Will MAHA outlive MAGA?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Kenny's personal trainer: JD Shipley of Starting Strength. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Okay, So there's this guy in Malaysia and he is
forty two teeth. If he can grow ten more, he'll
break the record currently held by Julia Roberts. I know
it's really impressive, isn't it good for him? Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. It's Pursuit of Happiness Radio. It's a
Tuesday afternoon, a pleasure to be here with you. There's
an election today in Arkansas. Apparently they want to replace

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Marjorie Taylor Green. I mean, they don't really have a choice.
She quit and they've got to find somebody new. Trump
just appointed Erica Kirk to the Air Force Board. That
makes perfect sense. Brandon Wals will be stopping buying a
little bit from Texas scorecard dot Com. Stick around for him.
We're gonna give you all the latest from the Texas
political zeitgeist if you will, And my personal trainer will

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be stopping by.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
JD.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Shipley is here from Starting Strength Houston. We're gonna do
a deep dive into all things health maha. Stick around
for that. But first, picture this little rom com setup.
Two wide eyed Pennsylvania teenagers, fresh faced and full of dreams,
hop in a car for a sunny day trip to
the Big Apple abnormally warm weather. Oh that's delightful. They'll

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enjoy that their thicket, skyscrapers, street hot dogs slathered and mustard.
Maybe snag some tickets to go see a Broadway play,
you know, that explosive new musical where the plot really
blows up. What could go wrong on such a wholesome adventure? Yeah, foreshadowing, guys.
This is like a Hallmark movie, but with more boom
and less meet cute. Here's the problem, guys. These joyful teens,

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Amir and Ibrahom, age eighteen and nineteen, pack their trunk
with homemade IEDs, the kind that could turn a crowd
into human confetti. Drive cross state, pull up to a
tiny anti Muslim protest or right wing protest, if that's
really what it is, right outside the New York City
Muslim mayor's mansion, and then they start shouting Allahu Akbar

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and pledge allegiance toasis like it's a frat oath. And
they do all this, by the way, as a bunch
of liberals are standing there speaking into a megaphone about
how great it is to have immigrants in Islam here
in America. Almost make the sidewalk look like a war
zone from Baghdad. But thank god, the thing's fizzled out.
Nobody got hurt. Still, federal charges rained down weapons of

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mass destructions supporting terrorism. You get how it works, guys.
These aren't prank smoke bombs. The New York Police Department
said they could have killed or maimed someone if not
for the fact that the guys who manufactured them or idiots.
And what does CNN do? CNN drops a headline like
it's a feel good puff piece. Two Pennsylvania teenagers headed
to New York City for a normal day enjoying the city.

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Their lives drastically changed when they were arrested for throwing
makeship bombs. Drastically changed. Yeah no, kidding, Sherlock, Like they
tripped over a sidewalk crack and oops, oopsy doopsy bombs
away found themselves, lobbying IEDs found themselves. That's how they
write it in the article what the Explosives were hiding
in their Uber Eats bag or something. Surprise, kids, your

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falafel order came with a side of terrorism. Guys, this
is peak media malpractice, felony levels of journalism. CNN's giving
these Isis fanboys the soft focus glow up, making them
look like misunderstood victims of a bad vacation, poor babies.
Their New York City tripe went sideways, literally with bombs flying,

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because that's what they wanted to do. It's like they're
scripting a teen drama from high school hygiens to the
Holy War. It's the heartbreaking tale of two ISIS terrorists
who went to New York City for the day. Ooh,
how about that? It's Ickbar's day off. By the way,
the photo is this disheveled purplalk, all brooding in tragic
straight out of the CW. If this was a MAGA

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hat wearing dude chunking pipe bombs at a BLM rally,
CNN would be screaming domestic terrorism. They'd have twenty four
to seven panels with experts dissecting white supremacy like its
open heart surgery. But ISIS inspired radicals counter punching a
far right protest nah just a quirky little detour, a
youthful whoopsie, Daisy. You know it's not the first time

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they've done this. Do you remember Rolling Stone magazine back
in twenty thirteen the Boston Marathon bomber guy turned a
finish line into a slaughtered house, killed a bunch of people,
maimed hundreds, hurt children, and they put a photo of
him with tussled hair on the front, looking like the
love child to Jim Morrison and a boy band reject.
The headline was the bomber how a popular promising student

