March 28, 2025 • 37 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Michael Quinn Sullivan and Brandon Darby. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh no, oh no.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Thanks to federal workforce cuts, we may have to close
thousands of camp sites. I guess I'm okay with that, though.
I mean the older I get, the harder it is
to pitch a tent. Thanks so much for turning on
your radio this afternoon. We got a full house here
speaking of the Texas House. While speaking of the House,
the Texas House had a little, I don't know how
to put this, a little speed bump today. And let's
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put it to put it bluntly, if you're paying people
to go to the Texas House and pass laws or
you know, legislate the state, it's not happening today. We'll
explain why Michael quinn Sullivan's going to be here in
just a little bit from Texas squarecard dot Com. Stick
around for that. And Brandon Darby bright Bart Texas senior editor,
is in my opinion, one of the most knowledgeable reporters
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from the border, but He's also a Tesla owner, and
people have been going around the country setting bombs, lighting
things on fire, basically terrorism to put it bluntly, and
harassing Tesla owners. Brandon Darby is kind of a trigger
happy Republican who practices jiu jitsu. Has a few thoughts
about that. To stick around, and I'm really excited about this.
(01:27):
One of our producers here, Ethan Buchanan, is a twenty
two year old news reporter down the hall at k TRH.
He's also just so happens to be our latest talk
show host here on Sundays on KPRC. Ethan's going to
be stopping by to tell you why actually you shouldn't
worry that much about this new generation of people. Okay,
I mean don't worry about him too much. I actually
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think I maybe feel better about gen Z right now
than I do about millennials.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We'll explain why it's Friday. Stick around. We got a
lot to go.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Kamala Harris deserves to be vice president like Elvis deserved
as blod building karate. What a hunka hunka burning krab
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
A recently published report reveals that sixty four percent of
Americans experience anxiety with math, which means the percentage who
don't is well, hang on, carry all right, Fine, I
don't know either, but anyway, they're probably right about that. Hi,
welcome back from break kids. I'm Kenny Webster, and I am,
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like a lot of you, someone who doesn't love when
my government spends money on needless bureaucracy. Over the past
week here there's been a lot of conversation about the
Department of Education, and obviously the same people that would
have hated Donald Trump if he put more money into
the Department of Education are now telling you he's literally
Adolf Hitler. He's literally a mid twentieth century German dictator
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with a liberal arts degree in a tiny mustache. Because
he is going to vastly, if not completely, reduce the
size of the Department of Education. What exactly would you
say you do it the Department of Education? Department of
Education staff member, Well, we do a lot of things
that computers could have done for us twenty or thirty
years ago. But since we still have this antiquated system
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from the mid twentieth century, you get the idea, and
so they're moving the pell grants here and they're moving
the student loans there, and okay, fine, it'll be fine.
Let the states decide educational curriculum. If Californians want to
teach their kids that a boy can be a girl
and Texans don't, why should the federal government be involved
in that. That's not like, that's and that's the least
of the problems. Right, But all that being said, here
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in Texas, there's a lot of needless bureaucracy. There's a
lot of needless spending and education that a Republican controlled
state is responsible for. You ever look at the salaries
of superintendents do you understand how much these people get
paid to not teach your kids? Right as Okay, obviously
we do we need superintendents, Yes, we probably do, but
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superintendent and it's get paid so much more than teachers do,
and some would argue they're doing a lot less work.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
One person who has a little.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Insight into this, a guy I don't often refer to
as the most dangerous guy in the Texas political media
certainly one of the most interesting. Michael quinn Sullivan of
Texas scorecard dot Com. These poor superintendents, how will they
have money to buy snacks if not for these six
figures out.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What's the latest on this. It's been a big conversation
about this lately, hasn't there.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah. Look, you know, every year, you know, you hear
the cries, Oh, public education's underfunded, we need more money
for the public schools. New school teachers are on food
stamps and whatever they say, none of which is true.
Public education now makes up forty percent of the Texas budget.
They have received forty five over the past decade, a
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forty five percent increase in funding, forty five percent, thirty
eight percent. Take if you take away inflation, right, public
education making there's literally billions and billions of state money
alone following to public education. When you look think of
your own local school district. Half the money that's being
spent by our school district comes from the state, and
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half of it comes from you, from from the local
reb all that comes from the taxpayer's pocket, right, but
the sources that it flows through, so the you know,
so the billions and billions spent by the state has
also been matched billions and billions locally, all of it
coming from your from your course, massive amount of spending.
We spend more money per student than anywhere in the world.
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Uh be at Our results are miserable, and part of
that is because we've allowed this. Look, people are gonna
get angry when I say this, so please forgive me
the way to make people mad in the afternoon. Public
education does not exist to educate children. Children is not
the reason public schools exist. Public education does not exist
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to educate children. You know, maybe there's some you know,
some little do gooder who thinks that they became a
teacher so that they could educate kids.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's cute. You're wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Public education exists to employ adults. We have public education
to employ adults. And how do you know that? Because
I always spend the money. More than half the money
is spent outside the classroom. And then you see these
superintendents who are making these wildly insane salaries. You know,
you're talking most superintendents in the state make more than
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the governor makes. Right do you have these folks making
half a million dollars as superintendents And that's just salary,
that's not including these lucrative bonus packages. And remember, all
of these superintendents are locked in these special contracts where
if they are caught with the proverbial. You know, dead
girl or live boy. You have to pay them to leave, right, and.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It is insane.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You've talked about that we have to pay of them
to leave is crazy. There've actually been examples of that before.
You guys published a list here of the superintendent's getting
paid the most, and I got one thing that immediately
pops out to me, Michael. It doesn't go in the
order you'd think. You'd think, what Houston at the top
and some town you never heard of at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, the most.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The highest paid superintendent in the state is that Victoria ISD.
Victoria is there's like sixty thousand people there. This person
gets five hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. What exactly
is Randall s Meyer doing for a cool five That's
that's upper that's upper income. I mean, I think that's
beyond upper middle class. That's upper class. Yeah, you know,
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I have no idea what Randall's doing.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
I'm other than doing a really good job of convincing
the school board to spend other people's money on Randall.
Way to go, Randall, you're bilking the people of Victoria
out of half a million dollars a year, and which
again does not include benefits and retirement packages and all
the little goodies. I'm most superintendents in the state, they
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get car allowances, all these kind of starting to see
now the superintendent's wanting drivers and all. I mean, it's
just insane.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Kenny.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Well, we're spending money on in public education. Again, it
all makes sense when you remember public education exists to
employ adults. It exists to employe adults, and many adults
are finding that well, if they're going to be employe
adults seem to make really good money at it too.
It is a completely backwards system that has got.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To be addressed.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
And when you think that, you know, when you think
of the modern era right where you know, most of
us don't go to a bank anymore, right we have
a bank that were a relationship with is on our
phone or on our computer. You know, we don't write checks.
We use you know, online bill pay all those kind
of things that we use. But yet you've got you know,
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twelve hundred eleven hundred school districts in the state, all
with superintendents, all with payroll departments, all with human resources departments,
all with all these layers of bureaucracy where they're all
making multiples of the teacher salary. So when you see
a superintendent coming to Austin demanding that Austin raised the
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pay of teachers, know that's because the superintendent's salary is
based on a multiple of the of the teachers pay.
And when you see that kind of language about how
Texas needs to pay teachers more, just remember that's because
those superintendents want more money for themselves, not because they
care about the teachers. Because in fact, a superintendent can
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raise the pay and salary of teachers in their districts.
They could be paying every math teacher in Victoria ISD.
Could be making half a million dollars if Randall and
the school board wanted to, but they don't because they
want to employ lots of adults.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I know this is always an unpopular point, but I
mean we just not just the superintendent. I think educators
in general and public schools are getting paid too much.
