys, that's a pretty big number.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Three thousand to eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That's that's a very wide range there for you to
be off on, Isn't it like when you think that
number to be a little when'd you think the high
and low on that to be a little closer to
each other to really get an idea as to how
many cases there are. That's like saying there's between one
and a million every day. And on what data does
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the Ugly Truth base this? Their website doesn't say. But
considering that that's vastly more victims than we see in
trafficking or asked across the whole country in a year,
and considering the fact that sex trafficking stings in California
and elsewhere routinely turn up few to no victims, I'm
gonna guess this data is probably bogus. And sex trafficking
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is a real thing, just so we're clear, but it
usually doesn't happen with hookers standing out on the streets
more often than not. I got to assume it's happening
in a CD brothel somewhere that we don't get to
look at you know, the victims of human trafficking at
our border. You think they're just letting them stand out
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on the street at a mini skirt and high heels. No,
those people are chained up somewhere in a basement. You
don't see them. So The Ugly Truth's website also states
that there are approximately eighteen thousand victims in the US.
If we take that at face value, again it's dubious.
That would mean that around seventeen to forty four percent
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of all US trafficking victims are in San Diego County.
So again, it's almost like these numbers are completely made up.
Sketchy figures are par for the course when it comes
to this kind of activism. Fox five also claims that
the average age of entry into sex trafficking is sixteen
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and that prostitution is an eight hundred million dollar industry locally,
but they don't cite where they get that data from.
I actually think sex trafficking is a real problem, Unlike
the people that publish this report at reason dot com,
I just don't think any of this information's acting. And
I don't think this idea of building a tower in
the middle of the part of town where the hookers
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stand around on the street by the airport, is going
to do anything to stop hookers. Claims like these tend
to be based on shoddy studies. You know, if you
actually legalize sex like sex work, odds are people wouldn't
get trafficked anymore. With just a little bit of regulation,
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With just a little bit of government oversight, you could
stop underage people from becoming part of this industry, or
non consenting people for that matter. Putting it all underground,
making it all illegal is the reason why there are
victims that don't want to consent or underage people, which
is kind of the same thing. So thankfully, there seem
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to be fewer nonsense statistics about sex traffic in the
media today than there were about a decade ago, but
coverage of the National City Surveillance Tower in San Diego
serves as a good that debunked myths are still out
there and still being used to justify absurd government spending.
And while sex trafficking panic is are arguably less common
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now than it was a decade ago, it's press coverage
should remind us how institutionalized this panic has become. Have
you ever heard about the sex trafficking myth during Comic Con.
They say the stuff about the Super Bowl and political
conventions too.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Generally, it's not true. Every year, the liberal media will.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Run a story saying that sex trafficking is rampant at
Republican National Convention, and then there's no news reports about
anybody getting busted or arrested or rescued. The FBI and
Homeland Security investigations have actually assisted in ramping up some
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of this fake news. Meanwhile, the one place in the
country where sex trafficking is abundant right down at the border.
I don't mean San Diego, I mean at the border.
Nobody's doing anything about it. Humans are actually being trafficked
at the border every day, underage kids, in droves, thousands
of them.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That's the real problem.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But in California, to stop that from happening, they're building
a tower in the middle of the city near the airport. Yeah,
something tells me that's not going to work.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio Pursuit
of Happiness. We don't have that in Mexico. A little
bit of Olympic coverage news for you kids. Team USA
won the Golden Women's Foil. Kansas City chiefs kicker Harrison
Budker couldn't be prouder that our women are the best
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at preserving leftovers.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Wait, that's not right now. Apparently it has something to
do with fencing. Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Meanwhile, Kid Rock got into the Olympic spirit. He made
a video of himself shooting cans of bud light with
an air pistol. Very cool, very exciting thing for him
to do. I enjoyed watching that. I am kind of
bummed out. Got some bad news about beach volleyball. But
before we get to the beach volleyball news, I had
to check and see what the what is the latest
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from the what is it?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The river Sen?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
There have been concerns over the water quality in the
river in Paris, says Olympians are set to compete. Some
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Speaker 3 (28:04):
All right. Sad news.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Former LSU volleyball players knocked out of the Paris Olympics.
