NYPD Responds to the Campus Protesters

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• NYPD responds to the campus protesters
• TPPF's Greg Sindelar on Title IX

Episode Transcript

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here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, herewe go. It is a wet day
here in Houston, Texas, especiallynorth of Houston. So my thoughts are
with all of you who live inWalker County, who live in Montgomery County.
I'm right on the Harris County MontgomeryCounty line. We've we've gotten our

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fairmount of rain, not not likethey've gotten north of us, but a
lot of rain. Of course.The bad thing is is that the rain
is not showing any signs of stoppinganytime soon. This is going to be
around here for if not not constant. But it's not just today and tonight,
but tomorrow and tomorrow night and evenduring at times during the weekend.
Hopefully we get a chance to dryout some. But please be careful when

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it comes to being on the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of
flooded roads to deal with here.For the next few days. All right,
I want to talk a little bittoday about how we have been handling
these campus protests, and I thinkit's the perfect example. I don't know
if you want to call it appeasementon behalf of some of these universities.
I don't know if I think it'ssafe to call it appeasement. I don't

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know if the appeasement is because they'retrying to appease the faculty who've been teaching
some of these kids about some ofthese radical ideas, or if it is
appeasement as it relates to them beingsympathetic to the demonstrating that's going on.
I don't know how anybody is sympatheticto vandalism acts of vandalism, because we've

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seen plenty of that, not justa Columbia but also at U c l
A, neither of which, bythe way, finally, they finally both
had had enough. Columbia University yesterdayfinally let the NYPD and the invite in
YPD was waiting to get permission togo get to private university. They're waiting
to get permission to go in thereand deal with this, and they finally

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did. Here is one of theone of the associated or assistant chiefs from
the NYPD talking about how they goabout taking care of a problem like the
protesting at Columbia. There are infiltratorson that campus. How do you how
can you tell? Well, weknow, we know, our Intelligence division
knows them by name, knows whatthey do. Well, I don't know

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how to act, So no doubtabout it. As we filtered to the
US last night. Will differentiate betweenwho's a student, who is not a
student, and a what level ofthe non student? Where you were and
agitata, But there are definitely agitatesinfluencing, radicalizing some of these kids,
and when I say radicalizing, teachingthem how to hunker down better, how
to dismantle cameras, how the barricadedoors, And that's what you saw in

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the building they took over in Columbia. You guys intervened in the Columbia situation,
and that prompted talk. What madeyou intervene? Did Columbia ask or
did you demand? It is aprivate institution, so how do you balance
that? So private property and therules of that school has to be adjudicated

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about that school. We will gointo crimes are being committed. We will
we will do that. We don'thave to get action in writing what we
wanted from the school. So it'sthe second time. They gave us a
lot of document exactly what they wanteddone, and we went in there and
last night, I'd tell you itwas a between city college in Columbia multi
level plan. We had to takeback the street. First, we had

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to go to the quad, wehad to secure five dorms, and then
we had to deal with the building. It was a fast moving situation.
What our cops did a grade.We did a great job last night.
The plan worked and I think weshowed the nation the city what dan Hypd's
capable off. I find that fascinatingthough, that they had to get their
plan approved by the university. NowI understand, I understand the university is
a private institution, but you wouldthink that what you would say is,

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you know, we want we wantour building back, we want we want
these these tents gone, and wewant these protesters dealt with, arrested.
And that would be the extent ofit. Right. How the NYPD goes
about their business should be up tothe NYPD. Now, the LAPD in
Los Angeles, you know, theythey ran into a bit of a problem.

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They got there and they basically gotrun off by the protesters. They
really didn't have enough officers there.They weren't prepared for what was going on.
These are professional protesters. Now someare students, but these these are
students that are being led by professionalprotesters. And the thing that is really
quite amazing about all this is thedemands that are being made, especially as

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it relates to things like food.I mean, at Columbia, for example,
they wanted humanitarian aid. The buildingoccupiers wanted humanitarian aid. Now,
the spokesperson who talked to the pressabout wanting humanitarian aid clearly not a student
at Columbia. But you know,she thinks, well, first of all,

