December 29, 2025 • 35 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Texas Democrat Micah Erfan. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
What does the FDA stand for? Again? Nobody knows.
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boom times for Charlie Sheen.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Very exciting. I think, Hey, everybody, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Uh, we're gonna have some special guests joining us within
the next hour. Democrats, actual live limit Democrats. It's gonna
be like a like an early twentieth century freak show
with the bearded lady and the world's tallest man. It's
gonna be you. But you wait, where's going to be
nine or ten different genders in this studio? Actual Democrats
will be joining me shortly. But before we get to
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any of that, let's talk about the Learing Center. Oh
you haven't heard about the Learing Center. Fox News attempted
to reach out to the Somali Quality Leering Center in Minnesota.
It's a daycare center for children that's collected more than
four million dollars in the past two years. Not surprisingly,
it's in ilhano Omar's district, and apparently the Quality Leering
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Center they misspelled the word learning on their sign out front,
doesn't seem to have any students there. Somebody went to
go pay them a visit and doesn't sound like their
phone even works.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
So this is Quality Clearing Center. I meant to say
Quality Learning Center. We've arrived to ABC Learning Center. All
the windows are blocked out. I would like to check
a child in the daycare. Why can I speak to
a manager? I would like to see if I can
bring little Joey hit my son, little Joey here?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Is there a paperworker? Kind and check out the daycare?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You got two point sixty six million dollars this year
in funding and two point five million last year.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We're just wondering where the kids are.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hello, we'd like to ask where's the money's going?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
WHOA That sound of the slamming door that really produces
the emotional reaction we're looking for here because that's exactly
what Governor Tim Wallas is doing right now. At all
the journalists that are asking about this Minnesota Governor Tim
Walls facing intense new criticism after charities tied to the
Somali immigrant community bilked the state out of nine billion
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dollars in aid, including a daycare center with a misspelled
sign got four million dollars. A lot of people have
pointed out the twenty twenty four Democratic Vice president nominee
needs to be held accountable, because, let's face it, that's
a lot of money that's going towards what exactly, foreigners
that don't pay the same amount of taxes that average
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people like you and I pay, and some of that
money even sent.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Overseas to the Al Shabab terrorism group.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Now, I don't want to alienate the audience or anything,
but I think giving money to terrorists is bad and
we should not do it. Tim Wall's not shockingly defending
all of this. He is pushing back against the fraud
allegations after a viral video showed visits to multiple childcare
centers in the state, including one which, as we just
pointed out, got an absurd amount of money to do
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what looks like nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And you know what's so amazing about this?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Look, Fox News is great and everything, but this news
was broken by an independent journalist named Nick Shirley, some
kid in his early twenties. Who would have thought that
people in their early twenties had any value? Not me,
I for one, was shocked to learn this. Anyway, Apparently
there's been a crackdown on fraud in the state the government.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
A report was put out here.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A spokesperson says the governor has worked for years to
crack down on fraud and has the state legislature for
more authority to take aggressive action. He's strengthened oversight, including
launching investigations into the U specific facilities, one of which
was already closed. That's what the governor's office says. Okay, journalists,
when knocked on the door, it didn't look like they
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were closed so much as just not doing anything. And
he's been cracking down on this for years. Why did
we just learn about it this week? These are valid questions.
I think Cash Pattel, head of the FBI, he said
he's going to do something about it. He's going to
take a break from hanging out with his girlfriend who's
definitely not an Israeli spy as far as we know.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And he said he's going to investigate.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The Bureau sent more personnel and resources to Minnesota to
dismantle the large scale fronds schemes, calling previous arrests just
the tip of a very large iceberg, just the tip,
he says. Patel said in a post on social media,
the FBI is moving resources into the state, and of course,
he said, they were already doing this before the recent
social media reports intensified public attention into the matter. It's
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just a coincidence that he's only talking about it now
for the first time. It has nothing to do with
any of this going viral on social media. And you
trust him, don't You don't answer that, The FBI director said.
The bureau has dismantled a two hundred and fifty million
dollars fraund scheme that still federal food aid meant for
vulnerable children. During COVID, the investigation exposed sham Vender's shell
companies large scale money laundering tied to a group called
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Feeding Our Future, Feeding Our Future whom Feeding the future
of l Shabab Apparently, Look, I don't know much in
this world, but I do know this. The Somali pirates
that travel around the where do they go? The Indian Ocean,
the Mediterranean stealing freight and that sort of thing. They're
working too hard. Those Somalian pirates have no idea how
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much easier their job could be. All you had to
do was move to Minnesota, a home to Mike Lindell
and these pillows or machine worshipble promo code wj oh
and don't forget the Samali Minnesota fraud schemes.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Cash Bettel says, they're on the job. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Look, that's great and everything. It's nice to get a
reaction now that there's outrage over all this. But as
I'm sure a lot of you guys already realize, particularly
in the context of US immigration policy, there is something
we could do about this. I'll give you a hint
of what I'm talking about. It's a word. It rhymes
with schmischmorschmashen, otherwise known as deportation. Somali communities, especially in Minnesota,
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are being accused of and probably guilty of, orchestrating some
massive schemes. Maybe one way we could take care of
this would be to deport them. Deport these people so
they can't do this anymore. Apparently, seventy five percent of
Somali's and states like Minnesota are on full government assistance.
That's a lot of people who aren't paying taxes and
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living off the system.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And in the.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Meantime, they're sending hundreds of millions of dollars overseas. Look,
I'm all for diversity, I am, I'm not some of
these one of these far left globals. I love the
idea of living in a city where there is a
variety of different food we could eat, But I'm pretty
sure we could live without Somalian food.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig It.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I have exciting news for all the lesbian seagulls out there.
You are finally in charge of the New York City
Fire Department. Isn't that exciting we finally have after all
these years? I, for one, know that I have been
waiting a very very long time for a lesbian to
be put in charge of the fire department in New
York City. For far too long, me and the other
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advocates for the els on this planet have stood around
and looked at each other with our arms crossed and
our faces frowning, and saying, why aren't there more lesbians
in the New York City Fire department. Well, Zorhan, Mom
Donnie has solved that problem for us. Now we finally
have one. Why now, I don't know. Nobody knows. She's
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actually a retired New York City Fire Department employee. I
don't know what her position was, veteran. They call her
of the fire department, and she likes chicks. Now, you
wouldn't know it if you saw, If you saw it, dude,
this chick is like top of the line. What is
the word butch? Butch I think is the lesbian one.
There's other terms for them, but I won't use them
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on the air. Something about a bowl.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I don't know. I don't come up with these slang terms.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I do know that she is very masculine and she's
now in charge of the fire department. There, which begs
a question, a question I've asked many times on this show.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Why do we need the word lesbian? Doesn't that just
a gay woman? Isn't that all? It is? Like, you're
a gay woman. No, you need a different word for that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We don't have different words for redheaded women, right, No,
it's just a ginger, that's aw that is. We don't
have a different word for a female tennis player. It's
just a female tennis player. I don't understand what the
point of having different. You got lesbians, you got gays,
you got bisexual. Bisexual is just gay. That's what that is?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And then like, and what's trans confused? What's cue questioning?
I always thought it was queer. Turns out it's questioning.
So Q means you don't know what you are, So like,
all right, what are you nine or something? Just wait
till puberty. We'll figure it out later. Why are we
so anxious to put a label on everyone? We don't
need the all anymore. Just call them gay firefighters and
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it's great and I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Here for it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Look, I have officiated a gay woman's wedding ones believe
it or not. Shockingly I did, and it went about
as well as you'd expect, quite well, fantastic. They often
people have to say it was the best female gay
wedding ever officiated by a heterosexual male Republican. And I'm
not saying that I say that. I'm just saying other
people are saying that, and I think that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So this woman is now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In charge of the fire department there, which didn't really
change anything. No one really understands why this is a
big news story today, but also at the same time,
you can't help but compare the incoming administration to the
outgoing administration. The New York Post editorial board had made
the point that Mayor Eric Adams and his New York
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Police Department under boss Jessica Tish have done quite a
fantastic job of blowing away record lows on shootings and murders,
and kudos to her and them for doing that. And
they did it with a woman in charge. That's amazing.
