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September 3, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anywhere there's a gold in the action. Stevie will just
keep playing if you.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Don't, Yeah, you have to interrupt him. We've learned the
hard way. Oh play he does. He just keeps keeps
doing that. You know, politics is all about perspective. There
was a study conducted a while back about what it
is that radicalizes conservatives. They said, what radicalizes conservatives is
usually lack of or loss of quality of life. Somebody

(00:27):
had jobs in Ohio, as you know, a young man,
and then when they got older, all the factories closed,
the jobs were outsourced. This pushed people far to the right.
Interestingly enough, the thing that seems to radicalize people on
the left is guilt, especially for white people. Oh yeah.
They went out and they looked at white, affluent, suburban

(00:47):
people and they said, why do they seem to vote
so liberally? And they said, wow, As it turns out,
they feel guilty about the fact that they have affluents
or they have conveniences. You think, wow, that's weird. Why
would you feel bad about that? Well, they're liberals, right,
So politics is all about perspective. And obviously, you know,
we use the word anecdotal a lot because I mean,

(01:08):
I do at least because I think it's important to say.
I feel this way because of what I've witnessed. What
I've witnessed as a former resident of Chicago or as
a current resident of Houston is two cities with a
similar socioeconomic structure. Similar working class, blue collar city with
a metropolitan downtown, international metropolis, you know, stock trading, oil

(01:31):
and gas, commodities, that sort of thing, but also factory workers,
lots of industrial people, similar income levels, vastly different quality
of life.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, huge difference.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
So what's the difference do you think what's making that different?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
As a resident of Chicago, right, I mean I grew
up in the suburbs. I grew up in a nice
enough place, and then as an adult, I moved to
the city and I saw things I never would have
seen as a child, and I've certainly never seen since
moving to Texas. I've seen people get shot at. I've
seen it. I've seen it with my own two eyes
just standing around on an average evening. I remember I

(02:05):
was sitting in a gas station in a neighborhood called
wicker Park. Wicker Park kind of like Lincoln Park. It's
where there's money there. It's a nice area. There's nightclubs
and restaurants and bars, and that's where you want to
be if you're a hip young person in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Isn't that also where you want to be if you're
gonna rob people? Probably because they have stuff? You go
to the poor part of town to rob people, what
are you gonna get exactly? Poor people stuff you already have.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
That.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's actually an argument that black activists like to make
a lot. They'll say, well, you know, in the Fifth
Ward over here where the black people like, the crime
rate it's very low. It's low because who you're going
to rob? Yeah, what are you going to steal from someone?
That is nothing?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
We get that.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah. So I'm actually seen in a gas station in
wicker Park, nice part of Chicago, a drive by shooting.
I saw it, and I can remember, in my early twenties,
I was naive enough to stick my head up and
want to look, but I was like, what's going on
over there, Kenny, get down my face?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
People stop shooting those bullets at everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I could remember late at night, after a nightclub closed,
there was a promoter walking out in a not so
nice part of town. I'll admit I probably shouldn't have
been there, and he was carrying money with him from
the event, and a guy ran up and stabbed him
and stole the lock box, and we were all very alarmed.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
So I, you didn't chase him down, No, he should
have chased him.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Not my money, not my No. I remember watch again,
thinking wow, that's terrible. And then around age twenty nine,
I got offered this job and I turns out it's
the same job I have. Now this is over a
decade ago, and I moved to Houston, Texas, and within
about a week of living here, someone broke into my
car and they stole stuff out of it, and I

(03:41):
remember thinking, oh, there's crime here. At the time, it
made me curious enough to compare. What I learned was
when it came to crime in Chicago and Houston, two
cities about the same size population. The crime rates were
almost a mirror in there of each other. A theft, robbery, vandalism,
you know, cataleta converter. Uh, you getting stolen.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Gym bag with your sweaty clothes and whatever it is,
they want.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
It right right exactly. One thing that was not the
same was violent crime. Violent crime was the one thing
that differed. In Chicago, it was twice as bad, twice
as bad for everything, shooting, stabbings, rapings, you know, getting
mug you name it, kidnappings, anytime there was violence involved,
not just somebody stealing the like lock, cutting the lock

