The Jimmy Barrett Show - Monday, June 5th 2023

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Episode Transcript

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What we need is more common sense. Got the youth breaking down the world's
nonsense about how American common sense.We'll see us through with the common sense
of Houston. I'm just pro commonsense for Houston from Houston about This is

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the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought toyou by viewin dot Com. Now here's
Jimmy Barrett. But lately I thinkit's the one. The gen Zers in
particularly seem to be escalating this.Let's see if um you agree with this
or not. There was a littleTikTok thing with a gen z or waitress.
We seem to be fighting a lotof wars these days in restaurants about

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restaurant behavior and wait staff. Nowthis is from a baby boomer perspective.
I gotta say it. From ababy boomer perspective, it feels like wait
staff really don't appreciate the concept thattipping is optional, And by optional,
I just mean that there's no setrule about how much you're going to be

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tipped you're supposed I personally, Ibelieve in being a generous tipper. I've
talked about this before. It's prettyrare that you won't get twenty percent from
me if you if you you'd haveto really fall flat on your face for
me to not give you twenty percent. And no, I do not count
kitchen mistakes against you. Is await person, Never have, never will.

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But there seems to be this feelingnow amongst the younger generations that tipping
is not optional. The tipping ispart of your salary only I'm the person
that's supposed to pay for the tipping. And maybe this is what the restaurant
owners are telling these white people.I'm not sure, but you notice there's
a chip tip jar out everywhere.Now it's not just a tip jar,

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but you go into almost like aself serve cafeteria style, you know,
where you walk up to the counterand you order it the counter like at
a fast food place, and youpay and then you go take your seat
and somebody I guess brings the foodout to you when the food is ready.
But there's no real wait staffer,say, there's no interaction between you

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and a wait person. There's nobodythat comes and takes your order, and
at the end of the day willcome in and present you with the bill
and take your credit card or thearrication you might have cash, will take
your cash and process it for youand bring it back for your signature.
That's that's strictly upper and restaurants thesedays, or at least it feels that
way more and more. But yetwhen you get to the check out there

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but the cafeteria style, they're stilllooking to get a tip, and they
don't they give you. They giveyou basically four choices, the very very
smallest choices, no tip. AndI guess the assumption is, if you're
going to click the note tip,you're really not going to give a tip,
So they want to make it harderand harder for you to hit the
note tip button. What about thoseof us who pay cash? I do

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my in cash, and I'd bethe first to tell you I do it
in cash because I think cash isbetter for the white person. I'll let
you decide how honest you want tobe with Uncle Sam, in how much
you want to claim, and inhow much you might want to share,
because after all, I don't thinkyou should have to share. You're the
one that waited on me, noteverybody else. Okay, that's not really

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what I want to get into ittoday, because we've already kind of argued
about that. This is one.This was a gen zer who wrote,
and of course, you know,all baby boomers are the same, right,
just like all gen xers at allgen zers are the same. I
don't believe that for a minute.The boomers trying to or the gen zer
was trying to say, she knowswhen a group of baby boomers has just

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left the table, because nothing willhave been picked up. The plates are
right where they were, the napkinsare laying there, nothing has been consolidated
or act. I guess. Iguess she's curious as to why it is
that baby boomers don't seem to becompelled to bus tables. And I have

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an answer for that, but I'llget to get into that in just a
second. Now, is this allbaby boomers? She makes it sound like
it's all baby boomers, and sheseems to make it look like all Jem's
ears Wills will bust their tables foryou, as a white person, because
they understand how hard it is towork at a restaurant, and baby boomers
evidently don't. At least that's hersimplistic answer to the problem. The reality

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is is that I've never been oneto bus tables, because yes, I
do believe that that's part of thedeal when you go out to eat.
I'm not responsible for the dishes.If your boss is determined that he doesn't
want to spend any money on havinga table busser, then you know,
I guess that's become part of yourjob. I guess that's become part of

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your job. Sorry, But inreality, we do try to do a
little bussing. My wife, Elizabethlikes to bust tables. I don't know
if she's always wanted to work ina restaurant. She never did work in
a restaurant at any rate. Herehere's the rule that we've developed. This
is the compromise we came up betweenthe two of us. See if this
sounds familiar. We will bust tables. We bust tables at a fast food