I know, don't part had to be surprised.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I'm not surprised by that. I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
The big question now is this, can Mayor elect Zorhan
Mom Donnie stop eating with his hands?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
No, that's not the question.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The question is can he keep up the momentum even
with this anti cop agenda.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Start with homicides.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Homicides got have plunged to lows we haven't seen in
years in New York City. Two hundred and ninety seven
as of December. What is the data on this twenty
first so like roughly a week ago. Now, I know
what you're thinking. Two hundred ninety seven is a lot
of people. Yeah, but this is a city with what
eight eight million people, that's a relatively low number. Two
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hundred ninety seven too many needless deaths, I agree, but
it's twenty percent fewer than the year before that, which
was three hundred and seventy seven, and the year before
that twenty nineteen before the pandemic. That wasn't the year
before that three hundred nineteen. So we're clearly lower than
we've been. For the first eleven months of this year,
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New York City actually broke the all time low for shootings,
which was shockingly said in twenty eighteen. Twenty eighteen was
when culture peaked. We don't know what it was about
the year twenty eighteen, who was in charge of the
federal government at the time, or why America was so great,
but in that particular year, there were forty four fewer incidents.
That's amazing. And whatever it was that they were doing
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at the time, it seemed to be working. That's the now,
this is a good Christmas gift. We don't want people
getting murdered in New York City, even more than we
want a lesbian fire chief, which.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I'm sure we all agree.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We really desperately want a lesbian fire chief, but even
just slightly more than that, I think just slightly more
important is less murders. Obviously, lesbian fire chief very important,
but less murders more and more important. Now it is
true that other cities are also seeing big drops in
their murder rates. Chicago, which has an absurdly large number
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of murders, saw twenty eight percent drop, Washington, d C.
Where Trump deployed troops, another twenty eight percent. But Gotham,
as you know, kind of a violent place to be
a little dangerous. Actually, I guess it'd be metropolists, wouldn't
it New York City's Metropolis, Chicago's Gotham. I've always felt
that way. Anyway, Mary Eric Adam can take credit for
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keeping his twenty twenty one campaign vow to roll back
violent crime, because that's what he wanted to do. And
I don't even know if everyone remembers. Why why are
we mad at him again? Because Sabrina Carpenter did a
music video and a Catholic church, and they did an
investigation and they determined someone gave his campaign money. It
was a very weird domino effect. But it's all Sabrina
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Carpenter's fault. I've always said that to port Sabrina Carpenter.
As far as the misguided criminal justice reforms, you see
the soft on crime stuff in New York City and
throughout the State of New York, judges, prosecutors giving criminals
free reign to rek havoc. I know it'd be easy
to blame Sabrina Carpenter, but it's not her fault.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
As it turns out, that's voter's fault.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
In the city, in the State of New York, they
put a lot of these prosecutors and judges, and the
elected officials sometimes who put those people in charge just
really didn't seem to care about cracking down on crime.
Major felonies are still on pace this year to come
in twenty five percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen,
back before the pandemic. Toothpaste remains locked up inside display cases.
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Imagine walking into a Walmart or a CVS or a Walgreens,
and if you want to buy toothpaste, you have to
go ask one of the employees to unlock it for
you so you could buy it. And for some reason,
always black Ladies hair products. I don't know why that is.
They always feel the need to lock those up. What
is it about black women's hair products that they feel
are so much more likely to be shoplifted than other products.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No one can seem to under No one can answer
the question. We don't know what it is. But Eric
Adams and Jessica Tish I like to call her Tish.
They focus their resources on violent recidivism, people committing violent
crimes and then committing them again, over and over again.
In high crime areas. They focused on gangs. They focused
on illegal guns. Guess what that focusing on that? It works.
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During one remarkable stretch back in the fall, the Big
Apple went twelve consecutive days without a homicide. Unbelievable. That's
almost two weeks of no murder in New York City,
and believe it or not, there were some people that
were sad about that. Democrats. I'm assuming now the challenge
will be for mom Dommy and his little team of
communists and his lesbian firefighting chief to keep it up. Okay,
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not so much her, but don't worry. I'm sure he'll
find a lesbian to be in charge of the police
force or a trans whatever. And even as he looks
to defund the cops and take other measures that could
fuel some crime resurgence. We'll all be reminded, here is
the new boss worse than the old boss. You didn't
like Eric Adams, Well, I bet once upon a time
you didn't like Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, and then they
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replaced her with Briandon Johnson.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And now you're begging for Lori Lightfoot.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When Eric Adams is gone, it's going to be a
don't know what you got till it's gone moment, but
he'll be gone. And just like that bon Jovie song,
what's the song again? Want it dead or Alive?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No? Not that one? What is it? I forget?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Live it out A prayer'll I'll be praying for Eric
Adams to come back.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Very exciting news.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
In honor of our country's founding, President Trump is sending
checks to the military for seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars.
Everyone else is getting eighteen dollars and twelve cents. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for joining us. That was a
joke for liberals, and I was telling that joke because
there's liberals in the room right now. Guys, I'm surrounded
by them. They're crawling all over the place. I could
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smell the liberals in here. They pretty much smell like
conservatives do. It doesn't really smell that different. But uh,
I know, I actually have a guest sitting right across
from me, and another guest that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Doesn't want people to know that they are here.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I won't say who it is, but but you're here
right now, and your name is Micah Airfan. Yeah, I
said that, correct erthon, I'm screwed. We practiced that twelve
times and I still screwed it up. You know why
I think I messed it up. I think that the
Persian thing makes me a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
You're you're scared of people from the Middle East just generally. Well,
you have an iatola? Doesn't we we deal?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We deal?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Doesn't iotola sound like it's not an Iranian word? Doesn't
it sound like it's a word that describes like a
high ranking member of the Italian mob.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Hey, it's the iyatola. Hey, I could see that.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Well, it's possible for white people to pronounce, which means
that it's probably not a Persian sounding word. There's a
lot of Persian sounds which white people can't pronounce. That
makes the language kind of distinct.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I got really into Persian food because they open that
restaurant by my house.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
It's good, there's eggplan, there's there's stuff that looks really
weird and unedible, but it always teas that's the better.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The worse it looks, the better it tastes. But when
I ena have a great bar, you know the place
I'm talking about. Yes, they're not paying for commercials, so
we won't say that great restaurant it's right by my condo,
starts with an R. And when I'm in there at
the bar and I'm three Manhattan's Deep making jokes about
the Iatola's gay lover, they do not think I'm hilarious.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Well, you know, most of Iranians really hate the Iranian government,
though you would think that's why they're here. Yes, yes,
and a lot of them voted for Trump just for
the sole purpose of bombing Iran. They're like single issue voters,
Please bomb the country I'm from.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Are you one hundred percent Iranian? No, I'm fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'm working on that. I don't want to say Iranian,
but it's not Iranian. It's Iranian. It's Iranian. But then
it's hard to do that parody song which one bomb
bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran bomb bomb bomb You know
that one? Yeah, all Iranians know that. So yeah, it's
our favorite song.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Are you guys too? Is are you are Iranians?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
That we blew up a nuclear silo? Because I was
everybody thought that was great. I was against it.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Well, everybody thought it was great until somebody they knew
got hurt. So, for instance, I have some relatives in Iran,
and they were in the apartment building that was, you know,
that was hit with a precision guided missile, and so
some of them were actually harmed, but no, the casualties
were pretty low. So I would guess that most Iranians
in the United States supported the strikes. Do you consider
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yourself to be a white person, Yeah, cause you look white.
I'm culturally America. I don't believe this whole Iranian American thing.
I'm American. I was raised in America. America's my country,
that's my culture. But I do have some Iranian heritage.
My mom is very Italian.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
She talks with her hands, she lived in Italy, she
almost married the whole shebang, all of it. She doesn't
you know, she has no sense of space, that sort
of thing. She's very Italian. But I don't call myself
Italian American because I don't have an Italian last name,
and also you don't get anything for it. Yeah, nine
to eleven was great for the Italians because it was
the first time in American history and when people finally
considered us to be white.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Well, I think most Iranians want to be Italian, especially
after nine to eleven. Sure, like the number of self
identified Iranians probably went down dramatically, especially in the airport's
security line.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Before nine to eleven, we were considered all of whatever,
we were considered.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Finally we get to we moved up to white.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And then for Asians that's got to be confusing because
they moved to America. In California, they're automatically considered white.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, in California that when they're teaching the kids there
about DEI and the public schools, one of the things
they explain to them is that Asians have white privilege. Yes,
This was a touchy subject when people were learning about
critical race theory, because to me, I would think Asians
are not white, they that is wee and as we
both know what color they are. Go ahead, and micaeh,
I'm paleish. All right, let's stick a park in that.
