May 9, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 5 (00:31):
Number of years ago, if they're doing a morning show
in Richmond, Virginia, we had a lottery winner in Richmond.
I can't remember was it a Make a Million's winner
or a Powerball winner. I think it might have been Powerball.
It really doesn't know. It was makea Millions now that
I recall, not that that matters, but it was, like,
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I mean, it was a really high jackpot. It was
like four hundred million dollars or something like that. And
I don't know what got into that morning, but I
thought it would be fun to go on the air
and pretend that I was the one who won the lottery.
And I started off with something. I know you're not
going to believe this, because I'm here working today, and
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the first inclination for anybody who just won four hundred
million dollars would be to just quit and not come
to work. But I love what I do, and I'm here,
and at least I could do stay here for a
few days and until we have a chance to find
somebody to replace me. Because I just won mega millions,
and I t I trucked to make it as convincing
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as I could, but I did, but I also was
trying to make it tongue in cheek. And the exercise was,
I just won four hundred million dollars. We're on the
air for four hours this morning. I'm going to spend
all four hundred million dollars by ten o'clock. And I
proceeded to go through a laundry list all morning long
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of the different things that I had either just bought
or was going to buy, until I got to four
hundred million dollars worth. And I was buying a vineyard
and somewhere in Virginia, and I forget all that, all
kinds of things. I bought houses here, houses there. It
was just I had more fun that morning doing that
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than just about anything. It's it is very fun to
pretend that you are rich, that you have all this money,
that money is no object and you can buy anything
you want to. It is It is amazing the process
you go through, because the first inclination, the first amount
of money that you talk about spending, it has to
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do with houses and cars and in college for your
kids and and things like that. They're somewhat practical but
luxurious things, and they're very personal things, things that you
would do for yourself or your family. But then especially
if you're considering that you've got all kinds of money,
I mean, just unlimited resources, like a Bill Gates, for example,
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then it becomes a little more difficult. First of all,
that's a lot of money to spend, and second of all,
you start the more you spend, the more you start
thinking of the of the good things that you would
do maybe for other people if you had unlimited resources.
It's a great thought process to go through. It tells
you a lot about what your real priorities in life
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are and maybe if your priorities are not matched up
the way they really should be. And what prompted me
thinking about this story again was the news today that
Bill Gates, who has already spent something in the neighborhood
of one hundred billion dollars through his foundation to charitable causes,
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not the same kind of charitable costs as probably you
or I would invest in. But hey, is his money.
He can spend it how he wants to. He still
has one hundred and eight billion dollars left, and he
says he doesn't want to die rich, so he clearly
wants to get rid of the money. I don't know
how his three kids feel about that, because they probably
wouldn't mind inheriting that money. But it sounds like he's
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going to get rid of that money in the next
one of years. So how he's going to get rid
of it, I don't know. But let's say it's you
and me, right, and we've got the one hundred billion
dollars to get rid of. How would you spend the money?
And that was our talkback question today, our question of
the Day on the iHeartRadio app, and some of the
responses were kind of fun and interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
This is Carlos Reporter.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
If I got that money, I'd pay off all my pills,
do some home remodeling by myself, a brand new Lexus
I F five hundred. I'd give myself a two weeks
notice and for two weeks they can notice I'm out there,
and then pretty much do whatever the hell I.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Want, Hey, Jamie, I'd buy an island somewhere in the
Caribbean to fix it up with all kinds rentals, had,
fishing charters, such a cruises place like that, and make
a profitable as well. I think that's what I would
do with a billion dollars and then maybe help.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
All Right, thank you, good mornings back ADDI. This is
Blake from Mukny. So I want one hundred billion dollars.
I got a big old plot of land in the
middle of nowhere, Texas. Fix it up for the family.
That'd be away from all the crazy leftists, and we'd
enjoy life for generations or for the next five or
ten years. So property taxes that eat up all that fortune.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Jeff from Conroe. If I won one hundred billion dollars,
I would donate and help all American veterans, and then
I would take my wife and I do all the
astra games across the country for the rest of our
lives and the best seats possible.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Good day.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
There was one, only one altruistic thing in that entire
thing that was helping veterans, right, which is which is
good to see, but it's interesting, right, block of them
had to do with the property and homes and paying
off debt and being able to quit your job, which
is all very normal stuff. So what about the rest
of our listeners, How would they spend one hundred billion
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dollars if.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
They had a Stacey from Wall or if I had
Millgates money how to retire?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Thank you much, hey, Jimmy Chris Fall.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Look, if I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd make
sure all military events that were disabled at new prosthesis
and makes and everything else that could get mating a
lot of help.
Speaker 12 (06:37):
Thanks to the who do not have a home.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And no they're homeless.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
I don't mean they do not have a home, but
they are homeless, and I'll get each one of them.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
A home a place to live.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
And I also my nephew, my sister sons who lived with.
Speaker 13 (06:58):
Her and they live with strangers right now.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
And the home I live in I live with my
mom and.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
My sister, one of.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Them, Jimmy Asia from Spring.
Speaker 12 (07:10):
If I won one hundred billion dollars, I would invest
a bunch of that into gold. I would invest some
of that into socks. I would send missionaries overseas, helped
some single brothers, help some veterans home, some struggling churches,
maybe by some friends of car that need some new
cars or cars or clunkers, Build a really nice house,
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spend them all my days with my family, travel and
play a bunch of golf.
Speaker 14 (07:37):
Hi, this is a thae from Spring, Texas. If I
got Billgates money, I would pay my bills by two
hundred acres of land to divide it by the four
kids I have. Then I would also give the money
to our military dits and a few very special charities
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that I loved.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of help for military events,
which I like. If I had Bill Gates money, I
know what Elizabeth would do. If she had Bill Gates money.
She would open up the biggest ranch you ever saw
for homeless animals, and she would make sure they're all
spoiled rotten, had you know, twenty four to seven constant
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loving and treats and food, and she would just spoil
them rotten for the rest of their lives. I know
for a fact that that's what she would do. Anyway,
A quick little break back with more in a moment,
Happy Friday, Jimmy Bird Show a nine fifty k PRC
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all right, let's start with transportation. In this segment. We
talked a little bit this week about Newark, New Jersey,
where if a bird poops over the runway under the
best of circumstances, they're probably show down for a while.
Newark has always had problems, but and part of the
problems are just by where it is. It sits in
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really really heavy airspace. It's just outside of it. I mean,
it's right across the river from Manhattan in New York.
It is not that far from JFK and LaGuardia and
in other major airports. You've got a lot of planes
that are sharing that airspace because it serves the New
York metropolitan area. You've got a situation where the equipment there,
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and this is not just true at Newark, it's true
of a lot of places, is extremely antiquated. I think
Sean Duffy said the other day that the equipments they're
using in NOWHEK got to be donated to the Smithsonian Institute.
It's just hopelessly out of date. And you've got a
previous administration who did And I'm not going to throw
the Biden administration completely under the bus on this, because
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the Trump administration before it didn't invest in any either,
and neither did the you know, the Clinton administration. I mean,
you can go back to the nineteen seventies and see
where money was not invested in air traffic control equipment
for our nation's airports. We are still operating on a
very old system. But I am pleased to say that
the different share in town now and there is a
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real desire to get this problem fixed. The good news
for those of us who have a flight coming up
in the next month to Newark, the good news is
is that probably with all the attention that has been
brought to the problems in Newark, that my guess is
is that there will be every attempt made to make
sure that those problems don't cause more problems until they
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have an opportunity to get some of these other issues fixed.
