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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 Kenney 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? Doctors have released a list
of ten organs you can live without. I guess you
could make it eleven if you went to Comic Con
this year, since you're probably not going to need that organ. Hi, everybody,
welcome back for break. I'm Kenny Webster. It's a great
pity to be here with you. It's nice to be
back to work today. And as I get back in
(00:34):
the routine of things, I can't help but notice some
of the major players are all gathering together in China
right now. Very rarely does Kim Jong un Lil Kim
leave North Korea. It almost never happens. The most important
ally to the North Koreans is China. That's, as they say,
the Chinese Communist Party, and weirdly, he hasn't even met
with them in six years now. A lot's changed over
(00:57):
the last several years. As important as China is to
North Korea, Russia has maybe arguably become even more important.
Russia and North Korea are major trade partners, and you're
probably wondering, what does North Korea have to offer Russia. Well,
it turns out it's mercenaries. North Korea sends soldiers to
the front lines of Russia to fight in the war
(01:18):
over there. By the way, A little side note here,
I just got back from the Burning Man Music Festival.
You know what I encountered over and over again while
I was there, young men of fighting age from Russia,
Ukraine and Israel all over just tons of them. I
constantly kept meeting them all over the place, Guys in
their mid twenties, early thirties, whatever it may be, weird.
(01:40):
I'm surprised Lenski and Putin they let you leave the
country to go to the Burning Man Festival. I was
surprised by that. Anyway, Putin doesn't know, I guess, because
he's in China right now meeting with Kim Jong un
and Jijinping, and boy, could you imagine the fun they
must be having. I don't suppose it's anything like Burning Man.
I doubt they're doing malli, but they might be drinking
(02:00):
the blood of their enemies. Who knows. One thing they
will be doing is discussing energy policy. That is a
big damn deal to them. Right now, Powerthefuture dot com
reporting that as Donald Trump is making deals to sell
the European Union American energy, Russia has turned to CCP.
They're planning to build a pipeline through Mongolia. Here with
(02:21):
all the latest down. This is Daniel Turner joining us
right now. Daniel, should we be worried about this?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, not worried like this shouldn't keep you up at night.
And these are just energy deals. But for your listeners
who are oil and gas savvy, and Texas, especially Houston
is oil and gas capital of the world, it shows
the importance of their industry and it shows the importance
(02:48):
energy is everything. I talk about it a lot, and
I usually talk about it in relation to human dignity
and the many products that we get from fossil fuels
and the autonomy it gives us and the health and hygiene,
et cetera, et cetera. All very true. But energy is
also national security because the whole world needs energy and
not everybody has it, and it raises a lot of questions,
(03:10):
right It raises questions of Russia's looking to still have markets.
Trump is trying to take all of their European customers.
I don't know why Biden didn't, right, but Trump is
trying to take all the European customers to buy American energy,
Texas energy, and not buy Russian energy. And Russia is
going to give it to someone else that They're going
to give it to China, and that's going to strengthen
(03:30):
their relationship. And these are two countries that really don't
like US. China hates US, Russia mildly dislikes US, but
isn't our friend by any means. But combined, talk about
the access of evil again, right, these are two countries
that want to see America defeated. So it shouldn't worry you.
But it shows the importance of energy from a geopolitical perspective.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, Obviously, if it wasn't for energy policy, the Russian
Ukraine war wouldn't be happy. If it wasn't for sanctions
being placed on and then removed from the North Stream pipeline,
I would argue Russia would not have had the monetary
influence to go and attack Ukraine the way that they did. Obviously,
the war happening in Israel will not quite the same thing.
Is certainly influenced by energy policies. So that's true. And
(04:17):
to your other point, Putin and everybody in the world
stage claims Russia is not a communist country, but they're
political leader was a member of that. Wasn't he a
member of the what was.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It, the k KGB. Yeah, Putin may not call himself
a communist, and he would probably say that, no, w're democracy.
