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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, welcome to the show. Here we go on
to Tuesday. Jimmy Barrett, you're an AM nine to fifty KPRC.
Let's start with crime. Let's start with a couple of
crime stories today. Actually we got I actually got a
lot of crime stories today of people, you know, young
people behaving badly. The first one that comes to mind
is we have another accused murderer who was on an
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ankle monitor in Harris County that managed to cut the
ankle monitor and has disappeared. No idea where this person is.
It seems to be like a fair it seems like
a fairly easy thing to do from what I'm hearing.
I mean, I don't know much about how ankle monitors
are constructed. I don't have a lot of jail experience.
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I've never been arrested, I've never gone to jail. I've
never been given an ankle monitor. I've never worn an
ankle monitor. I guess if you're wearing an ankle monitor
for DWI or something like that, you know it's a
fairly decent solution. But I don't know why we've gotten
into giving ankle monitors to accused murderers, people who are
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waiting trial, people who are genuine flight risk to leave
before their trial. But we seem to do that. We
had the guy, right, the guy accused of murdering his
wife who managed to cut off his ankle monitor, and
he has some forged paperwork that got him on board
a flight to Italy, and now we're trying to get
him back from Italy. He's claiming asylum there, so it's
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going to take a while to get that thing worked out.
If we do get it worked out. I'm not sure
if Italy is one of those countries that will not
extradite if you have the possibility of a death penalty.
I know some countries are like that. I'm not sure
if this guy has the possibility of a death penalty
or not. He might, but this latest one is another
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accused murderer, and he had no problem evidently cutting his
ankle monitor. So things I'm curious about is how are
these ankle monitors constructed? You would think they'd be all metal, right,
including the part that attaches to your leg, so that
you wouldn't be able to get them on. Is there
like a like a velcoast velcrow easy for me to say,
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vell crow strap or something that holds this thing on?
Why is it so easy, seemingly to get it off? First,
let's start with this. Here's the report from our television
partner KPRC two on this latest murderer or accused burder
in this particular case, who's on the run after cutting
off his ankle monitor.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
This is pretty rare, according to those who follow the
courts closely. But tonight we have two murder defendants in
two very different cases accused of cutting off their court
ordered GPS ankle monitors.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And we know that one of.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Those defendants is in Italy, as we've been reporting. But
this new defendant we're telling you about tonight, his location,
if it's known, is not being shared.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Take a look at your screen.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
This is an old booking photo of thirty two year
old Walter Pozos. Tonight, he is wanted again in July
of twenty twenty three, he's accused of fleeing from Harris
County deputies, reaching speeds over one hundred miles per hour
that led to a crash. One of his friends, a
passenger in that car, then died. Court record show he
got a twenty five thousand dollars bond on the murder charge.
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He was ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor, and
earlier this year a hung jury.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Resulted in a mistrial.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
So last week he was scheduled to start another trial
on Wednesday specifically, but he didn't show up, and court
record show he cut off that ankle monitor just two
days earlier.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Now this situation.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Comes just about two weeks after Lee Gilly, the man
accused of killing his pregnant wife Christa in the Heights,
cut his ankle monitor off and used a fake name
to fly to Italy where police stopped him with forged
travel documents, and he has now claimed asylum. So we
understand this may raise some serious questions and concerns about
public safety. We have reached out to the Harris County
Pre Trial Services Department. That's the agency task with monitoring
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these defendants who are out on bond. So far tonight,
we have not heard back despite multiple emails, calls, and
text messages, but the US Marshall Service tonight does confirm
that agents are involved now in the search for Posos.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is also looking for him,
and Crime Stoppers tells me that they are now offering
a five thousand dollars reward for any information that may
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lead to his arrest.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
What y'all haven't heard back from the Harris County pre
Trials Services Department?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Why wouldn't they loved? I would think they'd want to
talk to the media, right, sure, Yeah, Well, this hardly
ever happens. We have somebody cut off one of our
monitors and gets away. I think it happens a lot
more than we hear about. The only ones we hear
about are the high profile cases, like the murder cases.
I'll bet this happens quite frequently with people who are,
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you know, low level offenders. That's what I thought Ankle
monitors were for low level offenders. So somebody's got a
drug case, somebody's got a multiple d w I case,
and you know, you want to make sure that they
show up in return for not, you know, putting them
in jail. You instead install an anchor anchor ankle monitors
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so you can keep tabs some where they are. Now,
I have no idea how closely Harris County pre Trial
Services follows these people they're on ankle monitors. Maybe that's
part of the problem. Maybe we just, you know, don't
really pay any attention. For example, I've I'm sure you could.
Obviously is GPS, you can detect movement, right if that
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monitor is sitting in the same place for more than
eight hours in that place is not the bedroom, then
you have to wonder whether or not they actually are wearing,
in which case you should be checking up on these people.
But anyway, we're asking our listeners. I was asking our
listeners this morning about this. Do you know, how do
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you feel about ankle monitors in general, and how do
you feel about ankle monitors for people who are accused murderers.
Does this seem like the right way to handle it
to you? And here's some of the answers we got.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Good morning, Jimmy changed from a task ASDA. You asked
earlier about judges allowing murder suspects outton the street with
an ankle monitor until their trial. The only way that
would ever work is if we also required the murder
suspect to stay within one mile of the judge's home
until the trial. Then the judge might be a little
bit more discerning about who they let out on the streets.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
This is Debbie from Baytown. No, no one that commits
a crime like that should be getting out on bail.
Nor should they be wearing an ankle bracelet. It's like
carrying a gun.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
The ankle bracelet is no better than the person wearing
it or carrying it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Common sense rules.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
But go figure they've on link conrode murder subject let
out with the ankle monitor. Oh but if they do,
put a big, old heavy chain on the other end
with about one hundred pounds ten But I'm gonna see
how fast they can run with that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's old school. You go back to the ball and chain,
you know, the old the old ball and chain and
not no, I'm not referring to my wife. The old
ball and chain. You know where you had that. You
had it was a metal shackle around your around your ankle,
and you had this big old ball and it was
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heavy enough where you couldn't drag it behind you. You
had to pick it up get carried with you. But
it was heavy enough that you couldn't do that for
very long. I mean that's that I'm sure in today's
justice system that would be seen as cruel and unusual
punishment rights. Grab a couple more.
Speaker 10 (08:13):
Hello, this is Tampa, Fairland, Texas out on my ankle
monitor thing. They're too easy to defraud them, you know,
to get them off, how about we put a dog
transmitter in their kidneys so they can't just dig out,
and we can trace them around and you know, when
crime hams where they're at.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We kind of got to know.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
Who that is.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
This is Landen, know you. I have a funny story
about ankle monitor. I have a girlfriend who that a
gentleman I use that term loosely on a dating website
and they showed up on the first day wearing an
ankle monitor.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Nope, big note.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
That was the shortest first date ever.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah, that could be kind of a romance killer showing
up wearing an ankle monitor. The other idea, though about
how about injecting that little GPS device, you know, like
you would for like with decision like you do for
a dog and you put it under the skin somewhere
where they can't dig it out, and you know they activated.