Tarren Cloth and Kristin Nuhz ended their run at the
Paralympics after a loss to Canada.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Canada, Canada, We lost.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
At beach volleyball to a country where it's frozen ten
months out of the year.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
That doesn't even make any sense. Canada.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Very sad. Anyway, It's a shame they got crushed. I
watched a little bit of it here a short time
ago while I was doing this radio show as a
matter of fact, and it reminded me of this report
today from who is This? Jerry Thornton just published a
story about beach volleyball and how feminists are offended. Women's
rights groups are offended by beach volleyball uniforms. You know
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who is not offended by the beach volleyball uniforms the
women who actually compete in beach volleyball. You know, beach
volleyball first appeared at the Olympics at the Barcelona Games
back in nineteen ninety two, and it became an official
event four years later in Atlanta, so Paris twenty twenty four,
the ninth Olympics to include it. There are twenty four
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countries who compete. This is truly a worldwide phenomenon. It
is a very popular sport to play and to watch,
and it has long enjoyed front and center status. After
all that, you know, it's fun to watch, it's fun
to play, it's it's perfect for the summer Olympics. It's
a bunch of people in bikinis. When the Olympics assign
you the kind of locations that are typically the first
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to get destroyed by aliens or natural disasters in a
sci fi movie, you know you've reached the peak of
international popularity, which the world being a terrible place guarantees
somebody somewhere is going to be cheesed off about the
fact that lots of people are having fun watching women's
beach volleyball. Here's a headline from the Daily Mail why
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do female volleyball players wear skimpy bikinis? History behind the
controversial uniform revealed as fans reignite sexism row over double
standard with men's kits. And then they published the article
here and it talks about how some women's rights groups
are holding protests in Paris. They really don't like those outfits. Okay,
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So to compete in this sport of queens, you're not
required to dress like you're working a champagne room off
the Vegas strip. So it's case clothes then, right, they
don't actually have to wear those clothes.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
The women competing choose to wear those clothes. Have you
heard this before?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
They're allowed to wear long pants if they want, and
if it's called out, they actually do they wear them.
There was I think one of the first US women's
beach volleyball games in this Olympics. You saw them wearing
what looked like yoga pants because it was chili that night.
But then the next day they had on the little shorts. Okay,
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so the official policy is you do you? Which you
pretty much the conversation. The women competing can wear what
they want, and sure we could go all toxic masculine
on this topic with cheap, low hanging fruit jokes. The
only Olympic sport I watch is women's beach volleyball. Yeah,
I get it. No one supports women's sports more than
me because I'm a big fan of hot chicks wearing
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little shorts.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
But even still, they choose to wear that stuff. That's
their decision, so who cares. But this isn't about what
the players want. It's about people that aren't involved in
the sport telling you what you should be doing. Look,
we're only flesh and blood. Does anyone think beach volleyball
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would be one of the Summer Olympics most popular sports
if nobody was watching it? And I'm sure part of
the reason why people are watching it is because the
women are hot. It's in our DNA to want to
see attractive people dressed attractively showing off their attractiveness, including,
though not limited to, while they're doing something super athletic.
You can object to it. You don't have to like it.
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All the kill joys from the International League for Women's Rights.
You're fine to be mad about it, but human evolution
doesn't care what upsets you. More to the point, it's
not like This gait only swings one way. Do you
not remember the movie Top Gun. We're handsome guys in
little shorts. We're playing beach volleyball. It's like a famous
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part of the movie. Right, Was anybody ever offended by that?
That was four decades ago, But we don't have to
go back four decades. These have been, without a doubt,
the most wang centric Olympics since the ancient Greeks were
competing nude? Did you not hear about the pole vaulter's
massive dong costing.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Him a medal?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You don't see men's groups demanding a stop to revealing outfits.
Nobody cares if men's diving athletes are wearing little speedos.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Or those of us sensitive about our own manhood asking
these gentlemen to don codpieces in order to protect our
delicate sensibilities, nobody cares. We understand, when you invite the
most athletically gifted young people from around the world to
gather together, a high percentage of the competitors are going
to have sexually desirable physical traits stuff the average humans
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do not, and the only fair approach is to let
them flaunt it if they've got it. It certainly hasn't
hurt the sport. Do you think beach volleyball is negatively
affected by any of this? No, the Olympics and the
TV ratings are higher than ever for those sports. People
want to see what they want to see, so let
them see it before we get out of here. I
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always liked to end the show with a little bit
of good news. Who doesn't love good news? We do
some good news today. I think I actually have two stories.
I shared this on the Morning Show, but I want
to share it again because I really like this. First
responders in Kansas saved a fourteen month old toddler who
fell down a pipe last week. Kind of reminds you
of do you remember Baby Jessica. Our younger listeners don't
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know who that is, but we've heard stories like this before.
