September 3, 2025 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Austin Petersen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
So Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy for
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more time, they'll become a Spirit Halloween. Hi, everybody, Kenny
Webster here. You know who's joining us this afternoon. Austin
Peterson is going to be stopping by in just a
little bit. We've been talking about Donald Trump's national crackdown
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on crime in big violent blue cities, something we obviously needed.
And I mean, I'm not a big advocate for militarized
police or federal agents policing our streets, but Chicago's bad.
Donald Trump won the election he promised to clean up
the big violent cities, and that's what he appears to
be trying to do. Now that being said, I think
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there's a right and wrong way to do it. We're
going to talk about that coming up on the show
in a little bit. Austin will be here too, weigh
in on that. He's a libertarian. He's very critical of
the government doing anything, as are probably a lot of you,
So we'll get into it. I want to hear your
thoughts on it as well, and I will also be
asking him about this new.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Polling data from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Wall Street Journal just published a new pole saying most
Americans have lost faith in the American dream. And I
don't even feel like that's news. That pole could have
come out five years ago or fifteen years ago, probably
could have got the same results. All that being said,
a report today at The New York Post talks about
exactly what we're discussing. Democrats head scratching reaction to Trump's
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DC crime cracks down. It's Democrats are actually taking the
position here that crime is good, criminals have rights to
It's a strange position to take. Miranda Devine described it
as unhinged hostility to Donald Trump's successful crime crackdown in Washington, DC.
Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters.
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I mean, it's true, right. Even Joe Scarborough Morning Joe,
not exactly a big fan of Donald Trump, weighed in
on the controversy and actually seem to take Donald Trump's side.
This is the morning show host on MSNBC saying, actually,
maybe Donald Trump's right about this.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wearn is.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You have leaders in Chicago that see this.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
As you say, We've been reading about this for years now,
every weekend, and maybe crime has gone down. But you know,
we had the mayor of Chicago on last week saying, oh,
we don't need any more police officers. Police officers aren't
the answer. No police officers. And you know, I think
he said no five times. You look what's happening this weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He looks.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You know, I actually think that JB. Pritzker should do
something radical. I think he should pick up the phone,
call the president and say, you know, and I know
you don't have the concert.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Jusial authority to deploy the National Guard here.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And the police.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
You can do that in DC, you can't do that
in Chicago. But let's partner up. These are the most
dangerous parts of my state. We would love to figure
out how to have a partnership that's constitutional, that respects
the sort of balance of federalism between the federal government
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and the state government.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And let's work together to save lives.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Because right now, just to hey, nothing to see here,
moving along, no problem here, Hey, Donald Trump, we don't
need you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And you know the mayor talking about we're going.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
To protect people's dignity. Okay, you get what he's saying, right,
I mean, he's got some great points. It's bad, it's dangerous,
it's violent. You know, would it be so bad if
we have the National Guard just protecting the streets while
the actual Chicago Police Department went out and did some
real police work for a while. They're understaffed, they're under
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fund they don't have enough people to get the job done.
Right now, they say that law and order is an
eighty twenty issue. I feel like it's more of a
ninety five to five issue. You know, when they talk
about what percentage of people want law and order, I
gotta think it's higher than eighty percent. You don't need
Upollster to tell you that. What about this other small
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fraction of people. I got to assume they're either criminals,
or they're blue city politicians, or they're both. Right now,
I'm being redundant. The president's approval rating is actually shot
up over the past month. I wonder why it happened
during a time when he started focusing on crime in
big cities. That's a kitchen table issue. That's something most
of us tend to agree with. We don't want crime.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In DC.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
The crime rate is plummeted across the board. Violent crime
is down thirty percent. It's a big difference in a
city as big as Washington, DC. The Metropolitan Police Department
bullish citing a forty percent drop in violent crime according
to their statistics. It's hire than we thought. The Attorney General,
Pam Bondi, has been posting crime statistics on social media,
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boasting there have been fifteen hundred and twenty eight arrests recently,
one hundred and fifty six illegal guns seized. I can
remember when Democrats liked when the government went out and
took guns from criminals. I thought they were for that.
About half of the arrests had been illegal migrant criminals,
including violent felons convicted of rape, child molestation, assault, robbery
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with a deadly weapon. How can anybody be opposed to
arresting most people DC residents, the people that live in
the city, tend to be black, and according to The
New York Post, a lot of them are expressing relief
at being able to live without fear of being robbed
or assaulted in their own community. Pambondy actually had to
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fire two of her own employees, Lefty DOJ employees who
have hurled abuse. Remember the thing with the sandwich. They
were mad about somebody throwing a sandwich at a cop
or whatever. Then they didn't want to press charges for it.
It's just silly, right Anyway, we know what this is
going to lead to. At some point you're going to
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get into the next election cycle. People are going to
actually have to decide was Donald Trump too bullish? Was
Donald Trump too hawk shon crime? Did you like the
fact that crime depleted in your city? Do you think
your rights were violated in the meantime? Frankly, I think
the results speak for themselves. How many law abiding citizens
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right now are bothered by this? How many law abiding
citizens are bothered by this who don't live in Ivy League,
Glass Towers or some gated community somewhere. I bet the
number's pretty low.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Stop at government, Get out of my life. You're listening
to the Pursuit of Happiness radio.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, we're back. You gotta admit whether or not.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You will show you.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Whether or not you agree with Donald Trump's plan to
send the National Guard into Chicago or Illinois it's indisputably
true that Chicago has a crime problem. I mean, that's
just absolutely true. Years ago, I moved from Chicago to Houston.
I lived most of my twenties in the Windy City,
and I've spent most of my adult life outs after
that in Houston, right, pretty much all of it. And
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I could tell you with great certainty that although the
two cities are very similar in terms of socioeconomic status,
working class, blue collar industry city surrounding a white collar metropolis,
the downtown area and international cities. No doubt, Chicago has
a stock exchange. Houston is the energy capital of the world,
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they claim. But that's kind of where the similarities end,
isn't it. Because Houston's very spread out, it's very warm. Chicago,
everyone's kind of on top of each other. It's cold,
and for some reason, that is what's caused the murder
rate to spike in Chicago. Okay, that's probably not true. Actually,
it's probably this. If you live in the Windy City
and you throw a rock in any direction, what do
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you usually hit?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
A homeless person?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
If you live in Houston and you throw a rock
in any direction, you hit a gun range, you hit
a gun store. In terms of crime, Chicago and Houston
are real similar, with one exception, right when it comes
to theft, vandalism, you know, catalytic converter resale, that sort
of thing. Neck and neck, very similar statistics. When it
comes to violent crime, it turns out in a city
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where there's a lot of armed, law abiding citizens around,
people are a little more careful. When you know your
neighbor might be packing some heat, You're a little less
likely to commit a violent crime. That's just my opinion.
That's something I've noticed. I've actually seen people in Chicago
get shot. I've never seen that in Houston.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Before.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I saw somebody in Chicago get stabbed once. I've never
witnessed anything like that in Houston. Mind you, Houston has
plenty of crime. When I first moved here, somebody broke
into my car first month I lived in this city.
Not exactly a crime free town by any means, but
certainly not the amount of rape, murder, kidnappings. That stuff
just doesn't happen in Houston at the rate that it
happens in a city like Chicago. So maybe there's something
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to be said about this. I have a friend he's
a little more libertarian than me, although he's certainly a
very similar libertarian nationalist belief. She probably read some of
his articles or some of his tweets online. He even
runs the Walton and Johnson online story. His name is
Austin Peterson. Austin doesn't live in Chicago or in Houston.
He lives in Missouri. Austin, I would assume you probably
don't see this exactly how I see it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But what do you think about that theory?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, first of all, if the FEDS want to stop
shootings in this country, the first thing that they need
to do, Kenny, is they've got to shut down the
Helen Keller Memorial gun range because people are getting blasted
at that range. And you know, I don't know why
it's so popular, because everybody who's been buying the Helen
Keller Memorial gun shirts over at I love WJ dot com.