So it's getting it's getting the attention it needs now
that it hasn't gotten before. That's that's the good news.
The bad news is it's it's still Newerk, So there's
going to be problems. There's going to be delays, there's
gonna be angry passengers, and I'll be able to give
you a first hand report. We've got our listener crews
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in Greece, and I'm going through Newark in order to
get to Athens, and I've got about an hour and
twenty minutes between flights. So we'll see how that whole
thing works out. In This is coming up like middle
of June, so we'll see how that whole thing works out. Anyway,
I saw Sean Duffy on with Sean Hannity last night.
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The difference now is is that Shawn Duffy has a
plan to fix the problems, to upgrade the equipment, and
it's going to require twelve billion dollars up front. Here's
Sean Duffy first of all, talking about how when he
came into the job his transportation secretary, evidently he met
with the outgoing Transportation Secretary, Pete Buddha Judge. Here's what
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Seann Duffy said that Pete Buddha Judge told him about
being transportation secretary.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, I'm listened.
Speaker 15 (11:57):
The prior secretary indicated to me that this was a department,
it ran itself, and you know, when he was a secretary,
I'm not sure that they actually showed.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Up to the office.
Speaker 15 (12:04):
Most of the office didn't come into work, and so
as I've been here at this about hundred day, Sewan,
I've been here for one hundred days, and this is
more than a full time job.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You have to show up.
Speaker 15 (12:15):
You have to work twelve sixteen hours a day to
do this job. And if you don't come, things don't happen.
And for people to judge when you don't show up,
and you get multiple warnings from watchdog groups that say, hey, listen,
the air traffic control system is failing. You have to
take action. They did absolutely nothing. The Biden administration, remember this, Sean.
They spent one point two trillion dollars on infrastructure in America,
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one point.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Two trillion dollars.
Speaker 15 (12:39):
None of it went to fix the air traffic control system,
which is a crumbling infrastructure, key infrastructure in this country.
They didn't fix it. And so now we've been left
with the problem. Right, we had the DCA air crash.
We then have had the new work outage, and we
have said in the Trump administration, listen, we don't pass
problems off to the next administration. We actually fixed problems.
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We take hard problems and we make them better. And
so today we rolled out the most historic aviation plan
that has been ever laid out in the history of Man.
We are going to rebuild every part, every aspect of
the air traffic control system. So it's going to be
as you played the clip samir, radios, radar, a whole
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infrastructure of telecom, all the fund facing and back office
side of a telecommunication for air traffic controllers.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They're going to have a brand new system.
Speaker 15 (13:30):
But we need Congress to give us all the money
up front, and then we need them to waive a
lot of the requirements for permitting. If they do that
for us, we can actually build this really quick and
make sure our skies are still the safest in the world.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
How about that, now, twelve billion, I mean twelve billions
a lot of money to me, bub when you have
it had a transportation budget the previous year one point
two trillion, with the tay trillion dollars. You mean to
tell me you can find twelve billion dollars to fix
the problems, you know with air traffic control. You couldn't,
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or you wouldn't. You know, they were more worried about
your racist roads than they were worried about, you know,
having problems at our nation's airports. All right, So that's
that's one department that's getting fixed. Here's another department that's
getting fixed. Health in Human Services. The Trump administration has
done a very good job of making their department leaders
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and secretaries available to the media to talk about problems
in their departments and how they're going to go about
fixing them. Brett Baar from Fox did an interview with
Robert F. Kennedy, junior Health in Human Services secretary, and
some of the other secretaries, some of the other some
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of the other department heads, if you will, like doctor McCarey,
who is in charge of a whole bunch of things.
Doctor McCarey, I heard his comments. I'm trying to remember
exactly what it was that he talked about. Let me
find this here, No, no, no, there we go. He focused
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on the FDA, and you know, some of the food
and drug issues also, doctor Oz. Here, Here are both
of them, and doctor Oz talked about Bend Care Medicaid.
Here are both of them discussing their concerns and what
they're working on.
Speaker 16 (15:20):
I know you all have a lot of balls in
the air, but I'd love to go down the road
and just talk about the big thing that each of
you are dealing with. Working on First FDA Marty Well.
Speaker 17 (15:31):
First of all, we want to focus the agency on
cures and meaningful treatments. In the last administration, number one priority,
the commissioner stated was fighting misinformation, and the DEI staff
ballooned out. We want to focus on cures and meaningful treatments.
We believe in the letter and the spirit of right
to try, and there's amazing stuff in the pipeline I've seen.
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We're talking about new treatments for stage four cancers, for
neuro degenerative disorders, for diabetes that we've never seen before.
Why does it take ten years on average for drugs
to come to market. Why are we blaming children for
being sick and not looking at our food supplied? Why
are we thinking it's a willpower problem as we watch
half of our nation's children with belly pain or attention
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deficit disorder on medications? And can we use common sense
and gold standard science both? And that's the charge that
we have from Secretary Kennedy.
Speaker 16 (16:23):
You've also obviously done the dies recently and we covered
that extensively. There's this question about vapes coming over from
China and that they're really pervasive in our country and
kids with like video games and.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Getting vapes, and they're dangerous. That falls under FDA. It does.
Speaker 17 (16:41):
These are devices that are designed to get kids addictive
to playing a video game, and there's an inhalation port
in the device. They're showing up at our borders, and
what we have been doing is just sending them back,
and so the Chinese manufacturers are just sending.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It to another port.
Speaker 17 (16:57):
It's called port shopping, and they all get in they're
laughing at us. So that's going to stop. In this administration.
We're not going to allow these devices to get in.
We're going to confiscate them.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Our goal is to.
Speaker 13 (17:08):
Put health back in Health and Human Services and under
Secretary Kennedy, and that's.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Why we're all here.
Speaker 13 (17:13):
We're a laser focus on the broader picture of a
holistic picture. In the back of this wonderful theater that
we're recording in now, there's a quote from Hubert Humphrey.
The building is named after him. He's a Democrat, and
he said, it's the moral obligation of government to take
care of those of us at the very dawn of
our lives, children, at the twilight of our life, the elderly,
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and those living in the shadows.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's our focus.
Speaker 13 (17:37):
It's quality of care at all levels, and we're working
together to make sure that happens in every single scenario
that we're looking at. We are increasing payment in Medicaid,
putting more money in the Medicaid increasing increasing, So the
question is how do you spend that money so efficiently
that you stop throwing money at problems but actually deal
with the broader health needs, addressing the fundamental reality. That's
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seventy percent of the money that CMS spends, and that's
what medicare Medicaid. The exchange is chip seventy percent of
the money we spend is on chronic illness, and we're
not getting their money's worth.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So for folks listening.
Speaker 13 (18:11):
Right now, it's your patriotic duty to be as healthy
as you can and it's our job to help you
get there, make it easy to do the right things.