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We'll get to that one later.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Mike is here right now.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Micah is an important part of the You're a young
liberal influencer. You're a member of the Democrat establishment.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And how old are you. I'm twenty two years old
and you are a law student.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yes, you looked at all the things you could do
for a living, and you said, I want to be terrible,
So you went to law school.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yes, did you know that? I almost went to law school.
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was all signed up. I got an average score
on the l SAT. I was going to go to
John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And then I got a job making prank phone calls
for a living, and my mom and dad were thrilled.
I hope they were very excited. But as you can see,
it turned out, Okay, what is the long term goal?
I honestly I think the you know, I want to
be involved in politics. I wanted to be involved in
public service, and for my generation, it's really hard to
get by just with a bachelor's degree. So I knew
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I wanted to go to grad school. I took the
law school admissions test. I made a perfect score, and
I just said, well, this basically makes the decision for me.
I better go to law school. That's kind of the decision.
But do I actually want to be a practicing attorney?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I've seen suits. It's not that interesting, and what does
that even mean anymore? Right, like being a practicing attorney.
I could be a practicing attorney doing.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
This, well, sure, I mean like a person who works
at a big law firm, or somebody who works for
the Harris County Attorney or the District attorney's office, or
a public defender. I think those things are interesting. But
I think I actually might just be some sort of activists.
I think that what you're doing is a lot more
important than what a lot of lawyers are doing.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Telling dick jokes about politicians absolutely to a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, I'm glad to be doing it. I'm glad to contribute.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Our good friend Faith Bugenhausen at the at cron dot com.
Not the Houston Chronicle, but Cron dot com. There's a
distinction there and it needs to be made. Has published.
That's an article of some of the new laws that
are about to be hit in the streets of Texas
here coming up after the new year, and I'm going
to put some of these up on the screen because
I want to react to them with you. New state
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laws set to take effect. If you're a Texan Housepill
nine pass, Texas businesses will see expanded tax relief under
a new exemption that removes up to one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars of inventory from property taxes levied
by cities, counties, and school districts. Lawmakers pitch the change
as a way to help small and mid sized businesses
manage rise and costs.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
As a Democrat for against it, totally for it. Actually,
I think it should have been more expansive.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
The idea is saying, the idea that we tax inventory
as part of the property tax is totally ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I agree completely.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, I'm surprised that we probably immediately agree on this,
but property tax is a big problem in this state.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I think it is a big problem.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I think the property text in its current structure is
really strange, and we basically if you build a building,
or you improve your building, or you renovate, we raise
your taxes. Why should we penalize productive economic activity. I
think we should just be taxing the land and then
not penalize people whenever they build things.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Jerry thing about how if you buy a car and
you're paying off the car, you're continuing to pay sales
tax on it.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But after it's paid off.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
This is a bad example because you still got to
pay vehicle fees and stuff, but you know, you're not
still paying the.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Sales tax on the car.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
I live in Virginia and we actually have a property
tax on cars of about five percent per year. Everybody
hates it there, but yeah, some states do that. I'm
really thankful we don't do that in Texas. In Texas,
our problem is property tax. Yes it's pretty high. Yes
it's pretty high. Although I think that people make it
a bigger deal. And the reason why it's such a
big deal in our politics is because disproportionately old people
vote and donate, and so the priority of our politicians
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is helping old people with their tax bills rather than
helping young people get, for instance, health insurance. We have
the highest uninsured population in the country, even as a
per capita rate. I think that's more of an immediate
crisis than you know, boomers paying a lot on their
property taxes.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You're a zoomer, You're a gen z. I'm a millennial,
so I'm a little older than you, but I'm I'm
not a lot older. I've only owned a house in
one state. I've owned two houses in Texas. I've never
owned a state anywhere else. I'm told that in other states.
This idea of challenging your property taxes is not a
thing that did you get that?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And have you ever had to do that? You've heard
of it?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Right, Surely most people, my generous have not even gotten
close to paying property taxes because we don't own a home.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But I'm familiar with the process.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
See here's where I'm going to go ahead and catch
twenty two yar on that you are paying property taxes.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Indirectly if you're exactly if your renter, you pay it indirectly,
although the landlord bears some of the additional costs. I mean,
I think one of the reasons with challenging the property tax,
and having that capacity is who does that? Higher income people,
they're able to get their assessments lowered. Meanwhile, people in
third ward, people in poor neighborhoods are less capable of
challenging their property tax assessment. I believe there was a
study a couple years ago which showed that systematically people
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in these lower income narratives neighborhoods are paying higher property
taxes than they should be if we had fair assessment.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
The property tax right. See, I would agree with you
on that. I think for most things there should just
be a flat tax. We shouldn't have all these different
subsidies and stuff. It confuses it too much. And then,
like you just pointed out, people that don't have the
means don't know how to take advantage of this stuff.
But to go back to your other point there, because
I think you said something really important. Renters are indirectly
paying property taxes. If property taxes go up on a
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house that you're running with your buddies, or an apartment
or whatever, it affects you, and you're smart enough to
know that, how do we explain that to other people
your age?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I think it's hard to get people to understand how
taxes work in general. I mean, still about half this
country thinks that Americans don't pay the tariffs, and somehow
foreign countries pay them. So I think it's just beating
them over the head of the message. But I think
the real policy solution to this is I don't think
we should be taxing buildings ever.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I don't think we should be taxing development ever. I
think we should just be taxing land.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
This is an idea that we actually pursued in Houston
under a mayor about one hundred years ago, of just
taxing the land values. And I think it's somebody that
we should return to.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Isn't it interesting what tariffs, tariffs and securing the border
of something in common. Until Trump took a position on it,
a lot of Democrats had the opposite position.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You're not old enough to know this, or maybe you are.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Democrats used to love tariffs, you know, Chuck Schumer, Nancy
pelos Hu's his old videos of them on the floor
of the House and Senate talking about how the trade
deals aren't fair and we need to use tariffs as
a bargaining chip, and no one ever really did that
till Trump came along. Same thing with the border back
when Hillary Clinton was a senator, she wanted to build
defense at the border. And then Trump came along and
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took positions that were historically blue collar, union working Democrat positions,
and suddenly most Democrats were against them just because he
took the position. At least that's the way it seems
to me. A simple minded, garbage nazi from the Republican Party.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Well, so, a lot of Democrats did support tariffs, and
none of them really supported universal across the board tariffs
of the kind that Trump has proposed. But I don't
agree with every position that Democrats have taken historically. I'm
a Democrat because I think Democrats are less bad than
the Republicans, and I think tariffs have always been a
bad economic policy, regardless of who champions them. Regarding the border,
it used to be more of a bipartisan position. Both
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parties supported a secure order in opposed undocumented immigration.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I think that was even true under President Obama.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I think Biden went a little bit far listening to activists,
but I think in general both parties agree and Americans
agreed that undocumented illegal immigration should be zero.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I won't keep using my age as a tool against you,
but are you old enough to remember who the Deporter
in Chief was.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Brock, Who's sain Obama?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
You know this?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yes, see, this is a thing that plos people's minds.
Even a lot of Republicans don't know this.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Democrats that are just a little older than me referred
to him as the deporter in chief because he did
two things that upset them when he took office. One
of them was his drone war in the Mid East.
They thought they were going to get the opposite of
George W.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Bush.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Instead we cringe. Instead, it was cringe, I agree. Instead
we got a politician, a president arguably the most violent
president of the twenty first century in terms of foreign policy.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Strikes dramatically increased under Trump in his first term, but
both are bad. I don't support Jones striking the living
hell out of the Middle least.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Twenty two time higher casualty kill count for Obama's droned
aircrafts than George W. Bush manned aircraft and it eliminated
a job. Micah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to bring
it back.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
We should bring like.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Traditional bomber listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Please,
if you're offended by anything you heard to get a
piece of paper, write down a detailed description of what
bothered you, and facts it to one eight eight eight.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Nobody gives a fun.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Y'all know how I am gay for science. I'm very excited.