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was failed by his family. Failed by his family, more
like failed by not getting caught sooner. They made him
look like a rock star ready to drop an album
called Explosive hits stores. Boycotted the magazine obviously. Boston's mayor
called it a slap in the face to victims, and
rightfully so, but bought Rolling Stone Magazine never apologized. So

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fast forward to earlier today CNN's now deleted tweet. This
is not new. The mainstream media has been downplaying Islamic
terrorism like it's their side hustle for years. Here in Texas,
we had the fort Hood tragedy of two thousand and
nine Nadal Hassan. He shouted Allahu Akbar while mowing down

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thirteen soldiers. He emailed al Qaeda bigwigs, but Obama's administration
and outlets like CNN labeled at workplace violence workplace violence,
like he had a bad performance review and he just snapped, No, guys,
it was Jahad wasn't stress, It wasn't mad about his
four oh one k benefits. They buried the radical Islam
angle deeper than a mob hit. And then there was

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Benghazi twenty twelve. The al Qaeda goons stormed the US consulate,
killed four Americans, including an ambassador. CNN, ABC. They parrot
the line like it's some spontaneous riot over a YouTube video.
You remember that premeditated tearor No, this was just people
mad about YouTube. San Bernardino, California, twenty fifteen. Do you

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remember this one? A husband wife isis duo shoot up
a holiday party, kill fourteen. CNN and MSNBC said it
was workplace pef Oh that again, gun control ranscalore tiptoeing
around the radical Islam narrative ignored the elephant in the room.
They were wearing suicide vests. I don't think gun control
laws are going to fix this one kids twenty sixteen Orlando, Orlando,

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Florida had the Pulse nightclub massacre. It's a Islamic extremists
there slaughtered forty nine at a gay nightclub. Calls nine
to one to one to swear Isis loyalty, and the
liberal media said it was homophobia that caused him to
do it. Okay, I think you're missing the point here.
Muslims might hate gay people, but they hate everyone else too.

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Manchester Arena twenty seventeen, Islamic terrorists blew up twenty two
kids at an Ariana Grande concert. BBC focused on the
mental health angle because they didn't want to have backlash
against the Muslims. Same year that that happened, there was
the London Bridge attack. Three Isis nuts van ram and
stab eight to death. Quick pivot to the Islamophobia narrative. Oh,

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we've heard this before. The pattern of all this is
crystal clear. The media doesn't hate terrorists. They hate you,
They hate America. They love violent radicals as long as
they're punching the right. CNN's basically the pr wing for
the resistance movement. And speaking of gas lighting, let's talk
about that viral meme blowing up. You know, if you're

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anything like us, you know that a CNN tweet getting
this much attention is going to get deleted. And it did.
They took it down. So yeah, back to those two
joyful teens on their dreaming New York City getaway. What
started as a sun road trip ended up in federal lockup.
From hot dogs to hot water, from Broadway dreams to
bombaway screams, their lives drastically changed alright, as the CNN

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headline put it, from average schmucks to poster boys for
the media bias. Wake up, America. You know why this
is happening. Our media hates America a little more than
they seem to be skeptical of Islamic terrorism.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Lie from Texas broadcasting across the peoples wet topic of America.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
This is pursiit of how it is Radio with Ken
Webstern JR. Akay producer Kenny keep it here, Hey, everybody,
welcome back. Great to be here with you, always a pleasure.
And I just can't help but notice that the liberals
new poster child for the moderate position they seem to

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be supporting as a anti Christian nutjob. James Tallerco is
one of these like pseudo Christians who take Versus out
of the Bible and tells you why it secretly means
abortion's okay or trans is okay. Breitbart dot Com today,
reporting on the US Senate candidate in Texas, said that

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displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools is an act
of violence, a violence against Christians and Jews. He said.
Because I haven't yet had a chance to comment on this,
allow me to stop right here and announce my gratitude
towards Texas Democrats for nominating James Tallerco. That is just
excuse me, James trans a Rico, am I not saying

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it right. I gotta think Jasmine Crockett would have been
more fun for us. But she's a nut, but she's
an appealing, charismatic nut, whereas this guy is just a creep.
Trans a Rico is a nut, for sure, but he's
a bland, pasty face nut. He's the irishman Beto o'rouric
without the Kennedy esque veneer. James trans a Rico is

