August 14, 2025 • 11 mins
This week Spirit warned that it may not be able to survive the year and the company that was once worth $3.8 billion to JetBlue is now worth only $50 million on the open market. What’s more is that industry analysts are already saying that the net effect of this will be higher prices – given that Spirit was the lowest cost carrier and there’s likely to be less competition.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian mund Show, and thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable, Hey, their.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Happy Thursday, and blame Biden not the Bears in handling homelessness.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
My top three takeaways for you today.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And speaking of messes left behind by the former president
of the United States, here's the scorecard as to what's
already been cleaned up around Washington, DC and basically the
day and a half since Trump took over.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Law enforcement officials here arresting more than one hundred individuals,
including forty three on Tuesday alone, All that, of course,
happening since the President initiated his crime crackdown here in
the nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
What's more, White House.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Officials tell Fox DC can expect to see even more
guard members across the city all the way into and
throughout the weekend. Tuesday's arrest including one the spectat of homicide,
seven arrests related to narcotics charges, thirty three four ledged
firearm offences, ten related to warrants, as well as the
arrest of at least twenty three illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
They're women, Fluffy, I'm sure the people that illegally possess
firearms were two.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know, the left is always ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Guns, but then when you have criminals that have guns
somehow or another, it's okay, right. And then you have
the killer out there too that was apprehended, but you know,
safer streets if Trump had gun involved.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So my top takeaway for you today blame Biden. And
there are a lot of things he can blame President
Biden for. From Biden inflation being baked in anytime you
buy anything, record illegal immigration, rampant related crime. I don't know,
maybe evidently trying to create transsexual Easter bunnies or something.
Remember his Transgender Day proclamation on Easter after having previously
(02:04):
been rescued by I guess we could call it a
gender indeterminate Easter bunny. But anyway, the point is there
are a great many things that you could blame Biden
for that didn't just go away as easily as I
don't know whatever his last thought might have been. But
there's something new to blame Biden for that I've warned
of before. What would become of South Florida based Spirit
(02:26):
Airlines if the Biden administration didn't let the merger with
Jet Blue go through.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
As that reported two and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In February twenty twenty three, Jet Blue has pledged to
retain all South Florida based employees of Spirit Airlines should
there take ever bid go through. New York based Jet
Blue had explored potentially relocating its corporate headquarters to Florida
from New York in recent years, and that's a key
reasons why they've aggressively pursued the merger with me or
(02:56):
mar based. Spirit shareholders approved the three point eight billion
dollar proposed takeover last fall. Okay, so that merger would
have protected the greater than thirteen thousand people who worked
for Spirit at the time, including nearly five thousand living
and working in South Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was the ultimate win win.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
But then Biden stepped in, see his administration sued to
block the merger, and in January of last year, his
administration won. And Biden had this to say at the time,
today's ruling and then he forgot what he said for
a little bit and looked around, and the easter bunny
(03:42):
came by, and oh, yeah, is a victory for consumers
everywhere who want lower prices and more choices. Okay, consumers
everywhere who want lower prices, more choices. My administration will
continue to fight to protect consumers and force our antitrust laws.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Now, of course, all his administration did was ensure that Spirit,
which needed the Jet Blue merger to remain competitive and survived,
would be left to die, ensuring less choice and killing
all those shops. This week's Spirit warned that it may
not be able to survive the year. And the company
that was once worth three point eight billion dollars to
(04:24):
Jet Blue, what is it worth now? How much value
did Biden manage to destroy here? Three point eight billion,
two fifty million dollars fifty million on the open market.
What's more is that industry analysts are already saying that
(04:44):
the net effect of this, oh, it's going to be
higher prices, given that Spirit was the lowest cost carrier,
and there's likely to be less competition.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know, when when Joe Brien was president, he used
to say that every day he was president, the world
was less safe, which was true, and that our country
was less safe too, which was true. But what he
continue to see in many ways the ongoing impact of
his failed decisions too.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
How many people are.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Reporting that the only reason, and this is the only
reason the Spirit Airlines has lost three point eight billion
dollars of value is on the brink of collapsing today,
taking all those jobs down to leaving higher prices in
the way, is because Joe Biden was President of the
United States. But it's true, ah, that gift that keeps
(05:35):
on giving. But second takeaway for you today, don't blame
the bears. But before we talked about the bear hunt
in Florida, the other kind of hunt. The prize is
just awarded in the python challenge.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Taylor Stanberry stands just four feet eleven inches tall, but
she towered over Florida's python challenge, bagging sixty Burmese pythons
in the Everglades over ten days. Some of those snakes
were three times her height.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
For troubles.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Stanbury took home the ten thousand dollars top prize. The
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the hunters in
the competition removed a record two hundred and ninety four
pythons in all.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So, yeah, my takeaway here is that about the pythons,
maybe about snakes, I don't know, But don't blame the bears.