At the same time, we've got to make wise decisions
because we're stewards in order who have to protect the
money for the population.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
That is doctor membert Oz.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
There.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
So obviously some changes going on at HHS. All right,
we're gonna take a little break. We're going to talk
of Pope Leo, the fourteenth. Huh, an American pope. I'm
not Catholic, but that's still kind of a big deal. Right,
We're going to talk about Pope Leo the fourteenth with
a staunch Catholic and the head of Texas Family Value
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Sconathan Signs. That's next, yere On AM nine fifty KPRC
and the Jimmy Barrett Show. All right, we have at
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the pope. It is Leo the fourteenth. As I mentioned,
I am not Catholic. Our next guest is but I
realize that this is a big deal. We have an
American pope and that has never happened in history before.
You know, We'll get into the politics and all the
other things that go along with it in a second,
but for now, I'm guessing that Catholics all around the
United States, including right here in Texas, are celebrating the
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selection of our first American Pope. Jonathan Science joins US
president of Texas Values. As an American Catholic. What does
that mean to you, Jonathan?
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Well, and also as a life un Catholic. I mean
since I was born in I think there's just a
lot of excitement around the United States and a lot
of interest. You know, this is not someone that a
lot of people knew of or a cardinal that maybe
people in Texas where I live that familiar with, maybe
in Chicago where Pope Leo the fourteenth was born in
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Illinois and it's spent a lot of his life. But
I also think with the America First presidence and focus
that President Trump has, I think what will be interesting
to see is that dynamic. And also keep in mind
we have a very public Catholic Vice president and jd Vance.
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You know, he visited Pope Francis, I guess within hours
before Pope Francis passed away. But I do think it's
his historic and that'll mean interest not in the United States,
but across the world. I mean the place that the
United States has, that America has across.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
The world is no doubt so important.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
And you know, look, the Pope is going to live
in Vatican City, in Rome and Italy, but the fact
that he's from the United States, I think it's fair
to expect we might see more.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
People is it's to the United States.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
During Pope Leo the fourteenth time as Pope John Paul
the Second, I believe, visited United States seven times.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Now Pope Francis.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
I know it was at least one because I was
there in DC and I got to see him. But
that'll be something that'll be interesting to watch. But yes,
a lot of excitement across the country and certainly in
the Catholic circles that I'm in, and I think those
a lot of interest across the world. And get this though,
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the uptick of American Catholics, the number of people that
are coming into the Catholic faith is seeing sort of
a surge or almost a rebirth. So I don't know
if that had anything to do with the selection, but
it is notable.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Well, I think, you know, there's all you know, the
church has politics. All churches have politics, just like the
rest of us do. And I think that when they
take a look at what they're going to do for
the future. I believe that both both Francis being from
you know, south of I had a whole lot to
do with his selection because that's a big part of
the Catholic world and I think they wanted to shore
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that up. I think another big part of the Catholic
world is the United States, and they're probably thinking there's
never been an American pope. This might be the right
time to have one, and for a lot of reasons,
not the least of which is, you know, we're hearing
all kinds of stories. I'll get your thoughts on this.
I saw one commentary. I don't know if you are
familiar with you probably are Raymond Arroyo over on Fox,
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another good Catholic. He thinks that the reason why, or
at least one of the reasons why this guy was
selected his pope, is because they're looking for somebody to
straighten out the Vatican finances. That the Catholic Church right
now is running at a deficit. They have, you know,
hundreds of millions of dollars in pension that they can't
afford to pay out, and they need a business reorganization.
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And when they think of something like that, they turned
towards the United States.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, look, that wouldn't surprise me either.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
And I will defer to Raymond or Royo on those
type of matters because he certainly knows more than I do.
And I think he's probably been to the Vatican a
few times and he's involved in a lot of those
conversations that take place nationally. So a practical approach by
the Catholic Church would not be surprising, wouldn't make a
lot of sense. I mean, even though we're talking about
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a Christian faith, you know, the original Christian faith, right,
I mean for those of us that are Catholic, and
but it is something that has to deal with business issues, right,
budget issues, and you know, we'll see if that plays
out that way and becomes an important part of you know,
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if that settles things down or you know, gives some
stability within the finances of the Catholic Church. But I
also think what I'm hearing too, they're calling this pope
the Pope of the America. Is not just North America
and the United States, but you got Central America and
South America, which you've mentioned in your comments.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
But the other thing I think I'm hoping to see
from this.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Pope, there are Catholics in other parts of the world,
particularly in Africa, and these are Catholic clergy that are
being murdered all the time, not just lay Catholics, but
also people that are in leadership or that are in
the clergy, priests and so on.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
That is becoming an epidemic.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
And so I'm hoping that that is something that the
Catholic Church will put more focus on I'm not saying
they've ignored it, but a lot of times people aren't
aware of that. And I'm hoping we'll see more of
a focus and attention on that and maybe we can
stop those things from happening in the future.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yeah, there's been a lot of talk to about returning
to some more Catholic traditions. The previous pope, Pope Francis,
was thought of as a progressive, was thought of as
you know, certainly left of center when it came to
his personal belief system and doctrine, and that they might
shoot for something closer to the middle. Although this pope
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he got elected by a lot of people that were
swept into you know, the conclact power by Pope Francis.
A lot of people are calling this a you know,
Francis two point zero. What do you think that there's
the situation there as far as the doctrine? Will he
be better than maybe Francis was Francis was it making
the Catholic doctrine more clear?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well?
Speaker 10 (25:21):
And Catholic doctrine is very clear on a lot of
issues that people talk about. You're not going to see
any change in that, And I think it's way too
soon for people to start making conclusions now if they
want to make their predictions like you and I are
talking about.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
That's fair.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
But what I have seen there have been several comments
from Popell the other fourteen before he while he was cardinal,
before he became vote, where he talked about the issues
of the unborn and his support for pro life measures
and being against abortion and the dignity of human life.
He also talked about rejecting gender ideology. We saw that
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issue come up in different ways during Pope Francis's time,
this pope, and sometimes people misunderstood him. Sometimes the things
he said led people to believe something else, fairly, but
none of those teachings changed in the Catholic Church, and
I don't think any of that's going to change, or
you would see any opportunity or suggestion from this pope
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that those things change. And so his past public comments
I think are the best prediction of what.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
He'll do in the future.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I also find it interesting that this pope is sixty
nine years old. That's like a spring chicken in pope years,
isn't it.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
You know they have a requirement or if you're over
eighty as a cardinal, you're not allowed to participate.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
In this election process.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
So you know, I don't know, I don't know the
history of what the average age is, but you know,
you look at the age of our current president and
if Biden would have been president. Obviously people are living longer,
and so we hope that that is the case with
Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
But you know, I think you've.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Also heard public comments when he was a cardinal about
his concerns and more of a compassionate approach to immigration.
Those are things that you're very common to see in
Catholic hierarchy, but also in Catholic teaching. So I wouldn't
expect a whole lot of difference. But I will tell
you in the United States there is a lot of
discussion right now on issues of more traditional nature of
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the Latin mass things of that, and you know, Pope
Francis had his opinion on those things. It's going to
be interesting to see what Pope Leo the fourteenth does
on some of those issues.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Yeah, in the name itself he picked obviously, it was
a very popular name back in the day. He's the
fourteenth Pope Leo. But we haven't had a pope Leo
in a long, long, long long time. That usually somebody
who's ascending to the papacy picks a name based upon
what that previous pope that had that name stood for.
(27:53):
Assuming that is the case, what do we know about
Leo the thirteenth and what that might tip us off
into what kind of pope Leo the fourteenth is going
to try to be.
