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September 29, 2025 • 13 mins
Kenny Webster interviews author Daniel Turner.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, if you enjoy the Walton Johnson Show like we do,
then you might also enjoy the Pursuit of Happiness show
in the afternoon with oh Kinney Webster there.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And as a matter of fact, I think, do we
have a clip?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Can we play a clip?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Meatball posta meals sold at Walmart maybe contaminated with Listeria bacteria. Now,
the good news is Walmart's just going to relabel them
as quick weight loss supplements, so it works, right, It's fine, Hi, everybody,
welcome back. It's all about branding in this country. That's
what I always say. You know, you look at what's
going on in Hollywood right now, and a lot of

(00:39):
people wonder, well Hollywood still exists in a generation. People
in Hollywood are leaving the city in mass so they
are the state rather so they can produce films in
other parts of the country. Meanwhile, the energy industry is
seeing some pretty big changes. A lot of you work
in the in g industry. Maybe you've heard a big
announcement was just made. The Trump administration is going to

(00:59):
put six hundred twenty five million dollars towards keeping coal
plants open and lowering energy costs. I'm not anti coal,
I never have been, but a very much pro nuclear energy.
So I always wonder is this the best investment? Should
we build another nuclear power plant? Here on the line
right now, my local energy industry expert Daniel Turner from

(01:20):
How Are the Future? Daniel just back from his trip
to Australia. What'd you learn while you were there? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, it's great with you. Australia is the world's largest
coal producer. They have huge coal reserves and they're doing
to Australia what the Biden administration did to coal, is
that they're going after coal, that promising this great new
green tomorrow, and the process they're making life really expensive.
So I welcome this decision. You know, I think there's

(01:48):
huge misconceptions about coal in America, as misconceptions that it's dirty,
that it's antiquated. A third of our electricity still comes
from coal. And if you think, you know er, your
prices are expensive, then you would welcome anything to make
coal stronger, and not only for electricity. But we can't
make cement without coal, we can't make steel without coal.

(02:11):
So we need coal a lot. And this idea that
we're going to get rid of coal is absolute stupidity.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean, you're onto something heary. In the meantime,
China actually opens a coal burning fire power plant a
coal fired power plant once about it once every two weeks.
I've read that before. Is that accurate information?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's accurate in the sense of the size of the
coal plants that they're building and the frequency. So it's
not literally like every week they open one. But if
your average coal plant is five hundred megawats six hundred megawats,
well they're putting around two thousand megawats online of coal
every month. So yeah, I mean in terms of numbers
that is it is very similar. And the problem there

(02:52):
is the opportunity there is Why is China choosing coal.
It's because coal works. It doesn't matter if the wind
is or the sun is shining, it doesn't matter if
it matter if you get an awful ice storm like
Texas experience going on five years ago. Coal always operates,
and that's why China is doing it. They take their
electricity seriously. So again I welcome the administration saying, hey,

(03:16):
look a third of our electricity comes from coal. We've
punished coal ridiculously. The Biden administration went after coal deliberately,
and we're paying thirty forty percent more for electricity. So
let's go back to supporting what works rather than promising
this green tomorrow. Right, how many years a Texas promise
We're going to have this great tomorrow and your electricity

(03:37):
builds are through the roof, So no more promises. Let's
go back to what works.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, So our coal burning power plants are a little
different than China's in terms of pollution, right.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh, absolutely, because there are ways to mitigate emissions when
it comes to coal, and America does that very, very responsibly.
China doesn't, nor do they worry about groundwater contamination, nor
do they worry about slave labor. So yeah, they can
also build these coal plants a lot faster than we
can because when you don't care about human rights, you

(04:07):
get things done quickly, which is why we outsourced to China. Right,
It's why Nike moves to China, It's why it's why
Apple makes things in China. Nine year old girls do
not require an awful lot of healthcare. And you know
you open this cliff talking about Hollywood. There's a reason
why people make movies in other countries. Hollywood's really damn expensive,