I win ninety seven percent of all the electoral ballasts.
But Putin is a communist. He's old line Soviet and
he's made no bones about it that his goal is
to reunite, reunite all of the Soviet countries back into
(04:52):
one big mother Russia. It explains his war on Ukraine
and why he chose Ukraine first. He wants all the
countries back. So, yeah, you know, energy is clutch for
Russia to succeed. They are a petro state. Texas isn't
even a petro state. Oil and gas is critical to
(05:13):
your state's economy, don't get me wrong, but it is
not the only thing. I don't even think it's fifty
percent of your state's economy. Because that's the joys of capitalism.
You have a diversified economy. Russia is not that. If
Russia loses oil and gas, what else are they gonna
I mean, how much caviat and vodka can you sell
to conquer the world? Right? So Trump is right to
(05:36):
make sure that the world is not buying Russian energy,
that they're buying American energy. But Kenny, I got to say,
don't you think some of these Biden administration officials should
be hauled before a judiciary tribunal and say what the
hell was your reasoning banning natural gas exports? Like, walk
us through your logic. Hey, Russia's bad, Russia's enemy is
(06:00):
fueled by natural gas. You shouldn't buy Russian natural gas.
So therefore, as a result, we're going to ban the
sale of American natural gas. How do you deduce that
with a logical, consistent philosophy. You don't, And that goes
to show you the level of corruption and vile people
(06:20):
who are in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's interesting too that North Korea is part of this
summit right now happening in China, because that's probably the
only country on Earth that we're enemies with that doesn't
make significant money from oil and gas. I mean, obviously
Russia and China. Obviously petro states petro petroleum products coming
out of both of those countries Venezuela Iran, which begs
the question is it possible that now that they're close allies,
(06:45):
or have been close allies, Russia now needs to keep
this war going with Ukraine in order to make North
Korea happy because North Korea's chief export at the moment
seems to be mercenaries.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, that's a great point, and you know, the North
Korea doesn't have a lot going for it. There's been
a big push by by by Kim to open tourism,
but everyone knows that's a joke. Right. He's built these
hotels on the water and says, come to the Korean beaches,
But who the hell is going to go on vacation?
I don't know. You went to burning Man, right, do
you do you want to go? Do you want to
(07:18):
go to the North Korea next? You were probably safer
it burning Man than you would ever be in North
and North Korea. So yeah, what is their export? Their
export is is mercenaries war weapons there they are very
good at that. You know. It's one of those fascinating
questions I'll have for our creator, if I'm lucky enough
to meet him. Why some of the world's worst actors
(07:41):
have all the energy Russia does, North Korea does, I'm sorry,
Venezuela does. Iran does? You know most of them Arab
nations don't like us very much? They do. There really
aren't a lot of countries who are oil and gas rich.
Who are the good guys? I like to think we're
always the good guys. I know some people would say, well,
(08:01):
maybe we're the bad guys, but I don't play that
sort of anti American sentiment where the good guys and
we have a lot of it, but a lot of
bad guys have a lot of energy and it makes
them rich and it gives them leverage. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't know what this means, but I looked it
up on I was curious. What is North Korea's chief export?
And obviously mercenaries plays a role, especially lately coal iron,
that's part of it. But oddly enough, Daniel, one of
their their biggest export is fake hair products wigs, false
eyebrows accounted for over half of their exports to China
in twenty twenty three. What a weird thing. And I
(08:37):
got to ask I wonder where they're getting the fake
hair from. Wink wink.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, you know how they must be torturing their citizens
and shaving them to make the Chinese you know, little
fun things for their Hello Kitty dolls. You know, China
is not our friend. North Korea is not our friend.
Russia is not our friend. And I'll never understand how
we looked at those countries, not the same way that
Reagan looked at the Soviet Union and said, these guys
(09:03):
want to destroy us, so we are going to have
nothing to do with them. We didn't trade with. We
didn't say Russia hates us and Brezhnev has all these
nukes pointed at us, but they make really good, cheap craps.