(04:26):
on your bike and taking off with but actual violence
that was double the number. It's like, well, what is
it that made Chicago so dangerous and Houston so much
safer in terms of that one issue, that one issue
that really matters. We could all live without our laptop.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Tell us quickly, tell us, well, I'm on the edge
of my seat.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Come on, man, spill it.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
You're like one of these one of these internet news stories.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
You don't want to put the information in until about
the eighth paragraph down.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Can he come on in Chicago, help us fix it.
There are no gun stores anywhere, there's no gun ranges,
there's no legal gun own unless you know, you drove
in from out of town with your gun.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
And then how are all these people getting shot?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I have to wonder, because they're they're not quite done
adding up the numbers from the weekend over Labor Day.
Yet when we left it was fifty five and seven
to fifty four. Well, now it's fifty eight and eighty. Yeah,
they did the paperwork on a few more fifty eight shot.
Eight of those died. It took him a while, some

(05:28):
of them.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
So they found four more shootings and one more dead guy. Yeah,
they just found another dead guy in twenty four hours.
I didn't even know he was there in the morgue
in some part of town nobody wanted to go to.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
But the mayor and the governor of the state would
both have you believe.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's a lovely place. Come on and visit anytime. It's
all good here.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Houston is a city in a big red state. It's
a blue city, but it's in a big red state.
And we have guns here, have a lot of guns.
You could throw a rock in any direction. You'll had
a strip club, a barbecue shop, and a gun store. Yeah,
and we like it like that. In Chicago you don't
encounter those things. Certainly, not a barbecue shop. That'd be great.

(06:07):
Strip clubs there's only a handful of them. The mob
controls that. And then gun ranges there are none. The
only gun range in the city is the one that
the cops go to.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, So where do average citizens get to practice, you know,
shooting their gun so that they know how to operate
it safely and know how to hit what they're aiming.
At Lake County just Saturday night, huh, well there's that. Yeah,
just turn it loose on a Saturday night, it's the weekend,
and do what it do.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
In the weekend.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Go.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Do you know how it is? You know, yeah, yeah,
they can't be he'd be shooting my son dead. But hey,
at the weekend, you know that how it gonna be?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, sure, I mean we wouldn't expect that kind of
thing on a weekday.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
No, but forbid.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Chicago is a big blue city in a big blue state.
Houston is a big blue city in a big red state.
And that one little difference, a little bit half the
violent crime. Now, I haven't looked at the numbers recently,
I'll admit I've no as they fluctuated over the last decade.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
And believe me, we've got more than our share of
crime in Houston. When not saying that it's a lovely
place to visit and you should all come here immediately,
like they're saying in Chicago, you know, take your chances anywhere.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
These days, there is.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now a national conversation something I've wanted my whole life,
a national conversation about why the crime in Chicago is
so bad and what the local political leaders they're intend
to do about it. And even I got to admit,
as a guy that grew up in a decent little
corner of that state, I am pretty surprised to find
out that every prominent political leader in the state of

(07:36):
Illinois is taking the side of the criminals.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Of course, it's amazing. Same in New York, it seems
that way. DC about the same. All of these cities
where the crime is running rampant, even if it is
a red state. The cities themselves are run by Democrats.
That's just how it is. And it somebody keeps voting
for Democrats.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
All eyes are on JB. Pritzker, a rich, chubby, white billionaire.
And by the way, they elected this guy because they
hated Trump. Does that make any sense? Of course, Yeah,
we hate the rich, we hate the rich. Let's vote
for the rich. So they brought in JB. Pritzker. JB.
Pritzker is walking down a sidewalk on LSD. It's Lake
Shore Drive. For the record, he's on a drunk. Oh okay,

(08:21):
I believe he's standing with a CBS News reporter, and
the CBS News reporter asks him about the thing we
were discussing.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Frequently on the show yesterday. Yeah, hell, how safe is Chicago?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
This is yesterday's numbers. Steve's already updated him, But yesterday
was fifty four shot seven dead over the weekend in Chicago.
Those are Afghan warlike numbers, those are Iraqi, those are
Yemen houthy rebel.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
There were multiple shootings in multiple cities, and they all
got more attention than the much bigger shootings and killings
in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
So this reporter asked JB. Pritzker, you know, you say
Donald Trump's out of line for wanting to say the
National Guard here. You say Chicago's safe, but you just
had dozens of shootings. Would you ask one of your
friends to ride the train from O'Hare Airport to downtown
after nine pm? Listen to his answer.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
You're going to hear people, especially paton this past weekend
fifty four shot seven Dad, They're going to say the
city's not safe. Would you ask your friends to ride
the l after midnight or after you know, nine o'clock
at night even to come down to the city from O'Hare.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Look, big cities have crime, there's no doubt about it.
But let's just pay attention to what President Trump is
doing targeting show he's overlooking. Let's red states and have
much higher crime Rates's name on, Let's just look at Trump.
Don't worry about what I'm doing here.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Name a state, Name a city in the country that
has more murder than Chicago. I get it. You know
you want to do per capita for this one. That's interesting. Yeah,
you've told us over and over again. Per capita is racist.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Even before he got around to saying crime and other
cities is just as bad as it's just the whole
idea of well, you asked me a question about me
and what I'm doing and how I would behave.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
But let's focus on Trump. What do you say?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's you're here early rise and grin, what do you do?
It is just what it is? Do you know what
today is?