I am Liverarachi for science. We just got a big
ted bit of news from the science world. Scientists say
man discovered fire four hundred thousand years ago. They're probably thinking,
how do we know that there is proof a stone
age douchebags camaro with flames on the side.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
There you go, that's the evidence right there that I needed.
Micah airfan or fun er fun. I still didn't. It
seems like it's airfan to me, it's are you sure
that you know?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
People at the front desk of my school into high school,
this is my school for ten years, still pronounced an
urban air fun anything but erfon.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It is an unusual name to the people.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
If I ran everything about just calling themselves like Charlie
or will or Chuck or something like that.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I don't think anybody's thought of that yet, but that
all are like Muhammad Ali. Well, there's only like a
few names. So airfan er fun Ef, you're gonna get
this one carfon air fan it's not air just had
to ring again so you could pronounce it correctly next time.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, one thing's for sure. Your name's not Martin. That's
all I know.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
That's what you're started with. It's definitely my You do
look like a Martin to me. I don't know why
that is you. You just got to make everybody German.
I guess a serial assumption. I will do my racist
German accent later. I don't know if you know our
history buffer or not, but you know, back in the
mid twentieth century, these Germans were not good people.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I heard about it. It is some pretty bad stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Hey, you and I were just talking about something off
the air that our radio listeners are very familiar with.
But a lot of other people don't know about this.
Deed fraud. Deed fraud is a real thing, and you're
trying to get liberals fired.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Up about it.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Why is that I'm trying to get everybody fired up
about it. I worked at the Harskontye office, and there
I reviewed a bunch of different cases of deed fraud
in the Houston area. Basically, people don't realize how easy
it is for somebody to steal your home. All they
have to go to is they have to go to
the county clerk. They had to file a deed. What
does the deed need? A signature and a notary stamp,
and they can transfer your property into their name and
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they can sell it. And that's happened to dozens of,
maybe if not hundreds of families in the Houston and
Harris County area. And the issue is right now, we're
not doing enough to protect people from future fraud and
to prosecute the criminals. Out of all of the cases
of defraud that we've observed and have been reported in
local media, there have been zero criminal charges from my
understanding file zero zero criminal charges fought against any of
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the people that perpetrated these crimes, even if they stole
over thirty homes. That is totally unacceptable and we need
to make progress.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
On this issue. Do the people get their houses back a.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Lot usually know, usually know, the Harris County Attorney's Office
can't get their houses back, and you know they don't
have the legal power from the state to do that,
so people have to suit independently. But here's the you
Often the fraudster already sold your home to somebody else
before you even get to suing them, which means you
can't get it back from that new purchaser.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You're kind of out of luck. When the person be
a little suspicious.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
When someone was given a tour their house while they're
sitting there eating their cheerios in the morning.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Well it's often too late, so somebody shows up and
they actually evict the person because they say, hey, this
person's staying in my property and they own it. They
usually sell to some sort of property manager, people that
don't even have to show up to the property before
they purchase it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Mike, I'm just a cave man. Talk to me like
a six year old. What would the law be that
would prevent this from happening? Because it seems very obvious
to me that you can't do this, But the way
you and others have pointed it out, it does happen
all the time and people are getting away with it.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
What would we need to change, Well, there's a lot
of different things that we could do. One thing we
could do is we could limit who is able to
transfer a deed. We could say, hey, the only person
who could transfer the d for your home is like
you or your attorney or somebody else who owns interest
in the property. Right now, anybody can follow a deed
on your behalf, So people, even fraudsters often high or
like a like a random person, even a homeless person
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to go in and turn in the deed so they
don't connect themselves to the fraud. That shouldn't be permitted.
We can also have further ID checks if you want
to transfer a deed via mail. There's not even ID
requirement currently. That's just totally ridiculous. And finally, we should
prosecute criminals that are doing these things so we create
a strong disincentive against committing fraud.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
In the future.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Air Fans Law, Arfon's law, Erfon, That's what I said,
Erthon's law. That's what I said, Erthon's law. I said.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I said that I agree. I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We're looking at new laws that are about to go
into effect here, Immigration enforcement requirements Senate Bill eight. Most
Texas counties that operate jails will be required to cooperate
with US Immigration and Customs enforcement under Federal two eight
seven G program, which allows local law enforcement to assist
certain immigration enforcement duties. They'll also creates a grant program
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to help counties offset participation costs.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Are liberals mad about this? I mean, I don't agree
with the current approach of ICE.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
ICE is putting really undertrained people on the street tackling
including US citizens, breaking their bones. We had a legal
immigrant who died in detention not that long ago, and
so I don't think that we should have an uncritical
approach of letting ICE run a muck in our stay.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Why is it when there's a news story about it
an illegal immigrant being treated poorly.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Legally and legal Okay, every one of you guys knows
this story.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
But when somebody goes out and arrests a guy that's
been trafficking kids or making child porn or whatever, none.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Of you ever seem to know about this news story.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Well, because because nobody disagrees with deporting or arresting undocumented
immigrants that commit crimes.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That was happening under Biden.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Actually, the number of undocumented immigrants that are criminals that
have been deported has barely even increased under the Trump administration.
The vast majority of the increase has been of undocumented
immigrants that were going through the asylum process that we're
working and peaceful, and that's what we have a problem with.
We don't want to war on people that are peacefully
here trying to follow the legal process, especially one by
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untrained ICE agents which are harming US citizens and legal immigrants.
You're a libertarian from my understanding, don't you find it
concerning whenever our constitutional rights are under attack? I think
that should always concern us, regardless of the purported justification.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
A big time. Absolutely. But hang on on that note.
Our friend Faith Bugenhausen at well, I can't find it out.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Houston was just named number one for ICE attainments, and she,
our friend at the Crown dot com, wrote an article
about it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I was just looking at and.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
It had some really interesting numbers in it, and one
of them was that there was thousands of these people
that were in fact arrested for criminal illegal behavior for
I mean, committing other crimes in addition to and of
course Houston is number one not just because of Mayor
Whitmeyer but allowing the ICE attention and arrest to happen,
but because we're the number one location for human trafficking
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in America. And now I can't find the article. I
wanted to give you that statistic, and I don't have
it in front of me. But you believe that, right.
I mean, we are that, don't you. We're the number
one as the human traffic problem, right, So surely there's
a need for ICE. I mean there's a need for
detention and detainment.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I mean Barack Obama was the deporter in chief. Joe
Biden deported a lot of people. I think you should
have deported more people. What I want to advocate is
a immigration policy that focuses on deporting criminals, not peaceful people,
not people that are going through the legal asylum process,
and certainly not in a way that attacks legal immigrants
and American citizens. We need to have trained ICE agents
that identify themselves and don't trust like common street thugs.
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I mean, ICE is acting more like Mexican cartels than
any of these documented immigrants that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think that we should offer a pass to big
booty Latinos who are very fertile. Between the ages is
twenty one, that's thirty five. He's a good friend. Yeah,
Alex is a good he's been What did you think
of Alex Stein? I think he's an interesting person. I
think Alex likes to troll people, which makes debates a
little bit challenging, sure, but it's entertaining for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
He once debated Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
He has a character named Charlie Kirk, and I don't
think he was ever expecting what happened to Charlie Kirk
to happen. There are some on the left and some
on the right that have been really critical of Erica
and Charlie since he passed, and I'm curious what your
thoughts are on those.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
I mean, I think what happened to Charlie Kirk was
an absolute tragedy. It is the responsibility of everybody to
call out to prave political violence whenever it occurs, regardless
of who it is against. And I think that the
treatment of Erica Kirk by people like Catus Owens is
frankly disgusting. Now the criticism that I've seen that makes
I think is a little bit more plausible and less reprehensible,
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is you know, Erica Kirk is wearing like these sparkly outfits,
going on stage with like these like extremely extremely bombastic
displays right after her husband died. You would think that
a widow would dress like in black. But anyway, to me,
my approach is, I'm not going to criticize somebody who's
gone through something that
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
What does the FDA stand for? Again? Nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
They just approve new drugs to treat gan rhea. Wow,
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boom times for Charlie Sheen.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Very exciting. I think, Hey, everybody, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Uh, we're gonna have some special guests joining us within
the next hour. Democrats, actual live limit Democrats. It's gonna
be like a like an early twentieth century freak show
with the bearded lady and the world's tallest man. It's
gonna be you. But you wait, where's going to be
nine or ten different genders in this studio? Actual Democrats
will be joining me shortly. But before we get to
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any of that, let's talk about the Learing Center. Oh
you haven't heard about the Learing Center. Fox News attempted
to reach out to the Somali Quality Leering Center in Minnesota.
