May 18, 2026 • 11 mins
Kenny Webster interviews author Daniel Turner.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, if you enjoy that, you want a 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? Can we play a clip?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
RFK Junior posted a video of himself working out with
Arnold Schwarzeneger.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
One of them at a worm in his head, the
other had a maid in his bed. It's true even
still in Arnold anti maga. What was he hanging out
with RFK Junior for? I guess the great uniter. Anyway,
I don't know much in this world, obviously. That's why
I work in talk radio. I try to interview people
that know more than I do, and there's no shortage
(00:42):
of them out there. I was wondering what's going on
right now with energy gas prices? Things are particularly bad
with the Iran war, or so they say, right the
barrel is coming down, the barrel of oil is coming down.
Why aren't gas prices coming down? I reached out to
a good friend of the show, Daniel Turner. Maybe you
know him, the bold, relentless champion powering America's energy workers,
(01:05):
rural communities, and our energy independence.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Daniel, there are a lot of.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
People listening to this radio show who work in the
energy industry. There's a lot of people on this radio
show that want to go on Memorial Day weekend road trips.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What the hell is going on right now?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, energy is always going to be in the news
as long as this kind of this Iran engagement is
going on, and gas prices are not great. You know,
the Memorial they is typically the kickoff to the summer,
the Great American road trip. You go look at colleges
for your high school kids, et cetera. And it's going
to be a little cost prohibitive, and that is unfortunate.
(01:43):
The President's well aware of it. You know, he has
a master strategy in mind. I know he is trying
to choke out our enemies and he doesn't want to flinch.
But it is painful for Americans, no doubt. And I
don't know how much longer this continues before it has
larger You can on our greep percussions.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I made a point on this show recently, and I
got laughed at by some of our older listeners. I said,
young people get their news from two places, TikTok and
music festivals. So now that music festival season's back, what's
happening on all the stages around the country. They're standing
on stage, they're saying, we're with Iran, We're you know,
(02:22):
we're with the Ayahtola, We're with Palestine.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Which is crazy, right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
These people would throw these little gay boys off a
building if they had the.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Opportunity to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But at the same time, you can't blame young people
for being mad about the cost of living right now,
and these two things certainly coincide with each other.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
What to do, Daniel, No, And you can't blame young
people for being dumb because how poorly they've been educated.
And that's a huge problem. You know, our school systems
have failed tremendously. So there's a lot of things young
people have going against them, there's no doubt about it.
But those concerts, I mean, it's so embarrassing to see
to see these people out there with the gazzest sign,
(03:02):
the Palestine sign, you know. And as you said, you
can't say, like, we support the rights of our gay
brothers and sisters and then say we support Iran, because
Iran would murder them quite literally murder them. So you
can't have it both ways.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, there's something to be said about that. And if
you look at what's going on right now in England,
I've always said this is the canary in the mine shaft.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know it, and I know it.
I read a story earlier today. It said that some
guy was walking around the streets of Essex and a
foreigner walked up to him. A brown gentleman, as they
(03:39):
described in the news, I think he was a Sikh,
came up stabbed the guy with an eight inch blade.
You're not legally allowed to have that in England unless
you're a Sikh. You get a religious exemption for it.
The police arrive. The foreigner points at the British guy
and says, oh, he well, he was being racist. He
said something racist to me. They put him in handcuffs
(04:00):
in a pool of his own blood. Then they figure
out his phone had recorded the whole incident. Not only
had he said nothing racist, right, we had a documented
recording of it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
This guy seemed to stab him unprovoked.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, over the weekend Saturday May sixteenth, in London, Tommy
Robinson's Unite the Kingdom anti mass immigration rally pulled in
tens of thousands, they claim Big March. They were expecting
more police estimated sixty thousand Big March at Central London
four thousand police presents there. I don't think the elites
get it. There's no more middle class in England. There's
(04:34):
the working class and then there's the elites. You're either
in the upper class or you're a poor person. And
the poor people are getting screwed by the foreigners getting
brought in. The elites don't care. It's making services cheaper
for them. What happens next in England? And why should
Americans care about this?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, it's a really great point, and there's a growing
sentiment of this deep frustration for working class England. London,
you know, it's a great city. It has made a
concerted effort to attract the world's wealth. But when you
attract all of the world's wealth because their own countries
are awful, you do just place Londoners in the process.