Speaker 18 (28:01):
You know, that's a good question, because the decision for
a pope to become or to choose a specific name
is something that's very personal, right, I mean, and you're right,
the last time that we.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
Had a pope Leo was I think in the early
nineteen hundreds and or really more of the end of
the eighteenth sent excuse me to eighteen hundreds, and so
I don't think a lot's known about them.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
That's not someone I know a lot about.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
But I think we'll all be looking a little bit
more and see if there's anything significance. But I imagine
it was something that was a little bit more personal
in nature. Whether or not we'll he'll hear him talk
about that, or you know, people will reveal that in
a way that matters, we'll see, you know, But I
think a lot of the focuses now is going to be,
to your point, stability. The Church has picked someone, you know,
(28:49):
and it didn't take all that long, right, But I
do think it's going to be interesting to see the
impact that it has in the United States and America,
and I believe you'll see a lot more in interaction,
and you'll see this pope visit the United States more
often than the past couple of ones that we've seen
under Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, I think you're right. Jonathan. Hey, thanks for coming on.
Sure to appreciate you. Take care President of Texas Values.
Jonathan signs back with more in a moment Jimmy Bird
show here on a nine fifty KPRC. All right, we
(29:37):
have ourselves our first trade deal, and tomorrow is when
the Trump administration will meet with the Chinese in I
guess Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant is on his way to
spe Eden. No, Switzerland, is that where they mean? Yeah,
Switzerland's gotta be Switzerland, right, always neutral. So they'll be
(29:58):
meeting and I don't know if we'll get anywhere with
China or not, but at least we have our first
trade deal and enable. It was probably the easy slam dunk,
lay up kind of trade deal, because you know, we
had a pretty even arrangement with England to begin with
the United Kingdom, so that's the first one to get done.
Here is President Trump making the announcements about the trade
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deal with the United Kingdom.
Speaker 19 (30:24):
United States and affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an
essential and vital principle of international trade. The deal includes
billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports,
especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol,
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and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers.
And our Secretary, as you know, of Agriculture is here, Brooke.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Thank you very much being here. Thank you sir. You'll
let the farmers know.
Speaker 19 (30:59):
In addition, the UK will reduce or eliminate numerous non
tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But this is now turning out, I think, really to
be a great deal.
Speaker 19 (31:10):
For both countries, because it'll be really great for the
UK also, so they're opening.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Up the country. Their country is a little closed, and.
Speaker 19 (31:20):
We appreciate that they'll also be fast tracking American goods
through their customs process or our exports go to a
very very quick form of approval and there won't be
any red tape.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Things are going to move very quickly both ways.
Speaker 19 (31:37):
The final details of being written up in the coming
weeks will have it all very conclusive, but the actual
deal is a very conclusive one. We think just about
everything's been approved, so good for both countries. And we'll
also receive new market access for American chemicals, machinery and
many other industrial products that weren't allowed and they'll up
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getting products that they'll be able to price and if
they like them better and we make great products, they'll
be buying those products.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
But they were not available in the UK.
Speaker 19 (32:09):
Furthermore, in a historic step, the deal includes plans that
will bring the United Kingdom into the economic security Alignment
with the United States.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's the first of its kind. So we have a.
Speaker 19 (32:21):
Big economic security blanket and that's very important and we
feel very very comfortable with that because it's been a
great ally, truly one of our great allies.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I mean a lot of people say our greatest ally.
Speaker 19 (32:33):
I don't want to insult people by saying that, but
I can say it's certainly one of our greatest and
right at the top, and they're the first one we're
talking about. And by the way, we have many meetings
planned today and tomorrow, and every country wants to be
making deals, and we have a meeting.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As you know.
Speaker 19 (32:52):
Scott will be going over to Switzerland on Saturday and.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That'll be very very interesting. We'll find out. I think
they can deal very badly too.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Two yeah, very badly.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Two yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
That'll be interesting to say the least. China will not
be that easy. The European Union will not be that easy.
Canada will not be this easy. Like I said, this
is the easy one right here. It gets tougher from here.
Although please note that because it's a deal and orchestra
by the Trump administration, Democrats hate it, right, they hate it.
(33:29):
So here are well, here's an example. Democrats are doing
what they do, pooh poohing the trade deal with the
United Kingdom.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
This is a really fantastic historic day in which we
can announce this deal between our two great countries.
Speaker 19 (33:43):
The Democrats are fighting it only because they want to fight.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They have Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 19 (33:48):
Senat de shimbers become a Palacinian Buddha dig who has
no clue. You know, he drives to work on as
a bicycle with his no fairness with his husband on
the back, which is a nice love relationship.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
My god.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
But a wing for America is a blow to the
liberals who are rooting for forty seven to fail.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
The press wasting no time to wind about the deal.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
Does it live up to the hype we just heard
from the president?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
The answer to that is obviously not at all.
Speaker 20 (34:23):
I might have thought it was a trade deal on fertilizer,
because there was a bit of that.
Speaker 15 (34:27):
This deal between the two countries is not actually going
to be anywhat majorly significant.
Speaker 14 (34:33):
I mean, it sounds like this is a marginal deal
and that it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Ah, Jesse, you knew that was going to come.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
Yeah, because they can't stand the successes.
Speaker 20 (34:44):
No, And if you're rooting against this, you're rooting against
the country. Because the next president, whether it's a Republican
or Democrat, they're going to keep these deals.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Yeah, they're going to tinker.
Speaker 20 (34:53):
With them, but we're moving towards deglobalization and reindustrialization, and
he's setting us up on a great course they have
to stop doubting this guy. He comes in, he does
the Panama deal, China's not there anymore. He does the
mineral deal with Ukraine. He's getting hostages back that deal,
did a deal with Mexico to have troops on the
southern border to stop all the migration. So he's already
(35:14):
on a roll. And the guys that are doing this
are business meant, they've been doing this their whole lives.
They're in currency markets, they're investors, they're risk takers. Lutnick Besson,
Donald Trump. They love it. They're having a great time,
So I would stop doubting them. We basically broke down
the door with the UK. We have full access to
their automobile markets, our agricultural sector one, our tech sector one,
(35:39):
our automobile sector one. And we kept some protective tariffs
on our key industries.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Which is a good thing.
Speaker 20 (35:45):
And you can kind of see the contours of this
new trade alliance shaping up. The Indians just did to
deal with the British. We're about to do a deal
with India, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Australia.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Yeah, list goes on and on. The only negative thing
I heard, I guess a couple of the automakers four
General Mentors kind of reacted negatively to us allowing one
hundred thousand British imports without additional tariffs on them. Well,
here's the thing, though, I mean, if they have completely
opened their market to our automotive manufacturers, then you know,
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why wouldn't we do the same for them. We're only
talking one hundred thousand cars out of sixteen million that
are produced every year. That doesn't really amount the whole
heck of a lot, does it. I wouldn't think so.
Like I said, it's it's the first of many. If
we can get a whole bunch of them to drop
here over the course of the next week or so,
then watch the stock market watch how that'll react in
a very positive way. Listen, gotta leave, gotta go. It's
(36:45):
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Number of years ago, if they're doing a morning show
in Richmond, Virginia, we had a lottery winner in Richmond.
I can't remember was it a Make a Million's winner
or a Powerball winner. I think it might have been Powerball.
It really doesn't know. It was makea Millions now that
I recall, not that that matters, but it was, like,
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I mean, it was a really high jackpot. It was
like four hundred million dollars or something like that. And
I don't know what got into that morning, but I
thought it would be fun to go on the air
and pretend that I was the one who won the lottery.
