November 19, 2024 • 38 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features conservative journalist Riley Lewis. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
All right, let's do this today is national have a
bad day day, not a problem, replied every Democrat in America.
Thanks for turning on your radio. Kids. It's me. You
know who I am, hopefully you do. I'm Kenny Webster.
Thanks for watching this video. If you're new, I mean,
I'm on the radio, but I'm also live streaming on
social media. I know that could be confusing. Sometimes I
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forget people are watching me. Sometimes I forget people are
listening to me. Sometimes I don't realize anyone's there at all.
I'm just picking my nose and I look up and
realize there are several hundred people watching me on camera
and any rate you're here, so thank you so much.
You know who's joining me this afternoon. A friend of
mine named Riley James. He is a broadcast guy, does
TV and radio in San Diego and as a Texan.
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We're gonna do a deep dive today into California. Politics.
I suspect probably in twenty twenty six twenty you're gonna
in the next two years or so getting ready for
twenty twenty eight. I think it's gonna be Gavin Newsom
versus Ben Shapiro thanxt to me, Ben Shapiro, Sorry, Josh Shapiro.
A little different there, both Jewish, kind of different political opinions.
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But any anyway, we'll get to all that later on.
Stick around. In the meantime, lot's going on today with
World War III and trans sports and Hollywood and p Diddy,
and it's all coming up real soon. But let's start
the show with this. I cannot believe this keeps happening.
Or maybe I can. It's not that hard to believe.
The Pentagon has just failed an audit for the seventh
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year in a row. Now, for those of you that
are new here, if you don't really know who I am,
I'm not real big on policing the whole. I'm not
the kind of guy that wants to fund both sides
of every war. Call me crazy here, but I just
think if there are lobbyists and politicians masquerading as military
generals that think maybe we need to take all the
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money out of my bank account and give it to Zelenski.
I'm not real cool with that. I imagine a lot of
you would generally agree with me. Maybe that's why you're
here and hanswer turns out, reported Todayreason dot com, the
Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh
year in a row. Now, let's be clear about something.
I'm very glad that Trump just won. But when Trump
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was president last time around, he didn't always get along
with the people at the Pentagon. He didn't always get
you know, Mark Milly and mad Dogmatis and any of
these guys were often at odds with Donald Trump, who thought, hey,
maybe we should do things that are good for American citizens,
and then these guys said, no, maybe we should do
things that are good for lobbyists from the military industrial complex.
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Did you see how things are bad right now in Russia?
North Korean troops are helping Russia invade Ukraine. Ukraine is
launching weapons we gave them into Russia right now, and
the stock market has reacted exactly how you would think
to all of this news. Right after Putin signed new memorandums,
basically a legal document in his country saying you know what,
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We're gonna be a little more gung ho about nuclear
war around here. If America starts popping off, maybe we'll
dust off the nuclear warheads and will bomb Ukraine. And
the stock market reacted to that exactly how you would think,
pretty much. When the down jones open up this morning,
I haven't looked at it. In the last hour or two,
almost every stock was down except the military industrial stocks.
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Even Boeing, which has planes falling out of the sky
and recently had to abandon the space industry, had a
pretty good morning for the first time in a while.
And as somebody that's kind of held some Boeing stock
for years now, of all that, it's the only military
industrial stock that sucked. But that's another conversation altogether. So
not shockingly, a lot of people aren't thrilled about the
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fact that we may be starting another You know, we're
already in World War three. I think that's been established now.
If North Korea and Iran and China and Russia, if
they're all connected with each other and they're helping get
more involved in places like Israel, yeah, I would say,
for all intent and purposes, that's what this is. World
War three. You could quit asking that question. It's World
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War three. That's it's been World War three. We don't
need to quit wondering that. We do, however, have to
wonder what happened to almost nine hundred billion dollars at
the Pentagon. Almost nine hundred billion dollars is almost a
trillion dollars. That's how much money they lost in the
last year. Now, like I said, this isn't new, This
isn't news, this has been happening. It was a problem
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when the Republicans were in charge that Trump tried to
clean house. He did the best he could. It's clearly
a problem when the Democrats are in charge because they
love war almost as much as they love abortion and
mutilating the genitals of young kids with chemical castration drugs.
So I noticed the last time this happened roughly a
year to a year and a half ago. John Stewart
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now my favorite comedian, but kind of like Bill Maher
at least he's right. Once in a while, he is
interviewing the deputy secretary in charge of the Pentagon. That
would be the Deputy Defense Secretary, Kathleen Hicks. The last
time this audit happened, and we realized you actually lost
hundreds of billions of dollars. For those of you that
are watching me right now on social media, you will
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not be able to miss the smug look on this
woman's face. But to those of you just listening on
the radio, just know every time John Stewart asks her
a reasonable question about what happened to billions of dollars
at the Pentagon, she rolls her eyes, she laughs, She
tries to change the subject.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Like, there is a lot of waste, fraud and abuse
within assistance audits.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Waste fraud abuse are not the same thing, So let's
decompose these.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Please educate me on Oh sure.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So an audit is exactly what you just described, which is,
do I know what was delivered to which place? The
ability to pass an audit or in the fact that
the DD has not passed on it is not suggestestive
of waste frauden abuse. That is completely false right there.
So what is now is a question of it's suggestive
that we can't we don't have an accurate inventory that
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we can pull up of.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
What we have where sounds like fraud.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That is not the same as saying we can't do
that because waste frauden abuse has occurred.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So in my world, yeah, that's waste.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How is that waste?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
If I give you a billion dollars and you can't
tell me what happened to it, that to me is wasteful.
That that means you.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Are not necessary responsible.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
But if you can't tell me where it went, then
what am I supposed to think? And when there has
been reporting, I mean, this is not Look, I'm not
saying this is on you and that you cause this.
I think it's it's a tough argument to make that
cause it an eight hundred and fifty billion dollar budget
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to an organization that can't pass an audit and tell
you where that money went.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
If this was I'm gonna stop him right there. Becuse
John Stuart's making a lot of good points, but I
bet most of you probably already thought of this before
he even said it. If this was the private industry,
this company would have gone bankrupt. Stockholders would be standing
outside of the office building with torches and pitchforks. It'd
be furious about it. But in government, there's no accountability.
Now you can't just say, all right, wow, they got
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a money printing machine. What difference does it make? Makes
a pretty big difference to somebody that can't afford to
buy groceries right now, and they're saving money, they're investing
in things. But for some reason, when I put dollars
in my savings account, the value on it, even though
the number of dollars is going up, the value on
those dollars is going down. And people wonder, Wow, there's
no way to know what causes inflation. Just corporate greed.
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I guess no. Government greed is what causes inflation, and
here it is happening in real times. So thank god,
my man Elon Musk and Vivay Kramaswami and Donald Trump
are coming up with something that we call the Department
of Government Efficiency. Hang on one second, we'll explain to you.
I actually think they have a pretty reasonable approach to
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how to fix the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics and government and nice Hit and
co Grutch this show Hit, Ain't you average this podcast?
You gotta get you to Dan we can. This is pushiness.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Hey, everybody, today is World Toilet Day and if you
don't observe it, you're in trouble. Don't laugh at they
don't laugh at that. That was that was pandering. It
was a terrible taste. In all seriousness. Though, there's this
woman in Sweden. If you think our government is bad,
you know, in Sweden they actually have a gender equality minister.
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It's an actual job that somebody actually gets paid to
be the gender equality minister of Sweden. Her name is
Paulina Brandberg, and according to a recent interview or an
article that just came out about her, she is deathly
afraid of bananas. The gender equality Minister of Sweden is
terrified of the inanimate objects that happened to be bananas.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I don't think we need to page doctor Sigmund Freud
to figure this one out. But yeah, that's a little
on the nose, isn't it. You're okay, all right, fine,
all right. Fortunately we don't have a gender equality ministry
in the United States, but we do have other problems.
We have the Pentagon as bad as the and useless
and wasteful as the gender equality ministry of Sweden is.
I got to assume they're not trying to stick their
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nose and every problem in the world and solve it
with my money in yours. That's the problem. With the Pentagon,
isn't it. We're just looking at this audit report. Hundreds
of billions of dollars at the Pentagon got flushed down
the toilet in the last twelve months. Do you think
anybody will be held responsible for this? The woman the
Deputy Defense Secretary left at John Stewart for asking her
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last year about this, and yet it's only gotten worse
since then. If you guys have followed me on social
media for a while, you know I vote Republican, but
I'm not like a textbook social conservative. I'm not. I'm
I don't think my positions are that far to the
right at all. I think I'm pretty moderate compared to
most people in America. In fact, I would call myself
a lowercase L libertarian. Every year, around Christmas, one of
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my favorite people, Senator Ram Paul, hops on Twitter and
he starts popping off his airing of his grievances right
around the time of Festivus, a fake holiday invented by
the people on the TV show Seinfeld, created by Jerry
Seinfeld and Larry David and basically airing of grievances. He
uses it as a funny way right before the holidays
when Senate they all take a break, They go on recess.