(05:11):
And London is at the point now that it's forty
percent foreign And there are people who have been in
London since the Blitz, right, and they can trace their
roots back centuries and they can't afford London anymore because
it's filled with you know, even the worst country in
the world has some rich people and they all moved
to London, so that it's a huge and growing problem,
(05:33):
something that would have happened here in America if we
didn't reverse course. I think Europe as a whole is
always a couple of years ahead of us on progressivism. Right,
they were socialists and communists before it landed here in America.
They are ahead of us on the climate movement. You know,
our progressives in America like to point to Europe and say,
(05:55):
look at what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They have socialized medicine and we want it. Yes, everyone
dies to go see their optometrists, but they don't have
a bill, and they consider that some sort of win.
So I think seeing where London is is a stark
reminder of where we could be headed if we make
bad decisions. You know that they don't have any more
natural energy. They've foregone the entire North Sea, right, they've
(06:19):
shut down almost all of their operations. They've turned their
country over to foreign invaders. So it's a foretaste of
where we would go if we lose our America First principles,
and I don't mean necessarily Trump principles. I mean anyone
that just puts America ahead of every other country's interests,
which we should do as Americans.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, so you and I both know there's got to
be some good news to go at the bad, and Daniel,
I think I have a little bit back here on
the home front. I just saw a report this weekend
detailing how gen Z and Millennials.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Particularly young men, are returning to the church. Church revival
is happening again in record numbers. The latest data shows.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You young men, particularly disenfranchised by Hollywood and the media
and academia, are getting something fake in the schools. They're
getting something fake from Hollywood, and they're returning to the pews.
The spiritual revival is coming and this is fantastic news.
Christianity remains the world's largest faith, the one the churches
(07:24):
that seem to be doing the best, according to the
data I saw over the weekend, Catholics, Orthodox, and big
Evangelical churches. The churches that are not seeing big growth
right now, not shockingly, Daniel, are.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The woke churches, the the.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Unitarians, and I know the Methodist Church split off and
became two churches recently. The church that's telling you that
Jesus would have been a socialist climate activist.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Not very popular right now.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Amazingly No, And this makes so much sense when you
think of what young people have gone through in the
last couple of years and how fake it's been. Think of,
you know, I have nieces and nephews who did basically
their entire high school during COVID. No prom no graduation,
no all of that stuff, right you freshman year in
(08:11):
the dorms, no socializing, no pledging, fraternities, no sports, no activities.
You know was so COVID is over and doone. But
those kids are scarred. Think of their crappy, useless degree.
I saw a report that said we're at the highest
percentage eer ever of Americans with advanced degrees that can
find a job. Why because their degrees are fake. Yeah,
(08:32):
you went to Brown and you have a supermaster's in
Kenny Webster Studies. But besides the Webster family, no one
else is hiring for Kenny Webster Studies degrees. So you've
got this one hundred and fifty thousand dollars degree. I
would hire someone for Kenny Webster studies, of course, but
you've got this useless degree that serves no purpose. Your
childhood was destroyed. Your your friends are online, right, and like,
(08:57):
oh no, my online friends are just as real as
my friends friends. But they're not. They're not. They're a
bunch of Chinese kids in Taiwan, and they're not the
same as having friends and bonds and relationships. So it's
not surprising that young people are looking for something real,
and nothing is more real than God. So to see
this revival, I think it is a backlash to just
(09:18):
the crappy life we have given young people.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You want to hear something interesting I noticed earlier today.