After Wednesday's vote, the Florida Fision Wildlife Conservation Commission is
truly summed up with the abbreviation FWC, as in just
the Florida FICI and Wildlife Commission. I'm not sure how
conducted a bear hunt amounts of the agency's conservation mandate.
(06:42):
After all, the definition of conservation is literally preservation, protection
or restoration. Okay, preservation protection or restoration of the natural environment,
end of wildlife.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So how we don't think they're protecting wildlife with this
bear hunt?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Interesting way of doing it right and by a unanimous vote,
what the commission said is rather than protection of wildlife,
they're cool with having you go kill it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Look, I understand many disagree with me on this, That's okay,
But it's my position that killing animals for trophies is concerning,
just as I've had people try. Yeah, but yeah, there's
no yeah. But what will change my position on this?
It is my belief, it has always been it will
always be trophy hunting I think is wrong. Getting excited
(07:36):
to kill animals to me is concerning period, especially when
our state's rapid population growth and encroaches on the Florida
black bear's territory further threatening, threatening their future anyway, by
the day, you know, many of the advocates that spoke
up on behalf of the hunt simply want their trophy.
Others suggested that the bears have become a nuisance. Now
(07:59):
about that. It is true that there were over six
thousand calls to authorities have bought a quote unquote nuisance
bears last year, a number that's up threefold from the.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Time of the previous huntre a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But as people continued to encroach on bear territory, which
is why this is happening, has anyone considered that it's
absolutely possible to live in proximity to black bears?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
In fact, millions of people already do, some of them
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For example, if you visit former Congressman Mark Foley's Facebook
page on any given day, no what you're gonna see
videos of bears roaming around his house in Asheville, North Carolina.
And while we're seldom there, you know who greeted us
the last time I was at our place in the
North Carolina Mountains, smoky. I don't know if he was smoking,
(08:48):
but it was a black bear was Mama bear. Actually,
she was right there when we pulled in. And so
we regularly see bears around our vacation home in North Carolina,
including neighbors by the way. We're not there that I'll
often send pictures and videos to us of the bears
around our place. Now, if you manage the disposal of
your garbage, if you don't leave food in your car
(09:09):
or the door to your house open, you're almost certainly
not going to have a problem. These are black bears.
These they're not grizzlies. These they're not polar bears. And
so the point is it is entirely possible to live
in harmony with them if you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's a choice not to. So it's easy to blame
the bears.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's also extremely easy to kill them at a distance
with a rifle too. And that's what the state is
granted one hundred and eighty seven hundreds for a December
hunt to do. My third segway for you today is
seeking shelter. President Trump made this declaration while marking Purple
Heart Day at the White House.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I signed an executive order to open the National Center
for a Warrior Independence in Los Angeles, California, which will
have up to six thousand homeless that is going to
be viewed.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, so about homelessness.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
President Trump has laid down the mandate in DC, and
so his policy there as part of the crackdown is
noteworthy to now, there's a fine line between compassion for
those who are homeless and facilitating homelessness. In short, offering
a hand up in an opportunity for a better way
for those who are willing to help themselves. That is
always the right thing to do, always going to be
(10:20):
the right thing to do. Simply making it comfortable for
those who seek a life of substance abuse on the streets,
that is never going to be the right thing. As
part of President Trump's plan to make Washington, DC safe again,
He's unveiled his Homeless Plan, which allows for the city's
significant homeless population to seek a homeless shelter, seek mental
(10:40):
health help that is being offered, seek addiction treatment that's
available too. But if the choice is none of the above,
if you don't want to go to a homeless shelter,
if you don't want to seek mental help, if you
don't want addiction treatment assistance, well the choice will be
made for you to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Go to jail at that point.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Now, Sinclair Media polled on this plan yesterday, and I
found this to be instructive. What percentage of Americans agree
with President Trump's homeless plan, Joel? About sixty And then
that's in the ballpark. It is sixty nine percent, sixty
nine percent that said they approved of the plan, only
(11:24):
about a third that are not on board. And so
this is something that our communities should be taken a
closer look at. You know, Florida passed alat of banning
public homelessness along the line of what President Trump is
seeking in DC, and from what I've seen in certain
communities it is lightly enforced, if at all. And notably,
Florida's doge has inquired about Palm Beach County's handling of homelessness.
