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September 22, 2025 • 44 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features State Rep Steve Toth and journalist Brandon Darby. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay, So, Kamala Harris has a new book about her
twenty twenty four campaign. It's called one hundred and seven Days.
Probably because nobody wants this is already a Netflix show.
One hundred and seven Days is expected to have one
hundred and seven readers. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Hopefully we
have more listeners than that. I'm pretty sure we do.

(00:44):
And thanks for tuning in so much to one of
the most popular regional talk radio shows in Texas politics.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thanks to all of you.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you so much for your support, all the people
that subscribed to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Or tuning downly. Y'all mean a lot to me. You
really do. I'm very grateful for you.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I thought about many of you this week and while
I was speaking at the Texas Youth Summit, because I
remember I don't know two years ago, I three years ago,
twenty twenty three. I think I was there with Charlie
Kirk and he was the keynote speaker, and I spoke before.
I spoke earlier in the day than he did, and
I made a point to the young people at the event.

(01:19):
I said, who is going to be the next Charlie Kirk?
I was two years ago, and at the time it
didn't occur to me what I was asking because I
didn't realize he was going to die. I thought he
was younger than me. I mean, I mean, okay, we
all know we're going to die. I'm not trying to
speak the obviously, but I didn't realize he was going
to go so soon. And when I said that, it
got a big reaction because a lot of young people

(01:40):
in the room wanted to be the next Charlie Kirk.
You know, you say that on Who's going to be
the next Elvis Presley? Who's going to be the next
you know, Dane Cook, whoever your famous favorite celebrity is.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I asked that question and got a big response. Two
years later, I did it again, but this time it
was a little different. I asked that question this weekend,
and you know, there were people crying. It was a
powerful moment. And the reason I thought about all of
you was because if not for the people to tune

(02:11):
into this radio show. I wouldn't have even had the
opportunity to stand on stage with Charlie Kirk, to ever
have met the man, to have shared at least just
a brief fleeting moment of what his legacy was, to
have been a part of it. You know, it's a remarkable,
powerful experience. And so this Monday, as I get on
the radio and I speak to all of you today,
I just wanted you to know I'm maternally grateful for

(02:33):
all of you. I wouldn't have a job if it
wasn't for you, so thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know what we do matters.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I think I think it's important people tune into this
radio show for two reasons, right, You want to know
what's going on, and you need a distraction from your
everyday life. And I think a lesser but equally as important. Okay,
the third reason is people listen to this radio show
because they want to laugh at the world. The world
is absurd and ridiculous, and we can't always do something
about it.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Some times we can laugh at it. So we're gonna
try to do that today.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
We're gonna talk about Charlie Kirk, Steve Toath, I think
we'll be here this afternoon. State Representative Steve Toath should
be joining us shortly. Brandon Darby from Breitbart Texas should
be joining us shortly if all goes as planned.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And I, like a lot of you.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I was in the middle of tiers with the tributes
and the attempts to make sense of the senseless this weekend,
as Peter Heck put it, But there was this single
sentence that came through in the middle of the Charlie
Kirk memorial that I just couldn't forget. I couldn't ignore
this statement. This was from Charlie's mentor. Mentor, doctor Frank Turrik,

(03:40):
is apparently somebody who played a big role in Charlie
Kirk's life. He was his religious mentor, and he said
this over the weekend at Charlie Kirk's memorial.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Now, I want you to know that Charlie right now
is in heaven. Not because he was a great husband
and father, not because he saved millions of kids out
of darkness on college campuses, not because he changed minds
and chased votes to save the country, not because he

(04:12):
sacrificed himself for his savior. Charlie Kirk is in heaven
because his Savior sacrificed himself for Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Who Wow, man, that is powerful.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
He said it, my man. Don't make no mistake.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Erica Kirk's moment of forgiveness was the most breathtaking moment
of the day.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
No doubt what she said about forgiving the man who
killed her husband.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Powerful, But far from standing apart from what doctor Turik declared,
it was the living proof of it.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Only a heart remade.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
By Christ could respond to such unimaginable grief with such
unimaginable grace. Erica's act of forgiveness was not weakness, It
was not denial. It was the strength of Christ on display,
a public witness that the Gospel is true even in
the darkest valley.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Charlie Kirk is in heaven right now.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Not because he was a great husband or a father.
Charlie Kirk is in heaven because his Savior sacrificed himself
for Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's the hope. The Church must never lose sight of.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Not better policies, not stronger arguments, not even the most
stirring act of courage or sacrifice, As significant as we
think those things are, all of it bows before the
cross of Christ. Only when a person grasps that can