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Everybody flies to their respective home states and they spend
the holidays with their families. Ram Paul will get on
Twitter and he'll remind everybody, here's all the stuff we
wasted money on this year. And to me, a libertarian
conservative Republican, this is just you know, no, it's beautiful,
it's fantastic. And every year this report comes out and
there's you know, the wastebook, the pork book. Mike lead
does something similar, Ted Cruz. They call attention to this,
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No one ever really pays any attention to it. As
a libertarian Republican, I follow a lot of small government
tea Party post tea party social media accounts. There's never
been anything like DOGE. The Department of Government Efficiency has
existed for less than a month and it's got almost
two million followers on social media, on Twitter, more specifically
on x This is all I ever wanted, all we
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ever wanted in the libertarian movement, not the Libertarian Party,
but the libertarian movement was our libertarian moment. We just
wanted people to acknowledge the fact that government is too big,
it's too inflated, it's too bloated, and it's the cause
of a lot of our problems. The reason you can't
afford to buy groceries or fill up your gas tank
and go on a road trip, it's why it's become
so expensive to do those things. So in just a
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couple of weeks here Elon Musk the viaik Ramaswami have
actually made Ran Paul's videos joking about government waste into
something that people want to watch. Listen to this. This
is not a new video to a lot of people
because they just posted publicly. But listen to rh and
Paul talk about all the money we piss away on
things like getting fish drunk or giving cocaine to quails,
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or the money we spent trying to figure out what
they actually said the first time they landed on the moon, gin.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
To a sunfish versus tequila, which would make the sunfish
more aggressive?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hum.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Nearly a million dollars spent studying whether or not Japanese
quail if you give them cocaine, whether or not they're
more sexually promiscuous.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Who is a small.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Step for man? Or was it one small step for
a man? And in the end, seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars later, they couldn't decide was it one step
for man, one step for a man? Come on, A
million dollars for the construction of a kelp and shellfish.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Nursery in Maine, thank god.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
One point five million to encourage video gaming in New York.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
In New York, we might be better off. One point
five million.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
To discourage kids from make playing video games. Now, one
hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars for Columbia University, be giving.
A rich university has thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Any money, let's pausit it right there. He goes on
to make a point. We sent spend a lot of
money at the Baltimore Symphony as well. And I I
get it. Baltimore's close to Washington, DC. It's important to
the rich liberal elitists inside the Beltway there. They want
to go see a opera or something. I don't know
why I have to pay for that. You guys have money,
buy your own ticket, pay for your own symphony. Is
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that too much to ask? So that's what DOGE is,
and DOGE is already starting to get a lot of attention.
You know. They point out here that in nineteen fifty five,
there were less than one point five million words in
the US tax code. Today there's sixteen million words. If
you've ever wondered why is it so expensive to hire
a good accountant or a good tax attorney? This is
why this is what it's for. It's designed to be complicated.
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They don't want you and they don't want it to
be simple. If it was simplified, a lot of taxies
would probably lose their jobs. Ah, poor lawyers. Right now,
for whatever it's worth, it is important to support Doge,
whatever Doge is a gentleman. Over at townhall dot com,
David Walker actually made the point for some members of
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the tea Party or the post tea party, whatever we're
in now. We've been talking about this for years. Why
can't we get some kind of a government department that
regulates the regulators. You ever notice, whenever we come out
with a new policy, a new program, a new regulation,
something we're spending on, there's not I mean, there's checks
and balances to decide if we want it, but there's
no checks and balances to decide two, three, four, five,
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ten years later if it did any good, wouldn't you
like to know that wouldn't that be interesting if there
was an escape lever figuratively speaking, and every government policy
that said, if this policy, if this spending program doesn't
accomplish its intended goals in about two years or nine
months or whatever it may be, it poof, it vanishes
and goes away instead of existing for ever, Like the
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Department of Education, for example, What the hell good is
that doing us? At this point, nobody knows. We do
not know. The federal government's gotten too big. I always
thought it was funny. Years ago a friend of mine
told me, we're not really small government conservatives. Those of
us in the liberty movement or the post Tea Party movement,
we think we're small government conservatives. We're not. How could
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we be. How could we be small government conservatives if
we've never had a small government? No, what we actually are,
if we're being more honest, we're slow government conservatives. Right.
The government's already massive. It's one of the biggest organizations
in the world, the United States federal government combined together
with all the state governments and the municipal governments. It's
pretty flipping big, isn't it, Especially when you consider the
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ancestual relationship we have with globalist organizations like the United
Nations or the World Economic Forum or the World Health
Organization that you know, we're paying for all that stuff too.
So yeah, it's pretty flipping big, isn't it. But we're
not really advocating for small government because we're way pass
the point of having small government. At best. We can
hope to be slow government conservatives when we go out
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and push for policies, and you know, all I'm really
asking is, can we just take a longer time to
spend my paycheck? If you're already going to spend the
whole paycheck, could you not do it in five or
ten minutes? Could you spend a month or a week
or something. It's frustrating right. Shockingly, despite being in existence
it's roughly seventeen eighty nine, the consolidated federal government does
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not have a future focused, integrated, results based, resource constrained
strategic plan. We don't have that. We're just throwing ideas
at the wall and seeing if they improve. And that's
all it's ever been. So that's essentially what I mean
when I say we need smaller government. We do. We
desperately need it now more than ever. The government is
humongous doges could not have come along soon enough. God
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bless Elon Musk. The guy has basically saved humanity twice
here in the period of about four years, first by
buying Twitter, then by teaming up with Trump and Viveak.
I'm Aswamian, maybe Ron Paul. I don't know. Trump hasn't
even taken off as yet, and there are already people
losing their minds because when you hear a guy like
Elon Musk say we're gonna cut all the waste out
of government, what that means to the elites, the globalists
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that the ruling class is our free lunch is about
to go away.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yes, Hollywood? It's never been where Hollywood. I wouldn't want
to go there. We do a weekly report on this
show every Friday where a comedian from Hollywood calls into
the show and he tells me what's going on in
the news there and what comedian is a professional comedian?
I know a lot of stand up commed You know,
anybody that knows me knows I hang out with a
lot of stand up comedians, have him as guests on
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the show. Comedians have really become the modern day philosophers
of our time. If you're a good stand up comic
and you can explain what's going on in this bizarre,
crazy world that we live in, you might get yourself murdered.
You know. Yeah, do you ever wonder if Bernie Mack
got murdered by p Didty? A friend of mine, he's
one of my best friends, is a black doctor, and
he's somewhat liberal, certainly compared to me, And there are
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very few things that we agree on politically, but we
both agree there's a very dangerous thing going on between
Hollywood and Washington, d C. Isn't it fascinating how so
many of the people that were at P. Ditty's freak
Cough parties went out and they endorsed Kamala Harris even
campaigned for and they all made a lot of money too.
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If you're not from Houston, maybe you didn't know this,
but I well, I'm you know, I do pretty good
for a talk radio host. I have some very successful friends,
hang out with some really fascinating people that have done
much better things with their life than I have. To
put it bluntly, one of those people's Tony Busby. Tony
Busby was a poor kid from a low income family
and grew up in a place called Atlanta, Texas, not Atlanta, Georgia.
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If you never heard of Atlanta, Texas before, I don't
feel bad. Most people from Atlanta, Texas have never heard
of Atlanta. It's a small town near Texarcana. You've never
heard of that. It's another small town. You've probably never
gone there before, way up north, not far from Oklahoma
and Arkansas. And so this guy grew up, became a marine,
became an aggie, worked his way up the lat eventually
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became one of the highest paid, probably the most effective
trial lawyers in America. He's the guy that won the lawsuit,
the impeachment case against Ken Paxton. He's the reason Ken
Paxton is still, at this particular, exact specific moment, the
best attorney general in the United States. We have Tony
Busby to thank for that. And Tony Busby went after
Deshaun Watson. Whatever you guys think of that, I could
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tell you with great certainty if I didn't even know.
