April 1, 2025 • 22 mins
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- Tesla attacks in Houston
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense
will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind
dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
We have a follow up to a story to start
the show today. It is a story that we did
last week. I don't recall what Dave was last week.
See if you all remember this, it was the it's
the Tesla terrorist story Local one UH from KPRC to
our television partner. They did a story about a woman
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and they disguised the woman was one of those shots
where they shoot shoot you from the back of All
you can see is the kind of her silhouette in
the back of her head and you can hear her voice.
She did she was afraid, so she did not want
to be identified because she thought, oh, one of those
Tesla terrorists, you know, keep my keep my vehicle, and
they might be come might be coming after me. So
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she did want to be shown on camera. And that's
what the story was about. The story was about Tesla terrorism,
and it's fine, it's come to Houston. Here we are.
We've got some guy who is who's keyed this woman's
car because she's driving a Tesla, and that's what the
story was really all about. And at the time, I thought, well,
you know, could be there's there's there's there's plenty of
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liberals here in Houston, Texas. There you know, there there
are plenty of you know, far left whack people, whack
jobs who are out there. They might do something like that.
And I thought, well, isn't that typical If it's going
to happen. It happened in Tanglewood, happened in a Whole
Foods parking lot. Does that just not sound like the
quintessential person who would be driving a Tesla. Although I
guess my viewpoint is it's kind of softened on Tesla
(02:01):
drivers now that we've got you know, Elon Musk doing
what he is doing for the country, I guess I
might not be bashing Tesla Tesla owners that much anymore,
especially to considering the fact that they do seem to
be targets. But as it turns out, there's a follow
up to this story. It turns out that this woman
was not a target of Tesla terrorism, that the fact
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that she was driving a Tesla evidently didn't have anything
to do with it. Yeah, amazing, I know. So the
guy who was seen on the Tesla camera king her
vehicle has come forward and he has identified himself. We
have a name now and we have charges that are
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being filed. But he wants you to know he didn't
do it because of the fact that you know she's
driving a Tesla. Here is the updated report from our
television partner KPRC. Too.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Happened in a Whole Foods parking lot in the Tanglewood area.
The man in that video identified himself as Nicholas Carrion.
He says though the incident happened during the height of
Tesla attacks, a nationwide causing an FBI investigation into domestic terrorism,
this wasn't his intention. He says, it was road rage
and he has this message for the driver.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
When I watched the video, I noticed that a man
was walking alongside what I first thought was just touching
my car all the way from the back to the front,
and then when I got out of my car to look,
I then noticed a long scratch along that whole side
of my car, including the door handle.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
But then, just over a month ago, on February thirteenth,
the woman whose car was keyed opted to hide her
identity after looking at her car's security video system and
noticing that the man who did the damage followed her
from the interstate. That man, Nicholas Kerion, says he was
cut off by the driver while he was also on
his way to that same Whole Foods at the time.
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He says he went inside did his shopping, but could
not let go of his anger. He now faces a
criminal mischief and felony charged due to the amount of
damage he caused. He says he was not aware of
the FBI's investigation of finding reports of arson, gunfire, and
vandalism of Tesla's linked to political grievances.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I felt anger because the woman cut me off.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Please know that.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I did not mean to cause you that much fear.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Huh. It's a road rage incident. Now, either this guy
is really not very bright, or he's very smart and
has decided that it's much He's much better off being
charged with a road rage incident than he is with
being charged with an act of terrorism. So let's assume
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for a moment that that he's not that bright. If
it's a real here's what doesn't make sense to me
about it, or maybe it does. I guess I don't
know that many hotheads. Have you ever gotten so absolutely
pissed off about something a driver did to you on
a Houston Expressway that you followed them into the parking
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lot of wherever they're going to shop, got out of
your vehicle, went into the store for a while, and
then came back out and you were still so upset
that you keyed the car or did something like that.
Because that part doesn't make sense to me. I mean, normally,
I don't know about you. I'm like everybody else. I
can get angry, and sometimes I get angry about the
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silliest things, but that usually wears off pretty quick, right,
I mean, within thirty seconds, I'm over it. Certainly within
a minute or two, I'm over it, no matter how
upset I am. I can't imagine being upset about some
woman cutting me off, going into a store, shopping for
a while, coming back out, and you're still so angry
that you feel the need to vandalize her car. And
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if that's the case, A, you need anger management, and
B how's what you just did any different or any
better than being a Tesla terrorist. I mean, that's equally
stupid reason to keep somebody's car. Okay, it's it's a
female driver. I mean nothing against female drivers. My wife's
a better driver than I am. I fully admit that.