And I started off with something. I know you're not
going to believe this, because I'm here working today, and
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the first inclination for anybody who just won four hundred
million dollars would be to just quit and not come
to work. But I love what I do, and I'm here,
and at least I could do stay here for a
few days and until we have a chance to find
somebody to replace me. Because I just won mega millions,
and I t I trucked to make it as convincing
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as I could, but I did, but I also was
trying to make it tongue in cheek. And the exercise was,
I just won four hundred million dollars. We're on the
air for four hours this morning. I'm going to spend
all four hundred million dollars by ten o'clock. And I
proceeded to go through a laundry list all morning long
(01:59):
of the different things that I had either just bought
or was going to buy, until I got to four
hundred million dollars worth. And I was buying a vineyard
and somewhere in Virginia, and I forget all that, all
kinds of things. I bought houses here, houses there. It
was just I had more fun that morning doing that
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than just about anything. It's it is very fun to
pretend that you are rich, that you have all this money,
that money is no object and you can buy anything
you want to. It is It is amazing the process
you go through, because the first inclination, the first amount
of money that you talk about spending, it has to
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do with houses and cars and in college for your
kids and and things like that. They're somewhat practical but
luxurious things, and they're very personal things, things that you
would do for yourself or your family. But then especially
if you're considering that you've got all kinds of money,
I mean, just unlimited resources, like a Bill Gates, for example,
(03:04):
then it becomes a little more difficult. First of all,
that's a lot of money to spend, and second of all,
you start the more you spend, the more you start
thinking of the of the good things that you would
do maybe for other people if you had unlimited resources.
It's a great thought process to go through. It tells
you a lot about what your real priorities in life
(03:26):
are and maybe if your priorities are not matched up
the way they really should be. And what prompted me
thinking about this story again was the news today that
Bill Gates, who has already spent something in the neighborhood
of one hundred billion dollars through his foundation to charitable causes,
(03:47):
not the same kind of charitable costs as probably you
or I would invest in. But hey, is his money.
He can spend it how he wants to. He still
has one hundred and eight billion dollars left, and he
says he doesn't want to die rich, so he clearly
wants to get rid of the money. I don't know
how his three kids feel about that, because they probably
wouldn't mind inheriting that money. But it sounds like he's
(04:09):
going to get rid of that money in the next
one of years. So how he's going to get rid
of it, I don't know. But let's say it's you
and me, right, and we've got the one hundred billion
dollars to get rid of. How would you spend the money?
And that was our talkback question today, our question of
the Day on the iHeartRadio app, and some of the
responses were kind of fun and interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
This is Carlos Reporter.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
If I got that money, I'd pay off all my pills,
do some home remodeling by myself, a brand new Lexus
I F five hundred. I'd give myself a two weeks
notice and for two weeks they can notice I'm out there,
and then pretty much do whatever the hell I.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Want, Hey, Jamie, I'd buy an island somewhere in the
Caribbean to fix it up with all kinds rentals, had,
fishing charters, such a cruises place like that, and make
a profitable as well. I think that's what I would
do with a billion dollars and then maybe help.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
All Right, thank you, good mornings back ADDI. This is
Blake from Mukny. So I want one hundred billion dollars.
I got a big old plot of land in the
middle of nowhere, Texas. Fix it up for the family.
That'd be away from all the crazy leftists, and we'd
enjoy life for generations or for the next five or
ten years. So property taxes that eat up all that fortune.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Jeff from Conroe. If I won one hundred billion dollars,
I would donate and help all American veterans, and then
I would take my wife and I do all the
astra games across the country for the rest of our
lives and the best seats possible.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Good day.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
There was one, only one altruistic thing in that entire
thing that was helping veterans, right, which is which is
good to see, but it's interesting, right, block of them
had to do with the property and homes and paying
off debt and being able to quit your job, which
is all very normal stuff. So what about the rest
of our listeners, How would they spend one hundred billion
(06:17):
dollars if.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
They had a Stacey from Wall or if I had
Millgates money how to retire?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Thank you much, hey, Jimmy Chris Fall.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Look, if I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd make
sure all military events that were disabled at new prosthesis
and makes and everything else that could get mating a
lot of help.
Speaker 12 (06:37):
Thanks to the who do not have a home.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And no they're homeless.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
I don't mean they do not have a home, but
they are homeless, and I'll get each one of them.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
A home a place to live.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
And I also my nephew, my sister sons who lived with.
Speaker 13 (06:58):
Her and they live with strangers right now.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
And the home I live in I live with my
mom and.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
My sister, one of.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Them, Jimmy Asia from Spring.
Speaker 12 (07:10):
If I won one hundred billion dollars, I would invest
a bunch of that into gold. I would invest some
of that into socks. I would send missionaries overseas, helped
some single brothers, help some veterans home, some struggling churches,
maybe by some friends of car that need some new
cars or cars or clunkers, Build a really nice house,
(07:33):
spend them all my days with my family, travel and
play a bunch of golf.
Speaker 14 (07:37):
Hi, this is a thae from Spring, Texas. If I
got Billgates money, I would pay my bills by two
hundred acres of land to divide it by the four
kids I have. Then I would also give the money
to our military dits and a few very special charities
(07:57):
that I loved.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of help for military events,
which I like. If I had Bill Gates money, I
know what Elizabeth would do. If she had Bill Gates money.
She would open up the biggest ranch you ever saw
for homeless animals, and she would make sure they're all
spoiled rotten, had you know, twenty four to seven constant
(08:19):
loving and treats and food, and she would just spoil
them rotten for the rest of their lives. I know
for a fact that that's what she would do. Anyway,
A quick little break back with more in a moment,
Happy Friday, Jimmy Bird Show a nine fifty k PRC
(08:46):
all right, let's start with transportation. In this segment. We
talked a little bit this week about Newark, New Jersey,
where if a bird poops over the runway under the
best of circumstances, they're probably show down for a while.
Newark has always had problems, but and part of the
problems are just by where it is. It sits in
(09:08):
really really heavy airspace. It's just outside of it. I mean,
it's right across the river from Manhattan in New York.
It is not that far from JFK and LaGuardia and
in other major airports. You've got a lot of planes
that are sharing that airspace because it serves the New
York metropolitan area. You've got a situation where the equipment there,
(09:35):
and this is not just true at Newark, it's true
of a lot of places, is extremely antiquated. I think
Sean Duffy said the other day that the equipments they're
using in NOWHEK got to be donated to the Smithsonian Institute.
It's just hopelessly out of date. And you've got a
previous administration who did And I'm not going to throw
the Biden administration completely under the bus on this, because
(09:57):
the Trump administration before it didn't invest in any either,
and neither did the you know, the Clinton administration. I mean,
you can go back to the nineteen seventies and see
where money was not invested in air traffic control equipment
for our nation's airports. We are still operating on a
very old system. But I am pleased to say that
the different share in town now and there is a
(10:20):
real desire to get this problem fixed. The good news
for those of us who have a flight coming up
in the next month to Newark, the good news is
is that probably with all the attention that has been
brought to the problems in Newark, that my guess is
is that there will be every attempt made to make
sure that those problems don't cause more problems until they
(10:43):
have an opportunity to get some of these other issues fixed.