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But apparently it's become a freak thing. So if Trump
could shut that down first, that would reduce the number
of shootings. But on a more serious note, it's you know,
I'm a libertarian. I don't like the idea of sending
the FEDS into our cities or states. But for Trump,
you have to look at the politics of this. For Trump,
it's kind of a win win. If he succeeds and
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things improve, then he gets huge credit and people are
going to realize, you know, how terrible the things are managed.
But if he doesn't manage to even eke out, you know,
a big victory, then he gets to blame it on
the Democrats and say, well, your cities are completely unmangal,
You've completely destroyed them. So there's the politics of this,
there's the there's the law. And DC is not Chicago
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and d C is not it's not Baltimore. But I
don't know if you have ever ridden the train between
say New York and DC. I have. I used to
live there, and when I would go back and forth,
you see Baltimore passing by, it looks like be Root,
it looks like Gaza after the IDF has had a
go at it. It just it looks to me like
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a third world nation, and the crime rights crime rates
reflect that. So it's like, if you've lived there, you're
not going to care if the police officer that saves you,
or that you know, the person who saves you from
getting stabbed as the local police officer or federal troop.
All you want is to stop the crime in your neighborhoods.
So if it's an experiment and we're going to see
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if it succeeds or not, and at the end of
the day, if more people's lives are saved, it's probably
a good thing. But I do fear the precedent because
we all know that what we do now, that what
the Republicans do now, the Democrats are going to take
later and they're going to point and say, well, here's
where we got this authority. You've got it from the
previous administration, and any double will quadruple down and make
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it worse. Which is I say we shouldn't do something, Kenny.
I think a lot of people they look at people
like ourselves and they think, well, you guys just don't
do anything. Well, that's not true because one of the
biggest things that we could do is enforce property rights.
You have to know, Kenny, that like it's not legal
to gentrify parts of Baltimore. They you know why, because
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the Democrats have spawned this narrative that these evil rich
billionaires or white people moving into our neighborhoods and purchasing
properties and being able to defend them appropriately with guns,
you know, improve the neighborhoods, but that we've been brainwashed
against it. We've been brainwashed to believe that, you know,
white people moving into a neighborhood and making it and
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improving it is gentrification, and that that's a bad thing
and we shouldn't do it. The zoning laws, regulations, red tape,
we could do a lot, Kenny. Who people who point
fingers at people like us and say, well, you guys
are just saying, don't do anything. The libertary response, don't intervene.
Government doesn't do anything. No government can do a lot
right now to get out of the way of letting
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people purchase property value, purport property at fair market values,
and then defend that property with guns if need be.
But they can't. So these they continue. We continue to
see our inner cities hollowed out because we don't respect
property rights. Kenny.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, So let's say hypothetically sends the National Guard in
and all they do is protect the streets while the
actual Chicago Police Department goes out and investigates the real crime.
We have the National Guard on the street to deter
you run of the mill vandalism, street thug stuff like that,
but they don't actually go out and do traditional police
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work like detective work and investigations.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
As a libertarian, does that bother you?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah? It does. But again, at the end of day,
what people are are going to see, if they're going
to see that when they're their ride home on the train,
that there's somebody there with the gun that's protecting them,
they're going to see, you know, they're going to see
those results. They're not going to see. You know, we
we sort of live in an ivory tower. You know,
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people who I'll even extend this, you know, to the audience.
You know, some of the ten percenters who listen to
this show, right they know the theories, they've read the books,
they're with it. You know, they know exactly what we're
what we're saying. But they also they don't live in Chicago,
they don't live in Baltimore. They don't know what it's
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like to live in some of the areas of d
you see that I've seen, and I'll tell you the
people who are in those neighborhoods, they just they don't
care about our theories and our ivy league. And you
know how we feel about things or what the Constitution
says about that, whether we like it or not, Kenny,
to some extent, we are at a post constitutional society.
I don't like it. I don't agree with it. We
need to get back to what the founding documents have said.
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But to some extent there is. It's what people like
Michael Malice would call an anarcho tyranny, where if you
are friends with the government, you will get protected, you
will be able to do as you please. But if
you're not friends with the government, if you don't, if
you can't afford to get on the list of tariff
exemptions for this administration, then you're screwed for the next
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few years until the Democrats take over. And then you know,
Mark Zuckerberg has to go play national the Democrats and
pay for their inauguration. And so it's it's that the
rich people. The rich can protect themselves. They can always
be friends with the people in power, the people who
are poor, people who are middle class. You know, we
don't have access to that level of power, so we
don't We don't normally make the friends list.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And it doesn't even necessarily help it when you have
your own party in power, because they're sure not helping
the majority of people. They're helping their buddies, they're helping
their cronies. They're setting themselves up and enriching themselves. Because
we live under an anarchist, he tyrannical situation. The laws
apply only to the people who are the enemies of
the state, and for the friends of the state, the
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laws don't apply. You do as you please. You know.
That's why people who are in Silicon Valley can get
away with things, Kenny. They they can move fast, and
they can break things because one they can afford to
pay for it fix something if they broke it. Think
someone like you know, committing suicide for using AI. Okay,
well they'll just pay off the person, right, they can
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afford to do that and take those risks into But
for the rest of us, we have to ask permission.
We have to ask are we allowed to do something right?
And you know, only the greatest you know understand that
the rules and laws are really only meant for the
middle and lower classes. That's the truth. It's sad truth,
but that's the reality we live in.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
The Wall Street Journal just ran a poll and what
they found is that a majority of Americans have lost
faith in the American Dream. I feel like Austin, I
feel like that I've seen this poll before, Like we
see this every few years. It's just a different news
outlet running the news story. I think what differs to
me about this? Usually it's a liberal outlet during a
Republican regime telling you during a Republican administration that people
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lost faith in the American dream. And then when there's
a Democrat in power, you know, a right wing news
out at Fox News, for example, will run a similar
poll get similar results. What's different here is Wall Street
Journal is considered to be you know, it's newscorps, right
Rupert Murdoche. It's considered to be a conservative news outlet,
and they're running the poll while Trump is in charge.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
What's your take on this?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm gonna get conspiratorial. If you ever heard the term
dirt doom scrolling. Maybe some people who are out there again,
the ten percenters, they're all over it. But you know,
this is what people? What do people do? Boredom doesn't
even exist anymore. When was the last time that you
were bored? And what are we doing when we're not bored?
When we otherwise would have been bored. We're scrolling on
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our phones. And I absolutely believe that the social media
institutions like TikTok and others have got foreign operations that
we call them psyops in Russia, their intelligence agencies they
call them active measures. This kind of stuff has been
going on for years, but ever since the it's been
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a lot more difficult to spread the Uh. Well, I
guess the disenfranchisement amongst the American people with their institutions
and with their futures, disenfranchising people from believing that the
future in the United States is something look forward to.
We see this widespread on social media. We'd see it
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in the legacy media where I saw a CEO was
talking about Generation Z and how these zoomers they they
don't believe that they have a future. They're not really
working that hard, and they're not trying, and they're quiet quitting,
and they're you know, they're they're scrolling TikTok's there, and
what are they saying on TikTok. They're saying some they'll
have a video juxtaposed of how Baltimore is a is
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full of you know, crack. They'll show people in the
United States where a police shooting a black woman running
at them with a knife. And then the next video
is a young Chinese girl sitting at the piano playing
a masterful, you know, piece that she wrote herself at
just seven years old. And that's a psyop, right, It's
it's show you how terrible things are in the United
States and it and to show you how great things
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are overseas. And you know what, people, I think people
are buying it. I think people are doing scrolling on
their phones. I think they're I think they're I think
that the psychological warfare that's going that's being conducted, you know,
both domestically by the democratic institutions, the George Soros institutions,
but also foreign siops are are being propagated. There's a
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reason why TikTok was voted by the Congress overwhelmingly to
be banned. You know, whether you like, you know, agree
with the ban or not doesn't change the fact that,
you know, maybe you believe that Chinese propaganda is free
speech and should be allowed here in the United States.
The Congress didn't believe that. And you know, a lot
of conservatives think that they should ban TikTok. You know,
we could debate that later. But the point is that
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it is a psyop. It is there are psychological manipulative
manipulation campaigns that are being engaged. It's on mass. Ask
yourself this, Kenny. This is really sad. And this is
not an attack on anybody who's listening from this generation.