(06:22):
But but I mean we've all been cut off before.
I mean, it happens sometimes, it happens very aggressively. And
if she's she could have been on her phone not
paying attention, which I get it makes you angry, but
that's it. It was a road rage incident that seems
crazy to me. All Right, little break back with Borne Mama,
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Jimmy Baird show here a name, nine fifty KPRC. All right,
(07:04):
Tomorrow is Liberation Day. It is April second. That is
the date that President Trump gave us our liberation Day
because that's when tariffs are going to go into effect. Now.
I don't know what might be happening, if anything, today
that could change the outcome of that, but we have
some pretty stiff tariffs that are going to start. One
(07:25):
of the stiffest of the tariffs is on European alcohol,
wine and distilled spirits, where the tariff is supposedly going
to be two hundred percent two hundred percent on European wine.
If you're working in the wine industry, this has got
(07:46):
you very concerned. Obviously, this guy is a in addition
to probably being a world class wine connoisseur, is with
the US Wine Trade Alliance. He's their president. Ben NF.
Ben NF on what a two hundred percent tariff on
European wine would do.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
We're hopeful that the administration is going to cool the
jets for a moment on big tariffs on wine. Remember,
a two hundred percent tariff on wine would be so
catastrophic for the industry that every American town would know
businesses that went under more than three hundred and fifty
thousand retailer or more than three hundred and fifty thousand
small restaurants, fifty thousand retailers, eight thousand independently owned importers
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and distributors. These are mostly small, family owned businesses. They
all absolutely depend on the sale of imported wine for
their very survival.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
So it seems like not just the wine distributors or
the people directly involved, but the restaurants and this sort
of far reaching vapor trail that would spray all over
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I mean I was on the phone with a benchmark
steakhouse outside of my hometown of Adelene, Texas, not long ago.
On a sixty five dollars steak. They think they can
make between zero and one dollar. You figure a four top,
you've made some money, You've made four bucks. But on
a bottle of one hundred and twenty dollars wine, they
can make one hundred. This is how they subsidize the
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rest of their business.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Okay, So if a bottle of Chateau noufdu pop. Not
that I know anything about this stuff, but obviously a
very popular wine are Chateau Lafitte, These expensive ones, they're
in transit right now, are they not? In some cases
we were hearing, I was reading about one wine distributor
who said she's got something like fifteen gigantic cases coming
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from Europe right now. They're in the water some you know,
or wherever they're in the water. They're in Atlantic right now,
and if by Wednesday they're not here, they get slapped
with two hundred percent. She said she's done, she doesn't
have the money.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Oh, you're exactly right. Remember, these are American businesses, mostly
small family owned businesses. They've already bought this wine. This
is what they're planning on to feed their families for
the next six to eight months. And if they get
hit with an unplanned tariff with no notice or with
no goods on the water exception, there are huge numbers
of companies that will go out of business on that day.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I don't know two hundred percent is he really going
to end up being two hundred percent? And I would
be surprised by the way if they put that tariff
on anything that that has already been shipped. I would
think wuld be anything purchased from this point on, not
anything shipped. But we'll see. And I'm, you know, math,
being of all the subjects I had in school, math
being my absolute poor subject. I'm trying to figure out
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what two hundred percent on a twenty dollars bottle of
wine would be. Is that like a does that turned
a twenty dollars bottle of wine into like one hundred
dollars bottle of wine with a two hundred percent tariff
eighty bucks or one hundred bucks something like that. Anyway,
look at it it Obviously it makes European wine, you know,
unaffordable except for the people who are rich who don't
really care how much it costs. Right, they really don't,
(10:54):
or maybe they do. If you're buying a thousand dollars
bottle of wine, some rare wine or whatever, some you
know like that two hundred percent tariff on a thousand
dollars bottle of wine, and maybe even a rich person
would care about that hard to say. I did see
where Target and Walmart, who have a tremendous amount of
(11:14):
things that they sell that come from China, are negotiating
with they're Chinese suppliers. And I've heard people say this before,
and I'm sure this is going to be the case.