Tony Busby, a close family friend of mine, was actually
personally new one of the accusers of former Houston Texans
quarterback to Shaun Watson, and actually reassured me with a
great deal detail, great amount of detail that the accusations
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against DeShawn Watson were legitimate. That person said so, and
it's my opinion that they were as well. And it's
my opinion that the P Diddy accusations are are legitimate
as well. Some of my black friends tell me I
need to stop calling him P Didty, It's just Diddy,
and I say, no, you don't get to change your name.
That many times. You were Puff Daddy, you were Puffy,
you were Sean Combs, you were Sean John. You can stop,
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just pick it. I stopped at P Diddy, You're P Diddy.
Now you don't like P Diddy, How about P Diddler?
Maybe have more appropriate name? I digress. Buzzby has been
representing a lot of the victims of P Diddy, the
people that were at the freak off parties that were
claimed to have been trafficked or sexually molested or you know, exploited,
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sometimes underage kids. Really disgusting stuff and like a lot
of these cases. Look, I don't know every one of
the accusers. I don't know every one of the people
that's being accused. They're using a lot of words like
Jane Doe John in the lawsuit, but just know that
I would imagine most of them are probably credible. Having
personally known Tony Busby and what a good lawyer is,
he's very good at vetting witnesses, I would assume, if
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not all of then probably most of the accusers and
accusations are probably valid and legitimate. Just knowing Tony Buzsby,
I believe that that's probably true. Again, I don't personally
know any more than most of you do. But Tony's
now being sued now. I want to make something clear here.
There is a federal case against p Diddy right now
against Shawan Combs Puff Daddy. That's not the case with Busby.
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Busby is representing the victims, not the government. So Shawn
Combs is in a lot of trouble right now because
he has both the victims coming after him with one
of the best criminal law trial lawyers in America, Tony Busby,
but also these federal investigators at the same time, and
now kind of a like a a moan in the case,
nobody was expecting a curveball, if you will. Busby is
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now being sued. Busby is now being sued. I one
of the the accuses, an anonymous self described celebrity, meaning
one of the people that the accusers are suggesting sexually
exploited them, is suing Tony Busby. And we don't know
who it is. We don't. We could, We could speculate.
It might be Usher, It could be Beyonce, might be
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Jay Z, could be Justin Bieber. We don't know. I
gotta get the impression Justin Bieber's a victim in all
of this. I will tell you this. Whoever it is,
it's probably a person a lot of people on social
media are talking about right now, right because this person
is upset enough that their name is being dragged through
the mud while simultaneously being asked by Tony Busby's clients
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to pay some amount of money for them to go away. Now,
some of you might not like how our legal system works.
You might, well, they should go to jail, they shouldn't
have to pay some fee or whatever. Okay, but maybe
the victims don't agree with that. Maybe the victims don't.
Maybe the victim would rather have a payday and not
have their name be thrust out there into the public spotlight.
Then you know, you get it. Those are your two options, right,
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That's what they would prefer to have at any rate.
They're the victims. This is what they asked their attorney
to do. So whatever you think about that, I will
tell you I believe Tony Busby. I think Tony Busby
is a winner. I think he's a smart guy. I
think he's very good at smelling, sniffing out bs. So
I think there's something to all of this. Now. Interestingly enough,
the person suing Tony Busby right now, the attorney representing
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the victims. That's not the only use of the word
extortion or blackmail that's getting thrown around right now. Supposedly
p Diddy Sean Combs is extorting the victims from jail.
There are claims. There are lots of reports today, TMZ
and a lot of other sensationalized celebrity news outlets are
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reporting that from behind closed doors, from behind his prison
cell walls, there Shawn Combs is contacting his son, his lawyer,
his friends, maybe some of his more sketchy friends, maybe
some of his friends, and they're going after the victims
because they know who these people are. The fact that
they would know who to go after tells you the
accusations are probably credible. There's also a report today from
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some journalists claiming that behind the scenes inside jail right now,
p Didty is the superstar of superstars. Apparently a lot
of the inmates are competing to be his friend, and
they want to clean his cell and make his bad.
I don't know if any of that's true. I do
know that if Sean Ditty is actually gay, like so
many people have suggested, there's probably some other weird stuff
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going on in there too, But I won't even begin
to speculate about that. I just just thought I had
and we'll go ahead and leave that alone. Right now,
Sean Diddy probably deserves to be in prison for a
very long time, and I hope he ends up there.
Sean diddy Comm's claims Feds rated his jail cell and
took his private notes. Now, I don't know if you're
aware of this or not, but if you're a prisoner
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in a federal prison cell, you don't have a right
to privacy. You didn't oh you didn't like that they
came in and looked through your private notes. Okay, what'd
you write on the notes? What could be written on
those notes that you worry the federal investigators would use
against you? Sounds a little bit like there was a
confession on those notes, or him telling his lawyer something
that was presumably illegal that he did once to some
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of these people, including underage kids they claim. I'm just saying,
with every passing day, you know, a confirmation bias. You
can call it that if you want, but I would
tell you it seems more and more like Diddy is
definitely guilty in all of this. And you gotta wonder
why they have them in a jail cell with Sam
Bankman freed the FTX crypto bro Gott. Are they going
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to get murdered? I don't know. I do know this.
I'm Kenny Webster And to those of you watching me
on social media right now, stick around. We have to
wrap up this radio show in just a few short moments. Actually,
to those of you listening on the radio, I have
an interview coming up in a few short moments with
one of my favorite radio personalities from California. Spoiler alert,
It's not Larry Elder, but to the rest of you,
stick around. I'm going to continue this show right now
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in social media. Stop at government, get out of my life.
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio, all right,
before we get out of here. I couldn't help noticing
something the Democrat Party right now, at this exact specific moment,
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a very rare moment in American history here where the
opposition party to the incoming administration does not have a leader.
I mean, would you argue that Joe Biden is the
leader of the Democrat Party. Do you think that's true?
Do you think at any time over the past five
years he's been the leader of his party. You could
argue it's Kamala, but that's not really true. I hear
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the words Manchurian candidate thrown around a lot, and some
would say maybe Barack Obama or Oprah Winfrey are leaders
of the political party. Well, we saw how that went
for them this year. Okay, they made a lot of
money running a failing candidate. Boy, did they make a
lot of money. Mike Tyson made twenty million dollars losing
a boxing match on Friday night. Kamala Harris is twenty
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million dollars in debt and running for presidents. Okay, none
of them are the leaders of the Democrat Party right now,
So who is it? Is it Kathy Hokel, New York
State governor. Probably not Gretchen Whitmer with her weird, kinky
Catholic confession potato chip video that was strange, remember that.
I don't think she'll ever live. No, I got to
think the incoming leader to the Democrat Party is Gavin Newsom.
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As weird as it may seem, he seems to have
been the first nationally recognized Democrat leader to pivot to
the right. Not long ago, in the state of California,
the outlawed homelessness now as a lot of You know,
if you're interested in municipal government policies, it's not called homelessness,
it's not against the law, and not of a home
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that would be crazy. But public camping is now illegal
in the state of California, which is absolutely shocking to
anybody that's been to California in the last twenty years.
You know, I'm from Texas. Obviously there are places in
our own state where we have this problem. But you remember,
maybe Austin would be the perfect example of this. Austin
is a place where we imported California's bad political policies.
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I remember a few years back, I was driving around
Austin through a neighborhood, a subdivision, and I got to
one of those little roundabouts. You know, when there's an
intersection with the big mounded dirt and grass in the middle.
It's a circle drive instead of a regular left right
turn intersection. You get what a roundabout is. And in
the middle of the roundabout, in the middle of this
(28:29):
residential neighborhood, I remember, there was a tent community. You're
probably thinking, well, how big could it have been? Not
very big, just big enough for two or three tenths
there were people living there in the roundabout. How insane
is that? Well, that's every day in California. California is
starting to realize the great exodus of citizens heading to
the lone Star state is maybe proof that they need
(28:51):
to make some changes. It's not just tech billionaires like
Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg that have moved offices from
California to here in Texas. It's average citizens all the time.
Renting a U haul truck is twice as expensive if
you want to drive from California to Texas, then if
you want to drive from Texas to California, because nobody
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rents a U haul truck to go from Texas to California.
I digress. I don't know a lot about California politics
other than it's absolutely batsuper crazy. So I reached out
to a friend of the show. Riley Lewis, is a
producer and on our personality at One America News Network.