But if you were to kind of if you were
to take the average AI video that's that looks really
good and show it to a boomer, what do you
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think the percentage rate of them believing that it's real would.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Be shocked shockingly high. Austin, I've got I've done this
experiment before. My mom and her her friends. They do
not know the difference between AI and real content. It's terrifying,
it is.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And and they they they create whole fake news reports
that they create all these institute and then a video
that backs up the statement of the fake a fake
video from a fake person that backs up the statement.
And and it even is you know, sometimes will fool me.
I'll have to look twice and be like, wait a minute,
was that was that? Really? Was that? Auch? If it
seems too good to be real, you know it probably
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is is not real. The problem is that there's no
way to separate the American people from their devices. We
whether we like it or not, the most addictive the
most addictive thing in the United States is not crack cocaine.
It's not fentanyl. It's not sugar, it's not it's not food.
The number one most addictive thing is that device in
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our pockets, which lies to us every day, all day, Kenny,
it is full of lies. You're gonna you have to
search to get the truth. But everything that's in your
feed is a lie. Uh And and if you're not
being manipulated by the by foreign governments, you're being manipulated
by our own government or the Democratic Party or the
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Republican Party. You know, the these influencer campaigns that Russia
did with the you know, American conservatives, I'm sure pale
in comparison to the amount of money and time and
energy that China is spending, you know, trying to get
their words in the mouths of American influencers. And it's
a syop. So I think a lot of this disconnect
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with our future, the disenfranchisement that people feel that they
don't feel like they have a future, I think a
lot of a lot of it is a syop because
I'll tell you what, Kenny, there are people making the
American dream happen. There are people in the United States,
and they tend to be the people who don't use
phones as much or who are really good at blocking
it out or being able to separate fact from fiction.
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Maybe if we have to have public education, you know,
maybe a media literacy course, or you're being able to
tell fact from fiction in AI and things like that,
maybe that needs to be a part of the core
curriculum going forward. Because I'll tell you what, right now,
I think a lot of people are being led like
off a cliff because they're not able to tell fact
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from fiction. And there's a lot of George Orwell going
on right now, a lot of nineteen eighty four happening
as we speak.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Austin Peterson. Find him on X, give him a follow,
great content, and of course you're gonna love his podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Quick Greig, we'll be right back right after this. You're
listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
All right, So a lot of shake ups at the
CDC recent RFKA Junior letting go of career politicians masquerading
as healthcare workers, have been a lot of this lately.
If you don't like RFK Junior, that's fine, but look,
your side lost the election. That's just the way it goes.
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Glenn Reynolds pointed out recently that our governing elites are
illustrating their cluelessness about just how low the public's opinion
of them has sunk. This gentleman that was part of
the Trump excuse me, the Biden administration, the monkey poks guy.
Do you remember Dimitri Dyscalacus des Galacis. He's the dude
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who he's a leather man, he's a gay guy. He's
all tattooed up and he gets dressed up in bondage gear.
And oh, by the way, he's the former director of
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Rage quit.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
This past week, he was very angry.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
He pointed out that the pandemic emergency is long over
and that the special rules vowing for broad use, so
that he's mad about what RFK Junior is doing at
the COVID nineteen shot.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's calling it fascism.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Fascism seems to be a word they throw around a lot.
His response is exactly what you don't want from a
public health official, very emotional guy. Fascism can't be everything.
It's like, all right, and hang on a second. We're
questioning what is in a vaccine that we rushed to
get to the marketplace.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We're going to walk it back.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Maybe we won't make this one as widely available as
it was before fascism. Come on, that can't be fascism.
We're just we're skeptical about a drug we just invented
five minutes ago. It's not saving anyone's life. It's certainly
not preventing COVID nineteen or coronavirus. Maybe that's not fascism.
That's not what fascism is.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Given widespread public doubt about the coronavirus job and the
general debacle of the CDC's COVID response, I think the
last thing we need is a hysteri cale an extremely
political person in charge of immunizations. Whether you like RFK
Junior or not, he seems to be calm, he's concise,
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he's shared these opinions for a long time. We need
somebody that's steady and sensible and respects the job. What
we got was this Deskalakis guy. This uh the gay
man in a leather outfit. Basically just another leftist putting
on a kabuki theater show about how anything the Trump
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administration does as fascism. This is a man who made
himself famous by posing on a magazine cover wearing a
leather pentagram harness and showed off his bondage gear collection
in numerous publicly distributed photos, and the Biden administration wants
you to know that he is a very serious health professional.
He's qualified to stop the monkey pox outbreak. They actually
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renamed it EMPOS for political correctness. They said monkeypox was
too offensive, so now it's called EMPOS.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Okay, what's the M stand for exactly?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Anyway, this guy and all the other government experts, they're
aware that the disease is spreading mostly from sex parties
in the gay community, but they wanted you, a heteronormative,
cisgendered Middle American Christian, to take it just as seriously
as the person who flew to Europe and got monkey
pocks in a gay bathouse. So this guy and all
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the other government experts, they're aware that the disease is
probably not going to affect you, but they were concerned
that the fear or stigma of just warning gay people
about it was going to put every American at an
equal risk. Political correctness and a desire not to offend
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is driving the message of the Biden administration's public health response.
It wasn't helpful. So now we got a new administration,
which happened to be the old administration, the Trumps, and
not surprisingly, it seems things seem to be working better now.
There wasn't a monkey pox outbreak this summer. Was there
during COVID the CDC ordered us to stand aside as
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our loved ones died alone in hospitals. They made us
postponed weddings and funerals unless, of course, it was a
Black Lives Matter related event, and then you were allowed
to attend. Now, based on the CDC's owned guidance, states
and cities had to cancel church services. They even punished
people for going outdoors without masks. But monkeypox was different.
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Wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
That?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
A dimitri guy that worked for Biden said, one person's
idea of risk is another person's idea of a great
festival or a Friday night. Okay, but what about when
it comes to coronavirus? Not the same thing as monkeybox.
Excuse me, mpunks. The CDC is useless. If they can't
be seen as credible, they have no value. The majority
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of Americans don't believe in the CDC. They don't trust
them because they employed a guy with massive satanic tattoos
who wore bondage geared during a photo shoot while he
was out trying to push him munization. The bondage guy's
antics may seem funny or edgy to members of the
governing class, but they play very differently with normal American community.
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Average folks like you and I seemed deliberately provocative to
choose a gay bondage guy as the face of the
agency's immunization pr at a time of spreading skepticism about
modern vaccines. It was just a stupid idea. Then again,
Biden cross dressing luggage thief Sam Britton putting him in
charge of the nuclear waste probably par for the course,
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wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Remember him, Remember they had.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
The the guy who was a puppy dog fetishist or whatever,
and he was our nuclear waste guru, and he was
going around stealing women's luggage and airports. We're supposed to
believe that that administration was better than what we currently have.
DEI programs of the sort loved by the prior administration
would stress cultural competence, but its practitioners never bothered to
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demonstrate competence in the nation's mainstream culture. So it came
back to bite them, and when it did, they labeled
us as fascists for noticing. Of course, the problems might
be forgivable if the CDC were good at its actual job.
The problem is the CDC is not good at their job.
This was demonstrated by their terrible response to Ebola a
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decade ago. Remember when Ebola broke out in Africa, so
we imported one of the Ebola bations to Dallas for
some reason, back when Obama was president. Maybe you don't
remember that. Well, that was a thing. Most of our
institutions have become useless and corrupt, as useless as corrupt
as those who run them have become more concerned with
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performing for our fellow elites than performing their actual jobs.
And because of the elites of such contempt for average
people like you and me, they reward those who seemed transgressive,
regardless of whether they're good at their ta job, and
usually they aren't, And regardless of the damage they're doing
to public trust. At the end of the day, I'm
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glad that they cleaned house at the CDC. It's twenty
twenty five. What's happened at the CDC over the last
several years has been embarrassing. Nobody wants to have weird,
shocking people injecting things into their veins. How about hiring
some nice, boring, trustworthy, confident people for a change. Would
that be such a radical idea? Or you could just
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watch the CDC fade into irrelevance. Think about that.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Stop listening till the government. I started listening to the
Jews Proceeds of Happiness Radio with Kenya Webstergitia aka producer Kenny.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
A new study says binge watching your favorite TV shows
is actually good for you. Of course, the study was
funded by ozempic so something to think about there. Oh,
that reminds me we're going to go to the worst
place on earth. Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood
or what?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I only know this because it's in a report at
Brightbarts Entertainment Center. But apparently Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert
have returned to work after their summer break, and just
looking at the clips here, I think it's a pretty
good reminder of why late night TV is dying and
these two guys are the smug losers that killed it.