So we're going to continue to We do that with China, right,
We trade with We trade with these countries who absolutely
despise us, and I'll never quite understand it. There is still,
(09:26):
to this day a lot of people on Capitol Hill
who will defend China and talk about how great they
are as a country, and they'll go on trade missions
to China and say that, you know, thank goodness for
the Chinese work ethic. And there are economists like Paul
Krugman and Thomas Friedman, who praised China and how great
they are in the world. China is an evil, evil
(09:47):
country that should be destroyed, and if we really wanted
to win this war, we would just stop at importing
anything from China starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, I mean Mitch McConnell. For example, He's married to
a woman who has deep ties to Chinese industry, and
didn't his own sister in law not long ago die
under mysterious circumstances. Another person connected to the Chinese business
world who supposedly drove her tesla into a pond and
died mysteriously.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Something was odd about that. I don't want to, you know,
speak ill of the dead or cause pain to a
family who's grieving. Sure, but it's not common for people
to drive their car into a pond on their own
property and just call it an accident, right, Like I
have a pond on my property and I have driven
my truck near it, but I haven't driven my truck
(10:39):
into it and drowned yet. So maybe she was at
burning Man too, Kenny. I don't know, but yeah, something
was very fishy about that.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
In't that weird? Everybody fishy? Pun intended. But in't that
the oddest thing? Like when it happened, everybody thought, oh
that's weird. And then, just like Epstein and so many
other things, if nobody has anything to gain from it politically,
we all forget that it happened.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That woman don't died.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Look, I don't know. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but
I am a conspiracy realist, and I speculate something weird
happen there. Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot com is the website.
If you work in oil and gas, I encourage you
to check it out.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Some radio shows are so hot they'll literally burn your eyes.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Fortunately this isn't one of those shows.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I feel like never listening to you all again.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Pursuit of Happiness Radio
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 Kenney 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? Doctors have released a list
of ten organs you can live without. I guess you
could make it eleven if you went to Comic Con
this year, since you're probably not going to need that organ. Hi, everybody,
welcome back for break. I'm Kenny Webster. It's a great
pity to be here with you. It's nice to be
back to work today. And as I get back in
(00:34):
the routine of things, I can't help but notice some
of the major players are all gathering together in China
right now. Very rarely does Kim Jong un Lil Kim
leave North Korea. It almost never happens. The most important
ally to the North Koreans is China. That's, as they say,
the Chinese Communist Party, and weirdly, he hasn't even met
with them in six years now. A lot's changed over
(00:57):
the last several years. As important as China is to
North Korea, Russia has maybe arguably become even more important.
Russia and North Korea are major trade partners, and you're
probably wondering, what does North Korea have to offer Russia. Well,
it turns out it's mercenaries. North Korea sends soldiers to
the front lines of Russia to fight in the war
(01:18):
over there. By the way, A little side note here,
I just got back from the Burning Man Music Festival.
You know what I encountered over and over again while
I was there, young men of fighting age from Russia,
Ukraine and Israel all over just tons of them. I
constantly kept meeting them all over the place, Guys in
their mid twenties, early thirties, whatever it may be, weird.
(01:40):
I'm surprised Lenski and Putin they let you leave the
country to go to the Burning Man Festival. I was
surprised by that. Anyway, Putin doesn't know, I guess, because
he's in China right now meeting with Kim Jong un
and Jijinping, and boy, could you imagine the fun they
must be having. I don't suppose it's anything like Burning Man.
I doubt they're doing malli, but they might be drinking
(02:00):
the blood of their enemies. Who knows. One thing they
will be doing is discussing energy policy. That is a
big damn deal to them. Right now, Powerthefuture dot com
reporting that as Donald Trump is making deals to sell
the European Union American energy, Russia has turned to CCP.