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the students have a meal plan,you need to bring them food.
No, the meal plan pretty muchcovers, you know, going to the
cafeteria, right, it doesn't coveryou know, delivery to a building that's
being illegally occupied. But take alisten to this. This is this is
not the Columbia. This is thedemand of the pro Hamas protesters. What

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they wanted humanitarian aid. First ofall, we're saying that they're obligated to
provide food to students who pay fora meal plan here. But you mentioned
that there was a request that foodand water to be brought in unless I
listen to allow it to be broughtin. I mean, well, I
guess it's ultimately a question of whatkind of community and obligation Columbia feels it
has to its students. Do youwant students to die of dehydration and starvation

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or get severely ill, even ifthey disagree with you. If the answer
is no, then you should allowbasic I mean it's crazy to say because
we're on an ivy Leau campus,but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're
asking for, Like could people pleaseto have a glass of water that is
rich? And it would be hilariousif it wasn't so patently offensive. They
don't want someone to violently stop usfrom eating and drinking water. But they're

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calling for violence against Jews. They'redemonstrating violence against Jews. They want to
have basic food and water. Whatabout the hostages that Homostil has the under
their control? What about the Jewishstudents they didn't let go to class.
They don't care. They are callingfor their extermination. I'm supposed to care
if they get thirsty yeah, no, I don't really care if they get
thirsty. I'm kind of old schoolwhen it comes to this. I would

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probably be the kind of person whowould say, you know what, let's
just lock all the doors and setthe building on fire. Into problem.
Okay, I realized that that's abrit draconian But these and if you think
the demands from from the Columbia protestcrowd, we're a little bit outrageous.

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At UCLA. Of course, thisis California. At UCLA, they're they're
demanding vegan meals. It's they don'tjust want to be fed, they want
to be fed vegan meals. Andby the way, no no bananas,
no nuts. We have people herethat have allergies and we can't have that.
So we we just want we justwant the vegan meals. At least

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in Columbia they're getting pizza or tryingto smuggle pizza into the building. At
least I can relate to pizza.All right, quick little break, We're
back with more in a moment.Jimmy Verrett show here at am nine fifty
KRC. All right, we areback, and uh, I've got a

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few other things to talk about.I don't know, we'll spend a ton
of time talking about these, youknow, morons who are protesting. I
really shouldn't call them morons. They'renot what would be a better wing nuts.
Maybe you know they're crazy. Butanyway, let's go back to our
government. I mean, there's plentyof things to talk about as far as
government in action. They're inactive ontoo many of the wrong things and active

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on too many of the wrong things. It really makes you wonder, I
mean, they're not if you heardanything, there's been very little coming out
of the Bide administration about this protestingis going on. They are scared to
death of the radical wing of theirparty, the pro Palestinian prohamas radical wing
of their party. And one ofthe things that came out there was I

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shouldn't say shocking, because I guessI don't find much of anything shocking anymore.
But evidently there's a proposal in frontof the President Biden to bring Palestinian
refugees to the United States. GreenJean Pierre got asked about that, so
let's take a listen to what shehad to say and get some thoughts on

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it. I think Jesse Waters onthe Five has a few thoughts on this.
We are constantly evaluating policy proposals tofurther support Palestinians who are family members
of American citizens and may want tocome to the United States. So we're
evaluating it. I don't have anythingto announce it at this time. If
you've seen the polling on Palestinians,they support, they support October seventh,

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they support nine to eleven. It'slike a ticking time bomb. Of course,
Joe Biden says, come on innow, judge. If someone steals
my car and they go and enjoyride, I call nine one one and
I say, this is what thesuspect looked like. This is what my
car making model is. This isthe last day and time I saw the
car. I don't call them in, say you know what, can you

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please not do any foot pursuits.Please don't have any high speed chases.
And when you pull the guy outof the car, if he resists the
rest, just let him go.No, I want my car back.
I don't try to tell the copto de escalate. Okay, these people
are adults. They can vote,they can have abortions, they can have
sex changes, they can drive,they can own homes. All of a

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sudden, they're saying, oh,no, no, they're snowflakes. They
were arguing they weren't snowflakes. Nowall of a sudden, they just shape
shifted in January sixth into this building. They smash windows, They had anarchists
pile in through windows and hold hostages. They should be treated like adults,
not snowflakes. You don't invite peoplewho have a very strong possibility of being

