A Golfing Adventure in Florida

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Jimmy's golfing adventure
• Holiday lists

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right, the prodigal son has returned from a golfing
in venture in Durrel, Florida. Again. I guess I should
start with that, right. Reason why I missed Thursday and
Friday was I got an invitation from my two buddies,
Paul and Paul. It gets confusing. They're both named They're
both named Paul, so one we call Paul and the

(00:54):
other one we call Louap, which is Paul backwards, so
we can keep the whole thing straight. But it was
gonna be a couple's thing, and it was gonna be
a golf thing. And then, as it turned out, by
one buddy Paul broke up with his girlfriend and so
he had this fourth spot. And I know all these folks,

(01:19):
we're gonna play golf anyway, And I now listen, I
have not played golf. This was my first time playing
golf in probably two years. I just don't play here
in Houston like I did when I lived in Virginia.
And part of it has to do with the weather.
It's just too hot. It's just too stinking hot. Do
you want to playing the summertime? And you know, so

(01:41):
it takes it takes takes something special to get me
to even think about going on playing golf. And then
this invitation came along. Hey, yeah, we've got all We've
got this golf arrange. We're gonna play the Blue Monster
at Trump National and we're gonna stay at Trump National
and you know, we're gonna eat all this good food.
We're gonna have a fun time and and you have

(02:01):
a few cocktails and you want to come? I thought, well, well,
first of all, I mentioned the fact that Paul just
broke up with his girlfriend, so you know, yeah, I
don't want to disappoint.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Him, you know number one? And number two? Do I do?
I mind?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Somebody somebody try to take me away from work to
play some golf, especially when they're paying for the golf. Okay,
I'm i'm I'm I'm all about it. So my boss here, Brian,
was nice enough to let me go. Uh, and then
I got there. Of course, I knew it was going
to be expensive. I knew it was. I just knew
it was gonna be crazy expensive. But you ever had

(02:37):
something that you just said in your mind, I don't
care how expensive this is if I can pull it off,
if I can, if I can somehow afford to do this,
I'm going to do this because it's something I've always
wanted to do. I mean, it's it's hard sometimes to
think of what that one thing would be. But for example,
let's let's say I got a call tomorrow from another

(03:00):
buddy who says, hey, listen, I can get us on
augusta National. That's what for those of you that don't
play golf, that's what the play of the Masters every
year got. You know, very private club, very very members,
only an orientation. The only people get invited to play
the course are not members. Are people invited by members,
and they're usually politicians, you know, like the president or

(03:21):
the vice president, or a sitting senator or remember of
the House, whatever it may be. You know, people like
you me don't get invited to do that. So if
I had chance to do that, I could play August
at actual one time. You know, even if it costs
one thousand dollars, or even if it costs five thousand dollars,
I have to think, Now, where am I going to

(03:41):
get five thousand dollars? I don't know, but that'd be
something i'd try to be, you know, try to figure
out what the world it is I'm going to do
in order to try to make that happen. There's not
a lot of things in life I feel that way about,
but that that would be one of those things. I'll
give you another example. And in this case, I didn't
have to pay anything, which made it even better. But

(04:02):
as many of you know, I'm a University of Michigan
fan football and basketball. Used to be the announcer for
the basketball team back in the day, and you know,
I had an opportunity. I saw the stars aligned a
couple of years ago. Was it two years ago?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Two years ago when Michigan made it to the National
Championship Game and we had the National Championship Game here
in Houston. Now, as soon as I knew they were
going to play the National Championship Game here in Houston,
I was keeping an eye on things. I just said
to myself, if Michigan makes it to the national championship game,

(04:42):
I gotta go. We've got to figure out how to
make that happen. And luckily we were able to make
that happen. But that was another one of those items
where you know, normally I wouldn't care about going to
a national championship game, but because it was my team
that was in the championship game, and because it's the
first time they made it to the championship game, then
all of a sudden became more important to do it.