The population is not increasing the rate that the spending
is happening at, and considering how much more money we're spending,
we're certainly not seeing an increase in education.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's the last thing that's happening.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But hey, we could talk about this till we're blue
in the face, because I know we both have a
lot to say about it before we run out of time. Here,
some really big happened in the Texas House today, can
you I don't know if people heard this. Dustin Burrow
is not a popular person with our radio listeners so
far this year is not exactly keeping his promises. What
took place today at the Texas House.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Yeah, so you know, Burroughs has been criticized quite a
bit for having these long three, four, five six day
weekends rent the halfway part or were literally just now
passed the halfway mark, and loves obsession. They've had a
lot of five day weekends things like that. So no,
they made a big show that this Friday they were
going to work. We're going to work. Well, now they
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haven't passed any legislation, haven't debated any legislation, but that
will at least be present, which for legislators counts is
working instead under the state constitution, and you have to
have one hundred members of the Texas House present for
there to be a quorum, which is for them to
conduct business, and usually there's very often not been a
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quorum present. You'll have eighty ninety and that's where you're
watched called ghost voting, where everyone runs around pushing the
little buttons on the desks for their colleagues who are
you know, you know, taking care of their hangover back
at their apartment or their hotel or went on home
to hang out with the family or whatever else they
were doing. It's called ghost voting. Well, today one of
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the members of the Texas House, Brian Harrison, Middleothian, decided
he had enough of this game where these guys are
pretending to work without working. So he demanded what's called
a verification, and that's where every member you know there
is to stand up and they you know, count Huol's there,
that kind of thing. No more ghost voting. And it
infuriated the speaker because they're only sixty five people there,
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but one hundred and fifty only sixty five, so well
short of the corms, the House couldn't got to business.
And the great thing was today their business day was
to recognize the former members, you know, the people who've
lost their elections and been kicked to the curb. We're
going to be paraded through as the great, honorable you know,
stages of the past, and so that didn't get to happen.
It's it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And Brian Harrison, he's the guy that spoiled the fund
for Dustin Burrows.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Huh, He's spoilt the fund.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
For distant Burroughs and put a spotlight on the fact
that the Texas House has not been working. Look the
Texas in It, I can I can quibble about some
of the things that they have, that they have, that
they have debated, that they have passed, but the end
of the day, at least they're working.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Right.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I may not always agree with how the kid bagging
my groceries is working at bagging my groceries, but at
least he's trying rightly, him sitting there to melt at
the end of the checkout counter. The same at the
Texas in It. At least they're working. The Texas House
isn't even pretending to work. And so I think for
a lot of Texans as you're looking at your property tanks,
middle as, you're looking at lackluster results in public education,
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and to go down all these different issues where we
expect them to be working. In large part that's because
Dustin Burrows doesn't know how to manage the Texas House.
And more importantly, you've got a lot of members that
you and I have elected who don't know how to
manage their time very well.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No, but at least they get a four day weekend, Michael,
I'm glad they get to enjoy it. To your point,
the Texas Senate just passed a ban on red flag
gun laws, basically saying if the federal government or I
guess the state or municipal level, they try to create
some law that would take away your Second Amendment rights,
Texas Senate says, well, you know you have constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We're gonna put our foot down.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And this is something that seems to be popular with
grassroots advocates. This is probably something the governor would agree with.
This is something that most lawmakers in the House claim
that they would support, which means it absolutely will never
become a real law.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Look, this is a really important legislation. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I know.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Look, we can all sit here right now and say, oh, well, gosh,
show red red flag laws. Those won't happen with Donald
Trump and the White House, with Republicans control rolling both
chambers of Congress. And this is the mistake a lot
of Republicans and conservatives make is we don't look beyond
this afternoon, right, and this kind of law is really
important to put in place because Donald Trump won't always
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be the president. You won't always have conservatives controlling controlling Congress.
One could argue, we don't currently have conservatives controlling Congress,
so you know, we could be five years away from
these kind of you know, Second Amendment of using the
measures passing out of a future US Congress. And so
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what Brian Hughes and the Texas Senate and the folks
at Texas Gun Rights have been trying to do is say,
now we need to in Texas past this today, not
because we're worried about Donald Trump and you know, the
House and the Senate of today, but because we're worried
what Congress and a future president could be doing five
or six years from now. So, you know, in many ways,
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this is kind of what we what we should be
asking when when the threat is upon us, it's kind
of too late to for it. And I think that
it's a it is very smart to guys like Brian
Hughes and the Texas Senate trying to accomplish this.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Whether the House will do anything about it is another question.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Boy, It perfectly explained, and I have noticed this is
one of the many stories you guys are covering at
Texas scorecard dot com, which I find, as a Texas voter,
citizen and taxpayer, to be infinitely important, and that your
coverage of it is more detailed and useful than the
Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, or the Austin Statesman
at less than half the cost.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Michael Quinnsullivan, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
More than happy to always be providing resources to the
people at Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
My brother texascorecard dot com for that. I know a
lot of you already follow Michael on social media and
people will forward me news stories from texascorecard dot com like, Kenny,
have you seen this?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm like, yeah, I think I told you about that website.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But regardless, I'm glad people are getting the word out.
Go to Texas scorecard dot com today, subscribe to their
email list.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's free.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Save yourself with the money on a Houston Chronicle subscription.
It's much better. And while you're at it, follow my
buddy Michael on social media.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You'd be glad you did.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground.
Alive and listening to Kinny Webster on KPRC nine point
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You don't smell like a dead person. Nope, you don't.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
This is not good news, my friends. I mean, I
guess it's okay. It's just it's not what you would
have expected. Bombs found at a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas.
People going around the country right now harassing, terrorizing people
because they own a Tesla. There is good news for
the Tesla owners though. Tesla is opening a drive in
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movie theater in Los Angeles. It's a great way for
people to watch a movie while charging their Tesla or
reassembling their cyber trucks.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Sounds like from Texas Justice to me, Oh Lockett.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And now live from the Border.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
It's Bart's Brandon Darby with the Cartel Chronicles only on
KPRC Radio.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Brandon is truly an enigma.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
My friend, Brandon Darby, one of these senior editors at
Breitbart dot com, the creator of the Cartel Chronicles and
breit Bart Texas, one of the first journalists to really
take the border seriously. Every journalist goes down to the
border now, But a decade ago, when Brandon was doing it.
Nobody else was a bunch of posers anyway. Brandon owns
a Ford F one fifty, but he also owns a
solar panel farm and a Tesla. He has a large
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it's not the cyber truck. He's got the other SUV
that they make. And Brandon, I, I'm sure you're fine
because you live in the Panhandle, but I do wonder
with people traveling around harassing Tesla owners and you being
a guy that practices martial arts and carries a gun,
do you feel like, statistically speaking, you're more likely to
get into a violent fistic cups, maybe even end up
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having to fill out paperwork to explain to cops why
someone died while they were vandalizing your truck. I mean,
are you navigating through this very contentious political landscape involving
Tesla owners, you being one and all.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, there's a few things.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
From first, what I mostly drive is an F two
fifty and it's a beast. You know, it's a Diesel.
It's a beast. And I have a Tesla and the Tesla.
I really like the Tesla, but it doesn't really work
well for me because it the way it works is
it you know it doesn't have all these features. But
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if you if you swerve too close to the center
line or you don't stand in your lane just right,
it it deems you. And then it like after the
third time, it's a beast. Teachers are unavailable to your
next next drive because you have not been paying it
to You're like, you know what, I don't need a nanny,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Wow, I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Is that work? Well, yeah it is if you're me
and you apparently don't drive like everybody else, but like
everyone else. But so what I did was I gave
it to my daughter. And you know that sounds kind
of pretentious, but my daughter loves it, and you know,
I can regulate her speed and see how she's driving
and if she's stopping too quick or all this stuff.
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So it's pretty cool out and turned cameras on and
do all that stuff. So I'm glad I got it.
You know, I think it's there's a couple of big
things at play here. First off, someone would seriously regret
attacking my TESTLOK if I were in it, and it'd
regret it more if my daughter were in it. You know,
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I mean no, I mean, it wouldn't work out well,
like someone road raised on her. You know she she
recently got her license and you know she's a teenager.