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mister Rogers gay neighbor who lives in a tidy house
all alone, unless you count has four cats in the
parakeet for me to predict election results. But I'm pretty
sure that this anti Christian job who masquerades as a
preacher is probably going to lose anyway. Get a load
of the freak who also believes there are six genders,

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God is non binary, and trans people need abortion. Here
is James doing an interview recently.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
We're not debating, you know, whether the Ten Commandments are
good or not. We're debating whose job it is to
teach them and to promote them. And if Texas passes
this law, then they are picking and choosing among religions
and even among versions of the Ten Commandments, right like
this particular translation that they've chosen to put in the bill.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah, you know, this bill does a disservice to both
Judaism and Christianity. As you know, there are way more
than ten commandments in the Jewish tradition. There are six
hundred and thirteen in the Hebrew Bible. And the irony
for us Christians is that we follow a rabbi who

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try to simplify those six hundred and thirteen commandments into
two Love God and love neighbor. And this bill is
not doing anything to love God or love neighbor. And
in fact, it's discriminating against our neighbors, our Hindu neighbors,
our Buddhist neighbors are see.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Do you think it would be violence for me to
teach someone about Hinduism without telling them they have to
believe it. This is school. They're mad that we're going
to display the Ten Commandments at school. Guys. Again, I
know I've made this point many times, but it's freedom
from religion. It's not freedom from religion. It's freedom of religion.
Now you're allowed to believe whatever you want. It's fine,

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But it is a Christian nation founded under Christian beliefs,
and we actually teach people the Bible here. I know
that's crazy. This bill does a disservice to both Jews
and Christians. He says. Wow. The bill in question is
a Texas law passed last May that would require public
schools to display the Ten Commandments. It passed the legislature,

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who is signed by Governor Abbott. Leftists sued to stop
it in the law is currently make its way through
the courts. I gotta think it makes it. I gotta
think it's found to be constitutional anyway. During a debate,
over the bill, Tallarico said, it's violence against Christians and Jews.
Man alive this guy. It's like someone shaved David French.

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The Ten Commandments are more than just the basis of
Judaism and Christianity. They are the basis of every American law. Moreover,
they are the basis of all Western civilization. To say
they are part of our history is an understatement. You're
offended by this. I think you want to be offended.
I think you like being offended. There's surely no other explanation.

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It's just incredible, isn't it. I don't generally spend a
lot of time watching CNN, but we talked about there
now deleted tweet in the last segment, and again another
report today at Breitbart dot Com. Thus far, CNN is
the only Western media outlet allowed into Iran with the
permission of Iran's government, and it's not difficult to see why.

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After all, this is not the first time CNN is
served at the pleasure of an American hating Middle Eastern dictator.
CNN operates in Iran only with government permission, according to
a CNN disclaimer on their website, because if CNN wants
to report from Iran. What choice does CNN have other
than to do the regime's bidding. So that's what they're doing.

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Here's the thing. The Iranian government need not make any
demands or make any threats to force CNN to undermine
the American war effort. You might not like the American
attack on Iran, but at the very least I would
think you'd support America just because you're an American. The
Iranian government already knows CNN is their natural ally in
this war. Let's take a moment to note how obscene

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this is. Listen to this. CNN operates in naziy only
with the Nazi regime's permission. Okay, that didn't actually happen,
but that's the equivalent of what they're saying here. CNN
operates in Imperial Japan only with the emperor's position. Keep
in mind that in Iran, we're talking about a theocracy
run by apocalyptic Muslim clerics who stuff women in black

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bags and throw gay people off roofs for being guilty
of nothing more than being gay. CNN is reporting with
the permission of a government that everyday chance death to
America and is butchered countless Americans including American civilians. CNN
is reporting with the permission of a government that has
tried to assassinate our president. But that's okay with CNN

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because CNN also tried to assassinate never mind, I'm not
going to go there. CNN is reporting with the permission
of a government responsible for a countless number of terror
attacks in its pursuit of a genocide against the state
of Israel. And as you can see, Iran shows well,
here is Caitlin Collins.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Weeks since this war with Iran has been underway, the
deadliest incid of civilian casualties was a strike that happened
on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores
of children. Tonight, a CNN analysis of that attack reveals
evidence suggesting that the United States military was likely responsible
for it. What you're about to see is disturbing.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
I want to warn you.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
The United States says it's still under investigation, but this
was the scene at the school just after the strikes
one week ago nearly. CNN has not independently confirmed the
death toll, but Iranian health officials and state media believed
that at least one hundred and sixty eight children and
fourteen teachers were killed. Our analysis, which is based on
satellite imagery, geolocated videos, and the assessment of munitions experts,