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one of two things, either aterrorist or a sympathizer a supporter, and
make them a refugee and bring theminto the United States. Not that,
not that there aren't already a tonof them here. I mean, you
know, you've heard me talk aboutDearborn, Michigan, my wife's hometown,
largest Arab American population outside of theMiddle East. Most of the people who

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live in Dearborn of Arab descent areAmericans. They came here to be Americans.
They have no interest in acts ofterrorism or harboring terrorists, but there
are some of them who do,and it's the perfect place for people like
that to hide in. All weneed to do is bring some more radicals
over here. You can see howmuch impact some of them have on our

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college students imagine the impact they canhave on each other. How we've gotten
this far without another nine to eleven, I'm not quite sure. But the
chance of us going on a wholelot further without having another nine to eleven
seems, you know, the chancesof that seem slim and none. So
anyway, there you go. They'retalking about bringing in some potential Palestinians.

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Wouldn't that be great? Let's talkabout this though, I mean, because
I think I think the government isAnd I started off by saying that the
government seems to support the wrong things, ignores things like potential terrorists, ignores
things like the border, but supportsthings like censorship, well censorship for certain

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individuals who don't agree with them.Matt Gates, his committee in the US
House yesterday, was talking to I'mtrying to remember, this guy used to
be the White House, the WhiteHouse Advisor for Digital Technology. He used
to run that department at the WhiteHouse. And you've heard the stories right

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that there have been dictates that camedown from the Bide administration to Facebook and
other social media organizations about censoring people, especially during COVID nineteen. And that's
kind of where Matt Gates is goingwith us. He's talking to them about
about, you know, the COVIDvaccine and them taking down opinions of people

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who were opposed to the COVID vaccinecensorship. In other words, here here
was how that conversation went between MattGates and this former White House technology guru,
Miss Flairrie. As you were puttingthe heat on social media companies,
did you make the decisions which postswere most egregious to highlight or flag or
were there other people telling you whichposts to go and express concern about Congressman,

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I'll say, in general, wewere lifting up examples of content that
we felt were violated. We say, we just want to know which human
beings were involved in deciding like this. Leonardo DiCaprio meme had to go.
In general, we were discussing specificpieces of content when we were discussed again,
I know you guys, I lovepronouns, but we is not what

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I'm looking for. I'm looking forthe names of the people. Congressman,
I'm not authorized to well, youwrote an email on April twenty first,
twenty twenty one. We remain concernedthat YouTube is funneling people into vaccine hesitancy.
This concern is shared at the highestand I mean highest levels of the
White House. So we'd like tocontinue a good faith dialogue here. I'm

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on the hook for reporting out.Who were you on the hook for reporting
out? To? Congressman, Ican't recall who specifically I was referencing in
that documentary. You kind of juststrike me as a functionary. I don't
really think you are making these decisions. I think that these people that you
say the highest levels of the Whenyou say the highest and I mean the

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highest levels of the White House,who are you referring to without using the
word we, Congressman, I can'trecall specifically who I'm referencing when you say
the are you talking about President Biden? Congressman, I don't think it should
be a surprise that the administration wasfocused on the issue of presenting authoritative and
by the way, I find yourtestimony terrifying but incredibly intellectually honest, because

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you've come here and you've taken theposition. Look, you know, in
the White House, people are alwaystrying to shape how information is received.
They do it with the New YorkTimes. You've seen it on the West
Wing, and I think a lotof Americans see a distinction between powerful White
House officials trying to shape a newsstory in the Washington Post and then trying
to shape what all of America inthe world can see in the digital information

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space. But you say there's nodistinction there, and I think that's honest.
Scares the hell out of me.But that seems to be your testimony,
right, carsman. These platforms aremaking hundreds of millions of algorithmic editorial
decisions a second, and those algorithmics, I get it. I just don't
want the White House participating in them. I get that. To have social
media companies, there are all thesedecisions that get made about what content rises

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and falls. What we have aproblem with is when the United State's government
is putting your thumb on the scale. Yeah. Well, here's here's the
problem with Matt Gates's argument, though, and I understand where he's coming from.
He completely and I agree completely.You do not want the United States
government going to any free speech,supposedly free speech platform and dictating to that