(05:52):
they begin to understand how it is possible to stand
in a moment of unspeakable loss and.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Still speak words of forgiveness.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
That truth should reshape how we think about legacy, not
just Charlie Kirk's legacy, but our own, your own legacy. Yeah,
live boldly, Yes, fight for truth. Yes, pour yourself out
for your family, your church, your country. But never confuse
the fruit of faith with the root of salvation. One

(06:28):
is evidence, the other is cause. Our lives may inspire,
our courage may convict, our words may persuade, but only
Christ can save. This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness
on KPRC nine point fifty Houston. Researchers at University of California,

(06:57):
Berkeley found that chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native
habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day. Wow,
this is yet another reminder of why you should never
let a chimp drive you home.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Sounds like some Texas justice to me, and now live
from the border.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's Bright Bart's Brandon Darby with the Cartel Chronicles only
on KPRC Radio. Brandon was probably the first journalist in
America to devote a group towards specifically towards reporting from
the border, and since then a lot has changed. I
get I get Brandon at least partial credit for creating
awareness to get the border clean up the immigration crisis

(07:44):
over a decade ago. That's when his work started. Before that,
he was out doing rescue efforts for Hurricane Katrina. Sometime
in between those two incidents, he exposed a bunch of eco.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Terrorists and more than once. It is.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
There's even a documentary about his life. In the doc
hu Menory, you see that left wing agitators in Austin, Texas.
We're trying to kill him or hurt him in his
home one night. It's a crazy video to watch. So
Brandon is no stranger to rhetoric. There's quite a bit
of it that terms getting thrown around a lot this
week are words causing people to be violent. Now, Charlie

(08:20):
Kirk would say no, hopefully not, but to some extent,
I mean they are, because calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi
is part of the reason why someone went out and
murdered him. Representative El Haan Omar says that Republicans calling
out violent Democrat rhetoric are calling basically for our assassination.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
She says, you're colleague.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Another Democrat, Jamie Raskin, voted yes on this resolution. He
basically said even if he didn't agree with every phrase,
and that he viewed it as a moment for both
parties to come together. Do you think he's wrong in that?

Speaker 8 (08:54):
Well, the moment should exist. But what we have seen
this week in regards to what my Republican colleagues have
decided to do in their attacks targeting me and what
the President has decided to do, these are people who
are calling basically for our assassination of us. Nancy Masis,

(09:16):
you just referenced called me the enemy of the state.
And so these are not people who are interested in
bringing us together.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
No, in the way could Charlie Kirk's murder Brandon Darby
braipart Texas. Isn't ilhan Omar the lawmaker from Minneapolis.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Isn't she the real victim here?

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah? Exactly. So you know, look, man, here's the thing.
People have a right to say whatever the heck they
want to say. There's certain bounds to it, but freedom
of speech matters. At the same time, we have a
right to call out people who are constantly calling us Nazis,

(09:55):
constantly saying that our words are violent. Right, So everyone
almost universally agrees that you have the right to respond
to violence and defend yourself with violence.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Right.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
You have the right to use violence to defend yourself
against violence. So if you say that our words are violence,
you are saying that you are implying directly that people
have the right to use violence against our words because
of our words.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Right.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
So this is part of the problem. Right when you
follow leftist logic, when you follow it through and you
look at what they've done over the last ten to
fifteen years on social media, the efforts they've made to
control speech, it starts to get a little creepy. So
do I think that people calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi

(10:49):
is why Charlie is dead?

Speaker 9 (10:50):
No?

Speaker 6 (10:51):
Do I think that that rhetoric played a significant role
in why Charlie Kirk is dead? Yes? Do I think
we should ban that speech?

Speaker 8 (11:01):
No?