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suggests that the school has hit around the same time
that an attack that American forces had launched on a
neighboring Iranian naval base.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
The headline is analysis suggests US responsible for Iran school strike.
And there's a lot of these posts. There's a lot
of these tweets. Irana is obviously well aware of CNN's
hitty of protecting and coddling murderous American hating Middle East dictators.
Here's CNN's former chief news anchor Easton Jordan admitting to

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exactly that, but only after it mattered in a post.
Saddam Whoseay in Iraq, listen to this. Over the last
dozen years, I made thirteen trips to Baghdad to lobby
the government to keep CNN's Bagdab bureau open and do
arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I
became more distressed by what I saw and heard awful
things that could not be reported because doing so would

(16:29):
have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis. Hey, at least we
are not at war with Iraq while CNN was collaborating
with Saddam. Right, just when you think CNN can hit
a new bottom, they dig and they dig and they dig,
and they finally find a bottom. CNN is officially the
enemy of the American people. And for the record, I
don't I'm not a fan of this war. I don't

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like it. I was never a big fan of the
war in Iraq. I just find it remarkable how CNN
goes around and finds the most anti American headline they
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Happy Birthday to Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris turns eighty six today.
To celebrate, he will just stare at his birthday candles

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until they blow themselves out. Isn't every day his birthday?
That's true, every day is his birthday. Happy Birthday to
Chuck Norris and Happy birthday to JD. Shipley from Starting
Strength Gym. Thank you. It's not your birthday? When is
your birthday? August? August's n even close to your birthday
nowhere near. I'm just making stuff up now as a bream.
I'm like CNN, I'm just making things up on the air.

(18:41):
I just open my mouth and talk what the hell
is this birth. For those of you watching this live stream,
you're probably wondering, who is this monstrous, giant man over here.
People always often comment on how great my arms look,
but they don't look that great compared to JD. Shipley's
what's going on with you? My man?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Man?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
JD into the mic there, put that take that big black,
long thing and shove it out to your face. There,
that's great. That's not fair to do that. How are you?
I'm doing well? How you doing? For those that don't know,
people often wonder after Kenny's divorce, how is it that
he got swollen? I lost the belly fat and then
I got arms. My biceps have veins popping out of
them now. I never had that before I met you. JD.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah, we're over at Shipley Plastic Surgery. We work very rahicles.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
You're a very unusual looking plastic surgeon. No, that's not
what happened. I started lifting weights quite aggressively, three times
a week. It changed my life. And not only did
it change my life, I think it saved my life.
And I have to say, I know it sounds dramatic,
but I was in a rough spot yep, and I
didn't men don't go to therapy the way women do.
And there's probably a reason why. I don't think therapy

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in the twenty first century is designed for men, certainly
not conservative men. In movies and old books and stuff,
therapists or psychiatrists, it's always this guy with like a
plaid jacket on and a pipe and he's got pat
on his arms. And if that's what a psychiatrist looks like,
maybe more men would do counseling. But that's not what

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modern day counselors look like. They have green hair and
septum piercings, and they don't look it doesn't look like
someone that could give me life advice.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
You know that we're gonna talk about your mother and
lem everything on your father.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, yeah, isn't that kind of what it is? I
get the best therapy I've ever had. You know, one
of your coaches at your gym often says he says, Kenny,
you're gonna you'll never learn as much about yourself as
you will when you're standing underneath hundreds of pounds yep.
And that's so. Why is that?

Speaker 6 (20:34):
I don't know, man, I think I think women bond.
Women bond over words.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Men bond over activities. Yeah, right, and so and so
you' so you're in the gym, you know, you're lit
and weights. It's not it's not it's not easy. And
so you're you're doing something hard and and a little
by little you just uh, it makes you a better person.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
I think, who who is Mark Rippetto? Who is this
legendary guy?

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Mark Rippetto is a is an interesting character from Wushdolf
Falls that wrote the the book Starting Strength, the Basic
Basic Barbelle Training and it, you know, in my opinion,
I think is revolutionized strength training as we know it.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
If Mark Riptel walked in here right now and started
critiquing my squat depth, would you throw me under the
bus or would you defend me?