That is unlikely that you are going to pay all
of any tariff that goes on any goods and services,
that a certain amount of that will be absorbed by
(11:34):
the person, either the supplier or by the seller, or
by both because they realize that, you know, there's only
so much you're willing to spend for any particular item,
especially if it's an item that comes from China. So
I wouldn't expect to see all of those things passed
along to the consumer. Because these these businesses have to
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keep in business. It may come into the profit margins some.
But we'll say again, we'll we'll see, we'll see what
actually ends up going into effect. And more importantly, even
if it does go into effect, how long it stays
in effect, Because you could have something going to effect and
not necessarily stay in effect for very, very long. All Right.
The other one I found interesting today is the other
(12:16):
deadline that's coming up this week. So tomorrow is Liberation Day,
and then I think it's Saturday. Isn't Saturday, April fifth?
I think Saturday is the deadline unless it gets extended again.
Is the deadline for TikTok to divest. You know, the
Chinese happen to divest from TikTok or it's no longer
available in the United States. One of the people who's
(12:38):
been trying to buy TikTok is businessman Kevin O'Leary. Here
he is yesterday talking about where they're at with TikTok.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
President's right, there's a lot of interest. Frank McCourt and I,
who put the syning it together Project Liberty to buy TikTok,
are waiting the outcome. Like all the others are from Chi.
This is a company that has a golden share in
it where the government of China. Notably, she decides what
he's going to do. Obviously, Trump is trying to coax
(13:07):
a decision out of him by offering tariff points, and
Trump is right, you know, single tariff point is probably
worth more than TikTok. But we don't have any indication
yet any of the buying groups that she has decided
what he wants to do.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The anticipation is.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
That we'll get an extension on Saturday, because there's no
question there are people interested in buying TikTok. I think
the difference with McCourt and I is we are preparing
for the eventuality, looking at the law and talking. And
I'm in Washington right now, Maria.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I mean, if you want.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
To find out the status of lawmakers' views on TikTok,
you just have to go to Cathe Milano and hang
out there for an hour and a half and you're
going to get a earfull from everybody of their opinion.
And so at the end of which I did last night,
there's a lot of lawmakers that want to see this
asset completely disentangled from the Chinese code and Bykedan's completely
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so the interpretation of what the law says is key
moving over that, as you're well aware, is five thousand
dollars a day per user penalty.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
There is no company in the s and P.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Five hundred that could last more than eleven days without
being bankrupt with that penalty. So we're trying to balance
all this out. My attitude is, and I can speak
for Frank on this one, we're here to help. Look,
we'll work a deal anyway we can. And if we're
told we cannot use the source code or bite Dance,
can't be an owner or whatever, Trump and she decide
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we're going to work with that.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Okay, but it sounds like they need to decide. And
again they're running into in April second deadline. Nless they
think they somehow can get this extended again. But again,
you know, your next next shot at not having TikTok
in your life is going to be coming up, probably
on Saturday. We'll see what happens with all that. Back
with MORTI moment Jimmy Bartt show, You're a name nine
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fifty KPRC. I don't pay a lot of attention to
the Environmental Protection Agency, and I don't expect that you
(15:19):
probably do either, But I did see something with Laura
Ingram last night that I thought was pretty funny and
worth sharing with you. I think it's another example, just
like doses. It's just another great example of the government
wasted money on something that's relatively useless. Turns out I
had no idea. It turns out that the Environmental Protection
(15:41):
Agency has a museum. Did you know that? No, neither
did I. This museum is at the EPA building. It
takes up about sixteen hundred square feet, it's on one floor.
It's not much to look at, and it's a whole
bunch of you know, social justice environmental stuff that evidently
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the Biden administration spent four million dollars creating this EPA
museum that nobody goes to. It is not brought in
a single petty of income it is. It's cost the
taxpayer's four million dollars. And Lee Zelden, who's new head
of the EPA, was giving Laura Ingram a tour of
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it on her show last night, so I thought i'd
shared the audio from that. By the way, it is
officially closed now, so there won't be an e EPA
museum at least in during the Trump administration. But here's
lee Zelden showing Laura Ingram around this four million dollars
worth of taxpayer waste.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
We're in a one room that is less than sixteen
hundred square feet. You'll see all sorts of time missing.
