February 12, 2025 • 37 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Texas lawmakers StateRep Briscoe Cain and Congressman Wesley Hunt. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Apparently McDonald's is bringing back the Shamrock Shake. They did
a focused group test on it and I guess it
tested better than their other Saint Patrick's stage tribute, the
Filao Leprechaun. There's awful. There's just awful. That's a terrible
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way to start the show. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster, and uh,
that's kind of what I do. Thanks for Thanks for
turning on your radio. You know who's gonna be here
this afternoon. Interestingly enough, State Representative brist Cocaine Briscocaine and
I Briscoe has been on the show any times in
the past, and as some of you know, back in
the summer of twenty twenty three, Briscoe and I had
a big, massive, I don't know if i'd call it
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a few disagreement over the Ken Paxton impeachment. And a
lot's changed since they that was a year and a
half ago. Can you believe that a lot has happened
since then, I want to talk I'm going to talk
to brisk o'caine today about life in Austin, Texas since
that happened, and what's going on now with this latest
legislative session. I will say this, I've never I've never
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tried to disguise or hide the fact that I disagreed with.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Him on that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But I don't know if there's anything else I've ever
disagreed with him on any other vote. I mean, I
could cherry pick a thing or two here, but that
would be the one big thing. Now Briscocaine is connected
to some bills that we really want to pass right now,
property tax relief, the funding of liberal news media, Gulf
of America being renamed. I love that one. And then
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school choice. That's a big one. Is it just passed
the Senate. And you know, maybe you guys like Briscoe,
maybe you don't, but I will say this, I don't
think there's anybody in the Texas House that has pushed
as hard as for school choice as Briscoe.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Kane has, or Steve Toath for that matter.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But you know, those two guys are pretty closely aligned
with each other, kind of like Ram Paul and Mike Lee.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But we'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And also, if you missed it this morning, I'm going
to replace some of the Wesley Hunt Congressman Wesley Hunt
interview that we had this morning on the Walton Johnson Show.
If you missed it, stick around for that. But before
we get to anything, can we talk about that nutty
anti doughe rally with the government bureaucrats earlier this week?
This was just comical that it was embarrassing. A bunch
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of old, geriatric Democrats got together to protest the fact
that we were gonna save the taxpayer's money and they
have this Well, what you're hearing in the background, I'm sorry,
that's a audio.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Another live event as we are taking a look out
of a Washington, d c. As Democrats are protesting the
Department of Government Efficiency that's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Day with them.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Okay, now, okay, that was on. That's the liberals out
protesting against Doachs. So as comical as it was to
look at, it's also pretty funny to listen to. Let
me give you an example. Here's a bunch of old
hippies singing about how much they hate Doach.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Whoo, which side are you on? America? Which side are
you on?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Me?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Which side are you on? We'll fight against jog. We're fine,
no landscap within our walls.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Will fight from dawn to dusk. The lyrics are on
the screen. I which side are you? I'm on the
America side. I'm on the side where I don't want
the dollar to keep decreasing in value. I'd like to
see things like gasoline and clothing and you know, healthcare, medicine,
that sort of thing become more affordable. And that simply
cannot happen when we keep printing out money with no
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backing and spending it on absurd, ridiculous things. So there's
some thoughts here to consider when it comes to DOGE.
Maybe you don't like everything that we're cutting and reducing
spending on. Maybe there's some things you'd like us to
spend money on, but the vast majority of it is
comically ridiculous, just absurd. And so, in order to express
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their point, a bunch of liberal policymakers and activists got
together yesterday. These just old people, people in their seventies
and eighties, swearing into a microphone to try to appeal
to young voters.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's not working, right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
How do you convince people we need to spend more
money on college for terrorists? That's just one of the
USAID funding follies. New York Post reported on how one
more reason to tune out the histrionic whining over USAID.
A recently resurfaced record reportedly shows we paid for on
war out Alwaukee. Yes, that's al Alwaukee, the terrorist preacher
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and suspected al Kainda recruiter, rightly droned by the Obama
administration to attend Colorado State University when he was a
student in the nineties. How did Alwaukee get this plump
grant by lying about his birthplace and saying he was
from Yemen. You'd think that the experts in charge of
handing out USAID big Bucks might have, you know, demanded
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some proof. But also, why do we have to pay
for college for people from Yemen? They didn't look into
this at all. This is a classic example of liberal racism.
By the way, someone with a foreign sounding name like
Alwaukee couldn't possibly be American, so they figured out he
must be a foreigner. Let's give him free college. And
why do we give free college to foreigners. So this
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radical in waiting committed an easily detectable fraud, stole a
bunch of money from hard working taxpayers, then became the
most murderous America hater on earth. Great work around, Oh,
got an awesome job, guys. And that's not even the
only example of USAID handing over taxpayer dollars to monstrous terrorists.
Less than a week before October seventh, you remember that
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in Israel, the agency gave nine hundred thousand dollars to
a Hamas linked charity in Gaza. Now that's a mere
drop in the bucket compared to the one hundred and
twenty two million dollars the Middle East Forum uncovered going
direct from USAID to groups aligned with designated terrorists. You
heard me correctly. I'll say it one more time, one
hundred and twenty two million dollars. So no wonder the
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agency is so desperate to avoid any real oversight. Even
Senator Joony Arst, not one of my favorite Republicans by
any means, made a point about giving money to Ukraine
being classified in about the specific ways its overall grant
money was spent going to cover so called indirect costs.
We send money to Ukraine and we don't ask what
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happens to the money after we send it there. Yeah,
that seems problematic to me.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
To be clear, some foreign aid is good use of
our taxpayer bucks. I agree. But the chainsaw approach that
Team Trump has taken, it's perfect for the time being
because we can cut all the crap out and then
we can go back one by one and find the
good stuff. The weeping, the whaling, the gnashing of teeth
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over money being spent in countries that hate us and
given to people who want us to die.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That can finally end now, person that happiness.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Jd Vance says that humans can never be replaced by AI,
and AI couldn't replace him because robots don't look good
an eyeliner.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm kidding. I'm just kidding. Relax.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Meanwhile, the FBI says it's discovered twenty four hundred more
files on the JFK assassination. They will be released as
part of Operation Distract from the Jeffrey Epps files. Apparently,
all we have to do to get the Epstein files
is get cash Ptel confirmed.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Good news. By the way, Tulsea Gabbard was confirmed today.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
If you haven't caught onto that, that's breaking news from
earlier this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Pretty great news.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And also today is Hug Day, and to be clear,
that's Hug not Tug. Deshaun Watson FYI anyway, I've been
talking about DOGE quite a bit, because how can you
not It is really interesting. In fact, one of the
things that was uncovered by Doge. One of the things
we've looked at here is how federal employee retirements are processed.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
This will shock you.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Federal employees, like anyone else, you know, they work in
their jobs until they don't have to anymore, and then
they retire and like it was, just like it was
reported at townhall dot com today, the Department of Government
Efficiency is really, in my opinion, shining a light on
the antiquated way federal employee retirements are processed.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In the digital age.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We live in a world now where you can get
paid with your bankcot digitally, federal employee retirements are processed
using paper by hand in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.
I'm gonna repeat it because I think it bears repeating.