(05:04):
So that that's kind of how those decisions I think
get made. And I like to think many of us have,
you know, whether it's really something grandiose, are really something
that is not so grandiose. It might be relatively simple
for some people at least people have a lot of money,
simple for them to do, but special for us to
do because we don't have that kind of money. I
think we all have. I think we have items like
that on our list, don't we most of us. You know,

(05:27):
places we've never been in. I guess you called a
bucket list item, you know, like our listener trip that
we're doing this next year. I've always wanted to go
to Alaska. Well, now I've got a chance to do
it with a group of listeners. By the way, if
you if you're interested in that, travel with Jimmy dot Com.
That's travel with Jimmy dot Com. We still love openings
available for people who would like to go with us.

(05:47):
But but you know, again, there's a handful of things
in life that come around and make you say that.
Now I've been I've been to Trump National before, but
actually I was there before Trump bought the place, so
it was just a round National and it is amazing
some of the things that they've done to that place.

(06:07):
And my understanding is is they bought that for two
hundred and fifty million dollars number a few years ago
when they bought the place, put another two hundred and
fifty million dollars worth of improvements, and now it's worth
over a billion. So that do you want to know
how the rich get richer? That's how the rich get richer.

(06:29):
You buy something for a good price. I know, two
hundred and fifty million that may not sound like a
good price, but you're talking about a hotel and a
spa and and uh, you know, three golf courses and
in a lot of property in Miami, and they're not
making any more property in Miami. The only negative thing
about it is right in the flight path of Miami

(06:51):
International Airport. And I was asking the guy who was
hubering us around about that. I said, when did they
build this particular airport? And he built it something like
nineteen six seven, nineteen sixty eight at the golf course,
and the resort had already been there. And as soon
as they built it, all of a sudden, you've got
this huge piece of property that's in the flight path

(07:12):
for Miami International Airport. And somehow it hasn't brought the
value down at all, which is pretty amazing. But it
takes a little getting used to. They're constantly planes landing
at the airport where you're out there playing golf, and
I don't know about you, but my concentration levels are
as good as it used to be. But anyway, it
was a fun trip. Even though I wasn't playing for

(07:35):
most of the stuff. I still spent way too much money,
but I know it was fun.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
It was fun.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Listen, quick little break, We're back with a moment Jimmy
Parrett Show. Here an am nine to fifty kh PRC.

(08:06):
I start off with the holiday list. I want to
work a few more holiday things into what it is
that we're doing, because, after all, we're getting close to Christmas,
and I'm not saying that we will be politics free,
because there's bound to be a few things that come
along that we'll have to talk about or want to
talk about. But I don't want. I don't want the

(08:27):
show to be all politics, that's for sure. All Right,
movie you have to see I think we've done a
little bit of this with our listener callers in the past,
but I always like, I'd always like comparing these lists
of best songs, best movies having to do with the holidays.
This one's about movies. Most of these movies I have seen.

(08:50):
There's one or two on here that maybe I haven't,
and I'm not quite sure how they made the list.
US US Weekly the magazine did a list of the
top top ten Christmas movies of all time, and so
I thought, well, let's take a look at this list
and see if we would agree with this. I automatically

(09:12):
I begin by disagreeing with number ten. Love actually is
number ten British movie. I've never seen it. I guess
it's got a holiday setting. But you know, so what,
die Hard had a holiday setting and I don't consider
that Christmas movie. But that did not make the list,
by the way, so evidently more people don't think of

(09:35):
die Hard as think of it more as an action
film than as a Christmas movie, which is good because
I really don't see that as a Christmas movie. But
then again, that's me number nine on the list. It
would ended up higher if this were my personal list.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation watch it every stink in year.

(09:57):
I don't know why, but I still find it funny.
I have seen that movie so many times that I
can recite lines of dialogue from the movie. I know
everything Couzin Nightie's going to say before he says it,
you know, I know all that stuff from having watched
that movie so many times, and somehow I so find

(10:19):
it funny. You know, Elizabeth is the same way I've
ever figured this out. She can watch Everybody Loves Raymond.
I mean, how many years has it been since they
did that show. They just had like a thirtieth reunion
on CBS. Everybody Loves Raymond that you know, that television
show is like thirty years old, and she still watches it.