Speaker 6 (21:22):
I would absolutely throw you und your bus because he
would kick my hands, my bud.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Excuse what a scale of rip approved to brow science? Heresy?
How guilty do you feel when a client sneaks into
some curls for the girls after their main lifts zero? Why?

Speaker 6 (21:38):
You know, because they want, you know, if if they
want to do it, great, you know, it's it's fun people.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Why are the curls controversial? I do curls at home
all the time.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
What's the big deal, because I think people want people
think that they're that they're actually having a significant effect,
and it's not. It's the it's a couple hundred pounds
that you put on your back whenever you're whenever you're
squatting and deadlifting that actually has significant effect.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I do the bar bell at your gym because that's
what it's all about. It's all about balance and it's
and the bar bell is Yep, that's all you need
that in a little jogging in my humble opinion. But
at home, I have dumbbells. I have a dumbbell set
and I like doing just to supplement my workout.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
It's still hurting. Nope, No, do you do curls every
now and then, depending on depending on if there's room
in the program for it.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, all right, how about this? Be honest? What is
the most ridiculous But I read it on the internet.
Excuse that you've ever heard for why someone can't do
starting strengths linear progression anymore? Why is that? What is it? Oh?

Speaker 6 (22:38):
God, Uh, that's it. It's just three times a week. Yeah,
it's just four lifts. Yeah, it's just three sets of five.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
No, Well, that's a really that's a really interesting point
because when you walk into the gym, it looks intimidating.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Absolutely. In fact, I was dating a girl a while
back and I showed her a picture of my gym,
your gym, and she said to me, Kenny, that place
looks like a torture chamber. And then she said, where's
the mirrors. I was like, why would we need a mirror?
She's like, so you could see yourself while you're working out.
I was like, what, why do I need to see
myself while I'm working out? That's what the coach is for, right,
that's absolutely for the money, you can't find better value

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for one on one personal training than starting strength correct.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
Explain why, well, because so one the whole point, the
whole point of the of the gym is to facilitate
access to a starting string coach.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Right. A lot of people go into the gym.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
They they make up you know, they'll make up something
as they go along, or if they have a plan. Right,
it's not it's not completely thought out, right, you know,
the starting straining coach has seen hundreds, if not thousands
of reps over and over again, is very has thought
through the model that comprises the correct lifts and and
knows has made the mistakes that that that people are

(23:54):
making it and that are making a.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Program ineffective.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
Right, So in terms of like cutting through all the
noise and getting too correct and therefore getting to results, right,
there's nobody better than the Starting Strength coach. And then
two for thirty five dollars a session, right, which is
roughly boils down to twenty four bucks an hour, You're
getting world class coaching three times a week. You just
can't beat that price, right, you know, if personal training

(24:21):
is one hundred and fifty bucks an hour seven, you know,
you know, one hundred bucks an hour for a quarter
to you know, a fifth of that you're getting even
better coaching on a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
And in some places is actually vastly more expensive than that. Yep.
So the value you get from Starting Strength. And so
there's two gyms right now, Houston and Katie obviously, but
it's all over Texas, right.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
Correct that, well, all over Texas and all over the
nation too.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Which starting strength gym do you hate the most? It's Dallas, right, Yeah,
that's my nemesis. That's the worst Dallas up here is
Dallas I told you. I always brag I've been to
some very exotic Starting Strength gyms. Been to Boston. Yeah,
Boston's is actually in a basement, like you're walking into cheers.
It's exactly right, It's not exactly like that, but it's

(25:08):
kind of it's more like that than you'd think.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
Yeah, well, everybody knows your name absolutely.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
And you walk in and they're like Norm, and I'm like,
my name's Kenny and they're like it's Norm. Yeah, it's Norm. Okay.
So obviously I'm a big fan of the gym. One
of the things I find somewhere remarkable about going to
Starting Strength it's the same people have been going there
for years. You got a Planet Fitness. There's a big turnover, right,
people at Planet Fitness all hate each other, they do

(25:34):
they do not, But at Starting Strength it's completely different.
Why is that?