Speaker 6 (11:02):
Right, do I think we should call out people who
use that speech, get into an uproar and hope, hopefully
you know, hopefully private entities you know, can decide whether
or not they want to be associated with those people. Yes, right,
there's a difference.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Right.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
You got to understand Breipart went through a thing where
people on the left attacked our advertisers and went after
our advertisers, and at first the advertiser. What they did
was that these groups started all of these fake accounts online, right,
fake social media accounts, like thousands up on thousands, So
they would direct these fake accounts to like start tagging

(11:43):
and contacting, you know, on social media, contacting the advertisers
for supporting Nazis and for supporting hate right and violence,
violent words. And the advertisers didn't realize that they were
fake accounts, So the advertisers started dropping bripbart, which caused
a significant decline in revenue temporarily until advertisers wised up

(12:06):
and realized what was going on. So, like, what's happened
to Jimmy Kimmel, what's happened to other folks? Really, what's
happened is people, you know, half the country are a
little more than half the country's outraged at the left,
and people are realizing that, hey, like having people like
this saying these kind of things. About half of our

(12:28):
viewers is not beneficial to us economically, and we don't
want them on there. So, you know, it's one of
those kind of things where I'm sorry that liberals and
leftists are upset that the same things they've done to
other people is now being done to them. I'm sorry
that they do not like the taste of their own medicine,
but that's what's happening.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
After George Floyd died, I think there was a vote
to condemn his death. I don't remember any Republicans being
opposed to that. Earlier this year, to lawmakers in minnesotvo
I were shot at one of them died. They voted
to condemn those deaths. That was unanimous, but the vote
to condemn Charlie Kirk's death not so much. Dozens of
Democrats said no, they wouldn't vote to condemn it, and

(13:13):
I mean, it's just so what can you even say
about that, Brandon? I mean, have you watched any of
them try to explain it. The kind of logistical acrobatics
they have to perform to explain away why they don't
want to vote to condemn murder is terrifying. Don't they
realize they speak publicly about politics, they go out and
debate policy in a public environment. Certainly we all have

(13:35):
to agree that it would be wrong to hurt them.
I mean, I think so, don't you.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
I will, on hrder percent think that people should not
hurt liberals for the things they say. I am not
in favor of that at all. And if I knew
that someone was trying to hurt liberals, then I would
I would do whatever I could to stop them up
to turning them in. Right, I'm not that person who

(14:01):
thinks it's okay to hurt people for what they say.
But you know, what we're seeing, and it's sad, but
we're seeing a disproportionate amount of people who have left
leaning ideologies think it's perfectly okay to hurt us because
of what we say, because they have been indoctrinated and

(14:22):
they have to believe that our words are violence, that
we are literal Nazis, and that we are literal you know,
hate mangering Nazis. So it is acceptable to them that
we get killed for our words because our words are
violence in their minds, right, right, But that's what I said.

(14:43):
That's the natural outcome, the logical extension of saying that
our words are violence, and that we are literal Nazis.
The logical extension is that some people will then take
that mantle and will hurt us. That is what happens.
And I can say this and I'm not being a
hypocrite in any way, because you know, many years ago,

(15:05):
when there was a lunatic from the approximately from the
Dallas area who drove to El Paso and shot a
bunch of people in the walmart because he thought they
were invading the US, Right, I called out the riot,
and I said, look, you've the language you've used in
the extent you used it talking about the l Paso sector,

(15:27):
which is not the most invaded sector. Right. It's obviously
there's a lot of problems, and I'm one hundred percent
support of the border security and stopping what is going on.
But there's a reason that this lunatic drove and pat
didn't go to the Laredo sector, didn't go to any
of these other sectors, went all the way to l Passo.
It's because that's what was in the news, and you

(15:49):
guys said we were being invaded, and you put baked
stories out about how the cartels were taking over American
territory and When that happened, it made it inevitable that
some unbalanced person would hear your rhetoric and think that
they were doing the Lord's work by by doing this.
The same thing happened with with Comment Pizza, Right, some

(16:10):
people put out these stories that and it was not
the majority on the right, it was some, but they
put out these stories that there was a that the
Democrats had a basement in Comment Pizza in DC, and
that there were sex slaves, children's child sex slaves in
the basement. And so some guy took an ar fifteen
and went there and you shot a couple of times

(16:32):
in the air and demanded to see that they opened
the basement so he could free these kids. And it
turns out there's not even a basement there. And what
he said when he was arrested, as he told prosecutors
and told the FBI, said look, I had bad intel.
I really believed that there were kids in there because
I read it, and it turns out there weren't. Right.