In this case, it was a foot wide and it
was twelve feet deep. Nobody was seriously injured. The little boys, fine,
the toddler. Here's the boy's father, Blake, talking about the rescue.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
He like called out for his little brother. He acted
like he was never going to see him again. I
can't imagine what she thought whenever she saw him fall,
because for all she knew it was a super line,
it was full of water, or it was fifty feet deep.
I mean, she had no idea. By the grace of God,
that boy was carried down that hole by an angel.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Wow, it's incredible they rescued him. Very cool. I always
love a story with happy I mean, I'm Kenny Webster.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
An insider from the Kamala Harris campaign says, Kamala intends
to avoid all the mistakes Hillary made in twenty sixteen. Well,
she's already avoided the biggest mistake, just not being Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's a good start.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thanks for turning on the radio today, kids. Let's jump
right into the big news of the day. If you
don't mind, I I'm sure you've heard by now. The
Nasdaq and Crypto, all the tech stuff basically took a
big dive today. And it's easy to understand why this
is happening. The market's crashing, Dow Jones not doing well,
but not as bad as the digital economy that's doing
(00:58):
very bad. And like we've explained so many times on
this radio show in the past, when there's an inflation crisis,
you know a market crash is inevitable.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
There's no way to avoid it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The thing that surprises me about this is how it
was three years in the making. I'm surprised it didn't
happen sooner. I'd asked a question earlier on social media,
how soon did you expect this to happen? And most
people thought it was going to happen by now. So
instead of asking why the market crashed after the three
point years of record inflation, we should be asking how
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the market was able to last so long despite the
obvious consumer crisis. My two cents, Trump's economy was robust
enough to handle three point five years of Biden's bad policy,
but not four years. I know none of you, some
of you probably.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Won't agree with that entirely.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So now there's a little more to it than that, Kenny, Now,
I know, but this is a political talk radio show
where we talk about what people who create policy can
do to affect your life. The free market's going to
go up and down regardless of what politician is sitting
in the White House. That's inevitable. A market crash can
happen no matter how good or bad the president is.
(02:12):
But similarly, you better leadership less likely to have the
market crash. Yesterday, Trump fired off on Joe and Kamala
as reports indicated what we all knew was inevitable.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Today.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Over the weekend, there was this significant selloff in the
global stock markets. The Japanese market had its worst day
since nineteen eighty seven, sunk four thousand points. Japan suspended
trading after sinking nearly eight percent. South Korea's stock market
marked its worst session since two thousand and eight. So yeah,
a lot of this had to do with what's going
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on overseas. But Trump said that this was all caused
by an FDUS leadership, which is not entirely true, but
it certainly didn't help. Kamala doesn't know what's going on.
Biden is sound asleep. Trump didn't stop there. He showed
a quote from Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO, Howard Lutnick, stating that
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what happened this weekend is a preview of the world
markets without Trump. None of this happens if Trump is
in Kamala and the markets don't go together. He said,
of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is
even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will never accept the
radical left lunatic that destroyed San Francisco and California as
(03:28):
a whole. Next move, the Great Depression of twenty twenty
four you can't play games with markets.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's the Kamala crash. Couldn't help. But notice.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The market crashed right after Kamala got to a position
where she's polling above Trump. Now that's not true for
every poll, but there are some polls today that suggest
Kamala has a slight lead over Trump. Six days ago,
Joe Biden claimed he had cured the economy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Don't hurt so late.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
This is he curried the economy. It's a terrible audio.
It's terrible. America won't survive.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Another four years of a Democrat president. We need to
stop Joe, We need to stop Kamala. Tom Patterson recently
published this report that explained some of the reasons why
the economy is suffering right now. High taxes, government spending.
These people never learn the federal system is aptly called
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the laboratory of democracy. Rather than learning everything from the
school of hard knocks, states can look to the experiences
of others through initiatives like charter schools or right to
work laws or taxation levels. But unfortunately a lot of
people are slow learners. The IRS just released its annual
report on net migration of people and money between states,
(04:58):
and once again the high taxes bend states are losing.
California was the biggest income loser. New York was a
close second, Illinois third, New Jersey fourth, Massachusetts fifth. What
do they all have in common? I'm sure I don't
have to explain it out loud, but I will anyway.
Republicans don't control any.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Of those places. What places do Republicans control?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, not shockingly, places like Florida that just gained thirty
six billion dollars in migrating revenues, or Texas ten point
one billion, followed by South Carolina, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
What do they all have in common? You already know.
I don't even need to say it. I don't even
have to tell you what they all have in common?