(10:44):
She can watch episode over and over and over, and
she knows what's coming and she's still laughing out loud.
Number eight The Bishop's Wife Again. You know these I
realize these things are subjective, but I have to under
you know who watches that? You ever watched The Bishop's
Wife for Christmas? Number seven White Christmas?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
All right?

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Nineteen fifty four movie bing Crosby Danny kay. Oh to
quote National Lympenn's Christmasification, and we'll have the half half
Happy's Christmas since being Crosby danced with Danny. Okay, Only
there's another word in the middle of that.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Number six home Alone, Okay, all right, I won't argue
that that belongs somewhere in the top ten. Number five,
and here I'm gonna go, ah, The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Is that like a feel good holiday movie? Number one
is animated, and I'm not twelve years old anymore. I
don't need to see an anime Christmas movie. And it's

(11:45):
not to me. It's I mean, it's a Tim Burton thing, right,
That dude's weird?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
All right?

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Number four a Christmas Story. Okay, Classic TBS runs it
like every year twenty four hours of Christmas Story. Elizabeth,
for whatever reason, loves that. I guess the nostalgia. I'm
assuming that she'll turn that on in our house on
Christmas Eve and it'll run all night. Yep, she'll keep

(12:14):
the TV on all night running that movie. Number three,
Miracle on thirty fourth Street, you know, with a very
very young Natalie Wood, nineteen forty seven. That's a classic
number two a Christmas Carol. That one is always kind
of fun to argue about a little bit because there's
numerous different versions of the movie. The original one nineteen

(12:38):
I want to say nineteen fifty one. Alistair Simms played
Ebenezer Scrooge. Jane Lockhart and his wife I can't remember
his wife's name, and June Lockhart, you know from Lassie
Fame and Lost in Space. They were all in that movie,
and yep, it's a very good version.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
I don't think I'm confusing my Christmas Girl movies. I'm
mind me, but I think that to me, the best
Scrooge was George C. Scott. I mean, he was a
great Scrooge. Now the rest of the movie is so so,
but he was a great scrooge and number one Jimmy Stewart.
It's a wonderful life. There you go. Okay, I want

(13:24):
to bring this into the conversation real quick. I saw
this report on KPRC too, and I'm still that's our
television part and I'm still scratching my head over this report.
They're doing a report about a section of the Grand
Parkway tollway ninety nine where they're doing some roadwork and
the street lights, the ones that are above the freeway

(13:46):
in this case of the toll way, you know, giving
a little bit of light in addition to the headlights
on your car. They're out while they're doing this construction.
And they've got people that they're talking to say, I
won't go on. I won't drive. I'm on Grand Parkway
after dark. It's too dark.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Really. Here's the report from our television partner, KPRC two.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
We're head at eastbound on ninety nine, just past the
Mishki exit, and as you can see, all of the
lights that light this area of the Grand Parkway are out.
The only reason you can see me is because of
our lighting kit. But when I turn it out, you
can tell it's pretty dark out here. Rene Crinshaw says
she like many others in northwest Harris County, runs her

(14:30):
errands before dark because once the sun goes down, lighting
on parts of the ninety nine toll way are nearly
non existent.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
I only try to come out between nine am and
maybe four pm, because after that is dark, and if
you come out after let's say seven pm to eleven,
it is totally dark. You have to put your rights
on and that's also a hazard because other people are
coming towards you they might have bright lights on.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
Also, text DoD says this is all due to a
construction project widen roads in the area. The zone and
includes the state highway and frontage roads on IEN to
FM ten ninety three. The lights in question are included
as part of this project, and though text dot says
people can expect to see the.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Lights operational within the first three.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Months of twenty twenty six, people in the area say
they need lighting now.