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Well, what I think is interesting is is there are
so there are people from all walks of life. Right,
So you're you're a white male, you know, forty forty
years old, right, you know you can be training next
to next to a seven year old female. So there's all,
you know, people from all walks of life, but they're
all there for the same thing. They want to get
better by getting stronger, and so they're you know, they're

(26:01):
they're kind of unit unified under a under a or
they're they're coming together under unified task and so it's
just you know, it's it's uh, it's just a really
great environment.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I think you handled that really well. I was doing
a lighting adjustment while you were talking, and you just
went with it. But there now you look better. You
weren't bright enough on camera. I think you look better now.
Mu shiny. We're much for those on the radio wondering
we're live streaming on video as whenever I have an
in studio guest, I always try to turn the cameras on,
and usually it's a nerdy, wimpy looking guy that used

(26:34):
to work for Dan Crenshawn his breath spad and he's
all curled his uhs. I'm in politics, aw, I'm a
political strategist. But you come in here. You look like
a gd Viking who's about to be too dumb. You're
about to pillage a village, You're about to storm in
and find the princess and rescuer from the castle or something.

(26:55):
You don't look like most radio guests for some reason.
I hope not no, because.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
You know you look like you but you're also a
man of God. I am where do you go to
church at? I am so faith Bible church up in
up in the Woodlands.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
And used to be Catholic I did, so why'd you downgrade? Man?
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
To be honest with you, I don't think. I don't
think God cares no as long.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
As as long as you're not a Methodist, I agree. Oh, man,
don't even don't even get me started. I kid, I
love the method We don't have anything against Methodist, but
it is, but it is fun to pick on him. Absolutely.
What do you mean your church a coffee bar? You
have a coffee bar? What do you got a bookstore?
What are you gonna go?

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Is there a bagel bar? You gotta get a shmeir
bagel over there. My church isn't like that. My church
we have two things, pillars and shame.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
That's always That's absolutely right, That's.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Exactly that's what it means to be a Catholic. All right.
So in the starting strength world, which obviously you're like
the poster boy for it here in the Houston area,
is there a secret handshake for when we hit a
new pr I've never gotten that. I've never learned the handshake.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
No, it's just an awkward at a boy. Good job. Yeah,
I gotta touch another person.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't know if you're just talking and turning in.
This is my guest right now is JD Shipley starting
strength gym. We're having fun right now, but it's glad
to get controversial in here. Stick around more with JD.
Right after this, love the government listenlive, listen now, dude
proceied of Happiness Radio. It's kind of Webstern junior producer Kenny,

(28:25):
all right, this is interesting. A woman has been arrested here,
turn that down, thank you. A woman just got arrested
and charged with attempted murder after allegedly firing a gun
multiple shots at Rihanna's home. I found guilty. Apparently that
would be a fella ella ella ella me me me

(28:47):
me all right, right, JD? Right right.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Am?

Speaker 2 (28:53):
I am I your favorite guy in the gym.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
Or what, dude, certainly make the classes interesting, I'll tell
you that much.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Well, let's drop a bombs like this, my man. Besides,
Muslim terrorists in New York City not funny. Don't laugh
at that. Okay, you can laugh if you want. Speaking
of before we get in, I want to talk about
mahan men's health and stuff like that. You're you're a
member of the right wing health extremist movement. That's very offensive.
I'm told absolutely, you believe that we should like take
vitamins and supplements and eat healthy and exercise. Yeah, heaven

(29:22):
forbid we should be healthy. You don't think we should
just like, uh, you know, go get the surgery or whatever. Well,
speaking speaking of going and getting the surgery, I'm gonna
put something up on the screen here. I got exciting
news from the world of high school sports. You're gonna
love this. Yeah, a California high schooler. He's dominating the

(29:42):
track and field world. Uh. Three first place medals in
the girls events on Saturday, including the high jump, which
she beat the runner up by a foot The second
place person could was it with a foot of JD.
That's amazing. Meet ab her Nan, this young woman in
the front here who's kind of squatting down and tucking

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her legs together, almost as if she has something between
her legs that she doesn't want the camera person to see.
Competed in the girls events at the Roosevelt Invitational over
the weekend, and just we don't know how she does it,
Just amazing clarance of five to eight in the jump.
The second runner up came in at five to nine.
This young woman here, whose birth name apparently was not

(30:28):
ab Hernandez, was something else. I'm told it's very uncommon
for high school girls to change their name, isn't it.
That's unusual. Apparently a couple of years earlier, she was
not on the girls team. She was on the boys team,
and she wasn't as good. But then she switched teams
and weirdly became so much better at track and field. JD.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
What do you how do you think? What do you
think her secret is? Embracing change.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Hernandez was thrust into the national spotlight after President Trump
threatened to withhold federal funding from her California high school
because apparently, trans athletes are not real athletes, according to
this report. I don't know why, you know, just because
she has a penis doesn't mean it's not a woman's penis. JD.
I'm so sorry to do this to you. You have

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children in the room right now. I'm so sorry you
didn't ask for this.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
She's a little boy, so it's okay, okay, she identifies
as a little boy.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
The investigation aims to determine if, apparently she did not
think that was funnest, she did not like that at all.
The investigation aims to determine if allowing transgender girls to
compete in female categories violates Title nine protections. For I
think it does. I think it's generally like, this is
a weird place in history where we're at here where
we now have to convince feminists that women's rights matter.