I was reading about some of the work Nick Shirley's
been doing. He's this young conservative journalist, obviously controversial. Some
people give him credit for outing the Leering Center and
the Somalian scam artists in Minnesota. To put into perspective
to you, how young he is, Daniel, when the pandemic
was going on.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He was in high school. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It's remarkable.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's remarkable.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It is, and it shows that you know, you can
still accomplish great things in this country if you just
get out and do stuff. And Nick Shirley didn't go
to fancy journalism school, he didn't get a fancy internship
at ABC. He he has some tenacity, and he has
a camera, and he just went for it. And yes,
he took a lot of risky moves. I don't recommend
(10:07):
people going into the heart of Somalia and questioning their
their fake grants because it could end deadly. But kudos
to him for building the entire awakening and being a
young person. So and he's real, and that's why people
like him. He's jeffinitly, genuinely real. Your show is real.
(10:27):
It's why I Talk radio as a whole is still very,
very popular because it's incredibly real. AI is fun. All
that stuff is fun. But even young people are smart
enough to realize what's real and what's not.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, data shows this industry is still it's the crazy
blows my mind. Talk radio grows every year. We've never
reduced in size or audience. You know what's great though,
getting into a Memorial Day weekend. Here to your point, Daniel,
America is still the best country. America is a place
where you can be any age and you can be successful.
Nick Shirley was a high school kid during the pandemic.
(11:02):
Now he's one of the most important journalists in America.
I don't even think he went to college. I have
no idea. Rodney Dangerfield didn't become a famous comedian un
till he was in his mid to late forties. He
gave it up in his thirties to go sell aluminum siding.
You didn't think he was going to make it in America.
It doesn't matter who your father is, It doesn't matter
how rich you are. Anyone can do anything here if
(11:22):
they work hard enough and have the talent.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Your closing thoughts on that, Daniel, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's a great thing to go into Memorial Day weekend
because a lot of Americans fought and died for that right.
And if you piss it away, don't blame Trump, don't
blame the Left, don't blame the Pope. If you piss
away the opportunity that those men and women who died
for you gave you, as you only have yourself to blame.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
God bless America. Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot Com. Follow him
on x.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. I
guess it's not available in Canada,
Hey, if you enjoy that, you want a 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? Can we play a clip?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
RFK Junior posted a video of himself working out with
Arnold Schwarzeneger.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
One of them at a worm in his head, the
other had a maid in his bed. It's true even
still in Arnold anti maga. What was he hanging out
with RFK Junior for? I guess the great uniter. Anyway,
I don't know much in this world, obviously. That's why
I work in talk radio. I try to interview people
that know more than I do, and there's no shortage
(00:42):
of them out there. I was wondering what's going on
right now with energy gas prices? Things are particularly bad
with the Iran war, or so they say, right the
barrel is coming down, the barrel of oil is coming down.
Why aren't gas prices coming down? I reached out to
a good friend of the show, Daniel Turner. Maybe you
know him, the bold, relentless champion powering America's energy workers,
(01:05):
rural communities, and our energy independence.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Daniel, there are a lot of.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
People listening to this radio show who work in the
energy industry. There's a lot of people on this radio
show that want to go on Memorial Day weekend road trips.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What the hell is going on right now?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, energy is always going to be in the news
as long as this kind of this Iran engagement is
going on, and gas prices are not great. You know,
the Memorial they is typically the kickoff to the summer,
the Great American road trip. You go look at colleges
for your high school kids, et cetera. And it's going
to be a little cost prohibitive, and that is unfortunate.
(01:43):
The President's well aware of it. You know, he has
a master strategy in mind. I know he is trying
to choke out our enemies and he doesn't want to flinch.
But it is painful for Americans, no doubt. And I
don't know how much longer this continues before it has
larger You can on our greep percussions.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I made a point on this show recently, and I
got laughed at by some of our older listeners. I said,
young people get their news from two places, TikTok and
music festivals. So now that music festival season's back, what's
happening on all the stages around the country. They're standing
on stage, they're saying, we're with Iran, We're you know,
(02:22):
we're with the Ayahtola, We're with Palestine.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Which is crazy, right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
These people would throw these little gay boys off a
building if they had the.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Opportunity to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But at the same time, you can't blame young people
for being mad about the cost of living right now,
and these two things certainly coincide with each other.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
What to do, Daniel, No, And you can't blame young
people for being dumb because how poorly they've been educated.