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Then then if it turns out that they don't need
any more they deactivated, that might work. That might be
a better way to do it. All right, quick, a
little break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett
AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, let's just some economic
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stuff here right that. These are stories I didn't have
time to get to this morning on our morning show
and KTRAG, and we have time to do it here
this afternoon, so let's do that. We got a couple
of things going on with the economy right now. The
big things are oil price. We'll get into that in
a moment. That is driving a lot of inflation right now,
although we are seeing some other inflation which is a
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little bit problematic. We're also we're having a new head
of the Fed, Kevin Walsh is going to be sworn
in on Friday, so he'll be taking j Powell's place,
And of course there are a lot of people who
are hoping that one of the first things he does
is lower interest rates. But I'm guessing that based on
what we're seeing with the economy that that is probably
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not going to happen, at least not right away. Let's
start with what we expect from Kevin Worsh as the
new head of the FED. Art Laugher, we'll get some
thoughts from him. He's a regular economist, and Dan Brulah
also an economist on what they expect to see out
of the new FED head.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Well, it'll take him a little bit of time to
get control of the FED there, to get some more
members and all of that. But once he does get control,
this will be a transitional change that is transformational change
that will be phenomenal. I think if you look at
when Paul Vulker came in in nineteen seventy nine, by
the time we came into office on January twentieth, nineteen
eighty one, the prime interest rate was twenty one and
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a half percent. Vulker followed a price role, just as
Kevin Warsh is promising to do, and the price of
gold fell sharply. Interest rates went from twenty one and
a half percent down to three percent.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It was just incredible period of.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Time, and I'm expecting that same type of pattern to
hold with Warsh. He just takes some time before he
can get all the sheep together and all of it
together to run the FED properly. But I couldn't be
more optimistic, and I'm coming, by the way to his
swearing in on Friday.
Speaker 12 (11:45):
Look, I think that the focus of Kevin's confirmation for
the last couple of weeks, by the press in particular,
has been a weather or not he's going to cut
rates fast enough to accommodate the president's desires. I happened
to think it's a wrong question, though. I think the
larger question is whether or not Kevin can restore the
the Fed's credibility on price stabilization. I mean, the American
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consumer has suffered through the last five years cumulative increases
of about twenty percent prices across the country. And I
think that's Kevin's bigger challenge, is whether or not he
can store credibility that the FED once had.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I think he can.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
I think he's a right man for the job. He's
been very, very powerful and forceful in his critique of
the FED over the last fifteen years. He's not a
guy who needs this job.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
No, Well, that's probably good, Probably always good to hire
somebody doesn't need the job to do the job. It
means he's doing it because he wants to do it,
not because he has some you know, financial need to
do it. Speaking of financial need, Meta employees have been
told to work remotely tomorrow Wednesday. The company's preparing to
slash ten percent of the workforce, and rather than tip
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off the ones that are going to get laid off,
nobody is supposed to show up for work that way.
That way you don't have to have security, you know,
a whole bunch of boxes for people to put their
stuff in. You can just you know, let them know
that you're gone. You know that you're you will not
need to return to work. Everybody remote remotely works on Wednesday,
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and the ones that are not going to be back
on Thursday are told on Wednesday. Is that a good
way to do something like that? I've never liked the
mass firing or the mass layoff, the impersonal thing. The
only thing worse, I guess than being told not to
come to work because you might get laid off or
let go, is you know, being called into the office
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on a Friday, you know, with somebody from security standing by,
because after all, you're such a troublemaker and you've caused
so many problems in the past that you might go
postal and you start causing all kinds of problems at work.
So we have to have security there and you can
put your belongings in this in this plain brown box,
and then we're going to escort you to the door,
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which is just the completely the corporate way of handling
these things about as impersonal as you can possibly get.
All right now, about the inflation thing, and it's a
legitimate concern. This last month, we've seen a lot of inflation.
We'd like to believe that is all oil related, but
it might be just a little bit more than just that.
Here is Chicago Fed Reserve Bank President Austin Goolsby on
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how the currently high inflation rate might prevent Kevin Walsh
from being able to lower interest rates right away.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
We've got inflation too high. We got an inflation problem.
We've been above the target for five years in a
row now, but we were making progress, then we stalled
out making progress, and now it's getting worse. So I
think that's got to be front of mine that we've
got to figure that out. We're always trying as a
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as an FOMC to balance the two sides of the
Fed's mandate by law, which are stabilized the prices and
maximize employment. The job market, to my eye, has been
pretty stable. It might it might not be good, but
it's but it has been stable, and the inflation has
not been stable.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's it's rising to.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
The extent that that's just coming from oil prices. We
can hope that the war fades quickly, that the futures
markets are correct, that the price of oil might come
down in the in the near term. But there were
some warning signs in the PPI and in the other
parts that that that you cited there about inflation, namely
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services inflation is high and rising, and that's probably not
coming from oil. It's probably not coming from tariffs. So
I do think chairwash is going to there are going
to be a lot of things on the radar screen,
and we could use we could use some some guidance
here from the chair, although.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I think a lot of things are driven by the
oil prices right now, and certainly getting oil prices back
down would help in a whole variety of different ways,
not the least a bitch of which would be the
mood of the consumer, especially as we get closer and
closer to the midterm elections. This morning on KATRH I
had Ben Sheppard on Ben as president of the Permium
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Basin Patroleum Association, to talk about the price of oil,
getting the price of oil down, pumping more oil here
in the United States, and whether or not OPEK is
potentially collapsing with the departure of the United Arab Emirates.
Here's my conversation with Ben Shephard. What's mad at the
pump for a lot of drivers is generally good for
the Texas oil industry. Ben, isn't it Good morning, Jimmy. Well,
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you know, it's a mixed bag. Of course.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Certainly there are concerns on both sides. I think given
the rapid rise and gasoline prices that everybody's feeling across
the country gives everybody, including us, lot of concern. We
have to remember that over the last year plus we've
had pretty low prices in the oil field, so it's
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been a bit of a whiplash effect for us, which
which makes it a little the difficult plan as.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You might imagine.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
But I can assure you people prefer higher prices than
lower prices. That's a given in our industry. We have
to have money to reinvest and to keep producing the
energy the world needs, and it you know, sometimes a
little hard to do that at fifty dollars, and then
we worry at one hundred dollars and one hundred plus.
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I think it's one hundred and three this morning, I
just saw. So, you know, we worry that those kind
of prices whether you know, are they sustainable, are they
are they going to cost too much pain for the consumer,
causing you know, demand destruction, those kinds of things. So
so it's a mixed bag, but certainly permium producers are
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doing everything they can to produce more as much as
they can, as quickly as they can, to help slow
the rise in gasoline prices.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Well, it's not lifelep the switch, though, is It's not
like you could just say, okay, we're we're just gonna
do another five million barrels a day, let's go.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's not.
Speaker 13 (18:14):
It's not. It's only it were that easy. If only
it were that easy, Jimmy, you know, I think we'd
both be doing something else. But I think, you know, absolutely,
I've talked too many operators in the in the Permian
and and some are around the country. You know, we're
talking they're increasing by thousands of barrels.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Not millions.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
I mean, I think the Permian overall right now is
producing about six point seven million barrels a day, and
you know, incrementally, I think that's increasing by the thousands.
And I'm you know, anticipate, well, those numbers will rise.