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Don't you As a father of three daughters, doesn't that
kind of drive you nuts?

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Absolutely drives me nuts. Yeah, I mean, you know, I
don't know what all there is to say with this.
I mean if we have to have a conversation about
what a what a boy is and what a girl is,
and I don't know that we.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Can even have a conversation. It's kind of as a
weightlifting coach.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Right, you know, if you're if you're older and you
want to make this decision for yourself, Hey that's you know,
you go, do you maybe this America? But like I
don't know, forcing it on other people as a different
is a different story.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Do you remember, like fifteen years ago, when trans was
not controversial at all, if somebody was trans, nobody would
you just didn't notice some or transvestites.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Right, it was it was like it was it was
older people that were making this decision on their own,
and like, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Think it's as soon as it involved kids. And then
liberals will tell you, they're like, wow, we need to
talk to kids about this at churches and schools so
we can explain it to them because their parents aren't
explaining it to them. If your political movement involves spending
time alone with other people's kids, JD, you're a parent,
why don't you reacting? I think you I think you
hit the nail on the head, right.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Parents really are not you know, talking about their you know,
talking about this stuff with their kids, right, So you
know this, this belongs, This belongs in the realm of
the parents.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
I think parents need to step up and say here's
what's right, here's it's wrong, right, here's what's going on.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
One world where it's clearly not okay is obviously professional sports.
That's a no brainer. Weirdly, we have the WNBA. None
of them are good enough to play in the NBA.
Not one, literally none. There was a way. Have you
ever seen this video on the internet. Three average high
school boys who live on a farm did a did
a fitness challenge against three of the top female bodybuilder

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weightlifters in the world and destroyed them. These little they
were met, they were like, seventeen sixteen year old kids
are like, move this tire.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
That's why you have You have Olympic you know, women's
Olympic arcis arcke teams playing against high school you know,
high school boys teams.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, no, okay, you know.

Speaker 6 (33:40):
And it's not it's not an insult, it just it
is what it is, right, that's that's the difference in
that's the disparity.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, and you don't in the and then in the
world of competitive weightlifting, this isn't okay at all except
in Canada. Have you you've seen that. Then they're like
in America, had a thing in North Dakota there where
they were like, nope, get out of here, we're not
we're not happy. You can't compete with the girls. Sorry.
And then the guy who wanted to compete with the
girls couldn't came in last place against the other men shockingly,

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But in Canada it's okay, I guess.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
So why don't if the nbas haven't had that much
that much trouble, right, well, so why not recruit some
of the uh, you know, some of the ones that
you know that didn't make the cut from the NBA
and let them let them compete?

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh my god, I love it? Could you you know
what's so funny about this too? If there was a
woman that was good enough to play in the NBA,
do you realize, from like a marketing point of view,
Nike and like what absolutely Gatorade and like we're talking
like hundreds of millions of dollars, this person be a
billionaire by the time she was thirty. She wouldn't even
have to play sports anymore. She'd probably getting so much

(34:43):
endorsement money. But there's not one even if she sucked
just enough to be on the team. No offense to women,
but and for the record, I think women are better
at other things. And I'm not gonna make like a
sandwich making joke or whatever.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
No.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
I think women are like have better breath control, They're
better at handling a gun, women are more empathetic, they're
better at reading people, like men and women just have
different skills, right, Like you're a dad, you see this absolutely, yeah,
it's true. You're also a small business owner JD. And
I could tell this topics making you uncomfortable, So we'll
switch to something else here. If starting if starting a

(35:14):
Starting Strength gym franchise was a Starting Strength program itself,
would the first six months be the brutal novice linear
progression phase where everything hurts and the progress is slow,
or the intermediate stage where you finally stall and have
to dload your entire life savings. Which is it?