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place because we realize if we don'tclear our own table, there's nobody there
specifically designed to do it, andthat tables can be dirty for quite some
time. So we do it atfast food. We do it at casual
dining, which means that if it'sit's if it's a wooden table and I
don't have a cloth napkin and there'sno cloth tablecloth, that I'll help up

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by bustling the table, and thatby that i'll just combine the dishes.
I'm not going to put the dishesanywhere. That's so up to you to
grab the dishes. But I'll understand, and I realize that a lot of
these places don't employ table bussers anymore, and they expect the white staff to
do it. So I'll try tobe helpful while I'm not going to do
it, and to find dining experience, because I think that's embarrassing for everybody.

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There's no way you should be bustingyour own table at a Taste of
Texas, by the way, norwould they want you to. They would
be horrified if you were to bustyour own table. There's no need for
you to stack dishes at a finedining establishment. They're spending the money to
have table busterers. They're charging youmore. You're spending more for your experience.

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If I'm dropping, you know,hundred bucks or more at dinner time.
I'm not there to bust tables.I'm there to relax and enjoy myself
and to eat a very nice meal. And to I mean, I'll be
helpful, I'll be kind, I'lltreat the weight staff appropriately. But no,
I'm not going to bust the table, nor do I think waitstaff in
that case. Would you expect youto bust the table? Would they?

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I wouldn't think they would. Sothat's kind of the world. We've come
up with bussing at fast food andcasual dining only non bussing for the higher
end experience. But bussing is liketipping. It's optional. It really is

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optional. If you are upset becauseyour employer does not have people to bust
tables, that is something you haveto take up with your employer, not
with the customer. This is thisis This is not a customer situation.
This is this is an argument betweenthe people who work at the restaurant and
the people who run the restaurant,And you're all going to have to figure

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it out for yourself. All right, we'll take a little break back with
more in a moment. Jimmy Bartshow here on a nine fifty kperc.

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But I think it's the one.The gen Zers in particular seem to be
esculating this. Let's see if youagree with this or not. There was
a little TikTok thing, but agen Z or waitress. We seem to
be finding a lot of wars thesedays in restaurants about restaurant behavior and wait

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staff. Now this is from ababy boomer perspective. I got to say
it. From a baby boomer perspective, it feels like wait staff really don't
appreciate the concept that tipping is optional. And my optional, I just mean
that there's no set rule about howmuch you're going to be tipped. You're
supposed I personally, I believe inbeing a generous tipper. I've talked about

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this before. It's pretty rare thatyou won't get twenty percent from me if
you if you'd have to really fallflat on your face for me to not
give you twenty percent. And no, I do not count kitchen mistakes against
you. Is a wait person,never have, never will. But they're
seeing to be this feeling now amongstthe younger generations that tipping is not optional.

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The tipping is part of your salaryonly I'm the person that's supposed to
pay for the tipping. And maybethis is what the restaurant orders are telling
these white people. I'm not sure, but you notice there's a chip tip
jar out everywhere now and it's notjust a tip jar. But you go
into almost like a self serve cafeteriastyle, you know, where you walk

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up to the counter and you orderit the counter like at a fast food
place, and you pay and thenyou go take your seat and somebody I
guess brings the food out to youwhen the food is ready. But there's
no real weight staffer say, there'sno interaction between you and a wait person.
There's nobody that comes and takes yourorder, and at the end of
the day will come in and presentyou with the bill and take your credit

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card or the varrication you might havecash, will take your cash and process
it for you and bring it backfor your signature. That's strictly upper and
restaurants these days, or at leastit feels that way more and more.
But yet when you get to thecheck out there but the cafeteria style,
they're still looking to get a tip, and they don't they give you.

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They give you basically four choices,the very very smallest choices no tip,
And I guess the assumption is ifyou're going to click the note tip,
you're really not going to give atip, So they want to make it
harder and harder for you to hitthe note tip button. What about those
of us who pay cash? Ido my tips in cash, and I'd
be the first to tell you Ido it in cash because I think cash

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is better for the white person.I'll let you decide how honest you want
to be with Uncle Sam, andhow much you want to claim, and
in how much you might want toshare, because after all, I don't
think you should have to share.You're the one that waited on me,
not everybody else. Okay, that'snot really what I want to get into
it today, because we've already kindof argued about that. This is one.

