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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, if you enjoy that, you want to 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):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Problems of the airlines around the country.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A United flight to Chicago was delayed after flight attendants
got into a fight. You know, it actually gets worse.
They were fighting over how drunk the captain was. I
think that's terrible, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I landed at Houston yesterday and I'm dreading flying out
in a couple of days because the TSA line was
around four thousand people deep, three plus hours to get
through Houston TSA. So I'm actually it's weighing heavily on me,
whereas air travel never normally does.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All right, what have you heard so far about the
government shutdown? I start every day off on weekdays when
I do the morning show, listening to four different newscasts
while I'm getting ready, brushing my teeth, walking my dog.
I listened to ABC News, I listened to Fox News,
I listened to the BBC, and I listened to Al
Jazeera and I bet you could probably tell why left wing,
right wing, domestic friendly, foreign unfriendly foreign news. I'd like
(01:11):
to hear what they're all going to say, and very
often they'll all cover the same story. Right Israel is
a common thing, especially with Al Jazeera. The government shutdown
is a common thing, and the BBC explains it like
this or like over the weekend. Over the weekend, President
Donald Trump spoke to members of sixty minutes when he
said he wasn't even interested in negotiating and into the
government's shutdown. And then you flip over to the Fox
(01:33):
newscast and they have Ted Cruz, who is actually a
member of the Senate who's actually involved in the negotiations
of the government shutdown. Technically, Trump's not in the Senate,
it's not entirely his job, right and Ted crew says
he thinks it'll be over by Wednesday or late this week.
And I just can't help but notice, if everyone's getting
different news, if everybody's getting a different narrative, if everybody's
(01:53):
being told something completely different, no wonder we all hate
each other. Daniel Turner, a power of the future. Tell
us all the people you hate most of the Juty juice.
No good Lord. I hate Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know, and I think this shutdown I put this
on my Twitter just a couple hours ago. I think
this shutdown has shown a huge problem we have, which
is we have way too much concentrated power in Washington,
d C. Now, if you've been there for thirty plus years,
remember Chuck Schumer got to DC when Reagan got there
in eighty one. That's a long flipping time, right, When
people like Marcy Kaptor from Ohio, these people have been
(02:26):
in DC for forty five fifty years. You want power,
I'm Mitch McConnell, right, You want all the power in DC.
You don't want to lose any of that power to
the states. But for example, I just mentioned TSA lines
at Houston Airport. Houston Airport has the CFO, it has
a CEO, it has its runs as up our organization.
How come they can't get their act together and say,
(02:46):
you know what, we don't need DC to operate this airport.
We're Texas, We're our own institution. We're gonna we're gonna
figure the damn thing out, and education snap benefits. All
of this crap has to get out of DC. For
it to actual work.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but
here in Houston, Texas, especially with the previous mayor that
we had, not the current guy. The airport, where's where
they went to do corruption. It makes sense if you
think about it. It's a huge facility. There's two big
airports in Houston, but one of them's the size of
a small city. And there's so much happening there, so
many moving parts, so much money going on. The previous
(03:23):
mayor supposedly had some call him an assistant, other people
call it his boyfriend, had a what was it, something
like an intern working there, making one hundred thousand, ninety
thousand dollars a year and more than senior staffers of
the Houston Mayor's office. And then there was this deal
where supposedly a lot of the local food vendors were
(03:44):
getting pushed out in an effort to bring in food
vendors that were friends with the former mayor's law partner.
And this is just par for the course in Houston, Texas.
And then the latest outrage is that they have a mosque,
a prayer mosque in the airport. Sure, so if you
want to get down and do some pray into Allah.
They've got a place where you can go Daniel. Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And you know, there's a little something ironic about airports
and mosques, so I guess they're kind of just like
tying the two things together, right. It's just you know,
that is it is a religion that has a lot
of history with air travel, to put it politely, So yeah,
that's that's odd.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
This is this is when we look at how come
our kids can't read? You know, how come the buses
don't run on time? How come the if you can't
even run the damn airport. I mean, the level of
corruption we have nationwide is is mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But to get some of that, at least out of DC.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I have way more hope of Houston cleaning up its
airport than I do of Washington d C figuring out
the TSA problem.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right, let's talk a little bit about what is
going on right now with SNAP and education and healthcare.
It's always interesting when the government shut down happens, because
you see all the little things the government's involved in,
and it forces a conversation on other stuff like would
we be talking about the TSA or the need for
more TSA agents or traffic control. Obviously, the other thing
everybody's talking about now is Snap benefits. So suddenly on
(05:05):
social media, I see this big conversation over whether or
not people getting Snap benefits should be able to decide
what food they spend the money on. And the libertarian
argument is that, well, if we must have food stamps,
they should be able to buy anything that they want
with it. And I always hear that and think, well, anything, what, marijuana, gummies, anything.