You already know, so who knew? People prefer to live
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where housing is affordable and power is reliably available, and
crime is taken seriously by authorities.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
But Kenny Hurricane Burl, Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I never said it was perfect, but certainly beats the alternative.
California not only fails on these tests, but its gas
taxes are the highest in the nation. That means gasoline
costs one to two dollars more a gallon, and electricity
bills are two or three times higher. Temperatures don't seem
to be coming down so much this year, so I'm
guessing the AC it's gonna be pretty pricey for your
(06:15):
average family in California. So who benefits well, places like
Florida and Texas where one hundred and fifty to two
hundred percent more income being transferred from high spending states
than before the pandemic. Places like California, New York, and
Illinois and all those other states with Democrat governors created
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a doom loop. Fewer workers, less total income results in
lower tax revenue. The tax and spenders have to raise
taxes to maintain their social programs or to keep promises
to the union or finance their debt. Rinse and repeat.
It's not a good look. So yes, it's true. While
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market like the one we witnessed today aren't entirely caused
by the government, the government certainly didn't help. Shoo it's
what it is.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
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We're the host the show with a couple of knuckle
his ken Western.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Ginea hunter Biden will be sentenced toward his gun conviction
on November thirteenth. That will give his father about two
months to pardon him. Don't worry, hunter, Daddy's on his way.
We've been talking about the economy. It's not looking good today.
The crash we all knew was inevitable is happening as
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we speak. And I gotta think there's nobody better to
explain it to us than this woman.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hello, is this thing on? And now?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Vice President Kamala Harris explains the recent market crash?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Look, the stock market is a market, okay. It's a
market where people like you and me, regular people buy
and sell. You know, it's no different than the corner
market where your mem would buy groceries in Newport, Okay.
But then this corner market you buy stocks right or
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you can sell stocks. So in this special kind of market,
you could also be a vendor. But you have to
own stocks and able to sell them.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And today is the day where the stock market has
some challenges. But we are aware of these challenges. We
know about these challenges. These challenges are real, and we
are more than aware than these stock market challenges, and
we are watching these challenges with both eyes. These challenges
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are our sole focus with regards to the stock market challenges.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Boy, she's great, isn't she just a charming young woman?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What's going on with Kamala today?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, as you I have heard, poll numbers are looking
very good for Kamala right now. Not so much for Trump.
It turns out getting shot for your country and you know,
defeating your opponent in a debate, none of that really
worked out in the long run for Trump. People have
a very short memory. Bright part today reporting on the
latest polling numbers. In the two or so weeks since
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becoming the anointed and appointed one, Kamala has pretty much
erased Trump's national lead. She's also enjoying real momentum in
the swing states, they claim. Now. Last week we talked
about how we would need to wait until this week
before we could begin to understand the impact Joe Biden's
decision to drop out is having on the presidential race.
(09:41):
We also explained how we would see how the Democrat
Party in the corporate media. But I'm repeating myself, are
crowning Kamala the nominee that is impacting the polls.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, now we know, and we know that.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Former President Trump went from coasting to an easy victory
to what is now a statistically tied race where Kamala
might still be on the rise, which means she could
soon be in the lead, which means she could soon win.
When Joe dropped out of the race two weeks ago,
the Real Clear Politics average poll of polls the National
poll said Trump was enjoying a stubborn and steady lead
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over Biden three point one points forty seven point nine
to forty four point eight. Pretty close, but still Trump
was at Trump's lead was also climbing then, as was
his sealing of support forty five points, leaping up to
forty eight in six weeks. But against Kamala things are different.
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He just evaporated one point two points forty seven point
seven to forty six point five percent. So the Real
Clear Politics average pole of national polls in a five
way race says Trump is actually four point two points
over Biden and eight point seven points for RFK Junior.
So Trump way in the lead, but it changes a
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little bit with Kamala. Against Kamala in a five way poll,
Trump's lead is all but gone at least the half
point or so point three percent, and that benefits Kamala
apparently disaffected by Biden. Democrats don't really care that much
about RFK Junior, and suddenly Kamala is up. The news
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is now much better in the swing states that will
decide the election. In Arizona, Trump's lead has shrunk five
point eight points to four point two. In Nevada, Trump's
lead has shrunk five point six points to four in Wisconsin.
Trump's leader is shrunk two point nine to point two
in Michigan. In Pennsylvania, North Carolina, you did the idea
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Georgia should worry Trump. Against Biden, the state looked pretty safe,
But against Kamala it's different. The question is what is
Kamala's ceiling? When does there momentum top out? What plans
do the Trump Advance twenty twenty four campaign have to
blunt this momentum as it stands right now, at this
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exact specific moment, the corporate media are running a two
phased campaign to elect this failed radical. The first is
the Obama celebrity make history campaign. The second is the
Biden twenty twenty basement campaign, where she hides from media.