And someone road raised on her. And I was following
her when they were doing it, and that was an
interesting situation.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, where did this happen? Were on the freeway?
Tell the story.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
We were and we were on a highway and love it.
And what happened was she pulled out and then this
car truck got mad that she pulled out, even though
she didn't kind of moth. It was just pissed that
I had to slow down. So it started like tailgating her,
like real super close, and then went into the the
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the turn lane, passed her in the turn lane, and
then like cut her off for a hard core. So
I followed the truck and eventually the truck realized I
was following it. So I pulled into a like a
convenient at a strip mall, and then this big guy
gets out and he's like, I'm a sheriffs deputy, and
I was like, I don't give a shit, you know,
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So I get out and and I was like, that's
my sixteen year old daughter. Man, he goes, well, she
needs to learn how to drive. I said, you know what,
I think you need to learn how to dress.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
This camera's all over. Why don't we just you know what.
I got a better idea, and I got my phone
out and I said, you're a you're a sheriff's deputy.
I'm a news editor. Let's see how this works out.
Go ahead, tell me, tell me why you drove that way,
and go ahead. And he was like, hold on a minute,
hold on, I shouldn't have I was like, yeah, you
shouldn't have made And so he initially thought he was
going to intimidate me because he was an off dude
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to sheriff's deputy. And you know, God bless most police
officers and most law enforcement. I'm the biggest supporter. I
don't just say that like other people. I've shown that
with my life. In fact, I've had my life ruined
by protecting the lives of law enforcement officers right in
the past when I've testified against people who are trying
to fire obamam. I have entire staff members whose jobs
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are based around writing about the job that law enforcement do.
So I support law enforcement. But that kind of guy
did not be a law enforcement officer. You know, and
they come in jiu jitsu guys like that. You know,
there's a lot of law enforcement guys in jiu jitsu
and they're great, but they're those ones who show up
and because they're law enforcement, they end up quitting jiu
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jitsu because they just can't take the fact that they
can't fight as good as they think they could. Right,
They're not as tough as they thought they were, and
to get that tough, it takes work, and it takes
years of getting beat up and and every day in
jiu jitsu, and they just can't handle it, you know.
So the good cops who come in there generally gay
and become really good at jiu jitsu. But there's those
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guys who show up and they might make a comment,
you know, like gee, I thought I could fight better
than that, and then they're completely destroyed, right emotionally that
they got beat up all day by a bunch of
you know, smaller people wearing blue belts, and then they
leave and never come back, you know. And that's that
kind of guy. So those kind of cops I don't
I don't really care for all right, Yeah, that's what
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happened in that situation.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You're pretty good at predicting news stories. You work in
news media, you see how these things play out. Right now,
there's a lot of people out there vandalizing teslas. It's
probably not as big of a problem in Lubbick up
in the Panhandle where you live, but still you could
see it's happening. And most of the people, not all,
but most of the people driving teslas tend to lean
to the left. So technically, in a lot of cases,
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this is blue on blue violence. But do you see this?
How far are we into this news cycle? Are we
approaching the end of the fifteen minutes here? Do you
think it's going to get worse before I get there?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It's not at all what people are making it out
to be. It isn't a bunch of people vandalizing teslas.
There's coordinated efforts. There are a bunch of people vandalizing teslas.
But what you're starting to see are these coordinated group
efforts to attack Tesla dealerships, to hack Tesla, to threaten
and intimidate Tesla owners. Right, you're starting to see. What
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you're seeing is kind of a resurgence of what we've
seen decades prior, which like the Animal Liberation Front the
Earth Liberation Front. It's where these really far vanguard groups
in the left start to engage in domestic terrorism in
order to achieve their political goals and to horrify the
people who disagree with them. And we're starting to see that.
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And at that time, what we saw was all these
mainstream liberals who know the problems started shot of a
sipping revolutionaries, right, they would never do what tree Gaver did,
but they'll sit around and wear his T shirts and
support him. Well, you saw that with Jimmy Kimble, where
Jimmy Kimmel came out and he was like, it's real
bad to the damage of Tesla, and then he kind
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of giggled, you know, like he paused for a minute,
looked at the camera, and he's giving tacit support for it, right,
because they think Elon Musk is a Nazi. So what
we're seeing is we're starting to see the burs pains
of left of center domestic terrorism against the right. That's
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what we're starting to see. That's what it is, and
it's why it's a big deal. Are there videos of
ladies and men just walking by a Tesla out of
Whole Foods and seeing it. Yes, that's happening. But these
attacks like what happened on the Tesla dealership. I think
it was in Colorado, maybe California, I can't recall it now,
where there were these coordinated attacks with improvised explosive devices homemade. Yeah, no, no, no,
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You're starting to see a political movement forming. And mark
my words, these are the birthing pains as a of
left of center alp elf you know, Earth and Animal
Liberation Front kind of stuff like eco terrorism, animals terrorism.
You're starting to see the birth of another effort like that,
because I mean, I don't know how liberals do it
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right now, like left of center people. They must be
taking xanax or something, because literally everything they've just spent
years doing has just been undone. Right, The vast majority
of the population has rejected, has rejected their political correctness,
has rejected their efforts to control speech and criminalize on
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popular speech. Right, everything that they have worked for is
being undone, and very rapidly, right, everything is being undone.
The Overton window has shifted so far, you know, and
I think in a direction the most people agree with,
and maybe not every bit of it, but overall most
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people do and and that's why they voted for the
guy most people did, and in this country, so they
must be having a you know, the therapist must be
really busy.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Right, but i'd imagine that's my words.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But before this is over, in the next few years,
this is just the beginning of domestic terrorism aimed at
right wingers.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh yeah, and somebody will probably end up getting killed.
It's pretty scary. Brandon Darby find his work at Breitbart
dot com, click the World News, breit Bart, the Cartel Chronicles,
Border News, Tap, or just find him on x That's
a good place to go as well.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its line behind. You're listening to Kinny Webster.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
All right, So the Supreme Court just upheld a new
law requiring ghost guns to have serial numbers. The problem
with labeling a ghost gun is you have to use
invisible ink. I hate that. Hi, we're back from break kids.
We're not done yet. It's Friday. It's the last segment
of the show. I've had a long week, but not
a bad one. In fact, I love what I do
(27:12):
for a living. I'm I'm proud. It's a great honor
to be able to get on this radio station and
deliver the news and commentary.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Frankly, I can't believe I get paid to do this
for a living.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
That being said, if you haven't heard the news yet,
we are planning a comedy tour that's coming up real soon.
If you're going to be in South Louisiana the weekend
of four to twenty Friday April eighteenth, we're gonna be
in New Orleans me Chad Prather and Jesse Payton. Tickets
are available for that on my x account. You can
also go to watch Chad dot com or jesse isfunny
(27:43):
dot com. It's called the Right Side of Comedy The
Golf of America Tour with Chad Prayther Jesse Payton.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm the host.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
We're gonna be in New Orleans Friday April eighteenth and
Hattiesburg Friday Saturday, April nineteenth, So get your tickets now.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. I love that
that's happening. I love that right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Wing people are taking over comedy. That's clearly hat like
a Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle. These guys are not liberals,
Bill Marge, you think comedy is welcome on the left,
clearly not. And I also love the fact that young people,
particularly young men, men in their twenties, are skewing conservative.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
And it's not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Why if you look at the new statistical data about
who the conservative voters are, Donald Trump mixed everything up
like a game of three card monte. You just rearranged
the deck chairs. Everything's different now. A lot of elderly
people are now liberal Democrats, a lot of young people
are now conservative Republicans. Imagine telling that to your grandfather
(28:39):
a decade It wouldn't have believed you. But that's where
we're at now. And again, I cannot stress this. This
was predictable if you paid attention young men in America,
young male voters in their twenties are skewing more conservative
than ever for the same reason why back in the
sixties young men were skewing more liberal than ever.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
The system pushed them that way.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Back in the sixties, you were told, if you were
a young man, the communist is your enemy, So we're
going to force you to get on an airplane and
fly overseas and go to war with a group of
people you've never met before in a country you've never
been to over and over a dispute you have nothing
to do with. And it pushed them pretty far to
(29:19):
the left. It made a lot of them think, hey,
I'm these guys are not my enemy. You're telling me there,
but you're my enemy. You're the one forcing me to
go oversea. And it pushed them very far to the left.