I think if you're getting government aid that if you're
(05:26):
getting food stamps, then you're probably also getting free healthcare Sure,
which means I'm paying for both. And if I have
to pay for your health care, I'd really like to
see you use your food stamps for fruits, vegetables, maybe
frozen chicken eggs, milk, maybe bone broth so you can
make soup. And I know that's not sexy or fun,
but again, I also have to pay for your healthcare.
I don't want you eating twinkies. And isn't the end
(05:48):
goal to get people off the system. My end goal
is to shut down the system one hundred percent. I'm
way past my sympathy for you know, these are supplemental programs,
and I'm tired of being in atm our. Elected officials
are talking about the eight percent of Americans who are
on Snap. No one talks about the ninety two percent
of Americans who have to pay for it all the time.
(06:09):
And no one ever comes to my aid and says,
how can we help you? Daniel Turner, you know, farmer
in rural Virginia. What can we do to make your
life be all it is? Is like how much more
can you give? How many more taxes can you pay
so that we can then dole out your money to
whatever constituency we want. I don't believe forty two million
Americans are on SNAP. I believe forty two million Americans
(06:32):
take advantage of Snap because I would take advantage of
it if someone's given you free stuff. I saw a
TikTok Kenny and I was almost threw my phone out
the window with this woman was saying that starting on Saturday,
the day they run out, my kids are going to
literally starve.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We have nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And I thought, lady, if you get three hundred and
seventy dollars a month for a god knows how many
months nothing in your pantry, you don't have a damn
bag of rice.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You don't have a bag of onions. I have. Literally
my kids will starve tomorrow. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Your lousy parenting is not an obligation for me to
support you or your kids. So I am not about reform.
You can call me heartless and call me whatever you want.
I want all these programs completely and totally shut down.
I am sick and damn tired of paying for everybody.
Don't cry, sick, don't cry poor, don't cry. I'm in
(07:23):
a bad spot. That is what your church is for.
That is what your community is for. And if people
had more of their own money, then they would support
their church and their community and help the people who
are in need. Government is done being the ATM Dangl.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm curious. You know you work in the energy industry.
You're very involved. There is the government shut down affecting
that at all? No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's probably, if anything, is probably making it better because
it's the government that gums things up.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
There may be a permitting or a processing going through,
but I'm sure furk is still you know, functioning. A
lot of those jobs are considered essential, so they aren't
on the furlough. Schedule, right. Not every employee of the
federal government is load. The Senators are still getting paid, right.
Your congress people and their staffs are still getting paid.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They exempted themselves from the shutdown. So I think, if anything,
the fact that we don't have a bunch of idiot
government bureaucrats who are sticking their nose and everyone else's
business means the energy and just probably doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right now, one more question for you before we run
out of here. Evan Minch joining us shortly from the
Houston Chronicle. He's hanging out in our green room right now.
I love talking to Avan. He's a brilliant guy. He'll
be in the studio in just a few minutes. But
before we go, Cop thirty is going on right now
or it's starting today?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So this is the you're not going the climate summit
in Brazil. I was not invited. No, I do not
get invited to a lot of summits or unless it's
like a young Conservative summit. Nobody ever invites me to anything.
Everyone else is going. It is the it ticket every
year cup whatever you know. And this is the thirtieth year,
the thirtieth year of the end of times because of
climate change. And you know this one, Kenny, Brazil, was
(08:55):
a good choice because it's warm right now in Houston,
so you know, you're not real that in the northeast
or coming from Virginia, it's already cold. The leaves are gone,
it's you know, freezing. I wake up in the morning
and I have to break all the ice on my
cattle troughs because that's how cold it is. So the
idea of going to the land of busty bucksome latinas
(09:15):
drinking Kayperina and doing the Lombarda.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
For the climate, of course, right, brilliant, brilliant choice, Brazil, Daniel.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
If people want to find out more about you and
the work that you do, where can they go?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Powerthefuture dot com And it's always great to be with you,
especially in person.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
This was awesome, my brother from another Hey to those
of you watching this live stream right now, don't go anywhere.
Evan minz droid so shortly from the Houston Chronicle. I
just got to run in the other room and go
grab them and bring them in here. It should be
an interesting conversation coming up. More Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
happiness a safe space for those who love liberty and
try not to take themselves too seriously, even if your
(09:52):
name is Karen
Hey, if you enjoy that, you want to 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):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Problems of the airlines around the country.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A United flight to Chicago was delayed after flight attendants
got into a fight. You know, it actually gets worse.