(16:54):
So so when you you know, we have to remember
there are very imbalanced peace people in our society, and
so when you use rhetoric like that, you make it
inevitable that someone will do something like that. Are you
responsible for it? No, do you legally know? But did
you place some part in why it happened? Yes. The

(17:17):
problem is is like on the right, when that happens,
it's these fringe groups, it's little you know, blogs or
whatever that do that and support crazy stuff like that,
and the rest of us, you know, call it out
and disassociate ourselves. But on the left, they enjoy mainstream
left of center support, and that's why you have mainstream

(17:38):
Democrats continuing to use that rhetoric. You know, Charlie Kirk's
assassin put on a bullet that, you know, fascist, catch right, fascist,
comma catch and they they do not mind going out
the next day continuing to call us and Charlie Kirk
a fascist. Realize they don't mind that, they don't mind

(17:59):
continue in the rhetoric and so irresponsible rhetoric. Yeah, that
is it protected speech, Yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Congressman Maxwell Frost is a Democrat from Florida. He's the
youngest member of the House of Congress. He's in his twenties.
I believe he is doubling down on making out Trump
and Conservatives to be Nazis, calling us dangerous, calling us fascists.
They are continuing to traffic the same kind of language
that was engraved on the bullets.

Speaker 10 (18:27):
Donald Trump doesn't want a democracy, he wants a throne,
and his cronies are clearing the way. The President in
his lap dogs. Here in the United States Congress, the
vice president, the FCC chair, the Attorney General, Secretary of State,
and congressional Republicans are implementing a dangerous agenda to punish
their opposition. Fascism is not on the way it is here.

(18:51):
The first Amendment is how generations of Americans, from civil
rights activists to labor organizers, the American worker LGBTQ plus
active just.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Coming a pausitive right here.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Obviously we're not Nazis, right, They're not shooting at us
because we're Nazis. They're calling us Nazis so they can
shoot at us. Brandon, I'll let you get the final
word here. Do they even know what fascism is?

Speaker 6 (19:14):
I don't think so. I think that there's not really
a good excuse. And the days of AI that you
you don't even have to type anymore. You can just
push a button and speak into your phone, and AI
has a discussion with you and explains what fascism is
or what Nazism is. There's really not a good excuse.

(19:36):
Like I said, it's unfortunate that that that is where
the Democratic Party goes at this point. I would hope
that that Democrats would rally together and would censure and
possibly boot out people on their rank, among their ranks
who are saying things like that. But that's where we are.
They think they hate us, they think we're Nazis. They

(19:59):
say we deserve a bullet at our throat, and it's
very obvious they think that, and that is a good
data point for us to keep in mind and make
a mental notes at that side, right thinks that we
deserve a bullet in our throat, and even the ones
who don't are perfectly fine allowing their leadership to continue

(20:20):
to say things that will ultimately result in us having
a bullet in our throat. And that's where we are
as a nation.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Brandon Darby, Breitbart Texas Senior Editor. Follow him on actor
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine, p.
Fifty Houston, a man riding a roller coaster a Universal
theme park in Florida died. He still had a better

(20:48):
time than the average parent at Disney World. I'm just saying,
that's all I'm saying. In the meantime, first responders in
New York rescued a deer caught in a soccer net.
I think it was a challenge because they weren't allowed
to use their hands. You know, that's how it is
with soccer. It's very difficult. Hi, welcome back from break everybody.
I know you're all mad and it's weird to hear
me tell jokes while the country is so I mean,

(21:10):
things are just dreary. It's sad. Right, it's still less
than two weeks since Charlie Kirk got assassinated. People are
very mad. Joel Abbott pointed this out. Everyone in America
is angry right now. The first group is angry that
Charlie Kirk was murdered. The second group is angry that
the first group is angry because they think Charlie Kirk
was a bigoted provocateur. And then there's a third group

(21:33):
that's angry because they haven't been able to kill Group
one yet. Waves of rage hit us with each new
grievance and crime in the news cycle, overlapping in our
hearts until the furor is manic. I don't need to
explain it to you, because you feel it. There's a
certain type of person who will always address anger like

(21:54):
a mother tutting a toddler for a tantrum. They will
instruct us to take a deep breath and down and
then hold hands and make up. And while this is
a good rule for preschoolers, it doesn't always work for
larger civilization. Questions of divine justice or have you not heard?
There's this book you can read. It's called the Bible.