You might remember during this period between twenty fourteen and
twenty twenty one, there was a Trump presidency. Yeah, they
just conveniently leave that out of the timeline. Now, come over,
here's a lot about climate change and environmental justice. I
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know it's the only emissions that they're even going to
talk about. Here is carbon dioxide. No reference to anything
that is good and necessary about carbon dioxide. Here's the
shot of the entire museum. This is everything. Four million
dollars to build this. I don't even know how the
heck they need to spend four million dollars for this
one room. Coming over here, another tribute to environmental justice.
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And what's amazing is that, over the course of this
last administration, all this talk about environmental justice and climate change,
it was really to justify giving out tens of billions
of dollars to their friends through self dealing, conflicts of interest,
unqualified recipients. We're shutting this museum down. The taxpayer wins.
(17:48):
Enough of this partial, biased EPA history. We should be
going back to the basics, and if we're spending a dollar,
we should spend it directly on remediating environmental issue.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I have an important question because I'm looking at that
amazing interactive museum. I mean, the technology that seems to
have gone into that is really stunning. Mister administrator, those
poster boards must have cost a lot. But how much
revenue has it brought in? Four million dollars to build it?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hum up, wow, zero, yeah, nothing, but it's closed. It's
closed four million dollars. I wonder where that four million
act the four million didn't go into the exhibit. I
can tell you that maybe to whoever put the exhibit
together got paid four million dollars, some friend of a
friend of a friend in the Biden administration, no doubt,
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Which is how these people all get rich. Oh, it's
speaking of rich Elon Musk speaking in Wisconsin the other day,
he would really like to know how congressmen and congresswomen
you know, making a you know, less than two hundred
thousand dollars a year, How are they worth twenty million dollars?
How are they getting rich? I think he thinks that
may Dough should look into that too.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
There's a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I
just can't I'm trying to connect the dots of how
did they become rich well earning? How they get twenty
million if they're earning two hundred thousand a year sounds
nobody can explain that.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
Do we wait for the DOSEE team to dig into
why so many career politicians have such high net worths.
We also know that the team is expanding its reach
to more federal agencies this week, now targeting the Securities
and Exchange Commission and as you noted, the CIA. The
President's Executive Order on Inauguration Day instructs agency heads to
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create DOGE teams made up of at least four employees.
Here's what the SEC tells us. In compliance with the
President's EO establishing DOGE, the SEC is beginning to onboard
members of the team.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
We also know, as you noted.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
That Musk is meeting with CIA Director John Ratcliffe today.
Will what comes from that meeting, And even as those
protesters in DC and across the country criticize Musk, he's
doubling down on Doge and making a new argument. He's
making the case that Doge's work will help grow the
overall economy.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
We're reducing waisting forward will essentially make the economy more efficient,
and we'll shift people resources from the government to the
private sector, and that will result in an increase in
the output of pots and services, and so the average
senat of living will therefore rise.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
That's what we're talking about, increasing jobs in the private sector,
decreasing jobs that are government jobs that rely on taxpayer
dollars in order to be able to fund them. This
is a fundamental shift in what has been going on
here the last four years, in particular by creating more
and more government jobs. Now, unfortunately, we need to be
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doing the same thing at the at the state and
the local level. You know, Harris County just gave a
big pay raise to some of their workers. We talked
about a little bit last week. They're raising the minimum
wage from about fifteen all up to like twenty one
dollars and sixty eight cents something like that, which allowed
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about five million dollars to the Harris County budget, you know,
which last I checked. They don't have unless, of course
they want to come back with even more of a
way to try to get more property tax dollars out
of us. There's no desire in Harris County to cut
back on government. Quite the opposite. There are just amazing
amounts of jobs. There's there's hundreds of jobs open in
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Harris County and they all pay a minimum of twenty
one now twenty one dollars and sixty eight cents an hour.
Even if you stand around all day killing mosquitoes, you
can make that kind of money. So why wouldn't you
want to work for hair? Is Counni right? No matter
what it is that you're doing. All right, listen, I
want to thank you for tuning in. Thanks for listening.
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Y'all have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning,
bright nearly five am over on news radio seven forty
k t r H. Hope to talk to you tomorrow
afternoon four here on Am nine fifty k pr C.
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense
will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind
dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
We have a follow up to a story to start
the show today. It is a story that we did
last week. I don't recall what Dave was last week.