And that's a huge problem. You know, our school systems
have failed tremendously. So there's a lot of things young
people have going against them, there's no doubt about it.
But those concerts, I mean, it's so embarrassing to see
to see these people out there with the gazzest sign,
(03:02):
the Palestine sign, you know. And as you said, you
can't say, like, we support the rights of our gay
brothers and sisters and then say we support Iran, because
Iran would murder them quite literally murder them. So you
can't have it both ways.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, there's something to be said about that. And if
you look at what's going on right now in England,
I've always said this is the canary in the mine shaft.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know it, and I know it.
I read a story earlier today. It said that some
guy was walking around the streets of Essex and a
foreigner walked up to him. A brown gentleman, as they
(03:39):
described in the news, I think he was a Sikh,
came up stabbed the guy with an eight inch blade.
You're not legally allowed to have that in England unless
you're a Sikh. You get a religious exemption for it.
The police arrive. The foreigner points at the British guy
and says, oh, he well, he was being racist. He
said something racist to me. They put him in handcuffs
(04:00):
in a pool of his own blood. Then they figure
out his phone had recorded the whole incident. Not only
had he said nothing racist, right, we had a documented
recording of it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
This guy seemed to stab him unprovoked.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, over the weekend Saturday May sixteenth, in London, Tommy
Robinson's Unite the Kingdom anti mass immigration rally pulled in
tens of thousands, they claim Big March. They were expecting
more police estimated sixty thousand Big March at Central London
four thousand police presents there. I don't think the elites
get it. There's no more middle class in England. There's
(04:34):
the working class and then there's the elites. You're either
in the upper class or you're a poor person. And
the poor people are getting screwed by the foreigners getting
brought in. The elites don't care. It's making services cheaper
for them. What happens next in England? And why should
Americans care about this?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, it's a really great point, and there's a growing
sentiment of this deep frustration for working class England. London,
you know, it's a great city. It has made a
concerted effort to attract the world's wealth. But when you
attract all of the world's wealth because their own countries
are awful, you do just place Londoners in the process.
(05:11):
And London is at the point now that it's forty
percent foreign And there are people who have been in
London since the Blitz, right, and they can trace their
roots back centuries and they can't afford London anymore because
it's filled with you know, even the worst country in
the world has some rich people and they all moved
to London, so that it's a huge and growing problem,
(05:33):
something that would have happened here in America if we
didn't reverse course. I think Europe as a whole is
always a couple of years ahead of us on progressivism. Right,
they were socialists and communists before it landed here in America.
They are ahead of us on the climate movement. You know,
our progressives in America like to point to Europe and say,
(05:55):
look at what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They have socialized medicine and we want it. Yes, everyone
dies to go see their optometrists, but they don't have
a bill, and they consider that some sort of win.
So I think seeing where London is is a stark
reminder of where we could be headed if we make
bad decisions. You know that they don't have any more
natural energy. They've foregone the entire North Sea, right, they've
(06:19):
shut down almost all of their operations. They've turned their
country over to foreign invaders. So it's a foretaste of
where we would go if we lose our America First principles,
and I don't mean necessarily Trump principles. I mean anyone
that just puts America ahead of every other country's interests,
which we should do as Americans.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, so you and I both know there's got to
be some good news to go at the bad, and Daniel,
I think I have a little bit back here on
the home front. I just saw a report this weekend
detailing how gen Z and Millennials.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Particularly young men, are returning to the church. Church revival
is happening again in record numbers. The latest data shows.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You young men, particularly disenfranchised by Hollywood and the media
and academia, are getting something fake in the schools. They're
getting something fake from Hollywood, and they're returning to the pews.
The spiritual revival is coming and this is fantastic news.