They were fighting over how drunk the captain was. I
think that's terrible, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I landed at Houston yesterday and I'm dreading flying out
in a couple of days because the TSA line was
around four thousand people deep, three plus hours to get
through Houston TSA. So I'm actually it's weighing heavily on me,
whereas air travel never normally does.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All right, what have you heard so far about the
government shutdown? I start every day off on weekdays when
I do the morning show, listening to four different newscasts
while I'm getting ready, brushing my teeth, walking my dog.
I listened to ABC News, I listened to Fox News,
I listened to the BBC, and I listened to Al
Jazeera and I bet you could probably tell why left wing,
right wing, domestic friendly, foreign unfriendly foreign news. I'd like
(01:11):
to hear what they're all going to say, and very
often they'll all cover the same story. Right Israel is
a common thing, especially with Al Jazeera. The government shutdown
is a common thing, and the BBC explains it like
this or like over the weekend. Over the weekend, President
Donald Trump spoke to members of sixty minutes when he
said he wasn't even interested in negotiating and into the
government's shutdown. And then you flip over to the Fox
(01:33):
newscast and they have Ted Cruz, who is actually a
member of the Senate who's actually involved in the negotiations
of the government shutdown. Technically, Trump's not in the Senate,
it's not entirely his job, right and Ted crew says
he thinks it'll be over by Wednesday or late this week.
And I just can't help but notice, if everyone's getting
different news, if everybody's getting a different narrative, if everybody's
(01:53):
being told something completely different, no wonder we all hate
each other. Daniel Turner, a power of the future. Tell
us all the people you hate most of the Juty juice.
No good Lord. I hate Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know, and I think this shutdown I put this
on my Twitter just a couple hours ago. I think
this shutdown has shown a huge problem we have, which
is we have way too much concentrated power in Washington,
d C. Now, if you've been there for thirty plus years,
remember Chuck Schumer got to DC when Reagan got there
in eighty one. That's a long flipping time, right, When
people like Marcy Kaptor from Ohio, these people have been
(02:26):
in DC for forty five fifty years. You want power,
I'm Mitch McConnell, right, You want all the power in DC.
You don't want to lose any of that power to
the states. But for example, I just mentioned TSA lines
at Houston Airport. Houston Airport has the CFO, it has
a CEO, it has its runs as up our organization.
How come they can't get their act together and say,
(02:46):
you know what, we don't need DC to operate this airport.
We're Texas, We're our own institution. We're gonna we're gonna
figure the damn thing out, and education snap benefits. All
of this crap has to get out of DC. For
it to actual work.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but
here in Houston, Texas, especially with the previous mayor that
we had, not the current guy. The airport, where's where
they went to do corruption. It makes sense if you
think about it. It's a huge facility. There's two big
airports in Houston, but one of them's the size of
a small city. And there's so much happening there, so
many moving parts, so much money going on. The previous
(03:23):
mayor supposedly had some call him an assistant, other people
call it his boyfriend, had a what was it, something
like an intern working there, making one hundred thousand, ninety
thousand dollars a year and more than senior staffers of
the Houston Mayor's office. And then there was this deal
where supposedly a lot of the local food vendors were
(03:44):
getting pushed out in an effort to bring in food
vendors that were friends with the former mayor's law partner.
And this is just par for the course in Houston, Texas.
And then the latest outrage is that they have a mosque,
a prayer mosque in the airport. Sure, so if you
want to get down and do some pray into Allah.
They've got a place where you can go Daniel. Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And you know, there's a little something ironic about airports
and mosques, so I guess they're kind of just like
tying the two things together, right. It's just you know,
that is it is a religion that has a lot
of history with air travel, to put it politely, So yeah,
that's that's odd.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
This is this is when we look at how come
our kids can't read? You know, how come the buses
don't run on time? How come the if you can't
even run the damn airport. I mean, the level of
corruption we have nationwide is is mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But to get some of that, at least out of DC.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I have way more hope of Houston cleaning up its
airport than I do of Washington d C figuring out
the TSA problem.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right, let's talk a little bit about what is
going on right now with SNAP and education and healthcare.
It's always interesting when the government shut down happens, because
you see all the little things the government's involved in,
and it forces a conversation on other stuff like would
we be talking about the TSA or the need for
more TSA agents or traffic control. Obviously, the other thing
everybody's talking about now is Snap benefits. So suddenly on
(05:05):
social media, I see this big conversation over whether or
not people getting Snap benefits should be able to decide
what food they spend the money on. And the libertarian
argument is that, well, if we must have food stamps,
they should be able to buy anything that they want
with it. And I always hear that and think, well, anything, what, marijuana, gummies, anything.
