May 27, 2026 • 41 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features comedian Ben Daniel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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liberty prize. It's food.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Today.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Today is actually National flip flop Day, and James Tallerico
supporters will be celebrating by posting photos of their candidate
eating meat on social media. If that joke doesn't make
any sense to you, here's a recording of James Tallerico
from a little while back before he decided to run
for Senate, when he was just a progressive lawmaker.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
We have, i think, heard more and more issues of
animal welfare. I think not just because it's the right
thing to do and the moral thing to do, but
also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight
climate change. It is now existential that we try to
reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect
animals in all aspects of society. And so I am
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proud to say that our campaign has officially become a
non meat campaign.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So stop, stop, stop stops before Okay, you know what
I'm gonna say. Obviously you voted yesterday in the runoffs
or you voted last week. I'm doing today's show a
little differently because this is a big day. It's the
day after a big election. I think it was a
good day for people in our America First movement. I
think it was a good day for the liberty movement.
Meet Brandon Waltons. You've met him before. He's been on
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the show many times. Senior editor at Texas scorecard dot com,
a former Capital chief of staff and battle tested conservative
warrior who traded campaign war rooms for the press box
to expose Austin's corruption and champion real Texas victories. Brandon,
before we get to anything about Paxton or Beau French
or May's Middleton or chip Roy, tell me James Tallerico,
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is this a good challenger for Ken Paxton?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I mean, James Tallerico is I mean, already here we
are and we're still months away from the November general election.
I think there's been more done to expose who James
Tallerico is than there was with Betto o'rouric eight years ago.
And as just an aside, my hot take here that
clip you played of James Tallerico talking about his vegan campaign.
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He goes on in the clip to talk about how
he ordered pizza from this pizza place in Austin that
serves vegan pizza. And let me tell you that place
does not advertise that their pizza. They don't make a
big deal about it being vegan. My hot take is
that should they should be put in jail. Okay, I've
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made the mistake once. Didn't realize that it was vegan pizza,
that it was fake cheese and fake whatever. That is
criminal behavior.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Bro, Brandon Ce, you know I'm not in Austin. We're
in Southeast Texas. We didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Okay, ye Ken, Let's get to the nitty gritty of
what happened yesterday because this is big news. I consider
branding to be one of the most important political reporters
in the giant state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's the reason I have him here to start the
show today.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Brandon Ken Paxton just body slammed John Cornyn in the
Senate runoff like it was personal, because it was. Is
the Texas GOP finally done pretending to be polite or
will be about to watch the establishment? The George Bush
Republicans in the crying in the corner for the next
six six months. Cornyn says he'll endorse Paxton. I think
that was big news from last night. What's your take
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on that.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, Cornyon said he would support the Republican ticket. He
actually didn't even say Paxton's name, which was sort of interesting.
But regardless, you've seen all corners people who stayed out
of the race. Right Governor Abbott didn't endorse in the race,
people could sort of guess maybe who he would have
supported there, but he came out pretty quickly and said
it's time to unify and to support Ken Paxton against
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James Taller Rico. I do think that, especially because of
this high profile race and people know and should know
that this is on track, it's not a tough prediction
to make that this will be the most expensive Senate
race in history. Will be this Texas Senate race coming up,
just because of the sheer amount of money that the
Left's going to spend, but also the amount of money
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that Republicans are going to spend as well. This is
going to be a massive, massive, massively expensive race. And
you know, there's nothing like Kenny, you know, there's nothing
like a common enemy to bring.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Some different factions together.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
And so I do think that you could see some
factions among the Republican Party that don't typically get along.
I think that you might see a little more hashtag
unity over the next several months as we head into November.
But and this is a big butt the John Cordon types,
the Carl Rove, those old establishment people who have now
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been pretty much erased from from leadership in a major
way in Texas, they need to they need to get
on board. I think for a long time, concernvatives have
held their nose and they've voted for candidates that are
moderate or don't largely share their values because they see
Democrat candidates as being far worse on those issues. And
now it's time for those other candidates to do the
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same when a conservative like Ken Paxton is going to
be leading the pick here.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Brandon, it was three years ago today that, among other people,
Briscoe Kine, who also lost last night, led a charge
to impeach Ken Paxton three years ago today.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That is just amazing to me. The timing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It almost makes you wonder if they did it on purpose.
James Tallerico's going to have to debate Ken Paxton. Guy's
been impeached and acquited, and he's still more popular in
Texas than free what a burger? I guess you've already
answered the question there, but I just can't imagine. I'll
frame the question like this, isn't it interesting to you, Brandon?
The liberal left in Texas was really fired up about
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Beato O'Rourke, then Colin Alred not as excited about him.
Now they're very excited about Jay James Tallerico. What was
it about Colin Alred, the former NFL player that just
didn't motivate them as much? Was there something about this
dark complexioned candidate that wasn't as exciting to Texas Democrats
as these two pale faced beta males.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I don't know if I've certainly heard people people wonder that, right.
I think that there certainly was a lack of enthusiasm,
certainly around the Democrat establishment to rally around Colin Alred.
You know, it is an interesting question, you know it
is worth and you mentioned Colin Alred. You know, well,
last night he actually Colin Allredd was in a runoff
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to to get back into Congress. He was forced off
against Julie Johnson, who was a who's been in Congress
for a couple of terms. Now is a is a
lesbian from Dallas that that's kind of her bio and
she lost. Colin Alred beat him despite the fact that
actually you had, like James tallerco who has famously not
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gotten along with Colin all right, James Tallerrico was supporting
Julie Johnson there and Colin already one. So it's an
interesting thing. There's so much to talk about when it
comes to Republican intra party politics, and yet you know,
there's an entire world of Democrat politics that admittedly I
know less about, but whenever you see these results on
election day, it is interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Okay, So May's Middleton was one of the only that
was one of the only races between May's Middleton and
chip Roy where Trump did not endorse. But that being said,
we did get an endorsement for Paxton. May's Middleton said
he's voting for Paxton. Paxton said he's voting for Mays Middleton,
and yesterday on this radio show, Paxton said he would
help Mayes Middleton if he wins. He's supporting him. Mays
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said he would take Paxton's advice. He wants to be
as ballsy of an ag as Paxton was do you
believe it? What do you think happens next there?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, that was interesting because I don't think people expect
it necessarily for the President to get involved sort of odd,
I think for him to get to a granular level
like an attorney general race in Texas, though not completely
out of the question. But you did see, especially over
the last couple of weeks, as you know, you saw
a lot of the President's you know, close people, people
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like Lieutenant Governor right Dan Patrick, who is obviously somebody
who's pretty close to the president and has guided a
lot of the President's endorsements in Texas. Lieutenant Governor Dan
Patrick was out there very strongly supporting Mace Middleton and
very strongly against chip Roy. And so I think that
that was probably as close as you can see as
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involvement from the President. And you know, I think this
was this was one of those things where where if
you look at the attorney general race and you look
at the Senate race, you know, those two races especially,
you know, people who were seen to have been disloyal
to President Trump and the MAGA movement at large, those
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were the people who had a tough time last night.
And you know, regardless of what you think about chip Roy,
I think there were conservatives that supported both candidates there.
I think, sure, you know, there's a lot of good
things about both candidates, but but you know, he did, mate,
he did, you know, piss off a lot of a
lot of MAGA voters right right, And I think that
that's that's what you saw there.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Chip Roy was like Dan Crenshaw, but with a good
voting record. I've had Chip in this studio before. He's
a bit arrogant, he seems a bit, you know, very
proud of himself. But that being said, to his point,
it's a great voting record. He has great policy positions
if you're a conservative or a liberty minded Republican, or
even a Maga Republican.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But all that, let's put all that aside for a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
If chip Roy is to the right of Trump, which
I think arguably he is massy to the right of Trump, yeah,
I think arguably he was. Anybody that that straight away
from Maga Republicanism in these primaries so far seemed to
do terrible. If you were more liberal than Trump, you lost.
If you were more conservative than Trump, you lost. Is
the whole MAGA versus the establishment?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thing dead?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Is maga now the establishment?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Can we stop saying the old old school, like, what
does John Thune even do?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Does Mitch McConnell matter anymore? Your thoughts? Last question?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Uh, well, you know that that's a that's a great,
great question because I think if you look at the
way we talk about politics for the last decade at least,
it's been you know, conservative insurgents against the establishment, But
there have been so many wins wrecked up for conservatives
of the last decade you do kind of wonder what
point does that turn over to where where they're actually
the establishment. Look, there's still a lot of people to fight.