But you know, when you when you consider that twenty
percent of the world's oil supply runs through the straighter
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horme US, it's not likely to make a huge difference overnight.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
This is gonna take a while to fix that.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Obviously, we've got to settle down in what's going on
in Iran and come up with some sort of deal
and get that straight open up again. But let's talk
a little bit about the United Arab Emirates. They've decided
to go it alone. You think this leads to a
further collapse of OPEK. Do you think the other countries
stay with OPEK or you think that maybe the rest
of them are also thinking maybe we should go out
on our own too.
Speaker 13 (19:27):
Well. I think one of the great mysteries in the
oil and gas industry is what is OPEK gonna do next?
And I, for one was a little surprised by the
us UAE taking a stamps last week. I think it
does show some signs of some some some change in direction.
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Whether they all leave what remains remains to be seen.
But I will tell you that it's it's already causing
some shift and U.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
In the global park.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
For example, we've we've got visiting in Midland today, uh,
some folks from Japan, and apparently there's probably a bit
of interest in some countries that are used.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
To getting very well from the Middle East look into the.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
US to source to source their supply and in other words,
opex lock on world pricing and and world markets may
be slipping a bit.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well, if that happens, do you predict that oil prices
ultimately will end up going down as a result of that.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, I.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
Eventually they will. Unfortunately, I think we're probably going to
be in this higher price range for you know, the
next month or two. But again, I think given that
everybody's trying to increase production domestically and and most likely globally,
that that I do think the supply UH will to
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a point and I think we're most likely going to
open up the strakes here within a reasonable reasonably short
time frame, and I do think that these factors will
all contribute and hopefully and driving process down just a little,
not too much, but you know everybody, everybody needs a
good equilibrium price here, and I think a little bit
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lower would make everybody happy.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I'll take a happy medium, although I think we're all
looking forward to get back down to where it was
at before all this began. Right, All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett A
M nine fifty kPr S. All right, let's begin this
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segment with youth behaving badly, and we have several prime
examples of that. One pretty much a local story. We've
got more information you've heard about what happened in Austin
over the weekend, right, twelve random shootings, evidently all perpetrated
by the same three teens. And turns out these are
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these these dudes are bad seeds. I mean, we're talking
about kids. Seventeen, sixteen and fifteen are the ages. So
you know, the fifteen year old, the sixteen year old,
they're not gonna get punished the way they should because
they're juveniles. Hell, we don't punish adults the way we should.
Let alone juveniles. But anyway, let's let's get the latest
information on what happened. It starts with a kind of
an eyewitness account here. The kids were evidently apprehended on
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a piece of property north of Austin, in the suburbs,
on a piece of property where it was a barn
in the homeowner, who was taking a nap evidently knew
something was up. But here's the thing. You find out.
One of the many things I love about Texas. You
don't mess with people's property. You don't try to run
from the law and hide out in a barn and
somebody's property here in Texas, because the chances are, you know,
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pretty much one hundred percent that whoever owns that property
has a gun and is willing to use it and
is more than happy to hold you until the authorities
can come. So here's the report on what we've learned
about these teams and how they were apprehended from Fox
five in Austin.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
We just spoke to Justin Nowlan. He's a man who
lives in Maynor.
Speaker 14 (23:21):
City, just about twelve miles northeast of Austin. He says
that he was just trying to take a nap when
his neighborhood was thrust into a massive manhunt for those
three suspects.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Newlan then wants to go check on his.
Speaker 14 (23:35):
Property to make sure it was clear, only to find
those suspects hiding in his own backyard.
Speaker 15 (23:41):
They just looked at me like what do we do?
And it was just.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Fire or flight.
Speaker 14 (23:46):
The moments a man from Maynor came face to face
with the suspects wanted in connection.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
To a dozen shootings.
Speaker 15 (23:53):
Well, I came home, wasn't trying to enjoy a nap.
When I heard say rains and all that. My dog
Barkin got up, swat and down the road.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Justin.
Speaker 14 (24:01):
Newlan had just made it home when a man hunt
began near FM nine seventy three and two ninety in Manor.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Police were looking for.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
Three teenagers wanted in connection to twelve different shootings in Austin.
Speaker 15 (24:12):
I noticed my barn doors were open, which I did
leave open, and I decided at that time to go
ahead and clear on to make sure nobody was in there.
Speaker 14 (24:19):
Newlin checked the front of his barn and found it empty,
but when he tried to open the side door, it
wouldn't budge.
Speaker 15 (24:25):
I had to literally shove my way in and when
I did, there's two suspects sitting right there on each
side of the door.
Speaker 14 (24:32):
Noulin tried to close the door and told both of
the suspects to remain calm.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
I'm trying to flag the sheriff to come up to
my house. At the same time, I'm going to my
truck to get my gun. Well, as I'm entering my
truck to get my gun, I hear them running out
behind me.
Speaker 14 (24:46):
Nowland then chased after one of the teenagers gun in hand.
Speaker 15 (24:50):
I eventually cornered him at the fence line and held
him at gunpoint until state troopers and Swatt were able
to capture him.
Speaker 14 (24:57):
Eventually, all three suspects were detained after a mo multiple
hour search. They are confirmed to be seventeen, sixteen, and
fifteen years old. They had been involved with twelve separate
shootings across Austin in just twenty four hours. Used during
the spree a gun stolen from an Austin gun shop.
Speaker 16 (25:14):
They've come into the gun store apparently four other times
to try to steal guns from us four separate times.
Speaker 14 (25:21):
Michael Cargil, the owner of Central Texas Gun Work, says
the gun was stolen from a store. He claims two
of the suspects in the Austin shooting spree had repeatedly
tried to steal from him. In January, one of the teenagers,
seventeen year old Christian Mandragon, ran out of Cargill's store
with a gun before he was cornered on a capp
metro bus. He was apprehended by APD but eventually released.
Speaker 16 (25:43):
Unbeknownst to me, he was released from that system into
the custody of his parents or custodian or guardian.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Okay, which is it? Is it parents, is a custodian?
Is it a guardian? Who's watching these kids? Evidently nobody
that cares is watching these kids because they seem to
be able to get out and do whatever the hell
they want to do, including trying to rob this gun
store four times, and evidently one time at least successful
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at doing it. Yeah, this is this is why I
call for parental punishment for what your kids do, or
punish the guardians. Whoever is the adult responsible for these kids.
They need to be charged just like the kids are
being charged, because this is this is complete negligence on
their part. Now, if they have sought help from authorities.
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If they've tried to get counseling or whatever help they
can possibly get for these kids, then that's a different story.
But ninety nine percent of the time it doesn't seem
like that's the case. It's either somebody who's given up
on them or they just don't care themselves. And if
that's the case, if it's just negligence that they just
don't care, then there needs to be punishment for the parents.
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And I think that's it's an idea that the tough
love folks like me have been calling for for a
long long time, but we're hearing more calls for it now,
at least from people who are in authority to maybe
do something about it. Jeanine Piro Judge Janine who these
days is a US Special prosecutor in Washington, d C.
(27:21):
They had an incident over the weekend teens behaving badly
of a group of teens that Torpa Chipolte evidently because
they thought it'd be a fun thing to do. And
now she's decided, Okay, we got to put a stop
to this, and that that means making parents responsible for
what the kids are doing. Then she's all in favor
of it. Here is Janine Piro.
Speaker 17 (27:41):
These are not kids being kids. This is criminal conduct. Parents.