See if you all remember this, it was the it's
the Tesla terrorist story Local one UH from KPRC to
our television partner. They did a story about a woman
(00:55):
and they disguised the woman was one of those shots
where they shoot shoot you from the back of All
you can see is the kind of her silhouette in
the back of her head and you can hear her voice.
She did she was afraid, so she did not want
to be identified because she thought, oh, one of those
Tesla terrorists, you know, keep my keep my vehicle, and
they might be come might be coming after me. So
(01:16):
she did want to be shown on camera. And that's
what the story was about. The story was about Tesla terrorism,
and it's fine, it's come to Houston. Here we are.
We've got some guy who is who's keyed this woman's
car because she's driving a Tesla, and that's what the
story was really all about. And at the time, I thought, well,
you know, could be there's there's there's there's plenty of
(01:39):
liberals here in Houston, Texas. There you know, there there
are plenty of you know, far left whack people, whack
jobs who are out there. They might do something like that.
And I thought, well, isn't that typical If it's going
to happen. It happened in Tanglewood, happened in a Whole
Foods parking lot. Does that just not sound like the
quintessential person who would be driving a Tesla. Although I
guess my viewpoint is it's kind of softened on Tesla
(02:01):
drivers now that we've got you know, Elon Musk doing
what he is doing for the country, I guess I
might not be bashing Tesla Tesla owners that much anymore,
especially to considering the fact that they do seem to
be targets. But as it turns out, there's a follow
up to this story. It turns out that this woman
was not a target of Tesla terrorism, that the fact
(02:25):
that she was driving a Tesla evidently didn't have anything
to do with it. Yeah, amazing, I know. So the
guy who was seen on the Tesla camera king her
vehicle has come forward and he has identified himself. We
have a name now and we have charges that are
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being filed. But he wants you to know he didn't
do it because of the fact that you know she's
driving a Tesla. Here is the updated report from our
television partner KPRC. Too.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Happened in a Whole Foods parking lot in the Tanglewood area.
The man in that video identified himself as Nicholas Carrion.
He says though the incident happened during the height of
Tesla attacks, a nationwide causing an FBI investigation into domestic terrorism,
this wasn't his intention. He says, it was road rage
and he has this message for the driver.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
When I watched the video, I noticed that a man
was walking alongside what I first thought was just touching
my car all the way from the back to the front,
and then when I got out of my car to look,
I then noticed a long scratch along that whole side
of my car, including the door handle.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
But then, just over a month ago, on February thirteenth,
the woman whose car was keyed opted to hide her
identity after looking at her car's security video system and
noticing that the man who did the damage followed her
from the interstate. That man, Nicholas Kerion, says he was
cut off by the driver while he was also on
his way to that same Whole Foods at the time.
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He says he went inside did his shopping, but could
not let go of his anger. He now faces a
criminal mischief and felony charged due to the amount of
damage he caused. He says he was not aware of
the FBI's investigation of finding reports of arson, gunfire, and
vandalism of Tesla's linked to political grievances.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I felt anger because the woman cut me off.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Please know that.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I did not mean to cause you that much fear.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Huh. It's a road rage incident. Now, either this guy
is really not very bright, or he's very smart and
has decided that it's much He's much better off being
charged with a road rage incident than he is with
being charged with an act of terrorism. So let's assume
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for a moment that that he's not that bright. If
it's a real here's what doesn't make sense to me
about it, or maybe it does. I guess I don't
know that many hotheads. Have you ever gotten so absolutely
pissed off about something a driver did to you on
a Houston Expressway that you followed them into the parking
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lot of wherever they're going to shop, got out of
your vehicle, went into the store for a while, and
then came back out and you were still so upset
that you keyed the car or did something like that.
Because that part doesn't make sense to me. I mean, normally,
I don't know about you. I'm like everybody else. I
can get angry, and sometimes I get angry about the
(05:37):
silliest things, but that usually wears off pretty quick, right,
I mean, within thirty seconds, I'm over it. Certainly within
a minute or two, I'm over it, no matter how
upset I am. I can't imagine being upset about some
woman cutting me off, going into a store, shopping for
a while, coming back out, and you're still so angry
that you feel the need to vandalize her car. And
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if that's the case, A, you need anger management, and
B how's what you just did any different or any
better than being a Tesla terrorist. I mean, that's equally
stupid reason to keep somebody's car. Okay, it's it's a
female driver. I mean nothing against female drivers. My wife's
a better driver than I am. I fully admit that.
