Wesley Hunt Joins the W&J Show Part 2 - MON 9.1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I gotta tell you, I am enjoying the military theme
here this morning, and rightfully so, since we have a
man amongst men in the room with us, and I'm
not talking about you Uchinny.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I know obviously Congressman Wesley Hunt in studio right now,
maybe Senator Wesley Hunt, who knows he is taking on
incumbent John Cornyan, who has been in office since I
think the Korean War. And Ken Paxton is also in
the race the Attorney General of Texas. People are going
to ask you about this, so I might as well
ask before they get to thoughts I Ken Paxton. Obviously

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nobody likes Cornyn. I don't think John Cornyn's wife wants
John corn to be senator? But how do you feel
about Attorney General Ken Paxton? He's your other challenge.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
kN Paxton has been, my humble opinion, probably the best
trendy general in the entire country. He's done a heck
of a job here in Texas. But the issue is
that I've seen over the course of the past few months,
we have been pulling this thing. We have been looking
at it, We've been watching it very very closely. Lots
of polls from lots of different sources, lots of different people.
What we realize is that John corn is closing the gap,
but not in large part because he did spend twenty

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million dollars against him. But Ken hasn't spent a dime
and he's not hitting back. He's not fighting back, and
we are now in campaign season. The filing deadline is
in two months from now. Somebody has to get in
this race and fight back. That's literally why I'm running.
I can assure you that if King were fighting back,
there wouldn't be a closing of the gap at all.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But the fact of the matter is is that he's not.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
And so again, I have nothing bad really to say
about Ken. I think he's one hell of ag. But
it's time for somebody to get in this race and
do the work and run for Senate.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
If you're looking for something bad to say about him,
Kenny can whip up a few things.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Look, what we want in Texas is somebody that's going
to go to DC and vote like Texans. That's it,
and that's what I intend on doing. I would be
confident that Ken would do the same thing. But at
the end of the day, right now, nobody's running a counteroffensive.
Against John Cornyn and somebody's got get in this fight
and do it.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
As a professional politician. How good are you at dodge
controversial issues? For example? Not very what's your favorite college
football team? Oh, no, Belly, I don't do that today.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
My favorite today it is the Fight Naggies Texas A
and then Fight Baggies. I'm a west Point guy. I'm
a west Point guy, tried and true. But at the
end of the day, when I look at public schools
that still hold the line, they still do a pretty
good job of producing excellent young people that still have
a good conservative based on campus. That is Texas that
is now right number six in the country. I gotta

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go with the Fight Naggies, especially with him haircuts and
that could.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's a good look on them. I kind of agree.
I think I think Ken Patchin's master Attorney general in America.
I don't think most the thing that they're probably gonna
hammer you on is probably going to be your voting record.
They're going to shay you missed some votes, and I'll
just go and ask before someone else does, how do
you address that one?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, it was really simple.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
And when I first got into office, my son was
actually in the nick you and I was flying back
and forth for that speaker race. I don't know if
you recall that a couple of years ago when it
took Key McCarthy a lot of votes to get good
across finished line, and my son was premature, missed a
large trancha votes then. And then also I was campaigning
with the President to get him re elected. I was
one of his top serrogates in the country. I was

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in Iowa eleven times. I traveled with him to Chicago
and to Nevada, and to Coachella in California and to Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I got to fly with him a lot on Trump Force.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
One, and with doing that, I lost and missed some votes.
And I think the people of Texas are less concerned
with the votes that I've missed and more concerned with
the votes that I've made and the votes that I'm
going to make. I am the most conservative a lawmaker
from Texas at the federal level.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm very proud of that.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
And when I am a Senator, the first piece legislation
that I'm going to pass is to repeal the gun
control bill that John Cornan authored with Colin Allread that
he was acknowledged for in the Rose Garden by Joe Biden.
So at the end of the day, you could talk
about how many votes I've missed all you want, I
have a good reason for that. People of Texas understand that.
And about the votes should miss is about the vote