You're paying the bills. And if you know where your
teen is and what your teen is doing, and you
will allow them to continue their conduct and continue you
to allow them to flourish, then we're going to prosecute you.
(28:04):
We are trying to identify these people. They may be teens,
they may not be teens. We don't know what.
Speaker 18 (28:10):
Are we going to do about teen culture.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I have teens.
Speaker 18 (28:15):
Sometimes they leave the house on the weekend. I don't
know where they are until I see them on the
local news.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Have been held accountable for all of your activities back
when you weren't a teenager.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I did not throw chairs at Chipotle.
Speaker 18 (28:29):
It's mostly a thirteen to nineteen year old phenomenon, Greg.
I mean you can see it across the country in
places like Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont. The good
thing is is that when the teens turn twenty, they
all settle down and behave perfectly.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, it's amazing. How would just sound amazing?
Speaker 18 (28:48):
You don't reason all we should do about it?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Greg.
Speaker 18 (28:49):
We should just beat around the bush and then throw
money at the problem. So we feel better about ourselves.
And then, because you know, what these teens need are
more after school programs. Even though this happened on a
Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah. We could all look back our own
teenage years and think of some things that we did
that we're not necessarily proud of. But I can tell
you that, at least in the teen culture I grew
up in, nobody was interested in doing anything destructive. We
might have been interested in drinking beer or wine that
we were not technically old enough to drink. We may
(29:24):
have been interested in making out with our girlfriends on
a dark street corner, but that's about it. We weren't
interested in going to a gipultle and smashing chairs. The
level of violence in young people is I think the
big difference and the lack total lack of respect for
other people's belongings that seems to exist. Those are the
(29:45):
two things that kind of stick out to me. But
the violence thing in particular, what is it about going
into a business and busting the place up that would
give you kicks? Why would you enjoy doing something like that?
That doesn't seem like something anybody should enjoy doing? All right,
quick little break back with borne moment. Jimmy Parrett AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, a couple of more quick
(30:21):
things to tackle on what little is left of our
show today. I'm gonna start with this one. Elections in Texas?
Are they safe? Are they if we've done the necessary
steps to make sure that the people who are eligible
to voter voting and the people who are not eligible
to vote are not voting. Steve Toad, who is a
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state representatives soon, I believe, after the November election, soon
to be a Congressman, taking the place of taking the
place of you know, I've already forgotten I've already begun
to forgotten his name, Dan Dan Crenshaw. Thank you. See
how quickly I wanted to forget this guy. Anyway, Steve
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Toath was on this morning. We talked to him about
our elections here in Texas and whether or not we
have done the necessary steps to make sure we have
full election integrity. You're on, You're on the Elections Committee,
Representative Bath. What else do we need to go that
we haven't done yet?
Speaker 8 (31:18):
We need still more to secure absentee ballots and to
make sure that that that only people that are eligible
to vote a voting and it's still the number one
way in which election fraud takes place, not just here
in Texas but across the United States. I think that
for the most part, yes, our elections are secure, but
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there's just, Jimmy, there's just too much opportunity to achieve
their abseny of voting. And the only way you'll ever
secure them totally is if if we have forensic auditing
in the state of Texas, which Democrats unfortunately have too
much control over the Texas House, and I or my
ability and Paul Bettencourt's ability to bring in in a
(32:04):
forensic audit bill session after session.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Well, explain that a little bit, Representative Tove, what would
a forensic audit involve?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
What would that do? That's not being done now right.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
What we're doing right now is we're doing what's known
as risk limiting audits, where you audit systems to see
if the systems that we have in place. The problem
is the Democrats are so creative at the way in
which they cheat that the only way that you'll catch
them with their hand on the cookie jars is with
the forensic audit, where you can actually go in and
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look at every single jot and tittle to find out
if in fact things were done by the books. So
as an example, we have to in the state of
Texes hold on to all voting material for a period
of eighteen months past election. The problem, and this is
across the United States, and something that I want to
bring at the federal level is you've got to you've
(33:01):
got to give local governments the ability to actually open
the material up and look at it. You can't even
look at it right now. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Okay, would any of that be covered in the same
America active by some miracle that thing could get past Yes.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yes, yes it would. And this is something that Donald
Trump has been trying to again push here in Texas
with my efforts and Paul Bettencourt's efforts. But it passes
the Senate, comes over to the House. But because the
Democrats have so much influence in leadership over in the
Texas House, even though we have nearly a two thirds majority,
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they keep killing it.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
That is State Representative Steve tod All right, one last
one for you here. This comes under This is the
latest scam I guess going on like everything else. You know,
thieves target new areas and now that gasoline is so expensive,
they seem to be targeting gasoline. Here is the report
from our television partner KPRC two is.
Speaker 19 (33:58):
It is being called the screw method, and it could
certainly screw you up if you fall victim to this scam.
It has already been popping up in California, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
And I showed this to.
Speaker 19 (34:09):
Everyone about twenty five minutes ago. The way it works
is the scammer will use an ordinary contractor screw and
they jam it into the pump holster, which causes the
pump to keep pumping gas even after you fill your
tank and you put the nozzle back in and drive away. Well,
then the scammer pulls up right after you and they
can fill their tank and as many other cars as
(34:31):
they want. Then all of that gas is being charged
to your credit card.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
What is the fix for this? What would you recommend
people do to protect themselves?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Well, first thing I would do is I would inspect
the gas pump before you actually use it, see if
there's a screw, make sure that the device actually you
can zero out your gas pump when you put the
nozzle back. I'm gonna implore the gas companies the gas
stations to put a limit on the amount of gas
(35:01):
that you can get in any one transaction, so that
if that does happen to somebody is scammed, at least
the limit the amount that they can pump will be lower.
Speaker 19 (35:12):
Okay, so you just heard it there from the constable.
To fix for this very simple. Before you use that
gas pump, look inside the nozzle holster, the thing that
holds the pump, and see.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
If anything strange is going on.
Speaker 19 (35:23):
In there, a screw or a bolt, or maybe a nail,
and if there is, notify the gas station right away
and move to another gas pump. Now there's a variation
of this crime where after you put your credit card
into the machine, the con artists will approach your car
and offer to pump your gas for you, but when
they finish, they never actually put the nozzle back into
the machine to shut it off, and they rob you.
(35:46):
That way, you drive off and they rob you. The
solution here, if someone offers to pump your gas for them,
obviously tell them to forget it.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
You'll do it yourself. You kidding me? Who would fall
for that? Fall for that one?
Speaker 5 (36:02):
I guess if you had like a senior citizen or
whatever that was had issues trying to get out of
the car or whatever, and they thought you were a
good Samaritan trying to help them out. But you're already
out of the car. That doesn't even work there because
you're already out of the car. You had to get
out of the car to use your debutter credit card
in order to in order to be able to activate
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the pump. So that that doesn't make any sense that
we would fall victim to something like that, but I
you know, again, there's some people are just really really naive. Listen, y'all,
have a great day. Thank you for listening. I do
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All right, welcome to the show. Here we go on
to Tuesday. Jimmy Barrett, you're an AM nine to fifty KPRC.
Let's start with crime. Let's start with a couple of
crime stories today. Actually we got I actually got a
lot of crime stories today of people, you know, young
people behaving badly. The first one that comes to mind
is we have another accused murderer who was on an
(00:54):
ankle monitor in Harris County that managed to cut the
ankle monitor and has disappeared. No idea where this person is.