One can only assume that whoever decided to keep them
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on the air for another year or so is uh,
I don't know, probably not the brightest bulb in the box. Here,
listen to this little excerp. What is this from a
latenighter dot com? I guess it's a news website for
late night TV. It reads Late Night Television return to
the air at almost full strength Tuesday night. The Daily
Show is back next week, and fittingly for a ferocious
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street fight, it was on slashing and mocking at close quarters.
The absence of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert for new
More weeks this summer did absolutely nothing to soften the
comic assault on the President.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Oh there we go. There it is.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
If you joined the ninety nine point nine to eighty
six percent of America in not watching Kimmel and Colbert,
here's a taste of the brilliance you missed out on.
Kimmy Kimmel called the last two months of Trump's term
non stop craptastic. And then let's see what did Colbert
do here? Well, it was more of the same on
the Colbert. It's just garbage. For anyone who wants to
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claim that you can't laugh at Trump, I disagree. I
think Bill Maher's had some funny jokes. I like when
Shane Gillis does a Donald Trump impersonation, and I'll tell
you why. I think they're funny. Nevertheless, Bill maher does.
What he does is different from what the late night
guys do do. Bill Maher's real time franchise is his
own franchise. It's his own brand, Colbert Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon,
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Seth Myers. They took what was a unifying, relaxed time
to wind down franchise and they turned it into a
leftist struggle session to preen their own virtue firm, left
wing white women. It's lazy, it's predictable. It's the death
of comedy.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
All that being said, Howard Stern, another humorless, uptight, far
left woke tard, has reportedly seen his listenership collapse from
twenty million listeners that's a lot, to about one hundred
thousand listeners announced in mid August, he's going to try
to make a big return to radio after summer break.
Do radio people go on summer break? We took a
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week off last week. Earlier this week, just hours before
his scheduled return, he wrote an email to his ninety
five person staff postponing everything for another week. Here's a
question why, people at the Daily Mail. Apparently of two theories.
One theory is that Stern's ailing ninety eight year old
mother isn't doing well. The other involves his contract with
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serious XM. Stern has, I mean, for the record, been
on the satellite radio now for twenty years. In two
thousand and six, he famously moved and helped establish the
fledgling satellite radio firm with a tenure five hundred million
dollar contract that was renewed for another ten years in
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twenty sixteen. That renewal will end in January, and the
speculation is that no one at Sirius wants to pay
a seventy one year old man that kind of money.
There have been reports that Sirius will not renew his contract.
He's not Joe Rogan, that's for sure. Here's the question.
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Could the delay involve difficult contract negotiations. Could he be
looking for a place to land after SIRIOUSXM DUMPSIM.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I don't know. I don't really care either. No one
could blame Sirious.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
They signed their contract with Howard, and Howard has not
been Howard for at least five years. It used to
be vulgar envelope pushing anti establishment stuff. It's morphed into
the radio equivalent of a women's studies professor, a humorless, smug,
virtue signaling, scold old man who seeks to shame and
scold rather than amuse people.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Howard Stern sold out. It's true.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
There's this guy named Steve Grello. He once worked for
Howard Stern. He put it perfectly in an interview with
Serious with Daily Mail. He said, I think that if
old Howard Stern could go and jump in a time machine,
he would punch the current Howard Stern right in the face.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You can probably say the same about David Letterman. The
skuy that used to work for Howard believes this one
week delay is a sad attempt on Stern's part to
stir up interest and boost his sagging ratings and maybe
feel relevant. Again, So it looks like we all have
to wait until next week for the verdict, not that
anybody cares. Did Sirius offer to renew Stern's contract? That's
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the question everybody in my industry wonders or doesn't wonder,
And if so, for how much longer and for how
much money would Stern accept lesser terms? Will he retire soon?
Will he move on to do his own thing, maybe
a podcast? Personally, I would just like to know why
the hell he needs a staff of ninety five people.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
What are they doing?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
I was never a fan of Howard Stern at the
height of his popularity back in the nineties. I remember
giving him a try. Wasn't a fan. Didn't think he
was that funny. I'm from Chicago. We had the Man
Cow Show. I grew up on Man Cow. Man Cow's
my brother. Obviously I'm a little biased here. Man Cow
and Howard Stern famously had this big public feud. I
always thought Howard Stern was a jerk. I watched his
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biopic Private Parts. He played himself, and I kind of
sympathized with his boss, who was supposed to be the
villain in the movie. But I digress. Howard Stern just
always struck me as an arrogant prick, a bit of
a bully. He's mean spirited. In nineteen ninety nine, he
humiliated and allowed his callers to humiliate the Different Stroke
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star Dana Plato, who was obviously emotionally fragile, and the
next day she killed herself. Howard Stern is toxic. I
kind of blame him for what happened to Dana Plato.
I think a lot of other people do as well.
It's hard to feel sorry for the guy. You also
kind of wonder if the disposition about him would have
been a little different, if politically he had gone in
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a different direction.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Anthony Cumius of Opie and Anthony, it's kind of the
right wing Howard Stern, right, he went in the opposite direction,
and I think he's funny.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
I just do.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I digress. Before we get out here, a little good
news before we go. A cop in Pittsburgh named Stephen
Harris is in the news after he used his own
money to help out a stranger. A hearing impaired man
who didn't speak English was stuck at a Greyhound station
trying to get to Montreal. And he didn't have enough
money to get there. Stephen took out his bank card
and he paid one hundred and thirteen bucks to buy
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him a ticket. Here's Officer Harris talking about why he
did it.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Turns out it was just a male who was deaf
and didn't speak English or read English, so it just
turned out he just needed help to get on a
bus back there really to New York eventually to Montreal. Also,
Kiso hooked his phone up to do an internet hotspot
and then from there we called the translator line and
we're able to finally basically boil it down to that
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he didn't have any cash and he needed a way out,
and his bags were missing, so they were up in
New York. So we got into New York simply used
my own bank card by the guy ticket. We're supposed
to be good men, good men helping other good men.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
That's it. Here's another good one. I love this.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
A group in Georgia broke a world record over the
weekend by playing kickball for fifty two straight hours and
they raised a whole bunch of money for a good
cause called Most MLST Men Opposing Sex Trafficking. They raised
two hundred thousand dollars playing kickball? How cool is this?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
That night time the energy kind of dips a little bit,
but then as soon as the sun comes up, we
start waking back out again. That's right.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Tough times when you really start to get tired or
hurt a little bit, you think about the calls and
the facts that we're fighting for those who are vulnerable
and experiencing the horror of sex trafficking abuse. So that
just keeps us motivating, going and hearing the younger and
the older man of women jever olme encouraging each other.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
It's just real motivating for me personally.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, look at the end of the day, all we
can do is try to learn from these people, be
a good human, pray, be kind to your neighbor, follow
the laws, obviously, question the media, and of course get
back here bright and early tomorrow morning for more of
what you bought a radio for. Oh, before I forget,
we just announced it Operation Comedy Therapy twenty twenty five
coming up October fifth. If you look at the top
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of most of our social media accounts, the Walton and
Johnson Facebook page, Instagram account, my Twitter account, you will
find a link so you could purchase tickets to our
next big comedy show me Chad Prayther, Jesse Payton, Steve Johnson,
October fifth, five pm, Bad Astronaut Brewing Company.
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Have a great day, dude.
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So Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy for
the second time in a year. If they file one
more time, they'll become a Spirit Halloween. Hi, everybody, Kenny
Webster here. You know who's joining us this afternoon. Austin
Peterson is going to be stopping by in just a
little bit. We've been talking about Donald Trump's national crackdown
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on crime in big violent blue cities, something we obviously needed.