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should take.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, you know you brought up Colin al right, I
think wasn't Corning endorsed by Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
That's the only text was endorsement, that is of a
sitting member of Congress.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
He got a bunch of old guys to endorse them.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, way up.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Aggie's number five, No Noble five, number five Multimore. Yeah
as well. This morning I stand corrected. What's all this
about a chili fest?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Apparently that's a pretty big deal at college station they
do a chili even know someone's shaking their head no
at me. Yesterday at dinners everyone it was with a
bunch of aggies. They said they're excited about chili fest.
That's not a thing. Okay, I don't know. No, I
never did do it. I have no idea I'll eat
at chili. No, we were, no, we were at nine
fus last night with a bunch of aggies, and they
were asking me if I knew it that it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't want to waste time on this.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
And you got a girl major it now or major
drum man leader that makes the stick go up and.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now, yeah, it's called the baton billy.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
There one hundred and forty nine years and they finally
got around getting no more woman.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
All right, so just read the band So military and immigration.
You're a lawmaker in the state of Texas. Obviously this
is ground zero for the immigration crisis. We can't send
the National Guardian to protect ice facilities. Is there anything
Congress could do about that? Is there anything the Senate
can do about it?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
I think the federal government's number one role again is
to keep the people of Texas safe, and of course
there's something that we could do about it. The President
is fighting tooth and nail, obviously with some of these
judges that are repealing some of the federal mandates that
he has signed via executive fiat. But at the end
of the day, Trump's gonna win all these battles. But
I do want to point out this. The border is
far more secure now than it was this time a

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year ago. And again, you know, we didn't need any
new laws. The only thing we needed was a new
president and we got that. Yes, so with the stroke
of a pen. With the stroke of a pen, the border,
in my estimation, is in a far better place. I
would even call it fixed, especially compared to what we
saw for the past four years.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
We have twenty million people enter this country illegally.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
That's the comple travesty, mostly through our Texas southern border.
I think Greg Abbott did the best job that he could,
using state funds to try to secure our border. And
then now he has some some overarching help from the
from the President, and I think we're going to be
just fine. We have to get through through these legal battles.
But President Trump has a cracked team. That's that. That's
actually all over it.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I think Hunter Biden had a cracked team too.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think he did. Yeah, so glad you said that.
Chris said crack and I immediately think about a hundred
percent everybody is. Everybody did well.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Speaking of people close to Biden, John Corning's got a
liberty score of f if you go to the website
where they value Conservative review, uh fifty, clearly not popular
with conservative I score another Yeah, I think it's one
hundred or ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Or I'm just throwing it out there. You just do
it back.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm just swing it out there, you know, just saying
it's vastly better. Is that like your your Uber score?
You're right there on top?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:54):
How do you get up?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
What do you gotta do to get a bad Uber score?
I never understood that anyway, the point of this question?
What is the point of this question? So you're gonna
get accused of splitting the vote between you and Paxton.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, people are going to accuse you of that,
whether they're right or wrong. What do you say to them?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
I just want people to go out and vote and
choose the best candidate that has had President Trump's back
from day one, that was the first person in the
country to endorse them, that is a true conservative born
and raised here in Texas. Having the opportunity to represent
my state in the halls of the Senate will be
my greatest honor.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
And just let the cake bake.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Let's look at everyone's record, Let's look at what we
vote for, Let's look at what we want to do
and what our vision is for Texas. I'm going to
stay on the issues. If they want to have a
dog fighting fighting a slop, that's on them. I am
sticking to what's most important in Texas, and I think
once the voter, the primary voter, sees that we're going
to be just fond brother.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I like that, all right.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
So there's this woman named Juliette Caberrera who apparently John
Cornyn's comm director, paid to do deck projects with his
Venmo account and backyard work.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
How would you win her vote over because he paid
her with his Venmo account. I don't know what kind
of yard work she did. I'll tell you what she's not.
She's not working on my.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Hey, I know you got to run soon. We've had
you here for almost forty five minutes. You were in
the military. We love talking about stripes and full metal
jacket and Hacksaw Ridge and what's your favorite military movie? Apocalyst?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now? Oh what are good?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I gotta go with Apocalyst. Now, are you, sir? For
by any chance, I can't finish residence?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Okay, I mean you were you were in war. That
scene in the movie is so surreal, but there's a
lot of surreal moments when you're at war. Was there
a moment where like bombs were going off the background
and you guys are playing Mario Kard because you're just
trying to live in normal life for a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Did we didn't have a water attack and I was
fast asleep, and I remember there was some water around
that hit probably about fifty yards away from my hooch,
and it was it was uh stirring to say it.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
To say the least, I probably woke you up. It
woke everybody.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
But then the protocol was you you hop up, you
put on your your bulletproof vest, and then you head
to the bunker. And I mean, it was coming down.
But it's those kinds of moments that I experienced. It
I experienced when I was twenty five years old that
really fortified who I am as a person. I'm scared
of nothing, I fear nothing but God himself. And at

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the end of the day, those kinds of experiences galvanized me.
They made me a very strong person. That helped me
to put things in perspective. And that's exactly what this
race needs. This race needs focus and to ignore all
the rounds going off around us, ignore all the flak,
ignore all of the all of the attacks that may come,
and stick to what matters most, and that is the