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This was a gen zer who wroteand of course, you know,
all baby boomers are the same,right, just like all gen xers at
all gen zers are the same.I don't believe that for a minute the
boomers trying to the gen zer wastrying to say, she knows when a
group of baby boomers has just leftthe table, because nothing will have been

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picked up. The plates are rightwhere they were, the napkins are laying
there, nothing has been consolidated orstacked. I guess I guess she's curious
as to why it is that babyboomers don't seem to be compelled to bust
tables, and I have an answerfor that, but I'll get to get

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into that in just a second.Now, is this all baby boomers.
She makes it sound like it's allbaby boomers, and she seems to make
it look like all gen zers willbusts, will bust their tables for you,
as a white person, because theyunderstand how hard it is to work
at a restaurant, and baby boomersevidently don't. At least that's her simplistic

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answer to the problem. The realityis is that I've never been one to
bus tables, because yes, Ido believe that that's part of the deal
when you go out to eat.I'm not responsible for the dishes. If
your boss is determined that he doesn'twant to spend any money on having a
table busser, then you know,I guess that's become part of your job.

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I guess that's become part of yourjob. Sorry, But in reality,
we do try to do a littlebussing. My wife, Elizabeth likes
to bus tables. I don't knowif she's always wanted to work in a
restaurant. She never did work ina restaurant at any rate. Here's the
rule that we've developed. This isthe compromise we came up between the two

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of us. See if this soundsfamiliar. We will bust tables. We
bust tables at a fast food placebecause we realize if we don't clear our
own table, there's nobody there specificallydesigned to do it, and that tables
can be dirty for quite some time. So we do it a fast food
We do it a casual din whichmeans that if it's if it's a wooden
table and I don't have a clothnapkin and there's no cloth tablecloth, that

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I'll help out by bustling the table, and that by that I'll just combine
the dishes. I'm not going toput the dishes anywhere. That's so up
to you to grab the dishes.But I'll understand, and I realize that
a lot of these places don't employtable busters anymore, and they expect the
weight staff to do it. SoI'll try to be helpful, but I'm
not going to do it and tofind dining experience, because I think that's

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embarrassing for everybody. There's no wayyou should be busting your own table at
a Taste of Texas, by theway, nor would they want you to.
They would be horrified if you wereto bust your own table. There's
no need for you to stack dishesat a fine dining establishment. They're spending
the money to have table busters.They're charging you more. You're spending more

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for your experience. If I'm dropping, you know, one hundred bucks or
more intertime. I'm not there tobust tables. I'm there to relax and
enjoy myself and to eat a verynice meal and to and to I mean,
I'll be helpful, I'll be kind, I'll treat the weight staff appropriately,
But no, I'm not going tobust the table, nor do I
think weight staff in that case wouldyou expect you to bust the table?

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Would they? I wouldn't think theywould. So that's kind of the world
we've come up with bussing ad fastfood and casual dining only non bussing for
the higher end experience. But bussingis like tipping. It's optional. It

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really is optional. If you areupset because your employer does not have people
to bust tables, that is somethingyou have to take up with your employer,
not with the customer. This isthis is this is not a customer
situation. This is this is anarguable between the people who work at the

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restaurant and the people who run therestaurant. And you're all going to have
to figure it out for yourself.All right, we'll take a little break
back with Morena moment Jimmy Bart showhere on a nine fifty kparc. All

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right, all those sonnies, Ithink they've o pett plus loves the position
they're in right now. Right,they're in control of what goes on with
oil. This is what they thisis what they had before Donald Trump,
and this is what they've had withJoe Biden. They're in charge of the
price of oil. And the onlything that the president could do, President
Biine could do you manipulate the priceof oil, was to release the strategic

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reserve. So now we have adepleted strategic reserve, and I think we're
pretty much out of any extra oilthat we can go ahead and release next
time around. So Satis are thinking, okay, now it's the perfect time.
Right, We're already producing a millionbarrels a day less and now we
can go down starting in July atleast for the month of July, we
can go down another million barrels anddrive up the price oil to something that