(04:28):
you know. They every time we have one of these arguments,
we need paid paternity leave one month. Okay, I think
that's a lovely notion. But if we're going to give
people a month off of paternity leave, that's going to
cost the company a fortune. So they're going to look
elsewhere to be cheap. Why do they leave Hollywood. It's
not because they like filming in China. It's because Hollywood

(04:51):
made life really expensive. So on the one I appreciate
what Trump is doing with the tariffs on Hollywood, but
on the other, we need to address why companies are leaving.
We need to address why Apple would prefer to use
slave labor then manufacture something in Ohio. And until we
have that hard reckoning with maternity leave and paternity leave

(05:11):
and free childcare and free abortions and everyone gets new
glasses and all of the stuff we require of our businesses,
companies are going to continue to leave America.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
All right, Let's back up a little bit. So Trump
made a big announcement earlier, and it depending on where
you're like at It was reported differently. USA Today and
Axios both report he is threatening to impose one hundred
percent tariffs on movies. CNN and Reuters say he is
going to impose one hundred percent tariffs on movies. Whether
he's doing it or not, you got to admit one
hundred percent tariff is a lot. How would that even work?

(05:44):
It's a tariff on the movie ticket or the DVD
sales or what would that even? What would it be?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, that's a that's a really great question. I don't
know how you tariff a movie. I don't know when
you if you sell the movie rights. For example, if
I make a movie in a foreign country and now
I have to sell it to the distributor here in
America so that it's in your local movie theater, maybe
that's where the tariff is imposed. And so they're not
going to buy foreign mad films because they can't afford them,

(06:14):
or they pay the tariff, but they'll jack up the
prices on movie tickets. So that's a little bit tricky. Again,
I appreciate what President Trump, frank which is say I
am tired of people taking great American industries like oil,
which is a thoroughly American industry, or Hollywood, which is
a thoroughly American industry, or tech. Right the other iPhone,

(06:37):
thoroughly American technology industry. I'm tired of them taking thoroughly
American things and then going elsewhere because it's cheaper. It's
cheaper to make them, and so I appreciate that effort.
But I also understand like there's a reason why companies
flee America, and that's because bad liberal policies have driven

(06:58):
them out, and we need to address that.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
All right, speaking of let's talk a little bit more
about the entertainment industry since we're on that topic right now.
They just announced to the Super Bowl performers get the
halftime show. They wanted Taylor Swift instead, they're getting Bad Bunny. Now.
I don't really care who the halftime show before. It's
not for me. I don't listen to pop music. I
never care. But Bad Bunny is this guy who just
said he's never performing in the United States again as

(07:23):
a response to Donald Trump winning the election and cracking
down any illegal immigration. Not long after saying he'd never
perform in the United States again for fear that ice
might raid the venue outside his show, the Puerto Rican
pop star Bad Bunny is going to perform at.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
The Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I am I'm pretty you know at pop culture savvy.
I couldn't tell you one of his songs. I don't
know his music. I don't speak Spanish. Who is this for?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Exactly? Who is the NFL halftime show for? If you
look at the last like four or five years of
the halftime shows, they are targeting very specific demographic and
it's not the guys who watch football. I understand as
a desire to make the NFL have a wider audience, right,
It's why we have all these stupid games in London

(08:12):
and in Dublin, and you can't even watch half the
your your, your your games because they're played in foreign countries.
Because they're trying to appeal to a new audience. I
get it, but but you get a little tired of
these these companies, these sports companies that hate their core
fan base, whether it's what they charge for tickets, whether
it's what they charge for beer, or whether it's the

(08:34):
fact that they keep driving you out of driving their
games out out of the stadium. So so the NFL
halftime is just part of this larger trend of kind
of given the middle finger to the fan base. And
if you want a halftime show that would appeal to
the NFL fan base. It's Morgan Wallin, right. I mean,
that's that's who watches football, that's who loves football. So

(08:58):
why are you trying to bring somebody who probably does
clearly doesn't like America, doesn't really like football, doesn't like
football culture. Why the hell would you choose him? And
the answer is because your football fans hate you, Bright Football,
your football audience owners, they don't like you, and they
don't care about you at all. And that's kind of