He's also a talk radio personality in San Diego, which
is a big city. You know, they have a baseball
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team there, for example, or Major League Baseball, but actually
a lot of conservatives live in San Diego. Surprisingly a
military base there, Riley, have I explained California well as
somebody that lives in California. I gotta think there's probably
some big details I'm leaving out to explain the political
climate there right now. But you guys did just pass
a bunch of very conservative props in what is considered
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to be the most liberal state in the country. What
am I missing?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
I mean, really, that's just one thing I would like
to add that a lot of people I think are
seeing now more so than before, which is that California
has a huge number of registered Republicans and registered conservative voters,
and we have in that case, I mean, we're one
of the most republican states actually in the Union. And
not that long ago this was a Republican legislature here
in Sacramento, we had Republican elected officials, mayors, we had
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a Republican governor. I mean, it's been a little while
since we had Ronald Reagan, but still this place does
have Republican roots, and it does for some time. And
it's really just, of course, like many other places dominated
by the big cities. It's Los Angeles County, at San Francisco,
it's Alameda and Oakland. But aside from that, even down
throughout southern California and southeastern California, the Inland Empire at
San Diego County, Orange County, Riverside County, you see a
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lot of red. You see a lot of conservatives. We
just needed those people to turn out and actually vote.
And now that they've used their voices, you can see
by looking at the map in this last election, there
is a lot of red up and down California and
things are changing and for the better. And I'm very
happy to see it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah, lot did Republican voters exist? At least eight million
as far as I'm aware of, which is, you know,
more than the state of Louisiana or Mississippi. That's a
lot of Republicans. But it's my impression a lot of
them don't show up on election day because they just
assume their vote's not going to count. Is that the
gist of it? Yes, yes, it is. Okay. So these
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props that just passed, do you guys do state props
just like we do proposition seven in Proposition A and
all these different things. And a lot of attention was
given towards the crime bill that just passed in your state.
We could never understand this over here in Texas, you
guys actually basically decriminalized shoplifting for lack of a better explanation.
And this wasn't all over the state, I think, but
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it was in a lot of big municipal governments, particularly
around the Bay Area. You could go into a Kohls
or a TJ Max or a Target, you know, pick
a mid price department store and you could shoplift and
as long as it was less than what was it,
nine hundred and fifty dollars. You couldn't be arrested, you
were just ticketed. But now the tough ont they call
it a tough on crime bill. I think it's a
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moderate on crime bill. Perhaps thirty six just passed, and
basically that law says, okay, shoplifting is illegal again. You
can now get arrested if you walk into a men's
warehouse and steal a leather jacket. And the other prop
I noticed it's getting a little less attention on a
national level that just passed in your state was Prop
thirty three. This was about rent control. Did Newsome support
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any of this stuff? Because it's my understanding in the
political ads and the mailers, he was the face that
they were using to go against this stuff or to promote. Basically,
they were suggesting that he was for communist rent control
is the Prop thirty three thing. They were saying, he
was for what you described off the air as Marxist
property owner policies, and he was for shoplifting. But actually
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wasn't he a little critical of those policies? Or am
I misunderstanding it?
Speaker 7 (32:51):
No, he actually was pretty he actually was a little
bit critical at least an Unprop thirty three and it's
actually kind of surprising. I don't know what the political
calculus is for him, but really is just a communistic
policy idea that would make things a lot worse. And
there's been a lot of fighting on the ground here
for years and years to try to expand rent control
just because the cost of living is skyrocketing across the
board for condos, townhouses, apartments, single family homes, you name it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So it's fair.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
But there are some people that actually would argue weirdly
enough that the governor that Newsom actually kind of killed
rent control initiatives in California. And I mean, it's very
surprising knowing Gavin Newsom, having seen him going, you know,
running the state into the ground basically, and it's something
you think you would support ideologically, so there must be
some you know, other political calculation for not supporting it.
But yes, surprisingly, actually Gavin Newsen did not support this
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communistic rent control and I don't understand exactly why, but
it's very interesting to see that. And maybe it's because
he just knows that things are changing so rapidly in
California because a lot of people are not happy with him.
They've been very upset with his leadership and Democrats just
lost huge to this election, and a lot of Californians
did go for Trump and they went read, they went
to the right. So maybe he's trying to balance things
out a little bit because he wants to say faith
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save his career posture for future office. It's hard to
say what his calculation is, but he actually was pretty
surprisingly opposed to run control.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Okay, a lot of our younger listeners won't remember this,
but something getting a lot of actually, I guess they
would know about it. The Menendez Brothers is the topic
of a Netflix crime documentary, and it's very strange to
me that now the general populace, average people now form
their opinions about controversial criminal cases based on what they
learned in a Netflix documentary or a crime podcast. But look, Riley,
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I guess those are the times we're living in here.
Back in the nineties, the Menendez brothers were these two
rich kids who murdered their dad, and they went to prison,
and most people kind of thought they belonged there. It
probably didn't get much national attention if not for the
fact that they were rich and white. But now a
lot of people have learned maybe they were victims of
sexual molestation by their father. And look, murder's still wrong.
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But I've noticed some liberals are okay with breaking the
law if it's for the common good. And so now
there seems to be this outcry of people on left
demanding the Menendez brothers be released from jail. Even I
think the district attorney over there and what is that
LA had said, Yeah, we're gonna change the you know,
the outcome of this case needs to be modified a
(35:13):
little bit. Oddly enough, Gavin Newsom, formerly a poster boy
for liberalism, is actually against this one. He says, these
guys should stay in prison. This is, you know, to
those of us outside of California, this is interesting simply
because it's tabloid news that's come back after twenty almost
thirty years. But to you guys in California, this is
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actually a sign that your governor might be pivoting to
the right. And also maybe a little writing on the
wall here for a hint at running for president in
four years. Huh oh.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Absolutely absolutely, And of course he did want to run
against Trump because he knew he was gonna lose and
it would have been spectacular. But I do think he
wants to run for president one day. And I also,
like you said that the time that here is changing.
People have not been happy with the approach to crime here.
It's been beyond soft on crime. It had been enabling
criminals and them with ridiculous policies. And a lot of
these sous back das have been totally along for the ride.
(36:05):
And so I do think it's nice to see that
because these Menda's brothers. I remember that case. It's a
very interesting one. People have never heard of it. I mean,
two very wealthy kids who had huge prospects to who
come from a family with a father who is self
made from another country, from Cuba, I think, and they
shoot their parents right in the face and their own
home with shotguns. And Beverly Hills, that kind of thing
does not happen in Beverly Hills, California. Of all the
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places it could have possibly happened. That sounds like Compton
or Inglewood, but certainly not Beverly Hills. So it was
a very very high profile case and famously the first
trial did not result in anything. So there was a
second trial with a much better prosecutor who really cast
out on some of those allegations about sexual assault coming
from the parents. But even if they were abused, and
that is horrific, taking a shotgun to your own mother's
(36:47):
face and your own father's face, I don't even need
to relitigate at all, because the way it went down
is extremely concerning and it does suggest that these guys
are unstable for whatever reason. There's something that's wrong with
these Meninda's brothers, I don't know what. As a non
a psychologist, sure, however, you know, I will say this
whole broader thing about actually finally cracking down on crime.
It is long overdue because we've had people that famously
(37:09):
go into a place like a ride ag or a Walgreens,
they take a bunch of stuff, they set up shop
on the corner outside of the retailer and start selling
the stuff for half price. It's completely ridiculous. And how
I mean the brazenness and the boldness of some of
these criminals now because they've just gotten away with it
for so long, they've been running the roots, the inmates
have been running to prison. So yeah, it's about time
to see the pendulum swing back the other way, because
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it is not common sense. It is running the state
into the ground and the people of California have just
had enough. We're just frankly fed up at this point.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So Riley, you can be heard every night on the
Answer over there in San Diego. It's a conservative talk station,
and of course you're on cable News quite a bit
as well. Oh a on if people could find you
on Twitter, but you have a podcast, Riley Lewis who
people want to look you up online?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
I don't, but check me out with all the socials.
It's Riley Lewis seven to six zero, Riley Lewis seven
six zero on x spoke Instagram. Please check it out.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
My brother Riley lewis one of the good guys out
in California. And as we get into the next four
years of what will be probably a very interesting news cycle,
I got to think he's somebody we could call to
figure out what the hell is going on in the
Golden State. I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. Thanks
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Thanks for watching this video. If you're new, I mean,
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I'm just picking my nose and I look up and
realize there are several hundred people watching me on camera
and any rate you're here, so thank you so much.
You know who's joining me this afternoon. A friend of
mine named Riley James. He is a broadcast guy, does
TV and radio in San Diego and as a Texan.
(01:09):
We're gonna do a deep dive today into California. Politics.
I suspect probably in twenty twenty six twenty you're gonna
in the next two years or so getting ready for
twenty twenty eight. I think it's gonna be Gavin Newsom
versus Ben Shapiro thanxt to me, Ben Shapiro, Sorry, Josh Shapiro.