(06:22):
But but I mean we've all been cut off before.
I mean, it happens sometimes, it happens very aggressively. And
if she's she could have been on her phone not
paying attention, which I get it makes you angry, but
that's it. It was a road rage incident that seems
crazy to me. All Right, little break back with Borne Mama,
(06:42):
Jimmy Baird show here a name, nine fifty KPRC. All right,
(07:04):
Tomorrow is Liberation Day. It is April second. That is
the date that President Trump gave us our liberation Day
because that's when tariffs are going to go into effect. Now.
I don't know what might be happening, if anything, today
that could change the outcome of that, but we have
some pretty stiff tariffs that are going to start. One
(07:25):
of the stiffest of the tariffs is on European alcohol,
wine and distilled spirits, where the tariff is supposedly going
to be two hundred percent two hundred percent on European wine.
If you're working in the wine industry, this has got
(07:46):
you very concerned. Obviously, this guy is a in addition
to probably being a world class wine connoisseur, is with
the US Wine Trade Alliance. He's their president. Ben NF.
Ben NF on what a two hundred percent tariff on
European wine would do.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
We're hopeful that the administration is going to cool the
jets for a moment on big tariffs on wine. Remember,
a two hundred percent tariff on wine would be so
catastrophic for the industry that every American town would know
businesses that went under more than three hundred and fifty
thousand retailer or more than three hundred and fifty thousand
small restaurants, fifty thousand retailers, eight thousand independently owned importers
(08:30):
and distributors. These are mostly small, family owned businesses. They
all absolutely depend on the sale of imported wine for
their very survival.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
So it seems like not just the wine distributors or
the people directly involved, but the restaurants and this sort
of far reaching vapor trail that would spray all over
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I mean I was on the phone with a benchmark
steakhouse outside of my hometown of Adelene, Texas, not long ago.
On a sixty five dollars steak. They think they can
make between zero and one dollar. You figure a four top,
you've made some money, You've made four bucks. But on
a bottle of one hundred and twenty dollars wine, they
can make one hundred. This is how they subsidize the
(09:11):
rest of their business.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Okay, So if a bottle of Chateau noufdu pop. Not
that I know anything about this stuff, but obviously a
very popular wine are Chateau Lafitte, These expensive ones, they're
in transit right now, are they not? In some cases
we were hearing, I was reading about one wine distributor
who said she's got something like fifteen gigantic cases coming
(09:35):
from Europe right now. They're in the water some you know,
or wherever they're in the water. They're in Atlantic right now,
and if by Wednesday they're not here, they get slapped
with two hundred percent. She said she's done, she doesn't
have the money.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Oh, you're exactly right. Remember, these are American businesses, mostly
small family owned businesses. They've already bought this wine. This
is what they're planning on to feed their families for
the next six to eight months. And if they get
hit with an unplanned tariff with no notice or with
no goods on the water exception, there are huge numbers
of companies that will go out of business on that day.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I don't know two hundred percent is he really going
to end up being two hundred percent? And I would
be surprised by the way if they put that tariff
on anything that that has already been shipped. I would
think wuld be anything purchased from this point on, not
anything shipped. But we'll see. And I'm, you know, math,
being of all the subjects I had in school, math
being my absolute poor subject. I'm trying to figure out
(10:31):
what two hundred percent on a twenty dollars bottle of
wine would be. Is that like a does that turned
a twenty dollars bottle of wine into like one hundred
dollars bottle of wine with a two hundred percent tariff
eighty bucks or one hundred bucks something like that. Anyway,
look at it it Obviously it makes European wine, you know,
unaffordable except for the people who are rich who don't
really care how much it costs. Right, they really don't,
(10:54):
or maybe they do. If you're buying a thousand dollars
bottle of wine, some rare wine or whatever, some you
know like that two hundred percent tariff on a thousand
dollars bottle of wine, and maybe even a rich person
would care about that hard to say. I did see
where Target and Walmart, who have a tremendous amount of
(11:14):
things that they sell that come from China, are negotiating
with they're Chinese suppliers. And I've heard people say this before,
and I'm sure this is going to be the case.