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platform who they allow on it inwho they don't, based on their political
persuasion or their personal opinions. Thatis censorship in every sense of the term.
And if you believe in free speech, you don't do not believe in
censorship. I get that part,but I think he's maybe thinking, maybe

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I'm wrong, but it seems likehe's thinking that if the United States government
was not dictating to these social mediapeople what could stay or what should stay
and what could go, that somehowthings would have turned out differently. And
I don't think that's the case.I think thanks to the algorithms that they've
set up and everything else. Youknow, these social media companies are all

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run by liberals, so you know, if they know that the government supports
the COVID vaccines, and the governmentis being run by Democrats, then they
support it too. Therefore they wouldcensor it, whether or not they got
marching orders from the government or not. But I do completely understand the argument

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of them not being involved in censorshipthe White House in any way, shape
or form. I also understand that, you know, liberal media news outlets,
just like conservative outlets, shape thestory the way they want it.
You know, we all are givena basic set of facts and the rest
of it is interpretation. I mean, you know where I come from.
You know I'm conservative. You knowthat I'm I'm going to take a look

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at the story and I'm going toreport it based on what my personal biases
are. But I think you knowthat going in, and you also know
that when you're on social media thatif you have an opinion, you should
be able to express it, andif somebody has an opposite opinion, they
should be able to expressed it aswell without being censored. All right,
quick will break back with Bonn amoment. Jimmy bertchow here an am of
nine fifty KPRC. All right,does anybody does anybody remember the original intended

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Title nine? What was Title nine? What was Title nine supposed to do?
Title nine was to ensure that womenwould have the same rights and opportunities
as men to compete as student athletes. It's one of those things that dictated
that if you have a men's basketballteam, you have to have a women's
basketball team and offer up the sameamount of scholarships. It never, in

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the crazy world of which Title ninewas created, as crazy as being seem,
nobody ever anticipated that men would wantto become women and compete in women's
sports. So here we are,and the Biden administration evidently is getting ready
to codify all this by writing itinto Title nine, so it officially becomes
the doctrine that men can compete inwomen's sports. Here to talk about with

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us is the Texas Public Policy Foundations. Greg Sindelar. It is amazing,
Greg, how far from the originalintent of Title nine we've gotten. Oh
to me, you're absolutely right.You know, we write a whole law
to protect women, and then weare now allowing it to be used by
men to subvert women and their abilityto compete in athletics and all these other

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things. That's just the world isa vastly confusing place, for sure.
You know the thing I don't understandis, you know, we've made all
this the stink for decades about women'srights, inequality for women, and now
we've turned the whole thing on itshead. This is the total opposite of
equality for women. Oh, onehundred percent. You know, I'm a

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girl dad, My wife is anathlete growing up, and you want to
get them fired up. This isit because they the whole fight was for
the ability for them to be ableto do these things, and now we're
just allowing that to be completely overtakenand and anyone can define if they're one.
Look at what Leah Thomas did inthe swimming in the mid Riley Gains

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kind of a spokes spokesperson for allof this. You know, Lee Thomas
is still a fully intact male,and yet it's getting all of these accolades
as a as a female. Andit's just we've kind of lost sight of
the science and the biological differences ofmen and women in the name of social
justice and something that we have gotto get back to the basics. It's

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kind of unbelievable we even have totalk about this, but we've got to
get back to understanding what men are, what women are, and celebrating our
differences. Well, I'd be happyright now if we could just get people
to agree to define what it is. You can't even bend down, you
can't even been down Supreme Court justicesto a definition. Yeah, well,
God forbid, we expect people tobe able to define that. But it's

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uh, you know, if youlook at what is happening, and I
think it's all tied into you know, the most amazing thing actually about this
Jiman point I want to make isif you look at a lot of these
encampments that are happening on college campusesand you have LGBTQ for Palestine and things
like that. I'm like, haveyou guys potentially been to Palestine? Have
you understand what's happening in some ofthese places and how you would be treated?