And now just the opposite's happened over the past decade
or two. Young men have been told you're white, or
you're not white, You're you're male, you're cisgender, you're heteronormative,
you're what's wrong with the world. Shame on you, declare
(29:42):
your privilege, apologize for it. What what do you mean?
I was just born a decade or two ago. I
have never had a job before, I've never had any
How could I have ruined the world? It pushed young
men very far to the right. And now that's evident
from the latest election. Young men overwhelming he voted for
Donald Trump. Black men in Texas. More than a third
(30:04):
of black men are now voting Republican in the state
of Texas.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Well, here, as your favorite vocal talk radio station, we
hear that, we acknowledge it. We understand it, and frankly,
I think it's really awesome. Young people are listening to
talk radio right now, despite what the liberal media has
told you, despite what the liberal media says about terrestrial
broadcasting or Republican ideology. So on Sunday, one of my
(30:29):
favorite people here at the radio station, Ethan Buchanan, is
a news reporter down the hall at our sister station KTRH.
They're giving him his own show. And I've featured Ethan
on this radio show before. I don't even know if
technically I was allowed to, but I did it anyway.
Ethan's in the studio right now. Ethan, you're twenty two,
you're very smart, you're Christian conservative, you love Texas breed,
(30:53):
you bleed red, white and blue. And now they're giving
you your own talk radio show. And I was against it,
but I'm very no and all seriousness. I'm excited. When
does your show, Aaron? What is it?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
It airs Sunday at seven pm. It'll be from that
seven to eight hour, and really, what it is, what
I hope it will become is I just want to
help people think. I don't want to tell people what
right and wrong is not that I don't believe there
is an objective right and wrong. I do, but I
also am aware of the fact that people disagree on that,
(31:29):
and if you just say, hey, you're wrong, people are
gonna get turned off to that. I want to help
people think and come to the conclusions that I have
come to in the same way that I have come to.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I want you to say, Okay, here's issue A, here's.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
The side effects of issue A, and this is the result.
Backtrack that, deconstruct that, and realize here's what we need
to be doing instead of whatever, right I think too
much of. Right now, there's hive mind. And this is
clearly evident on the left. People don't think about issues.
They just this is what I've been told, and so
I'm gonna go with it. Okay, Well, let's let's actually
(32:04):
look at what's going on. Think about how we got here,
think about where we're coming from. Because in the United States,
we came from the greatest society that has ever been.
We have a proud lineage of the Roman Empire civilizing Europe,
and then Christianity civilizing the Roman Empire, and then that
kind of building the United States of America into the
(32:25):
greatest society and then we didn't think at all about
how we got there. We didn't think about it, and
we were just told things, and we just believed everybody
and got to the point where now we've very nearly
lost the greatest society ever because nobody thought about anything.
We all just followed the hive mind off the cliff.
So I just want to help people think and come
(32:46):
to the right conclusions without necessarily forcing them to be correct.
I want you to get there on your own.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right, you're twenty two years old.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
You are a young conservative news reporter for KTRH wee
arguably the biggest conservative news station in the country, certainly
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
But that didn't just happen. You didn't just stumble into it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
You didn't just apply for a job like kids apply
for a job at McDonald's. How did you decide you
wanted to do this? Who are your role models in
politics and broadcasting?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Well, in politics and broadcasting, I'd have to say, uh,
probably The Michael Berry Show was one of my biggest
influences because I used to listen to that with my
dad a lot, and we both really enjoyed that show,
and I liked it and once I hit about eighteen,
I graduated high school, and I kind of got into
that slump that a lot of young people, especially young
(33:38):
white guys like myself, get into, where wait, you're white,
that's the rumor. I prefer the term Caucasian American. We're
trying to get away.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
From the labels crackerface, honkloid, crackerface, honk aloid.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I hate white people. Cannot stand up.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
They're the worst. They're the worst. They put mayonnaise on everything.
They've got to be stopped. That nobody's doing anything about
the mayonnaise epidemic. That's true, that's right, We're going to
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
So Michael Barry, obviously I look one of my mentors.
I wrote comedy Bets.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Ratio.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Loved your comedy Bets. The first time I met you,
I was like, oh my god, that's producer Kenny.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
My brother from another But politics wise, you know, non radio,
non journalism, what about political.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
People, political people.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
I really liked Ron Paul just because he was the
one of the only people that was saying like, hey,
there is a finite amount of money in this world
and in this country, we can't keep spending forever. And
that seemed to me like the most obvious thing that
no one was saying. So the fact that he was
going out there and making that's his whole personality. I
liked that quite a bit. But I mean, politically speaking,
(34:41):
just overall, one of my favorites has got to be
just Davy Crockett.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Honestly. I love that. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
People you know, we think about the legend of the
Alamo or whatever, but a lot of people don't really
think about the fact that he was a politician and
he was a very principled one. And yeah, he was
the type of guy that was like, listen, this is
what I think is best for my district in Tennessee
where a frontier district. I want it to stay that way.
(35:08):
I want to protect our district, but I also want
to protect our money. One of the ways that he
kind of made his name in politics was he was
very open about the fact that he did not think
the government should be, you know, handing out taxpayer money
in terms of just you know, benefits and whatnot. Sure,
we spend so much money on you know, taking care
of people because we feel like we have to. Davy
Crockett was one of the first people to get up
(35:29):
and say, hey, this is the taxpayer's money. It should
be spent on all of the taxpayers, not just this
one charity case. We all think charity is great, but
that should be something you're doing in private, not the government.
The moment you open the door to hey, we've got
this sad old lady and she needs help and nobody
else is helping her. The government should step in. It
(35:50):
sounds like a good idea. But what have you opened
the door to. We see what they open the door to.
It's a disaster. We have our social Security that nobody's
paying for.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, I borrow one of my greatest lines from him,
Well his line. First, I'm not from Texas. I got
here as soon as I could. Yeah, you are kind
of a stereotype because you're a libertarian, conservative, nerdy white
guy with an Asian girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But I just want to paint a picture here of
what people expect when they tune in.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
It's not just going to be for kids.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Obviously, you speak very intelligently for a twenty two year old,
and I've noticed a lot of people younger than twenty
five can't form a complete sentence. You're not one of
those people. I'm endorsing your show. I think it's awesome.
If people want to tune in, when can they check
it out?
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Sundays at seven pm on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
But listen, it's already available as a podcast. We've got
several months of shows that are already available to listen to.
So tune in on Sunday listen live. If you miss it,
check back in for the podcast. And if you want
a pregame, I support that. Go listen to the podcast
right now.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Ethan Buchanan the latest talent added gen Z a very
exciting KPRC Radio, the oldest radio station in Texas, now
has a gen Z talk show host. You know, I
started off as a weekend talk show host, Ethan, and
look at me now, I'm a divorced, unhappy suicide.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I know, I'm just kidding, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I started off as a weekend talk show host on
this station and now I'm a syndicated morning show host.
So I'm excited. I believe in this industry. I believe
in what we do for a living. I believe it
makes a difference. And when I found out you were
getting your own show. I was really excited about that, Ethan.
So congratulations, my man. Welcome to the fold.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Hey to the rest of you, I love you all.
Be safe out there, drive safe. Be back here Brain
early Monday morning for more of what you bought a
radio for. You are listening to the Pursuit of Happy
Miss Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
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to this show.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh no, oh no.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Thanks to federal workforce cuts, we may have to close
thousands of camp sites. I guess I'm okay with that, though.