(10:28):
You mentioned John Thune, right, Uh, you know, regardless of
you know, you're saying whether or not he matters or not,
it certainly matters that he's been able to hold up
the Save America Act, been able to keep up the
Phillbuss's been able to stop a lot of a lot
of conservative victories there.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And so there are still a lot of fights now.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you know, I think that there have been a
lot of gains certainly made for conservatives the last several years,
and this November election is going to be very, very
very telling.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
My brother Brandon Waltons Texas dot com. Subscribe to their website,
follow him on social media. We'll be right back with
an actual John Cornyn staffer and a Dan Crenshaw staffer
and a stand up comedian in the room. Yeah, exactly
what you think is about to take place is gonna
take place. Stick around.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
If I were you, I'd stay put. Kenny, You'll be
right back with more of what you came for, fart
jokes and roasting neo cons. It's about to get dirty
in here. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Greetings kids, Disneyland's Haunted Mansion just mading a big announcement.
They are gonna host weddings. My question is this, do
we really want something associated with horror paired up with
the Haunted Mansion?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Your take on this, Ben Daniels, what do you think
I mean if you're gonna end up ghosting the woman anyway?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah? What, that's the best place to start. I did
not mean to pluralize your last name. It's Ben Daniel,
it is, and I want people to get that right
because you're gonna be headlining at the Houston Improv tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
For those who don't know who you are.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
At Tomorrow night at seventh come find out. We've got
the best show in Houston in front of me and
be closing it out for the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Super excited to be there.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
For those of you watching me on social media, the
listening on the radio right now around Houston. People that
listen to the show regularly know I have a way
of doing things. On a big news day, I often
have guests in this studio that have something to do
with the news story, and when it's not a big
news day, I like to have comedians in here spice
it up, make it fun. You are a very edgy,
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dark comedian in Houston, and some might wonder if this
was a scheduling mistake that I made the morning after
what was a really big election in Texas.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Ben Daniel was supposed to be my secret weapon this
morning or this afternoon, depending on when you're listening and
where in the world you are. Many people may not
realize this, but the other chair in the studio was
supposed to have a.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
John Cornyn staff member in it, and my plan was
to do have your Ben. For those that don't know,
you're pretty good at roasting aren't you.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yeah, all right, I'm involved with three of the largest
roast shows in the country with a roast battle league.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You look like I hate to put you on the spot.
I give you full permission to say anything you want.
For those on the radio, they cannot hear me. Most
of our listeners know what I look like. Obviously very handsome.
I'm wearing an Andre the Giant t shirt. Go ahead, Ben, Ben,
give me one or two of your worst Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
You look like five years after your Backstreet Boys career
ended and you've just settled into a nice local celebrity niche.
It's like you still got the hair of a pop star,
but the gut is starting to come into the like
Kevin Fetderlion range of like I can still do it
a little bit, but it's not quite all the way there.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's like, that's pretty good. Yeah, I know, you get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Now, imagine if Ben now that, by the way, he's
playing very tame here, Ben goes Ben goes hard on
the radio at his stand up comedy shows at the
Riot or the Improverty's headlining tomorrow night. If the other
guest had showed up and he's a friend of mine,
I'm not gonna I think he forgot or something's wrong
because he's not replying to my text. I was gonna
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have Ben write some pretty spicy jokes and make fun
of the fact that John Cornyn, long time Republican, George
Bush Republican the old school the Republican Party had his
career stowed away from him last night by mega Republicans
Ben Daniel.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
It's gotta be really disheartening. When do you think you're
gonna be the guy who gets to strom Thurmandt like
you want to die in the chair, old and decrepit,
just murmuring under your breath, completely unintelligible to your constituents
at like one hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's the political dream.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
To lose a primary election for the right to walk
over at James Tall Rico is gotta be the most
embarrassing way to go out because he had a layup.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He had a layup. Either way, it went probably yeah,
cornyin is the incumbent.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The incumbent almost never loses, especially a primary in his
own race. Now imagine this dude spent a hundred million
dollars to lose a primary in a red state in
his own party. That sucks, dude. I mean, wow, You've
got to really sucked to suck that much. It doesn't
happen like to be.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
You can't be any safer than Texas senator, with Republican Congress,
Republican president, all of the money behind you, and you
lose to the attorney general.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah. Not a great attorney general either. If you're a
weed fan.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
By the way, a few years ago, well to your point,
Corny's not really pro weed either. But you know who
is the guy they all wanted the endorsement from Donald
Trump rescheduled marijuana, signed the Farm Act, legalized CBD in
low grade THHC in all fifty states. His son, Donald
Trump Junior once posted a meme that my friend Austin Peterson,
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a contributor to the show, created, and the meme was
it was two gay guys holding rifles standing on a farm,
and the cap shit said, I want to live in
in America where married gay men can protect their marijuana
farm with their AK forty sive Evans or their Air
fifteen's or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And that's the American dream man. Ain't that America, Ben Daniel.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
It's a melting pot with a machine gun. Yeah, That's
what we wanted, man, That's what I wanted. What I
respect about Donald Trump is Donald Trump only cares about money,
and there's so much revenue to be had in the
marijuana business, right, we just need to shift the revenue
design from the prisons into the farming industry.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
One of the comedians you're performing with tomorrow night at
the show that you are headlining, by the way, Ben Daniel,
local comic whose career is taken off right now. One
of the comedians you're performing with. Jesse Payton often says
he only cares about money. He said he only does
comedy to make money. He writes jokes that will make
him money. He wants to charge fifty dollars a ticket,
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not fifteen dollars a ticket. That's the kind of jokes
he writes. As a comedian who maybe walks that line
between trying to make money and artistic integrity.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
What's your reaction to that, Ben, We've always been on
the opposite end of the spectrum. We joke about it
all the time. We keep score differently in this game.
And the reason Jesse focuses on money is because Jesse's
good at making money.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, Like, let's be honest.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
If I could charge fifty dollars a ticket for my shows,
I would be doing that, and we'd be chasing the
money too.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But I don't have the fan base to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I don't have the machine that he has corporate wise,
so I have to cling to artistic integrity I do.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I do political comedy, as you're aware, usually very political,
unless it's at the couple's therapy show, and then I
just talk about divorce.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But we have another comedian friend named Davy Jackson. Do
you know him?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, Da Davy Jackson's he I wrote a bit about
the gay Ayahtola, the leader of Irene is a gay guy,
and Jesse was like that is He's like, that's a
bit is too smart for people. Kenny Davy Jackson comes
and does a show with us, gets on stage, he
does a bit about the gay Ayatola.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I got off stage. I looked at Jesse. I was like,
see it's funny.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Jesse's advice to Davey was, you know, you're a good
looking guy, You're very funny, You're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Women like you. Stop being so political. And as soon
as Jesse I was like, David, you should be more
political dude, I think it's funny.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
The thing is, I think everybody should be more political
in their lane because people want to go see what
represents them. Sure, are you going to alienate part of
a place that was probably never going to be your
fan base anyway? Sure I end up doing I'm not political,
you know me. I'm not a political person.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No. You do dark humor across the board.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Jokes about the darkest, totally most inappropriate things. Anything that's
considered sacred, You'll write a joke about it.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I just want to make people laugh. I don't want
to let people laugh. I want to make you laugh
at something you didn't want to laugh at.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You told me a joke off the air about a
certain natural disaster, a tragedy of sorts that took place
in Texas a year or two ago, and you told me,
I'm waiting for this to age a little more so
I could tell the joke in public.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And it was very, very, very edgy. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
I call that the Kobe Bryant Lesson, because the night
he passed away, I did Lols and San Antonio and
did a joke that made two hundred people get up
and leave.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, you should let them air out a little bit first,
is what I've learned the South Park.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I say the rules ten years. I think that's a
little conservative. I don't know if it's maybe like for
nine to eleven it's ten years.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But for a lot of stuff, I'm still getting fleck
for a nine to eleven joke and we're like twenty five.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Now, what was Could you tell the joke right now
on the air or is it not going to work
on the radio. It's too long, It's too okay. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well. On that note, you are this is a news
talk station. I know that's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Ben Daniel is gonna be at the improut tomorrow night
with a whole slew of funny local comics. But one
thing we've been laughing about off the air is the
guys that build Ferraris have found a way to no
longer get you laid when you drive one. The new
Ferrari looks like a Subaru mixed with a Tesla. It
looks like a toy car. Ferrari unveiled the first fully
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electric car. Like most Ferraris, it also comes with divorce papers.
It's the perfect vehicle for middle aged men who want
to use an alternative fuel source while searching for an
alternative to their spouse. Ben, you must have some hot
takes on this car. It does not look like it
gets you sex. What is your take on it?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Six hundred grand? Yeah, you're paying six hundred grand for
yellow celibacy, but you weren't gonna get any in an
electric vehicle probably anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
People online are saying it looks like baby's first dollhouse banged.
An iPhone one user said, I want it to look
like the cockpit of a fighter jet.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah it doesn't, doesn't.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
It looks like Disney tried to write a DEI vehicle
into cars. Yeah, it's just like Pixar creates an electric vehicle.