They're planning to build a pipeline through Mongolia. Here with
(02:21):
all the latest down. This is Daniel Turner joining us
right now. Daniel, should we be worried about this?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, not worried like this shouldn't keep you up at night.
And these are just energy deals. But for your listeners
who are oil and gas savvy, and Texas, especially Houston
is oil and gas capital of the world, it shows
the importance of their industry and it shows the importance
(02:48):
energy is everything. I talk about it a lot, and
I usually talk about it in relation to human dignity
and the many products that we get from fossil fuels
and the autonomy it gives us and the health and hygiene,
et cetera, et cetera. All very true. But energy is
also national security because the whole world needs energy and
not everybody has it, and it raises a lot of questions,
(03:10):
right It raises questions of Russia's looking to still have markets.
Trump is trying to take all of their European customers.
I don't know why Biden didn't, right, but Trump is
trying to take all the European customers to buy American energy,
Texas energy, and not buy Russian energy. And Russia is
going to give it to someone else that They're going
to give it to China, and that's going to strengthen
(03:30):
their relationship. And these are two countries that really don't
like US. China hates US, Russia mildly dislikes US, but
isn't our friend by any means. But combined, talk about
the access of evil again, right, these are two countries
that want to see America defeated. So it shouldn't worry you.
But it shows the importance of energy from a geopolitical perspective.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, Obviously, if it wasn't for energy policy, the Russian
Ukraine war wouldn't be happy. If it wasn't for sanctions
being placed on and then removed from the North Stream pipeline,
I would argue Russia would not have had the monetary
influence to go and attack Ukraine the way that they did. Obviously,
the war happening in Israel will not quite the same thing.
Is certainly influenced by energy policies. So that's true. And
(04:17):
to your other point, Putin and everybody in the world
stage claims Russia is not a communist country, but they're
political leader was a member of that. Wasn't he a
member of the what was.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It, the k KGB. Yeah, Putin may not call himself
a communist, and he would probably say that, no, w're democracy.
I win ninety seven percent of all the electoral ballasts.
But Putin is a communist. He's old line Soviet and
he's made no bones about it that his goal is
to reunite, reunite all of the Soviet countries back into
(04:52):
one big mother Russia. It explains his war on Ukraine
and why he chose Ukraine first. He wants all the
countries back. So, yeah, you know, energy is clutch for
Russia to succeed. They are a petro state. Texas isn't
even a petro state. Oil and gas is critical to
(05:13):
your state's economy, don't get me wrong, but it is
not the only thing. I don't even think it's fifty
percent of your state's economy. Because that's the joys of capitalism.
You have a diversified economy. Russia is not that. If
Russia loses oil and gas, what else are they gonna
I mean, how much caviat and vodka can you sell
to conquer the world? Right? So Trump is right to
(05:36):
make sure that the world is not buying Russian energy,
that they're buying American energy. But Kenny, I got to say,
don't you think some of these Biden administration officials should
be hauled before a judiciary tribunal and say what the
hell was your reasoning banning natural gas exports? Like, walk
us through your logic. Hey, Russia's bad, Russia's enemy is
(06:00):
fueled by natural gas. You shouldn't buy Russian natural gas.
So therefore, as a result, we're going to ban the
sale of American natural gas. How do you deduce that
with a logical, consistent philosophy. You don't, And that goes
to show you the level of corruption and vile people
(06:20):
who are in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's interesting too that North Korea is part of this
summit right now happening in China, because that's probably the
only country on Earth that we're enemies with that doesn't
make significant money from oil and gas. I mean, obviously
Russia and China. Obviously petro states petro petroleum products coming
out of both of those countries Venezuela Iran, which begs
the question is it possible that now that they're close allies,
(06:45):
or have been close allies, Russia now needs to keep
this war going with Ukraine in order to make North
Korea happy because North Korea's chief export at the moment
seems to be mercenaries.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, that's a great point, and you know, the North
Korea doesn't have a lot going for it. There's been
a big push by by by Kim to open tourism,
but everyone knows that's a joke. Right. He's built these
hotels on the water and says, come to the Korean beaches,
But who the hell is going to go on vacation?