(11:46):
That is on the list for them to investigate as
they are dojing locally next week.
Welcome to the Brian mund Show, and thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable, Hey, their.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Happy Thursday, and blame Biden not the Bears in handling homelessness.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
My top three takeaways for you today.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And speaking of messes left behind by the former president
of the United States, here's the scorecard as to what's
already been cleaned up around Washington, DC and basically the
day and a half since Trump took over.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Law enforcement officials here arresting more than one hundred individuals,
including forty three on Tuesday alone, All that, of course,
happening since the President initiated his crime crackdown here in
the nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
What's more, White House.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Officials tell Fox DC can expect to see even more
guard members across the city all the way into and
throughout the weekend. Tuesday's arrest including one the spectat of homicide,
seven arrests related to narcotics charges, thirty three four ledged
firearm offences, ten related to warrants, as well as the
arrest of at least twenty three illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
They're women, Fluffy, I'm sure the people that illegally possess
firearms were two.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know, the left is always ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Guns, but then when you have criminals that have guns
somehow or another, it's okay, right. And then you have
the killer out there too that was apprehended, but you know,
safer streets if Trump had gun involved.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So my top takeaway for you today blame Biden. And
there are a lot of things he can blame President
Biden for. From Biden inflation being baked in anytime you
buy anything, record illegal immigration, rampant related crime. I don't know,
maybe evidently trying to create transsexual Easter bunnies or something.
Remember his Transgender Day proclamation on Easter after having previously
(02:04):
been rescued by I guess we could call it a
gender indeterminate Easter bunny. But anyway, the point is there
are a great many things that you could blame Biden
for that didn't just go away as easily as I
don't know whatever his last thought might have been. But
there's something new to blame Biden for that I've warned
of before. What would become of South Florida based Spirit
(02:26):
Airlines if the Biden administration didn't let the merger with
Jet Blue go through.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
As that reported two and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In February twenty twenty three, Jet Blue has pledged to
retain all South Florida based employees of Spirit Airlines should
there take ever bid go through. New York based Jet
Blue had explored potentially relocating its corporate headquarters to Florida
from New York in recent years, and that's a key
reasons why they've aggressively pursued the merger with me or
(02:56):
mar based. Spirit shareholders approved the three point eight billion
dollar proposed takeover last fall. Okay, so that merger would
have protected the greater than thirteen thousand people who worked
for Spirit at the time, including nearly five thousand living
and working in South Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was the ultimate win win.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
But then Biden stepped in, see his administration sued to
block the merger, and in January of last year, his
administration won. And Biden had this to say at the time,
today's ruling and then he forgot what he said for
a little bit and looked around, and the easter bunny
(03:42):
came by, and oh, yeah, is a victory for consumers
everywhere who want lower prices and more choices. Okay, consumers
everywhere who want lower prices, more choices. My administration will
continue to fight to protect consumers and force our antitrust laws.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Now, of course, all his administration did was ensure that Spirit,
which needed the Jet Blue merger to remain competitive and survived,
would be left to die, ensuring less choice and killing
all those shops. This week's Spirit warned that it may
not be able to survive the year. And the company
that was once worth three point eight billion dollars to
(04:24):
Jet Blue, what is it worth now? How much value
did Biden manage to destroy here? Three point eight billion,
two fifty million dollars fifty million on the open market.
What's more is that industry analysts are already saying that
(04:44):
the net effect of this, oh, it's going to be
higher prices, given that Spirit was the lowest cost carrier,
and there's likely to be less competition.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know, when when Joe Brien was president, he used
to say that every day he was president, the world
was less safe, which was true, and that our country
was less safe too, which was true. But what he
continue to see in many ways the ongoing impact of
his failed decisions too.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
How many people are.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Reporting that the only reason, and this is the only
reason the Spirit Airlines has lost three point eight billion
dollars of value is on the brink of collapsing today,
taking all those jobs down to leaving higher prices in
the way, is because Joe Biden was President of the
United States. But it's true, ah, that gift that keeps
(05:35):
on giving. But second takeaway for you today, don't blame
the bears. But before we talked about the bear hunt
in Florida, the other kind of hunt. The prize is
just awarded in the python challenge.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Taylor Stanberry stands just four feet eleven inches tall, but
she towered over Florida's python challenge, bagging sixty Burmese pythons
in the Everglades over ten days. Some of those snakes
were three times her height.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
For troubles.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Stanbury took home the ten thousand dollars top prize. The
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the hunters in
the competition removed a record two hundred and ninety four
pythons in all.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So, yeah, my takeaway here is that about the pythons,
maybe about snakes, I don't know, But don't blame the bears.