A little different there, both Jewish, kind of different political opinions.
(01:30):
But any anyway, we'll get to all that later on.
Stick around. In the meantime, lot's going on today with
World War III and trans sports and Hollywood and p Diddy,
and it's all coming up real soon. But let's start
the show with this. I cannot believe this keeps happening.
Or maybe I can. It's not that hard to believe.
The Pentagon has just failed an audit for the seventh
(01:53):
year in a row. Now, for those of you that
are new here, if you don't really know who I am,
I'm not real big on policing the whole. I'm not
the kind of guy that wants to fund both sides
of every war. Call me crazy here, but I just
think if there are lobbyists and politicians masquerading as military
generals that think maybe we need to take all the
(02:14):
money out of my bank account and give it to Zelenski.
I'm not real cool with that. I imagine a lot of
you would generally agree with me. Maybe that's why you're
here and hanswer turns out, reported Todayreason dot com, the
Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh
year in a row. Now, let's be clear about something.
I'm very glad that Trump just won. But when Trump
(02:34):
was president last time around, he didn't always get along
with the people at the Pentagon. He didn't always get
you know, Mark Milly and mad Dogmatis and any of
these guys were often at odds with Donald Trump, who thought, hey,
maybe we should do things that are good for American citizens,
and then these guys said, no, maybe we should do
things that are good for lobbyists from the military industrial complex.
(02:55):
Did you see how things are bad right now in Russia?
North Korean troops are helping Russia invade Ukraine. Ukraine is
launching weapons we gave them into Russia right now, and
the stock market has reacted exactly how you would think
to all of this news. Right after Putin signed new memorandums,
basically a legal document in his country saying you know what,
(03:19):
We're gonna be a little more gung ho about nuclear
war around here. If America starts popping off, maybe we'll
dust off the nuclear warheads and will bomb Ukraine. And
the stock market reacted to that exactly how you would think,
pretty much. When the down jones open up this morning,
I haven't looked at it. In the last hour or two,
almost every stock was down except the military industrial stocks.
(03:40):
Even Boeing, which has planes falling out of the sky
and recently had to abandon the space industry, had a
pretty good morning for the first time in a while.
And as somebody that's kind of held some Boeing stock
for years now, of all that, it's the only military
industrial stock that sucked. But that's another conversation altogether. So
not shockingly, a lot of people aren't thrilled about the
(04:00):
fact that we may be starting another You know, we're
already in World War three. I think that's been established now.
If North Korea and Iran and China and Russia, if
they're all connected with each other and they're helping get
more involved in places like Israel, yeah, I would say,
for all intent and purposes, that's what this is. World
War three. You could quit asking that question. It's World
(04:21):
War three. That's it's been World War three. We don't
need to quit wondering that. We do, however, have to
wonder what happened to almost nine hundred billion dollars at
the Pentagon. Almost nine hundred billion dollars is almost a
trillion dollars. That's how much money they lost in the
last year. Now, like I said, this isn't new, This
isn't news, this has been happening. It was a problem
(04:41):
when the Republicans were in charge that Trump tried to
clean house. He did the best he could. It's clearly
a problem when the Democrats are in charge because they
love war almost as much as they love abortion and
mutilating the genitals of young kids with chemical castration drugs.
So I noticed the last time this happened roughly a
year to a year and a half ago. John Stewart
(05:02):
now my favorite comedian, but kind of like Bill Maher
at least he's right. Once in a while, he is
interviewing the deputy secretary in charge of the Pentagon. That
would be the Deputy Defense Secretary, Kathleen Hicks. The last
time this audit happened, and we realized you actually lost
hundreds of billions of dollars. For those of you that
are watching me right now on social media, you will
(05:24):
not be able to miss the smug look on this
woman's face. But to those of you just listening on
the radio, just know every time John Stewart asks her
a reasonable question about what happened to billions of dollars
at the Pentagon, she rolls her eyes, she laughs, She
tries to change the subject.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Like, there is a lot of waste, fraud and abuse
within assistance audits.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Waste fraud abuse are not the same thing, So let's
decompose these.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Please educate me on Oh sure.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So an audit is exactly what you just described, which is,
do I know what was delivered to which place? The
ability to pass an audit or in the fact that
the DD has not passed on it is not suggestestive
of waste frauden abuse. That is completely false right there.
So what is now is a question of it's suggestive
that we can't we don't have an accurate inventory that
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we can pull up of.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
What we have where sounds like fraud.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That is not the same as saying we can't do
that because waste frauden abuse has occurred.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So in my world, yeah, that's waste.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How is that waste?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
If I give you a billion dollars and you can't
tell me what happened to it, that to me is wasteful.
That that means you.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Are not necessary responsible.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
But if you can't tell me where it went, then
what am I supposed to think? And when there has
been reporting, I mean, this is not Look, I'm not
saying this is on you and that you cause this.
I think it's it's a tough argument to make that
cause it an eight hundred and fifty billion dollar budget
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to an organization that can't pass an audit and tell
you where that money went.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
If this was I'm gonna stop him right there. Becuse
John Stuart's making a lot of good points, but I
bet most of you probably already thought of this before
he even said it. If this was the private industry,
this company would have gone bankrupt. Stockholders would be standing
outside of the office building with torches and pitchforks. It'd
be furious about it. But in government, there's no accountability.
Now you can't just say, all right, wow, they got
(07:22):
a money printing machine. What difference does it make? Makes
a pretty big difference to somebody that can't afford to
buy groceries right now, and they're saving money, they're investing
in things. But for some reason, when I put dollars
in my savings account, the value on it, even though
the number of dollars is going up, the value on
those dollars is going down. And people wonder, Wow, there's
no way to know what causes inflation. Just corporate greed.
(07:44):
I guess no. Government greed is what causes inflation, and
here it is happening in real times. So thank god,
my man Elon Musk and Vivay Kramaswami and Donald Trump
are coming up with something that we call the Department
of Government Efficiency. Hang on one second, we'll explain to you.
I actually think they have a pretty reasonable approach to
(08:05):
how to fix the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion. Were here to talk
about something about politics and government and nice Hit and
co Grutch this show Hit, Ain't you average this podcast?
You gotta get you to Dan we can. This is pushiness.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Hey, everybody, today is World Toilet Day and if you
don't observe it, you're in trouble. Don't laugh at they
don't laugh at that. That was that was pandering. It
was a terrible taste. In all seriousness. Though, there's this
woman in Sweden. If you think our government is bad,
you know, in Sweden they actually have a gender equality minister.
(08:46):
It's an actual job that somebody actually gets paid to
be the gender equality minister of Sweden. Her name is
Paulina Brandberg, and according to a recent interview or an
article that just came out about her, she is deathly
afraid of bananas. The gender equality Minister of Sweden is
terrified of the inanimate objects that happened to be bananas.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I don't think we need to page doctor Sigmund Freud
to figure this one out. But yeah, that's a little
on the nose, isn't it. You're okay, all right, fine,
all right. Fortunately we don't have a gender equality ministry
in the United States, but we do have other problems.
We have the Pentagon as bad as the and useless
and wasteful as the gender equality ministry of Sweden is.
I got to assume they're not trying to stick their
(09:34):
nose and every problem in the world and solve it
with my money in yours. That's the problem. With the Pentagon,
isn't it. We're just looking at this audit report. Hundreds
of billions of dollars at the Pentagon got flushed down
the toilet in the last twelve months. Do you think
anybody will be held responsible for this? The woman the
Deputy Defense Secretary left at John Stewart for asking her
(09:54):
last year about this, and yet it's only gotten worse
since then. If you guys have followed me on social
media for a while, you know I vote Republican, but
I'm not like a textbook social conservative. I'm not. I'm
I don't think my positions are that far to the
right at all. I think I'm pretty moderate compared to
most people in America. In fact, I would call myself
a lowercase L libertarian. Every year, around Christmas, one of
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my favorite people, Senator Ram Paul, hops on Twitter and
he starts popping off his airing of his grievances right
around the time of Festivus, a fake holiday invented by
the people on the TV show Seinfeld, created by Jerry
Seinfeld and Larry David and basically airing of grievances. He
uses it as a funny way right before the holidays
when Senate they all take a break, They go on recess.