So it's getting it's getting the attention it needs now
that it hasn't gotten before. That's that's the good news.
The bad news is it's it's still Newerk, So there's
going to be problems. There's going to be delays, there's
gonna be angry passengers, and I'll be able to give
you a first hand report. We've got our listener crews
(11:06):
in Greece, and I'm going through Newark in order to
get to Athens, and I've got about an hour and
twenty minutes between flights. So we'll see how that whole
thing works out. In This is coming up like middle
of June, so we'll see how that whole thing works out. Anyway,
I saw Sean Duffy on with Sean Hannity last night.
(11:28):
The difference now is is that Shawn Duffy has a
plan to fix the problems, to upgrade the equipment, and
it's going to require twelve billion dollars up front. Here's
Sean Duffy first of all, talking about how when he
came into the job his transportation secretary, evidently he met
with the outgoing Transportation Secretary, Pete Buddha Judge. Here's what
(11:51):
Seann Duffy said that Pete Buddha Judge told him about
being transportation secretary.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, I'm listened.
Speaker 15 (11:57):
The prior secretary indicated to me that this was a department,
it ran itself, and you know, when he was a secretary,
I'm not sure that they actually showed.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Up to the office.
Speaker 15 (12:04):
Most of the office didn't come into work, and so
as I've been here at this about hundred day, Sewan,
I've been here for one hundred days, and this is
more than a full time job.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You have to show up.
Speaker 15 (12:15):
You have to work twelve sixteen hours a day to
do this job. And if you don't come, things don't happen.
And for people to judge when you don't show up,
and you get multiple warnings from watchdog groups that say, hey, listen,
the air traffic control system is failing. You have to
take action. They did absolutely nothing. The Biden administration, remember this, Sean.
They spent one point two trillion dollars on infrastructure in America,
(12:37):
one point.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Two trillion dollars.
Speaker 15 (12:39):
None of it went to fix the air traffic control system,
which is a crumbling infrastructure, key infrastructure in this country.
They didn't fix it. And so now we've been left
with the problem. Right, we had the DCA air crash.
We then have had the new work outage, and we
have said in the Trump administration, listen, we don't pass
problems off to the next administration. We actually fixed problems.
(12:59):
We take hard problems and we make them better. And
so today we rolled out the most historic aviation plan
that has been ever laid out in the history of Man.
We are going to rebuild every part, every aspect of
the air traffic control system. So it's going to be
as you played the clip samir, radios, radar, a whole
(13:20):
infrastructure of telecom, all the fund facing and back office
side of a telecommunication for air traffic controllers.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They're going to have a brand new system.
Speaker 15 (13:30):
But we need Congress to give us all the money
up front, and then we need them to waive a
lot of the requirements for permitting. If they do that
for us, we can actually build this really quick and
make sure our skies are still the safest in the world.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
How about that, now, twelve billion, I mean twelve billions
a lot of money to me, bub when you have
it had a transportation budget the previous year one point
two trillion, with the tay trillion dollars. You mean to
tell me you can find twelve billion dollars to fix
the problems, you know with air traffic control. You couldn't,
(14:03):
or you wouldn't. You know, they were more worried about
your racist roads than they were worried about, you know,
having problems at our nation's airports. All right, So that's
that's one department that's getting fixed. Here's another department that's
getting fixed. Health in Human Services. The Trump administration has
done a very good job of making their department leaders
(14:25):
and secretaries available to the media to talk about problems
in their departments and how they're going to go about
fixing them. Brett Baar from Fox did an interview with
Robert F. Kennedy, junior Health in Human Services secretary, and
some of the other secretaries, some of the other some
(14:45):
of the other department heads, if you will, like doctor McCarey,
who is in charge of a whole bunch of things.
Doctor McCarey, I heard his comments. I'm trying to remember
exactly what it was that he talked about. Let me
find this here, No, no, no, there we go. He focused
(15:07):
on the FDA, and you know, some of the food
and drug issues also, doctor Oz. Here, Here are both
of them, and doctor Oz talked about Bend Care Medicaid.
Here are both of them discussing their concerns and what
they're working on.
Speaker 16 (15:20):
I know you all have a lot of balls in
the air, but I'd love to go down the road
and just talk about the big thing that each of
you are dealing with. Working on First FDA Marty Well.
Speaker 17 (15:31):
First of all, we want to focus the agency on
cures and meaningful treatments. In the last administration, number one priority,
the commissioner stated was fighting misinformation, and the DEI staff
ballooned out. We want to focus on cures and meaningful treatments.
We believe in the letter and the spirit of right
to try, and there's amazing stuff in the pipeline I've seen.
(15:51):
We're talking about new treatments for stage four cancers, for
neuro degenerative disorders, for diabetes that we've never seen before.
Why does it take ten years on average for drugs
to come to market. Why are we blaming children for
being sick and not looking at our food supplied? Why
are we thinking it's a willpower problem as we watch
half of our nation's children with belly pain or attention
(16:14):
deficit disorder on medications? And can we use common sense
and gold standard science both? And that's the charge that
we have from Secretary Kennedy.
Speaker 16 (16:23):
You've also obviously done the dies recently and we covered
that extensively. There's this question about vapes coming over from
China and that they're really pervasive in our country and
kids with like video games and.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Getting vapes, and they're dangerous. That falls under FDA. It does.
Speaker 17 (16:41):
These are devices that are designed to get kids addictive
to playing a video game, and there's an inhalation port
in the device. They're showing up at our borders, and
what we have been doing is just sending them back,
and so the Chinese manufacturers are just sending.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It to another port.
Speaker 17 (16:57):
It's called port shopping, and they all get in they're
laughing at us. So that's going to stop. In this administration.
We're not going to allow these devices to get in.
We're going to confiscate them.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Our goal is to.
Speaker 13 (17:08):
Put health back in Health and Human Services and under
Secretary Kennedy, and that's.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Why we're all here.
Speaker 13 (17:13):
We're a laser focus on the broader picture of a
holistic picture. In the back of this wonderful theater that
we're recording in now, there's a quote from Hubert Humphrey.
The building is named after him. He's a Democrat, and
he said, it's the moral obligation of government to take
care of those of us at the very dawn of
our lives, children, at the twilight of our life, the elderly,
(17:34):
and those living in the shadows.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's our focus.
Speaker 13 (17:37):
It's quality of care at all levels, and we're working
together to make sure that happens in every single scenario
that we're looking at. We are increasing payment in Medicaid,
putting more money in the Medicaid increasing increasing, So the
question is how do you spend that money so efficiently
that you stop throwing money at problems but actually deal
with the broader health needs, addressing the fundamental reality. That's
(17:59):
seventy percent of the money that CMS spends, and that's
what medicare Medicaid. The exchange is chip seventy percent of
the money we spend is on chronic illness, and we're
not getting their money's worth.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So for folks listening.
Speaker 13 (18:11):
Right now, it's your patriotic duty to be as healthy
as you can and it's our job to help you
get there, make it easy to do the right things.
At the same time, we've got to make wise decisions
because we're stewards in order who have to protect the
money for the population.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
That is doctor membert Oz.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
There.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
So obviously some changes going on at HHS. All right,
we're gonna take a little break. We're going to talk
of Pope Leo, the fourteenth. Huh, an American pope. I'm
not Catholic, but that's still kind of a big deal. Right,
We're going to talk about Pope Leo the fourteenth with
a staunch Catholic and the head of Texas Family Value
(18:48):
Sconathan Signs. That's next, yere On AM nine fifty KPRC
and the Jimmy Barrett Show. All right, we have at
(19:13):
the pope. It is Leo the fourteenth. As I mentioned,
I am not Catholic. Our next guest is but I
realize that this is a big deal. We have an
American pope and that has never happened in history before.