Like that's the one that dates another mail car. You know,
they play with each other's charging ports type thing.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That's for six hundred thousand dollars. This car will definitely
send you to the friend zone. Enjoy a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Hey, it's me the Donald. You're listening to the Pursuit
of Happiness radio.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
War from the radio game.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, I am gay for I love reading these studies.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
There's this new study that just came out and they
claim that spending more time in nature reduces stress and anxiety,
which is true.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's true. I've done it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Don't get me started on the benefits of smoking nature, Ben,
that works really good. Smoking nature in nature is probably
the optimum. You're right, Ben, you became a very popular comedian,
blowing up all over Texas and the Gulf of America.
But once upon a time you were not as well
grounded as as individual.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Once upon a time you were not as well put
together as a local comedian would be.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You were in worse shape, were you not.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
It's crazy when I think about it, It's like there's
anniversaries to this, Like tomorrow night, I'm headlining the Improv
for the first time.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Biggest comedy club in Texas, The Houston Improv is the
biggest single room.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
For standbiggest a club in Texas, in the whole state. Yeah,
and nine years ago, right about this date, I was
living in my car homeless You were homeless or houseless? Houseless?
I mean I lived in a car. I had a car. Still,
all of the places I was staying would not let
me in anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
We were discussing this word yesterday at my gym homeless first, houseless,
And somebody was explaining to me a while ago, a
liberal was explaining, He's like, oh, but Kenny, those people
aren't homeless, they have a home. They're houseless. I was like, wait,
wait a second. That doesn't check out with me.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They don't have a home. They live under a bridge
where they shoot up fentanyl with a dog against its.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But yesterday at my gym someone said the reason they
say houseless is because their problem.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Is they need a house. It's not that they need
a home. I was like, home, I don't. I still don't.
I guess I still don't get it. I can't wrap
my mind around liberal talk.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I mean, if you have to sleep in the elements,
does it really matter what adjective you put in. Some
people like to say unhoused, homeless, houseless, unhoused, Like I
slept in in a grand caravan.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, it's a Dodge Grand Caravan. That sounds nice when
you put it that way. Yeah, it was a grand
care of it. It was teal. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I used to park it in Walmart parking lots overnight
and just tape up the windows and hope nobody from
security came and banged on the glass.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Did that ever happen to you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I used to all the time. What's the most embarrassing
place you ever got kicked out of while you were houseless?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
I've I was a poker player while I was homeless
for a little bit, which sounds counterintuitive.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You're a professional poker player and you were homeless.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, there was a drug component to that, which makes
the middle make sense. But we went to a play
in the World Series circuit in Mississippi and I couldn't
afford the hotel room after I stopped gambling, so I
fell asleep on a bench in the lobby and woke
up to them kicking me out of the tournament and
the hotel.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Rude.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yeah, apparently you can't be a vagrant in certain parts
of Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's you know what's funny about this. You keep saying
homeless and you were a homeless person. You don't care
if it's homeless or houseless. We have another friend who's
a state up comedian named Clinton Shorter. He is a
person of small stature. He does not like to be
called He likes to be called a midget. He doesn't
like to be called little person. My memory serves me correctly.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
This has been my beef with a lot of people.
You don't get to pick what people call you, man, right,
Like every time I've seen Clinton, I've been like that
dwarf has a giant butt, and what does he say?
I think I've heard him do dwarf jokes. I've heard
him go dwarfsm. I know he doesn't like little person
because I think it makes him sound like an actual person.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And that's not's not what he's going for. That's not
what his thing is.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's kind of like the word retarded. Have you ever
heard of the carousel of euphemisms? Are you familiar with this?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
No, it's a this idea. This is very smart Harvard
guy came up with a long time ago. He's like,
all right, we're gonna change language. So it means the
same thing, but the language is less offensive. It's like
that person died, No, they're no longer with us. Did
that person get fired? No, They've moved on to new things.
It's like, yeah, well they got fired. Okay, Well, now
apply that to retarded.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Back in the early.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Twentieth century, words like nimrod and moron an idiot were
actually medical terms that people in the medical profession would use.
And then, as you're aware, that word became retarded. And
you and I are about the same age, I think,
how old are you?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Forty?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Okay, I'm a couple years older than forty three. When
we were growing up in the nineties and the eighties,
do you remember being at a red light with your
mom in the car and a guy would walk buy
in an orange vest, and the orange vest would say
help retarded kids, and he'd sell you some Smarties or
some Tuxi rolls. You'd give him a buck, he'd give
you a handful of cheap candy, he'd walk off. Nobody
was bothered by this, and at some point the term
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retarded became offensive, and then that became intellectually disabled or
slow or whatever they wanted to say. And right around
that time, that's exactly the time when people with Down
syndrome kind of disappeared from television.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Do you remember they used to have this show Quirky
on Facts of Life? Was it Fast Life?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
What was the show called, Ah, We're being retarded? What
was the show it was called not Days of Our Lives?
What show is it on Life? Goes on, Life goes On.
It was called life goes On, Yeah, anyway, and then
right and there used to be disabled mentally disabled people
on TV, and then liberals said stop saying retarded, and
then poof, they just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I think that was worse.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I think having them on TV was better than coming
up with some word that won't offend people, because whatever
you change the word to, it'll eventually become an insult
mentally disabled or intellectually slow or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And the one thing about people in the nineties is
we never actually use the word retarded to describe somebody
with special needs. Right Like, even though.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Corky was on television, nobody had ever said there was
a retarded guy on television. No, it was somebody with
Down syndrome, and it was in like I had a
great uncle with Down syndrome. It's great that they got
representation there. Like retarded is when you try to unlock
your house by clicking your car clicker repeatedly and wonder
why it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's retarded. That's retarded.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Like end to quote Jesse Payton, because I know our
listeners have heard of tell this joke before. You can't
even say retarded anymore. Now you have to call them democrats.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Broh. There they are the worst language police. It's true.
I don't like them trying to make retarded the R word.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Like you're there, You're a pot smoking, edgy comedian from
the city. You're not political at all now, But if
somebody held a gun to your head and said, which
side of the political aisle, which side of the political
zeitgeist is ruining stand up comedy, wouldn't your point right
at Chelsea Handler.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
It's I was gonna say earlier, like I'm not political,
but I end up performing in front of mostly Republican
crowds because those are the people that can take dark jokes.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It didn't used to be that way. It did not.
It used to be everybody understood jokes were jokes, or.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That comedy audiences were kind of on the left. They
were kind of on the left, like think like old school,
like Bill Hicks, that sort of thing. But at some point,
George Carlin, Bill Hicks, would those guys even be considered
left wing by today's standards.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
I mean, at this point they'd be right middle, I think,
or at least center center center middle, like all center
both sides have gotten extraordinarily extreme, but now.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
People on the right seem to celebrate there's it feels
like there's less sacred goats on the right.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's stuff on the right. Couple, Yeah, there's a couple
that you can't make fun of.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
But even then, I feel like it's a certain point
as you're moving across the spectrum where most things you
can make fun of, or at least right wingers would
be like, ah, you shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But on the left, that line is a lot shorter,
isn't it. Bert It.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
The Kevin Hart roast should show you exactly because there
was a George Floyd joke and there was a Charlie
Kirk joke, and one of them got panel outraged discussions.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Okay, did you notice who is this? There's this podcast
here what's her name, Suki or something like that, and
her and this other white girl who like cheated on
her husband with Drake that doesn't do you know who
these girls are? They do a podcast and one of
them does porn in the other does they're mad about
the jokes at the roast, but one of them is
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a prostitute and the other one left her husband for Drake.
So why am I getting virtue signaling from them? What's
their moral compass? I've said this before and it's my
only like hill that I'll die in.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
If you remove a joke because somebody's offended, you have
no right not to remove the next joke when the
next persons offended. If you let one person draw their
line about okay, we can't joke about this thing, then
you're hipocritical if you don't respect the next person's line,
Like people need to understand it's okay that their feelings
got hurt and nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I want to end the interview today with this weird
news story because I feel like we could segue into
this perfectly. Canada is considered to be the most liberal
place in North America, more so than Mexico, certainly more
so than the United States. In Canada, assisted suicide is legal.
They also have free health care there, but it comes
with some little caveats. Ben, what I have in front
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of me, I think is the most liberal Canadian news
headline ever written. Do you get what Tim Hortons is? Yeah,
it's a donut place with good coffee. It's like Starbucks
and Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
That kind of thing. An actual headline from Canada Today.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside of
tim Hortons. Now, don't feel bad if you don't know.
Most of people in America wouldn't understand what this is.