I think if you're getting government aid that if you're
(05:26):
getting food stamps, then you're probably also getting free healthcare Sure,
which means I'm paying for both. And if I have
to pay for your health care, I'd really like to
see you use your food stamps for fruits, vegetables, maybe
frozen chicken eggs, milk, maybe bone broth so you can
make soup. And I know that's not sexy or fun,
but again, I also have to pay for your healthcare.
I don't want you eating twinkies. And isn't the end
(05:48):
goal to get people off the system. My end goal
is to shut down the system one hundred percent. I'm
way past my sympathy for you know, these are supplemental programs,
and I'm tired of being in atm our. Elected officials
are talking about the eight percent of Americans who are
on Snap. No one talks about the ninety two percent
of Americans who have to pay for it all the time.
(06:09):
And no one ever comes to my aid and says,
how can we help you? Daniel Turner, you know, farmer
in rural Virginia. What can we do to make your
life be all it is? Is like how much more
can you give? How many more taxes can you pay
so that we can then dole out your money to
whatever constituency we want. I don't believe forty two million
Americans are on SNAP. I believe forty two million Americans
(06:32):
take advantage of Snap because I would take advantage of
it if someone's given you free stuff. I saw a
TikTok Kenny and I was almost threw my phone out
the window with this woman was saying that starting on Saturday,
the day they run out, my kids are going to
literally starve.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We have nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And I thought, lady, if you get three hundred and
seventy dollars a month for a god knows how many
months nothing in your pantry, you don't have a damn
bag of rice.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You don't have a bag of onions. I have. Literally
my kids will starve tomorrow. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Your lousy parenting is not an obligation for me to
support you or your kids. So I am not about reform.
You can call me heartless and call me whatever you want.
I want all these programs completely and totally shut down.
I am sick and damn tired of paying for everybody.
Don't cry, sick, don't cry poor, don't cry. I'm in
(07:23):
a bad spot. That is what your church is for.
That is what your community is for. And if people
had more of their own money, then they would support
their church and their community and help the people who
are in need. Government is done being the ATM Dangl.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm curious. You know you work in the energy industry.
You're very involved. There is the government shut down affecting
that at all? No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's probably, if anything, is probably making it better because
it's the government that gums things up.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
There may be a permitting or a processing going through,
but I'm sure furk is still you know, functioning. A
lot of those jobs are considered essential, so they aren't
on the furlough. Schedule, right. Not every employee of the
federal government is load. The Senators are still getting paid, right.
Your congress people and their staffs are still getting paid.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They exempted themselves from the shutdown. So I think, if anything,
the fact that we don't have a bunch of idiot
government bureaucrats who are sticking their nose and everyone else's
business means the energy and just probably doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right now, one more question for you before we run
out of here. Evan Minch joining us shortly from the
Houston Chronicle. He's hanging out in our green room right now.
I love talking to Avan. He's a brilliant guy. He'll
be in the studio in just a few minutes. But
before we go, Cop thirty is going on right now
or it's starting today?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So this is the you're not going the climate summit
in Brazil. I was not invited. No, I do not
get invited to a lot of summits or unless it's
like a young Conservative summit. Nobody ever invites me to anything.
Everyone else is going. It is the it ticket every
year cup whatever you know. And this is the thirtieth year,
the thirtieth year of the end of times because of
climate change. And you know this one, Kenny, Brazil, was
(08:55):
a good choice because it's warm right now in Houston,
so you know, you're not real that in the northeast
or coming from Virginia, it's already cold. The leaves are gone,
it's you know, freezing. I wake up in the morning
and I have to break all the ice on my
cattle troughs because that's how cold it is. So the
idea of going to the land of busty bucksome latinas
(09:15):
drinking Kayperina and doing the Lombarda.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
For the climate, of course, right, brilliant, brilliant choice, Brazil, Daniel.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
If people want to find out more about you and
the work that you do, where can they go?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Powerthefuture dot com And it's always great to be with you,
especially in person.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
This was awesome, my brother from another Hey to those
of you watching this live stream right now, don't go anywhere.
Evan minz droid so shortly from the Houston Chronicle. I
just got to run in the other room and go
grab them and bring them in here. It should be
an interesting conversation coming up. More Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
happiness a safe space for those who love liberty and
try not to take themselves too seriously, even if your
(09:52):
name is Karen
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