It's a daycare center for children that's collected more than
four million dollars in the past two years. Not surprisingly,
it's in ilhano Omar's district, and apparently the Quality Leering
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Center they misspelled the word learning on their sign out front,
doesn't seem to have any students there. Somebody went to
go pay them a visit and doesn't sound like their
phone even works.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
So this is Quality Clearing Center. I meant to say
Quality Learning Center. We've arrived to ABC Learning Center. All
the windows are blocked out. I would like to check
a child in the daycare. Why can I speak to
a manager? I would like to see if I can
bring little Joey hit my son, little Joey here?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Is there a paperworker? Kind and check out the daycare?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You got two point sixty six million dollars this year
in funding and two point five million last year.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We're just wondering where the kids are.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hello, we'd like to ask where's the money's going?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
WHOA That sound of the slamming door that really produces
the emotional reaction we're looking for here because that's exactly
what Governor Tim Wallas is doing right now. At all
the journalists that are asking about this Minnesota Governor Tim
Walls facing intense new criticism after charities tied to the
Somali immigrant community bilked the state out of nine billion
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dollars in aid, including a daycare center with a misspelled
sign got four million dollars. A lot of people have
pointed out the twenty twenty four Democratic Vice president nominee
needs to be held accountable, because, let's face it, that's
a lot of money that's going towards what exactly, foreigners
that don't pay the same amount of taxes that average
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people like you and I pay, and some of that
money even sent.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Overseas to the Al Shabab terrorism group.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Now, I don't want to alienate the audience or anything,
but I think giving money to terrorists is bad and
we should not do it. Tim Wall's not shockingly defending
all of this. He is pushing back against the fraud
allegations after a viral video showed visits to multiple childcare
centers in the state, including one which, as we just
pointed out, got an absurd amount of money to do
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what looks like nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And you know what's so amazing about this?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Look, Fox News is great and everything, but this news
was broken by an independent journalist named Nick Shirley, some
kid in his early twenties. Who would have thought that
people in their early twenties had any value? Not me,
I for one, was shocked to learn this. Anyway, Apparently
there's been a crackdown on fraud in the state the government.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
A report was put out here.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A spokesperson says the governor has worked for years to
crack down on fraud and has the state legislature for
more authority to take aggressive action. He's strengthened oversight, including
launching investigations into the U specific facilities, one of which
was already closed. That's what the governor's office says. Okay, journalists,
when knocked on the door, it didn't look like they
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were closed so much as just not doing anything. And
he's been cracking down on this for years. Why did
we just learn about it this week? These are valid questions.
I think Cash Pattel, head of the FBI, he said
he's going to do something about it. He's going to
take a break from hanging out with his girlfriend who's
definitely not an Israeli spy as far as we know.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And he said he's going to investigate.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The Bureau sent more personnel and resources to Minnesota to
dismantle the large scale fronds schemes, calling previous arrests just
the tip of a very large iceberg, just the tip,
he says. Patel said in a post on social media,
the FBI is moving resources into the state, and of course,
he said, they were already doing this before the recent
social media reports intensified public attention into the matter. It's
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just a coincidence that he's only talking about it now
for the first time. It has nothing to do with
any of this going viral on social media. And you
trust him, don't You don't answer that, The FBI director said.
The bureau has dismantled a two hundred and fifty million
dollars fraund scheme that still federal food aid meant for
vulnerable children. During COVID, the investigation exposed sham Vender's shell
companies large scale money laundering tied to a group called
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Feeding Our Future, Feeding Our Future whom Feeding the future
of l Shabab Apparently, Look, I don't know much in
this world, but I do know this. The Somali pirates
that travel around the where do they go? The Indian Ocean,
the Mediterranean stealing freight and that sort of thing. They're
working too hard. Those Somalian pirates have no idea how
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much easier their job could be. All you had to
do was move to Minnesota, a home to Mike Lindell
and these pillows or machine worshipble promo code wj oh
and don't forget the Samali Minnesota fraud schemes.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Cash Bettel says, they're on the job. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Look, that's great and everything. It's nice to get a
reaction now that there's outrage over all this. But as
I'm sure a lot of you guys already realize, particularly
in the context of US immigration policy, there is something
we could do about this. I'll give you a hint
of what I'm talking about. It's a word. It rhymes
with schmischmorschmashen, otherwise known as deportation. Somali communities, especially in Minnesota,
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are being accused of and probably guilty of, orchestrating some
massive schemes. Maybe one way we could take care of
this would be to deport them. Deport these people so
they can't do this anymore. Apparently, seventy five percent of
Somali's and states like Minnesota are on full government assistance.
That's a lot of people who aren't paying taxes and
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living off the system.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And in the.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Meantime, they're sending hundreds of millions of dollars overseas. Look,
I'm all for diversity, I am, I'm not some of
these one of these far left globals. I love the
idea of living in a city where there is a
variety of different food we could eat, But I'm pretty
sure we could live without Somalian food.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. Dig It.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I have exciting news for all the lesbian seagulls out there.
You are finally in charge of the New York City
Fire Department. Isn't that exciting we finally have after all
these years? I, for one, know that I have been
waiting a very very long time for a lesbian to
be put in charge of the fire department in New
York City. For far too long, me and the other
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advocates for the els on this planet have stood around
and looked at each other with our arms crossed and
our faces frowning, and saying, why aren't there more lesbians
in the New York City Fire department. Well, Zorhan, Mom
Donnie has solved that problem for us. Now we finally
have one. Why now, I don't know. Nobody knows. She's
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actually a retired New York City Fire Department employee. I
don't know what her position was, veteran. They call her
of the fire department, and she likes chicks. Now, you
wouldn't know it if you saw, If you saw it, dude,
this chick is like top of the line. What is
the word butch? Butch I think is the lesbian one.
There's other terms for them, but I won't use them
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on the air. Something about a bowl.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I don't know. I don't come up with these slang terms.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I do know that she is very masculine and she's
now in charge of the fire department. There, which begs
a question, a question I've asked many times on this show.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Why do we need the word lesbian? Doesn't that just
a gay woman? Isn't that all? It is? Like, you're
a gay woman. No, you need a different word for that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We don't have different words for redheaded women, right, No,
it's just a ginger, that's aw that is. We don't
have a different word for a female tennis player. It's
just a female tennis player. I don't understand what the
point of having different. You got lesbians, you got gays,
you got bisexual. Bisexual is just gay. That's what that is?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And then like, and what's trans confused? What's cue questioning?
I always thought it was queer. Turns out it's questioning.
So Q means you don't know what you are, So like,
all right, what are you nine or something? Just wait
till puberty. We'll figure it out later. Why are we
so anxious to put a label on everyone? We don't
need the all anymore. Just call them gay firefighters and
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it's great and I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Here for it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Look, I have officiated a gay woman's wedding ones believe
it or not. Shockingly I did, and it went about
as well as you'd expect, quite well, fantastic. They often
people have to say it was the best female gay
wedding ever officiated by a heterosexual male Republican. And I'm
not saying that I say that. I'm just saying other
people are saying that, and I think that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So this woman is now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In charge of the fire department there, which didn't really
change anything. No one really understands why this is a
big news story today, but also at the same time,
you can't help but compare the incoming administration to the
outgoing administration. The New York Post editorial board had made
the point that Mayor Eric Adams and his New York
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Police Department under boss Jessica Tish have done quite a
fantastic job of blowing away record lows on shootings and murders,
and kudos to her and them for doing that. And
they did it with a woman in charge. That's amazing.