(22:19):
It's a really interesting passage here. It says there is
an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity
under heaven, a time to tear and a time to sew,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, a
time for war and a time for peace. The reason
you feel angry is simple. You are a spiritual creature

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made in God's image, meaning his rules of justice and
fairness and morality are stamped on you, whether you like
it or not. Unlike animals, which act on biological instinct,
humans have both reason and conscience. We talk about this
in Romans two fourteen and while great Many people spend
their years suppressing both.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
They have them.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Nonetheless, to be human is to feel deeply as God does.
Animals can experience grief and sorrow, and happiness and loneliness
to different degrees, but only humans are self aware of
those things. We are also the only creatures that gaze
up at the stars with wonder and consider the vastness
of the universe, or desire to explore the unknown, or

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are aware of our own mortality. When you feel angry,
you do not feel angry as a dog mighte when
another dog tries to steal its bone. Your anger is
far more developed, far more sophisticated, far more lethal. Albert
Barnes was a Presbyterian minister born in seventeen ninety eight,

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and Minister Barnes once said that anger becomes twisted and
immoral in the following circumstances. When it is excited without
it any sufficient cause, when it transcends the cause, if
any cause really exists, when it is against the person
rather than the offense, and when it is intended with

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the desire of revenge, or when it is cherished and
heightened by reflection, or when there is an unforgiving spirit.
A determination to exact the utmost satisfaction for the injury
which it has been done. If those are wrongful uses
of anger, then we've got to ask what proper demonstrations
of anger look like? Self defense, righteous indignation? Are those

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granted the authority of the sword.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
For men?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
In particular, one of the most important ideas that helps
us command or understand the prosper use the correct way
to use anger is to understand that anger requires a
chain of command. God is the ultimate authority, So we
begin by asking if something anger him. If it does,

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we ask how we can work to address it without
the limits of authority or our authority. If it supersedes
our authority, we go up the chain of command, whether
that be the police, or our pastor, or a congressman
or the president. When all this fails, we make an
appeal to Heaven, as America's founding fathers did.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
But this is a matter of last resort.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
You have the authority to defend your family, both from
common criminals and the encroachment of other sources of authority
that seek to usurp your own lawful authority. You should
be angry when a man tries to break into your
home at two am, or when lawmakers enact laws that
allow the state to kidnap children if parents don't use

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their preferred pronouns. You do, not, however, have the authority
to randomly go rounding up illegal aliens at home depot,
as fun as that might sound. And this is why
it's important for the public to remind those in power
who are God's avenger. They must have the duty to
satisfy anger and enact justice on our behalf. When Republican

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legislators call for the public to tone down the temperature
immediately after a man is assassinated in front of his
wife and kids, no less, they are attempting to worm
out of that duty, even if they are well intentioned.
Those in authority must use that authority to satisfy the
sense of justice that is stamped on our hearts. If

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they do not, they sin by breaking their oaths and
by allowing anger to foment among the countrymen. Consider also
the soft on crime approach to Democrats over the last decade.
They did it in the name of inclusion and in equity.
The government's duty is not to write bigotry past or present,

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but to punish the wrongdoer when that gets sidelined due
to identify politics, cities burn, people lose trust, anger grows,
and sin multiplies. We still understand this when it comes
to the government's military duties. We understand that a group
of Navy seals is sent to take out an enemy
of the state to enact the anger and the vengeance

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of the American people through lawfully appointed officials. If the
government were to tell us that they wanted to become
more equitable jijihats and started calling us racist for not
wanting to be turned loose after their fourth or fifth
terror attack, we would call the government a bunch of idiots.
And yet we've accepted the idea that the government releasing

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criminals is somehow different. All of this increases chaos and
anger in our society. For many activists, chaos and anger
is the point a discerning man or a woman sorry Wokis,
those are the only options. A discerning man or woman
will be careful when they see people trying to make

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them angry about something. Your guard should be up when
you browse social media and look at the news, even
when you're listening to us here on talk radio, righteous
anger always moves into something more productive. The goal is
not to stay there like an electron in an excited
state that's never in stable orbit. It is not only sinful,

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but damaging to your heart and soul. A man angered
by the sound of an intruder in his kitchen is
moved to lawful violence to defend his family. A man
angered by the sound of an intruder breaking into his
neighbor's truck calls the police and demands his city leaders
don't go soft on crime. A man angered by the
mass destruction of human trafficking and open border policies takes

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civic action to lawfully replace his government with new leaders.
And finally, a public angered by a political assassination asks
the government to wield the sword and see justice done
for the widow and for the fatherless Saul May two three.
Because of sin, this chain of command often breaks down.