She's not doing any interviews, she's not accepting the invitation
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to debate Trump, and so far that's working, but we
still got a long way to go. Donald Trump is
not John McCain, so don't write him off yet. Anything
could happen here. As a resident of Southeast Texas, I
got to think of all the policies that Kamala has
that concern me, her position on energy is the most concerning.
(12:53):
Doctor May Angelou famous for saying, when someone shows you
who they are, believe them the first time. And if
that's true with Kamala Harris letting everybody know where she
stands on things like fracking and energy, we should believe her.
Fox dot Com Today, Foxnews dot Com Today, reporting on
Kamala Harris's history with wanting to ban fracking, abolishing the filibuster,
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supporting the Green New Deal. You'd think that stuff would
be coming back to haunt her, but she doesn't actually
have any current policy positions, so it doesn't really matter.
Harris in the years past has said that she supports
getting rid of the filibuster and eliminating fracking and forcing
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people to hand over their guns to the government, But
now she seems to have changed her mind, or at
least that sort of staff claims. A campaign spokesmer person
said she would not ban fracking. They said that on
July twenty eighth. Now she wanted to do it in
twenty nineteen. Now in twenty twenty four, she doesn't. Kamala
proposed fracking bans many times in the past, but no, no,
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not the case anymore. I got to think, if you
want to win Pennsylvania, where fracking is a big part
of their economy, telling people you're gonna eliminate their jobs
isn't gonna throw them. Pennsylvanians are no strangers to green
energy policy battles, and people in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Matter. They will affect this race big time.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In recent polling, most Pennsylvania voters a poll opposed joining
the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. That's a multi state carbon
tax policy that Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro is fighting to
keep in Pennsylvania. It's very unpopular. It has hurt his
polling numbers. If Kamala chooses him as a running mate,
it's gonna hurt hers. Josh Shapiro says he favors having
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a carbon tax. Are you not paying enough for fuel
right now? Josh Shapiro doesn't think so. The carbon tax
is basically a economy wide energy tax. It's going to
raise utility costs, it's going to make everything more expensive,
and energy affordability is paramount to Pennsylvania voters. Polling shows
sixty seven percent of Pennsylvania voters wouldn't spend a dollar
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more out of their pocket to combat climate change. They'd
rather just have their average cost of living drop. Seventy
percent agree with expanding natural gas infrastructure they think it'll
reduce costs. Sixty eight percent believe we should reduce regulatory
burdens on our energy industry. So Pennsylvanians are very unlikely
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to openly embrace Green New dealism, and there's a lot
of video clips of Kamala saying she does embrace it.
I wonder how that's going to sit with Pennsylvania voters.
Apparently right now it's not doesn't matter according to the
way to polling numbers.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Maybe that's a conversation we need to be having more
on a national level, lest we not forget Kamali Harris
co sponsored some of the most destructive in viro alarmist
policies to date, the Green New Deal.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Kamala owns this.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
She wants to completely decarbonize the United States by twenty fifty. Now,
looking around you right now at all the fuel combustion
vehicles and plastic iPhones, that seem like something we're on
track to do, Kamala thinks.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
So this guy got arrested for licking and sucking a
woman's hair hair. I set hair at a mall in Atlanta,
And even though it's really gross, still not the most
disgusting thing you could see at a mall in Atlanta.
I gotta think it's probably grosser things like sparrow pizza,
for example.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Who eats sparro pizza? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I do know if you want to see something not gross,
maybe something kind of entertaining. Over the weekend, Joe Rogan
did a live performance of a new stand up comedy
special It's on Netflix. I just canceled my Netflix subscription,
but I watched a little bit this week.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I thought it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't know, there's just nothing on Netflix anymore that
I thought was good except this, I guess, so maybe
I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Anyway, here's a clip.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
You know, it's just good to see everybody having a
good time.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
The country's almost back to normal. Before World War III,
COVID was just so strange.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
We lost a lot of people during COVID, and most
of them are still alive.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, right, right, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And I don't think with anymore.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Before COVID, I would have told you that vaccines are
the most important invention in human history. After COVID, I'm like,
I don't think we went to the moon. Michelle Obamas
got a I think again his room.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I think there's the.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Town.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I don't think Michelle Obama's gonna do it, but I
believe all that.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Others All right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Reason dot Com Today is reporting there is a prostitution
surveillance tower that just went up in San Diego. Apparently
there are so many hookers in San Diego they need
a tower to surveil them. Moral panic about sex work
is leading law enforcement in southern California to do some
stuff they've never done before. Cops are putting up these
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surveillance towers to stop sex sellers and sex buyers for meeting.