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issues that matter to Texans. It is the border, it
is gun control, it is energy and oil and gas,
and it is safety.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
And I'm going to be a dog on those things.
I promise you. I want to forgot about this, Billy ed.
You came up with a great name.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Now that Lesley's in the race, you came up with
a great name for this election cycle.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I did, yeah, two and a half men.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's rights pretty good.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I forgot. I said that.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Hey, not for nothing here, but look, we hope the
best man wins and that not corner half guy. And
before we got out of here, you last night we
had our annual comedy show, Operation Comedy Therapy to raise
money for military vets, and Wesley's team supported it along
with Don Hafines and Michael Berry.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
And so we just want to thank you guys for that.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
And we know you guys got to run any closing thoughts,
anything you want voters to understand before you get out
of here.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
God blessed Sexas. This is the greatest state in our union.
As Texas goes, so does this great nation. So we
have to make sure that we keep her number one,
keep the priorities of Texans first, and they'll never forget
that and be unwavering and relentless in that task.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
And that's why I'm going to be the next center
from Texas.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's going to be the biggest Senate race coming up
in the twenty twenty six primary.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Folks, we got to get out of here, Wilton and
Johnson Radio Network.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Congressman Wesley Hunt in the studio. We're getting a lot
of emails and tweets and messages.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh yeah, speaking of we did get quite a bit
of email. Let me back up here for a second.
Oh there you go. Great interview with Congressman Hunt. Let's see,
Cornyan and Cassidy of Louisiana are basically political teammates. Cassidy
has a similar ad claiming that he casts the deciding

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vote to pass the Big Beautiful Bill and support of
President Trump.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
But of course, let's not.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Forget he voted to convict Trump and kick him out
of office in the past. We the people ain't that, dum.
I think we the people might remember something like that.
Thank God for Wesley Hunt and thanks to Walton Johnson
for having him on the show can't wait to vote
like that.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Look, we're not gonna tell you who to vote for,
but we will tell you who not to vote for.
Do not vote for Senator John Cornet.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
A lot of.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Cassidy and Cornan comparison's going on. Well they're very simil
rightfully so absolutely, but that did push us back a
little bit on the really important stuf, Like, you know,
celebrity birthdays.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
You think celebrity birthdays is more important than the biggest
Texas political story.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
I'm not here to concur it. Yeah, clearly we I've
peared it down since we are low all time. Jeremy
Cisto is fifty one, eight years old. He was on
six feet under. Remember Billy, No, nobody does.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
No.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Elizabeth Shoe she was in one of those Karate kids.
I guess what the third one first? Who knows? And
Cobra Kai sadly enough, she leaving Las Vegas Adventures in babysitting.
She's sixty two. Tony Dungee is seventy. Britt Eklund used
to be a Bond girl million years ago. She's eighty three.

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And John Travolta's sister Ellen is eighty six years old.
You know her of course from Charles in charge and
Joni loves chaccih so good. Yeah, I love Chachi. I
looked into him as much as Taylor loves obviously not.

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Today is National Plus Size Appreciation Day, and it is
also Transfer money to your Daughter Day.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's not true.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's not like an every week thing and.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Transfer money to your daughter year. Yeah, there's no transfer
money to year. It's the day.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
This is the one year when daddy's today, the one
day when Daddy's generator or there's done.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, and plus size Appreciation. So if you have a
plus sized daughter, I'll send her a little more.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
I thought we were done with all the body positivity stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Isn't that over now?

Speaker 1 (13:36):
These are leftovers from when they declared it?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
So and Supreme Court season opens, National Noodle Day, National
orange wine date. Orange wine not made from oranges, I'm
told orange wine?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah with them?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is that? How about?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
No? All right?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
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sixty three, some Turkish guy decided to take a bath. No,
that's not quite right. The first Turkish bath opened in
Brooklyn Heights, New York.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
How exciting? Why is that a big deal? Why is
that even that's a big deal?

Speaker 3 (14:33):
What's so important about Brooklyn Turkish bath houses? I don't
even know why the producer put that on the list. Well,
they were trying to clean people up during the Civil War.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
It looks like it's in your handwriting. No, you were
at this.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's not even close to maybe today.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
In eighteen nine, eighteen eighty nine, Mulan Rouge opened in Paris.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Fabulous.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Most people didn't even know Christina Aguilar was that old.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Did you know?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's amazing?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
She goes pretty far back, but you know, takes care
of herself today.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
In nineteen twenties, the original Mister October, named after the
German beer festival. Babe Ruth hit three homers in one
World Series game and he was drunk. Yeah, yeah, that
is kind of cool about favor If, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
This date nineteen twenty seven, a year later that the
Magic Talking movies were introduced, a little something called The
Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson. Their voices came right out
over the movie system and it was just nobody'd ever