Speaker 6 (35:32):
If the if opening if opening a gym was Oh, man, no,
it's just uh, you've been.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Quite successful at this. But if somebody said quit your
job in oil and gas where you're making easy money
and go start a gym, no, people would look at
you like you were crazy.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
But it worked out for you. So one it worked
out all right. I have I have had the fortune
I am. I've been able to hire some very very
very fantastic people people and to and to retain them.
And uh, and and I think that's been the biggest
that's been the biggest secret.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
One of your gyms. It was in between two Asian restaurants, right,
it was Indian food and Chinese food and weirdly, I mean,
I guess it's not that weird. If you if this
was a weightlifting competition, the Indian restaurant won, the Chinese
food place didn't make it.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Which you put a smoothie bar in there, I'd put
a coffee I'd put a coffee shop in there. That's
that police needs to coffee shops, place to place to
hang out.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
It's true. Actually, I think that's a great idea that
would work there considering the location. If okay, hypothetical Mark
rip Itto shows up to your grand opening and says,
nice gym, but the squat rats or recks are two
inches high. Do you fix it on the spot or
just nod and add five pounds to every member's next
session out despite are you reading questions of it? I did.

(36:46):
I did prepare for this interview, believe it or not.
I did write some quiet believe it or not. We
were at the Medians on stage. We don't just wing it.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
We we we uh, we fixed it on the spot
because because that's the depth is the most important. What
is the hardest part about being a small business owner?
Uh Lenning and retaining good people.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Waylifting and data. That's data. It's science. It's an exact thing.
It never changes.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
Yeah, it's I mean that's so learning the skills to
coach people and coach people well, I think is difficult
in and of itself. But that's that's the hard part,
right is finding finding people that have the skills to
to to work with, to work with a broad range
of people, and to develop them where they develop. You
identify when he's developing. Develop Uh, You'll go through that
process and also and also retain them.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Alige j D Is one of my best buddies. He
changed my life for the better. I used to I
had a woman that left me and didn't want to
be in my life anymore. Now it's the exact opposite problem.
I have to call the police to get women to
leave me alone these days. But all that being said,
you really are one of the most important people in
my life. You've done a lot of good for me
as a fellow Christian, as a fellow Barbell enthusiast, as

(37:51):
a fellow Texan. I thank you so much for the
contributions you made to my life. All jokes aside, you
really are I goof around do you ever regret coming
in here? When you do? I'm in here once or
twice a month and hang out with me.

Speaker 6 (38:02):
No, man, I appreciate you giving me some airtime.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
We talk about men's fitness and running a business and
Texas stuff. And every time we come in here, I
look at you and I'm like, oh, no, this is it.
Jad's going to kick me out of his gym after
this one. I really want people to understand that going
to your gym can change their life. It's challenging, but
it's easier than it looks. It's the brilliance of it.
The brilliance of the Starting Strength program is that it's

(38:26):
not like these hokey gyms where they have some gimmick
or whatever, but you don't actually get results. The gimmick
here is the simplicity of it, and it actually works.
It's data driven, it is science driven. And all these
guys look like Vikings, but their nerds who like playing
Pokemon on their iPhones. And if you go to the gym,
you'll actually get results. It happens for me. It happened

(38:46):
in less than a month. Yep. I couldn't believe that
less than a month of going to your gym after
years and years and years and not getting anywhere, having
no progress, lifting weights, running, doing whatever I was doing.
Are injuring myself working out all week and being more
out of shape than I was, waking up in pain
or whatever. None of that is true at your gym.
And to that I say, I am grateful that you

(39:08):
open that gym. You changed my life, You've changed a
lot of other people's lives. Awesome. If people want to
get signed up one more time, what do they do?

Speaker 6 (39:15):
Look up Starting Smith Houston or starting Strength Katie in
your favorite search engine and follow the prompts to you
sign up for a free session.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
And all are welcome. It's not like a right wing
thing or whatever. It's mostly you know what it is.
It's for nerds who want to get strong. The people
I meet at your gym are overwhelmingly some of the
smartest people I know. One of the heed librarians at
Rice University is in my class. A guy that builds
his family builds skyscrapers around Texas, some of the most

(39:43):
famous ones. A history professor is in the class. Brilliant
people are in there, really and a guy that really
hates seed oils man. He hits him. I'm Kendy Webster.
I love you all. We'll be back Brian early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio till

(40:08):
the government to kiss your ass when you listen to
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