And I mean, I'm not a big advocate for militarized
police or federal agents policing our streets, but Chicago's bad.
Donald Trump won the election he promised to clean up
the big violent cities, and that's what he appears to
be trying to do. Now that being said, I think
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there's a right and wrong way to do it. We're
going to talk about that coming up on the show
in a little bit. Austin will be here too, weigh
in on that. He's a libertarian. He's very critical of
the government doing anything, as are probably a lot of you,
So we'll get into it. I want to hear your
thoughts on it as well, and I will also be
asking him about this new.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Polling data from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Wall Street Journal just published a new pole saying most
Americans have lost faith in the American dream. And I
don't even feel like that's news. That pole could have
come out five years ago or fifteen years ago, probably
could have got the same results. All that being said,
a report today at The New York Post talks about
exactly what we're discussing. Democrats head scratching reaction to Trump's
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DC crime cracks down. It's Democrats are actually taking the
position here that crime is good, criminals have rights to
It's a strange position to take. Miranda Devine described it
as unhinged hostility to Donald Trump's successful crime crackdown in Washington, DC.
Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters.
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I mean, it's true, right. Even Joe Scarborough Morning Joe,
not exactly a big fan of Donald Trump, weighed in
on the controversy and actually seem to take Donald Trump's side.
This is the morning show host on MSNBC saying, actually,
maybe Donald Trump's right about this.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wearn is.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You have leaders in Chicago that see this.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
As you say, We've been reading about this for years now,
every weekend, and maybe crime has gone down. But you know,
we had the mayor of Chicago on last week saying, oh,
we don't need any more police officers. Police officers aren't
the answer. No police officers. And you know, I think
he said no five times. You look what's happening this weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He looks.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You know, I actually think that JB. Pritzker should do
something radical. I think he should pick up the phone,
call the president and say, you know, and I know
you don't have the concert.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Jusial authority to deploy the National Guard here.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And the police.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
You can do that in DC, you can't do that
in Chicago. But let's partner up. These are the most
dangerous parts of my state. We would love to figure
out how to have a partnership that's constitutional, that respects
the sort of balance of federalism between the federal government
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and the state government.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And let's work together to save lives.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Because right now, just to hey, nothing to see here,
moving along, no problem here, Hey, Donald Trump, we don't
need you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And you know the mayor talking about we're going.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
To protect people's dignity. Okay, you get what he's saying, right,
I mean, he's got some great points. It's bad, it's dangerous,
it's violent. You know, would it be so bad if
we have the National Guard just protecting the streets while
the actual Chicago Police Department went out and did some
real police work for a while. They're understaffed, they're under
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fund they don't have enough people to get the job done.
Right now, they say that law and order is an
eighty twenty issue. I feel like it's more of a
ninety five to five issue. You know, when they talk
about what percentage of people want law and order, I
gotta think it's higher than eighty percent. You don't need
Upollster to tell you that. What about this other small
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fraction of people. I got to assume they're either criminals,
or they're blue city politicians, or they're both. Right now,
I'm being redundant. The president's approval rating is actually shot
up over the past month. I wonder why it happened
during a time when he started focusing on crime in
big cities. That's a kitchen table issue. That's something most
of us tend to agree with. We don't want crime.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In DC.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
The crime rate is plummeted across the board. Violent crime
is down thirty percent. It's a big difference in a
city as big as Washington, DC. The Metropolitan Police Department
bullish citing a forty percent drop in violent crime according
to their statistics. It's hire than we thought. The Attorney General,
Pam Bondi, has been posting crime statistics on social media,
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boasting there have been fifteen hundred and twenty eight arrests recently,
one hundred and fifty six illegal guns seized. I can
remember when Democrats liked when the government went out and
took guns from criminals. I thought they were for that.
About half of the arrests had been illegal migrant criminals,
including violent felons convicted of rape, child molestation, assault, robbery
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with a deadly weapon. How can anybody be opposed to
arresting most people DC residents, the people that live in
the city, tend to be black, and according to The
New York Post, a lot of them are expressing relief
at being able to live without fear of being robbed
or assaulted in their own community. Pambondy actually had to
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fire two of her own employees, Lefty DOJ employees who
have hurled abuse. Remember the thing with the sandwich. They
were mad about somebody throwing a sandwich at a cop
or whatever. Then they didn't want to press charges for it.
It's just silly, right Anyway, we know what this is
going to lead to. At some point you're going to
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get into the next election cycle. People are going to
actually have to decide was Donald Trump too bullish? Was
Donald Trump too hawk shon crime? Did you like the
fact that crime depleted in your city? Do you think
your rights were violated in the meantime? Frankly, I think
the results speak for themselves. How many law abiding citizens
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right now are bothered by this? How many law abiding
citizens are bothered by this who don't live in Ivy League,
Glass Towers or some gated community somewhere. I bet the
number's pretty low.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Stop at government, Get out of my life. You're listening
to the Pursuit of Happiness radio.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, we're back. You gotta admit whether or not.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You will show you.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Whether or not you agree with Donald Trump's plan to
send the National Guard into Chicago or Illinois it's indisputably
true that Chicago has a crime problem. I mean, that's
just absolutely true. Years ago, I moved from Chicago to Houston.
I lived most of my twenties in the Windy City,
and I've spent most of my adult life outs after
that in Houston, right, pretty much all of it. And
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I could tell you with great certainty that although the
two cities are very similar in terms of socioeconomic status,
working class, blue collar industry city surrounding a white collar metropolis,
the downtown area and international cities. No doubt, Chicago has
a stock exchange. Houston is the energy capital of the world,
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they claim. But that's kind of where the similarities end,
isn't it. Because Houston's very spread out, it's very warm. Chicago,
everyone's kind of on top of each other. It's cold,
and for some reason, that is what's caused the murder
rate to spike in Chicago. Okay, that's probably not true. Actually,
it's probably this. If you live in the Windy City
and you throw a rock in any direction, what do
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you usually hit?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
A homeless person?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
If you live in Houston and you throw a rock
in any direction, you hit a gun range, you hit
a gun store. In terms of crime, Chicago and Houston
are real similar, with one exception, right when it comes
to theft, vandalism, you know, catalytic converter resale, that sort
of thing. Neck and neck, very similar statistics. When it
comes to violent crime, it turns out in a city
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where there's a lot of armed, law abiding citizens around,
people are a little more careful. When you know your
neighbor might be packing some heat, You're a little less
likely to commit a violent crime. That's just my opinion.
That's something I've noticed. I've actually seen people in Chicago
get shot. I've never seen that in Houston.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Before.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I saw somebody in Chicago get stabbed once. I've never
witnessed anything like that in Houston. Mind you, Houston has
plenty of crime. When I first moved here, somebody broke
into my car first month I lived in this city.
Not exactly a crime free town by any means, but
certainly not the amount of rape, murder, kidnappings. That stuff
just doesn't happen in Houston at the rate that it
happens in a city like Chicago. So maybe there's something
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to be said about this. I have a friend he's
a little more libertarian than me, although he's certainly a
very similar libertarian nationalist belief. She probably read some of
his articles or some of his tweets online. He even
runs the Walton and Johnson online story. His name is
Austin Peterson. Austin doesn't live in Chicago or in Houston.
He lives in Missouri. Austin, I would assume you probably
don't see this exactly how I see it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But what do you think about that theory?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, first of all, if the FEDS want to stop
shootings in this country, the first thing that they need
to do, Kenny, is they've got to shut down the
Helen Keller Memorial gun range because people are getting blasted
at that range. And you know, I don't know why
it's so popular, because everybody who's been buying the Helen
Keller Memorial gun shirts over at I love WJ dot com.
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But apparently it's become a freak thing. So if Trump
could shut that down first, that would reduce the number
of shootings. But on a more serious note, it's you know,
I'm a libertarian. I don't like the idea of sending
the FEDS into our cities or states. But for Trump,
you have to look at the politics of this. For Trump,
it's kind of a win win. If he succeeds and
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things improve, then he gets huge credit and people are
going to realize, you know, how terrible the things are managed.