I think that's so bizarre. I'll say it again out loud,
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say you can listen to me. Federal employee retirements are
processed using paper by hand in an old limestone mine
in Pennsylvania. Seven hundred plus mine workers operate two hundred
and thirty feet underground to process ten thousand applications per month,
which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The
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retirement process takes multiple months to retire a federal employee,
so Doge brought the unusual process into the spotlight as
an example of the need for modernization. Obviously, efforts to
automate the system have been unsuccessful for decades. If we
could improve that, we could save money and time. Time
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is always money. Must pointed this out during a press
conference in the Oval Office yesterday, and at the time
he made some great points here. For example, one of
the things which we're all trying to start to write
signe the federal bureaucracy to just make sure that this
is obviously more efficient. That's the whole point of the organization,
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that's the name of it. A lot of people working
for the federal government aren't really necessarily doing things we
need them to do. If people can retire with full benefits,
that would be good. Right, they can retire, they can
get their retirement payments. And then we're told that this
is a great anecdote because we're told the most number
of people that could retire, possibly in a month is
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ten thousand. Wait, why is that, you might wonder. Well,
as it turns out, the retirement paperwork is manually done
on paper, manually calculated. They're written down on a piece
of paper. Then it goes down a mine, Like, what
do you mean a mine? Yeah, a mine. There's a
limestone mine. We store all the retirement paperwork in there,
and you look at a picture. We post pictures of
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it afterwards online so you could see this. The mine
looks like something out of the fifties because it was
started in nineteen fifty five. So it's a time warp.
The speed the limiting factor of the mine shaft elevator.
It determines how many people can retire from federal government.
No more can retire than ten thousand a month. It's
one of the weirdest things to do. Why why is
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it like that? It's a cavern of an old Pennsylvania
limestone mine. There's six hundred employees at the Office of
Personal Manager personnel Management, and their task is not top secret.
It is a process the retirement papers of the government's
own workers. That's all they do. They process the paperwork
of the people in the government that want to retire.
That system has a spectacular flaw. It still must be
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done entirely by hand, and we've tried to fix it.
We tried to fix it back in nineteen seventy seven,
tried to do it several times. Since it never improved.
It doesn't even sound real, does it. Doge is obviously
doing a great job. But like John Hart at the
New York Post Post recently pointed out, we need to
make this stick. This can't just be a quick flash
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in the frying pan. We need to make sure Doge lasts.
In fact, I would argue every municipal government, every state government,
any department or entity of the government needs its own
personal Doge. We need somebody to regulate the regulators, We
need somebody to audit the auditors.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Keep Doge. Make it stick.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Let Musk and the taxpayers reveal what's really in the
American checkbook of our government.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Permanently. This federal judge's decision to.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Bar Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the
Treasury Department's payment system. It's probably just a temporary setback,
But why doesn't that infuriate people? Do you know anyone
that's excited about paying taxes? So we wanted to look
into what was going on at the Treasury Department, and
we were told by a judge now not look behind
the curtain. This illustrates the urgent need to secure a
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permanent win for transparency. People on the far left that
call themselves progressives, I think they're communists, and they're panicking
because their one hundred year, largely successful assault on the
American Constitution is in danger and it's about to be reversed.
Elon Musk has had a wise plan. Follow the money,
see where it goes. We have this historic opportunity here
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to mount a coup, not like you know, the kind
where we overthrow the government, but the kind where we
overthrow the cronies. Figuratively speaking, make the revolution stick. Elon
Musk could make transparency a permanent feature of our federal
government by working with Trump to establish some kind of
system where once in a while can we just can
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it be more than just ran Paul right before Christmas
airing out his grievances on social media.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I mean, imagine if.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Right before you paid your taxes, there is a news
report about what the money went towards. Imagine if right
before you went to go vote, we quickly reminded everybody
about all the things your money was spent on in
between now in the last time you voted. Call it
America's checkbook, Open the books. This concept is based on
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a fundamental belief that the money the Treasury spends is
the property of the American taxpayer. Why is that controversial?
That money belongs to we the people, not any branch
of the government, not any elected official, not Trump, certainly
not Elon Musk, and certainly not an unelective administrative state.
People like you and me. We should have the right
to review America's checkbook, see what they're writing checks for.
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Why not allow taxpayers to set up their own fraud alerts,
so their own low balance alerts flagging us when the
money from the federal government goes to a purpose we
might find objectionable. Taxpayers see our own money flaws at home.
Every dime we can look at it on our iPhones
and our androids, and on a computer screen or in
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a paper chain book. Why can't we do that with
the government infrastructure projects, cancer research, life saving humanitarian assistants,
even drag shows in Ecuador, we should be allowed to know.
To be clear, Elon Musk and the Doge recruits only
had read only access to the payment system. Despite all
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the leftist crying and all the gaslighting they did, all
Elon Musk, ever really had access to is what people
were spending money on. Never cut off social security payments
to average Americans, but we may have stopped giving money
to foreign governments and terrorists and prisoners. Giving taxpayers that
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same read only access through America's checkbook would be a
revolution in and of itself. The founding fathers wrote transparency
into the constitution. That was the point we were supposed
to be able to see what the government was up to.
It's not theoretical, it was literal. Transparency cuts through government
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like water cuts through stone. When it finds cracks, it
can wash away mighty walls of opposition. It could create
sudden and dramatic change. It can improve your life by
improving the value of the money you already have in
your savings account. Back in two thousand and six, there
was this thing called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.
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They created a website US spending dot gov. The goal
was to form an ecosystem, an ecosystem so citizen activists
like you and I could impose permanent downward pressure on spending.
What happened with that, that was a something that was
celebrated by the Tea Party back before MAGA. We need
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greater transparency. We're not asking for much here. Stop giving
the money to bad actors overseas, crowd sourcing, oversight, shift
the balance of power away from the bureaucracy and back
to the people.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And it starts now.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So this just happened in Florida. Listen to this. This
is crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
This couple in Florida was arrested for having sex in
front of a Wendy's. They were at a Wendy's restaurant.
They're going at it, performing the beast to two backs
right out there in front of the Wendy's. So the
cops showed up and they couldn't believe it. The police
officer knocked on the window. He's like, what do you
think this is RB's and yeah that you know, usually
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it's a good remind look, it's Florida. You know how
they act in Florida. They don't act right in Florida.
It's unbelievable. Hey, thanks for turning on your radio.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We live in Texas, thank God. And as a lad
of you know, in Texas we have these legislative sessions.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And we don't have them all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I remember it was a few years ago, is keeping
track of the legislative session in California because there was
one bill I was curious about passing in their state.
You know, I don't have a lot of motion invested
in the state of California, but it amazed me to
learn that in a single month, the state of California
passed over a thousand laws and the state of Texas
wasn't even in a legislative session at the time. We
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weren't passing any laws. And you know, don't get me wrong,
I actually think that's good. I think minimal government is
very important, and I know there's at least a handful
of people in our state government that probably agree with
me on that. In fact, one of them is pushing
a bill right now. Have you guys heard about one
of the things that DOGE is doing is they want
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us to quit spending money on NPR and PBS and
things like that. Why why are their NPR talk show
hosts making two hundred three hundred thousand dollars a year.
That's insanity and they're not conservative talk show hosts, as
I'm sure you could probably guess. In the state of
Texas right now, as a matter of fact, state Representative
Briscocaine is pushing a bill that's very similar to that.
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Brisco explained this to me. You'd messaged me about this recently.
We do spend money on some ridiculous stuff in the
state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This surprised me. Can you explain it?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yes, yes, but you shouldn't be that surprised. Guys, you
shouldn't be that surprised. I wish, I.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Wish we're true, but no, Texas spends too much of
your money in you or taxed too much. The problem
is is that SA incues your government spends your money
to buy subscriptions to the media that hates you.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Wait, wait, like that.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Is this like how the federal government was spending money
on Politico.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah, it's exactly like that, exactly like that, and somewhat
maybe even worse, right like Politico's this national global thing,
whereas the Texas we might have like this Texas centric
like the Austin Chronicle, which is is devoutly a liberal
rag that only focuses on Austin, probably only read in
Travis County, Texas. Right that without this, these little government
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funds probably wouldn't even exist. I mean, we were here,
we were keeping these things alive, while small local liberal
rads are dying. The Texas taxpayer I think it's keeping
afloat unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
So who do we blame for that? Why was that
happening in the first place, Well, they.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Have to blame ourselves, you know. Unique one. When we're
looking at those, especially in dcs, it kind of looks back.