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seen anything like it before.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Al Jolson is a good example of how we can't
judge people from the past by today's standards, because by
today's standards, he's considered to be really racist.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Didn't he perform in blackface?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I don't know none about all that.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
But back in the day, And I'm not defending Al Jolson.
I'm just saying an objective fact. He was publicly known
to defend black people in the entertainment industry when they
were being publicly scrutinized.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Defend them, you know, physically, or just say stuff. Yeah,
say stun. I don't think he always like fighting people.
At The New York Times with his fist. Probably not,
I don't know. I wasn't a lied back then, obviously,
but that Yeah, there's a picture of him in the
jazzing earl of Base.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
In blackface, right, which is objectively racist, right, not then,
but not then.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I mean it might have been, but you know, nobody really,
you know, said anything about it. This.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I have a friend who's a history professor and he's
kind of liberal, and he pointed that out to me.
I said, you know, Al Joels, he was considered to
be racist. And this guy tells me, well, yeah, but
at the time he was considered to be a friend
of black entertainers.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
And I thought, how could that be true? And it's like, well,
back then that wasn't controversial. Look, they say things were different, times.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Were different, Yeah they were.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
And finally today, in nineteen eighty one, Islamic extremists assassinated
Egypt's president on War Sedat.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah they did.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
And who did they replace him with? What was a
guy's name, Kusi Kusi? Or yeah? What was his name,
Chaka Khan? Chaka Khan? Didn't he have two names? I forget.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm pretty sure it wasn't Chaka Khan.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
What was his name? He had two names. Wasn't that's
what it is?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
No, that's not him?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, who is he? That was the guy? Wasn't he
from Egypt? No?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Butros Boutros. Okay, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. There
was just an Egyptian in here like five seconds ago.
Where did she got she took over running? Well she
would have known the answer, and that was today in history. Boy,
we sure are gay for history on this show.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Well, some of us more so than others, I suppose.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
All Right, So, obviously we're getting into election season now,
and as a resident of the state of Maine unexpectedly
walks outside and finds an Amazon package, opens it up.
An Amazon package contained two hundred and fifty official state ballots,
and obviously now a lot of people in the state
are concerned over election security.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Didn't know you could get those old Amazon, that's the deal.
You can't and the person didn't order them.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Oh so, anyway, in November, there's gonna be a referendum
on the state ballot in Maine on requiring photo IDs
to vote. And as this is happening, a lot of
people are noticing that there's a lot of weird stuff
going on in this election sway that because you can't
vote by Amazon in a state election and that's crazy, right,

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but especially with ID laws, if the voter ID law passes. Now,
I thought Trump just did some executive order, but I
don't know. Did that not affect Maine? I probably not, No,
because Main ignores him. Okay, yeah, obviously. Anyway, the incident
has prompted calls for federal authorities to investigate. The ballots
were shrink wrapped in tamper evident packs of fifty and
were reportedly found earlier in the week and a shipment

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delivered tamper evident packs.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's what they said.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, so they're supposed to be tamper proof, but if
somebody tampers anyway, then you can tell they got tampered. Yeah,
the yeah, yeah. And if you say tamper like four
times in a row, it loses all its meaning.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Tamper.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Tampa, Tampa, Tampa, tamper. Look at this. It came in
a box with rice and what looks.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Like her grocery order, and it included a few ballots.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
And it looks like it also came with some paper plates,
a Star Wars themed lightsaber pen.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
That's a lot of like the kind of random.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Non sense you get on Amazon and then tucked inside
there are hundreds of ballots.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
How does that end up in an Amazon package?

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Did they solve the mystery? Did they explain how it
ended up like that? No, they're investigating. They still don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Election officials who reviewed photographs confirm the ballots appeared to
be authentic.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
They were turned over to local town officials.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
In the meantime, If I'm not mistaken, the state secretary
who handles elections is actually running for office. While simultaneously
trying to shut this down. Maine Secretary of State Shenna
Bellows rejected the request to, you know, conduct an investigation
and said, the Gulf of Maine is awfully called. But

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maybe that's what the dojed. Maybe it's the DOJ that
needs to cool down. She said, that was a really
clever line for a Democrat from Maine.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Maybe you're looking for was not a repeat, a double name.
It was Hulsney mubarik Man. That's what Barick became president
after unworths the Nott and our Egyptian friend who was
just here in the room says, by the way, his
wife Lucy was made of honor at her parents' wedding.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
I just think things went downhill after Oenwar Sadat left office.
You know, Boutros Boutros Ghali. He's okay, he's good, he's fine.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
But he's no Shaka Khan, Shaka Khan. Donstown, Walton and
Johnson