Speaker 8 (15:17):
It has had a difference in accidents because every time
you go in that area, you can see that the
middle cable, the safety cable that divides the two directions
of the freeway, is always tore out, which seans somebody
has crashed into it.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
We fact checked this information by using tex dots Crash
Records information system. From twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three,
six hundred and sixteen crashes happened on this stretch of roadway,
and for the next two years from twenty twenty three
to twenty twenty five, so far that number has gone
up by over two hundred crashes to eight hundred and

(15:55):
thirty six. That's a thirty five percent increase. Though officials
cannot say it's this directly attributable only to lighting, we.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
Need something to be corrected before someone gets hit or
someone unfortunately gets killed.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's lighting.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
It I'm having a hard time with this one. You
all driven country roads at night right where there's no lights.
I know the visibility is not quite as good, but
you just kind of have to take your time a
little bit better. And that's all. What is what is

(16:31):
all that? I'm flabergasted by this. Well, there's a couple
of things about this story. Number one, obviously those lights
have been out while they're working on this. The widening
of the of the freeway, I'm sorry, tollway widening of
the toll way, and it's been going on for months.
So number one, I'm sorry but I think tech dot

(16:54):
takes way too long to fix roads. How long does
it take to Ada Lane?

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Now?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
I know, because it's a toll way. You gotta you know,
you got to move those those little towers around that
that that pick up your easy pass. Okay, I get that,
but they shouldn't take that long. It shouldn't take that long.
That's number one. But number two is there's other stretches
of Graham park Way. I mean where I live, I
usually get on around either Kirkandaal or Gossling Road. There's

(17:23):
not much in the way. Light's there, it's it's a
little dark. It's it's a little bit dark. But you
know what, if you have a modern vehicle, I don't
know about yours, but mine, it will it knows, it
knows when when when an oncoming car is coming, and
it'll put the low beams on and then when the

(17:44):
car passes, it automatically will put the high beams on it.
I don't even have to make an adjustment. I just
unless you have night blindness. I guess some folks do.
But unless you have something like that, why why would
you be afraid to drive in the dark. I don't
quite get that one Oh, well, I get but you
heard the well, you know January, maybe March, the lights

(18:05):
will be back.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Y'all have already been building that road for the last year.
How much long is it going take?

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Just it seems to me we're just really, really slow
when it comes to taking care of road problems. All right,
quick little break, we are back put more in a
moment Jimmy Bart Show here at NAM nine fifty k PRC.

(18:44):
All right, you got to the part of the show
today where I guess we will talk a little bit
of politics. Anyway, has to do with today being filing day.
Today is the day that if you are going to
run you neither the Democrat or Republican primary for a
particular position, you have to file by today. So if
you're going to run for the Senate in the next

(19:07):
midterm election, you have until today to file that. That's
what your intent is. We had to drop out today. Yep,
there's one less Democrat that's going to run for the
Senate nomination. I guess he saw the hand running on
the wall that he wasn't getting a support. And also
we assume that Jasmine Crockett is going to be announcing
today that she is going to run for that Senate

(19:28):
see because of the changes that were made in her
district to run for the House if we're no other reason. Plus,
I think she's pulling the best and she thinks that
they can win. I had Brad Johnson on from the
Texan on our morning show today on KATRH to talk
about the Supreme Court decision involved in the Texas map,
Mister Colin Allred's decision to drop out, all that good stuff.

(19:51):
Here's my conversation earlier today with the Texans Brad Johnson.
Colin Allred has decided to drop out. Is that just
a realization? Did he get win?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (20:03):
I've been a wild morning already, with.

Speaker 9 (20:05):
A couple more twists and turns expected.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
I first heard about this last night that already in
Crockett had been talking behind the scenes and basically Crockett
Armbard already out of the race, and he realized he
had no path and it's been.

Speaker 9 (20:19):
A lot of money with no shot of victory if
she jumps in, So he.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is jumping out.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
I think that, like you said, is a recognution of
the hit, the state of his campaign, and the fact
that he has not picked.

Speaker 9 (20:30):
Up any momentum since launching on July first, and.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Really the only person who has that is in the
race it is Talarico. And meanwhile, you have Crockett, who
hasn't even jumped.