After Wednesday's vote, the Florida Fision Wildlife Conservation Commission is
truly summed up with the abbreviation FWC, as in just
the Florida FICI and Wildlife Commission. I'm not sure how
conducted a bear hunt amounts of the agency's conservation mandate.
(06:42):
After all, the definition of conservation is literally preservation, protection
or restoration. Okay, preservation protection or restoration of the natural environment,
end of wildlife.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So how we don't think they're protecting wildlife with this
bear hunt?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Interesting way of doing it right and by a unanimous vote,
what the commission said is rather than protection of wildlife,
they're cool with having you go kill it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Look, I understand many disagree with me on this, That's okay,
But it's my position that killing animals for trophies is concerning,
just as I've had people try. Yeah, but yeah, there's
no yeah. But what will change my position on this?
It is my belief, it has always been it will
always be trophy hunting I think is wrong. Getting excited
(07:36):
to kill animals to me is concerning period, especially when
our state's rapid population growth and encroaches on the Florida
black bear's territory further threatening, threatening their future anyway, by
the day, you know, many of the advocates that spoke
up on behalf of the hunt simply want their trophy.
Others suggested that the bears have become a nuisance. Now
(07:59):
about that. It is true that there were over six
thousand calls to authorities have bought a quote unquote nuisance
bears last year, a number that's up threefold from the.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Time of the previous huntre a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But as people continued to encroach on bear territory, which
is why this is happening, has anyone considered that it's
absolutely possible to live in proximity to black bears?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
In fact, millions of people already do, some of them
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For example, if you visit former Congressman Mark Foley's Facebook
page on any given day, no what you're gonna see
videos of bears roaming around his house in Asheville, North Carolina.
And while we're seldom there, you know who greeted us
the last time I was at our place in the
North Carolina Mountains, smoky. I don't know if he was smoking,
(08:48):
but it was a black bear was Mama bear. Actually,
she was right there when we pulled in. And so
we regularly see bears around our vacation home in North Carolina,
including neighbors by the way. We're not there that I'll
often send pictures and videos to us of the bears
around our place. Now, if you manage the disposal of
your garbage, if you don't leave food in your car
(09:09):
or the door to your house open, you're almost certainly
not going to have a problem. These are black bears.
These they're not grizzlies. These they're not polar bears. And
so the point is it is entirely possible to live
in harmony with them if you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's a choice not to. So it's easy to blame
the bears.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's also extremely easy to kill them at a distance
with a rifle too. And that's what the state is
granted one hundred and eighty seven hundreds for a December
hunt to do. My third segway for you today is
seeking shelter. President Trump made this declaration while marking Purple
Heart Day at the White House.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I signed an executive order to open the National Center
for a Warrior Independence in Los Angeles, California, which will
have up to six thousand homeless that is going to
be viewed.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, so about homelessness.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
President Trump has laid down the mandate in DC, and
so his policy there as part of the crackdown is
noteworthy to now, there's a fine line between compassion for
those who are homeless and facilitating homelessness. In short, offering
a hand up in an opportunity for a better way
for those who are willing to help themselves. That is
always the right thing to do, always going to be
(10:20):
the right thing to do. Simply making it comfortable for
those who seek a life of substance abuse on the streets,
that is never going to be the right thing. As
part of President Trump's plan to make Washington, DC safe again,
He's unveiled his Homeless Plan, which allows for the city's
significant homeless population to seek a homeless shelter, seek mental
(10:40):
health help that is being offered, seek addiction treatment that's
available too. But if the choice is none of the above,
if you don't want to go to a homeless shelter,
if you don't want to seek mental help, if you
don't want addiction treatment assistance, well the choice will be
made for you to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Go to jail at that point.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Now, Sinclair Media polled on this plan yesterday, and I
found this to be instructive. What percentage of Americans agree
with President Trump's homeless plan, Joel? About sixty And then
that's in the ballpark. It is sixty nine percent, sixty
nine percent that said they approved of the plan, only
(11:24):
about a third that are not on board. And so
this is something that our communities should be taken a
closer look at. You know, Florida passed alat of banning
public homelessness along the line of what President Trump is
seeking in DC, and from what I've seen in certain
communities it is lightly enforced, if at all. And notably,
Florida's doge has inquired about Palm Beach County's handling of homelessness.
(11:46):
That is on the list for them to investigate as
they are dojing locally next week.
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