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We spend time stewing in our anger, which is a sin.
We take action in areas we don't have the authority.
That's a sin, and those with authority often abuse it
or fail their oaths, also sins. This is why we
are fascinated by the vigilante, whether it's Batman or that
guy who killed the United Healthcare CEO or the guy

(29:27):
who murdered Charlie Kirk. But vigilanteism without a collective, unified
appeal to God, like the American Revolution, right, that was
moral without an appeal to God, it's immoral. When I

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say that, understand that I mean almost assuredly, never in
any scenario you will ever experience. If you're a Navy
seal who is illegally experience it on. And to cover
that up, the government killed all your brothers in arms
and tried to kill you, then tried to clean up
loose ends by killing your wife and daughter, then yeah,

(30:08):
you may have a case. But what I'm describing is
the plot to Jack Carr's Terminalist, adapted into an Amazon
Prime series by Chris Pratt. If you find yourself in
this shadowy world of espionage or the fog of war
that rivals fictional thriller novels, then sure there may be
a case for you to smite your foes with holy wrath.

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But anyone who's watched that genre of action flicks knows
the person enacting such anger single handedly upon his enemies
is consumed by it. Revenge becomes his life. He ceases
to be the person he was and even though Chris
Pratt portrays a vigilante role quite well in TV shows
and movies, he knows what I just said.

Speaker 11 (30:51):
Full well, Hey, guys, just stop real quick and pray
with me. Lord, you say, be still and know that
I am God. So I'm forty sixteen. Be still and
know that I am God in this moment. Please, Lord,
call my restless mind, quiet my anxious heart. Help me

(31:13):
set aside distractions and choose what gives life and gives
peace Isaiah twenty sixth three, Keeping perfect peace those whose
minds are stayed on you, Lord, fill me with strength
to turn my attention toward you, that I find rest.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
And joy in your presence. Amen.

Speaker 11 (31:40):
Okay, now you can continue strolling, or you can turn
your phone off.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
What a weekend.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Two powerful memorials this weekend, obviously one here in Texas,
one in Phoenix. Two hundred thousand people in attendance for
the memorial for Charlie Kirk Clembde Arizona. That's where it was,
and one of Donald Trump's best speeches of his career. Powerful,
but also Erica Kirk saying she would forgive the man

(32:10):
who murdered her husband. And there are some people that
don't understand that. I think I can't really tell you
what's happening in her mind. But besides trying to be
a good Christian, you forgive others, not just for them,
but for yourself. If you don't forgive, you carry that weight.
You carry that pain for the rest of your life.

(32:30):
It's all this conversation right now today about rhetoric and
angry words or what inspired the violence. There's an awful
lot of it on the left. I gotta tell you.
Here's a transgender activist saying, if you misgender him, I
think I just did. He's going to hurt you.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
Know, there are people out there who are hell bent
on never ever being accommodating to trans people, like I
will never call you by those pronouns, You will never
have my respect or whatever it is. Is that really
worth it to you putting all of that effort to
be nasty, because if we meet and you call me
by the wrong pronouns, it's gonna be a confrontation. And
I don't think you want that. I think you just

(33:10):
want to go about your day. I want to go
about my day. I don't want to have.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
To be upset about getting misgendered and.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
This is a person that made a career at a
posting videos about being misgendered. I think you do like it.
But all that being said, when I misgender you, that
doesn't mean I don't respect you. I just don't agree
that you're something that you're not. You know, if somebody
walked up to me and they were a black person
and they said they were Japanese, I would say, respectfully,
you're not Japanese. You know, does that mean that? Does

(33:38):
that constitute violence? That seems to be the world that
we're living in today. Dozens of Democrat lawmakers would not
vote to condemn the violence against Charlie Kirk. Unbelievable, just shocking,
Such a weird time to be alive. This weekend, I
ran into a friend of mine at the Texas Youth Summit.
State Representative Steve Toath, fantastic conservative, probably the most conservat

(34:01):
in the Texas legislature.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
There used to be a lot of you guys, Steve,
what happened?