I guess there's just a guy that sits up in
there in the tower. He's got a whistle and he
blows it. It's very strange. The prostitution surveillance tower, stationed
along National City's Roosevelt Avenue will record a video of
anyone who happens to be in the area. And I
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don't know what they hope to accomplish from this. I
don't know a lot about sex work.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Like.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's not like I don't judge people for doing I
don't care. I really don't. I'm not one of those
staunch social conservatives you'll hear on a lot of right
wing talk radio stations. I don't care to consenting adults
with a man and woman or two. As long as
they're adults and it's consenting, it does not bother me.
But if they're putting up towers around the city to
stop hookers, the first thing I always assume is that
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they've never heard of the Internet in that where most
of this stuff happens nowadays. According to the report, a
supporter of this surveillance tower told CBS News that it's
supposed to help reduce prostitution by recording the license plate
numbers of people who enter the area to pick up
sex workers. So they got these schemes to catch people
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who want to pay other consenting adults. It feels like
this is kind of a waste of money and manpower.
Also sounds like a violation of privacy and free association
and bodily autonomy, of course, But even if you think
that punishing prostitution or customers of prostitute is a swell idea,
it's hard to see how the surveillance tower makes any sense.
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You can't charge someone for simply picking another person up
off the street, even if police think or even know
that person's a sex worker. Even if money is visibly
exchanging hands, it's not a crime to give someone cash
unless the entire sexual exchange happens right in front of
the cameras. It's hard to imagine on what basis cops
could possibly make any charges stick unintended. Besides, the tower
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is very visible. Local media has been publicizing it. They're
talking about it on TV. When you just assume that
sex workers and customers would know not to stand in
the area near the tower. If the surveillance tower has
any impact at all. It's just going to drive prostitution
from one part of the city to a different part
of the city. That's all it's going to do. I'm guessing.
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I mean, I've never we've never seen this happen before.
It's not like we could compare other cases of this.
While prostitution surveillance tower in my city's very effective, No,
it's not. There are no prostitution surveillance towers in this
city anywhere that I'm aware of.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Are there? Do we have them in Houston? If I'm wrong,
please let me know.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
It just seems kind of clear that the idea here
isn't actually cracking down on prostitution. This is just a
way for authorities to look like they're doing something about
sex trafficking while normalizing the idea of conducting broad, warrantless
surveillance of everyone. It's not actually making you safer. It's
certainly not protecting you from hookers. So local reporting on
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the new surveillance tower has been heavy on human trafficking
myths and dubious statistics. There's this group called the Ugly Truth,
and they told Fox five San Diego that there are
over three thousand to eight thousand sex trafficking victims in
the county each year. Guys, that's a pretty big number.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Three thousand to eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That's that's a very wide range there for you to
be off on, Isn't it like when you think that
number to be a little when'd you think the high
and low on that to be a little closer to
each other to really get an idea as to how
many cases there are. That's like saying there's between one
and a million every day. And on what data does
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the Ugly Truth base this? Their website doesn't say. But
considering that that's vastly more victims than we see in
trafficking or asked across the whole country in a year,
and considering the fact that sex trafficking stings in California
and elsewhere routinely turn up few to no victims, I'm
gonna guess this data is probably bogus. And sex trafficking
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is a real thing, just so we're clear, but it
usually doesn't happen with hookers standing out on the streets
more often than not. I got to assume it's happening
in a CD brothel somewhere that we don't get to
look at you know, the victims of human trafficking at
our border. You think they're just letting them stand out
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on the street at a mini skirt and high heels. No,
those people are chained up somewhere in a basement. You
don't see them. So The Ugly Truth's website also states
that there are approximately eighteen thousand victims in the US.
If we take that at face value, again it's dubious.
That would mean that around seventeen to forty four percent
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of all US trafficking victims are in San Diego County.
So again, it's almost like these numbers are completely made up.
Sketchy figures are par for the course when it comes
to this kind of activism. Fox five also claims that
the average age of entry into sex trafficking is sixteen
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and that prostitution is an eight hundred million dollar industry locally,
but they don't cite where they get that data from.