You know, We'll get into the politics and all the
other things that go along with it in a second,
but for now, I'm guessing that Catholics all around the
United States, including right here in Texas, are celebrating the
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selection of our first American Pope. Jonathan Science joins US
president of Texas Values. As an American Catholic. What does
that mean to you, Jonathan?
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Well, and also as a life un Catholic. I mean
since I was born in I think there's just a
lot of excitement around the United States and a lot
of interest. You know, this is not someone that a
lot of people knew of or a cardinal that maybe
people in Texas where I live that familiar with, maybe
in Chicago where Pope Leo the fourteenth was born in
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Illinois and it's spent a lot of his life. But
I also think with the America First presidence and focus
that President Trump has, I think what will be interesting
to see is that dynamic. And also keep in mind
we have a very public Catholic Vice president and jd Vance.
(20:27):
You know, he visited Pope Francis, I guess within hours
before Pope Francis passed away. But I do think it's
his historic and that'll mean interest not in the United States,
but across the world. I mean the place that the
United States has, that America has across.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
The world is no doubt so important.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
And you know, look, the Pope is going to live
in Vatican City, in Rome and Italy, but the fact
that he's from the United States, I think it's fair
to expect we might see more.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
People is it's to the United States.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
During Pope Leo the fourteenth time as Pope John Paul
the Second, I believe, visited United States seven times.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Now Pope Francis.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
I know it was at least one because I was
there in DC and I got to see him. But
that'll be something that'll be interesting to watch. But yes,
a lot of excitement across the country and certainly in
the Catholic circles that I'm in, and I think those
a lot of interest across the world. And get this though,
(21:31):
the uptick of American Catholics, the number of people that
are coming into the Catholic faith is seeing sort of
a surge or almost a rebirth. So I don't know
if that had anything to do with the selection, but
it is notable.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Well, I think, you know, there's all you know, the
church has politics. All churches have politics, just like the
rest of us do. And I think that when they
take a look at what they're going to do for
the future. I believe that both both Francis being from
you know, south of I had a whole lot to
do with his selection because that's a big part of
the Catholic world and I think they wanted to shore
(22:05):
that up. I think another big part of the Catholic
world is the United States, and they're probably thinking there's
never been an American pope. This might be the right
time to have one, and for a lot of reasons,
not the least of which is, you know, we're hearing
all kinds of stories. I'll get your thoughts on this.
I saw one commentary. I don't know if you are
familiar with you probably are Raymond Arroyo over on Fox,
(22:27):
another good Catholic. He thinks that the reason why, or
at least one of the reasons why this guy was
selected his pope, is because they're looking for somebody to
straighten out the Vatican finances. That the Catholic Church right
now is running at a deficit. They have, you know,
hundreds of millions of dollars in pension that they can't
afford to pay out, and they need a business reorganization.
(22:50):
And when they think of something like that, they turned
towards the United States.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, look, that wouldn't surprise me either.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
And I will defer to Raymond or Royo on those
type of matters because he certainly knows more than I do.
And I think he's probably been to the Vatican a
few times and he's involved in a lot of those
conversations that take place nationally. So a practical approach by
the Catholic Church would not be surprising, wouldn't make a
lot of sense. I mean, even though we're talking about
(23:18):
a Christian faith, you know, the original Christian faith, right,
I mean for those of us that are Catholic, and
but it is something that has to deal with business issues, right,
budget issues, and you know, we'll see if that plays
out that way and becomes an important part of you know,
(23:38):
if that settles things down or you know, gives some
stability within the finances of the Catholic Church. But I
also think what I'm hearing too, they're calling this pope
the Pope of the America. Is not just North America
and the United States, but you got Central America and
South America, which you've mentioned in your comments.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
But the other thing I think I'm hoping to see
from this.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Pope, there are Catholics in other parts of the world,
particularly in Africa, and these are Catholic clergy that are
being murdered all the time, not just lay Catholics, but
also people that are in leadership or that are in
the clergy, priests and so on.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
That is becoming an epidemic.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
And so I'm hoping that that is something that the
Catholic Church will put more focus on I'm not saying
they've ignored it, but a lot of times people aren't
aware of that. And I'm hoping we'll see more of
a focus and attention on that and maybe we can
stop those things from happening in the future.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yeah, there's been a lot of talk to about returning
to some more Catholic traditions. The previous pope, Pope Francis,
was thought of as a progressive, was thought of as
you know, certainly left of center when it came to
his personal belief system and doctrine, and that they might
shoot for something closer to the middle. Although this pope
(24:59):
he got elected by a lot of people that were
swept into you know, the conclact power by Pope Francis.
A lot of people are calling this a you know,
Francis two point zero. What do you think that there's
the situation there as far as the doctrine? Will he
be better than maybe Francis was Francis was it making
the Catholic doctrine more clear?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well?
Speaker 10 (25:21):
And Catholic doctrine is very clear on a lot of
issues that people talk about. You're not going to see
any change in that, And I think it's way too
soon for people to start making conclusions now if they
want to make their predictions like you and I are
talking about.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
That's fair.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
But what I have seen there have been several comments
from Popell the other fourteen before he while he was cardinal,
before he became vote, where he talked about the issues
of the unborn and his support for pro life measures
and being against abortion and the dignity of human life.
He also talked about rejecting gender ideology. We saw that
(25:56):
issue come up in different ways during Pope Francis's time,
this pope, and sometimes people misunderstood him. Sometimes the things
he said led people to believe something else, fairly, but
none of those teachings changed in the Catholic Church, and
I don't think any of that's going to change, or
you would see any opportunity or suggestion from this pope
(26:17):
that those things change. And so his past public comments
I think are the best prediction of what.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
He'll do in the future.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I also find it interesting that this pope is sixty
nine years old. That's like a spring chicken in pope years,
isn't it.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
You know they have a requirement or if you're over
eighty as a cardinal, you're not allowed to participate.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
In this election process.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
So you know, I don't know, I don't know the
history of what the average age is, but you know,
you look at the age of our current president and
if Biden would have been president. Obviously people are living longer,
and so we hope that that is the case with
Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
But you know, I think you've.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Also heard public comments when he was a cardinal about
his concerns and more of a compassionate approach to immigration.
Those are things that you're very common to see in
Catholic hierarchy, but also in Catholic teaching. So I wouldn't
expect a whole lot of difference. But I will tell
you in the United States there is a lot of
discussion right now on issues of more traditional nature of
(27:19):
the Latin mass things of that, and you know, Pope
Francis had his opinion on those things. It's going to
be interesting to see what Pope Leo the fourteenth does
on some of those issues.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Yeah, in the name itself he picked obviously, it was
a very popular name back in the day. He's the
fourteenth Pope Leo. But we haven't had a pope Leo
in a long, long, long long time. That usually somebody
who's ascending to the papacy picks a name based upon
what that previous pope that had that name stood for.
(27:53):
Assuming that is the case, what do we know about
Leo the thirteenth and what that might tip us off
into what kind of pope Leo the fourteenth is going
to try to be.