I don't know. You went to burning Man, right, do
you do you want to go? Do you want to
(07:18):
go to the North Korea next? You were probably safer
it burning Man than you would ever be in North
and North Korea. So yeah, what is their export? Their
export is is mercenaries war weapons there they are very
good at that. You know. It's one of those fascinating
questions I'll have for our creator, if I'm lucky enough
to meet him. Why some of the world's worst actors
(07:41):
have all the energy Russia does, North Korea does, I'm sorry,
Venezuela does. Iran does? You know most of them Arab
nations don't like us very much? They do. There really
aren't a lot of countries who are oil and gas rich.
Who are the good guys? I like to think we're
always the good guys. I know some people would say, well,
(08:01):
maybe we're the bad guys, but I don't play that
sort of anti American sentiment where the good guys and
we have a lot of it, but a lot of
bad guys have a lot of energy and it makes
them rich and it gives them leverage. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't know what this means, but I looked it
up on I was curious. What is North Korea's chief export?
And obviously mercenaries plays a role, especially lately coal iron,
that's part of it. But oddly enough, Daniel, one of
their their biggest export is fake hair products wigs, false
eyebrows accounted for over half of their exports to China
in twenty twenty three. What a weird thing. And I
(08:37):
got to ask I wonder where they're getting the fake
hair from. Wink wink.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, you know how they must be torturing their citizens
and shaving them to make the Chinese you know, little
fun things for their Hello Kitty dolls. You know, China
is not our friend. North Korea is not our friend.
Russia is not our friend. And I'll never understand how
we looked at those countries, not the same way that
Reagan looked at the Soviet Union and said, these guys
(09:03):
want to destroy us, so we are going to have
nothing to do with them. We didn't trade with. We
didn't say Russia hates us and Brezhnev has all these
nukes pointed at us, but they make really good, cheap craps.
So we're going to continue to We do that with China, right,
We trade with We trade with these countries who absolutely
despise us, and I'll never quite understand it. There is still,
(09:26):
to this day a lot of people on Capitol Hill
who will defend China and talk about how great they
are as a country, and they'll go on trade missions
to China and say that, you know, thank goodness for
the Chinese work ethic. And there are economists like Paul
Krugman and Thomas Friedman, who praised China and how great
they are in the world. China is an evil, evil
(09:47):
country that should be destroyed, and if we really wanted
to win this war, we would just stop at importing
anything from China starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, I mean Mitch McConnell. For example, He's married to
a woman who has deep ties to Chinese industry, and
didn't his own sister in law not long ago die
under mysterious circumstances. Another person connected to the Chinese business
world who supposedly drove her tesla into a pond and
died mysteriously.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Something was odd about that. I don't want to, you know,
speak ill of the dead or cause pain to a
family who's grieving. Sure, but it's not common for people
to drive their car into a pond on their own
property and just call it an accident, right, Like I
have a pond on my property and I have driven
my truck near it, but I haven't driven my truck
(10:39):
into it and drowned yet. So maybe she was at
burning Man too, Kenny. I don't know, but yeah, something
was very fishy about that.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
In't that weird? Everybody fishy? Pun intended. But in't that
the oddest thing? Like when it happened, everybody thought, oh
that's weird. And then, just like Epstein and so many
other things, if nobody has anything to gain from it politically,
we all forget that it happened.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That woman don't died.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Look, I don't know. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but
I am a conspiracy realist, and I speculate something weird
happen there. Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot com is the website.
If you work in oil and gas, I encourage you
to check it out.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Some radio shows are so hot they'll literally burn your eyes.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Fortunately this isn't one of those shows.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I feel like never listening to you all again.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
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