I actually think sex trafficking is a real problem, Unlike
the people that publish this report at reason dot com,
I just don't think any of this information's acting. And
I don't think this idea of building a tower in
the middle of the part of town where the hookers
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stand around on the street by the airport, is going
to do anything to stop hookers. Claims like these tend
to be based on shoddy studies. You know, if you
actually legalize sex like sex work, odds are people wouldn't
get trafficked anymore. With just a little bit of regulation,
(24:25):
With just a little bit of government oversight, you could
stop underage people from becoming part of this industry, or
non consenting people for that matter. Putting it all underground,
making it all illegal is the reason why there are
victims that don't want to consent or underage people, which
is kind of the same thing. So thankfully, there seem
(24:48):
to be fewer nonsense statistics about sex traffic in the
media today than there were about a decade ago, but
coverage of the National City Surveillance Tower in San Diego
serves as a good that debunked myths are still out
there and still being used to justify absurd government spending.
And while sex trafficking panic is are arguably less common
(25:11):
now than it was a decade ago, it's press coverage
should remind us how institutionalized this panic has become. Have
you ever heard about the sex trafficking myth during Comic Con.
They say the stuff about the Super Bowl and political
conventions too.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Generally, it's not true. Every year, the liberal media will.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Run a story saying that sex trafficking is rampant at
Republican National Convention, and then there's no news reports about
anybody getting busted or arrested or rescued. The FBI and
Homeland Security investigations have actually assisted in ramping up some
(25:54):
of this fake news. Meanwhile, the one place in the
country where sex trafficking is abundant right down at the border.
I don't mean San Diego, I mean at the border.
Nobody's doing anything about it. Humans are actually being trafficked
at the border every day, underage kids, in droves, thousands
of them.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That's the real problem.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But in California, to stop that from happening, they're building
a tower in the middle of the city near the airport. Yeah,
something tells me that's not going to work.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio Pursuit
of Happiness. We don't have that in Mexico. A little
bit of Olympic coverage news for you kids. Team USA
won the Golden Women's Foil. Kansas City chiefs kicker Harrison
Budker couldn't be prouder that our women are the best
(26:47):
at preserving leftovers.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Wait, that's not right now. Apparently it has something to
do with fencing. Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Meanwhile, Kid Rock got into the Olympic spirit. He made
a video of himself shooting cans of bud light with
an air pistol. Very cool, very exciting thing for him
to do. I enjoyed watching that. I am kind of
bummed out. Got some bad news about beach volleyball. But
before we get to the beach volleyball news, I had
to check and see what the what is the latest
(27:13):
from the what is it?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The river Sen?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
There have been concerns over the water quality in the
river in Paris, says Olympians are set to compete. Some
people are getting sick. I always thought France was known
for luxury drinking water Avion perrier, while now they've got
something new.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's hot, you're thirsty, refresh yourself with the official bottled
water of the twenty twenty four Olympic Games. Seen send
river water sourced directly from Paris. Senn riverwater will leave
you asking for.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
More emotium rich in electrolytes and ecl Sinn riverwater is
the energy boost you need.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
To run to the toilet. Just ask our Olympic troathletes.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Once they're out of the hospital.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Sinn River water, avoid contact with skins, medical attention immediately, and.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Try to remain calm as your skin sizzles and puffs.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
All right. Sad news.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Former LSU volleyball players knocked out of the Paris Olympics.
Tarren Cloth and Kristin Nuhz ended their run at the
Paralympics after a loss to Canada.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Canada, Canada, We lost.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
At beach volleyball to a country where it's frozen ten
months out of the year.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
That doesn't even make any sense. Canada.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Very sad. Anyway, It's a shame they got crushed. I
watched a little bit of it here a short time
ago while I was doing this radio show as a
matter of fact, and it reminded me of this report
today from who is This? Jerry Thornton just published a
story about beach volleyball and how feminists are offended. Women's
rights groups are offended by beach volleyball uniforms. You know
(28:50):
who is not offended by the beach volleyball uniforms the
women who actually compete in beach volleyball. You know, beach
volleyball first appeared at the Olympics at the Barcelona Games
back in nineteen ninety two, and it became an official
event four years later in Atlanta, so Paris twenty twenty four,
the ninth Olympics to include it. There are twenty four
(29:10):
countries who compete. This is truly a worldwide phenomenon. It
is a very popular sport to play and to watch,
and it has long enjoyed front and center status. After
all that, you know, it's fun to watch, it's fun
to play, it's it's perfect for the summer Olympics. It's
a bunch of people in bikinis. When the Olympics assign
you the kind of locations that are typically the first
(29:32):
to get destroyed by aliens or natural disasters in a
sci fi movie, you know you've reached the peak of
international popularity, which the world being a terrible place guarantees
somebody somewhere is going to be cheesed off about the
fact that lots of people are having fun watching women's
beach volleyball. Here's a headline from the Daily Mail why
(29:56):
do female volleyball players wear skimpy bikinis? History behind the
controversial uniform revealed as fans reignite sexism row over double
standard with men's kits. And then they published the article
here and it talks about how some women's rights groups
are holding protests in Paris. They really don't like those outfits. Okay,
(30:17):
So to compete in this sport of queens, you're not
required to dress like you're working a champagne room off
the Vegas strip. So it's case clothes then, right, they
don't actually have to wear those clothes.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
The women competing choose to wear those clothes. Have you
heard this before?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
They're allowed to wear long pants if they want, and
if it's called out, they actually do they wear them.