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This is you know, it's justthe world has kind of lost its
way in many regards, and there'sa cultural rot that kind of underlies all
of this. Yeah, you know, it seems how you brought that up.
I don't know if you saw thisstory or nov, but this seems
like the approprict time to mension it. Did you see where a university in
Iran is offering US students free tuitionif they Muslim students if they want to

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come back and go to school inIran, or even US students who are
participating in the protesting, if they'resaying, if you get kicked out of
school for participating that protesting, youcan come go to school care for free.
And I'm thinking, yeah, howmany how many those female US students?
You know, we should send themto Iran university. They'd lasted about
twenty four hours, Yeah, theywould be back. They probably weren't Maga

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hats on the way back because theyprobably wouldn't let them in deal with right.
Oh man, if they're you're awoman, you can't go to college,
Well that's exactly right, you know. And if you look at pictures
from Iran or Afghanistan in the seventies, uh, you know, these were
very you know, liberal places forfor women and female rights. And askone

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backwards and and taking back to titlenine. That's what we're doing, is
we're going backwards. We're not recognizingthe games that that women have made in
our society, and we're allowing thoseto be undermined. And that's just it's
not not acceptable. How did youknow, help me out on this.
How do you think it is thatwe went from, you know, being
champions of women's rights to now beingchampions of the rights were the perceived rights

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of a very very small minority.I mean, women in general make up
over fifty percent of the population.Men who have transitioned to being a quote
unquote woman make up less than onepercent of the population, you know,
a percentage of a percentage, andyet somehow we're putting those rights above and

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beyond or fifty percent of the population. Well, I think this goes back
to you know, kind of thecritical theories that are promulgated in our universities
where we focus so much on identityand oppress ser versus appresses and who are
victims and who are the victors?And you know, when you look at

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the transgender community, to your point, there's just not many of them,
and so they are the most oppressedclass, if you will, based on
the way that they look at theworld, and so that elevates them above
all else. So even though womenyou could say, in their idology,
could be in a press class,and just like you could say Jewish people

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are an impressed class, they're notas oppressed as these other folks, and
so that allows them some sort ofpreferential treatment. And we start holding people
to different accounts based on these thingsthat we have. You know that uh,
uh are are kind of innate tous, right, Like if you
have gender dysmorphia, that is areally unfortunate mental illness and that should be

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treated, but somehow we want toturn that into know, everything's okay with
that, but there's nothing we needto do about that other than physically change
your body. And uh, andthen you're the special, protected, up
pressed class. When in reality,Uh, we're we're we're not taking to
account the mental illness that has togo with that, and we're doing it
to subvert what women have have beengoing through and not taking account the things

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that they have to deal with.And it's just very sad, but we've
allowed it to happen. And thatkind of gets back to my point earlier
of that cultural rot that kind ofunderlies all this which is starting in our
universities. Are you are you basedin Austin, Greg, I am,
yeah, you live in Austin.Reason why I asked, Yeah, The
reason why I asked is you probablyheard that the Austin City Council took a

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vote, evidently for Austin to becomea trans sanctuary city. I'm not even
sure what that means. They aren'tsure what it means either. What they're
trying to do is trying to stickit to the rest of the state.
But I think you will see legislativechanges in twenty twenty five that won't sure

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that even Austin can't make these performativevotes. And if they were trying to
ensure that we can mutilate children becauseof how they might be feeling about their
gender. Then I think they willbe sort of mistaken as to what the
state Canada will do to protect ourchildren. And so it's very performative,
but it's unfortunate and it just showskind of where Austin is as compared to

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the Russell's state. I know thegovernor is Governor Abbott is suing the federal
government over these new Title nine rulesfor colleges and universities because it would be
direct conflict with Texas law. Butat the end of the day, it
seems like the best way to justbe able to thumb our nose at the
federal government. I know nobody likesleaving federal money behind, but if we

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stopped accepting federal education grants for colleges, universities, and public schools, we'd
have a far better chance of beingable to thumb our nose at the federal
government. Don't you think you're huntsent correct? I mean, you know,
getting the department Abolishing Department of Educationshould be the top priority of every

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presidential candidate because it is subverting everythingwe want to do in the education realm.
And I think and the way thefederal government uses strings attached to the
money they give us you know,they get you addicted to that money and
then they attach all these strengths.It is how they undermine what we're trying
to do in states like Texas.And I could agree more that if we
can either one get rid of thosestrings, which are almost impossible due because