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we can like a whole heck ofa lot more. One of our oil
guys always willing to give his opinionon what's going on in the wonderful world
of oil. Jay Young, oiland gas expert. He's a king operating
dot com. Welcome back, Jay, how about them? Saudi's huh yeah,
I'll tell you. I'll tell youwhat. Well's you know? And

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when you said that, you know, Jay Young is always willing to give
his opinion, and I'm like,oh, well, man, I'll tell
you what. There's a lot ofopinions. There's a lot of emotions,
there's a lot of what are wegoing to do to keep these prices up?
What are we gonna do to keepprices low? Let's make this comfortable
for the consumer. I mean,that's the most important thing, is how

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we don't want to wreck the oldprice and all of a sudden come in
and go, hey, well,yeah, we're paying two dollars at the
tank. But then all of asudden, everybody's out of a job in
Houston. We don't we obviously don'twant that right right, so we are
we are cautiously optimistic about what's goingon right now with OPEC. I know,

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over the weekend, prices got upthree dollars a barrel. Now they're
pretty flat today. I mean,I think we're seeing a very comfortable,
a very very comfortable number to wherewe can all live, we can all
drive back and forth to work,if we're not in the only gas business.
But it puts a lot more peopleemployed, especially in Houston, if

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we do keep that price up,because it doesn't matter really who you are.
If if the prices go really badin on you know, in these
areas, and if if if priceyou're bad and everybody's unemployed, not not
good for the not good for theregion. Well let's talk a little bit
about the stability we've enjoyed, becauseyou're right, I mean, I want

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to think that you know, forweeks now, I've been paying on average
here in Houston about two dollars andeighty five cents a gallon for gasoline.
And that's been consistent for week toweek to week to week. For while
there we had these way you know, go way up and then come down,
then go way up and come backdown again. It's in very very
steady. Why has it been sosteady of late um? And and that
being the case, you know,if if if Houston is making money on

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oil, I would think the Saudisare making money in oil. While why
do they feel the need to jackthe price on oil up? Yeah?
Good, that's a good question,you know. And the Saudis are just
trying to I guess achieved supplying theman. You know. So there's only
there's there's one hundred million barrels ofoil in the world every day that needs

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needs needs at home, and there'sonly so many different countries. With Russia,
you know, they're still selling oilto cheaper price to India, China,
you know. So what they're tryingto do is they're trying to make
an equilibrium of all the different placesthat we can buy all around the around
the world. And they're they're justtrying to keep prices high, but not

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not to love you know what I'msaying. I mean, they're they're not
they're not trying to kill us.I mean they're trying to keep it an
equal price to where it doesn't youknow, um, they don't want to
put a lot of more people backto work, or they don't want the
United States to increase the recount,which we have not increased our recount here
lately. It is really i mean, it's like still down twenty percent.

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Are they hang on they are theyworried during the Biden administration that somehow we're
gonna be drilling moral what would makethem worry about that? But with with
these guys in charge, Yeah,and that is that is true. There's
a lot of politics involved in that, that decision on how we do drill
and how we can stay out ofit. Could we we've been staying out
of out of it? Or recountsdown, recounts down the last month,

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I mean, it's it's almost downas much now as it was before the
pandemic or right, that's a pandemic, you know. So we're we're really
down and we we really need toget back to drilling in the United States
to keep everything, to keep everything, you know, at the same level,
and to keep our our hauling gasyou know, going here. Of

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course, gas prices are way down, natural gas prices are way down,
and we're not drilling for natural gasand all starting to come off now because
you know, they're just not thewall streets not getting what they need to
um for these companies. You're seeinga lot of companies that are making they're
making about as much in one yearas their company is worth on Wall Street.

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You know, they're even on maybemaybe four hundred million dollars. That's
what there's stocks worthy these days.It's crazy. I'm I love, I
love buying these wall stocks that thesekeeper prices, and I'd recommend um,
I'd recommend all your listeners looking atyou know, ailing gas companies that right
now are or like said, likeRing Energy, they're making three hundred million

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dollars a year. There's stocks worthabout three hundred and fifty to four hundred
million dollars. I mean it's likesame same as the same ebada that they
have is what their stock is worth. So which means that they're making as
much money in one year as theirwhole company is worth at these prices on
Wall Street. That's never been beenaround. I mean, that's that is
And I'm not just talking about RingEnergy. There's a lot and I own