There was I think one of the first US women's
beach volleyball games in this Olympics. You saw them wearing
what looked like yoga pants because it was chili that night.
But then the next day they had on the little shorts. Okay,
(30:55):
so the official policy is you do you? Which you
pretty much the conversation. The women competing can wear what
they want, and sure we could go all toxic masculine
on this topic with cheap, low hanging fruit jokes. The
only Olympic sport I watch is women's beach volleyball. Yeah,
I get it. No one supports women's sports more than
me because I'm a big fan of hot chicks wearing
(31:17):
little shorts.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
But even still, they choose to wear that stuff. That's
their decision, so who cares. But this isn't about what
the players want. It's about people that aren't involved in
the sport telling you what you should be doing. Look,
we're only flesh and blood. Does anyone think beach volleyball
(31:43):
would be one of the Summer Olympics most popular sports
if nobody was watching it? And I'm sure part of
the reason why people are watching it is because the
women are hot. It's in our DNA to want to
see attractive people dressed attractively showing off their attractiveness, including,
though not limited to, while they're doing something super athletic.
You can object to it. You don't have to like it.
(32:06):
All the kill joys from the International League for Women's Rights.
You're fine to be mad about it, but human evolution
doesn't care what upsets you. More to the point, it's
not like This gait only swings one way. Do you
not remember the movie Top Gun. We're handsome guys in
little shorts. We're playing beach volleyball. It's like a famous
(32:27):
part of the movie. Right, Was anybody ever offended by that?
That was four decades ago, But we don't have to
go back four decades. These have been, without a doubt,
the most wang centric Olympics since the ancient Greeks were
competing nude? Did you not hear about the pole vaulter's
massive dong costing.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Him a medal?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You don't see men's groups demanding a stop to revealing outfits.
Nobody cares if men's diving athletes are wearing little speedos.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Or those of us sensitive about our own manhood asking
these gentlemen to don codpieces in order to protect our
delicate sensibilities, nobody cares. We understand, when you invite the
most athletically gifted young people from around the world to
gather together, a high percentage of the competitors are going
to have sexually desirable physical traits stuff the average humans
(33:21):
do not, and the only fair approach is to let
them flaunt it if they've got it. It certainly hasn't
hurt the sport. Do you think beach volleyball is negatively
affected by any of this? No, the Olympics and the
TV ratings are higher than ever for those sports. People
want to see what they want to see, so let
them see it before we get out of here. I
(33:42):
always liked to end the show with a little bit
of good news. Who doesn't love good news? We do
some good news today. I think I actually have two stories.
I shared this on the Morning Show, but I want
to share it again because I really like this. First
responders in Kansas saved a fourteen month old toddler who
fell down a pipe last week. Kind of reminds you
of do you remember Baby Jessica. Our younger listeners don't
(34:04):
know who that is, but we've heard stories like this before.
In this case, it was a foot wide and it
was twelve feet deep. Nobody was seriously injured. The little boys, fine,
the toddler. Here's the boy's father, Blake, talking about the rescue.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
He like called out for his little brother. He acted
like he was never going to see him again. I
can't imagine what she thought whenever she saw him fall,
because for all she knew it was a super line,
it was full of water, or it was fifty feet deep.
I mean, she had no idea. By the grace of God,
that boy was carried down that hole by an angel.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Wow, it's incredible they rescued him. Very cool. I always
love a story with happy I mean, I'm Kenny Webster.
A quick reminder, folks, if you're interested, you can go
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Trump fans to get ready for the election. Start wearing
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(34:56):
let anybody make you be ashamed of the fact that
you're patriot and you love your country and you're voting.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Read this November.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I'm Kenny Webster. I hope you all have an awesome day.
I'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning with the
whole crew for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. Tell
the government to kiss your ass when you listen to
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