(10:38):
Everybody flies to their respective home states and they spend
the holidays with their families. Ram Paul will get on
Twitter and he'll remind everybody, here's all the stuff we
wasted money on this year. And to me, a libertarian
conservative Republican, this is just you know, no, it's beautiful,
it's fantastic. And every year this report comes out and
there's you know, the wastebook, the pork book. Mike lead
does something similar, Ted Cruz. They call attention to this,
(11:01):
No one ever really pays any attention to it. As
a libertarian Republican, I follow a lot of small government
tea Party post tea party social media accounts. There's never
been anything like DOGE. The Department of Government Efficiency has
existed for less than a month and it's got almost
two million followers on social media, on Twitter, more specifically
on x This is all I ever wanted, all we
(11:23):
ever wanted in the libertarian movement, not the Libertarian Party,
but the libertarian movement was our libertarian moment. We just
wanted people to acknowledge the fact that government is too big,
it's too inflated, it's too bloated, and it's the cause
of a lot of our problems. The reason you can't
afford to buy groceries or fill up your gas tank
and go on a road trip, it's why it's become
so expensive to do those things. So in just a
(11:46):
couple of weeks here Elon Musk the viaik Ramaswami have
actually made Ran Paul's videos joking about government waste into
something that people want to watch. Listen to this. This
is not a new video to a lot of people
because they just posted publicly. But listen to rh and
Paul talk about all the money we piss away on
things like getting fish drunk or giving cocaine to quails,
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or the money we spent trying to figure out what
they actually said the first time they landed on the moon, gin.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
To a sunfish versus tequila, which would make the sunfish
more aggressive?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hum.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Nearly a million dollars spent studying whether or not Japanese
quail if you give them cocaine, whether or not they're
more sexually promiscuous.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Who is a small.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Step for man? Or was it one small step for
a man? And in the end, seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars later, they couldn't decide was it one step
for man, one step for a man? Come on, A
million dollars for the construction of a kelp and shellfish.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Nursery in Maine, thank god.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
One point five million to encourage video gaming in New York.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
In New York, we might be better off. One point
five million.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
To discourage kids from make playing video games. Now, one
hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars for Columbia University, be giving.
A rich university has thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Any money, let's pausit it right there. He goes on
to make a point. We sent spend a lot of
money at the Baltimore Symphony as well. And I I
get it. Baltimore's close to Washington, DC. It's important to
the rich liberal elitists inside the Beltway there. They want
to go see a opera or something. I don't know
why I have to pay for that. You guys have money,
buy your own ticket, pay for your own symphony. Is
(13:31):
that too much to ask? So that's what DOGE is,
and DOGE is already starting to get a lot of attention.
You know. They point out here that in nineteen fifty five,
there were less than one point five million words in
the US tax code. Today there's sixteen million words. If
you've ever wondered why is it so expensive to hire
a good accountant or a good tax attorney? This is
why this is what it's for. It's designed to be complicated.
(13:53):
They don't want you and they don't want it to
be simple. If it was simplified, a lot of taxies
would probably lose their jobs. Ah, poor lawyers. Right now,
for whatever it's worth, it is important to support Doge,
whatever Doge is a gentleman. Over at townhall dot com,
David Walker actually made the point for some members of
(14:16):
the tea Party or the post tea party, whatever we're
in now. We've been talking about this for years. Why
can't we get some kind of a government department that
regulates the regulators. You ever notice, whenever we come out
with a new policy, a new program, a new regulation,
something we're spending on, there's not I mean, there's checks
and balances to decide if we want it, but there's
no checks and balances to decide two, three, four, five,
(14:39):
ten years later if it did any good, wouldn't you
like to know that wouldn't that be interesting if there
was an escape lever figuratively speaking, and every government policy
that said, if this policy, if this spending program doesn't
accomplish its intended goals in about two years or nine
months or whatever it may be, it poof, it vanishes
and goes away instead of existing for ever, Like the
(15:01):
Department of Education, for example, What the hell good is
that doing us? At this point, nobody knows. We do
not know. The federal government's gotten too big. I always
thought it was funny. Years ago a friend of mine
told me, we're not really small government conservatives. Those of
us in the liberty movement or the post Tea Party movement,
we think we're small government conservatives. We're not. How could
(15:21):
we be. How could we be small government conservatives if
we've never had a small government? No, what we actually are,
if we're being more honest, we're slow government conservatives. Right.
The government's already massive. It's one of the biggest organizations
in the world, the United States federal government combined together
with all the state governments and the municipal governments. It's
pretty flipping big, isn't it, Especially when you consider the
(15:44):
ancestual relationship we have with globalist organizations like the United
Nations or the World Economic Forum or the World Health
Organization that you know, we're paying for all that stuff too.
So yeah, it's pretty flipping big, isn't it. But we're
not really advocating for small government because we're way pass
the point of having small government. At best. We can
hope to be slow government conservatives when we go out
(16:05):
and push for policies, and you know, all I'm really
asking is, can we just take a longer time to
spend my paycheck? If you're already going to spend the
whole paycheck, could you not do it in five or
ten minutes? Could you spend a month or a week
or something. It's frustrating right. Shockingly, despite being in existence
it's roughly seventeen eighty nine, the consolidated federal government does
(16:27):
not have a future focused, integrated, results based, resource constrained
strategic plan. We don't have that. We're just throwing ideas
at the wall and seeing if they improve. And that's
all it's ever been. So that's essentially what I mean
when I say we need smaller government. We do. We
desperately need it now more than ever. The government is
humongous doges could not have come along soon enough. God
(16:50):
bless Elon Musk. The guy has basically saved humanity twice
here in the period of about four years, first by
buying Twitter, then by teaming up with Trump and Viveak.
I'm Aswamian, maybe Ron Paul. I don't know. Trump hasn't
even taken off as yet, and there are already people
losing their minds because when you hear a guy like
Elon Musk say we're gonna cut all the waste out
of government, what that means to the elites, the globalists
(17:14):
that the ruling class is our free lunch is about
to go away.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, very spicy radio.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yes, Hollywood? It's never been where Hollywood. I wouldn't want
to go there. We do a weekly report on this
show every Friday where a comedian from Hollywood calls into
the show and he tells me what's going on in
the news there and what comedian is a professional comedian?
I know a lot of stand up commed You know,
anybody that knows me knows I hang out with a
lot of stand up comedians, have him as guests on
(17:53):
the show. Comedians have really become the modern day philosophers
of our time. If you're a good stand up comic
and you can explain what's going on in this bizarre,
crazy world that we live in, you might get yourself murdered.
You know. Yeah, do you ever wonder if Bernie Mack
got murdered by p Didty? A friend of mine, he's
one of my best friends, is a black doctor, and
he's somewhat liberal, certainly compared to me, And there are
(18:15):
very few things that we agree on politically, but we
both agree there's a very dangerous thing going on between
Hollywood and Washington, d C. Isn't it fascinating how so
many of the people that were at P. Ditty's freak
Cough parties went out and they endorsed Kamala Harris even
campaigned for and they all made a lot of money too.
(18:36):
If you're not from Houston, maybe you didn't know this,
but I well, I'm you know, I do pretty good
for a talk radio host. I have some very successful friends,
hang out with some really fascinating people that have done
much better things with their life than I have. To
put it bluntly, one of those people's Tony Busby. Tony
Busby was a poor kid from a low income family
and grew up in a place called Atlanta, Texas, not Atlanta, Georgia.
(19:00):
If you never heard of Atlanta, Texas before, I don't
feel bad. Most people from Atlanta, Texas have never heard
of Atlanta. It's a small town near Texarcana. You've never
heard of that. It's another small town. You've probably never
gone there before, way up north, not far from Oklahoma
and Arkansas. And so this guy grew up, became a marine,
became an aggie, worked his way up the lat eventually
(19:20):
became one of the highest paid, probably the most effective
trial lawyers in America. He's the guy that won the lawsuit,
the impeachment case against Ken Paxton. He's the reason Ken
Paxton is still, at this particular, exact specific moment, the
best attorney general in the United States. We have Tony
Busby to thank for that. And Tony Busby went after
Deshaun Watson. Whatever you guys think of that, I could
(19:43):
tell you with great certainty if I didn't even know.
Tony Busby, a close family friend of mine, was actually
personally new one of the accusers of former Houston Texans
quarterback to Shaun Watson, and actually reassured me with a
great deal detail, great amount of detail that the accusations
(20:04):
against DeShawn Watson were legitimate. That person said so, and
it's my opinion that they were as well. And it's
my opinion that the P Diddy accusations are are legitimate
as well. Some of my black friends tell me I
need to stop calling him P Didty, It's just Diddy,
and I say, no, you don't get to change your name.
That many times. You were Puff Daddy, you were Puffy,
you were Sean Combs, you were Sean John. You can stop,
(20:27):
just pick it. I stopped at P Diddy, You're P Diddy.