It seems to be like a fair it seems like
a fairly easy thing to do from what I'm hearing.
I mean, I don't know much about how ankle monitors
are constructed. I don't have a lot of jail experience.
(01:17):
I've never been arrested, I've never gone to jail. I've
never been given an ankle monitor. I've never worn an
ankle monitor. I guess if you're wearing an ankle monitor
for DWI or something like that, you know it's a
fairly decent solution. But I don't know why we've gotten
into giving ankle monitors to accused murderers, people who are
(01:40):
waiting trial, people who are genuine flight risk to leave
before their trial. But we seem to do that. We
had the guy, right, the guy accused of murdering his
wife who managed to cut off his ankle monitor, and
he has some forged paperwork that got him on board
a flight to Italy, and now we're trying to get
him back from Italy. He's claiming asylum there, so it's
(02:02):
going to take a while to get that thing worked out.
If we do get it worked out. I'm not sure
if Italy is one of those countries that will not
extradite if you have the possibility of a death penalty.
I know some countries are like that. I'm not sure
if this guy has the possibility of a death penalty
or not. He might, but this latest one is another
(02:23):
accused murderer, and he had no problem evidently cutting his
ankle monitor. So things I'm curious about is how are
these ankle monitors constructed? You would think they'd be all metal, right,
including the part that attaches to your leg, so that
you wouldn't be able to get them on. Is there
like a like a velcoast velcrow easy for me to say,
(02:45):
vell crow strap or something that holds this thing on?
Why is it so easy, seemingly to get it off? First,
let's start with this. Here's the report from our television
partner KPRC two on this latest murderer or accused burder
in this particular case, who's on the run after cutting
off his ankle monitor.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
This is pretty rare, according to those who follow the
courts closely. But tonight we have two murder defendants in
two very different cases accused of cutting off their court
ordered GPS ankle monitors.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And we know that one of.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Those defendants is in Italy, as we've been reporting. But
this new defendant we're telling you about tonight, his location,
if it's known, is not being shared.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Take a look at your screen.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
This is an old booking photo of thirty two year
old Walter Pozos. Tonight, he is wanted again in July
of twenty twenty three, he's accused of fleeing from Harris
County deputies, reaching speeds over one hundred miles per hour
that led to a crash. One of his friends, a
passenger in that car, then died. Court record show he
got a twenty five thousand dollars bond on the murder charge.
(03:46):
He was ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor, and
earlier this year a hung jury.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Resulted in a mistrial.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
So last week he was scheduled to start another trial
on Wednesday specifically, but he didn't show up, and court
record show he cut off that ankle monitor just two
days earlier.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Now this situation.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Comes just about two weeks after Lee Gilly, the man
accused of killing his pregnant wife Christa in the Heights,
cut his ankle monitor off and used a fake name
to fly to Italy where police stopped him with forged
travel documents, and he has now claimed asylum. So we
understand this may raise some serious questions and concerns about
public safety. We have reached out to the Harris County
Pre Trial Services Department. That's the agency task with monitoring
(04:27):
these defendants who are out on bond. So far tonight,
we have not heard back despite multiple emails, calls, and
text messages, but the US Marshall Service tonight does confirm
that agents are involved now in the search for Posos.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is also looking for him,
and Crime Stoppers tells me that they are now offering
a five thousand dollars reward for any information that may
(04:47):
lead to his arrest.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
What y'all haven't heard back from the Harris County pre
Trials Services Department?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Why wouldn't they loved? I would think they'd want to
talk to the media, right, sure, Yeah, Well, this hardly
ever happens. We have somebody cut off one of our
monitors and gets away. I think it happens a lot
more than we hear about. The only ones we hear
about are the high profile cases, like the murder cases.
I'll bet this happens quite frequently with people who are,
(05:18):
you know, low level offenders. That's what I thought Ankle
monitors were for low level offenders. So somebody's got a
drug case, somebody's got a multiple d w I case,
and you know, you want to make sure that they
show up in return for not, you know, putting them
in jail. You instead install an anchor anchor ankle monitors
(05:42):
so you can keep tabs some where they are. Now,
I have no idea how closely Harris County pre Trial
Services follows these people they're on ankle monitors. Maybe that's
part of the problem. Maybe we just, you know, don't
really pay any attention. For example, I've I'm sure you could.
Obviously is GPS, you can detect movement, right if that
(06:05):
monitor is sitting in the same place for more than
eight hours in that place is not the bedroom, then
you have to wonder whether or not they actually are wearing,
in which case you should be checking up on these people.
But anyway, we're asking our listeners. I was asking our
listeners this morning about this. Do you know, how do
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you feel about ankle monitors in general, and how do
you feel about ankle monitors for people who are accused murderers.
Does this seem like the right way to handle it
to you? And here's some of the answers we got.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Good morning, Jimmy changed from a task ASDA. You asked
earlier about judges allowing murder suspects outton the street with
an ankle monitor until their trial. The only way that
would ever work is if we also required the murder
suspect to stay within one mile of the judge's home
until the trial. Then the judge might be a little
bit more discerning about who they let out on the streets.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
This is Debbie from Baytown. No, no one that commits
a crime like that should be getting out on bail.
Nor should they be wearing an ankle bracelet. It's like
carrying a gun.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
The ankle bracelet is no better than the person wearing
it or carrying it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Common sense rules.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
But go figure they've on link conrode murder subject let
out with the ankle monitor. Oh but if they do,
put a big, old heavy chain on the other end
with about one hundred pounds ten But I'm gonna see
how fast they can run with that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's old school. You go back to the ball and chain,
you know, the old the old ball and chain and
not no, I'm not referring to my wife. The old
ball and chain. You know where you had that. You
had it was a metal shackle around your around your ankle,
and you had this big old ball and it was
(07:57):
heavy enough where you couldn't drag it behind you. You
had to pick it up get carried with you. But
it was heavy enough that you couldn't do that for
very long. I mean that's that I'm sure in today's
justice system that would be seen as cruel and unusual
punishment rights. Grab a couple more.
Speaker 10 (08:13):
Hello, this is Tampa, Fairland, Texas out on my ankle
monitor thing. They're too easy to defraud them, you know,
to get them off, how about we put a dog
transmitter in their kidneys so they can't just dig out,
and we can trace them around and you know, when
crime hams where they're at.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We kind of got to know.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
Who that is.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
This is Landen, know you. I have a funny story
about ankle monitor. I have a girlfriend who that a
gentleman I use that term loosely on a dating website
and they showed up on the first day wearing an
ankle monitor.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Nope, big note.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
That was the shortest first date ever.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah, that could be kind of a romance killer showing
up wearing an ankle monitor. The other idea, though about
how about injecting that little GPS device, you know, like
you would for like with decision like you do for
a dog and you put it under the skin somewhere
where they can't dig it out, and you know they activated.