I know, don't part had to be surprised.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I'm not surprised by that. I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
The big question now is this, can Mayor elect Zorhan
Mom Donnie stop eating with his hands?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
No, that's not the question.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The question is can he keep up the momentum even
with this anti cop agenda.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Start with homicides.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Homicides got have plunged to lows we haven't seen in
years in New York City. Two hundred and ninety seven
as of December. What is the data on this twenty
first so like roughly a week ago. Now, I know
what you're thinking. Two hundred ninety seven is a lot
of people. Yeah, but this is a city with what
eight eight million people, that's a relatively low number. Two
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hundred ninety seven too many needless deaths, I agree, but
it's twenty percent fewer than the year before that, which
was three hundred and seventy seven, and the year before
that twenty nineteen before the pandemic. That wasn't the year
before that three hundred nineteen. So we're clearly lower than
we've been. For the first eleven months of this year,
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New York City actually broke the all time low for shootings,
which was shockingly said in twenty eighteen. Twenty eighteen was
when culture peaked. We don't know what it was about
the year twenty eighteen, who was in charge of the
federal government at the time, or why America was so great,
but in that particular year, there were forty four fewer incidents.
That's amazing. And whatever it was that they were doing
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at the time, it seemed to be working. That's the now,
this is a good Christmas gift. We don't want people
getting murdered in New York City, even more than we
want a lesbian fire chief, which.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I'm sure we all agree.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We really desperately want a lesbian fire chief, but even
just slightly more than that, I think just slightly more
important is less murders. Obviously, lesbian fire chief very important,
but less murders more and more important. Now it is
true that other cities are also seeing big drops in
their murder rates. Chicago, which has an absurdly large number
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of murders, saw twenty eight percent drop, Washington, d C.
Where Trump deployed troops, another twenty eight percent. But Gotham,
as you know, kind of a violent place to be
a little dangerous. Actually, I guess it'd be metropolists, wouldn't
it New York City's Metropolis, Chicago's Gotham. I've always felt
that way. Anyway, Mary Eric Adam can take credit for
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keeping his twenty twenty one campaign vow to roll back
violent crime, because that's what he wanted to do. And
I don't even know if everyone remembers. Why why are
we mad at him again? Because Sabrina Carpenter did a
music video and a Catholic church, and they did an
investigation and they determined someone gave his campaign money. It
was a very weird domino effect. But it's all Sabrina
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Carpenter's fault. I've always said that to port Sabrina Carpenter.
As far as the misguided criminal justice reforms, you see
the soft on crime stuff in New York City and
throughout the State of New York, judges, prosecutors giving criminals
free reign to rek havoc. I know it'd be easy
to blame Sabrina Carpenter, but it's not her fault.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
As it turns out, that's voter's fault.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
In the city, in the State of New York, they
put a lot of these prosecutors and judges, and the
elected officials sometimes who put those people in charge just
really didn't seem to care about cracking down on crime.
Major felonies are still on pace this year to come
in twenty five percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen,
back before the pandemic. Toothpaste remains locked up inside display cases.
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Imagine walking into a Walmart or a CVS or a Walgreens,
and if you want to buy toothpaste, you have to
go ask one of the employees to unlock it for
you so you could buy it. And for some reason,
always black Ladies hair products. I don't know why that is.
They always feel the need to lock those up. What
is it about black women's hair products that they feel
are so much more likely to be shoplifted than other products.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No one can seem to under No one can answer
the question. We don't know what it is. But Eric
Adams and Jessica Tish I like to call her Tish.
They focus their resources on violent recidivism, people committing violent
crimes and then committing them again, over and over again.
In high crime areas. They focused on gangs. They focused
on illegal guns. Guess what that focusing on that? It works.
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During one remarkable stretch back in the fall, the Big
Apple went twelve consecutive days without a homicide. Unbelievable. That's
almost two weeks of no murder in New York City,
and believe it or not, there were some people that
were sad about that. Democrats. I'm assuming now the challenge
will be for mom Dommy and his little team of
communists and his lesbian firefighting chief to keep it up. Okay,
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not so much her, but don't worry. I'm sure he'll
find a lesbian to be in charge of the police
force or a trans whatever. And even as he looks
to defund the cops and take other measures that could
fuel some crime resurgence. We'll all be reminded, here is
the new boss worse than the old boss. You didn't
like Eric Adams, Well, I bet once upon a time
you didn't like Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, and then they
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replaced her with Briandon Johnson.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And now you're begging for Lori Lightfoot.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When Eric Adams is gone, it's going to be a
don't know what you got till it's gone moment, but
he'll be gone. And just like that bon Jovie song,
what's the song again? Want it dead or Alive?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No? Not that one? What is it? I forget?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Live it out A prayer'll I'll be praying for Eric
Adams to come back.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Very exciting news.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
In honor of our country's founding, President Trump is sending
checks to the military for seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars.
Everyone else is getting eighteen dollars and twelve cents. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for joining us. That was a
joke for liberals, and I was telling that joke because
there's liberals in the room right now. Guys, I'm surrounded
by them. They're crawling all over the place. I could
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smell the liberals in here. They pretty much smell like
conservatives do. It doesn't really smell that different. But uh,
I know, I actually have a guest sitting right across
from me, and another guest that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Doesn't want people to know that they are here.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I won't say who it is, but but you're here
right now, and your name is Micah Airfan. Yeah, I
said that, correct erthon, I'm screwed. We practiced that twelve
times and I still screwed it up. You know why
I think I messed it up. I think that the
Persian thing makes me a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
You're you're scared of people from the Middle East just generally. Well,
you have an iatola? Doesn't we we deal?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We deal?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Doesn't iotola sound like it's not an Iranian word? Doesn't
it sound like it's a word that describes like a
high ranking member of the Italian mob.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Hey, it's the iyatola. Hey, I could see that.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Well, it's possible for white people to pronounce, which means
that it's probably not a Persian sounding word. There's a
lot of Persian sounds which white people can't pronounce. That
makes the language kind of distinct.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I got really into Persian food because they open that
restaurant by my house.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
It's good, there's eggplan, there's there's stuff that looks really
weird and unedible, but it always teas that's the better.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The worse it looks, the better it tastes. But when
I ena have a great bar, you know the place
I'm talking about. Yes, they're not paying for commercials, so
we won't say that great restaurant it's right by my condo,
starts with an R. And when I'm in there at
the bar and I'm three Manhattan's Deep making jokes about
the Iatola's gay lover, they do not think I'm hilarious.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Well, you know, most of Iranians really hate the Iranian government,
though you would think that's why they're here. Yes, yes,
and a lot of them voted for Trump just for
the sole purpose of bombing Iran. They're like single issue voters,
Please bomb the country I'm from.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Are you one hundred percent Iranian? No, I'm fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'm working on that. I don't want to say Iranian,
but it's not Iranian. It's Iranian. It's Iranian. But then
it's hard to do that parody song which one bomb
bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran bomb bomb bomb You know
that one? Yeah, all Iranians know that. So yeah, it's
our favorite song.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Are you guys too? Is are you are Iranians?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
That we blew up a nuclear silo? Because I was
everybody thought that was great. I was against it.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Well, everybody thought it was great until somebody they knew
got hurt. So, for instance, I have some relatives in Iran,
and they were in the apartment building that was, you know,
that was hit with a precision guided missile, and so
some of them were actually harmed, but no, the casualties
were pretty low. So I would guess that most Iranians
in the United States supported the strikes. Do you consider
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yourself to be a white person, Yeah, cause you look white.
I'm culturally America. I don't believe this whole Iranian American thing.
I'm American. I was raised in America. America's my country,
that's my culture. But I do have some Iranian heritage.
My mom is very Italian.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
She talks with her hands, she lived in Italy, she
almost married the whole shebang, all of it. She doesn't
you know, she has no sense of space, that sort
of thing. She's very Italian. But I don't call myself
Italian American because I don't have an Italian last name,
and also you don't get anything for it. Yeah, nine
to eleven was great for the Italians because it was
the first time in American history and when people finally
considered us to be white.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Well, I think most Iranians want to be Italian, especially
after nine to eleven. Sure, like the number of self
identified Iranians probably went down dramatically, especially in the airport's
security line.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Before nine to eleven, we were considered all of whatever,
we were considered.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Finally we get to we moved up to white.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And then for Asians that's got to be confusing because
they moved to America. In California, they're automatically considered white.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, in California that when they're teaching the kids there
about DEI and the public schools, one of the things
they explain to them is that Asians have white privilege. Yes,
This was a touchy subject when people were learning about
critical race theory, because to me, I would think Asians
are not white, they that is wee and as we
both know what color they are. Go ahead, and micaeh,
I'm paleish. All right, let's stick a park in that.