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Day? Walton and Johnson Radio Network.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Hey, kids, if you're a journalist and you get a
chance to ask Donald Trump a question in front of
the whole world, because that's what's happening, remember, you had
better have your facts right today.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
In California ruled that in deployment of National Guard troops
to Los Angeles was illegal.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Do you have any response?

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Well, it was.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It was a radical left judge.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
But very importantly, what did you not tell me in
that the question or statement that you made pretty much
of a statement?

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I think, well, I'll ask you for your response.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
No, No, you didn't say what the judge said.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Though.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
The judge said, but you can leave the three hundred
people that you already have in place.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
They can continue to be in place. That's all we need.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
But why didn't you put that as part of your
statement because the judge, the same judge, ruled exactly as
you said, except the judge said that you could leave
the three hundred people that you already have in place.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
They can stay, they can remain, they can do what
they have to do. Here's something that's indisputably true. And
he's talking about Prop nine eighty seven in California right now.
It's an odd thing happening there. Marxist judges over ruled
sixty percent of the people there. California's deep blue, they claim,
But America's not. America's read America's right wing right wingers
won the culture war. Left wingers won the judicial war.

(11:41):
That's what you're witnessing now. That's why Trump won the election.
When Elon Musk bought X, what we witnessed was the masses,
the populace, speaking out. And it turns out that the
leftists were vastly outnumbered. But oddly, there are a couple
institutions where we're not outnumbered. Academia would be one of them,
the media, and the court system. People on the left

(12:04):
get into those three institutions far more commonly than people
on our side do. And so Donald Trump won the
culture war, he won the election. What he did not
win was popularity contest and the judges chambers at your
local appellate court. What he did not win was a
popularity contest in the coffee break room at your city's newspaper.

(12:26):
That they lost. That. That's those people who probably attend
bathhouse orgies on the weekend really seem to hate Donald Trump,
and they hate you and.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I and well they like to judge us. They say,
don't judge them. Okay, that's none of your business.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
What they like. Never judge, We never judge.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Judge.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
No, when you see a homeless Muslim migrant refugee with
a knife stabbing a woman in the street, doing an
honor killing. Remember that's her culture. Never judge them.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And if they decided they want to kill you two, well,
you know, it's just their culture and you got to
live with it, all right.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
You do. If they decide they want to rape you,
ask yourself, what did you do to get raped?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, and don't act like that anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, stop doing that. Knock it off, Jeeze, Louise. Look,
I gotta tell you for going forward Ukrainian refugees, I'll
allow it. Women age eighteen to thirty five, that's it.
Other than that, refugees, if you're from a country where
the food sucks, we don't want you. I'll allow Mexico,
that's it, Guatemala. I don't think you guys have anything

(13:26):
on the menu I'm interested in eating. You ever get
south of Mexico and try the food, it's not that great.
We all think like, oh, yeah, you go farther south,
they got tortillas and stuff. No, that's Mexico.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, up to a point, and then you run out
of that.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
You get down to Belize or Costa Rica. You find
your way down in Nicaragua. The food sucks. It just sucks.
It's not good. The only countries in South America where
they have food or the country that are good the
countries that aren't coming. Nobody's from Argentina. There's no illegal
immigrants coming from that country right now. Why do you
think that is? They have pasta.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, we do have some good news. There is some
exciting news looming just after the top of the hour.
If you missed it, yes, even if you did see it,
it's worth revisiting. Jasmine Crockett once again delivers. She went
I don't I guess yesterday or over the weekend. She

(14:18):
went full on ghetto, which we think we've seen before,
but she's getting better at it.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
The smartest woman in the Metropleux coming up in just
a little bit. Yeah, it's been that kind of weak girlfriend.
But hey tg I hump day.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
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