Speaker 9 (20:39):
In the race, who has gotten a lot of momentum, and.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
She leads basically all the polling that we've seen in
that primary race. So the wrinkle there is that all
the Republicans are thankful that she is jumping in the
race because they feel like she is a better opponent
to run against given her high negatives in the polling.
And so she might jump in as the front runner
for the Democratic Party primary, but a tough road ahead,

(21:05):
and I think she's got something else up her sleeve
with this rather than just you know, running for office.
I also heard last night she's got a Netflix deal
with her campaign, so she might have a camera crew
falling her around at her announcement later this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Would that not be classic Jasmine Crockett. I mean, that
is just so Jasmine Crockett to do that, wouldn't it?

Speaker 9 (21:30):
Oh? Yeah, for sure?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Wow, talk about the attention horror and she is it. Okay,
So you're assuming I guess that she's in the race.
You think she's going to be announcing today she's in
the race.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Well, first of all, she scheduled a big announcement. I
don't think she scheduled an announcement just to refile for
her House seats. And then you see already dropping out.
I think all signs are pointing to her jumping in
the race for sure.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, how did the Supreme Court change this? The Supreme
Court ruling that our redistrict game here in Texas is
perfectly legal and logical, and that will stand. That certainly
has to have some impact on who's running and who
isn't and where.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
They're going to run.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Certainly, So take up in Dallas, there are currently three
Democratic US House seats, and after redistricting, that's dropped down
to two. So people have to make decisions. And for example,
already the seat he's choosing to run for, there is
another incumbent Democrat, Julie Johnson, in already filed for that seat.

(22:33):
And so yeah, he's avoiding a quote of bruising primary
at the top of the ticket in the Senate, but
he's going to have a tough primary for the US
House in that race, because I don't see Julie Johnson
just willingly giving up that seat, so Democrats have to
make a lot more decisions. We're seeing that down in
Houston two with Al Green switching debate excuse me eighteen

(22:54):
congressional district after his Texas nine was moved into a
Republican flip territory. So because of the fewer seats for
incoming Democrats to run in there, you know, having to
make decisions.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
And some are retiring, some are not, some are.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Switching to different seats than others. Were seeing competitive primaries
involved for some of these constructed seats.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
What are some of the other races that you see
is maybe the most interesting. I'm still fascinated with what's
going to happen in the Republican primary for the Senate seat.
John Cornyn has been just spending bucket loads of money
trying to line himself up as some sort of a
a Trump advocate, when in reality he's anything but. I

(23:40):
just I never got over the fact that when John
Cornyan last ran for reelection, his campaign spots deemed it
didn't even mention that he's a Republican. He's a Republican
when he chooses to be.

Speaker 9 (23:53):
Well.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
He was dead in the water around April May of
this year when Kim Paxton jumped in and all that
money has not put him in the first place, I'd say,
but it has closed the gap in terms of image.
Now that has come in the context of Paxton and
Hunt barely spending any money attack and corning.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
So once we get.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
Closer, we will see the money that is there come
out for that and those negatives on corn and probably
increase where they haven't so far this year because he's
been just frankly, the only one spending money. So yeah,
of course that race.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
Is going to be fascinating to watch.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Whoever the nominee is, you know, you have to give
it to the Republican at least as a handicap off
the bat, because the state has gotten a redder since
the last time this general dynamic popped up in twenty eighteen,
where Democrats do have a favorable.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
Environment to run in next year in a midterm.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
But this is still it's still Texas. It may not
be Oklahoma in terms of part of the leaning, but.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
Still a Republican friendly.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
The other one I'm watching that I think is going
to be the most interesting is the attorney general race,
and you've got four Republicans in that you've got two Democrats,
actually three Democrats, and it's really wide.

Speaker 9 (25:12):
Open to see who is going to win that.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
On the Republican side, you've got Chip Roy, who has
the highest name ID, but then you've got nath Middleton,
who has a lot of money. You can run the
kind of the porn and play of spending himself into
a runoff and then run off thy different game, so
who knows which way that goes. You've also got Aaron
Wrights and Joan Hufman in that race as well. But

(25:35):
Towns for pound, I think that's going to be.