But if he doesn't manage to even eke out, you know,
a big victory, then he gets to blame it on
the Democrats and say, well, your cities are completely unmangal,
You've completely destroyed them. So there's the politics of this,
there's the there's the law. And DC is not Chicago
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and d C is not it's not Baltimore. But I
don't know if you have ever ridden the train between
say New York and DC. I have. I used to
live there, and when I would go back and forth,
you see Baltimore passing by, it looks like be Root,
it looks like Gaza after the IDF has had a
go at it. It just it looks to me like
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a third world nation, and the crime rights crime rates
reflect that. So it's like, if you've lived there, you're
not going to care if the police officer that saves you,
or that you know, the person who saves you from
getting stabbed as the local police officer or federal troop.
All you want is to stop the crime in your neighborhoods.
So if it's an experiment and we're going to see
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if it succeeds or not, and at the end of
the day, if more people's lives are saved, it's probably
a good thing. But I do fear the precedent because
we all know that what we do now, that what
the Republicans do now, the Democrats are going to take
later and they're going to point and say, well, here's
where we got this authority. You've got it from the
previous administration, and any double will quadruple down and make
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it worse. Which is I say we shouldn't do something, Kenny.
I think a lot of people they look at people
like ourselves and they think, well, you guys just don't
do anything. Well, that's not true because one of the
biggest things that we could do is enforce property rights.
You have to know, Kenny, that like it's not legal
to gentrify parts of Baltimore. They you know why, because
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the Democrats have spawned this narrative that these evil rich
billionaires or white people moving into our neighborhoods and purchasing
properties and being able to defend them appropriately with guns,
you know, improve the neighborhoods, but that we've been brainwashed
against it. We've been brainwashed to believe that, you know,
white people moving into a neighborhood and making it and
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improving it is gentrification, and that that's a bad thing
and we shouldn't do it. The zoning laws, regulations, red tape,
we could do a lot, Kenny. Who people who point
fingers at people like us and say, well, you guys
are just saying, don't do anything. The libertary response, don't intervene.
Government doesn't do anything. No government can do a lot
right now to get out of the way of letting
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people purchase property value, purport property at fair market values,
and then defend that property with guns if need be.
But they can't. So these they continue. We continue to
see our inner cities hollowed out because we don't respect
property rights. Kenny.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, So let's say hypothetically sends the National Guard in
and all they do is protect the streets while the
actual Chicago Police Department goes out and investigates the real crime.
We have the National Guard on the street to deter
you run of the mill vandalism, street thug stuff like that,
but they don't actually go out and do traditional police
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work like detective work and investigations.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
As a libertarian, does that bother you?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah? It does. But again, at the end of day,
what people are are going to see, if they're going
to see that when they're their ride home on the train,
that there's somebody there with the gun that's protecting them,
they're going to see, you know, they're going to see
those results. They're not going to see. You know, we
we sort of live in an ivory tower. You know,
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people who I'll even extend this, you know, to the audience.
You know, some of the ten percenters who listen to
this show, right they know the theories, they've read the books,
they're with it. You know, they know exactly what we're
what we're saying. But they also they don't live in Chicago,
they don't live in Baltimore. They don't know what it's
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like to live in some of the areas of d
you see that I've seen, and I'll tell you the
people who are in those neighborhoods, they just they don't
care about our theories and our ivy league. And you
know how we feel about things or what the Constitution
says about that, whether we like it or not, Kenny,
to some extent, we are at a post constitutional society.
I don't like it. I don't agree with it. We
need to get back to what the founding documents have said.
(14:45):
But to some extent there is. It's what people like
Michael Malice would call an anarcho tyranny, where if you
are friends with the government, you will get protected, you
will be able to do as you please. But if
you're not friends with the government, if you don't, if
you can't afford to get on the list of tariff
exemptions for this administration, then you're screwed for the next
(15:06):
few years until the Democrats take over. And then you know,
Mark Zuckerberg has to go play national the Democrats and
pay for their inauguration. And so it's it's that the
rich people. The rich can protect themselves. They can always
be friends with the people in power, the people who
are poor, people who are middle class. You know, we
don't have access to that level of power, so we
don't We don't normally make the friends list.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And it doesn't even necessarily help it when you have
your own party in power, because they're sure not helping
the majority of people. They're helping their buddies, they're helping
their cronies. They're setting themselves up and enriching themselves. Because
we live under an anarchist, he tyrannical situation. The laws
apply only to the people who are the enemies of
the state, and for the friends of the state, the
(15:50):
laws don't apply. You do as you please. You know.
That's why people who are in Silicon Valley can get
away with things, Kenny. They they can move fast, and
they can break things because one they can afford to
pay for it fix something if they broke it. Think
someone like you know, committing suicide for using AI. Okay,
well they'll just pay off the person, right, they can
(16:11):
afford to do that and take those risks into But
for the rest of us, we have to ask permission.
We have to ask are we allowed to do something right?
And you know, only the greatest you know understand that
the rules and laws are really only meant for the
middle and lower classes. That's the truth. It's sad truth,
but that's the reality we live in.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
The Wall Street Journal just ran a poll and what
they found is that a majority of Americans have lost
faith in the American Dream. I feel like Austin, I
feel like that I've seen this poll before, Like we
see this every few years. It's just a different news
outlet running the news story. I think what differs to
me about this? Usually it's a liberal outlet during a
Republican regime telling you during a Republican administration that people
(16:54):
lost faith in the American dream. And then when there's
a Democrat in power, you know, a right wing news
out at Fox News, for example, will run a similar
poll get similar results. What's different here is Wall Street
Journal is considered to be you know, it's newscorps, right
Rupert Murdoche. It's considered to be a conservative news outlet,
and they're running the poll while Trump is in charge.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
What's your take on this?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm gonna get conspiratorial. If you ever heard the term
dirt doom scrolling. Maybe some people who are out there again,
the ten percenters, they're all over it. But you know,
this is what people? What do people do? Boredom doesn't
even exist anymore. When was the last time that you
were bored? And what are we doing when we're not bored?
When we otherwise would have been bored. We're scrolling on
(17:39):
our phones. And I absolutely believe that the social media
institutions like TikTok and others have got foreign operations that
we call them psyops in Russia, their intelligence agencies they
call them active measures. This kind of stuff has been
going on for years, but ever since the it's been
(18:00):
a lot more difficult to spread the Uh. Well, I
guess the disenfranchisement amongst the American people with their institutions
and with their futures, disenfranchising people from believing that the
future in the United States is something look forward to.
We see this widespread on social media. We'd see it
(18:20):
in the legacy media where I saw a CEO was
talking about Generation Z and how these zoomers they they
don't believe that they have a future. They're not really
working that hard, and they're not trying, and they're quiet quitting,
and they're you know, they're they're scrolling TikTok's there, and
what are they saying on TikTok. They're saying some they'll
have a video juxtaposed of how Baltimore is a is
(18:42):
full of you know, crack. They'll show people in the
United States where a police shooting a black woman running
at them with a knife. And then the next video
is a young Chinese girl sitting at the piano playing
a masterful, you know, piece that she wrote herself at
just seven years old. And that's a psyop, right, It's
it's show you how terrible things are in the United
States and it and to show you how great things
(19:05):
are overseas. And you know what, people, I think people
are buying it. I think people are doing scrolling on
their phones. I think they're I think they're I think
that the psychological warfare that's going that's being conducted, you know,
both domestically by the democratic institutions, the George Soros institutions,
but also foreign siops are are being propagated. There's a
(19:25):
reason why TikTok was voted by the Congress overwhelmingly to
be banned. You know, whether you like, you know, agree
with the ban or not doesn't change the fact that,
you know, maybe you believe that Chinese propaganda is free
speech and should be allowed here in the United States.
The Congress didn't believe that. And you know, a lot
of conservatives think that they should ban TikTok. You know,
we could debate that later. But the point is that
(19:46):
it is a psyop. It is there are psychological manipulative
manipulation campaigns that are being engaged. It's on mass. Ask
yourself this, Kenny. This is really sad. And this is
not an attack on anybody who's listening from this generation.