(09:15):
Then then if it turns out that they don't need
any more they deactivated, that might work. That might be
a better way to do it. All right, quick, a
little break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett
AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, let's just some economic
(09:47):
stuff here right that. These are stories I didn't have
time to get to this morning on our morning show
and KTRAG, and we have time to do it here
this afternoon, so let's do that. We got a couple
of things going on with the economy right now. The
big things are oil price. We'll get into that in
a moment. That is driving a lot of inflation right now,
although we are seeing some other inflation which is a
(10:07):
little bit problematic. We're also we're having a new head
of the Fed, Kevin Walsh is going to be sworn
in on Friday, so he'll be taking j Powell's place,
And of course there are a lot of people who
are hoping that one of the first things he does
is lower interest rates. But I'm guessing that based on
what we're seeing with the economy that that is probably
(10:30):
not going to happen, at least not right away. Let's
start with what we expect from Kevin Worsh as the
new head of the FED. Art Laugher, we'll get some
thoughts from him. He's a regular economist, and Dan Brulah
also an economist on what they expect to see out
of the new FED head.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Well, it'll take him a little bit of time to
get control of the FED there, to get some more
members and all of that. But once he does get control,
this will be a transitional change that is transformational change
that will be phenomenal. I think if you look at
when Paul Vulker came in in nineteen seventy nine, by
the time we came into office on January twentieth, nineteen
eighty one, the prime interest rate was twenty one and
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a half percent. Vulker followed a price role, just as
Kevin Warsh is promising to do, and the price of
gold fell sharply. Interest rates went from twenty one and
a half percent down to three percent.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It was just incredible period of.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Time, and I'm expecting that same type of pattern to
hold with Warsh. He just takes some time before he
can get all the sheep together and all of it
together to run the FED properly. But I couldn't be
more optimistic, and I'm coming, by the way to his
swearing in on Friday.
Speaker 12 (11:45):
Look, I think that the focus of Kevin's confirmation for
the last couple of weeks, by the press in particular,
has been a weather or not he's going to cut
rates fast enough to accommodate the president's desires. I happened
to think it's a wrong question, though. I think the
larger question is whether or not Kevin can restore the
the Fed's credibility on price stabilization. I mean, the American
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consumer has suffered through the last five years cumulative increases
of about twenty percent prices across the country. And I
think that's Kevin's bigger challenge, is whether or not he
can store credibility that the FED once had.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I think he can.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
I think he's a right man for the job. He's
been very, very powerful and forceful in his critique of
the FED over the last fifteen years. He's not a
guy who needs this job.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
No, Well, that's probably good, Probably always good to hire
somebody doesn't need the job to do the job. It
means he's doing it because he wants to do it,
not because he has some you know, financial need to
do it. Speaking of financial need, Meta employees have been
told to work remotely tomorrow Wednesday. The company's preparing to
slash ten percent of the workforce, and rather than tip
(12:51):
off the ones that are going to get laid off,
nobody is supposed to show up for work that way.
That way you don't have to have security, you know,
a whole bunch of boxes for people to put their
stuff in. You can just you know, let them know
that you're gone. You know that you're you will not
need to return to work. Everybody remote remotely works on Wednesday,
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and the ones that are not going to be back
on Thursday are told on Wednesday. Is that a good
way to do something like that? I've never liked the
mass firing or the mass layoff, the impersonal thing. The
only thing worse, I guess than being told not to
come to work because you might get laid off or
let go, is you know, being called into the office
(13:36):
on a Friday, you know, with somebody from security standing by,
because after all, you're such a troublemaker and you've caused
so many problems in the past that you might go
postal and you start causing all kinds of problems at work.
So we have to have security there and you can
put your belongings in this in this plain brown box,
and then we're going to escort you to the door,
(13:58):
which is just the completely the corporate way of handling
these things about as impersonal as you can possibly get.
All right now, about the inflation thing, and it's a
legitimate concern. This last month, we've seen a lot of inflation.
We'd like to believe that is all oil related, but
it might be just a little bit more than just that.
Here is Chicago Fed Reserve Bank President Austin Goolsby on
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how the currently high inflation rate might prevent Kevin Walsh
from being able to lower interest rates right away.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
We've got inflation too high. We got an inflation problem.
We've been above the target for five years in a
row now, but we were making progress, then we stalled
out making progress, and now it's getting worse. So I
think that's got to be front of mine that we've
got to figure that out. We're always trying as a
(14:54):
as an FOMC to balance the two sides of the
Fed's mandate by law, which are stabilized the prices and
maximize employment. The job market, to my eye, has been
pretty stable. It might it might not be good, but
it's but it has been stable, and the inflation has
not been stable.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's it's rising to.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
The extent that that's just coming from oil prices. We
can hope that the war fades quickly, that the futures
markets are correct, that the price of oil might come
down in the in the near term. But there were
some warning signs in the PPI and in the other
parts that that that you cited there about inflation, namely
(15:40):
services inflation is high and rising, and that's probably not
coming from oil. It's probably not coming from tariffs. So
I do think chairwash is going to there are going
to be a lot of things on the radar screen,
and we could use we could use some some guidance
here from the chair, although.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I think a lot of things are driven by the
oil prices right now, and certainly getting oil prices back
down would help in a whole variety of different ways,
not the least a bitch of which would be the
mood of the consumer, especially as we get closer and
closer to the midterm elections. This morning on KATRH I
had Ben Sheppard on Ben as president of the Permium
(16:19):
Basin Patroleum Association, to talk about the price of oil,
getting the price of oil down, pumping more oil here
in the United States, and whether or not OPEK is
potentially collapsing with the departure of the United Arab Emirates.
Here's my conversation with Ben Shephard. What's mad at the
pump for a lot of drivers is generally good for
the Texas oil industry. Ben, isn't it Good morning, Jimmy. Well,
(16:43):
you know, it's a mixed bag. Of course.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Certainly there are concerns on both sides. I think given
the rapid rise and gasoline prices that everybody's feeling across
the country gives everybody, including us, lot of concern. We
have to remember that over the last year plus we've
had pretty low prices in the oil field, so it's
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been a bit of a whiplash effect for us, which
which makes it a little the difficult plan as.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You might imagine.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
But I can assure you people prefer higher prices than
lower prices. That's a given in our industry. We have
to have money to reinvest and to keep producing the
energy the world needs, and it you know, sometimes a
little hard to do that at fifty dollars, and then
we worry at one hundred dollars and one hundred plus.
(17:37):
I think it's one hundred and three this morning, I
just saw. So, you know, we worry that those kind
of prices whether you know, are they sustainable, are they
are they going to cost too much pain for the consumer,
causing you know, demand destruction, those kinds of things. So
so it's a mixed bag, but certainly permium producers are
(17:58):
doing everything they can to produce more as much as
they can, as quickly as they can, to help slow
the rise in gasoline prices.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Well, it's not lifelep the switch, though, is It's not
like you could just say, okay, we're we're just gonna
do another five million barrels a day, let's go.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's not.
Speaker 13 (18:14):
It's not. It's only it were that easy. If only
it were that easy, Jimmy, you know, I think we'd
both be doing something else. But I think, you know, absolutely,
I've talked too many operators in the in the Permian
and and some are around the country. You know, we're
talking they're increasing by thousands of barrels.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Not millions.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
I mean, I think the Permian overall right now is
producing about six point seven million barrels a day, and
you know, incrementally, I think that's increasing by the thousands.
And I'm you know, anticipate, well, those numbers will rise.