Do you get what that means?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah? I get the entire conflict. And it's like Canadian medicine.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
It's a doctor who happens to stumble outside of a
Tim Hortons and sees a guy and he's like, Okay,
this guy has donuts and he's still sad.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Right. Yeah, For those that don't get what MAID is.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
In Canada, assisted suicide is totally legal.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's completely okay there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So this forty five year old man with Crohn's disease
was approved for and received MAID, Canada's government sponsored assisted
suicide program after a doctor met him outside of it
Tim Hortons and assessed him for ethyl injection. Because apparently
fast food restaurants are a great place for death doctors
to find potential clients. That is where you find the
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sad people, and it's called medical assistance and dying eligibility
from there. Doctor James McLean drove this man to the
suicide clinic, where he'd used like, oh are you are
you depressed about your crone's disease? Hop in the car,
I'll take you to die. And then he did Ben
you right, dark humor for a living. Did you think
you'd learn anything like that today?
Speaker 7 (31:29):
I did not, Like, I can't even somebody to give
me a ride to the grocery store, and like, you know,
this guy's not giving you gas money on the back end,
you're literally giddy.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Cash grass are asked, buddy, nobody rides to the assistant
suicide clinic for free.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
They call it made too, Like normally when people die
from maids, it's because one of them's driving without a license.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
My guest right now, if you just turn it on
the radio, the very funny Tim Daniel, he is headlining
tomorrow and add Ben Ben Daniels.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Sorry, I was thinking Tim Morton with Tim Horton's he
made me a donut hybrid.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I think it was Tim Dillon's fault. It says no
Ben Daniels's name. Sorry, and I'm looking at too many
things on the screen in front of me. Tomorrow night,
he is headlining at the Improv with a stone called
Pack Badasses, a whole bunch of hilarious comedians, many of
whom are my friends. Will Loden's going to be there,
Jesse Payton, some great local comics.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You want to go to the show? If people want
to buy tickets, Ben, what do they do?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Go to IMPROVTX dot com and pick Houston as your city.
We're listed right now, seven thirty May twenty eighth, still
tickets left, not as many tickets as were left yesterday.
Pretty happy about how those are moving, but should still
be a couple at the door if you want to go.
It's going to be a great show, great time. Literally
everybody that I know wanted to do this show.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I got my pick. Yeah, I took the funniest people
that I could find that we're in the city.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Well, for those of you that have not seen Ben
Daniel perform before, he's great. He's one of my favorite
Comit means dark. You got to understand edgy to get
this show. But it's going to be good and Ben.
For those of you that are just turning on the
radio wondering why we're talking about comedy on the morning
after an election. The day afternoon after an election, Ben
My plan was to have a staff member from John
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Cornyn's team here in the studio, and Ben was going
to roast him a little bit before we go. Do
you have any jokes about John Cornyn's campaign going away?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Or George W.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Bush, Republicans no longer being the flavor of the month,
and right wing politics? What would you have done to
this young man who enjoys golf course republicanism and country
club conservativism.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Ben, imagine spending one hundred million dollars to run a
campaign that will one day be compared to Kamala Harris's campaign.
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig it all right?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
So Russell Crowe asked autograph seekers to calm down outside
a hotel in Paris. Unfortun they didn't listen, so he
had to eat them. That's rough how that turns out, guys,
And I was surprised about this. Nicholas Cage is now
the star of a Superman film. I'm sorry, Spider Man,
Spider Noir, they're calling it. Nicholas Cage also said several
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directors won't call him because he's turned them down in
the past. Yeah, or it could be that they've seen
his last twenty movies. I don't know either, or I
have no idea. Hollywood's got a problem now AI. AI
is taking people's jobs. We've talked about this on the
show a lot, and I think it deserves to be
repeated to those of you that are fearful of what
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AI is going to do. One thing it's going to
do is it's going to make it possible for average
people without a giant, exorbitant, multimillion dollar budget.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
To compete with Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Cause, yeah, maybe you don't have millions and millions of
dollars to spend on actors and special effects. But if
you can write a good plot and figure out how
to use AI on your computer or your laptop or
your iPhone, suddenly Steven Spielberg doesn't have the thing that
you have. You've got something creative. As long as you
could tell a story, well, as long as you can
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weave a plot together, you can create a film.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That's what's remarkable. But let's talk about AI.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Obviously there are pros and cons AI.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
We're finally treating AI like the ultimate Swiss army knife
for national survival instead of some overly sensitive Bayreya houseplant
that faints at the site of a tough job.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
While certain Silicon Valley outfits play ethics professor and tie
one hand behind our military's back, the grown ups in
the Republican led Department of Defense are demanding results. They're
demanding that AI crushes the enemies, locks down the borders.
It doesn't throw a corporate temper tantrum when asked to
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do their damn job. What am I talking about? Let's
start off with this one trendy AI company basically told
the Pentagon, Sure will help, but only if you pinky
swear never to use it for domestic spying or letting
killer robots pick their own targets. Now, this is kind
of like hiring a bodyguard who says I'll protect you, boss,
as long as the attackers use squirt guns and promise
(36:16):
to be inclusive. So what was the predictive result? The
predictable result was that contract reviews, serious side eye on
supply chains and swift pivots to partners who aren't auditioning
for a TED talk on robot feelings became the reality.
Real players who understand were in a brutal AI arms
race with communist China, not a hug competition. Are the
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people that stepped up to the plate. If Beijing is
building drone swarms that look like angry metallic bees with
anger management issues, our troops deserve more than a therapy
bot cooing. Full autonomous systems with proper American adult supervision
save American lives instead of turning our military into the
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world's most expensive feeling circle. The pearl culletures in Silicon
Valley warning about killer robots are the same geniuses who
think a safe space is battlefield equipment.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Guess what we can.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Choose to use AI in our military, or we could
choose not to do it, But we can't decide if
China or Russia or Iran is going to do it,
and spoiler alert, they will. Nobody on the right wants
some dystopian AI playing Peeping Tom on every Gramma out there,
baking apple pie and Nebraska. That's not what we're asking for.
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That's the Obama Biden specialty, weaponizing spy tools against political
opponents and rowdy parents at school boards and basically anyone
who noticed the Emperor had no clothes, but smart, lawful
artificial intelligence that sniffs out terrorists, cartels, illegal border crossers,
and Chinese infiltrators. Well, that's just common sense with better algorithms.
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That's like owning a guard dog that only bites the burglars,
not the family dog. The fix isn't giving tech bros
veto power over the Pentagon. It's elected leaders who actually
respect the Constitution instead of treating it like a suggestion box.
This whole refusal smells like the same kale munching virtue
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signaling nonsense that censored conservatives crammed DEI into fighter jet
cock pits and produced AI to scare men out of
women's sports. That's not exactly what's happening here. What we're
dealing with right now is a military that actually understands
we're probably gonna need a AI. We don't need corporations
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with sketchy foreign board ties or crystal healing effective ultruists
coding our AI morality. What we need is tough republican oversight,
heavy investment in American tech talent, and deregulations so our
innovators can move fast and break things, preferably China's plans
train the system on the constitution, train the systems on
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actual history and a healthy, don't lose mindset. The grown
ups are handling this the right way. Smooth transitions to
reliable partners, superior systems and development, zero patience for anything
that smells like preemptive surrender. We want AI that spots
election funny business faster than a caffeine fueled pole watcher.
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We want AI that optimizes trade so American workers can win.
We want AI that deports criminals like they're late for
their own exit party. And we want AI that makes
hostile dictators sleep with the lights on. This is how
you keep America dominant, unapologetic AI superiority for defense and
prosperity and liberty under law. Letting corporate resistance slow us
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down is like bringing a poetry slam to a tank battle.
Weakness is the only thing that excites our adversaries. Conservatives
are delivering actual results in a few laughs, where the
last crowd offered lectures and strategic lag. The future doesn't
belong to the cautious. It belongs to the bold and
the ones whose bots don't cry in combat. And I
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know what you're thinking, what did any of this have
to do with Hollywood. Well nothing, It was just a
weird segue from that to this. Anyway, I'm Kenny Webster.
It's been a pleasure to be here with you this afternoon.
I'm very excited about how the election turned out yesterday.
And apparently some of the people that lost bad in
this election cycle, well they turned out well too. A
giving an example, Representative Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Green.
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What are they up to today? Well, according to her report,
the two of them and their spouses are vacationing together
in Costa Rica during the congressional recess. They posted a
photo of themselves from a beach front dinner after Marjorie
Taylor Green's group picked them up from the airport. Thomas
Massey recently lost the Trump back primary and filed paperwork
for a potential twenty twenty eight run, But in the meantime,
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he's vacationing in Costa Rica with Marjorie Taylor Green. Where
they may or may not be doing, I don't know,
ayahuasca out in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I have no idea. You do wonder though, if they
love Costa Rica so much, what the heck happened to
America first. I don't know. I hope they enjoy their vacation.