But if you were to kind of if you were
to take the average AI video that's that looks really
good and show it to a boomer, what do you
(20:09):
think the percentage rate of them believing that it's real would.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Be shocked shockingly high. Austin, I've got I've done this
experiment before. My mom and her her friends. They do
not know the difference between AI and real content. It's terrifying,
it is.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And and they they they create whole fake news reports
that they create all these institute and then a video
that backs up the statement of the fake a fake
video from a fake person that backs up the statement.
And and it even is you know, sometimes will fool me.
I'll have to look twice and be like, wait a minute,
was that was that? Really? Was that? Auch? If it
seems too good to be real, you know it probably
(20:48):
is is not real. The problem is that there's no
way to separate the American people from their devices. We
whether we like it or not, the most addictive the
most addictive thing in the United States is not crack cocaine.
It's not fentanyl. It's not sugar, it's not it's not food.
The number one most addictive thing is that device in
(21:09):
our pockets, which lies to us every day, all day, Kenny,
it is full of lies. You're gonna you have to
search to get the truth. But everything that's in your
feed is a lie. Uh And and if you're not
being manipulated by the by foreign governments, you're being manipulated
by our own government or the Democratic Party or the
(21:30):
Republican Party. You know, the these influencer campaigns that Russia
did with the you know, American conservatives, I'm sure pale
in comparison to the amount of money and time and
energy that China is spending, you know, trying to get
their words in the mouths of American influencers. And it's
a syop. So I think a lot of this disconnect
(21:50):
with our future, the disenfranchisement that people feel that they
don't feel like they have a future, I think a
lot of a lot of it is a syop because
I'll tell you what, Kenny, there are people making the
American dream happen. There are people in the United States,
and they tend to be the people who don't use
phones as much or who are really good at blocking
it out or being able to separate fact from fiction.
(22:13):
Maybe if we have to have public education, you know,
maybe a media literacy course, or you're being able to
tell fact from fiction in AI and things like that,
maybe that needs to be a part of the core
curriculum going forward. Because I'll tell you what, right now,
I think a lot of people are being led like
off a cliff because they're not able to tell fact
(22:34):
from fiction. And there's a lot of George Orwell going
on right now, a lot of nineteen eighty four happening
as we speak.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Austin Peterson. Find him on X, give him a follow,
great content, and of course you're gonna love his podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Quick Greig, we'll be right back right after this. You're
listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
All right, So a lot of shake ups at the
CDC recent RFKA Junior letting go of career politicians masquerading
as healthcare workers, have been a lot of this lately.
If you don't like RFK Junior, that's fine, but look,
your side lost the election. That's just the way it goes.
(23:18):
Glenn Reynolds pointed out recently that our governing elites are
illustrating their cluelessness about just how low the public's opinion
of them has sunk. This gentleman that was part of
the Trump excuse me, the Biden administration, the monkey poks guy.
Do you remember Dimitri Dyscalacus des Galacis. He's the dude
(23:38):
who he's a leather man, he's a gay guy. He's
all tattooed up and he gets dressed up in bondage gear.
And oh, by the way, he's the former director of
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Rage quit.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
This past week, he was very angry.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
He pointed out that the pandemic emergency is long over
and that the special rules vowing for broad use, so
that he's mad about what RFK Junior is doing at
the COVID nineteen shot.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's calling it fascism.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Fascism seems to be a word they throw around a lot.
His response is exactly what you don't want from a
public health official, very emotional guy. Fascism can't be everything.
It's like, all right, and hang on a second. We're
questioning what is in a vaccine that we rushed to
get to the marketplace.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We're going to walk it back.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Maybe we won't make this one as widely available as
it was before fascism. Come on, that can't be fascism.
We're just we're skeptical about a drug we just invented
five minutes ago. It's not saving anyone's life. It's certainly
not preventing COVID nineteen or coronavirus. Maybe that's not fascism.
That's not what fascism is.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Given widespread public doubt about the coronavirus job and the
general debacle of the CDC's COVID response, I think the
last thing we need is a hysteri cale an extremely
political person in charge of immunizations. Whether you like RFK
Junior or not, he seems to be calm, he's concise,
(25:10):
he's shared these opinions for a long time. We need
somebody that's steady and sensible and respects the job. What
we got was this Deskalakis guy. This uh the gay
man in a leather outfit. Basically just another leftist putting
on a kabuki theater show about how anything the Trump
(25:30):
administration does as fascism. This is a man who made
himself famous by posing on a magazine cover wearing a
leather pentagram harness and showed off his bondage gear collection
in numerous publicly distributed photos, and the Biden administration wants
you to know that he is a very serious health professional.
He's qualified to stop the monkey pox outbreak. They actually
(25:52):
renamed it EMPOS for political correctness. They said monkeypox was
too offensive, so now it's called EMPOS.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Okay, what's the M stand for exactly?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Anyway, this guy and all the other government experts, they're
aware that the disease is spreading mostly from sex parties
in the gay community, but they wanted you, a heteronormative,
cisgendered Middle American Christian, to take it just as seriously
as the person who flew to Europe and got monkey
pocks in a gay bathouse. So this guy and all
(26:25):
the other government experts, they're aware that the disease is
probably not going to affect you, but they were concerned
that the fear or stigma of just warning gay people
about it was going to put every American at an
equal risk. Political correctness and a desire not to offend
(26:45):
is driving the message of the Biden administration's public health response.
It wasn't helpful. So now we got a new administration,
which happened to be the old administration, the Trumps, and
not surprisingly, it seems things seem to be working better now.
There wasn't a monkey pox outbreak this summer. Was there
during COVID the CDC ordered us to stand aside as
(27:07):
our loved ones died alone in hospitals. They made us
postponed weddings and funerals unless, of course, it was a
Black Lives Matter related event, and then you were allowed
to attend. Now, based on the CDC's owned guidance, states
and cities had to cancel church services. They even punished
people for going outdoors without masks. But monkeypox was different.
(27:29):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
That?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
A dimitri guy that worked for Biden said, one person's
idea of risk is another person's idea of a great
festival or a Friday night. Okay, but what about when
it comes to coronavirus? Not the same thing as monkeybox.
Excuse me, mpunks. The CDC is useless. If they can't
be seen as credible, they have no value. The majority
(27:52):
of Americans don't believe in the CDC. They don't trust
them because they employed a guy with massive satanic tattoos
who wore bondage geared during a photo shoot while he
was out trying to push him munization. The bondage guy's
antics may seem funny or edgy to members of the
governing class, but they play very differently with normal American community.
(28:15):
Average folks like you and I seemed deliberately provocative to
choose a gay bondage guy as the face of the
agency's immunization pr at a time of spreading skepticism about
modern vaccines. It was just a stupid idea. Then again,
Biden cross dressing luggage thief Sam Britton putting him in
charge of the nuclear waste probably par for the course,
(28:36):
wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Remember him, Remember they had.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
The the guy who was a puppy dog fetishist or whatever,
and he was our nuclear waste guru, and he was
going around stealing women's luggage and airports. We're supposed to
believe that that administration was better than what we currently have.
DEI programs of the sort loved by the prior administration
would stress cultural competence, but its practitioners never bothered to
(29:02):
demonstrate competence in the nation's mainstream culture. So it came
back to bite them, and when it did, they labeled
us as fascists for noticing. Of course, the problems might
be forgivable if the CDC were good at its actual job.
The problem is the CDC is not good at their job.
This was demonstrated by their terrible response to Ebola a
(29:24):
decade ago. Remember when Ebola broke out in Africa, so
we imported one of the Ebola bations to Dallas for
some reason, back when Obama was president. Maybe you don't
remember that. Well, that was a thing. Most of our
institutions have become useless and corrupt, as useless as corrupt
as those who run them have become more concerned with
(29:46):
performing for our fellow elites than performing their actual jobs.