Speaker 18 (28:01):
You know, that's a good question, because the decision for
a pope to become or to choose a specific name
is something that's very personal, right, I mean, and you're right,
the last time that we.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
Had a pope Leo was I think in the early
nineteen hundreds and or really more of the end of
the eighteenth sent excuse me to eighteen hundreds, and so
I don't think a lot's known about them.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
That's not someone I know a lot about.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
But I think we'll all be looking a little bit
more and see if there's anything significance. But I imagine
it was something that was a little bit more personal
in nature. Whether or not we'll he'll hear him talk
about that, or you know, people will reveal that in
a way that matters, we'll see, you know, But I
think a lot of the focuses now is going to be,
to your point, stability. The Church has picked someone, you know,
(28:49):
and it didn't take all that long, right, But I
do think it's going to be interesting to see the
impact that it has in the United States and America,
and I believe you'll see a lot more in interaction,
and you'll see this pope visit the United States more
often than the past couple of ones that we've seen
under Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, I think you're right. Jonathan. Hey, thanks for coming on.
Sure to appreciate you. Take care President of Texas Values.
Jonathan signs back with more in a moment Jimmy Bird
show here on a nine fifty KPRC. All right, we
(29:37):
have ourselves our first trade deal, and tomorrow is when
the Trump administration will meet with the Chinese in I
guess Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant is on his way to
spe Eden. No, Switzerland, is that where they mean? Yeah,
Switzerland's gotta be Switzerland, right, always neutral. So they'll be
(29:58):
meeting and I don't know if we'll get anywhere with
China or not, but at least we have our first
trade deal and enable. It was probably the easy slam dunk,
lay up kind of trade deal, because you know, we
had a pretty even arrangement with England to begin with
the United Kingdom, so that's the first one to get done.
Here is President Trump making the announcements about the trade
(30:21):
deal with the United Kingdom.
Speaker 19 (30:24):
United States and affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an
essential and vital principle of international trade. The deal includes
billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports,
especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol,
(30:45):
and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers.
And our Secretary, as you know, of Agriculture is here, Brooke.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Thank you very much being here. Thank you sir. You'll
let the farmers know.
Speaker 19 (30:59):
In addition, the UK will reduce or eliminate numerous non
tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But this is now turning out, I think, really to
be a great deal.
Speaker 19 (31:10):
For both countries, because it'll be really great for the
UK also, so they're opening.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Up the country. Their country is a little closed, and.
Speaker 19 (31:20):
We appreciate that they'll also be fast tracking American goods
through their customs process or our exports go to a
very very quick form of approval and there won't be
any red tape.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Things are going to move very quickly both ways.
Speaker 19 (31:37):
The final details of being written up in the coming
weeks will have it all very conclusive, but the actual
deal is a very conclusive one. We think just about
everything's been approved, so good for both countries. And we'll
also receive new market access for American chemicals, machinery and
many other industrial products that weren't allowed and they'll up
(32:00):
getting products that they'll be able to price and if
they like them better and we make great products, they'll
be buying those products.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
But they were not available in the UK.
Speaker 19 (32:09):
Furthermore, in a historic step, the deal includes plans that
will bring the United Kingdom into the economic security Alignment
with the United States.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's the first of its kind. So we have a.
Speaker 19 (32:21):
Big economic security blanket and that's very important and we
feel very very comfortable with that because it's been a
great ally, truly one of our great allies.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I mean a lot of people say our greatest ally.
Speaker 19 (32:33):
I don't want to insult people by saying that, but
I can say it's certainly one of our greatest and
right at the top, and they're the first one we're
talking about. And by the way, we have many meetings
planned today and tomorrow, and every country wants to be
making deals, and we have a meeting.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As you know.
Speaker 19 (32:52):
Scott will be going over to Switzerland on Saturday and.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That'll be very very interesting. We'll find out. I think
they can deal very badly too.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Two yeah, very badly.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Two yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
That'll be interesting to say the least. China will not
be that easy. The European Union will not be that easy.
Canada will not be this easy. Like I said, this
is the easy one right here. It gets tougher from here.
Although please note that because it's a deal and orchestra
by the Trump administration, Democrats hate it, right, they hate it.
(33:29):
So here are well, here's an example. Democrats are doing
what they do, pooh poohing the trade deal with the
United Kingdom.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
This is a really fantastic historic day in which we
can announce this deal between our two great countries.
Speaker 19 (33:43):
The Democrats are fighting it only because they want to fight.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They have Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 19 (33:48):
Senat de shimbers become a Palacinian Buddha dig who has
no clue. You know, he drives to work on as
a bicycle with his no fairness with his husband on
the back, which is a nice love relationship.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
My god.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
But a wing for America is a blow to the
liberals who are rooting for forty seven to fail.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
The press wasting no time to wind about the deal.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
Does it live up to the hype we just heard
from the president?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
The answer to that is obviously not at all.
Speaker 20 (34:23):
I might have thought it was a trade deal on fertilizer,
because there was a bit of that.
Speaker 15 (34:27):
This deal between the two countries is not actually going
to be anywhat majorly significant.
Speaker 14 (34:33):
I mean, it sounds like this is a marginal deal
and that it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Ah, Jesse, you knew that was going to come.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
Yeah, because they can't stand the successes.
Speaker 20 (34:44):
No, And if you're rooting against this, you're rooting against
the country. Because the next president, whether it's a Republican
or Democrat, they're going to keep these deals.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Yeah, they're going to tinker.
Speaker 20 (34:53):
With them, but we're moving towards deglobalization and reindustrialization, and
he's setting us up on a great course they have
to stop doubting this guy. He comes in, he does
the Panama deal, China's not there anymore. He does the
mineral deal with Ukraine. He's getting hostages back that deal,
did a deal with Mexico to have troops on the
southern border to stop all the migration. So he's already
(35:14):
on a roll. And the guys that are doing this
are business meant, they've been doing this their whole lives.
They're in currency markets, they're investors, they're risk takers. Lutnick Besson,
Donald Trump. They love it. They're having a great time,
So I would stop doubting them. We basically broke down
the door with the UK. We have full access to
their automobile markets, our agricultural sector one, our tech sector one,
(35:39):
our automobile sector one. And we kept some protective tariffs
on our key industries.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Which is a good thing.
Speaker 20 (35:45):
And you can kind of see the contours of this
new trade alliance shaping up. The Indians just did to
deal with the British. We're about to do a deal
with India, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Australia.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Yeah, list goes on and on. The only negative thing
I heard, I guess a couple of the automakers four
General Mentors kind of reacted negatively to us allowing one
hundred thousand British imports without additional tariffs on them. Well,
here's the thing, though, I mean, if they have completely
opened their market to our automotive manufacturers, then you know,
(36:22):
why wouldn't we do the same for them. We're only
talking one hundred thousand cars out of sixteen million that
are produced every year. That doesn't really amount the whole
heck of a lot, does it. I wouldn't think so.
Like I said, it's it's the first of many. If
we can get a whole bunch of them to drop
here over the course of the next week or so,
then watch the stock market watch how that'll react in
a very positive way. Listen, gotta leave, gotta go. It's
(36:45):
Mother's Day weekend. Happy Mother's Day. Have a great weekend.
I will see you Monday morning, bright and early, starting
at five am over on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
We are back here at four on EM nine to
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