That is unlikely that you are going to pay all
of any tariff that goes on any goods and services,
that a certain amount of that will be absorbed by
(11:34):
the person, either the supplier or by the seller, or
by both because they realize that, you know, there's only
so much you're willing to spend for any particular item,
especially if it's an item that comes from China. So
I wouldn't expect to see all of those things passed
along to the consumer. Because these these businesses have to
(11:55):
keep in business. It may come into the profit margins some.
But we'll say again, we'll we'll see, we'll see what
actually ends up going into effect. And more importantly, even
if it does go into effect, how long it stays
in effect, Because you could have something going to effect and
not necessarily stay in effect for very, very long. All Right.
The other one I found interesting today is the other
(12:16):
deadline that's coming up this week. So tomorrow is Liberation Day,
and then I think it's Saturday. Isn't Saturday, April fifth?
I think Saturday is the deadline unless it gets extended again.
Is the deadline for TikTok to divest. You know, the
Chinese happen to divest from TikTok or it's no longer
available in the United States. One of the people who's
(12:38):
been trying to buy TikTok is businessman Kevin O'Leary. Here
he is yesterday talking about where they're at with TikTok.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
President's right, there's a lot of interest. Frank McCourt and I,
who put the syning it together Project Liberty to buy TikTok,
are waiting the outcome. Like all the others are from Chi.
This is a company that has a golden share in
it where the government of China. Notably, she decides what
he's going to do. Obviously, Trump is trying to coax
(13:07):
a decision out of him by offering tariff points, and
Trump is right, you know, single tariff point is probably
worth more than TikTok. But we don't have any indication
yet any of the buying groups that she has decided
what he wants to do.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The anticipation is.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
That we'll get an extension on Saturday, because there's no
question there are people interested in buying TikTok. I think
the difference with McCourt and I is we are preparing
for the eventuality, looking at the law and talking. And
I'm in Washington right now, Maria.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I mean, if you want.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
To find out the status of lawmakers' views on TikTok,
you just have to go to Cathe Milano and hang
out there for an hour and a half and you're
going to get a earfull from everybody of their opinion.
And so at the end of which I did last night,
there's a lot of lawmakers that want to see this
asset completely disentangled from the Chinese code and Bykedan's completely
(14:00):
so the interpretation of what the law says is key
moving over that, as you're well aware, is five thousand
dollars a day per user penalty.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
There is no company in the s and P.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Five hundred that could last more than eleven days without
being bankrupt with that penalty. So we're trying to balance
all this out. My attitude is, and I can speak
for Frank on this one, we're here to help. Look,
we'll work a deal anyway we can. And if we're
told we cannot use the source code or bite Dance,
can't be an owner or whatever, Trump and she decide
(14:32):
we're going to work with that.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Okay, but it sounds like they need to decide. And
again they're running into in April second deadline. Nless they
think they somehow can get this extended again. But again,
you know, your next next shot at not having TikTok
in your life is going to be coming up, probably
on Saturday. We'll see what happens with all that. Back
with MORTI moment Jimmy Bartt show, You're a name nine
(14:56):
fifty KPRC. I don't pay a lot of attention to
the Environmental Protection Agency, and I don't expect that you
(15:19):
probably do either, But I did see something with Laura
Ingram last night that I thought was pretty funny and
worth sharing with you. I think it's another example, just
like doses. It's just another great example of the government
wasted money on something that's relatively useless. Turns out I
had no idea. It turns out that the Environmental Protection
(15:41):
Agency has a museum. Did you know that? No, neither
did I. This museum is at the EPA building. It
takes up about sixteen hundred square feet, it's on one floor.
It's not much to look at, and it's a whole
bunch of you know, social justice environmental stuff that evidently
(16:02):
the Biden administration spent four million dollars creating this EPA
museum that nobody goes to. It is not brought in
a single petty of income it is. It's cost the
taxpayer's four million dollars. And Lee Zelden, who's new head
of the EPA, was giving Laura Ingram a tour of
(16:25):
it on her show last night, so I thought i'd
shared the audio from that. By the way, it is
officially closed now, so there won't be an e EPA
museum at least in during the Trump administration. But here's
lee Zelden showing Laura Ingram around this four million dollars
worth of taxpayer waste.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
We're in a one room that is less than sixteen
hundred square feet. You'll see all sorts of time missing.