Christianity remains the world's largest faith, the one the churches
(07:24):
that seem to be doing the best, according to the
data I saw over the weekend, Catholics, Orthodox, and big
Evangelical churches. The churches that are not seeing big growth
right now, not shockingly, Daniel, are.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The woke churches, the the.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Unitarians, and I know the Methodist Church split off and
became two churches recently. The church that's telling you that
Jesus would have been a socialist climate activist.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Not very popular right now.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Amazingly No, And this makes so much sense when you
think of what young people have gone through in the
last couple of years and how fake it's been. Think of,
you know, I have nieces and nephews who did basically
their entire high school during COVID. No prom no graduation,
no all of that stuff, right you freshman year in
(08:11):
the dorms, no socializing, no pledging, fraternities, no sports, no activities.
You know was so COVID is over and doone. But
those kids are scarred. Think of their crappy, useless degree.
I saw a report that said we're at the highest
percentage eer ever of Americans with advanced degrees that can
find a job. Why because their degrees are fake. Yeah,
(08:32):
you went to Brown and you have a supermaster's in
Kenny Webster Studies. But besides the Webster family, no one
else is hiring for Kenny Webster Studies degrees. So you've
got this one hundred and fifty thousand dollars degree. I
would hire someone for Kenny Webster studies, of course, but
you've got this useless degree that serves no purpose. Your
childhood was destroyed. Your your friends are online, right, and like,
(08:57):
oh no, my online friends are just as real as
my friends friends. But they're not. They're not. They're a
bunch of Chinese kids in Taiwan, and they're not the
same as having friends and bonds and relationships. So it's
not surprising that young people are looking for something real,
and nothing is more real than God. So to see
this revival, I think it is a backlash to just
(09:18):
the crappy life we have given young people.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You want to hear something interesting I noticed earlier today.
I was reading about some of the work Nick Shirley's
been doing. He's this young conservative journalist, obviously controversial. Some
people give him credit for outing the Leering Center and
the Somalian scam artists in Minnesota. To put into perspective
to you, how young he is, Daniel, when the pandemic
was going on.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He was in high school. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It's remarkable.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's remarkable.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It is, and it shows that you know, you can
still accomplish great things in this country if you just
get out and do stuff. And Nick Shirley didn't go
to fancy journalism school, he didn't get a fancy internship
at ABC. He he has some tenacity, and he has
a camera, and he just went for it. And yes,
he took a lot of risky moves. I don't recommend
(10:07):
people going into the heart of Somalia and questioning their
their fake grants because it could end deadly. But kudos
to him for building the entire awakening and being a
young person. So and he's real, and that's why people
like him. He's jeffinitly, genuinely real. Your show is real.
(10:27):
It's why I Talk radio as a whole is still very,
very popular because it's incredibly real. AI is fun. All
that stuff is fun. But even young people are smart
enough to realize what's real and what's not.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, data shows this industry is still it's the crazy
blows my mind. Talk radio grows every year. We've never
reduced in size or audience. You know what's great though,
getting into a Memorial Day weekend. Here to your point, Daniel,
America is still the best country. America is a place
where you can be any age and you can be successful.
Nick Shirley was a high school kid during the pandemic.
(11:02):
Now he's one of the most important journalists in America.
I don't even think he went to college. I have
no idea. Rodney Dangerfield didn't become a famous comedian un
till he was in his mid to late forties. He
gave it up in his thirties to go sell aluminum siding.
You didn't think he was going to make it in America.
It doesn't matter who your father is, It doesn't matter
how rich you are. Anyone can do anything here if
(11:22):
they work hard enough and have the talent.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Your closing thoughts on that, Daniel, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's a great thing to go into Memorial Day weekend
because a lot of Americans fought and died for that right.
And if you piss it away, don't blame Trump, don't
blame the Left, don't blame the Pope. If you piss
away the opportunity that those men and women who died
for you gave you, as you only have yourself to blame.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
God bless America. Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot Com. Follow him
on x.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio. I
guess it's not available in Canada,
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