But you know, when you when you consider that twenty
percent of the world's oil supply runs through the straighter
(18:58):
horme US, it's not likely to make a huge difference overnight.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
This is gonna take a while to fix that.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Obviously, we've got to settle down in what's going on
in Iran and come up with some sort of deal
and get that straight open up again. But let's talk
a little bit about the United Arab Emirates. They've decided
to go it alone. You think this leads to a
further collapse of OPEK. Do you think the other countries
stay with OPEK or you think that maybe the rest
of them are also thinking maybe we should go out
on our own too.
Speaker 13 (19:27):
Well. I think one of the great mysteries in the
oil and gas industry is what is OPEK gonna do next?
And I, for one was a little surprised by the
us UAE taking a stamps last week. I think it
does show some signs of some some some change in direction.
(19:49):
Whether they all leave what remains remains to be seen.
But I will tell you that it's it's already causing
some shift and U.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
In the global park.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
For example, we've we've got visiting in Midland today, uh,
some folks from Japan, and apparently there's probably a bit
of interest in some countries that are used.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
To getting very well from the Middle East look into the.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
US to source to source their supply and in other words,
opex lock on world pricing and and world markets may
be slipping a bit.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well, if that happens, do you predict that oil prices
ultimately will end up going down as a result of that.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, I.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
Eventually they will. Unfortunately, I think we're probably going to
be in this higher price range for you know, the
next month or two. But again, I think given that
everybody's trying to increase production domestically and and most likely globally,
that that I do think the supply UH will to
(21:00):
a point and I think we're most likely going to
open up the strakes here within a reasonable reasonably short
time frame, and I do think that these factors will
all contribute and hopefully and driving process down just a little,
not too much, but you know everybody, everybody needs a
good equilibrium price here, and I think a little bit
(21:21):
lower would make everybody happy.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I'll take a happy medium, although I think we're all
looking forward to get back down to where it was
at before all this began. Right, All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett A
M nine fifty kPr S. All right, let's begin this
(21:49):
segment with youth behaving badly, and we have several prime
examples of that. One pretty much a local story. We've
got more information you've heard about what happened in Austin
over the weekend, right, twelve random shootings, evidently all perpetrated
by the same three teens. And turns out these are
(22:12):
these these dudes are bad seeds. I mean, we're talking
about kids. Seventeen, sixteen and fifteen are the ages. So
you know, the fifteen year old, the sixteen year old,
they're not gonna get punished the way they should because
they're juveniles. Hell, we don't punish adults the way we should.
Let alone juveniles. But anyway, let's let's get the latest
information on what happened. It starts with a kind of
an eyewitness account here. The kids were evidently apprehended on
(22:36):
a piece of property north of Austin, in the suburbs,
on a piece of property where it was a barn
in the homeowner, who was taking a nap evidently knew
something was up. But here's the thing. You find out.
One of the many things I love about Texas. You
don't mess with people's property. You don't try to run
from the law and hide out in a barn and
somebody's property here in Texas, because the chances are, you know,
(23:00):
pretty much one hundred percent that whoever owns that property
has a gun and is willing to use it and
is more than happy to hold you until the authorities
can come. So here's the report on what we've learned
about these teams and how they were apprehended from Fox
five in Austin.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
We just spoke to Justin Nowlan. He's a man who
lives in Maynor.
Speaker 14 (23:21):
City, just about twelve miles northeast of Austin. He says
that he was just trying to take a nap when
his neighborhood was thrust into a massive manhunt for those
three suspects.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Newlan then wants to go check on his.
Speaker 14 (23:35):
Property to make sure it was clear, only to find
those suspects hiding in his own backyard.
Speaker 15 (23:41):
They just looked at me like what do we do?
And it was just.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Fire or flight.
Speaker 14 (23:46):
The moments a man from Maynor came face to face
with the suspects wanted in connection.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
To a dozen shootings.
Speaker 15 (23:53):
Well, I came home, wasn't trying to enjoy a nap.
When I heard say rains and all that. My dog
Barkin got up, swat and down the road.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Justin.
Speaker 14 (24:01):
Newlan had just made it home when a man hunt
began near FM nine seventy three and two ninety in Manor.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Police were looking for.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
Three teenagers wanted in connection to twelve different shootings in Austin.
Speaker 15 (24:12):
I noticed my barn doors were open, which I did
leave open, and I decided at that time to go
ahead and clear on to make sure nobody was in there.
Speaker 14 (24:19):
Newlin checked the front of his barn and found it empty,
but when he tried to open the side door, it
wouldn't budge.
Speaker 15 (24:25):
I had to literally shove my way in and when
I did, there's two suspects sitting right there on each
side of the door.
Speaker 14 (24:32):
Noulin tried to close the door and told both of
the suspects to remain calm.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
I'm trying to flag the sheriff to come up to
my house. At the same time, I'm going to my
truck to get my gun. Well, as I'm entering my
truck to get my gun, I hear them running out
behind me.
Speaker 14 (24:46):
Nowland then chased after one of the teenagers gun in hand.
Speaker 15 (24:50):
I eventually cornered him at the fence line and held
him at gunpoint until state troopers and Swatt were able
to capture him.
Speaker 14 (24:57):
Eventually, all three suspects were detained after a mo multiple
hour search. They are confirmed to be seventeen, sixteen, and
fifteen years old. They had been involved with twelve separate
shootings across Austin in just twenty four hours. Used during
the spree a gun stolen from an Austin gun shop.
Speaker 16 (25:14):
They've come into the gun store apparently four other times
to try to steal guns from us four separate times.
Speaker 14 (25:21):
Michael Cargil, the owner of Central Texas Gun Work, says
the gun was stolen from a store. He claims two
of the suspects in the Austin shooting spree had repeatedly
tried to steal from him. In January, one of the teenagers,
seventeen year old Christian Mandragon, ran out of Cargill's store
with a gun before he was cornered on a capp
metro bus. He was apprehended by APD but eventually released.
Speaker 16 (25:43):
Unbeknownst to me, he was released from that system into
the custody of his parents or custodian or guardian.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Okay, which is it? Is it parents, is a custodian?
Is it a guardian? Who's watching these kids? Evidently nobody
that cares is watching these kids because they seem to
be able to get out and do whatever the hell
they want to do, including trying to rob this gun
store four times, and evidently one time at least successful
(26:15):
at doing it. Yeah, this is this is why I
call for parental punishment for what your kids do, or
punish the guardians. Whoever is the adult responsible for these kids.
They need to be charged just like the kids are
being charged, because this is this is complete negligence on
their part. Now, if they have sought help from authorities.
(26:37):
If they've tried to get counseling or whatever help they
can possibly get for these kids, then that's a different story.
But ninety nine percent of the time it doesn't seem
like that's the case. It's either somebody who's given up
on them or they just don't care themselves. And if
that's the case, if it's just negligence that they just
don't care, then there needs to be punishment for the parents.
(26:58):
And I think that's it's an idea that the tough
love folks like me have been calling for for a
long long time, but we're hearing more calls for it now,
at least from people who are in authority to maybe
do something about it. Jeanine Piro Judge Janine who these
days is a US Special prosecutor in Washington, d C.
(27:21):
They had an incident over the weekend teens behaving badly
of a group of teens that Torpa Chipolte evidently because
they thought it'd be a fun thing to do. And
now she's decided, Okay, we got to put a stop
to this, and that that means making parents responsible for
what the kids are doing. Then she's all in favor
of it. Here is Janine Piro.