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. We'll be back
Brian early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought
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(41:34):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Today.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Today is actually National flip flop Day, and James Tallerico
supporters will be celebrating by posting photos of their candidate
eating meat on social media. If that joke doesn't make
any sense to you, here's a recording of James Tallerico
from a little while back before he decided to run
for Senate, when he was just a progressive lawmaker.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
We have, i think, heard more and more issues of
animal welfare. I think not just because it's the right
thing to do and the moral thing to do, but
also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight
climate change. It is now existential that we try to
reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect
animals in all aspects of society. And so I am
(01:06):
proud to say that our campaign has officially become a
non meat campaign.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So stop, stop, stop stops before Okay, you know what
I'm gonna say. Obviously you voted yesterday in the runoffs
or you voted last week. I'm doing today's show a
little differently because this is a big day. It's the
day after a big election. I think it was a
good day for people in our America First movement. I
think it was a good day for the liberty movement.
Meet Brandon Waltons. You've met him before. He's been on
(01:31):
the show many times. Senior editor at Texas scorecard dot com,
a former Capital chief of staff and battle tested conservative
warrior who traded campaign war rooms for the press box
to expose Austin's corruption and champion real Texas victories. Brandon,
before we get to anything about Paxton or Beau French
or May's Middleton or chip Roy, tell me James Tallerico,
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is this a good challenger for Ken Paxton?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I mean, James Tallerico is I mean, already here we
are and we're still months away from the November general election.
I think there's been more done to expose who James
Tallerico is than there was with Betto o'rouric eight years ago.
And as just an aside, my hot take here that
clip you played of James Tallerico talking about his vegan campaign.
(02:21):
He goes on in the clip to talk about how
he ordered pizza from this pizza place in Austin that
serves vegan pizza. And let me tell you that place
does not advertise that their pizza. They don't make a
big deal about it being vegan. My hot take is
that should they should be put in jail. Okay, I've
(02:41):
made the mistake once. Didn't realize that it was vegan pizza,
that it was fake cheese and fake whatever. That is
criminal behavior.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Bro, Brandon Ce, you know I'm not in Austin. We're
in Southeast Texas. We didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Okay, ye Ken, Let's get to the nitty gritty of
what happened yesterday because this is big news. I consider
branding to be one of the most important political reporters
in the giant state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's the reason I have him here to start the
show today.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Brandon Ken Paxton just body slammed John Cornyn in the
Senate runoff like it was personal, because it was. Is
the Texas GOP finally done pretending to be polite or
will be about to watch the establishment? The George Bush
Republicans in the crying in the corner for the next
six six months. Cornyn says he'll endorse Paxton. I think
that was big news from last night. What's your take
(03:29):
on that.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, Cornyon said he would support the Republican ticket. He
actually didn't even say Paxton's name, which was sort of interesting.
But regardless, you've seen all corners people who stayed out
of the race. Right Governor Abbott didn't endorse in the race,
people could sort of guess maybe who he would have
supported there, but he came out pretty quickly and said
it's time to unify and to support Ken Paxton against
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James Taller Rico. I do think that, especially because of
this high profile race and people know and should know
that this is on track, it's not a tough prediction
to make that this will be the most expensive Senate
race in history. Will be this Texas Senate race coming up,
just because of the sheer amount of money that the
Left's going to spend, but also the amount of money
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that Republicans are going to spend as well. This is
going to be a massive, massive, massively expensive race. And
you know, there's nothing like Kenny, you know, there's nothing
like a common enemy to bring.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Some different factions together.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
And so I do think that you could see some
factions among the Republican Party that don't typically get along.
I think that you might see a little more hashtag
unity over the next several months as we head into November.
But and this is a big butt the John Cordon types,
the Carl Rove, those old establishment people who have now
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been pretty much erased from from leadership in a major
way in Texas, they need to they need to get
on board. I think for a long time, concernvatives have
held their nose and they've voted for candidates that are
moderate or don't largely share their values because they see
Democrat candidates as being far worse on those issues. And
now it's time for those other candidates to do the
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same when a conservative like Ken Paxton is going to
be leading the pick here.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Brandon, it was three years ago today that, among other people,
Briscoe Kine, who also lost last night, led a charge
to impeach Ken Paxton three years ago today.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That is just amazing to me. The timing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It almost makes you wonder if they did it on purpose.
James Tallerico's going to have to debate Ken Paxton. Guy's
been impeached and acquited, and he's still more popular in
Texas than free what a burger? I guess you've already
answered the question there, but I just can't imagine. I'll
frame the question like this, isn't it interesting to you, Brandon?
The liberal left in Texas was really fired up about
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Beato O'Rourke, then Colin Alred not as excited about him.
Now they're very excited about Jay James Tallerico. What was
it about Colin Alred, the former NFL player that just
didn't motivate them as much? Was there something about this
dark complexioned candidate that wasn't as exciting to Texas Democrats
as these two pale faced beta males.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I don't know if I've certainly heard people people wonder that, right.
I think that there certainly was a lack of enthusiasm,
certainly around the Democrat establishment to rally around Colin Alred.
You know, it is an interesting question, you know it
is worth and you mentioned Colin Alred. You know, well,
last night he actually Colin Allredd was in a runoff
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to to get back into Congress. He was forced off
against Julie Johnson, who was a who's been in Congress
for a couple of terms. Now is a is a
lesbian from Dallas that that's kind of her bio and
she lost. Colin Alred beat him despite the fact that
actually you had, like James tallerco who has famously not
(07:01):
gotten along with Colin all right, James Tallerrico was supporting
Julie Johnson there and Colin already one. So it's an
interesting thing. There's so much to talk about when it
comes to Republican intra party politics, and yet you know,
there's an entire world of Democrat politics that admittedly I
know less about, but whenever you see these results on
election day, it is interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Okay, So May's Middleton was one of the only that
was one of the only races between May's Middleton and
chip Roy where Trump did not endorse. But that being said,
we did get an endorsement for Paxton. May's Middleton said
he's voting for Paxton. Paxton said he's voting for Mays Middleton,
and yesterday on this radio show, Paxton said he would
help Mayes Middleton if he wins. He's supporting him. Mays
(07:45):
said he would take Paxton's advice. He wants to be
as ballsy of an ag as Paxton was do you
believe it? What do you think happens next there?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, that was interesting because I don't think people expect
it necessarily for the President to get involved sort of odd,
I think for him to get to a granular level
like an attorney general race in Texas, though not completely
out of the question. But you did see, especially over
the last couple of weeks, as you know, you saw
a lot of the President's you know, close people, people
(08:15):
like Lieutenant Governor right Dan Patrick, who is obviously somebody
who's pretty close to the president and has guided a
lot of the President's endorsements in Texas. Lieutenant Governor Dan
Patrick was out there very strongly supporting Mace Middleton and
very strongly against chip Roy. And so I think that
that was probably as close as you can see as
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involvement from the President. And you know, I think this
was this was one of those things where where if
you look at the attorney general race and you look
at the Senate race, you know, those two races especially,
you know, people who were seen to have been disloyal
to President Trump and the MAGA movement at large, those
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were the people who had a tough time last night.
And you know, regardless of what you think about chip Roy,
I think there were conservatives that supported both candidates there.
I think, sure, you know, there's a lot of good
things about both candidates, but but you know, he did, mate,
he did, you know, piss off a lot of a
lot of MAGA voters right right, And I think that
that's that's what you saw there.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Chip Roy was like Dan Crenshaw, but with a good
voting record. I've had Chip in this studio before. He's
a bit arrogant, he seems a bit, you know, very
proud of himself. But that being said, to his point,
it's a great voting record. He has great policy positions
if you're a conservative or a liberty minded Republican, or
even a Maga Republican.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But all that, let's put all that aside for a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
If chip Roy is to the right of Trump, which
I think arguably he is massy to the right of Trump, yeah,
I think arguably he was. Anybody that that straight away
from Maga Republicanism in these primaries so far seemed to
do terrible. If you were more liberal than Trump, you lost.
If you were more conservative than Trump, you lost. Is
the whole MAGA versus the establishment?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thing dead?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Is maga now the establishment?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Can we stop saying the old old school, like, what
does John Thune even do?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Does Mitch McConnell matter anymore? Your thoughts? Last question?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Uh, well, you know that that's a that's a great,
great question because I think if you look at the
way we talk about politics for the last decade at least,
it's been you know, conservative insurgents against the establishment, But
there have been so many wins wrecked up for conservatives
of the last decade you do kind of wonder what
point does that turn over to where where they're actually
the establishment. Look, there's still a lot of people to fight.