I mean, it does recognize that government has grown under
both Republicans and Democrats in d C, and that's the
same for any state alike. It's a reality. But we
do know over the last four years it grew up
at an exponential rate, and there's this need in DC
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for doge now in Texas. It also means we have
to be realistical ourselves right when we talk about the
growth of government over the last let's say ten years.
And it also means my party right. It means the
legislative chamber I was a part of. It means the
governor that work with that. It signs our bills. It
means that grew under our noses. And one, one's got
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to be more.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Vigilant with it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
A lot of the stuff somehow gets snuck in.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Two.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
A lot of this stuff comes down with federal mandates.
There's a lot of kind of the high type things
that there's federal strings attached to. Thankfully, it looks like, uh,
with trunk, we're going to be cutting some of that
so the strings won't be attached. But also it means
stays you's learned to have to say.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
No, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I look dog is awesome And apparently here in Harris County,
Tom Ramsey is starting Harris County DOGE. I feel like
if there was Texas doge, it would have to be
Steve Tothan you is there any possibility something like that
could happen?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
There are discussions of that and I could say I believe,
I'll give you a hint that Katrina Pearson would also
be part of it as well.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Okay, I like here, Yeah, Katrina is great. You know,
I forgot sometimes she's there with you guys. Her and
I spoke at the Texas Liberty Convention a while back
with Rand Paul and Ron Paul and Don Haffeines, and
that's exactly the kind of people that we need looking
at what we spend money on in this state.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Hey, I want to talk to you about school choice
for a minute, Brisco. Your kids are homeschooled, are they not?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
They are homeschooled, yes, yes, they're okay.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
So school choice seem to do just fine in the
Senate last year, which as you know, is always the case, right,
and then when it gets to the House, there's obstacles.
There's people that don't want it. They claim they want it,
they don't actually want it. One of the criticisms I
hear from people that are hesitant to resistance to school
choices that it won't be good for homeschool kids.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You have homeschool kids.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
In your like you have like what do you have
like forty kids or something like that you have a
big family, and yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I just have I just have five sons. My wife
if you count me, has six.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But yeah, yeah, okay, fair pointed Brisco. So okay, fine,
that's gonna.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Be so confused.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
People are gonna be like, she has a child. No, No,
I'm the kids.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I think most people. I thought it was a good joke.
I think most people are going to get it. But Brisco,
you obviously you care about home schooling, you care about
school choice. Why are homeschool people resistant to this or
are they Is that just that?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Then people say, yeah, yeah, you know, I'll be I'll
be careful with that one.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think many of them are well intentioned. There's a
desire of not trusting government, and that's a great position
to begin with. And that's usually where I am. So
that's always where I'm at, right, So when I see
a bill, I start with a no, and I have
to be convinced with of why yes. Sadly, most of
my counterparts are always say yes, you need to be
told why they need to be against the right. So
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I always begin with not trusting government, or the question
is should the government blank? The answer usually is no, right,
I understand it. They're concerns though is kind of finny.
It's paternalistic. They are if you do it, the government
will regulate you. Okay, well, then don't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Like one.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I don't think that's true. And the bill is not
going to regular homeschoolers, but pretend if it did well,
then don't don't participate. It's right, And so if we're
so like anti government controlled, then allow people to make
these decisions for themselves. Now primarily though it doesn't do
that at all, well, not regular homeschoolers period. And I
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wouldn't vote for a bill it did right.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Okay, So last time around when there was a school
choice bill up for grabs, While it offered school choice
and vouchers and things like that, it also actually increased
spending in public schools. It was supposed to help increase
the salaries of teachers. If I'm not mistaken, it really
gave liberal Democrats everything they wanted. All we asked in
return was let people decide how they educate their kids
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and where the money goes towards Democrats still voted no
on it, and a lot of moderate Republicans did too.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You don't see that happening this time no.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I think the Democrats, of course, are still going to
vote no on it. Now, thankfully the bill is going
to be separated from school finance. I was very unhappy
about that then as well. I didn't want to support
some of the spending increases that they were too much
without any accountability metrics, that we just continued through money
to problem. I mean, if you ask the liberal they
say we need more money, and you say how much
is enough and they say just more, It's never enough.
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So no, we're not going to be supporting the teachers
unions in this prospect. But but there's some Republicans that
have woken up to the idea that this needs to happen.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
You know, they may still be lord of their teacher
union friends, but at least they've come to grips that
the people of Texas are going to get what they want.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Okay, let's talk about before we run out of time,
your property tax relief. I know there are new ideas
being proposed, anything that you think could pass that could
actually help us save some money when we go to
pay our mortgages.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Man, that's a that's the point of one.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Well, let's be real.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
We can keep increasing the homestead exemption, and that is
some temporary.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Relief, but eventually those.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Those rates continue to climb right at the appraisals. The
only the only solution is really either completely reform it.
We either completely abolish M and O. That's cool, maintensince
operation taxes. That's about forty eight to fifty percent of
your taxes at least in Texas for those Texas crowds listening.
So the real issue is the local government with spending.
Spending is directly correlated with taxation. I'm going to build
it would restrain spending to population plus inflation, something the
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state of Texas already does itself. They shouldn't be spending
more than they're taking in. Of course, that's logical, and
the odds of that happening is splend to none. Sadly,
many of my colleagues used to be mayors and commissioners
and things, and they're more than happy to protect those
little local feet somes that overtax the people of Texas.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Frisco, I'm going to leave you with us. I like you,
Ian Sara, and I'm going to leave you with this thought.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
My man.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I know you and I haven't always agreed on everything.
In the past.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
But at this point and where we're at with the
history of Texas politics and stuff, I think you're on
the right side of every fight. I'm glad you got reelected.
How are you doing otherwise? Has everything gone with you
in the family?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, guys, you know, I'll ask for this one. You're praying, folks,
be praying for the good guys, and even pray for
the bad guys. Pray for my friends here in this
legislature that frankly just don't know the Lord, and some
of those maybe fall, and gosh, even pray for me
that I'd be gracious towards those that I disagree with.
I recognize him up here for this fight, and sometimes
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they make it all about me. But I do ultimately
realize that the only way that America will return to
its former glory and be free and prosperous again is
that we return to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Brother, you picked the right audience to make that statement.
I love that is Jean wu and you have had
your differences in the past, and now he's basically the
leader of the Democrats in the House. Is that kind
of awkward seeing him in the State capital cafeteria.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
It's not awkward at all. What's funny is on Twitter,
we all assume this guy's an idiot guin, he plays
a really good one, but he's a whole lot smarter
than you realize. Leader or not, he is a competent politician.
What it does prove those it shows just how exactly
far left the Democrat caucus is that their leader.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Is Jean wu.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
He's a very competent progressive liberal. But that's how progressive
that entire caucus is.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I will give him credit for one thing somebody was
asking recently on social media. I don't remember quite how
they phrased it, as like, don't you think we should
in prison or attack all the Republicans or they made
some crazy hyperbolic statement. And his response was no, I
think we need to tone down the rhetoric right now.
It's getting a little too out of control. And I thought,
you know, that was a very reasonable thing for him
to say. It almost made me wonder if someone stole
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his phone and wrote the tweet for him.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
M yeah, well, next time to Daskin and blink twice.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
All right, stay ret brisko, okay, and we appreciate your time. Brother.
Follow him on x.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Happiness.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And why didn't you know it? At eight six six?
I love WJ calling in on the line right now.
He is a West Point graduate, an Army helicopter pilot.
He is a MAGA lawmaker. He was the first guy
to endorse Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four presidential election.