I mean the older I get, the harder it is
to pitch a tent. Thanks so much for turning on
your radio this afternoon. We got a full house here
speaking of the Texas House. While speaking of the House,
the Texas House had a little, I don't know how
to put this, a little speed bump today. And let's
(00:44):
put it to put it bluntly, if you're paying people
to go to the Texas House and pass laws or
you know, legislate the state, it's not happening today. We'll
explain why Michael quinn Sullivan's going to be here in
just a little bit from Texas squarecard dot Com. Stick
around for that. And Brandon Darby bright Bart Texas senior editor,
is in my opinion, one of the most knowledgeable reporters
(01:06):
from the border, but He's also a Tesla owner, and
people have been going around the country setting bombs, lighting
things on fire, basically terrorism to put it bluntly, and
harassing Tesla owners. Brandon Darby is kind of a trigger
happy Republican who practices jiu jitsu. Has a few thoughts
about that. To stick around, and I'm really excited about this.
(01:27):
One of our producers here, Ethan Buchanan, is a twenty
two year old news reporter down the hall at k TRH.
He's also just so happens to be our latest talk
show host here on Sundays on KPRC. Ethan's going to
be stopping by to tell you why actually you shouldn't
worry that much about this new generation of people. Okay,
I mean don't worry about him too much. I actually
(01:48):
think I maybe feel better about gen Z right now
than I do about millennials.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We'll explain why it's Friday. Stick around. We got a
lot to go.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Kamala Harris deserves to be vice president like Elvis deserved
as blod building karate. What a hunka hunka burning krab
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
A recently published report reveals that sixty four percent of
Americans experience anxiety with math, which means the percentage who
don't is well, hang on, carry all right, Fine, I
don't know either, but anyway, they're probably right about that. Hi,
welcome back from break kids. I'm Kenny Webster, and I am,
(02:29):
like a lot of you, someone who doesn't love when
my government spends money on needless bureaucracy. Over the past
week here there's been a lot of conversation about the
Department of Education, and obviously the same people that would
have hated Donald Trump if he put more money into
the Department of Education are now telling you he's literally
Adolf Hitler. He's literally a mid twentieth century German dictator
(02:54):
with a liberal arts degree in a tiny mustache. Because
he is going to vastly, if not completely, reduce the
size of the Department of Education. What exactly would you
say you do it the Department of Education? Department of
Education staff member, Well, we do a lot of things
that computers could have done for us twenty or thirty
years ago. But since we still have this antiquated system
(03:15):
from the mid twentieth century, you get the idea, and
so they're moving the pell grants here and they're moving
the student loans there, and okay, fine, it'll be fine.
Let the states decide educational curriculum. If Californians want to
teach their kids that a boy can be a girl
and Texans don't, why should the federal government be involved
in that. That's not like, that's and that's the least
of the problems. Right, But all that being said, here
(03:38):
in Texas, there's a lot of needless bureaucracy. There's a
lot of needless spending and education that a Republican controlled
state is responsible for. You ever look at the salaries
of superintendents do you understand how much these people get
paid to not teach your kids? Right as Okay, obviously
we do we need superintendents, Yes, we probably do, but
(03:59):
superintendent and it's get paid so much more than teachers do,
and some would argue they're doing a lot less work.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
One person who has a little.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Insight into this, a guy I don't often refer to
as the most dangerous guy in the Texas political media
certainly one of the most interesting. Michael quinn Sullivan of
Texas scorecard dot Com. These poor superintendents, how will they
have money to buy snacks if not for these six
figures out.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What's the latest on this. It's been a big conversation
about this lately, hasn't there.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah. Look, you know, every year, you know, you hear
the cries, Oh, public education's underfunded, we need more money
for the public schools. New school teachers are on food
stamps and whatever they say, none of which is true.
Public education now makes up forty percent of the Texas budget.
They have received forty five over the past decade, a
(04:51):
forty five percent increase in funding, forty five percent, thirty
eight percent. Take if you take away inflation, right, public
education making there's literally billions and billions of state money
alone following to public education. When you look think of
your own local school district. Half the money that's being
spent by our school district comes from the state, and
(05:12):
half of it comes from you, from from the local
reb all that comes from the taxpayer's pocket, right, but
the sources that it flows through, so the you know,
so the billions and billions spent by the state has
also been matched billions and billions locally, all of it
coming from your from your course, massive amount of spending.
We spend more money per student than anywhere in the world.
(05:36):
Uh be at Our results are miserable, and part of
that is because we've allowed this. Look, people are gonna
get angry when I say this, so please forgive me
the way to make people mad in the afternoon. Public
education does not exist to educate children. Children is not
the reason public schools exist. Public education does not exist
(05:58):
to educate children. You know, maybe there's some you know,
some little do gooder who thinks that they became a
teacher so that they could educate kids.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's cute. You're wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Public education exists to employ adults. We have public education
to employ adults. And how do you know that? Because
I always spend the money. More than half the money
is spent outside the classroom. And then you see these
superintendents who are making these wildly insane salaries. You know,
you're talking most superintendents in the state make more than
(06:29):
the governor makes. Right do you have these folks making
half a million dollars as superintendents And that's just salary,
that's not including these lucrative bonus packages. And remember, all
of these superintendents are locked in these special contracts where
if they are caught with the proverbial. You know, dead
girl or live boy. You have to pay them to leave, right, and.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It is insane.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You've talked about that we have to pay of them
to leave is crazy. There've actually been examples of that before.
You guys published a list here of the superintendent's getting
paid the most, and I got one thing that immediately
pops out to me, Michael. It doesn't go in the
order you'd think. You'd think, what Houston at the top
and some town you never heard of at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, the most.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The highest paid superintendent in the state is that Victoria ISD.
Victoria is there's like sixty thousand people there. This person
gets five hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. What exactly
is Randall s Meyer doing for a cool five That's
that's upper that's upper income. I mean, I think that's
beyond upper middle class. That's upper class. Yeah, you know,
(07:38):
I have no idea what Randall's doing.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
I'm other than doing a really good job of convincing
the school board to spend other people's money on Randall.
Way to go, Randall, you're bilking the people of Victoria
out of half a million dollars a year, and which
again does not include benefits and retirement packages and all
the little goodies. I'm most superintendents in the state, they
(08:02):
get car allowances, all these kind of starting to see
now the superintendent's wanting drivers and all. I mean, it's
just insane.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Kenny.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Well, we're spending money on in public education. Again, it
all makes sense when you remember public education exists to
employ adults. It exists to employe adults, and many adults
are finding that well, if they're going to be employe
adults seem to make really good money at it too.
It is a completely backwards system that has got.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To be addressed.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
And when you think that, you know, when you think
of the modern era right where you know, most of
us don't go to a bank anymore, right we have
a bank that were a relationship with is on our
phone or on our computer. You know, we don't write checks.
We use you know, online bill pay all those kind
of things that we use. But yet you've got you know,
(08:51):
twelve hundred eleven hundred school districts in the state, all
with superintendents, all with payroll departments, all with human resources departments,
all with all these layers of bureaucracy where they're all
making multiples of the teacher salary. So when you see
a superintendent coming to Austin demanding that Austin raised the
(09:12):
pay of teachers, know that's because the superintendent's salary is
based on a multiple of the of the teachers pay.
And when you see that kind of language about how
Texas needs to pay teachers more, just remember that's because
those superintendents want more money for themselves, not because they
care about the teachers. Because in fact, a superintendent can
(09:34):
raise the pay and salary of teachers in their districts.
They could be paying every math teacher in Victoria ISD.
Could be making half a million dollars if Randall and
the school board wanted to, but they don't because they
want to employ lots of adults.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I know this is always an unpopular point, but I
mean we just not just the superintendent. I think educators
in general and public schools are getting paid too much.