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You mentioned John Thune, right, Uh, you know, regardless of
you know, you're saying whether or not he matters or not,
it certainly matters that he's been able to hold up
the Save America Act, been able to keep up the
Phillbuss's been able to stop a lot of a lot
of conservative victories there.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And so there are still a lot of fights now.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you know, I think that there have been a
lot of gains certainly made for conservatives the last several years,
and this November election is going to be very, very
very telling.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
My brother Brandon Waltons Texas dot com. Subscribe to their website,
follow him on social media. We'll be right back with
an actual John Cornyn staffer and a Dan Crenshaw staffer
and a stand up comedian in the room. Yeah, exactly
what you think is about to take place is gonna
take place. Stick around.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
If I were you, I'd stay put. Kenny, You'll be
right back with more of what you came for, fart
jokes and roasting neo cons. It's about to get dirty
in here. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Greetings kids, Disneyland's Haunted Mansion just mading a big announcement.
They are gonna host weddings. My question is this, do
we really want something associated with horror paired up with
the Haunted Mansion?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Your take on this, Ben Daniels, what do you think
I mean if you're gonna end up ghosting the woman anyway?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah? What, that's the best place to start. I did
not mean to pluralize your last name. It's Ben Daniel,
it is, and I want people to get that right
because you're gonna be headlining at the Houston Improv tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
For those who don't know who you are.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
At Tomorrow night at seventh come find out. We've got
the best show in Houston in front of me and
be closing it out for the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Super excited to be there.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
For those of you watching me on social media, the
listening on the radio right now around Houston. People that
listen to the show regularly know I have a way
of doing things. On a big news day, I often
have guests in this studio that have something to do
with the news story, and when it's not a big
news day, I like to have comedians in here spice
it up, make it fun. You are a very edgy,
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dark comedian in Houston, and some might wonder if this
was a scheduling mistake that I made the morning after
what was a really big election in Texas.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Ben Daniel was supposed to be my secret weapon this
morning or this afternoon, depending on when you're listening and
where in the world you are. Many people may not
realize this, but the other chair in the studio was
supposed to have a.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
John Cornyn staff member in it, and my plan was
to do have your Ben. For those that don't know,
you're pretty good at roasting aren't you.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yeah, all right, I'm involved with three of the largest
roast shows in the country with a roast battle league.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You look like I hate to put you on the spot.
I give you full permission to say anything you want.
For those on the radio, they cannot hear me. Most
of our listeners know what I look like. Obviously very handsome.
I'm wearing an Andre the Giant t shirt. Go ahead, Ben, Ben,
give me one or two of your worst Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
You look like five years after your Backstreet Boys career
ended and you've just settled into a nice local celebrity niche.
It's like you still got the hair of a pop star,
but the gut is starting to come into the like
Kevin Fetderlion range of like I can still do it
a little bit, but it's not quite all the way there.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's like, that's pretty good. Yeah, I know, you get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Now, imagine if Ben now that, by the way, he's
playing very tame here, Ben goes Ben goes hard on
the radio at his stand up comedy shows at the
Riot or the Improverty's headlining tomorrow night. If the other
guest had showed up and he's a friend of mine,
I'm not gonna I think he forgot or something's wrong
because he's not replying to my text. I was gonna
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have Ben write some pretty spicy jokes and make fun
of the fact that John Cornyn, long time Republican, George
Bush Republican the old school the Republican Party had his
career stowed away from him last night by mega Republicans
Ben Daniel.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
It's gotta be really disheartening. When do you think you're
gonna be the guy who gets to strom Thurmandt like
you want to die in the chair, old and decrepit,
just murmuring under your breath, completely unintelligible to your constituents
at like one hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's the political dream.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
To lose a primary election for the right to walk
over at James Tall Rico is gotta be the most
embarrassing way to go out because he had a layup.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He had a layup. Either way, it went probably yeah,
cornyin is the incumbent.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The incumbent almost never loses, especially a primary in his
own race. Now imagine this dude spent a hundred million
dollars to lose a primary in a red state in
his own party. That sucks, dude. I mean, wow, You've
got to really sucked to suck that much. It doesn't
happen like to be.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
You can't be any safer than Texas senator, with Republican Congress,
Republican president, all of the money behind you, and you
lose to the attorney general.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah. Not a great attorney general either. If you're a
weed fan.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
By the way, a few years ago, well to your point,
Corny's not really pro weed either. But you know who
is the guy they all wanted the endorsement from Donald
Trump rescheduled marijuana, signed the Farm Act, legalized CBD in
low grade THHC in all fifty states. His son, Donald
Trump Junior once posted a meme that my friend Austin Peterson,
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a contributor to the show, created, and the meme was
it was two gay guys holding rifles standing on a farm,
and the cap shit said, I want to live in
in America where married gay men can protect their marijuana
farm with their AK forty sive Evans or their Air
fifteen's or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And that's the American dream man. Ain't that America, Ben Daniel.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
It's a melting pot with a machine gun. Yeah, That's
what we wanted, man, That's what I wanted. What I
respect about Donald Trump is Donald Trump only cares about money,
and there's so much revenue to be had in the
marijuana business, right, we just need to shift the revenue
design from the prisons into the farming industry.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
One of the comedians you're performing with tomorrow night at
the show that you are headlining, by the way, Ben Daniel,
local comic whose career is taken off right now. One
of the comedians you're performing with. Jesse Payton often says
he only cares about money. He said he only does
comedy to make money. He writes jokes that will make
him money. He wants to charge fifty dollars a ticket,
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not fifteen dollars a ticket. That's the kind of jokes
he writes. As a comedian who maybe walks that line
between trying to make money and artistic integrity.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
What's your reaction to that, Ben, We've always been on
the opposite end of the spectrum. We joke about it
all the time. We keep score differently in this game.
And the reason Jesse focuses on money is because Jesse's
good at making money.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, Like, let's be honest.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
If I could charge fifty dollars a ticket for my shows,
I would be doing that, and we'd be chasing the
money too.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But I don't have the fan base to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I don't have the machine that he has corporate wise,
so I have to cling to artistic integrity I do.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I do political comedy, as you're aware, usually very political,
unless it's at the couple's therapy show, and then I
just talk about divorce.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But we have another comedian friend named Davy Jackson. Do
you know him?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, Da Davy Jackson's he I wrote a bit about
the gay Ayahtola, the leader of Irene is a gay guy,
and Jesse was like that is He's like, that's a
bit is too smart for people. Kenny Davy Jackson comes
and does a show with us, gets on stage, he
does a bit about the gay Ayatola.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I got off stage. I looked at Jesse. I was like,
see it's funny.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Jesse's advice to Davey was, you know, you're a good
looking guy, You're very funny, You're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Women like you. Stop being so political. And as soon
as Jesse I was like, David, you should be more
political dude, I think it's funny.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
The thing is, I think everybody should be more political
in their lane because people want to go see what
represents them. Sure, are you going to alienate part of
a place that was probably never going to be your
fan base anyway? Sure I end up doing I'm not political,
you know me. I'm not a political person.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No. You do dark humor across the board.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Jokes about the darkest, totally most inappropriate things. Anything that's
considered sacred, You'll write a joke about it.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I just want to make people laugh. I don't want
to let people laugh. I want to make you laugh
at something you didn't want to laugh at.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You told me a joke off the air about a
certain natural disaster, a tragedy of sorts that took place
in Texas a year or two ago, and you told me,
I'm waiting for this to age a little more so
I could tell the joke in public.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And it was very, very, very edgy. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
I call that the Kobe Bryant Lesson, because the night
he passed away, I did Lols and San Antonio and
did a joke that made two hundred people get up
and leave.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, you should let them air out a little bit first,
is what I've learned the South Park.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I say the rules ten years. I think that's a
little conservative. I don't know if it's maybe like for
nine to eleven it's ten years.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But for a lot of stuff, I'm still getting fleck
for a nine to eleven joke and we're like twenty five.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Now, what was Could you tell the joke right now
on the air or is it not going to work
on the radio. It's too long, It's too okay. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well. On that note, you are this is a news
talk station. I know that's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Ben Daniel is gonna be at the improut tomorrow night
with a whole slew of funny local comics. But one
thing we've been laughing about off the air is the
guys that build Ferraris have found a way to no
longer get you laid when you drive one. The new
Ferrari looks like a Subaru mixed with a Tesla. It
looks like a toy car. Ferrari unveiled the first fully
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electric car. Like most Ferraris, it also comes with divorce papers.
It's the perfect vehicle for middle aged men who want
to use an alternative fuel source while searching for an
alternative to their spouse. Ben, you must have some hot
takes on this car. It does not look like it
gets you sex. What is your take on it?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Six hundred grand? Yeah, you're paying six hundred grand for
yellow celibacy, but you weren't gonna get any in an
electric vehicle probably anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
People online are saying it looks like baby's first dollhouse banged.
An iPhone one user said, I want it to look
like the cockpit of a fighter jet.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah it doesn't, doesn't.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
It looks like Disney tried to write a DEI vehicle
into cars. Yeah, it's just like Pixar creates an electric vehicle.