Side ladies and gentlemen, Congressman Wesley Hunt on the line
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right now.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Are you doing, brother? Good morning to you think of
having me on?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Kenny forgot to say? And my best friends? Oh yeah,
I'm my best friend Wesley. That's more like it.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
We are brothers from another man.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Look, there's not a lot of people in politics who
I like, especially around here, but there's a couple that
are really good and one person I think that has
done an awesome job since getting in office is Wesley.
A few minutes ago, one of the guys on Wesley's team,
who happened to be my buddies who I drink beer
with sometimes.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're good friends.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Texted me and said Wesley had something he wanted to
tell everybody around the Gulf Coast in the South, and
you know what, We're on twenty radio stations. We just
added Dallas Fort Worth and I said we would be
happy to share the airwaves with brother Hunt.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Can I guess what it is? Well, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
What do you think about Wesley Hunt is going to
challenge kid Rock to a fight over Lauren Bobert.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't think that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
But I'm not going to do that. I'm not gonna
do that. I am happiley, berried with three beautiful children.
So that those days for me are over. I've been
over for quite some time. Let's get down the records.
Those days for me are over, I say again, over
and over. And did I mention it? Did I mention
those days for me?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Over?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yesh?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And Wesley's wife is a babe, and he's got three kids,
and I think he gets along with Lauren and kid Rocks.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I expect, Billy. That's probably not what it is. It
was just a shot.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Lauren is actually Lauren is actually a good friend of
Mine's hilarious.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
So instead of us guessing, why don't we just allow
him time to say what it was he wanted to
share with us.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Hello, I I want the world to know. And I've
been really basically for the last for eight hours telling
all my friends that to the south of us, that large,
beautiful body of water is no longer the Gulf of Mexico.
It is the Gulf of America. And it's just it
has such a nice ring to it that I hope
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it stays that way forever. What a brilliant move to
change the name of the Golf of Mexico to the
Golf of America. And it's actually Google official. I'm not
sure if Apple wrapped their heads around it yet and
around those libs, but I do know for a fact
that Google made it official, and I am so proud
of this bro.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It is pretty rad, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Noo?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And I don't understand why this is controversial. I mean,
we're very powerful country. We isn't one quarter of Mexico's
economy just stuff they get from uside, Why shouldn't it
be called the Gulf of America.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yeah, And that along with with with the ambition of
taking back to Panama Canal, given just how much commerce
runs through that that's directly and directly and tangentially affiliated
with the United States, and actually realizing how important that
is from a strategic standpoint, from national security standpoint, and
just having the guts, in the intestinal fortitude to do
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the right thing for the American people is the definition
of America. First. I'm sitting here in DC right now.
I'm loving every second of it. And when I watch
these lives have these meltdowns, that's how I know that
we are literally right over the target zone.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's you know, you're right well speaking of I think
that's a great segue to this. Yeah, for those who
don't know Lesleye, Like I said, army veteran West Point graduate,
a war hero, the guy knows a lot about foreign policy.
And since Trump took office three weeks ago, we've already
gotten ten hostages to come home. The latest one is
this guy, Mark Fogel, was abandoned in Russia basically for
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the same reason as Britney Griner, low level of marijuana
in Russia. How is it that we traded the Merchant
of Death for Britney Griner, but we didn't get Mark
Fogel in that trade?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You know, you know what, I think it's hilarious. Even
during during the Britney Grinder trade, a lot of people
were saying, Wow, I don't know where President Trump would
have done to get them back. And we had to
chair with the trade for the Merchant of Death and
then and the third and I was like, you know what,
I bet President Trump would have gotten Britney Grinder back
for like for like a pack of Miller lighte and
like in like some new Ports, you know, a pack
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of Newports, because he would have just said, he would
have just said, we are America. She is an American.
This is not how we roll give her back. And
that's essentially what he has done for the last ten hostages.
And I made a bold prediction a few months ago.
I don't think it was all that bold. I think
it was pretty obvious. But I've been saying on the
stump for the last two years that when President Trumps
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gets back in charge, watch how fast the world straightens up.
And people kept asking his question, well, how is he
going to do that? How's it going to do that?
The definition of peace through strength. People are not going
to want to mess with us for the next four years.
And the biggest challenge for us as a party is
not going to be how we are when President Trump
is in charge for the next four years, because he's
clearly going to take care of business. My concern is
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what happens after that, interest rate that we codify a
lot of this mentality and codify a lot of this
will and to the very fabric of the United States
moving forward to that we never have to go back
to this woke bs again.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
All right, I like playing.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Some people have said this is like the wait kids
act when they've got a babysitter and then.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Mom and dad came back home after four years, mommy
and dad return.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Or the way you know, substitute teacher versus the real toucher.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're right, you got the right guy.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
And now, all right, Congressman Hunt to tell me this.
Some some wild stuff is happening today. They say Tulci
Gabbard could get confirmed in the Senate, but meanwhile in
the House, and I know you've been a huge advocate
for this, the Doge subcommittee is meeting. Marjorie Taylor Greene
is involved. Obviously, people think she's controversial. But another person
attending that that subcommittee meeting, Jasmine Crockett, a lawmaker from
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the Dallas Fort Worth area, who I'm not mistaken, recently
accused you of being a white guy which which if
I'm not mistaken, you're not. I just wonder what any
predictions on what's going to happen at that subcommittee hearing today.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I mean, that's got to be wild. Those two women
hate each other, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
And I'm a I'm a W W E fan and
the world rubble is coming. But I got a feeling
this is a going to be the precursor to the
Royal rumble. This is gonna be Monday night, all real quickly.
I can tell you that, you know, I think I
will tell you this, guys, and I'm gonna be honest
with you about how I feel about more committees and
more committees up here. We have more committees that you
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could throw a stick at. In fact, we need more
committees like we need a hole in our head. We
need to just execute and Essex and I get back
to President Trump, you know, rather not. We have a
Doage Committee and House of Representatives. Look, bottom line is this.
We know as cr is coming, we know an omnibus
is coming. We'll see what happens with reconciliation. But at
the end of the day, President Trump knows that that
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that that leadership on our side right now with a
two seat majority probably isn't going to get too much done.
That's why we're making up more committees to make it
look like we're doing something up here when essentially we're not.
President Trump understands that, and that's why you saw Elon
Musk yesterday in the White House getting stuff done, actually
cutting spending at the executive level, actually going going through
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line by line and getting rid of the government blow
essentially doing our jobs for us because he knows that
we're not going to do it. And we have not
voted on the single individual appropriations bill in the last
three weeks, and we're supposed to be up here three
weeks out of each month. We have not voted for
a single one. So I understand the theatrics and how
much fun is going to be to watch to watch
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the rematch between Marjorie and Old Jazz, But at the
end of the day, we should be getting something done
for the American people.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Amen, Thank you, sir. I wish more people up there
would feel that way.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
One of my one more question, one of my favorite
power couples in Houston is a pediatric nurse practitioner, Emily
Hunt and Congressman Wesley Hunt, and I know that Friday,
love is in the air, romance is a bloom, and
what any plans for you and the lady?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Don't boil the surprises. I don't know if she's listening.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Can I I hope she's not listening, you know. I
try my best to be as sweet as I can
to my forever Valentine. And I have a little surprise
for her, but I can't say it because she actually
does listen to the show, watches our eclips. But I
just want to say, Honey, I love you.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I gotta tell you there's a lot of people in
politics that make me very suspicious. I personally know Wesley.