The population is not increasing the rate that the spending
is happening at, and considering how much more money we're spending,
we're certainly not seeing an increase in education.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's the last thing that's happening.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But hey, we could talk about this till we're blue
in the face, because I know we both have a
lot to say about it before we run out of time. Here,
some really big happened in the Texas House today, can
you I don't know if people heard this. Dustin Burrow
is not a popular person with our radio listeners so
far this year is not exactly keeping his promises. What
took place today at the Texas House.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Yeah, so you know, Burroughs has been criticized quite a
bit for having these long three, four, five six day
weekends rent the halfway part or were literally just now
passed the halfway mark, and loves obsession. They've had a
lot of five day weekends things like that. So no,
they made a big show that this Friday they were
going to work. We're going to work. Well, now they
(10:48):
haven't passed any legislation, haven't debated any legislation, but that
will at least be present, which for legislators counts is
working instead under the state constitution, and you have to
have one hundred members of the Texas House present for
there to be a quorum, which is for them to
conduct business, and usually there's very often not been a
(11:10):
quorum present. You'll have eighty ninety and that's where you're
watched called ghost voting, where everyone runs around pushing the
little buttons on the desks for their colleagues who are
you know, you know, taking care of their hangover back
at their apartment or their hotel or went on home
to hang out with the family or whatever else they
were doing. It's called ghost voting. Well, today one of
(11:32):
the members of the Texas House, Brian Harrison, Middleothian, decided
he had enough of this game where these guys are
pretending to work without working. So he demanded what's called
a verification, and that's where every member you know there
is to stand up and they you know, count Huol's there,
that kind of thing. No more ghost voting. And it
infuriated the speaker because they're only sixty five people there,
(11:53):
but one hundred and fifty only sixty five, so well
short of the corms, the House couldn't got to business.
And the great thing was today their business day was
to recognize the former members, you know, the people who've
lost their elections and been kicked to the curb. We're
going to be paraded through as the great, honorable you know,
stages of the past, and so that didn't get to happen.
It's it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And Brian Harrison, he's the guy that spoiled the fund
for Dustin Burrows.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Huh, He's spoilt the fund.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
For distant Burroughs and put a spotlight on the fact
that the Texas House has not been working. Look the
Texas in It, I can I can quibble about some
of the things that they have, that they have, that
they have debated, that they have passed, but the end
of the day, at least they're working.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Right.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I may not always agree with how the kid bagging
my groceries is working at bagging my groceries, but at
least he's trying rightly, him sitting there to melt at
the end of the checkout counter. The same at the
Texas in It. At least they're working. The Texas House
isn't even pretending to work. And so I think for
a lot of Texans as you're looking at your property tanks,
middle as, you're looking at lackluster results in public education,
(12:57):
and to go down all these different issues where we
expect them to be working. In large part that's because
Dustin Burrows doesn't know how to manage the Texas House.
And more importantly, you've got a lot of members that
you and I have elected who don't know how to
manage their time very well.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No, but at least they get a four day weekend, Michael,
I'm glad they get to enjoy it. To your point,
the Texas Senate just passed a ban on red flag
gun laws, basically saying if the federal government or I
guess the state or municipal level, they try to create
some law that would take away your Second Amendment rights,
Texas Senate says, well, you know you have constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We're gonna put our foot down.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And this is something that seems to be popular with
grassroots advocates. This is probably something the governor would agree with.
This is something that most lawmakers in the House claim
that they would support, which means it absolutely will never
become a real law.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Look, this is a really important legislation. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I know.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Look, we can all sit here right now and say, oh, well, gosh,
show red red flag laws. Those won't happen with Donald
Trump and the White House, with Republicans control rolling both
chambers of Congress. And this is the mistake a lot
of Republicans and conservatives make is we don't look beyond
this afternoon, right, and this kind of law is really
important to put in place because Donald Trump won't always
(14:12):
be the president. You won't always have conservatives controlling controlling Congress.
One could argue, we don't currently have conservatives controlling Congress,
so you know, we could be five years away from
these kind of you know, Second Amendment of using the
measures passing out of a future US Congress. And so
(14:34):
what Brian Hughes and the Texas Senate and the folks
at Texas Gun Rights have been trying to do is say,
now we need to in Texas past this today, not
because we're worried about Donald Trump and you know, the
House and the Senate of today, but because we're worried
what Congress and a future president could be doing five
or six years from now. So, you know, in many ways,
(14:54):
this is kind of what we what we should be
asking when when the threat is upon us, it's kind
of too late to for it. And I think that
it's a it is very smart to guys like Brian
Hughes and the Texas Senate trying to accomplish this.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Whether the House will do anything about it is another question.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Boy, It perfectly explained, and I have noticed this is
one of the many stories you guys are covering at
Texas scorecard dot com, which I find, as a Texas voter,
citizen and taxpayer, to be infinitely important, and that your
coverage of it is more detailed and useful than the
Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, or the Austin Statesman
at less than half the cost.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Michael Quinnsullivan, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
More than happy to always be providing resources to the
people at Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
My brother texascorecard dot com for that. I know a
lot of you already follow Michael on social media and
people will forward me news stories from texascorecard dot com like, Kenny,
have you seen this?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm like, yeah, I think I told you about that website.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But regardless, I'm glad people are getting the word out.
Go to Texas scorecard dot com today, subscribe to their
email list.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's free.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Save yourself with the money on a Houston Chronicle subscription.
It's much better. And while you're at it, follow my
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Speaker 2 (16:06):
You'd be glad you did.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground.
Alive and listening to Kinny Webster on KPRC nine point
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Speaker 2 (16:16):
You don't smell like a dead person. Nope, you don't.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
This is not good news, my friends. I mean, I
guess it's okay. It's just it's not what you would
have expected. Bombs found at a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas.
People going around the country right now harassing, terrorizing people
because they own a Tesla. There is good news for
the Tesla owners though. Tesla is opening a drive in
(16:46):
movie theater in Los Angeles. It's a great way for
people to watch a movie while charging their Tesla or
reassembling their cyber trucks.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Sounds like from Texas Justice to me, Oh Lockett.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And now live from the Border.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
It's Bart's Brandon Darby with the Cartel Chronicles only on
KPRC Radio.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Brandon is truly an enigma.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
My friend, Brandon Darby, one of these senior editors at
Breitbart dot com, the creator of the Cartel Chronicles and
breit Bart Texas, one of the first journalists to really
take the border seriously. Every journalist goes down to the
border now, But a decade ago, when Brandon was doing it.
Nobody else was a bunch of posers anyway. Brandon owns
a Ford F one fifty, but he also owns a
solar panel farm and a Tesla. He has a large
(17:32):
it's not the cyber truck. He's got the other SUV
that they make. And Brandon, I, I'm sure you're fine
because you live in the Panhandle, but I do wonder
with people traveling around harassing Tesla owners and you being
a guy that practices martial arts and carries a gun,
do you feel like, statistically speaking, you're more likely to
get into a violent fistic cups, maybe even end up
(17:54):
having to fill out paperwork to explain to cops why
someone died while they were vandalizing your truck. I mean,
are you navigating through this very contentious political landscape involving
Tesla owners, you being one and all.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, there's a few things.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
From first, what I mostly drive is an F two
fifty and it's a beast. You know, it's a Diesel.
It's a beast. And I have a Tesla and the Tesla.
I really like the Tesla, but it doesn't really work
well for me because it the way it works is
it you know it doesn't have all these features. But
(18:30):
if you if you swerve too close to the center
line or you don't stand in your lane just right,
it it deems you. And then it like after the
third time, it's a beast. Teachers are unavailable to your
next next drive because you have not been paying it
to You're like, you know what, I don't need a nanny,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Wow, I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Is that work? Well, yeah it is if you're me
and you apparently don't drive like everybody else, but like
everyone else. But so what I did was I gave
it to my daughter. And you know that sounds kind
of pretentious, but my daughter loves it, and you know,
I can regulate her speed and see how she's driving
and if she's stopping too quick or all this stuff.
(19:10):
So it's pretty cool out and turned cameras on and
do all that stuff. So I'm glad I got it.
You know, I think it's there's a couple of big
things at play here. First off, someone would seriously regret
attacking my TESTLOK if I were in it, and it'd
regret it more if my daughter were in it. You know,
(19:32):
I mean no, I mean, it wouldn't work out well,
like someone road raised on her. You know she she
recently got her license and you know she's a teenager.