Like that's the one that dates another mail car. You know,
they play with each other's charging ports type thing.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That's for six hundred thousand dollars. This car will definitely
send you to the friend zone. Enjoy a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Hey, it's me the Donald. You're listening to the Pursuit
of Happiness radio.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
War from the radio game.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, I am gay for I love reading these studies.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
There's this new study that just came out and they
claim that spending more time in nature reduces stress and anxiety,
which is true.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's true. I've done it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Don't get me started on the benefits of smoking nature, Ben,
that works really good. Smoking nature in nature is probably
the optimum. You're right, Ben, you became a very popular comedian,
blowing up all over Texas and the Gulf of America.
But once upon a time you were not as well
grounded as as individual.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Once upon a time you were not as well put
together as a local comedian would be.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You were in worse shape, were you not.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
It's crazy when I think about it, It's like there's
anniversaries to this, Like tomorrow night, I'm headlining the Improv
for the first time.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Biggest comedy club in Texas, The Houston Improv is the
biggest single room.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
For standbiggest a club in Texas, in the whole state. Yeah,
and nine years ago, right about this date, I was
living in my car homeless You were homeless or houseless? Houseless?
I mean I lived in a car. I had a car. Still,
all of the places I was staying would not let
me in anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
We were discussing this word yesterday at my gym homeless first, houseless,
And somebody was explaining to me a while ago, a
liberal was explaining, He's like, oh, but Kenny, those people
aren't homeless, they have a home. They're houseless. I was like, wait,
wait a second. That doesn't check out with me.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They don't have a home. They live under a bridge
where they shoot up fentanyl with a dog against its.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But yesterday at my gym someone said the reason they
say houseless is because their problem.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Is they need a house. It's not that they need
a home. I was like, home, I don't. I still don't.
I guess I still don't get it. I can't wrap
my mind around liberal talk.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I mean, if you have to sleep in the elements,
does it really matter what adjective you put in. Some
people like to say unhoused, homeless, houseless, unhoused, Like I
slept in in a grand caravan.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, it's a Dodge Grand Caravan. That sounds nice when
you put it that way. Yeah, it was a grand
care of it. It was teal. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I used to park it in Walmart parking lots overnight
and just tape up the windows and hope nobody from
security came and banged on the glass.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Did that ever happen to you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I used to all the time. What's the most embarrassing
place you ever got kicked out of while you were houseless?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
I've I was a poker player while I was homeless
for a little bit, which sounds counterintuitive.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You're a professional poker player and you were homeless.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, there was a drug component to that, which makes
the middle make sense. But we went to a play
in the World Series circuit in Mississippi and I couldn't
afford the hotel room after I stopped gambling, so I
fell asleep on a bench in the lobby and woke
up to them kicking me out of the tournament and
the hotel.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Rude.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yeah, apparently you can't be a vagrant in certain parts
of Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's you know what's funny about this. You keep saying
homeless and you were a homeless person. You don't care
if it's homeless or houseless. We have another friend who's
a state up comedian named Clinton Shorter. He is a
person of small stature. He does not like to be
called He likes to be called a midget. He doesn't
like to be called little person. My memory serves me correctly.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
This has been my beef with a lot of people.
You don't get to pick what people call you, man, right,
Like every time I've seen Clinton, I've been like that
dwarf has a giant butt, and what does he say?
I think I've heard him do dwarf jokes. I've heard
him go dwarfsm. I know he doesn't like little person
because I think it makes him sound like an actual person.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And that's not's not what he's going for. That's not
what his thing is.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's kind of like the word retarded. Have you ever
heard of the carousel of euphemisms? Are you familiar with this?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
No, it's a this idea. This is very smart Harvard
guy came up with a long time ago. He's like,
all right, we're gonna change language. So it means the
same thing, but the language is less offensive. It's like
that person died, No, they're no longer with us. Did
that person get fired? No, They've moved on to new things.
It's like, yeah, well they got fired. Okay, Well, now
apply that to retarded.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Back in the early.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Twentieth century, words like nimrod and moron an idiot were
actually medical terms that people in the medical profession would use.
And then, as you're aware, that word became retarded. And
you and I are about the same age, I think,
how old are you?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Forty?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Okay, I'm a couple years older than forty three. When
we were growing up in the nineties and the eighties,
do you remember being at a red light with your
mom in the car and a guy would walk buy
in an orange vest, and the orange vest would say
help retarded kids, and he'd sell you some Smarties or
some Tuxi rolls. You'd give him a buck, he'd give
you a handful of cheap candy, he'd walk off. Nobody
was bothered by this, and at some point the term
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retarded became offensive, and then that became intellectually disabled or
slow or whatever they wanted to say. And right around
that time, that's exactly the time when people with Down
syndrome kind of disappeared from television.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Do you remember they used to have this show Quirky
on Facts of Life? Was it Fast Life?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
What was the show called, Ah, We're being retarded? What
was the show it was called not Days of Our Lives?
What show is it on Life? Goes on, Life goes On.
It was called life goes On, Yeah, anyway, and then
right and there used to be disabled mentally disabled people
on TV, and then liberals said stop saying retarded, and
then poof, they just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I think that was worse.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I think having them on TV was better than coming
up with some word that won't offend people, because whatever
you change the word to, it'll eventually become an insult
mentally disabled or intellectually slow or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And the one thing about people in the nineties is
we never actually use the word retarded to describe somebody
with special needs. Right Like, even though.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Corky was on television, nobody had ever said there was
a retarded guy on television. No, it was somebody with
Down syndrome, and it was in like I had a
great uncle with Down syndrome. It's great that they got
representation there. Like retarded is when you try to unlock
your house by clicking your car clicker repeatedly and wonder
why it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's retarded. That's retarded.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Like end to quote Jesse Payton, because I know our
listeners have heard of tell this joke before. You can't
even say retarded anymore. Now you have to call them democrats.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Broh. There they are the worst language police. It's true.
I don't like them trying to make retarded the R word.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Like you're there, You're a pot smoking, edgy comedian from
the city. You're not political at all now, But if
somebody held a gun to your head and said, which
side of the political aisle, which side of the political
zeitgeist is ruining stand up comedy, wouldn't your point right
at Chelsea Handler.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
It's I was gonna say earlier, like I'm not political,
but I end up performing in front of mostly Republican
crowds because those are the people that can take dark jokes.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It didn't used to be that way. It did not.
It used to be everybody understood jokes were jokes, or.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That comedy audiences were kind of on the left. They
were kind of on the left, like think like old school,
like Bill Hicks, that sort of thing. But at some point,
George Carlin, Bill Hicks, would those guys even be considered
left wing by today's standards.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
I mean, at this point they'd be right middle, I think,
or at least center center center middle, like all center
both sides have gotten extraordinarily extreme, but now.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
People on the right seem to celebrate there's it feels
like there's less sacred goats on the right.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's stuff on the right. Couple, Yeah, there's a couple
that you can't make fun of.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
But even then, I feel like it's a certain point
as you're moving across the spectrum where most things you
can make fun of, or at least right wingers would
be like, ah, you shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But on the left, that line is a lot shorter,
isn't it. Bert It.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
The Kevin Hart roast should show you exactly because there
was a George Floyd joke and there was a Charlie
Kirk joke, and one of them got panel outraged discussions.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Okay, did you notice who is this? There's this podcast
here what's her name, Suki or something like that, and
her and this other white girl who like cheated on
her husband with Drake that doesn't do you know who
these girls are? They do a podcast and one of
them does porn in the other does they're mad about
the jokes at the roast, but one of them is
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a prostitute and the other one left her husband for Drake.
So why am I getting virtue signaling from them? What's
their moral compass? I've said this before and it's my
only like hill that I'll die in.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
If you remove a joke because somebody's offended, you have
no right not to remove the next joke when the
next persons offended. If you let one person draw their
line about okay, we can't joke about this thing, then
you're hipocritical if you don't respect the next person's line,
Like people need to understand it's okay that their feelings
got hurt and nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I want to end the interview today with this weird
news story because I feel like we could segue into
this perfectly. Canada is considered to be the most liberal
place in North America, more so than Mexico, certainly more
so than the United States. In Canada, assisted suicide is legal.
They also have free health care there, but it comes
with some little caveats. Ben, what I have in front
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of me, I think is the most liberal Canadian news
headline ever written. Do you get what Tim Hortons is? Yeah,
it's a donut place with good coffee. It's like Starbucks
and Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
That kind of thing. An actual headline from Canada Today.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside of
tim Hortons. Now, don't feel bad if you don't know.
Most of people in America wouldn't understand what this is.