I've known him for years. The website is Wesley for
Texas dot com. If you can make a donation, if
you want to volunteer. They're always looking for people for
the street Team in and around the country, especially throughout
the South. Wesley, thank you so much for your time
this morning, Congressman.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Hunt was a pleasure. Brother. I'll see you back in Houston. Man,
Thank you, my man.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Apparently McDonald's is bringing back the Shamrock Shake. They did
a focused group test on it and I guess it
tested better than their other Saint Patrick's stage tribute, the
Filao Leprechaun. There's awful. There's just awful. That's a terrible
(00:46):
way to start the show. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster, and uh,
that's kind of what I do. Thanks for Thanks for
turning on your radio. You know who's gonna be here
this afternoon. Interestingly enough, State Representative brist Cocaine Briscocaine and
I Briscoe has been on the show any times in
the past, and as some of you know, back in
the summer of twenty twenty three, Briscoe and I had
a big, massive, I don't know if i'd call it
(01:09):
a few disagreement over the Ken Paxton impeachment. And a
lot's changed since they that was a year and a
half ago. Can you believe that a lot has happened
since then, I want to talk I'm going to talk
to brisk o'caine today about life in Austin, Texas since
that happened, and what's going on now with this latest
legislative session. I will say this, I've never I've never
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tried to disguise or hide the fact that I disagreed with.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Him on that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But I don't know if there's anything else I've ever
disagreed with him on any other vote. I mean, I
could cherry pick a thing or two here, but that
would be the one big thing. Now Briscocaine is connected
to some bills that we really want to pass right now,
property tax relief, the funding of liberal news media, Gulf
of America being renamed. I love that one. And then
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school choice. That's a big one. Is it just passed
the Senate. And you know, maybe you guys like Briscoe,
maybe you don't, but I will say this, I don't
think there's anybody in the Texas House that has pushed
as hard as for school choice as Briscoe.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Kane has, or Steve Toath for that matter.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But you know, those two guys are pretty closely aligned
with each other, kind of like Ram Paul and Mike Lee.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But we'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And also, if you missed it this morning, I'm going
to replace some of the Wesley Hunt Congressman Wesley Hunt
interview that we had this morning on the Walton Johnson Show.
If you missed it, stick around for that. But before
we get to anything, can we talk about that nutty
anti doughe rally with the government bureaucrats earlier this week?
This was just comical that it was embarrassing. A bunch
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of old, geriatric Democrats got together to protest the fact
that we were gonna save the taxpayer's money and they
have this Well, what you're hearing in the background, I'm sorry,
that's a audio.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Another live event as we are taking a look out
of a Washington, d c. As Democrats are protesting the
Department of Government Efficiency that's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Day with them.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Okay, now, okay, that was on. That's the liberals out
protesting against Doachs. So as comical as it was to
look at, it's also pretty funny to listen to. Let
me give you an example. Here's a bunch of old
hippies singing about how much they hate Doach.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Whoo, which side are you on? America? Which side are
you on?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Me?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Which side are you on? We'll fight against jog. We're fine,
no landscap within our walls.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Will fight from dawn to dusk. The lyrics are on
the screen. I which side are you? I'm on the
America side. I'm on the side where I don't want
the dollar to keep decreasing in value. I'd like to
see things like gasoline and clothing and you know, healthcare, medicine,
that sort of thing become more affordable. And that simply
cannot happen when we keep printing out money with no
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backing and spending it on absurd, ridiculous things. So there's
some thoughts here to consider when it comes to DOGE.
Maybe you don't like everything that we're cutting and reducing
spending on. Maybe there's some things you'd like us to
spend money on, but the vast majority of it is
comically ridiculous, just absurd. And so, in order to express
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their point, a bunch of liberal policymakers and activists got
together yesterday. These just old people, people in their seventies
and eighties, swearing into a microphone to try to appeal
to young voters.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's not working, right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
How do you convince people we need to spend more
money on college for terrorists? That's just one of the
USAID funding follies. New York Post reported on how one
more reason to tune out the histrionic whining over USAID.
A recently resurfaced record reportedly shows we paid for on
war out Alwaukee. Yes, that's al Alwaukee, the terrorist preacher
(05:04):
and suspected al Kainda recruiter, rightly droned by the Obama
administration to attend Colorado State University when he was a
student in the nineties. How did Alwaukee get this plump
grant by lying about his birthplace and saying he was
from Yemen. You'd think that the experts in charge of
handing out USAID big Bucks might have, you know, demanded
(05:25):
some proof. But also, why do we have to pay
for college for people from Yemen? They didn't look into
this at all. This is a classic example of liberal racism.
By the way, someone with a foreign sounding name like
Alwaukee couldn't possibly be American, so they figured out he
must be a foreigner. Let's give him free college. And
why do we give free college to foreigners. So this
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radical in waiting committed an easily detectable fraud, stole a
bunch of money from hard working taxpayers, then became the
most murderous America hater on earth. Great work around, Oh,
got an awesome job, guys. And that's not even the
only example of USAID handing over taxpayer dollars to monstrous terrorists.
Less than a week before October seventh, you remember that
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in Israel, the agency gave nine hundred thousand dollars to
a Hamas linked charity in Gaza. Now that's a mere
drop in the bucket compared to the one hundred and
twenty two million dollars the Middle East Forum uncovered going
direct from USAID to groups aligned with designated terrorists. You
heard me correctly. I'll say it one more time, one
hundred and twenty two million dollars. So no wonder the
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agency is so desperate to avoid any real oversight. Even
Senator Joony Arst, not one of my favorite Republicans by
any means, made a point about giving money to Ukraine
being classified in about the specific ways its overall grant
money was spent going to cover so called indirect costs.
We send money to Ukraine and we don't ask what
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happens to the money after we send it there. Yeah,
that seems problematic to me.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
To be clear, some foreign aid is good use of
our taxpayer bucks. I agree. But the chainsaw approach that
Team Trump has taken, it's perfect for the time being
because we can cut all the crap out and then
we can go back one by one and find the
good stuff. The weeping, the whaling, the gnashing of teeth
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over money being spent in countries that hate us and
given to people who want us to die.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That can finally end now, person that happiness.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Jd Vance says that humans can never be replaced by AI,
and AI couldn't replace him because robots don't look good
an eyeliner.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm kidding. I'm just kidding. Relax.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Meanwhile, the FBI says it's discovered twenty four hundred more
files on the JFK assassination. They will be released as
part of Operation Distract from the Jeffrey Epps files. Apparently,
all we have to do to get the Epstein files
is get cash Ptel confirmed.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Good news. By the way, Tulsea Gabbard was confirmed today.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
If you haven't caught onto that, that's breaking news from
earlier this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Pretty great news.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And also today is Hug Day, and to be clear,
that's Hug not Tug. Deshaun Watson FYI anyway, I've been
talking about DOGE quite a bit, because how can you
not It is really interesting. In fact, one of the
things that was uncovered by Doge. One of the things
we've looked at here is how federal employee retirements are processed.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
This will shock you.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Federal employees, like anyone else, you know, they work in
their jobs until they don't have to anymore, and then
they retire and like it was, just like it was
reported at townhall dot com today, the Department of Government
Efficiency is really, in my opinion, shining a light on
the antiquated way federal employee retirements are processed.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In the digital age.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We live in a world now where you can get
paid with your bankcot digitally, federal employee retirements are processed
using paper by hand in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.
I'm gonna repeat it because I think it bears repeating.
I think that's so bizarre. I'll say it again out loud,
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say you can listen to me. Federal employee retirements are
processed using paper by hand in an old limestone mine
in Pennsylvania. Seven hundred plus mine workers operate two hundred
and thirty feet underground to process ten thousand applications per month,
which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The
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retirement process takes multiple months to retire a federal employee,
so Doge brought the unusual process into the spotlight as
an example of the need for modernization. Obviously, efforts to
automate the system have been unsuccessful for decades. If we
could improve that, we could save money and time. Time
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is always money. Must pointed this out during a press
conference in the Oval Office yesterday, and at the time
he made some great points here. For example, one of
the things which we're all trying to start to write
signe the federal bureaucracy to just make sure that this
is obviously more efficient. That's the whole point of the organization,
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that's the name of it. A lot of people working
for the federal government aren't really necessarily doing things we
need them to do. If people can retire with full benefits,
that would be good. Right, they can retire, they can
get their retirement payments. And then we're told that this
is a great anecdote because we're told the most number
of people that could retire, possibly in a month is
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ten thousand. Wait, why is that, you might wonder. Well,
as it turns out, the retirement paperwork is manually done
on paper, manually calculated. They're written down on a piece
of paper. Then it goes down a mine, Like, what
do you mean a mine? Yeah, a mine. There's a
limestone mine. We store all the retirement paperwork in there,
and you look at a picture. We post pictures of
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it afterwards online so you could see this. The mine
looks like something out of the fifties because it was
started in nineteen fifty five. So it's a time warp.