Speaker 9 (25:37):
The most interesting race next year.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
I think he's probably right. Yeah, I think he probably is.
But again, you know, we got long ways to go
before we get there. All Right, one more little thing
for this segment I want to do because I didn't
get chance to play this audio this morning, and I rarely,
if ever bess a chance. You share the wisdom of
Senator John Kennedy, who was also in box over the
weekend talking about how we got to get back in

(25:59):
here and we've got to get another continuing resolution. I
guess he's given up on having a budget too, because
the car continuing resolution will expire at the end of January.
Here is Senator John Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
You don't need to be you could to figure this out.
A few years ago we had nine percent inflation. Prices
were going up nine percent a year. That inflation didn't
originate in a bat It was man made. And the
man's name is Joe Biden. President Biden was an inflation machine. Now,

(26:34):
since then, the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress, and the
Federal Reserve have gotten inflation down from nine percent to
three percent. So things are better, but they're not well.
The truth is there are limited things that the executive
branch can do. Only Congress can solve this problem, and

(26:57):
specifically the United States. And what we need to do
in the United States Senate is get up off our ice,
cold lazy butts and start passing bills. We don't need
Democratic votes to do it. We can do it for reconciliation,
just like we did the One Big Beautiful bill. We

(27:17):
have over two hundred tax code changes already that will
must stimulate the economy, increase wages. We've got a housing
bill to reduce the cost of housing already in the hopper.
Healthcare is another issue. We need to reform the Obamacare.

(27:38):
We need to go to site neutrality, we need PBM reform.
They're a whole host of things we can do. But
and if I could do them on my own, I would,
but I don't have control of the floor. And I
have been preaching to my colleagues in the Senate for
months now that we need to do another reconciliation bill.

(27:59):
And I'm going to check some life. They stole Christmas
until they agree with me, I don't know why we're
sitting here doing nothing.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I love that guy.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
I'm well chasing like this, the ole Christmas. That what
a great illustration of what what Congress has become. They
do nothing, they achieve nothing. What are we paying these
people for? They don't do a damn thing. All right,
quick little break back with more in a moment. Let's

(28:30):
let's talk a little energy and your energy bill is
coming up next here on AM nine fifty eighth YEARC
the Jimmy Baird Show.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
All right, So I got my.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
My center point bill, I got my natural gas bill
the other day, and I'm trying to figure out I've
been I think I've been trying to figure hear this
out since I moved to Texas. Why natural gas, of
all things, seems to cost so much more at least
my bill seems to be so much more. Either I
am a far less energy efficient person than I used

(29:14):
to be and that's a possibility, or we're just charging
more here in Texas than they were in Virginia, which
is the last state I lived in before I came
here to the wonderful great state of Texas. Now here's
the thing. I think my bill was like once we
got built like once every two months, and it was
usually around one hundred and fifty to two hundred bucks

(29:37):
for two months.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Here.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I don't think I've ever had a gas bill less
than two hundred bucks a month for one month. And
I'm trying to think, well, okay, well what I do
note this difference. And I'd be the first to say this.
I do have a pool, and the pool is heated. Now,
it's not heated a bunch. I mean, once summer kicks in, right,

(30:03):
the sun does a pretty good job of keep that
thing nice and warm. It's pretty rare that that thing
kicks on, especially like in June, July, and August, now
the other months you know, the spring in the in
the fall months. Yeah, because I keep it pretty warm
and it has to kick on at least in the
morning to warm the pool back up. But still I
just having a hard time figuring out why that's so expensive.

(30:25):
Everything else, especially being gasoline's so cheap. I spent like
two dollars and nineteen cents a gallum last time we
filled up the truck to nineteen and that was that
was without like a store discount or anything. That was
just a straight up price to nineteen a gallon. Good lord. So,
I mean, we've certainly seen improvements with this new Trump

(30:48):
administration as far as gasoline costs, we are still seeing
I think, relatively high electricity prices in natural gas prices.
So we had David Holt on our program this morning.
David Holt is president of Consumer Energy Alliance. Here's my
conversation with him, and how is it that we have
cheap gasoline and everything else.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Steel still seems to be kind of expensive.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
You don't need to be you clud to figure this out.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
I know, I know, I know, I don't need to
be euclid in order to figure it out. Thank you,
Thank you, senator for sneaking that in for me. Here
here's what I meant to play. Here's my conversation with
David Holt from this morning. I feel like we're getting
a mixed message here on energy.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
David.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
We've got a really cheap gasoline right now, but the
other stuff not so cheap, you know, you.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Know it is.