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to come from federal government. Sounless Congress is gonna help out, there
is something things part won't change too. We need to learn to live without
and and it's very difficult to dowhen you look at high ed and even
caperqual educational where about their or fundingcomes from the Feds. But I think
it's something that you have to choose, like do you want to have the

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values that your state has and doyou want to promulgate those or do you
want to be do you want tobe beholden to what the federal government wants
you to do and that's what theyforce you to do based on the money
they give you. Yeah, thesad part of all that is the federal
government is nothing more than middleman.We send our money, our tax dollars
to the federal government and they redistributethe wealth and call the shots, and

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that's all it is for them.I think sometimes is control that you're one
hundred percent right. That's all ofthis comes down to control, and you
know, the Biden ad administration istrying to really stick it to Texas as
much as possible. We see thatin several whether it's the energy sector,
it's issues like this, and unfortunately, until probably we see either change of

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heart in this administration or new administration, that's not going to change. And
so you know, Texas needs tocontinue to exert its sovereign team and its
value. I guess it's because wehave enough guts to fight back. Greg
Sindelar always good, good to talkto you, man, appreciate it,
Thanks for joining us today. Thankyou to Jimmy. Appreciate Take care Greg.
Greg Sindelar with the Texas Public PolicyFoundation. Quick little break back with

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more in a moment. Jimmy BarretShow Here an AM nine fifty KPRC.
All right, we're back. Finalsegment coming up today, Jimmy Barrett Show

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here an AM nine to fifty kPrC. Where is that I got to
find that story I wanted to sharewith you. It was it was kind
of not that it surprises me onyou because inflation is just really really continuing
to get my attention. You're youfamiliar with Red Robin the hamburger joint.
Well, I shouldn't call it ahamburger joint. Oh here's before I before

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I get to the prices, becausethat's what reminded me of inflation. We're
at We're at Red Robin yesterday,right right off the North Freeway in uh
Shenandoah. And you know it's it'skind of like McDonald's in the McDonald's playground.
You've got always have families with kids. They go to Red Robin and
the kids are always loud, andyou kind of know that's part of the

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deal, right when you go toa place like that. It's like if
you go to McDonald's and you're sittingnext to the playground area McDonald's, you
got to figure it's gonna be loud, to be a lot of kids making
noise. I don't know why kidsare so loud, but they are.
They make a lot of noise,and so sure enough, you know there's
a family there. And in typicalfashion, you know, because nobody just

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lends their kids anymore or or triesto rain them in, the kids are
running around the restaurant making all kindsof noise, and the parents aren't doing
a whole lot about it. I'mnot bothered by it. I have an
innate ability, having been a parentmyself, to just tune that stuff out.
I don't even hear it after awhile. But there's an older guy,
you know. I imagine that he'sthe same kind of guy that stands

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out in his front yard and says, get up by lawn, you kids,
get up by lawn. Same kindof a guy. And he's clearly
annoyed by these children making all thisnoise, and he actually gets up and
he goes over to the parents,and I can't hear what he's saying because
he's at least he's not screaming,but he's got his finger wagon and he's

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giving the parents a lecture about watchingtheir kids and keeping their kids quiet.
I'm trying to eat over here.You keep those kids quiet kind of a
thing. And I guess it worked, because the parents kind of finally gathered
the kids together and they told themthey had to be more quiet all that
stuff, and things quieted down.But I thought, you know, there's
the part of me that that kindof admired him for, you know,

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getting the parents' attention, who clearlywere letting their kids do just about anything
they wanted to do. And thenthe other part of me that thought,
well, what did you expect ifyou wanted quiet? Why would you come
to Red Robin. That wouldn't bewhere I would go for quiet. Now,
now here's the inflation part. SoI ordered a monster Burger, which

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you know is a good sized hamburgerwith garlic fries. You ever had the
garlic fries of Red Robin. Ilove those things that in the onion rings.
That's why I go back. That'swhy I put up with the kid's
noise, those two things. SoI ordered that and Elizabeth got a mushroom
burger I think they called the shroomburgerand garlic fries. And we both got

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a drink. Well, actually shegot water, she just had water.
I had an unsweet iced tea.No, I know what you're thinking about.
Why why do you worry about sugarand the tea if you're eating garlic
fries? And you got a point, except I tried. I tried to
cut calories back where I can.Anyway, as usual, I'm not really
paying attention to the menu prices.I'm just ordering well, this is simple,

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right, We both got a burger, we both got fries, and
I got a drink. How muchcould it be? Right? Forty eight
dollars and ten cents? What?Yeah, forty eight dollars and ten cents
for two hamburgers, two fries,and one drink, no dessert, no
appetizer. Forty eight dollars and tencents. And then I took a look.