The speed the limiting factor of the mine shaft elevator.
It determines how many people can retire from federal government.
No more can retire than ten thousand a month. It's
one of the weirdest things to do. Why why is
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it like that? It's a cavern of an old Pennsylvania
limestone mine. There's six hundred employees at the Office of
Personal Manager personnel Management, and their task is not top secret.
It is a process the retirement papers of the government's
own workers. That's all they do. They process the paperwork
of the people in the government that want to retire.
That system has a spectacular flaw. It still must be
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done entirely by hand, and we've tried to fix it.
We tried to fix it back in nineteen seventy seven,
tried to do it several times. Since it never improved.
It doesn't even sound real, does it. Doge is obviously
doing a great job. But like John Hart at the
New York Post Post recently pointed out, we need to
make this stick. This can't just be a quick flash
(12:12):
in the frying pan. We need to make sure Doge lasts.
In fact, I would argue every municipal government, every state government,
any department or entity of the government needs its own
personal Doge. We need somebody to regulate the regulators, We
need somebody to audit the auditors.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Keep Doge. Make it stick.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Let Musk and the taxpayers reveal what's really in the
American checkbook of our government.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Permanently. This federal judge's decision to.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Bar Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the
Treasury Department's payment system. It's probably just a temporary setback,
But why doesn't that infuriate people? Do you know anyone
that's excited about paying taxes? So we wanted to look
into what was going on at the Treasury Department, and
we were told by a judge now not look behind
the curtain. This illustrates the urgent need to secure a
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permanent win for transparency. People on the far left that
call themselves progressives, I think they're communists, and they're panicking
because their one hundred year, largely successful assault on the
American Constitution is in danger and it's about to be reversed.
Elon Musk has had a wise plan. Follow the money,
see where it goes. We have this historic opportunity here
(13:25):
to mount a coup, not like you know, the kind
where we overthrow the government, but the kind where we
overthrow the cronies. Figuratively speaking, make the revolution stick. Elon
Musk could make transparency a permanent feature of our federal
government by working with Trump to establish some kind of
system where once in a while can we just can
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it be more than just ran Paul right before Christmas
airing out his grievances on social media.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I mean, imagine if.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Right before you paid your taxes, there is a news
report about what the money went towards. Imagine if right
before you went to go vote, we quickly reminded everybody
about all the things your money was spent on in
between now in the last time you voted. Call it
America's checkbook, Open the books. This concept is based on
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a fundamental belief that the money the Treasury spends is
the property of the American taxpayer. Why is that controversial?
That money belongs to we the people, not any branch
of the government, not any elected official, not Trump, certainly
not Elon Musk, and certainly not an unelective administrative state.
People like you and me. We should have the right
to review America's checkbook, see what they're writing checks for.
(14:38):
Why not allow taxpayers to set up their own fraud alerts,
so their own low balance alerts flagging us when the
money from the federal government goes to a purpose we
might find objectionable. Taxpayers see our own money flaws at home.
Every dime we can look at it on our iPhones
and our androids, and on a computer screen or in
(14:59):
a paper chain book. Why can't we do that with
the government infrastructure projects, cancer research, life saving humanitarian assistants,
even drag shows in Ecuador, we should be allowed to know.
To be clear, Elon Musk and the Doge recruits only
had read only access to the payment system. Despite all
(15:20):
the leftist crying and all the gaslighting they did, all
Elon Musk, ever really had access to is what people
were spending money on. Never cut off social security payments
to average Americans, but we may have stopped giving money
to foreign governments and terrorists and prisoners. Giving taxpayers that
(15:42):
same read only access through America's checkbook would be a
revolution in and of itself. The founding fathers wrote transparency
into the constitution. That was the point we were supposed
to be able to see what the government was up to.
It's not theoretical, it was literal. Transparency cuts through government
(16:02):
like water cuts through stone. When it finds cracks, it
can wash away mighty walls of opposition. It could create
sudden and dramatic change. It can improve your life by
improving the value of the money you already have in
your savings account. Back in two thousand and six, there
was this thing called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.
(16:24):
They created a website US spending dot gov. The goal
was to form an ecosystem, an ecosystem so citizen activists
like you and I could impose permanent downward pressure on spending.
What happened with that, that was a something that was
celebrated by the Tea Party back before MAGA. We need
(16:49):
greater transparency. We're not asking for much here. Stop giving
the money to bad actors overseas, crowd sourcing, oversight, shift
the balance of power away from the bureaucracy and back
to the people.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And it starts now.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So this just happened in Florida. Listen to this. This
is crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
This couple in Florida was arrested for having sex in
front of a Wendy's. They were at a Wendy's restaurant.
They're going at it, performing the beast to two backs
right out there in front of the Wendy's. So the
cops showed up and they couldn't believe it. The police
officer knocked on the window. He's like, what do you
think this is RB's and yeah that you know, usually
(17:45):
it's a good remind look, it's Florida. You know how
they act in Florida. They don't act right in Florida.
It's unbelievable. Hey, thanks for turning on your radio.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We live in Texas, thank God. And as a lad
of you know, in Texas we have these legislative sessions.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And we don't have them all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I remember it was a few years ago, is keeping
track of the legislative session in California because there was
one bill I was curious about passing in their state.
You know, I don't have a lot of motion invested
in the state of California, but it amazed me to
learn that in a single month, the state of California
passed over a thousand laws and the state of Texas
wasn't even in a legislative session at the time. We
(18:20):
weren't passing any laws. And you know, don't get me wrong,
I actually think that's good. I think minimal government is
very important, and I know there's at least a handful
of people in our state government that probably agree with
me on that. In fact, one of them is pushing
a bill right now. Have you guys heard about one
of the things that DOGE is doing is they want
(18:40):
us to quit spending money on NPR and PBS and
things like that. Why why are their NPR talk show
hosts making two hundred three hundred thousand dollars a year.
That's insanity and they're not conservative talk show hosts, as
I'm sure you could probably guess. In the state of
Texas right now, as a matter of fact, state Representative
Briscocaine is pushing a bill that's very similar to that.
(19:01):
Brisco explained this to me. You'd messaged me about this recently.
We do spend money on some ridiculous stuff in the
state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This surprised me. Can you explain it?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yes, yes, but you shouldn't be that surprised. Guys, you
shouldn't be that surprised. I wish, I.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Wish we're true, but no, Texas spends too much of
your money in you or taxed too much. The problem
is is that SA incues your government spends your money
to buy subscriptions to the media that hates you.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Wait, wait, like that.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Is this like how the federal government was spending money
on Politico.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah, it's exactly like that, exactly like that, and somewhat
maybe even worse, right like Politico's this national global thing,
whereas the Texas we might have like this Texas centric
like the Austin Chronicle, which is is devoutly a liberal
rag that only focuses on Austin, probably only read in
Travis County, Texas. Right that without this, these little government
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funds probably wouldn't even exist. I mean, we were here,
we were keeping these things alive, while small local liberal
rads are dying. The Texas taxpayer I think it's keeping
afloat unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
So who do we blame for that? Why was that
happening in the first place, Well, they.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Have to blame ourselves, you know. Unique one. When we're
looking at those, especially in dcs, it kind of looks back.