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We'll get to that one later.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Mike is here right now.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Micah is an important part of the You're a young
liberal influencer. You're a member of the Democrat establishment.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And how old are you. I'm twenty two years old
and you are a law student.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yes, you looked at all the things you could do
for a living, and you said, I want to be terrible,
So you went to law school.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yes, did you know that? I almost went to law school.
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was all signed up. I got an average score
on the l SAT. I was going to go to
John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And then I got a job making prank phone calls
for a living, and my mom and dad were thrilled.
I hope they were very excited. But as you can see,
it turned out, Okay, what is the long term goal?
I honestly I think the you know, I want to
be involved in politics. I wanted to be involved in
public service, and for my generation, it's really hard to
get by just with a bachelor's degree. So I knew
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I wanted to go to grad school. I took the
law school admissions test. I made a perfect score, and
I just said, well, this basically makes the decision for me.
I better go to law school. That's kind of the decision.
But do I actually want to be a practicing attorney?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I've seen suits. It's not that interesting, and what does
that even mean anymore? Right, like being a practicing attorney.
I could be a practicing attorney doing.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
This, well, sure, I mean like a person who works
at a big law firm, or somebody who works for
the Harris County Attorney or the District attorney's office, or
a public defender. I think those things are interesting. But
I think I actually might just be some sort of activists.
I think that what you're doing is a lot more
important than what a lot of lawyers are doing.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Telling dick jokes about politicians absolutely to a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, I'm glad to be doing it. I'm glad to contribute.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Our good friend Faith Bugenhausen at the at cron dot com.
Not the Houston Chronicle, but Cron dot com. There's a
distinction there and it needs to be made. Has published.
That's an article of some of the new laws that
are about to be hit in the streets of Texas
here coming up after the new year, and I'm going
to put some of these up on the screen because
I want to react to them with you. New state
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laws set to take effect. If you're a Texan Housepill
nine pass, Texas businesses will see expanded tax relief under
a new exemption that removes up to one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars of inventory from property taxes levied
by cities, counties, and school districts. Lawmakers pitch the change
as a way to help small and mid sized businesses
manage rise and costs.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
As a Democrat for against it, totally for it. Actually,
I think it should have been more expansive.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
The idea is saying, the idea that we tax inventory
as part of the property tax is totally ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I agree completely.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, I'm surprised that we probably immediately agree on this,
but property tax is a big problem in this state.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I think it is a big problem.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I think the property text in its current structure is
really strange, and we basically if you build a building,
or you improve your building, or you renovate, we raise
your taxes. Why should we penalize productive economic activity. I
think we should just be taxing the land and then
not penalize people whenever they build things.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Jerry thing about how if you buy a car and
you're paying off the car, you're continuing to pay sales
tax on it.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But after it's paid off.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
This is a bad example because you still got to
pay vehicle fees and stuff, but you know, you're not
still paying the.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Sales tax on the car.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
I live in Virginia and we actually have a property
tax on cars of about five percent per year. Everybody
hates it there, but yeah, some states do that. I'm
really thankful we don't do that in Texas. In Texas,
our problem is property tax. Yes it's pretty high. Yes
it's pretty high. Although I think that people make it
a bigger deal. And the reason why it's such a
big deal in our politics is because disproportionately old people
vote and donate, and so the priority of our politicians
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is helping old people with their tax bills rather than
helping young people get, for instance, health insurance. We have
the highest uninsured population in the country, even as a
per capita rate. I think that's more of an immediate
crisis than you know, boomers paying a lot on their
property taxes.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You're a zoomer, You're a gen z. I'm a millennial,
so I'm a little older than you, but I'm I'm
not a lot older. I've only owned a house in
one state. I've owned two houses in Texas. I've never
owned a state anywhere else. I'm told that in other states.
This idea of challenging your property taxes is not a
thing that did you get that?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And have you ever had to do that? You've heard
of it?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Right, Surely most people, my generous have not even gotten
close to paying property taxes because we don't own a home.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But I'm familiar with the process.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
See here's where I'm going to go ahead and catch
twenty two yar on that you are paying property taxes.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Indirectly if you're exactly if your renter, you pay it indirectly,
although the landlord bears some of the additional costs. I mean,
I think one of the reasons with challenging the property tax,
and having that capacity is who does that? Higher income people,
they're able to get their assessments lowered. Meanwhile, people in
third ward, people in poor neighborhoods are less capable of
challenging their property tax assessment. I believe there was a
study a couple years ago which showed that systematically people
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in these lower income narratives neighborhoods are paying higher property
taxes than they should be if we had fair assessment.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
The property tax right. See, I would agree with you
on that. I think for most things there should just
be a flat tax. We shouldn't have all these different
subsidies and stuff. It confuses it too much. And then,
like you just pointed out, people that don't have the
means don't know how to take advantage of this stuff.
But to go back to your other point there, because
I think you said something really important. Renters are indirectly
paying property taxes. If property taxes go up on a
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house that you're running with your buddies, or an apartment
or whatever, it affects you, and you're smart enough to
know that, how do we explain that to other people
your age?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I think it's hard to get people to understand how
taxes work in general. I mean, still about half this
country thinks that Americans don't pay the tariffs, and somehow
foreign countries pay them. So I think it's just beating
them over the head of the message. But I think
the real policy solution to this is I don't think
we should be taxing buildings ever.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I don't think we should be taxing development ever. I
think we should just be taxing land.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
This is an idea that we actually pursued in Houston
under a mayor about one hundred years ago, of just
taxing the land values. And I think it's somebody that
we should return to.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Isn't it interesting what tariffs, tariffs and securing the border
of something in common. Until Trump took a position on it,
a lot of Democrats had the opposite position.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You're not old enough to know this, or maybe you are.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Democrats used to love tariffs, you know, Chuck Schumer, Nancy
pelos Hu's his old videos of them on the floor
of the House and Senate talking about how the trade
deals aren't fair and we need to use tariffs as
a bargaining chip, and no one ever really did that
till Trump came along. Same thing with the border back
when Hillary Clinton was a senator, she wanted to build
defense at the border. And then Trump came along and
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took positions that were historically blue collar, union working Democrat positions,
and suddenly most Democrats were against them just because he
took the position. At least that's the way it seems
to me. A simple minded, garbage nazi from the Republican Party.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Well, so, a lot of Democrats did support tariffs, and
none of them really supported universal across the board tariffs
of the kind that Trump has proposed. But I don't
agree with every position that Democrats have taken historically. I'm
a Democrat because I think Democrats are less bad than
the Republicans, and I think tariffs have always been a
bad economic policy, regardless of who champions them. Regarding the border,
it used to be more of a bipartisan position. Both
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parties supported a secure order in opposed undocumented immigration.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I think that was even true under President Obama.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I think Biden went a little bit far listening to activists,
but I think in general both parties agree and Americans
agreed that undocumented illegal immigration should be zero.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I won't keep using my age as a tool against you,
but are you old enough to remember who the Deporter
in Chief was.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Brock, Who's sain Obama?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
You know this?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yes, see, this is a thing that plos people's minds.
Even a lot of Republicans don't know this.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Democrats that are just a little older than me referred
to him as the deporter in chief because he did
two things that upset them when he took office. One
of them was his drone war in the Mid East.
They thought they were going to get the opposite of
George W.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Bush.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Instead we cringe. Instead, it was cringe, I agree. Instead
we got a politician, a president arguably the most violent
president of the twenty first century in terms of foreign policy.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Strikes dramatically increased under Trump in his first term, but
both are bad. I don't support Jones striking the living
hell out of the Middle least.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Twenty two time higher casualty kill count for Obama's droned
aircrafts than George W. Bush manned aircraft and it eliminated
a job. Micah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to bring
it back.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
We should bring like.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Traditional bomber listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. Please,
if you're offended by anything you heard to get a
piece of paper, write down a detailed description of what
bothered you, and facts it to one eight eight eight.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Nobody gives a fun.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Y'all know how I am gay for science. I'm very excited.