Now you don't like P Diddy, How about P Diddler?
Maybe have more appropriate name? I digress. Buzzby has been
representing a lot of the victims of P Diddy, the
people that were at the freak off parties that were
claimed to have been trafficked or sexually molested or you know, exploited,
(20:48):
sometimes underage kids. Really disgusting stuff and like a lot
of these cases. Look, I don't know every one of
the accusers. I don't know every one of the people
that's being accused. They're using a lot of words like
Jane Doe John in the lawsuit, but just know that
I would imagine most of them are probably credible. Having
personally known Tony Busby and what a good lawyer is,
he's very good at vetting witnesses, I would assume, if
(21:12):
not all of then probably most of the accusers and
accusations are probably valid and legitimate. Just knowing Tony Buzsby,
I believe that that's probably true. Again, I don't personally
know any more than most of you do. But Tony's
now being sued now. I want to make something clear here.
There is a federal case against p Diddy right now
against Shawan Combs Puff Daddy. That's not the case with Busby.
(21:33):
Busby is representing the victims, not the government. So Shawn
Combs is in a lot of trouble right now because
he has both the victims coming after him with one
of the best criminal law trial lawyers in America, Tony Busby,
but also these federal investigators at the same time, and
now kind of a like a a moan in the case,
nobody was expecting a curveball, if you will. Busby is
(21:57):
now being sued. Busby is now being sued. I one
of the the accuses, an anonymous self described celebrity, meaning
one of the people that the accusers are suggesting sexually
exploited them, is suing Tony Busby. And we don't know
who it is. We don't. We could, We could speculate.
It might be Usher, It could be Beyonce, might be
(22:19):
Jay Z, could be Justin Bieber. We don't know. I
gotta get the impression Justin Bieber's a victim in all
of this. I will tell you this. Whoever it is,
it's probably a person a lot of people on social
media are talking about right now, right because this person
is upset enough that their name is being dragged through
the mud while simultaneously being asked by Tony Busby's clients
(22:42):
to pay some amount of money for them to go away. Now,
some of you might not like how our legal system works.
You might, well, they should go to jail, they shouldn't
have to pay some fee or whatever. Okay, but maybe
the victims don't agree with that. Maybe the victims don't.
Maybe the victim would rather have a payday and not
have their name be thrust out there into the public spotlight.
Then you know, you get it. Those are your two options, right,
(23:04):
That's what they would prefer to have at any rate.
They're the victims. This is what they asked their attorney
to do. So whatever you think about that, I will
tell you I believe Tony Busby. I think Tony Busby
is a winner. I think he's a smart guy. I
think he's very good at smelling, sniffing out bs. So
I think there's something to all of this. Now. Interestingly enough,
the person suing Tony Busby right now, the attorney representing
(23:25):
the victims. That's not the only use of the word
extortion or blackmail that's getting thrown around right now. Supposedly
p Diddy Sean Combs is extorting the victims from jail.
There are claims. There are lots of reports today, TMZ
and a lot of other sensationalized celebrity news outlets are
(23:45):
reporting that from behind closed doors, from behind his prison
cell walls, there Shawn Combs is contacting his son, his lawyer,
his friends, maybe some of his more sketchy friends, maybe
some of his friends, and they're going after the victims
because they know who these people are. The fact that
they would know who to go after tells you the
accusations are probably credible. There's also a report today from
(24:07):
some journalists claiming that behind the scenes inside jail right now,
p Didty is the superstar of superstars. Apparently a lot
of the inmates are competing to be his friend, and
they want to clean his cell and make his bad.
I don't know if any of that's true. I do
know that if Sean Ditty is actually gay, like so
many people have suggested, there's probably some other weird stuff
(24:27):
going on in there too, But I won't even begin
to speculate about that. I just just thought I had
and we'll go ahead and leave that alone. Right now,
Sean Diddy probably deserves to be in prison for a
very long time, and I hope he ends up there.
Sean diddy Comm's claims Feds rated his jail cell and
took his private notes. Now, I don't know if you're
aware of this or not, but if you're a prisoner
(24:48):
in a federal prison cell, you don't have a right
to privacy. You didn't oh you didn't like that they
came in and looked through your private notes. Okay, what'd
you write on the notes? What could be written on
those notes that you worry the federal investigators would use
against you? Sounds a little bit like there was a
confession on those notes, or him telling his lawyer something
that was presumably illegal that he did once to some
(25:10):
of these people, including underage kids they claim. I'm just saying,
with every passing day, you know, a confirmation bias. You
can call it that if you want, but I would
tell you it seems more and more like Diddy is
definitely guilty in all of this. And you gotta wonder
why they have them in a jail cell with Sam
Bankman freed the FTX crypto bro Gott. Are they going
(25:30):
to get murdered? I don't know. I do know this.
I'm Kenny Webster And to those of you watching me
on social media right now, stick around. We have to
wrap up this radio show in just a few short moments. Actually,
to those of you listening on the radio, I have
an interview coming up in a few short moments with
one of my favorite radio personalities from California. Spoiler alert,
It's not Larry Elder, but to the rest of you,
stick around. I'm going to continue this show right now
(25:52):
in social media. Stop at government, get out of my life.
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio, all right,
before we get out of here. I couldn't help noticing
something the Democrat Party right now, at this exact specific moment,
(26:12):
a very rare moment in American history here where the
opposition party to the incoming administration does not have a leader.
I mean, would you argue that Joe Biden is the
leader of the Democrat Party. Do you think that's true?
Do you think at any time over the past five
years he's been the leader of his party. You could
argue it's Kamala, but that's not really true. I hear
(26:35):
the words Manchurian candidate thrown around a lot, and some
would say maybe Barack Obama or Oprah Winfrey are leaders
of the political party. Well, we saw how that went
for them this year. Okay, they made a lot of
money running a failing candidate. Boy, did they make a
lot of money. Mike Tyson made twenty million dollars losing
a boxing match on Friday night. Kamala Harris is twenty
(26:58):
million dollars in debt and running for presidents. Okay, none
of them are the leaders of the Democrat Party right now,
So who is it? Is it Kathy Hokel, New York
State governor. Probably not Gretchen Whitmer with her weird, kinky
Catholic confession potato chip video that was strange, remember that.
I don't think she'll ever live. No, I got to
think the incoming leader to the Democrat Party is Gavin Newsom.
(27:23):
As weird as it may seem, he seems to have
been the first nationally recognized Democrat leader to pivot to
the right. Not long ago, in the state of California,
the outlawed homelessness now as a lot of You know,
if you're interested in municipal government policies, it's not called homelessness,
it's not against the law, and not of a home
(27:44):
that would be crazy. But public camping is now illegal
in the state of California, which is absolutely shocking to
anybody that's been to California in the last twenty years.
You know, I'm from Texas. Obviously there are places in
our own state where we have this problem. But you remember,
maybe Austin would be the perfect example of this. Austin
is a place where we imported California's bad political policies.
(28:08):
I remember a few years back, I was driving around
Austin through a neighborhood, a subdivision, and I got to
one of those little roundabouts. You know, when there's an
intersection with the big mounded dirt and grass in the middle.
It's a circle drive instead of a regular left right
turn intersection. You get what a roundabout is. And in
the middle of the roundabout, in the middle of this
(28:29):
residential neighborhood, I remember, there was a tent community. You're
probably thinking, well, how big could it have been? Not
very big, just big enough for two or three tenths
there were people living there in the roundabout. How insane
is that? Well, that's every day in California. California is
starting to realize the great exodus of citizens heading to
the lone Star state is maybe proof that they need
(28:51):
to make some changes. It's not just tech billionaires like
Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg that have moved offices from
California to here in Texas. It's average citizens all the time.
Renting a U haul truck is twice as expensive if
you want to drive from California to Texas, then if
you want to drive from Texas to California, because nobody
(29:13):
rents a U haul truck to go from Texas to California.
I digress. I don't know a lot about California politics
other than it's absolutely batsuper crazy. So I reached out
to a friend of the show. Riley Lewis, is a
producer and on our personality at One America News Network.