I mean, it does recognize that government has grown under
both Republicans and Democrats in d C, and that's the
same for any state alike. It's a reality. But we
do know over the last four years it grew up
at an exponential rate, and there's this need in DC
(20:43):
for doge now in Texas. It also means we have
to be realistical ourselves right when we talk about the
growth of government over the last let's say ten years.
And it also means my party right. It means the
legislative chamber I was a part of. It means the
governor that work with that. It signs our bills. It
means that grew under our noses. And one, one's got
(21:05):
to be more.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Vigilant with it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
A lot of the stuff somehow gets snuck in.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Two.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
A lot of this stuff comes down with federal mandates.
There's a lot of kind of the high type things
that there's federal strings attached to. Thankfully, it looks like, uh,
with trunk, we're going to be cutting some of that
so the strings won't be attached. But also it means
stays you's learned to have to say.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
No, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I look dog is awesome And apparently here in Harris County,
Tom Ramsey is starting Harris County DOGE. I feel like
if there was Texas doge, it would have to be
Steve Tothan you is there any possibility something like that
could happen?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
There are discussions of that and I could say I believe,
I'll give you a hint that Katrina Pearson would also
be part of it as well.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Okay, I like here, Yeah, Katrina is great. You know,
I forgot sometimes she's there with you guys. Her and
I spoke at the Texas Liberty Convention a while back
with Rand Paul and Ron Paul and Don Haffeines, and
that's exactly the kind of people that we need looking
at what we spend money on in this state.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Hey, I want to talk to you about school choice
for a minute, Brisco. Your kids are homeschooled, are they not?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
They are homeschooled, yes, yes, they're okay.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
So school choice seem to do just fine in the
Senate last year, which as you know, is always the case, right,
and then when it gets to the House, there's obstacles.
There's people that don't want it. They claim they want it,
they don't actually want it. One of the criticisms I
hear from people that are hesitant to resistance to school
choices that it won't be good for homeschool kids.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You have homeschool kids.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
In your like you have like what do you have
like forty kids or something like that you have a
big family, and yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I just have I just have five sons. My wife
if you count me, has six.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But yeah, yeah, okay, fair pointed Brisco. So okay, fine,
that's gonna.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Be so confused.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
People are gonna be like, she has a child. No, No,
I'm the kids.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I think most people. I thought it was a good joke.
I think most people are going to get it. But Brisco,
you obviously you care about home schooling, you care about
school choice. Why are homeschool people resistant to this or
are they Is that just that?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Then people say, yeah, yeah, you know, I'll be I'll
be careful with that one.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think many of them are well intentioned. There's a
desire of not trusting government, and that's a great position
to begin with. And that's usually where I am. So
that's always where I'm at, right, So when I see
a bill, I start with a no, and I have
to be convinced with of why yes. Sadly, most of
my counterparts are always say yes, you need to be
told why they need to be against the right. So
(23:32):
I always begin with not trusting government, or the question
is should the government blank? The answer usually is no, right,
I understand it. They're concerns though is kind of finny.
It's paternalistic. They are if you do it, the government
will regulate you. Okay, well, then don't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Like one.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I don't think that's true. And the bill is not
going to regular homeschoolers, but pretend if it did well,
then don't don't participate. It's right, And so if we're
so like anti government controlled, then allow people to make
these decisions for themselves. Now primarily though it doesn't do
that at all, well, not regular homeschoolers period. And I
(24:11):
wouldn't vote for a bill it did right.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Okay, So last time around when there was a school
choice bill up for grabs, While it offered school choice
and vouchers and things like that, it also actually increased
spending in public schools. It was supposed to help increase
the salaries of teachers. If I'm not mistaken, it really
gave liberal Democrats everything they wanted. All we asked in
return was let people decide how they educate their kids
(24:36):
and where the money goes towards Democrats still voted no
on it, and a lot of moderate Republicans did too.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You don't see that happening this time no.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I think the Democrats, of course, are still going to
vote no on it. Now, thankfully the bill is going
to be separated from school finance. I was very unhappy
about that then as well. I didn't want to support
some of the spending increases that they were too much
without any accountability metrics, that we just continued through money
to problem. I mean, if you ask the liberal they
say we need more money, and you say how much
is enough and they say just more, It's never enough.
(25:07):
So no, we're not going to be supporting the teachers
unions in this prospect. But but there's some Republicans that
have woken up to the idea that this needs to happen.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
You know, they may still be lord of their teacher
union friends, but at least they've come to grips that
the people of Texas are going to get what they want.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Okay, let's talk about before we run out of time,
your property tax relief. I know there are new ideas
being proposed, anything that you think could pass that could
actually help us save some money when we go to
pay our mortgages.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Man, that's a that's the point of one.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Well, let's be real.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
We can keep increasing the homestead exemption, and that is
some temporary.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Relief, but eventually those.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Those rates continue to climb right at the appraisals. The
only the only solution is really either completely reform it.
We either completely abolish M and O. That's cool, maintensince
operation taxes. That's about forty eight to fifty percent of
your taxes at least in Texas for those Texas crowds listening.
So the real issue is the local government with spending.
Spending is directly correlated with taxation. I'm going to build
it would restrain spending to population plus inflation, something the
(26:09):
state of Texas already does itself. They shouldn't be spending
more than they're taking in. Of course, that's logical, and
the odds of that happening is splend to none. Sadly,
many of my colleagues used to be mayors and commissioners
and things, and they're more than happy to protect those
little local feet somes that overtax the people of Texas.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Frisco, I'm going to leave you with us. I like you,
Ian Sara, and I'm going to leave you with this thought.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
My man.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I know you and I haven't always agreed on everything.
In the past.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
But at this point and where we're at with the
history of Texas politics and stuff, I think you're on
the right side of every fight. I'm glad you got reelected.
How are you doing otherwise? Has everything gone with you
in the family?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, guys, you know, I'll ask for this one. You're praying, folks,
be praying for the good guys, and even pray for
the bad guys. Pray for my friends here in this
legislature that frankly just don't know the Lord, and some
of those maybe fall, and gosh, even pray for me
that I'd be gracious towards those that I disagree with.
I recognize him up here for this fight, and sometimes
(27:08):
they make it all about me. But I do ultimately
realize that the only way that America will return to
its former glory and be free and prosperous again is
that we return to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Brother, you picked the right audience to make that statement.
I love that is Jean wu and you have had
your differences in the past, and now he's basically the
leader of the Democrats in the House. Is that kind
of awkward seeing him in the State capital cafeteria.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
It's not awkward at all. What's funny is on Twitter,
we all assume this guy's an idiot guin, he plays
a really good one, but he's a whole lot smarter
than you realize. Leader or not, he is a competent politician.
What it does prove those it shows just how exactly
far left the Democrat caucus is that their leader.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Is Jean wu.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
He's a very competent progressive liberal. But that's how progressive
that entire caucus is.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I will give him credit for one thing somebody was
asking recently on social media. I don't remember quite how
they phrased it, as like, don't you think we should
in prison or attack all the Republicans or they made
some crazy hyperbolic statement. And his response was no, I
think we need to tone down the rhetoric right now.
It's getting a little too out of control. And I thought,
you know, that was a very reasonable thing for him
to say. It almost made me wonder if someone stole
(28:20):
his phone and wrote the tweet for him.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
M yeah, well, next time to Daskin and blink twice.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
All right, stay ret brisko, okay, and we appreciate your time. Brother.
Follow him on x.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Happiness.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And why didn't you know it? At eight six six?
I love WJ calling in on the line right now.
He is a West Point graduate, an Army helicopter pilot.
He is a MAGA lawmaker. He was the first guy
to endorse Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four presidential election.