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a lot of Ring Energy stock.I don't I'm not anywhere close. I'm
not. I'm just a shareholder andI love the company because of fundamentals and
the acquisition they had a year ago. Um, but I and I and
I there's but there's there's a lotof other stocks out there that are the
same. Look at your earnings peryear, how much ebada the earnings before

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enterest taxes, appreciation, and lookat your ibadah and look at the stock
price in today's market. There's somegreat WTI is another one. I mean,
there's a lot of great stocks outthere right now that they're just crazy
because they're they're selling for as muchas they're work. Jay, you bring
up green energy, and I can'thelp but think of diversity equity and inclusion

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in Blackstone and all these other companiesnow they have these d EI indexes.
Obviously, a straight up oil andgas company doesn't score well when it comes
to diversity equity and inclusion and greenenergy most of the time. I assume
that one of the reason why traditionaloil and gas companies are investing in green
energies to try to get that scoreup so that when they need to borrow

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money, they have somewhere they cango right. Absolutely, Yeah, you're
a lot of those people are notcoming back into the markets, and like
Exion. I mean there's a lotof people. There's two three people on
the board of Exion that's keep itthem from drilling. So they're making all
this money today, billions and billionsof dollars, but they're not putting it

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back to work drilling for oil andgas like they normally do the normal cycles.
And I'm a fourth generation. I'vebeen around, you know, sixty
years, and the normal cycle iswhen only gas companies make all this money
and billions of billions of dollars,what they do is they normally just go,
oh, hey, we have thesebillions of dollars, and old prices
are are higher, and all theseprojects that we have or more economical at

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these higher prices, so let's startdrilling. But today they're not doing that,
which is which is okay. Ifwe're gonna go to electric car center
than we thought, this is gonnabe a this is gonna be not so
good for alling gas companies. ButI don't think we're there yet. I
think we're still three to five yearsaway from from us going and hurting our

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demand. Remember, only gas pricesare all about supplying demand. I mean
it is, it is all aboutit's you know, it's not us guys
in Houston or Dallas or whoever.They just set the prices for oil.
And these old gas companies, youknow, they don't set the price of
your gas tank. They don't,they said. They they drill in complete

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wells, and they do whatever theycan to supply and to drill wells based
on all the other economics in theworld. They're not just sitting there waiting
to yea you you're um. Youknow, gasoline and all your all your
people that are listening to this today, they have nothing to do with the
only gas prices. It's all aboutsupplying them in the more supply that we

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have right now. And if demandgoes down, then obviously prices will come
down. But we're having less supplyon the market today and with that less
supplying the market and our demand continuesto go up, we're gonna see we're
gonna see higher prices. All right, Jay, let me ask you this
before we let you go, andthat is you you mentioned natural gas and
that there's less drilling right now fornatural gas. And I'm wondering with all

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these different areas talking about bands onnatural gas stoves, with the with the
failure to build more natural gas powerplants for for heating and cooling purposes,
for electricity purposes. With that beingdown, is that one of the reasons
why we're seeing less drilling is thereis there an assumption that there's gonna be
less demand for natural gas going forward. Yeah, well, I don't know

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about less demand, but I did, I did, I did. You
know? What you said was it'sperfect, And I'll tell you what I
mean. And it comes back tosupplying an end again. Right, we
have such high supply and there's alot of companies that have been drilling.
And even though prices went from eightnine dollars for NCF a year ago,

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six months or a year ago,now they're down to two dollars, two
dollars and twenty cents. Now ifyou're getting it's like ninety dollars oil to
twenty dollars oil. It's the samething in the natural gas business. But
there were still people that were continuingto drill, like Athon. Athon had
thirteen to fourteen rigs. They wererunning them, drilling wells and like crazy.
But they wouldn't come off of itfor the longest time. So that

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increased the supply and if you increasethat supply and you have all these different
places around the country with the storage, there's there's tons of storage everywhere that
they don't have they don't have ahome for this gas. And then there
was a there was some l nG plants Freeport that was cut was shut
down, and all of a suddenthropening back up. So now we're seeing

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that. But I'm sorry that that'sa long answer to your question, and
it gets me all riled up becausethere was a lot of if you get
my newsletter, go on king Operatingdot com and asked I sent out a
weekly newsletter was some of my thoughtsabout what's going on in the market,
the markets and some other things.There was a great song that I had,
My song of the week last weekwas by Jelly Roll. I need

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a favor. But anyway, that'sa different story, different topic, I
know. But I'm just saying thatthere was a lot of companies out there
that were continuing to drill for naturalgas even though the price was two dollars,
you know, and it just oversuppliedus so much. So I don't
know when I mean, And thenall of a sudden, button says if
you buy a stove. We're gonnasend somebody over there or tax you more.