Speaker 10 (31:38):
I mean, we've talked about affordability now on your show
for years, and it's you know, with with natural gas
electricity prices, we're seeing inventories are down just a little bit,
demand is up, so the economy. That's a signal for
the economy in a way. So you know, that's why
we're seeing a little bit higher natural gas prices. Electricity
prices are really you know, that's a state by state

(32:01):
issue more than anything else.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Those states that have good.

Speaker 10 (32:05):
Energy policies, states similar to Texas, are generally paying a
little bit less for electricity. Those states that have been
kind of draconian in their energy policy that you know,
they have restrictions, they've restricted natural gas, they've banned our
stopped pipelines, they've kind of gone all in on certain
forms of energy and restricted others. Those states are paying

(32:25):
a lot more. California and New York, New Jersey, the
Northeast states, New England, states things like that. So there's
more of a diversity or a delta between the states
on electricity prices now than we've ever seen in a while, certainly.
And then you're exactly right, Gathleene diesel prices. Great story there.
So you know, consumers are getting a lot of relief

(32:47):
at the pump. I think national average now is around
two sixty five or so, But then in California you're
still paying over six dollars a gallon. So you know,
there's policies. State policies are really showing their ugly head.
And those states that get energy right are are are
are paying less for energy, and those states that are

(33:08):
clearly have had wrong, illogical energy policies are paying more.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
I think our friend Chuck Devora over at the Texas
Public Policy Foundation thinks that once the big beautiful bill
really goes into affect this upcoming year, that that's going
to help with energy prices.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Do you agree?

Speaker 5 (33:23):
I think so.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
I mean one thing we can look back on. You know,
from day one of the Trump administration, they declared a
national energy emergency. They saw that you know, energy policies,
regulations and the previous administration and a lot of states
we're just wrong. So let's let's free up the energy industry.
Let's remove some of these redundant and unnecessary regulations. And

(33:46):
with that, we've really seen gasoline defel prices going on
going down. With electricity, we've got a couple of things
going on. We one right now, we have demanded up,
but we also have the data center, the AI revolution
that's just getting started, and that's really going to increase
a lot of electricity demand in a very short amount

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of time. So states and DC have to get ahead
of that. And there's a little bit of probably speculation
going on our anticipation of more demand coming and that's
probably playing a little bit in these prices for electricity.
But you know, we're gonna be it's gonna be really
interesting to see what the Texas legislature does in the
next session because we're gonna have a lot of data

(34:27):
centers coming online here in Texas, so we've got to
get ahead of.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
That as well well. And we're hopelessly behind right now.
I've been calling for years and I know you probably
are feeling the same way that we just have to
build more reliable energy plants of natural gas plants and
other things to produce energy here in Texas, and we're
just not getting it done. We're really you're you're exactly right,
and you know, listen, we've we've also got to recognize

(34:50):
that there are groups out there that have said no
to natural gas pipelines, that have said no.

Speaker 10 (34:54):
To expanded for expansions for refineries, that have said no
to new natural gas plants or added natural gas plants.
So we've got to change our permitting system at the
state level and in Washington to limit the ability for
endless litigation to stop these new this new construction for

(35:14):
energy projects that's really getting baked into our costs right now.
We need to recognize that, and policymakers need to get.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Ahead of it. Yeah, they do.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
They certainly do, or we're going to be if we
don't start generating more power in our state, we're going
to be in a world of hurt.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Sooner versus later. All right, listen, y'all have a great day.
Nice to be back.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright early, starting at five
am over on news radio seven KRH, we are back
here at for they have nine fifty KPRC