And someone road raised on her. And I was following
her when they were doing it, and that was an
interesting situation.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, where did this happen? Were on the freeway?
Tell the story.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
We were and we were on a highway and love it.
And what happened was she pulled out and then this
car truck got mad that she pulled out, even though
she didn't kind of moth. It was just pissed that
I had to slow down. So it started like tailgating her,
like real super close, and then went into the the
(20:14):
the turn lane, passed her in the turn lane, and
then like cut her off for a hard core. So
I followed the truck and eventually the truck realized I
was following it. So I pulled into a like a
convenient at a strip mall, and then this big guy
gets out and he's like, I'm a sheriffs deputy, and
I was like, I don't give a shit, you know,
(20:34):
So I get out and and I was like, that's
my sixteen year old daughter. Man, he goes, well, she
needs to learn how to drive. I said, you know what,
I think you need to learn how to dress.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
This camera's all over. Why don't we just you know what.
I got a better idea, and I got my phone
out and I said, you're a you're a sheriff's deputy.
I'm a news editor. Let's see how this works out.
Go ahead, tell me, tell me why you drove that way,
and go ahead. And he was like, hold on a minute,
hold on, I shouldn't have I was like, yeah, you
shouldn't have made And so he initially thought he was
going to intimidate me because he was an off dude
(21:05):
to sheriff's deputy. And you know, God bless most police
officers and most law enforcement. I'm the biggest supporter. I
don't just say that like other people. I've shown that
with my life. In fact, I've had my life ruined
by protecting the lives of law enforcement officers right in
the past when I've testified against people who are trying
to fire obamam. I have entire staff members whose jobs
(21:29):
are based around writing about the job that law enforcement do.
So I support law enforcement. But that kind of guy
did not be a law enforcement officer. You know, and
they come in jiu jitsu guys like that. You know,
there's a lot of law enforcement guys in jiu jitsu
and they're great, but they're those ones who show up
and because they're law enforcement, they end up quitting jiu
(21:52):
jitsu because they just can't take the fact that they
can't fight as good as they think they could. Right,
They're not as tough as they thought they were, and
to get that tough, it takes work, and it takes
years of getting beat up and and every day in
jiu jitsu, and they just can't handle it, you know.
So the good cops who come in there generally gay
and become really good at jiu jitsu. But there's those
(22:15):
guys who show up and they might make a comment,
you know, like gee, I thought I could fight better
than that, and then they're completely destroyed, right emotionally that
they got beat up all day by a bunch of
you know, smaller people wearing blue belts, and then they
leave and never come back, you know. And that's that
kind of guy. So those kind of cops I don't
I don't really care for all right, Yeah, that's what
(22:37):
happened in that situation.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You're pretty good at predicting news stories. You work in
news media, you see how these things play out. Right now,
there's a lot of people out there vandalizing teslas. It's
probably not as big of a problem in Lubbick up
in the Panhandle where you live, but still you could
see it's happening. And most of the people, not all,
but most of the people driving teslas tend to lean
to the left. So technically, in a lot of cases,
(23:01):
this is blue on blue violence. But do you see this?
How far are we into this news cycle? Are we
approaching the end of the fifteen minutes here? Do you
think it's going to get worse before I get there?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It's not at all what people are making it out
to be. It isn't a bunch of people vandalizing teslas.
There's coordinated efforts. There are a bunch of people vandalizing teslas.
But what you're starting to see are these coordinated group
efforts to attack Tesla dealerships, to hack Tesla, to threaten
and intimidate Tesla owners. Right, you're starting to see. What
(23:34):
you're seeing is kind of a resurgence of what we've
seen decades prior, which like the Animal Liberation Front the
Earth Liberation Front. It's where these really far vanguard groups
in the left start to engage in domestic terrorism in
order to achieve their political goals and to horrify the
people who disagree with them. And we're starting to see that.
(23:54):
And at that time, what we saw was all these
mainstream liberals who know the problems started shot of a
sipping revolutionaries, right, they would never do what tree Gaver did,
but they'll sit around and wear his T shirts and
support him. Well, you saw that with Jimmy Kimble, where
Jimmy Kimmel came out and he was like, it's real
bad to the damage of Tesla, and then he kind
(24:14):
of giggled, you know, like he paused for a minute,
looked at the camera, and he's giving tacit support for it, right,
because they think Elon Musk is a Nazi. So what
we're seeing is we're starting to see the burs pains
of left of center domestic terrorism against the right. That's
(24:36):
what we're starting to see. That's what it is, and
it's why it's a big deal. Are there videos of
ladies and men just walking by a Tesla out of
Whole Foods and seeing it. Yes, that's happening. But these
attacks like what happened on the Tesla dealership. I think
it was in Colorado, maybe California, I can't recall it now,
where there were these coordinated attacks with improvised explosive devices homemade. Yeah, no, no, no,
(24:58):
You're starting to see a political movement forming. And mark
my words, these are the birthing pains as a of
left of center alp elf you know, Earth and Animal
Liberation Front kind of stuff like eco terrorism, animals terrorism.
You're starting to see the birth of another effort like that,
because I mean, I don't know how liberals do it
(25:21):
right now, like left of center people. They must be
taking xanax or something, because literally everything they've just spent
years doing has just been undone. Right, The vast majority
of the population has rejected, has rejected their political correctness,
has rejected their efforts to control speech and criminalize on
(25:41):
popular speech. Right, everything that they have worked for is
being undone, and very rapidly, right, everything is being undone.
The Overton window has shifted so far, you know, and
I think in a direction the most people agree with,
and maybe not every bit of it, but overall most
(26:03):
people do and and that's why they voted for the
guy most people did, and in this country, so they
must be having a you know, the therapist must be
really busy.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Right, but i'd imagine that's my words.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But before this is over, in the next few years,
this is just the beginning of domestic terrorism aimed at
right wingers.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh yeah, and somebody will probably end up getting killed.
It's pretty scary. Brandon Darby find his work at Breitbart
dot com, click the World News, breit Bart, the Cartel Chronicles,
Border News, Tap, or just find him on x That's
a good place to go as well.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
The difference between a politician and a snail. A snail
leaves its line behind. You're listening to Kinny Webster.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
All right, So the Supreme Court just upheld a new
law requiring ghost guns to have serial numbers. The problem
with labeling a ghost gun is you have to use
invisible ink. I hate that. Hi, we're back from break kids.
We're not done yet. It's Friday. It's the last segment
of the show. I've had a long week, but not
a bad one. In fact, I love what I do
(27:12):
for a living. I'm I'm proud. It's a great honor
to be able to get on this radio station and
deliver the news and commentary.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Frankly, I can't believe I get paid to do this
for a living.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
That being said, if you haven't heard the news yet,
we are planning a comedy tour that's coming up real soon.
If you're going to be in South Louisiana the weekend
of four to twenty Friday April eighteenth, we're gonna be
in New Orleans me Chad Prather and Jesse Payton. Tickets
are available for that on my x account. You can
also go to watch Chad dot com or jesse isfunny
(27:43):
dot com. It's called the Right Side of Comedy The
Golf of America Tour with Chad Prayther Jesse Payton.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm the host.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
We're gonna be in New Orleans Friday April eighteenth and
Hattiesburg Friday Saturday, April nineteenth, So get your tickets now.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. I love that
that's happening. I love that right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Wing people are taking over comedy. That's clearly hat like
a Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle. These guys are not liberals,
Bill Marge, you think comedy is welcome on the left,
clearly not. And I also love the fact that young people,
particularly young men, men in their twenties, are skewing conservative.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
And it's not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Why if you look at the new statistical data about
who the conservative voters are, Donald Trump mixed everything up
like a game of three card monte. You just rearranged
the deck chairs. Everything's different now. A lot of elderly
people are now liberal Democrats, a lot of young people
are now conservative Republicans. Imagine telling that to your grandfather
(28:39):
a decade It wouldn't have believed you. But that's where
we're at now. And again, I cannot stress this. This
was predictable if you paid attention young men in America,
young male voters in their twenties are skewing more conservative
than ever for the same reason why back in the
sixties young men were skewing more liberal than ever.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
The system pushed them that way.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Back in the sixties, you were told, if you were
a young man, the communist is your enemy, So we're
going to force you to get on an airplane and
fly overseas and go to war with a group of
people you've never met before in a country you've never
been to over and over a dispute you have nothing
to do with. And it pushed them pretty far to
(29:19):
the left. It made a lot of them think, hey,
I'm these guys are not my enemy. You're telling me there,
but you're my enemy. You're the one forcing me to
go oversea. And it pushed them very far to the left.