Side ladies and gentlemen, Congressman Wesley Hunt on the line
(29:03):
right now.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Are you doing, brother? Good morning to you think of
having me on?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Kenny forgot to say? And my best friends? Oh yeah,
I'm my best friend Wesley. That's more like it.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
We are brothers from another man.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Look, there's not a lot of people in politics who
I like, especially around here, but there's a couple that
are really good and one person I think that has
done an awesome job since getting in office is Wesley.
A few minutes ago, one of the guys on Wesley's team,
who happened to be my buddies who I drink beer
with sometimes.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're good friends.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Texted me and said Wesley had something he wanted to
tell everybody around the Gulf Coast in the South, and
you know what, We're on twenty radio stations. We just
added Dallas Fort Worth and I said we would be
happy to share the airwaves with brother Hunt.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Can I guess what it is? Well, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
What do you think about Wesley Hunt is going to
challenge kid Rock to a fight over Lauren Bobert.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't think that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
But I'm not going to do that. I'm not gonna
do that. I am happiley, berried with three beautiful children.
So that those days for me are over. I've been
over for quite some time. Let's get down the records.
Those days for me are over, I say again, over
and over. And did I mention it? Did I mention
those days for me?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Over?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yesh?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And Wesley's wife is a babe, and he's got three kids,
and I think he gets along with Lauren and kid Rocks.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I expect, Billy. That's probably not what it is. It
was just a shot.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Lauren is actually Lauren is actually a good friend of
Mine's hilarious.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
So instead of us guessing, why don't we just allow
him time to say what it was he wanted to
share with us.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Hello, I I want the world to know. And I've
been really basically for the last for eight hours telling
all my friends that to the south of us, that large,
beautiful body of water is no longer the Gulf of Mexico.
It is the Gulf of America. And it's just it
has such a nice ring to it that I hope
(30:57):
it stays that way forever. What a brilliant move to
change the name of the Golf of Mexico to the
Golf of America. And it's actually Google official. I'm not
sure if Apple wrapped their heads around it yet and
around those libs, but I do know for a fact
that Google made it official, and I am so proud
of this bro.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It is pretty rad, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Noo?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And I don't understand why this is controversial. I mean,
we're very powerful country. We isn't one quarter of Mexico's
economy just stuff they get from uside, Why shouldn't it
be called the Gulf of America.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yeah, And that along with with with the ambition of
taking back to Panama Canal, given just how much commerce
runs through that that's directly and directly and tangentially affiliated
with the United States, and actually realizing how important that
is from a strategic standpoint, from national security standpoint, and
just having the guts, in the intestinal fortitude to do
(31:51):
the right thing for the American people is the definition
of America. First. I'm sitting here in DC right now.
I'm loving every second of it. And when I watch
these lives have these meltdowns, that's how I know that
we are literally right over the target zone.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's you know, you're right well speaking of I think
that's a great segue to this. Yeah, for those who
don't know Lesleye, Like I said, army veteran West Point graduate,
a war hero, the guy knows a lot about foreign policy.
And since Trump took office three weeks ago, we've already
gotten ten hostages to come home. The latest one is
this guy, Mark Fogel, was abandoned in Russia basically for
(32:26):
the same reason as Britney Griner, low level of marijuana
in Russia. How is it that we traded the Merchant
of Death for Britney Griner, but we didn't get Mark
Fogel in that trade?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You know, you know what, I think it's hilarious. Even
during during the Britney Grinder trade, a lot of people
were saying, Wow, I don't know where President Trump would
have done to get them back. And we had to
chair with the trade for the Merchant of Death and
then and the third and I was like, you know what,
I bet President Trump would have gotten Britney Grinder back
for like for like a pack of Miller lighte and
like in like some new Ports, you know, a pack
(32:58):
of Newports, because he would have just said, he would
have just said, we are America. She is an American.
This is not how we roll give her back. And
that's essentially what he has done for the last ten hostages.
And I made a bold prediction a few months ago.
I don't think it was all that bold. I think
it was pretty obvious. But I've been saying on the
stump for the last two years that when President Trumps
(33:21):
gets back in charge, watch how fast the world straightens up.
And people kept asking his question, well, how is he
going to do that? How's it going to do that?
The definition of peace through strength. People are not going
to want to mess with us for the next four years.
And the biggest challenge for us as a party is
not going to be how we are when President Trump
is in charge for the next four years, because he's
clearly going to take care of business. My concern is
(33:43):
what happens after that, interest rate that we codify a
lot of this mentality and codify a lot of this
will and to the very fabric of the United States
moving forward to that we never have to go back
to this woke bs again.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
All right, I like playing.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Some people have said this is like the wait kids
act when they've got a babysitter and then.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Mom and dad came back home after four years, mommy
and dad return.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Or the way you know, substitute teacher versus the real toucher.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're right, you got the right guy.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
And now, all right, Congressman Hunt to tell me this.
Some some wild stuff is happening today. They say Tulci
Gabbard could get confirmed in the Senate, but meanwhile in
the House, and I know you've been a huge advocate
for this, the Doge subcommittee is meeting. Marjorie Taylor Greene
is involved. Obviously, people think she's controversial. But another person
attending that that subcommittee meeting, Jasmine Crockett, a lawmaker from
(34:37):
the Dallas Fort Worth area, who I'm not mistaken, recently
accused you of being a white guy which which if
I'm not mistaken, you're not. I just wonder what any
predictions on what's going to happen at that subcommittee hearing today.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I mean, that's got to be wild. Those two women
hate each other, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
And I'm a I'm a W W E fan and
the world rubble is coming. But I got a feeling
this is a going to be the precursor to the
Royal rumble. This is gonna be Monday night, all real quickly.
I can tell you that, you know, I think I
will tell you this, guys, and I'm gonna be honest
with you about how I feel about more committees and
more committees up here. We have more committees that you
(35:15):
could throw a stick at. In fact, we need more
committees like we need a hole in our head. We
need to just execute and Essex and I get back
to President Trump, you know, rather not. We have a
Doage Committee and House of Representatives. Look, bottom line is this.
We know as cr is coming, we know an omnibus
is coming. We'll see what happens with reconciliation. But at
the end of the day, President Trump knows that that
(35:36):
that that leadership on our side right now with a
two seat majority probably isn't going to get too much done.
That's why we're making up more committees to make it
look like we're doing something up here when essentially we're not.
President Trump understands that, and that's why you saw Elon
Musk yesterday in the White House getting stuff done, actually
cutting spending at the executive level, actually going going through
(35:58):
line by line and getting rid of the government blow
essentially doing our jobs for us because he knows that
we're not going to do it. And we have not
voted on the single individual appropriations bill in the last
three weeks, and we're supposed to be up here three
weeks out of each month. We have not voted for
a single one. So I understand the theatrics and how
much fun is going to be to watch to watch
(36:20):
the rematch between Marjorie and Old Jazz, But at the
end of the day, we should be getting something done
for the American people.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Amen, Thank you, sir. I wish more people up there
would feel that way.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
One of my one more question, one of my favorite
power couples in Houston is a pediatric nurse practitioner, Emily
Hunt and Congressman Wesley Hunt, and I know that Friday,
love is in the air, romance is a bloom, and
what any plans for you and the lady?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Don't boil the surprises. I don't know if she's listening.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Can I I hope she's not listening, you know. I
try my best to be as sweet as I can
to my forever Valentine. And I have a little surprise
for her, but I can't say it because she actually
does listen to the show, watches our eclips. But I
just want to say, Honey, I love you.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I gotta tell you there's a lot of people in
politics that make me very suspicious. I personally know Wesley.
I've known him for years. The website is Wesley for
Texas dot com. If you can make a donation, if
you want to volunteer. They're always looking for people for
the street Team in and around the country, especially throughout
the South. Wesley, thank you so much for your time
this morning, Congressman.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Hunt was a pleasure. Brother. I'll see you back in Houston. Man,
Thank you, my man.
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