I am Liverarachi for science. We just got a big
ted bit of news from the science world. Scientists say
man discovered fire four hundred thousand years ago. They're probably thinking,
how do we know that there is proof a stone
age douchebags camaro with flames on the side.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
There you go, that's the evidence right there that I needed.
Micah airfan or fun er fun. I still didn't. It
seems like it's airfan to me, it's are you sure
that you know?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
People at the front desk of my school into high school,
this is my school for ten years, still pronounced an
urban air fun anything but erfon.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It is an unusual name to the people.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
If I ran everything about just calling themselves like Charlie
or will or Chuck or something like that.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I don't think anybody's thought of that yet, but that
all are like Muhammad Ali. Well, there's only like a
few names. So airfan er fun Ef, you're gonna get
this one carfon air fan it's not air just had
to ring again so you could pronounce it correctly next time.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, one thing's for sure. Your name's not Martin. That's
all I know.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
That's what you're started with. It's definitely my You do
look like a Martin to me. I don't know why
that is you. You just got to make everybody German.
I guess a serial assumption. I will do my racist
German accent later. I don't know if you know our
history buffer or not, but you know, back in the
mid twentieth century, these Germans were not good people.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I heard about it. It is some pretty bad stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Hey, you and I were just talking about something off
the air that our radio listeners are very familiar with.
But a lot of other people don't know about this.
Deed fraud. Deed fraud is a real thing, and you're
trying to get liberals fired.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Up about it.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Why is that I'm trying to get everybody fired up
about it. I worked at the Harskontye office, and there
I reviewed a bunch of different cases of deed fraud
in the Houston area. Basically, people don't realize how easy
it is for somebody to steal your home. All they
have to go to is they have to go to
the county clerk. They had to file a deed. What
does the deed need? A signature and a notary stamp,
and they can transfer your property into their name and
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they can sell it. And that's happened to dozens of,
maybe if not hundreds of families in the Houston and
Harris County area. And the issue is right now, we're
not doing enough to protect people from future fraud and
to prosecute the criminals. Out of all of the cases
of defraud that we've observed and have been reported in
local media, there have been zero criminal charges from my
understanding file zero zero criminal charges fought against any of
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the people that perpetrated these crimes, even if they stole
over thirty homes. That is totally unacceptable and we need
to make progress.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
On this issue. Do the people get their houses back a.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Lot usually know, usually know, the Harris County Attorney's Office
can't get their houses back, and you know they don't
have the legal power from the state to do that,
so people have to suit independently. But here's the you
Often the fraudster already sold your home to somebody else
before you even get to suing them, which means you
can't get it back from that new purchaser.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You're kind of out of luck. When the person be
a little suspicious.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
When someone was given a tour their house while they're
sitting there eating their cheerios in the morning.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Well it's often too late, so somebody shows up and
they actually evict the person because they say, hey, this
person's staying in my property and they own it. They
usually sell to some sort of property manager, people that
don't even have to show up to the property before
they purchase it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Mike, I'm just a cave man. Talk to me like
a six year old. What would the law be that
would prevent this from happening? Because it seems very obvious
to me that you can't do this, But the way
you and others have pointed it out, it does happen
all the time and people are getting away with it.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
What would we need to change, Well, there's a lot
of different things that we could do. One thing we
could do is we could limit who is able to
transfer a deed. We could say, hey, the only person
who could transfer the d for your home is like
you or your attorney or somebody else who owns interest
in the property. Right now, anybody can follow a deed
on your behalf, So people, even fraudsters often high or
like a like a random person, even a homeless person
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to go in and turn in the deed so they
don't connect themselves to the fraud. That shouldn't be permitted.
We can also have further ID checks if you want
to transfer a deed via mail. There's not even ID
requirement currently. That's just totally ridiculous. And finally, we should
prosecute criminals that are doing these things so we create
a strong disincentive against committing fraud.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
In the future.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Air Fans Law, Arfon's law, Erfon, That's what I said,
Erthon's law. That's what I said, Erthon's law. I said.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I said that I agree. I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We're looking at new laws that are about to go
into effect here, Immigration enforcement requirements Senate Bill eight. Most
Texas counties that operate jails will be required to cooperate
with US Immigration and Customs enforcement under Federal two eight
seven G program, which allows local law enforcement to assist
certain immigration enforcement duties. They'll also creates a grant program
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to help counties offset participation costs.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Are liberals mad about this? I mean, I don't agree
with the current approach of ICE.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
ICE is putting really undertrained people on the street tackling
including US citizens, breaking their bones. We had a legal
immigrant who died in detention not that long ago, and
so I don't think that we should have an uncritical
approach of letting ICE run a muck in our stay.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Why is it when there's a news story about it
an illegal immigrant being treated poorly.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Legally and legal Okay, every one of you guys knows
this story.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
But when somebody goes out and arrests a guy that's
been trafficking kids or making child porn or whatever, none.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Of you ever seem to know about this news story.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Well, because because nobody disagrees with deporting or arresting undocumented
immigrants that commit crimes.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That was happening under Biden.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Actually, the number of undocumented immigrants that are criminals that
have been deported has barely even increased under the Trump administration.
The vast majority of the increase has been of undocumented
immigrants that were going through the asylum process that we're
working and peaceful, and that's what we have a problem with.
We don't want to war on people that are peacefully
here trying to follow the legal process, especially one by
(33:04):
untrained ICE agents which are harming US citizens and legal immigrants.
You're a libertarian from my understanding, don't you find it
concerning whenever our constitutional rights are under attack? I think
that should always concern us, regardless of the purported justification.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
A big time. Absolutely. But hang on on that note.
Our friend Faith Bugenhausen at well, I can't find it out.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Houston was just named number one for ICE attainments, and she,
our friend at the Crown dot com, wrote an article
about it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I was just looking at and.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
It had some really interesting numbers in it, and one
of them was that there was thousands of these people
that were in fact arrested for criminal illegal behavior for
I mean, committing other crimes in addition to and of
course Houston is number one not just because of Mayor
Whitmeyer but allowing the ICE attention and arrest to happen,
but because we're the number one location for human trafficking
(33:57):
in America. And now I can't find the article. I
wanted to give you that statistic, and I don't have
it in front of me. But you believe that, right.
I mean, we are that, don't you. We're the number
one as the human traffic problem, right, So surely there's
a need for ICE. I mean there's a need for
detention and detainment.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I mean Barack Obama was the deporter in chief. Joe
Biden deported a lot of people. I think you should
have deported more people. What I want to advocate is
a immigration policy that focuses on deporting criminals, not peaceful people,
not people that are going through the legal asylum process,
and certainly not in a way that attacks legal immigrants
and American citizens. We need to have trained ICE agents
that identify themselves and don't trust like common street thugs.
(34:36):
I mean, ICE is acting more like Mexican cartels than
any of these documented immigrants that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think that we should offer a pass to big
booty Latinos who are very fertile. Between the ages is
twenty one, that's thirty five. He's a good friend. Yeah,
Alex is a good he's been What did you think
of Alex Stein? I think he's an interesting person. I
think Alex likes to troll people, which makes debates a
little bit challenging, sure, but it's entertaining for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
He once debated Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
He has a character named Charlie Kirk, and I don't
think he was ever expecting what happened to Charlie Kirk
to happen. There are some on the left and some
on the right that have been really critical of Erica
and Charlie since he passed, and I'm curious what your
thoughts are on those.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
I mean, I think what happened to Charlie Kirk was
an absolute tragedy. It is the responsibility of everybody to
call out to prave political violence whenever it occurs, regardless
of who it is against. And I think that the
treatment of Erica Kirk by people like Catus Owens is
frankly disgusting. Now the criticism that I've seen that makes
I think is a little bit more plausible and less reprehensible,
(35:40):
is you know, Erica Kirk is wearing like these sparkly outfits,
going on stage with like these like extremely extremely bombastic
displays right after her husband died. You would think that
a widow would dress like in black. But anyway, to me,
my approach is, I'm not going to criticize somebody who's
gone through something that
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