And now just the opposite's happened over the past decade
or two. Young men have been told you're white, or
you're not white, You're you're male, you're cisgender, you're heteronormative,
you're what's wrong with the world. Shame on you, declare
(29:42):
your privilege, apologize for it. What what do you mean?
I was just born a decade or two ago. I
have never had a job before, I've never had any
How could I have ruined the world? It pushed young
men very far to the right. And now that's evident
from the latest election. Young men overwhelming he voted for
Donald Trump. Black men in Texas. More than a third
(30:04):
of black men are now voting Republican in the state
of Texas.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Well, here, as your favorite vocal talk radio station, we
hear that, we acknowledge it. We understand it, and frankly,
I think it's really awesome. Young people are listening to
talk radio right now, despite what the liberal media has
told you, despite what the liberal media says about terrestrial
broadcasting or Republican ideology. So on Sunday, one of my
(30:29):
favorite people here at the radio station, Ethan Buchanan, is
a news reporter down the hall at our sister station KTRH.
They're giving him his own show. And I've featured Ethan
on this radio show before. I don't even know if
technically I was allowed to, but I did it anyway.
Ethan's in the studio right now. Ethan, you're twenty two,
you're very smart, you're Christian conservative, you love Texas breed,
(30:53):
you bleed red, white and blue. And now they're giving
you your own talk radio show. And I was against it,
but I'm very no and all seriousness. I'm excited. When
does your show, Aaron? What is it?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
It airs Sunday at seven pm. It'll be from that
seven to eight hour, and really, what it is, what
I hope it will become is I just want to
help people think. I don't want to tell people what
right and wrong is not that I don't believe there
is an objective right and wrong. I do, but I
also am aware of the fact that people disagree on that,
(31:29):
and if you just say, hey, you're wrong, people are
gonna get turned off to that. I want to help
people think and come to the conclusions that I have
come to in the same way that I have come to.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I want you to say, Okay, here's issue A, here's.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
The side effects of issue A, and this is the result.
Backtrack that, deconstruct that, and realize here's what we need
to be doing instead of whatever, right I think too
much of. Right now, there's hive mind. And this is
clearly evident on the left. People don't think about issues.
They just this is what I've been told, and so
I'm gonna go with it. Okay, Well, let's let's actually
(32:04):
look at what's going on. Think about how we got here,
think about where we're coming from. Because in the United States,
we came from the greatest society that has ever been.
We have a proud lineage of the Roman Empire civilizing Europe,
and then Christianity civilizing the Roman Empire, and then that
kind of building the United States of America into the
(32:25):
greatest society and then we didn't think at all about
how we got there. We didn't think about it, and
we were just told things, and we just believed everybody
and got to the point where now we've very nearly
lost the greatest society ever because nobody thought about anything.
We all just followed the hive mind off the cliff.
So I just want to help people think and come
(32:46):
to the right conclusions without necessarily forcing them to be correct.
I want you to get there on your own.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right, you're twenty two years old.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
You are a young conservative news reporter for KTRH wee
arguably the biggest conservative news station in the country, certainly
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
But that didn't just happen. You didn't just stumble into it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
You didn't just apply for a job like kids apply
for a job at McDonald's. How did you decide you
wanted to do this? Who are your role models in
politics and broadcasting?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Well, in politics and broadcasting, I'd have to say, uh,
probably The Michael Berry Show was one of my biggest
influences because I used to listen to that with my
dad a lot, and we both really enjoyed that show,
and I liked it and once I hit about eighteen,
I graduated high school, and I kind of got into
that slump that a lot of young people, especially young
(33:38):
white guys like myself, get into, where wait, you're white,
that's the rumor. I prefer the term Caucasian American. We're
trying to get away.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
From the labels crackerface, honkloid, crackerface, honk aloid.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I hate white people. Cannot stand up.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
They're the worst. They're the worst. They put mayonnaise on everything.
They've got to be stopped. That nobody's doing anything about
the mayonnaise epidemic. That's true, that's right, We're going to
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
So Michael Barry, obviously I look one of my mentors.
I wrote comedy Bets.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Ratio.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Loved your comedy Bets. The first time I met you,
I was like, oh my god, that's producer Kenny.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
My brother from another But politics wise, you know, non radio,
non journalism, what about political.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
People, political people.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
I really liked Ron Paul just because he was the
one of the only people that was saying like, hey,
there is a finite amount of money in this world
and in this country, we can't keep spending forever. And
that seemed to me like the most obvious thing that
no one was saying. So the fact that he was
going out there and making that's his whole personality. I
liked that quite a bit. But I mean, politically speaking,
(34:41):
just overall, one of my favorites has got to be
just Davy Crockett.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Honestly. I love that. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
People you know, we think about the legend of the
Alamo or whatever, but a lot of people don't really
think about the fact that he was a politician and
he was a very principled one. And yeah, he was
the type of guy that was like, listen, this is
what I think is best for my district in Tennessee
where a frontier district. I want it to stay that way.
(35:08):
I want to protect our district, but I also want
to protect our money. One of the ways that he
kind of made his name in politics was he was
very open about the fact that he did not think
the government should be, you know, handing out taxpayer money
in terms of just you know, benefits and whatnot. Sure,
we spend so much money on you know, taking care
of people because we feel like we have to. Davy
Crockett was one of the first people to get up
(35:29):
and say, hey, this is the taxpayer's money. It should
be spent on all of the taxpayers, not just this
one charity case. We all think charity is great, but
that should be something you're doing in private, not the government.
The moment you open the door to hey, we've got
this sad old lady and she needs help and nobody
else is helping her. The government should step in. It
(35:50):
sounds like a good idea. But what have you opened
the door to. We see what they open the door to.
It's a disaster. We have our social Security that nobody's
paying for.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, I borrow one of my greatest lines from him,
Well his line. First, I'm not from Texas. I got
here as soon as I could. Yeah, you are kind
of a stereotype because you're a libertarian, conservative, nerdy white
guy with an Asian girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But I just want to paint a picture here of
what people expect when they tune in.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
It's not just going to be for kids.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Obviously, you speak very intelligently for a twenty two year old,
and I've noticed a lot of people younger than twenty
five can't form a complete sentence. You're not one of
those people. I'm endorsing your show. I think it's awesome.
If people want to tune in, when can they check
it out?
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Sundays at seven pm on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
But listen, it's already available as a podcast. We've got
several months of shows that are already available to listen to.
So tune in on Sunday listen live. If you miss it,
check back in for the podcast. And if you want
a pregame, I support that. Go listen to the podcast
right now.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Ethan Buchanan the latest talent added gen Z a very
exciting KPRC Radio, the oldest radio station in Texas, now
has a gen Z talk show host. You know, I
started off as a weekend talk show host, Ethan, and
look at me now, I'm a divorced, unhappy suicide.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I know, I'm just kidding, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I started off as a weekend talk show host on
this station and now I'm a syndicated morning show host.
So I'm excited. I believe in this industry. I believe
in what we do for a living. I believe it
makes a difference. And when I found out you were
getting your own show. I was really excited about that, Ethan.
So congratulations, my man. Welcome to the fold.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Hey to the rest of you, I love you all.
Be safe out there, drive safe. Be back here Brain
early Monday morning for more of what you bought a
radio for. You are listening to the Pursuit of Happy
Miss Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
to this show.
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The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.