Speaker 12 (34:09):
I don't know, Kenny. It's we live in strange times,
and you know, one of the last things that Charlie
really encourages us to consider is that we've got to
separate the week from the chaff. We're ever going to
be successful, that we're going to carry on this battle
on two different fronts. One on our knees before the Lord,

(34:30):
asking for God to bring a heart change and a
culture change in America, which only happens through revival. And
the second politically, is that we separate from the week
from the chaff, those that those individuals that talk to
talk but can't walk the walk. And there are just

(34:50):
too many in the Republican Party that they just can't
see what day we live in and how bad this is,
and it's just so sad.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, you guys had a great moment this weekend, obviously
the memorial for Charlie Kirk and then Saturday morning there
was a panel on the latest Texas legislative session.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
You know, I criticized Dustin Burrows.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I will admit not everything got done that I wanted,
but it wasn't a total failure this legislative sess. Some
things got I mean, a school choice fantastic, right, you
know that it wasn't all bad news, right?

Speaker 11 (35:30):
No?

Speaker 12 (35:31):
I mean, you know, I'm a social social front. I
think Texas has achieved more than anyther state of the Union.
We still have a long ways to go. It really true.
I think you, honestly, I think you need to criminalize
the teaching of diversity.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
Equity inclusion. If you just.

Speaker 12 (35:50):
Discussed it, then I wouldn't have a problem with it.
But when you're inculcating high school and college students and
you're actually you're actually penalizing them on their grades for
criticizing it, then this isn't about critical thinking. It's about
inculcation in brainwashing, and our schools of higher education as

(36:12):
well as our public schools. That should not be acceptable
at all in my mind. But yeah, we did get
some things. I think on the social conservative front, we
got a lot done. But on the property tax front,
we absolutely screwed the pooch.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yeah, it's unfortunate, right, it's the same, I mean anything.
They just don't want to part with our money, Steve.
I think that might have the most to do with it.
But getting back to the real topic this weekend, because
I was grateful you guys did that panel, and I
did want to touch on that. You know, they want
to make Jimmy Kimmel into the victim here, which is
crazy because Charlie Kirk's the victim. I don't care if

(36:53):
Jimmy Kimmel apologizes. I don't. I think forced apologies are
that's bullying. I think it's a form of bullying.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
I agree, but I will.

Speaker 12 (37:00):
Say his heart, his heart is not in that. But
and he spoke clearly, what where his heart and his
mind and his delusional thoughts were to try and force
him to apologize. Please give me a break.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
But wouldn't you at least like to see ABC and
Disney admit that what he said was a lie. I mean,
they're trying to make it sound like Maga killed Charlie Kirk, Like,
come on, dude, yeah, that was though. And now we
learn he only at one hundred thousand viewers. How is
that show even on the air. To put that in perspective,
our morning show reaches over a million listeners every week.
And you know that's me and Steve and Billy ed Like,

(37:38):
how we have a bigger show than Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
That's crazy.

Speaker 8 (37:42):
I know.

Speaker 12 (37:43):
It was number three or four in the in the
and it's it's slot and Colbert had four times that many,
which is still ridiculous. He had three or four times
as many as many viewers, and he was losing fifty
million dollars a year. I can't even comprehend what Jimmy
Kimmel was losing.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Here in the Houston.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Here in the Houston area, a bunch of adults, fully
grown adults, tried to docs a bunch of teenagers at
Spring Branch isd for the crime of trying to start
a turning point USA Chapter. And now Attorney General Ken
Paxton is conducting an investigation. There's supposed to be a
rally this week. I haven't gotten all the details yet,

(38:22):
but they asked me to speak at it. I don't
know when that's happening, but obviously there's a need for that.
Have you looked at this, Steve, like, how is it
that adults are going after children?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
That's crazy.