And because of the elites of such contempt for average
people like you and me, they reward those who seemed transgressive,
regardless of whether they're good at their ta job, and
usually they aren't, And regardless of the damage they're doing
to public trust. At the end of the day, I'm
(30:08):
glad that they cleaned house at the CDC. It's twenty
twenty five. What's happened at the CDC over the last
several years has been embarrassing. Nobody wants to have weird,
shocking people injecting things into their veins. How about hiring
some nice, boring, trustworthy, confident people for a change. Would
that be such a radical idea? Or you could just
(30:30):
watch the CDC fade into irrelevance. Think about that.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Stop listening till the government. I started listening to the
Jews Proceeds of Happiness Radio with Kenya Webstergitia aka producer Kenny.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
A new study says binge watching your favorite TV shows
is actually good for you. Of course, the study was
funded by ozempic so something to think about there. Oh,
that reminds me we're going to go to the worst
place on earth. Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood
or what?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I only know this because it's in a report at
Brightbarts Entertainment Center. But apparently Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert
have returned to work after their summer break, and just
looking at the clips here, I think it's a pretty
good reminder of why late night TV is dying and
these two guys are the smug losers that killed it.
One can only assume that whoever decided to keep them
(31:29):
on the air for another year or so is uh,
I don't know, probably not the brightest bulb in the box. Here,
listen to this little excerp. What is this from a
latenighter dot com? I guess it's a news website for
late night TV. It reads Late Night Television return to
the air at almost full strength Tuesday night. The Daily
Show is back next week, and fittingly for a ferocious
(31:52):
street fight, it was on slashing and mocking at close quarters.
The absence of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert for new
More weeks this summer did absolutely nothing to soften the
comic assault on the President.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Oh there we go. There it is.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
If you joined the ninety nine point nine to eighty
six percent of America in not watching Kimmel and Colbert,
here's a taste of the brilliance you missed out on.
Kimmy Kimmel called the last two months of Trump's term
non stop craptastic. And then let's see what did Colbert
do here? Well, it was more of the same on
the Colbert. It's just garbage. For anyone who wants to
(32:28):
claim that you can't laugh at Trump, I disagree. I
think Bill Maher's had some funny jokes. I like when
Shane Gillis does a Donald Trump impersonation, and I'll tell
you why. I think they're funny. Nevertheless, Bill maher does.
What he does is different from what the late night
guys do do. Bill Maher's real time franchise is his
own franchise. It's his own brand, Colbert Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon,
(32:51):
Seth Myers. They took what was a unifying, relaxed time
to wind down franchise and they turned it into a
leftist struggle session to preen their own virtue firm, left
wing white women. It's lazy, it's predictable. It's the death
of comedy.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
All that being said, Howard Stern, another humorless, uptight, far
left woke tard, has reportedly seen his listenership collapse from
twenty million listeners that's a lot, to about one hundred
thousand listeners announced in mid August, he's going to try
to make a big return to radio after summer break.
Do radio people go on summer break? We took a
(33:27):
week off last week. Earlier this week, just hours before
his scheduled return, he wrote an email to his ninety
five person staff postponing everything for another week. Here's a
question why, people at the Daily Mail. Apparently of two theories.
One theory is that Stern's ailing ninety eight year old
mother isn't doing well. The other involves his contract with
(33:48):
serious XM. Stern has, I mean, for the record, been
on the satellite radio now for twenty years. In two
thousand and six, he famously moved and helped establish the
fledgling satellite radio firm with a tenure five hundred million
dollar contract that was renewed for another ten years in
(34:10):
twenty sixteen. That renewal will end in January, and the
speculation is that no one at Sirius wants to pay
a seventy one year old man that kind of money.
There have been reports that Sirius will not renew his contract.
He's not Joe Rogan, that's for sure. Here's the question.
(34:30):
Could the delay involve difficult contract negotiations. Could he be
looking for a place to land after SIRIOUSXM DUMPSIM.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I don't know. I don't really care either. No one
could blame Sirious.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
They signed their contract with Howard, and Howard has not
been Howard for at least five years. It used to
be vulgar envelope pushing anti establishment stuff. It's morphed into
the radio equivalent of a women's studies professor, a humorless, smug,
virtue signaling, scold old man who seeks to shame and
scold rather than amuse people.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Howard Stern sold out. It's true.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
There's this guy named Steve Grello. He once worked for
Howard Stern. He put it perfectly in an interview with
Serious with Daily Mail. He said, I think that if
old Howard Stern could go and jump in a time machine,
he would punch the current Howard Stern right in the face.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You can probably say the same about David Letterman. The
skuy that used to work for Howard believes this one
week delay is a sad attempt on Stern's part to
stir up interest and boost his sagging ratings and maybe
feel relevant. Again, So it looks like we all have
to wait until next week for the verdict, not that
anybody cares. Did Sirius offer to renew Stern's contract? That's
(35:42):
the question everybody in my industry wonders or doesn't wonder,
And if so, for how much longer and for how
much money would Stern accept lesser terms? Will he retire soon?
Will he move on to do his own thing, maybe
a podcast? Personally, I would just like to know why
the hell he needs a staff of ninety five people.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
What are they doing?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
I was never a fan of Howard Stern at the
height of his popularity back in the nineties. I remember
giving him a try. Wasn't a fan. Didn't think he
was that funny. I'm from Chicago. We had the Man
Cow Show. I grew up on Man Cow. Man Cow's
my brother. Obviously I'm a little biased here. Man Cow
and Howard Stern famously had this big public feud. I
always thought Howard Stern was a jerk. I watched his
(36:26):
biopic Private Parts. He played himself, and I kind of
sympathized with his boss, who was supposed to be the
villain in the movie. But I digress. Howard Stern just
always struck me as an arrogant prick, a bit of
a bully. He's mean spirited. In nineteen ninety nine, he
humiliated and allowed his callers to humiliate the Different Stroke
(36:49):
star Dana Plato, who was obviously emotionally fragile, and the
next day she killed herself. Howard Stern is toxic. I
kind of blame him for what happened to Dana Plato.
I think a lot of other people do as well.
It's hard to feel sorry for the guy. You also
kind of wonder if the disposition about him would have
been a little different, if politically he had gone in
(37:11):
a different direction.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Anthony Cumius of Opie and Anthony, it's kind of the
right wing Howard Stern, right, he went in the opposite direction,
and I think he's funny.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
I just do.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I digress. Before we get out here, a little good
news before we go. A cop in Pittsburgh named Stephen
Harris is in the news after he used his own
money to help out a stranger. A hearing impaired man
who didn't speak English was stuck at a Greyhound station
trying to get to Montreal. And he didn't have enough
money to get there. Stephen took out his bank card
and he paid one hundred and thirteen bucks to buy
(37:46):
him a ticket. Here's Officer Harris talking about why he
did it.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Turns out it was just a male who was deaf
and didn't speak English or read English, so it just
turned out he just needed help to get on a
bus back there really to New York eventually to Montreal. Also,
Kiso hooked his phone up to do an internet hotspot
and then from there we called the translator line and
we're able to finally basically boil it down to that
(38:13):
he didn't have any cash and he needed a way out,
and his bags were missing, so they were up in
New York. So we got into New York simply used
my own bank card by the guy ticket. We're supposed
to be good men, good men helping other good men.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
That's it. Here's another good one. I love this.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
A group in Georgia broke a world record over the
weekend by playing kickball for fifty two straight hours and
they raised a whole bunch of money for a good
cause called Most MLST Men Opposing Sex Trafficking. They raised
two hundred thousand dollars playing kickball? How cool is this?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
That night time the energy kind of dips a little bit,
but then as soon as the sun comes up, we
start waking back out again. That's right.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Tough times when you really start to get tired or
hurt a little bit, you think about the calls and
the facts that we're fighting for those who are vulnerable
and experiencing the horror of sex trafficking abuse. So that
just keeps us motivating, going and hearing the younger and
the older man of women jever olme encouraging each other.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
It's just real motivating for me personally.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, look at the end of the day, all we
can do is try to learn from these people, be
a good human, pray, be kind to your neighbor, follow
the laws, obviously, question the media, and of course get
back here bright and early tomorrow morning for more of
what you bought a radio for. Oh, before I forget,
we just announced it Operation Comedy Therapy twenty twenty five
coming up October fifth. If you look at the top
(39:26):
of most of our social media accounts, the Walton and
Johnson Facebook page, Instagram account, my Twitter account, you will
find a link so you could purchase tickets to our
next big comedy show me Chad Prayther, Jesse Payton, Steve Johnson,
October fifth, five pm, Bad Astronaut Brewing Company.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Have a great day, dude.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
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