You might remember during this period between twenty fourteen and
twenty twenty one, there was a Trump presidency. Yeah, they
just conveniently leave that out of the timeline. Now, come over,
here's a lot about climate change and environmental justice. I
(17:04):
know it's the only emissions that they're even going to
talk about. Here is carbon dioxide. No reference to anything
that is good and necessary about carbon dioxide. Here's the
shot of the entire museum. This is everything. Four million
dollars to build this. I don't even know how the
heck they need to spend four million dollars for this
one room. Coming over here, another tribute to environmental justice.
(17:27):
And what's amazing is that, over the course of this
last administration, all this talk about environmental justice and climate change,
it was really to justify giving out tens of billions
of dollars to their friends through self dealing, conflicts of interest,
unqualified recipients. We're shutting this museum down. The taxpayer wins.
(17:48):
Enough of this partial, biased EPA history. We should be
going back to the basics, and if we're spending a dollar,
we should spend it directly on remediating environmental issue.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I have an important question because I'm looking at that
amazing interactive museum. I mean, the technology that seems to
have gone into that is really stunning. Mister administrator, those
poster boards must have cost a lot. But how much
revenue has it brought in? Four million dollars to build it?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hum up, wow, zero, yeah, nothing, but it's closed. It's
closed four million dollars. I wonder where that four million
act the four million didn't go into the exhibit. I
can tell you that maybe to whoever put the exhibit
together got paid four million dollars, some friend of a
friend of a friend in the Biden administration, no doubt,
(18:40):
Which is how these people all get rich. Oh, it's
speaking of rich Elon Musk speaking in Wisconsin the other day,
he would really like to know how congressmen and congresswomen
you know, making a you know, less than two hundred
thousand dollars a year, How are they worth twenty million dollars?
How are they getting rich? I think he thinks that
may Dough should look into that too.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
There's a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I
just can't I'm trying to connect the dots of how
did they become rich well earning? How they get twenty
million if they're earning two hundred thousand a year sounds
nobody can explain that.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
Do we wait for the DOSEE team to dig into
why so many career politicians have such high net worths.
We also know that the team is expanding its reach
to more federal agencies this week, now targeting the Securities
and Exchange Commission and as you noted, the CIA. The
President's Executive Order on Inauguration Day instructs agency heads to
(19:42):
create DOGE teams made up of at least four employees.
Here's what the SEC tells us. In compliance with the
President's EO establishing DOGE, the SEC is beginning to onboard
members of the team.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
We also know, as you noted.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
That Musk is meeting with CIA Director John Ratcliffe today.
Will what comes from that meeting, And even as those
protesters in DC and across the country criticize Musk, he's
doubling down on Doge and making a new argument. He's
making the case that Doge's work will help grow the
overall economy.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
We're reducing waisting forward will essentially make the economy more efficient,
and we'll shift people resources from the government to the
private sector, and that will result in an increase in
the output of pots and services, and so the average
senat of living will therefore rise.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
That's what we're talking about, increasing jobs in the private sector,
decreasing jobs that are government jobs that rely on taxpayer
dollars in order to be able to fund them. This
is a fundamental shift in what has been going on
here the last four years, in particular by creating more
and more government jobs. Now, unfortunately, we need to be
(21:02):
doing the same thing at the at the state and
the local level. You know, Harris County just gave a
big pay raise to some of their workers. We talked
about a little bit last week. They're raising the minimum
wage from about fifteen all up to like twenty one
dollars and sixty eight cents something like that, which allowed
(21:24):
about five million dollars to the Harris County budget, you know,
which last I checked. They don't have unless, of course
they want to come back with even more of a
way to try to get more property tax dollars out
of us. There's no desire in Harris County to cut
back on government. Quite the opposite. There are just amazing
amounts of jobs. There's there's hundreds of jobs open in
(21:45):
Harris County and they all pay a minimum of twenty
one now twenty one dollars and sixty eight cents an hour.
Even if you stand around all day killing mosquitoes, you
can make that kind of money. So why wouldn't you
want to work for hair? Is Counni right? No matter
what it is that you're doing. All right, listen, I
want to thank you for tuning in. Thanks for listening.
(22:06):
Y'all have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning,
bright nearly five am over on news radio seven forty
k t r H. Hope to talk to you tomorrow
afternoon four here on Am nine fifty k pr C.
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