Speaker 17 (27:41):
These are not kids being kids. This is criminal conduct. Parents.
You're paying the bills. And if you know where your
teen is and what your teen is doing, and you
will allow them to continue their conduct and continue you
to allow them to flourish, then we're going to prosecute you.
(28:04):
We are trying to identify these people. They may be teens,
they may not be teens. We don't know what.
Speaker 18 (28:10):
Are we going to do about teen culture.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I have teens.
Speaker 18 (28:15):
Sometimes they leave the house on the weekend. I don't
know where they are until I see them on the
local news.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Have been held accountable for all of your activities back
when you weren't a teenager.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I did not throw chairs at Chipotle.
Speaker 18 (28:29):
It's mostly a thirteen to nineteen year old phenomenon, Greg.
I mean you can see it across the country in
places like Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont. The good
thing is is that when the teens turn twenty, they
all settle down and behave perfectly.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, it's amazing. How would just sound amazing?
Speaker 18 (28:48):
You don't reason all we should do about it?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Greg.
Speaker 18 (28:49):
We should just beat around the bush and then throw
money at the problem. So we feel better about ourselves.
And then, because you know, what these teens need are
more after school programs. Even though this happened on a
Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah. We could all look back our own
teenage years and think of some things that we did
that we're not necessarily proud of. But I can tell
you that, at least in the teen culture I grew
up in, nobody was interested in doing anything destructive. We
might have been interested in drinking beer or wine that
we were not technically old enough to drink. We may
(29:24):
have been interested in making out with our girlfriends on
a dark street corner, but that's about it. We weren't
interested in going to a gipultle and smashing chairs. The
level of violence in young people is I think the
big difference and the lack total lack of respect for
other people's belongings that seems to exist. Those are the
(29:45):
two things that kind of stick out to me. But
the violence thing in particular, what is it about going
into a business and busting the place up that would
give you kicks? Why would you enjoy doing something like that?
That doesn't seem like something anybody should enjoy doing? All right,
quick little break back with borne moment. Jimmy Parrett AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, a couple of more quick
(30:21):
things to tackle on what little is left of our
show today. I'm gonna start with this one. Elections in Texas?
Are they safe? Are they if we've done the necessary
steps to make sure that the people who are eligible
to voter voting and the people who are not eligible
to vote are not voting. Steve Toad, who is a
(30:44):
state representatives soon, I believe, after the November election, soon
to be a Congressman, taking the place of taking the
place of you know, I've already forgotten I've already begun
to forgotten his name, Dan Dan Crenshaw. Thank you. See
how quickly I wanted to forget this guy. Anyway, Steve
(31:05):
Toath was on this morning. We talked to him about
our elections here in Texas and whether or not we
have done the necessary steps to make sure we have
full election integrity. You're on, You're on the Elections Committee,
Representative Bath. What else do we need to go that
we haven't done yet?
Speaker 8 (31:18):
We need still more to secure absentee ballots and to
make sure that that that only people that are eligible
to vote a voting and it's still the number one
way in which election fraud takes place, not just here
in Texas but across the United States. I think that
for the most part, yes, our elections are secure, but
(31:41):
there's just, Jimmy, there's just too much opportunity to achieve
their abseny of voting. And the only way you'll ever
secure them totally is if if we have forensic auditing
in the state of Texas, which Democrats unfortunately have too
much control over the Texas House, and I or my
ability and Paul Bettencourt's ability to bring in in a
(32:04):
forensic audit bill session after session.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Well, explain that a little bit, Representative Tove, what would
a forensic audit involve?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
What would that do? That's not being done now right.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
What we're doing right now is we're doing what's known
as risk limiting audits, where you audit systems to see
if the systems that we have in place. The problem
is the Democrats are so creative at the way in
which they cheat that the only way that you'll catch
them with their hand on the cookie jars is with
the forensic audit, where you can actually go in and
(32:37):
look at every single jot and tittle to find out
if in fact things were done by the books. So
as an example, we have to in the state of
Texes hold on to all voting material for a period
of eighteen months past election. The problem, and this is
across the United States, and something that I want to
bring at the federal level is you've got to you've
(33:01):
got to give local governments the ability to actually open
the material up and look at it. You can't even
look at it right now. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Okay, would any of that be covered in the same
America active by some miracle that thing could get past Yes.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yes, yes it would. And this is something that Donald
Trump has been trying to again push here in Texas
with my efforts and Paul Bettencourt's efforts. But it passes
the Senate, comes over to the House. But because the
Democrats have so much influence in leadership over in the
Texas House, even though we have nearly a two thirds majority,
(33:35):
they keep killing it.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
That is State Representative Steve tod All right, one last
one for you here. This comes under This is the
latest scam I guess going on like everything else. You know,
thieves target new areas and now that gasoline is so expensive,
they seem to be targeting gasoline. Here is the report
from our television partner KPRC two is.
Speaker 19 (33:58):
It is being called the screw method, and it could
certainly screw you up if you fall victim to this scam.
It has already been popping up in California, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
And I showed this to.
Speaker 19 (34:09):
Everyone about twenty five minutes ago. The way it works
is the scammer will use an ordinary contractor screw and
they jam it into the pump holster, which causes the
pump to keep pumping gas even after you fill your
tank and you put the nozzle back in and drive away. Well,
then the scammer pulls up right after you and they
can fill their tank and as many other cars as
(34:31):
they want. Then all of that gas is being charged
to your credit card.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
What is the fix for this? What would you recommend
people do to protect themselves?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Well, first thing I would do is I would inspect
the gas pump before you actually use it, see if
there's a screw, make sure that the device actually you
can zero out your gas pump when you put the
nozzle back. I'm gonna implore the gas companies the gas
stations to put a limit on the amount of gas
(35:01):
that you can get in any one transaction, so that
if that does happen to somebody is scammed, at least
the limit the amount that they can pump will be lower.
Speaker 19 (35:12):
Okay, so you just heard it there from the constable.
To fix for this very simple. Before you use that
gas pump, look inside the nozzle holster, the thing that
holds the pump, and see.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
If anything strange is going on.
Speaker 19 (35:23):
In there, a screw or a bolt, or maybe a nail,
and if there is, notify the gas station right away
and move to another gas pump. Now there's a variation
of this crime where after you put your credit card
into the machine, the con artists will approach your car
and offer to pump your gas for you, but when
they finish, they never actually put the nozzle back into
the machine to shut it off, and they rob you.
(35:46):
That way, you drive off and they rob you. The
solution here, if someone offers to pump your gas for them,
obviously tell them to forget it.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
You'll do it yourself. You kidding me? Who would fall
for that? Fall for that one?
Speaker 5 (36:02):
I guess if you had like a senior citizen or
whatever that was had issues trying to get out of
the car or whatever, and they thought you were a
good Samaritan trying to help them out. But you're already
out of the car. That doesn't even work there because
you're already out of the car. You had to get
out of the car to use your debutter credit card
in order to in order to be able to activate
(36:24):
the pump. So that that doesn't make any sense that
we would fall victim to something like that, but I
you know, again, there's some people are just really really naive. Listen, y'all,
have a great day. Thank you for listening. I do
appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning bright nearly five
am over on News Radio seven forty KTRH. We are
back here at four on AM nine fifty KTRC.
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