(09:20):
got to come to an end as far as I'm.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Concerned, Daniel, are you old enough to remember why the
Super Bowl halftime shows had these stars studded? You know,
pop stars perferre didn't used to be that way. Way
back in the nineties. There was a Super Bowl halftime
show with a marching band and a fireworks display whatever
they normally do back in the day. And Fox Fox,
you know, the TV network, the Fox channel, just Fox decided,

(09:44):
you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna get everyone
to change the channel during the halftime show, and they did.
Everybody turned to the channel and they watched in living
color with some celebrity musical guest and Jim Carrey and
the Wayans Brothers. The ratings were off the charts, and
then when it was over, everybody went back and turned
the football game on the following year, the NFL decided
to come out and they said, you know what we're

(10:04):
gonna do. We're gonna book Michael Jackson, we're gonna have
the Blues Brothers, We're gonna have you know, We're gonna
have zz Top And that was when that started. Wouldn't
it be interesting with Bad Bunny as the halftime show
if this was the year one of the competing networks said, Hey,
we're going to do a better halftime show. We're gonna
do a halftime show for football fans. We're going to
book an act you care about. We'll get Hank Williams
Junior or somebody like or Morgan Wallen. To your point,

(10:26):
I mean, you got to admit, it's like, I only
come up with two kinds of ideas, crazy and genius,
and I feel like that was genius.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think this is an absolutely genius idea. I don't
know what network has the Super Bowl this year, but
I think you're absolutely spot on. If a rival network
said we are going to time this in such a
way kind of what they do with the Puppy Bowl, Right,
they realize there's enough people who get tired of of
pregame shows and they want to watch a couple of
puppies run around. I think you're onto something genius to

(10:53):
say a rival network, we will time this because because
if I'm at someone's house, or if I'm having a
Super Bowl party and I get to the halftime, I'm
not going to watch some kind of sexual pervert, degenerate
who doesn't speak my language and hates my country and
my culture. I'm not going to watch him dance around
for twenty minutes. I might are You're going to put
it on mute if you offer me an alternative that

(11:14):
says we're going to have a cheerleaders and fighter jets
and red, white and blue and Morgan Wallen and Hank Jr. Absolutely,
I'm turning the channel, and you know what, if it's
good enough and the game stinks, I may not turn back.
All right, what about this?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know, we were just talking about the NFL having
games in other cities and other countries rather Pittsburgh Steelers
quarterback Skyler Thompson was robbed in Iron. He got mugged,
He got robbed in Ireland on Friday night while the
NFL is over there having a football game. Isn't that
the exact country that Rosie O'Donnell moved to because Donald
Trump's America is too dangerous.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I don't think they have been willing to put out
any information on the mugger. I've been to Doubling. A
bunch come from Irish stock. Irish are very pugnacious people,
but they don't really rob from you. So if you
want to say, like Han, does Ireland have a migration crisis,
it's a blanket accusation on my part. But I think
I would mortgage my farm, and as you know, I

(12:15):
literally have a farm to mortgage. I would bet the
farm on the fact that this is your Third World,
cultural and enriching migrant on the streets of Dublin. Last
time I went to Dublin, it was almost unrecognizable, and
I have a hunch that that's exactly who did this.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
It sounds like you're suggesting the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Skyler
Thompson was probably mugged by a guy named Mohammed and
not a guy named Dale, is what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Lots of bar fights at Dublin. But again, they don't
rob you. They just punch you in the nose, because
that's what Irish like to do. Right. The oldest joke
is too irishmen are walking down the block and see
a fight, and one says to the other, you think
this is a private fight or can anyone join in? Right? Like,
Irish people like to fight, but they don't steal. They're
not a stealing culture. They're just a punching culture, not Irish.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I can say that, he could say it exactly. It's yeah,
And I can make fun of Catholics because I am one.
His name is Daniel Turner. Follow him on X. Power
of the Future is his group. If you're in the
energy industry, you owe it to yourselves to keep up
with the work they're doing. All right enough, I find
this whole conversation to be extremely offensive.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
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