He's also a talk radio personality in San Diego, which
is a big city. You know, they have a baseball
(29:34):
team there, for example, or Major League Baseball, but actually
a lot of conservatives live in San Diego. Surprisingly a
military base there, Riley, have I explained California well as
somebody that lives in California. I gotta think there's probably
some big details I'm leaving out to explain the political
climate there right now. But you guys did just pass
a bunch of very conservative props in what is considered
(29:55):
to be the most liberal state in the country. What
am I missing?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
I mean, really, that's just one thing I would like
to add that a lot of people I think are
seeing now more so than before, which is that California
has a huge number of registered Republicans and registered conservative voters,
and we have in that case, I mean, we're one
of the most republican states actually in the Union. And
not that long ago this was a Republican legislature here
in Sacramento, we had Republican elected officials, mayors, we had
(30:23):
a Republican governor. I mean, it's been a little while
since we had Ronald Reagan, but still this place does
have Republican roots, and it does for some time. And
it's really just, of course, like many other places dominated
by the big cities. It's Los Angeles County, at San Francisco,
it's Alameda and Oakland. But aside from that, even down
throughout southern California and southeastern California, the Inland Empire at
San Diego County, Orange County, Riverside County, you see a
(30:45):
lot of red. You see a lot of conservatives. We
just needed those people to turn out and actually vote.
And now that they've used their voices, you can see
by looking at the map in this last election, there
is a lot of red up and down California and
things are changing and for the better. And I'm very
happy to see it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah, lot did Republican voters exist? At least eight million
as far as I'm aware of, which is, you know,
more than the state of Louisiana or Mississippi. That's a
lot of Republicans. But it's my impression a lot of
them don't show up on election day because they just
assume their vote's not going to count. Is that the
gist of it? Yes, yes, it is. Okay. So these
(31:20):
props that just passed, do you guys do state props
just like we do proposition seven in Proposition A and
all these different things. And a lot of attention was
given towards the crime bill that just passed in your state.
We could never understand this over here in Texas, you
guys actually basically decriminalized shoplifting for lack of a better explanation.
And this wasn't all over the state, I think, but
(31:41):
it was in a lot of big municipal governments, particularly
around the Bay Area. You could go into a Kohls
or a TJ Max or a Target, you know, pick
a mid price department store and you could shoplift and
as long as it was less than what was it,
nine hundred and fifty dollars. You couldn't be arrested, you
were just ticketed. But now the tough ont they call
it a tough on crime bill. I think it's a
(32:01):
moderate on crime bill. Perhaps thirty six just passed, and
basically that law says, okay, shoplifting is illegal again. You
can now get arrested if you walk into a men's
warehouse and steal a leather jacket. And the other prop
I noticed it's getting a little less attention on a
national level that just passed in your state was Prop
thirty three. This was about rent control. Did Newsome support
(32:24):
any of this stuff? Because it's my understanding in the
political ads and the mailers, he was the face that
they were using to go against this stuff or to promote. Basically,
they were suggesting that he was for communist rent control
is the Prop thirty three thing. They were saying, he
was for what you described off the air as Marxist
property owner policies, and he was for shoplifting. But actually
(32:47):
wasn't he a little critical of those policies? Or am
I misunderstanding it?
Speaker 7 (32:51):
No, he actually was pretty he actually was a little
bit critical at least an Unprop thirty three and it's
actually kind of surprising. I don't know what the political
calculus is for him, but really is just a communistic
policy idea that would make things a lot worse. And
there's been a lot of fighting on the ground here
for years and years to try to expand rent control
just because the cost of living is skyrocketing across the
board for condos, townhouses, apartments, single family homes, you name it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So it's fair.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
But there are some people that actually would argue weirdly
enough that the governor that Newsom actually kind of killed
rent control initiatives in California. And I mean, it's very
surprising knowing Gavin Newsom, having seen him going, you know,
running the state into the ground basically, and it's something
you think you would support ideologically, so there must be
some you know, other political calculation for not supporting it.
But yes, surprisingly, actually Gavin Newsen did not support this
(33:37):
communistic rent control and I don't understand exactly why, but
it's very interesting to see that. And maybe it's because
he just knows that things are changing so rapidly in
California because a lot of people are not happy with him.
They've been very upset with his leadership and Democrats just
lost huge to this election, and a lot of Californians
did go for Trump and they went read, they went
to the right. So maybe he's trying to balance things
out a little bit because he wants to say faith
(33:58):
save his career posture for future office. It's hard to
say what his calculation is, but he actually was pretty
surprisingly opposed to run control.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Okay, a lot of our younger listeners won't remember this,
but something getting a lot of actually, I guess they
would know about it. The Menendez Brothers is the topic
of a Netflix crime documentary, and it's very strange to
me that now the general populace, average people now form
their opinions about controversial criminal cases based on what they
learned in a Netflix documentary or a crime podcast. But look, Riley,
(34:29):
I guess those are the times we're living in here.
Back in the nineties, the Menendez brothers were these two
rich kids who murdered their dad, and they went to prison,
and most people kind of thought they belonged there. It
probably didn't get much national attention if not for the
fact that they were rich and white. But now a
lot of people have learned maybe they were victims of
sexual molestation by their father. And look, murder's still wrong.
(34:51):
But I've noticed some liberals are okay with breaking the
law if it's for the common good. And so now
there seems to be this outcry of people on left
demanding the Menendez brothers be released from jail. Even I
think the district attorney over there and what is that
LA had said, Yeah, we're gonna change the you know,
the outcome of this case needs to be modified a
(35:13):
little bit. Oddly enough, Gavin Newsom, formerly a poster boy
for liberalism, is actually against this one. He says, these
guys should stay in prison. This is, you know, to
those of us outside of California, this is interesting simply
because it's tabloid news that's come back after twenty almost
thirty years. But to you guys in California, this is
(35:33):
actually a sign that your governor might be pivoting to
the right. And also maybe a little writing on the
wall here for a hint at running for president in
four years. Huh oh.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Absolutely absolutely, And of course he did want to run
against Trump because he knew he was gonna lose and
it would have been spectacular. But I do think he
wants to run for president one day. And I also,
like you said that the time that here is changing.
People have not been happy with the approach to crime here.
It's been beyond soft on crime. It had been enabling
criminals and them with ridiculous policies. And a lot of
these sous back das have been totally along for the ride.
(36:05):
And so I do think it's nice to see that
because these Menda's brothers. I remember that case. It's a
very interesting one. People have never heard of it. I mean,
two very wealthy kids who had huge prospects to who
come from a family with a father who is self
made from another country, from Cuba, I think, and they
shoot their parents right in the face and their own
home with shotguns. And Beverly Hills, that kind of thing
does not happen in Beverly Hills, California. Of all the
(36:26):
places it could have possibly happened. That sounds like Compton
or Inglewood, but certainly not Beverly Hills. So it was
a very very high profile case and famously the first
trial did not result in anything. So there was a
second trial with a much better prosecutor who really cast
out on some of those allegations about sexual assault coming
from the parents. But even if they were abused, and
that is horrific, taking a shotgun to your own mother's
(36:47):
face and your own father's face, I don't even need
to relitigate at all, because the way it went down
is extremely concerning and it does suggest that these guys
are unstable for whatever reason. There's something that's wrong with
these Meninda's brothers, I don't know what. As a non
a psychologist, sure, however, you know, I will say this
whole broader thing about actually finally cracking down on crime.
It is long overdue because we've had people that famously
(37:09):
go into a place like a ride ag or a Walgreens,
they take a bunch of stuff, they set up shop
on the corner outside of the retailer and start selling
the stuff for half price. It's completely ridiculous. And how
I mean the brazenness and the boldness of some of
these criminals now because they've just gotten away with it
for so long, they've been running the roots, the inmates
have been running to prison. So yeah, it's about time
to see the pendulum swing back the other way, because
(37:31):
it is not common sense. It is running the state
into the ground and the people of California have just
had enough. We're just frankly fed up at this point.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So Riley, you can be heard every night on the
Answer over there in San Diego. It's a conservative talk station,
and of course you're on cable News quite a bit
as well. Oh a on if people could find you
on Twitter, but you have a podcast, Riley Lewis who
people want to look you up online?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
I don't, but check me out with all the socials.
It's Riley Lewis seven to six zero, Riley Lewis seven
six zero on x spoke Instagram. Please check it out.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
My brother Riley lewis one of the good guys out
in California. And as we get into the next four
years of what will be probably a very interesting news cycle,
I got to think he's somebody we could call to
figure out what the hell is going on in the
Golden State. I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. Thanks
so much for listening to the show this afternoon. Remember
we do have a podcast. We have a smartphone app.
You can listen to BOUTH the morning Show and the
(38:21):
afternoon Show. I'm the Walton Johnson smartphone app. The iHeartRadio app.
You could find me on Twitter, the Tube of Views,
of the Book of Faces, and lots of other places.
Have a great afternoon, folks. We'll be back bright and
early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought a
radio for.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happy Miss Radio.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
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