Speaker 12 (38:33):
It's so crazy. So, you know, I'm so embarrassed at
what Pam Bondy did. What was it a week and
a half ago where she actually referred to something as
hate speech. And you know, we're okay with adults, docs
and kids, but we're going to let the federal government

(38:59):
and the justice to and to find what hate speech is.
It's just we're in such a bad crap, crazy day
and age in which we live right now, it's just
it's hard to make it all out. And why is
it that we're not protecting our kids from these individuals
when in fact all they want is is the right

(39:20):
to have a conversation, which is all that Charlie kirk
Ever wanted to do was just discuss issues in a
free and open way that would avert violence in our
day and age. And now you've got adults that want
to keep kids from doing that. I mean, it's just
that's what we should be going after, not deciding what

(39:43):
is and isn't hate speech.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah, it's insane that adults in Spring Branch are going
after tea. I mean, it's crazy to me, Steve. It
really goes to show you who the new good guys
are and who the counter culture is. I mean, I
think we've always been the good guys, but now we
are the counter culture. Now we are the punk of
this new era, young conservative men. You know, that's the counterculture.
I think that's the way I see it, Steve. I'm

(40:06):
excited about your campaign right now to take on Dan Crenshaw.
I think that's important. How's that going. Anything we can
do to help you guys.

Speaker 12 (40:13):
Out, man, we're just killing it. We're doing really good.
We're raising money, we're getting in front of a lot
of people. We're hearing a lot of people, Kenny, that
are coming over and joining us, that were instrumental and
helping him get elected. And I was on the Saragenzales
show a couple of weeks ago, and you know, the
basic narrative from her was, how could we have been

(40:34):
fooled so badly? How could we have been taken in
by this guy? To ever believe that he was a conservative,
to ever believe that he was a reformer, to ever
believe that he was going to go to Washington and
drain the swamp, to ever believe that he'd up in
the apple cart and be a disruptive influence in DC.
No sooner did he get there than he became part
of the furniture. I mean, it's just it's amazing how

(40:57):
absolutely fooled we all were.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
What did shock you to learn that Dan Crenshaw has
only been on this radio show one time? And when
it was it was when he was running against Kathy Wall.
He never came back after that when we tried to
ask him why he was voting the way he was.

Speaker 12 (41:13):
Well, that was twenty eighteen, Right, that's when he had
all of us to believe that. I mean, he said
all the things that we wanted to hear, Kenny, Right,
So of course he was on your show. Yeah, he
wanted your audience. He knows how important your audience is.
He knows how big your audience is, he knows how
influentially your audience is. And he said all the things
that you know, we all wanted to hear. But at

(41:36):
the end of the day, he had no track record, right,
so we didn't know.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
We All we can do is.

Speaker 12 (41:43):
Take the guy it his word. You know, I've got gosh,
I've got twelve years of a record to show that
this is who I am, this is who I've always been.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah, brother, man, I'm glad I endorsed you, Steve. I
think you're a real one. Somebody made a joke this
week and I was hanging out with a bunch of
journalists at the Texas Youth Summit and someone made a joke.
They're like, you know, in Texas politics, we have a
saying if there's a male lawmaker, he's either gay or
he cheated on his wife. And everybody kind of paused,
and I was like, yeah, but not Steve Toath, and

(42:15):
everybody was like, yeah, probably not Steve.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
I don't know if that's true of Steve.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I don't know if I could say the rest say
about the rest, but I would definitely bet that's not
true of Steve Toath.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
But having high and actually I can name about two dozen,
and sadly out of the hundreds and hundreds to say
that they're only about a couple dozen, it's kind of
a sad deal.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
It is, right, I said.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I was like, I don't know about Brian, probably not
Briscoe Caine, but you know, it's like, seems unlikely that
brisco or Steve. And then I was like, what about
the rest of them? And everybody was like, I don't know. Boy,
that boy that is bleak man.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Steve.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
I'm glad I endorsed you. I hope you win, dude,
no matter what happens. I think it's important. I think
people are behind you. There's a lot of excitement. If
y'all out there listening to us talk right now. I
want to support Steve's campaign. Steve, where should they go?

Speaker 12 (43:08):
Stevetot dot com.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
I love it, my man, Steve, my brother from another God.
Bless you, Steve. Hey, I got a run. To the
rest of you, we'll be back bright early tomorrow morning
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(43:32):
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