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I don't know what he's gonna do. But but I don't. I
didn't. It's all crazy. Idon't know how you do. I can
see it. I can see howyou drive yourself crazy. And that's why
I only call you maybe three orfour times a year, because I don't
want to get your blood pressure anyhigher than it probably already years Jay yet,
But thank you, my friend isalways appreciate you coming on the show
and setting a straight on what's goingon. I appreciate it, man,

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any time. Let's catch up.Three. All right, let's do it,
Jay Young, four generation oil andgas Man. Find me at King
Operating dot Com. Back with moreof the moments. Jimmy Barrett Show,
AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, final segment coming up with this Monday

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here on AM nine fifty KPRC.So we do the show. Usually we
take the show ahead of time,especially on Monday's. UM So, I'm
gonna throw this audio in. Eventhough it may be a risk of being
dated, I hope not. Itprobably won't be because my suspicion is is
that even by the end of theday today. If Christopher Ray is not

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delivered the document that they're asking forin Congress, they'll probably give him more
time. They'll probably call back up. We said we want that document today,
Director Ray, We'll give you onemore day, twenty four more hours.
Get I get the feeling they don'treally want to throw a contempt charge
on this guy. And I don'tknow if that's because they're afraid of him

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or what the story is, butthey were talking tough over the weekend,
you know, before this deadline cameup. Let's start with Representative Luna Here's
Here's she's a Republican in the House. She represents h forget which district she's
in Florida, though on what aRay contempt charge might look like. Here
she is. We're expecting him todeliver. As you heard in the previous

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segment, the speaker even said thatif this FBI director doesn't do his job
and doesn't answer to Congress, he'sgonna be held in content. You know,
over the last couple of months,House oversight, as well as the
staff that helps us run the investigations, has proven that we've actually been able
to provide evidence. You know,before there was speculation on the Ponzi scheme
for influence pedaling and also the personalenrichment of the Biden family. And now

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what we're finding is that these areno longer allegations and we're creating a hard
case. In my opinion, Maria, what we're seeing right now, if
this is true, which I dobelieve that it is true in regards to
Joe Biden receiving briberies and Hunter Biden, I do believe that this is grounds
for impeachment. And so it's importantthat we continue to move forward to bring

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this to the American people, butalso too that we I think, do
a house cleaning within our dj because, as you had stated earlier, they
are protecting this family. The FBIis protecting the Hunter Biden family, and
it's not okay. This corruption schemehas been going back to the time that
Joe Biden was vice president, andthe intimidation scheme that we're seeing, I
mean, it's not unheard of.We saw this happen with Trump officials as

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well. Obviously President Trump's family hasbeen subject to this. But what's really
alarming about this is, as weknow, the FBI one has a mole
in there that's advising Hunter Biden asto the investigations by the name of One
Eye, which in saying it,it sounds like it's something out of a
James Bond movie, But unfortunately it'strue. And then also too, I

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mean, my goodness, Maria,with the amount of evidence that's coming forward,
it's scary to think that this guythat's currently sitting in the White House
has become this corrupt and it's reallyonly doing one thing, and that's aiding
and abetting the communist Chinese Party.It's something that we as House oversight.
It puts all all of us,I think, big targets on our backs,

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but we're doing right by the Americanpeople. This is nonpartisan, it
should remain nonpartisan. But ultimately wehave to make sure that the dj and
the FBI is being held accountable aswell, and when they are trumping up
charges, especially against whistleblowers who arebringing evidence forward, to show that this
family, that this administration, thatthis president is compromised. If we don't

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do our job, we are ultimatelygoing to be responsible for their no longer
being justice in this country. Yesyou will, So are you going to
do your job? Representative Anna PaulinaLuna, that's her, all right.
And Kevin McCarthy himself. Yeah,he's talking a good game. He's been
talking a good game. He's soundingtough here he is on Sunday with Maria