Do you get what that means?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah? I get the entire conflict. And it's like Canadian medicine.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
It's a doctor who happens to stumble outside of a
Tim Hortons and sees a guy and he's like, Okay,
this guy has donuts and he's still sad.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Right. Yeah, For those that don't get what MAID is.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
In Canada, assisted suicide is totally legal.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's completely okay there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So this forty five year old man with Crohn's disease
was approved for and received MAID, Canada's government sponsored assisted
suicide program after a doctor met him outside of it
Tim Hortons and assessed him for ethyl injection. Because apparently
fast food restaurants are a great place for death doctors
to find potential clients. That is where you find the
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sad people, and it's called medical assistance and dying eligibility
from there. Doctor James McLean drove this man to the
suicide clinic, where he'd used like, oh are you are
you depressed about your crone's disease? Hop in the car,
I'll take you to die. And then he did Ben
you right, dark humor for a living. Did you think
you'd learn anything like that today?
Speaker 7 (31:29):
I did not, Like, I can't even somebody to give
me a ride to the grocery store, and like, you know,
this guy's not giving you gas money on the back end,
you're literally giddy.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Cash grass are asked, buddy, nobody rides to the assistant
suicide clinic for free.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
They call it made too, Like normally when people die
from maids, it's because one of them's driving without a license.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
My guest right now, if you just turn it on
the radio, the very funny Tim Daniel, he is headlining
tomorrow and add Ben Ben Daniels.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Sorry, I was thinking Tim Morton with Tim Horton's he
made me a donut hybrid.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I think it was Tim Dillon's fault. It says no
Ben Daniels's name. Sorry, and I'm looking at too many
things on the screen in front of me. Tomorrow night,
he is headlining at the Improv with a stone called
Pack Badasses, a whole bunch of hilarious comedians, many of
whom are my friends. Will Loden's going to be there,
Jesse Payton, some great local comics.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You want to go to the show? If people want
to buy tickets, Ben, what do they do?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Go to IMPROVTX dot com and pick Houston as your city.
We're listed right now, seven thirty May twenty eighth, still
tickets left, not as many tickets as were left yesterday.
Pretty happy about how those are moving, but should still
be a couple at the door if you want to go.
It's going to be a great show, great time. Literally
everybody that I know wanted to do this show.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I got my pick. Yeah, I took the funniest people
that I could find that we're in the city.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Well, for those of you that have not seen Ben
Daniel perform before, he's great. He's one of my favorite
Comit means dark. You got to understand edgy to get
this show. But it's going to be good and Ben.
For those of you that are just turning on the
radio wondering why we're talking about comedy on the morning
after an election. The day afternoon after an election, Ben
My plan was to have a staff member from John
(33:15):
Cornyn's team here in the studio, and Ben was going
to roast him a little bit before we go. Do
you have any jokes about John Cornyn's campaign going away?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Or George W.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Bush, Republicans no longer being the flavor of the month,
and right wing politics? What would you have done to
this young man who enjoys golf course republicanism and country
club conservativism.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Ben, imagine spending one hundred million dollars to run a
campaign that will one day be compared to Kamala Harris's campaign.
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig it all right?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
So Russell Crowe asked autograph seekers to calm down outside
a hotel in Paris. Unfortun they didn't listen, so he
had to eat them. That's rough how that turns out, guys,
And I was surprised about this. Nicholas Cage is now
the star of a Superman film. I'm sorry, Spider Man,
Spider Noir, they're calling it. Nicholas Cage also said several
(34:13):
directors won't call him because he's turned them down in
the past. Yeah, or it could be that they've seen
his last twenty movies. I don't know either, or I
have no idea. Hollywood's got a problem now AI. AI
is taking people's jobs. We've talked about this on the
show a lot, and I think it deserves to be
repeated to those of you that are fearful of what
(34:34):
AI is going to do. One thing it's going to
do is it's going to make it possible for average
people without a giant, exorbitant, multimillion dollar budget.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
To compete with Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Cause, yeah, maybe you don't have millions and millions of
dollars to spend on actors and special effects. But if
you can write a good plot and figure out how
to use AI on your computer or your laptop or
your iPhone, suddenly Steven Spielberg doesn't have the thing that
you have. You've got something creative. As long as you
could tell a story, well, as long as you can
(35:06):
weave a plot together, you can create a film.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That's what's remarkable. But let's talk about AI.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Obviously there are pros and cons AI.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
We're finally treating AI like the ultimate Swiss army knife
for national survival instead of some overly sensitive Bayreya houseplant
that faints at the site of a tough job.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
While certain Silicon Valley outfits play ethics professor and tie
one hand behind our military's back, the grown ups in
the Republican led Department of Defense are demanding results. They're
demanding that AI crushes the enemies, locks down the borders.
It doesn't throw a corporate temper tantrum when asked to
(35:55):
do their damn job. What am I talking about? Let's
start off with this one trendy AI company basically told
the Pentagon, Sure will help, but only if you pinky
swear never to use it for domestic spying or letting
killer robots pick their own targets. Now, this is kind
of like hiring a bodyguard who says I'll protect you, boss,
as long as the attackers use squirt guns and promise
(36:16):
to be inclusive. So what was the predictive result? The
predictable result was that contract reviews, serious side eye on
supply chains and swift pivots to partners who aren't auditioning
for a TED talk on robot feelings became the reality.
Real players who understand were in a brutal AI arms
race with communist China, not a hug competition. Are the
(36:39):
people that stepped up to the plate. If Beijing is
building drone swarms that look like angry metallic bees with
anger management issues, our troops deserve more than a therapy
bot cooing. Full autonomous systems with proper American adult supervision
save American lives instead of turning our military into the
(37:00):
world's most expensive feeling circle. The pearl culletures in Silicon
Valley warning about killer robots are the same geniuses who
think a safe space is battlefield equipment.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Guess what we can.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Choose to use AI in our military, or we could
choose not to do it, But we can't decide if
China or Russia or Iran is going to do it,
and spoiler alert, they will. Nobody on the right wants
some dystopian AI playing Peeping Tom on every Gramma out there,
baking apple pie and Nebraska. That's not what we're asking for.
(37:33):
That's the Obama Biden specialty, weaponizing spy tools against political
opponents and rowdy parents at school boards and basically anyone
who noticed the Emperor had no clothes, but smart, lawful
artificial intelligence that sniffs out terrorists, cartels, illegal border crossers,
and Chinese infiltrators. Well, that's just common sense with better algorithms.
(37:58):
That's like owning a guard dog that only bites the burglars,
not the family dog. The fix isn't giving tech bros
veto power over the Pentagon. It's elected leaders who actually
respect the Constitution instead of treating it like a suggestion box.
This whole refusal smells like the same kale munching virtue
(38:18):
signaling nonsense that censored conservatives crammed DEI into fighter jet
cock pits and produced AI to scare men out of
women's sports. That's not exactly what's happening here. What we're
dealing with right now is a military that actually understands
we're probably gonna need a AI. We don't need corporations
(38:41):
with sketchy foreign board ties or crystal healing effective ultruists
coding our AI morality. What we need is tough republican oversight,
heavy investment in American tech talent, and deregulations so our
innovators can move fast and break things, preferably China's plans
train the system on the constitution, train the systems on
(39:02):
actual history and a healthy, don't lose mindset. The grown
ups are handling this the right way. Smooth transitions to
reliable partners, superior systems and development, zero patience for anything
that smells like preemptive surrender. We want AI that spots
election funny business faster than a caffeine fueled pole watcher.
(39:25):
We want AI that optimizes trade so American workers can win.
We want AI that deports criminals like they're late for
their own exit party. And we want AI that makes
hostile dictators sleep with the lights on. This is how
you keep America dominant, unapologetic AI superiority for defense and
prosperity and liberty under law. Letting corporate resistance slow us
(39:50):
down is like bringing a poetry slam to a tank battle.
Weakness is the only thing that excites our adversaries. Conservatives
are delivering actual results in a few laughs, where the
last crowd offered lectures and strategic lag. The future doesn't
belong to the cautious. It belongs to the bold and
the ones whose bots don't cry in combat. And I
(40:13):
know what you're thinking, what did any of this have
to do with Hollywood. Well nothing, It was just a
weird segue from that to this. Anyway, I'm Kenny Webster.
It's been a pleasure to be here with you this afternoon.
I'm very excited about how the election turned out yesterday.
And apparently some of the people that lost bad in
this election cycle, well they turned out well too. A
giving an example, Representative Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Green.
(40:37):
What are they up to today? Well, according to her report,
the two of them and their spouses are vacationing together
in Costa Rica during the congressional recess. They posted a
photo of themselves from a beach front dinner after Marjorie
Taylor Green's group picked them up from the airport. Thomas
Massey recently lost the Trump back primary and filed paperwork
for a potential twenty twenty eight run, But in the meantime,
(41:00):
he's vacationing in Costa Rica with Marjorie Taylor Green. Where
they may or may not be doing, I don't know,
ayahuasca out in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I have no idea. You do wonder though, if they
love Costa Rica so much, what the heck happened to
America first. I don't know. I hope they enjoy their vacation.
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. We'll be back
Brian early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought
a radio for. You are listening to the Pursuit of
(41:34):
Happiness Radio.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.
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