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Okay, my I think the iceteam was like four bucks. The
Monster burger was like seventeen forty ninehers was probably fifteen something. It.
You know, you'd AD's at prettyfast, and you know, I see
stories about inflation all the time,and I think to myself, now,
you know, it's not like I'mgoing to be destitute for spending forty eight

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dollars on dinner. But I thinkto myself, you know, I you
know, we live pretty well atour house, and I'm wondering. You
know, I've seen these stories aboutpeople who can't afford to go out to
mke dollars anymore fast food anymore becauseprices have gotten so high. And I
guess I can see why. Youknow, you're you're talking about you know,

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fifteen to twenty dollars for a burgerand fries. Yeah, that's pretty
cost prohibitive when you have a family. Then I started thinking about that family
with a lot of obnoxious kids again, and I thought, Wow, I
wonder how much their bill was.Now, the kids meals weren't as expensive
as the adult meals, but Ibet you know, if I was forty
eight dollars and ten cents, Iwonder how much theirs was. That's pretty
amazing. Anyway, long story short. As far as the economy and inflation

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and all those things that go alongwith it, here is one of the
economists from the Heritage Foundation talking aboutit on Fox. They work with aggregated
numbers. They're looking at the economyoverall. You know, this is the
essence of central planning, and onceyou dig into the numbers, that's always
where the tragedies are. So,as you mentioned the poor cutting back on

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coke and McDonald's. Meanwhile, MulsenCores they just came out they said that
things are going great. They've gota lot of growth in the pricier beers
as consumers treat themselves. So you'vereally got this K shaped economy where you've
got a lot of cash at thetop, people have tons of money.
You got the TikTok videos that peopleyou know, sitting on the beach and

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Bali enjoying it. And then you'vegot a lot of pain for the rest
of people who are struggling to justto keep up with inflation. Really,
you know, we had this stagflationalready read just about a week ago.
Here we've got a slowing economy,we've got inflation taking off again. And
the problem there is that, youknow, the way that inflation enters the
economy, the FED does not havehelicopters that it dumps money out of the

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way that it brings money into theeconomy is pumping into the financial markets,
and they hope that it trickles down, but that takes a long time.
The people who first get the money, right, yes, corporate valuation,
sore housing source of course, andthen years later, right he had some
numbers on uh wages finally starting tocatch up. Years later it trickles down

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to everybody else. But in themeantime they've been dealing with the inflation.
So really, the way to fixthis, the way to fix a lot
of problems in our economy right now, is to get down the government spending,
right, Biden is proposing seven pointthree trillion. Now, it would
be almost three trillion up from whatTrump was putting out there pre COVID's that's
three trillion and what about five yearsthere. And not only is that bringing

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in all these new taxes. Youknow, we're talking about forty five percent
rate on the capital gains they're floating. This unrealized capital gains tax would be
absolutely insane. But beyond that,that is what's keeping the inflation going.
It's what's putting the Fed in thisno win situation with inflation accelerating even as
you mentioned, consumer spending is droppingoff. Yeah, I think we talked

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about this yesterday meeting this week,and they're supposed to be they're expecting no
change in interest rates, nor areany people really expecting much of a change
in interest rates is the year goeson. Certainly not a cut in rates
based on overseeing with inflation. Andthis is a real good guide, I
think, to tell you how badit is of housing and how unaffordable it

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is. It is now we're atthe point now where only six major US
cities have meeting home prices that ahousehold making the local median income could actually
afford. That'd be Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Saint Louis, Memphis, Indianapolis.
That's it. That's it. Everywhereelse, the average meaning of the income

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locally will not be enough to buythe average median priced home. All right,
Leave it at that for today.I'd be safe out there with the
roads, with all the rain andthe flooding and everything. I'll see you
tomorrow morning, bright, early fiveam. As share over on news radio
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