(31:26):
Barto Roma sounding tough. When werealize that there was a document, we
sent a subpoena, he did notwant to comply with the subpoena. I
called the director and told him,I need this subpoena. We have the
responsibility to oversee the FBI, aconstitutional responsibility. If you do not send
this, we will hold you incontempt. Last week I was actually on

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Fox and Friends that the deadline came, and I spoke collectively directly to Christopher
Commissioner Ray, that I will movecontempt. He then changed his mind that
he would let the Chairman and therankers see the document and bring it to
the House. That is not goodenough. That is also not good enough
for the Secretary of State to thinkyou're only going to show one member we

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have a responsibility oversight. If theydo not comply and allow every person on
oversight, Republican or Democrat, that'stheir responsibilities of members of Congress, to
see this document, I will movecontempt. Charges against the director, and
you brought another issue up that Ithink it's very important here. The FBI
wants a new headquarters. If youlook at into day's dollars, what the

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Pentagon costs is about nine hundred million. They want to spend roughly four billion
to start four times. I said, I do not think that's the best
use of our money. I alsowonder do we need one big, large
FBI building and does it need tobe back in Virginia or should it be
in Merriment or should it be inTexas if you're doing cybersecurity or others.

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The President himself is fighting a billI pass to bring federal workers back to
work. Fifty percent of federal workersare not coming in. I think it's
responsible that they come in and dotheir job. But if that's the argument,
wouldn't it be better if we hadsmaller offices across the country where FBI
agents could help local law enforcement tosolve human trafficking, to solve cyber security.

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I think they have a lot ofchallenges here, and this is going
to be a big responsibility and oversightof Republicans in Congress in dealing with appropriations.
We just had a large victory toturn the ship and begin to turn
the ship. We've got so muchmore work to do. Four billion dollars,

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I think it's official. I thinkthat, you know, bowlers in
the swamp thing, the four billiondollars has just not that much money.
Well, you know, that's theway it costs to build a building these
days, Jimmy, four billion dollarsfor a new FBI building. Yeah,
that's what they need. They needa new building, they need. What
they need is they need to startfrom scratch. In a lot of ways,

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government needs to start from scratch.We are we're kind of at the
point now where we really kind ofneed to figure out how we're going to
part in the term blow this up, but blow it up and start over.
It's gotten so far out of control, has become so bloated and so
non responsive to the American people,freedom loving American people. We're kind of

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at the point where we need tostart over, aren't we? And if
we're not, when are we goingto get there? Because they're sure feels
like we're getting there early. Wehad a little segment this morning, and
I'll wrap it up on this today. A little segment this morning about how
the federal government. The Surgeon Generalthinks that we have a loneliness academic epidemic
in this country. A loneliness epidemic, and the law epidemic is caused by

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social media, at least in part, because we no longer communicate with each
other one on one. We doit. We do it on Facebook,
we do it on Twitter, wedo it into a camera. We don't
do it to a person. Andwe're paying for that in a whole variety
of different mental health ways, notthe least of which is we're kind of

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losing our ability to communicate with eachother in a normal way. We seem
to only be able to do itin a social media kind of way,
which is really not normal when youthink about it, when you get right
down to it. And as aresult, even though we are we have
more friends, if you want toinclude your Facebook friends among your friends,

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even though you have more friends thanever before, you're more lonely than ever
before, because we have fewer andfewer what we consider to be real friends,
close friends, people that you actuallyhave one on one communication with,
people whose lives you know about intimatelyand they know about yours, People that
you share your problems with your hopesand your dreams and your aspirations. We

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have few of those people in ourlives, real people. We just got
a bunch of fake people. Sothe Surgeon General, the Surgeon General wants
us to declare an epidemic of lonelinessso they can kind of regulate what we're
all doing on social media for ourown mental health. Good, now,

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what could go wrong with that?When they start monitoring everything you do there
and make determinations on your mental health, and maybe make some of the determinations
on whether or not you have enoughfriends of color, or maybe some other
things about your life. Maybe there'sa read you're too isolated. Maybe we
need to figure out how we're goingto diversify your friends. Di coming to

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