October 21, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right, we have we have a lot of local
stories to talk about here today on AM nine fifty
KPRC and The Jimmy Barrett Show. We'll get I think
next segment we're gonna make that the local story segment.
We've got an update on the Rainbow crosswalks in Montrose.
We also have an update on the homeless hub that
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the city wants to put in and spend sixteen million
dollars on, so you know, well, I'll get to that.
Oh and we have a great reaction to the one
point three million dollars approved by the Harris County Commissioner's
Court to help fund defense for illegal immigrants who are
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being deported. Yes, your taxpayer dollars in Harris County being
spent in a county by the way, that is you
know over well they're not over budget. Now, but in
a county where they can't come up with enough money
for basic services, but they want to spend one point
three million dollars on legal services for people who are
in this country illegally. That means you broke the law
to be here to begin with, all right, first, so
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let's start with this one. This is kind of a
funny story because I'm obsessed. Hang on, I gotta be
careful how I phrase this. I'm obsessed with toilets that
are very, very efficient. One of the things I hate
about low I hate low flow. I am I am
mister anti low flow. I don't like low flow faucets,
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I don't like low flow shower heads, and I certainly
don't like low flow toilets. So the only way you
can get me excited about a toilet is if it
somehow takes that less water but still manages to do
more with less when it comes to flushing. As I
think we've discussed here before, much to my own personal peril.
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By the way, my wife is somewhat obsessed with toilet paper.
She's obsessed with running out of toilet paper. She's obsessed
with with with having a stockpile of toilet paper. You know,
when we had that whole COVID lockdown thing and we
had the supply issues and it was hard to find paper,
towels and toilet paper in any supermarket in the Greater
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Houston area. She was going crazy. She was just driving
herself and saying about finding her next roll of toilet paper.
So it makes her nervous. So one of the things
that as a result of her love of toilet paper,
as she has the tendency to use too much of it.
You would think that somebody who's afraid of running out
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of it would conserve more, but she doesn't. She uses
a lot of toilet paper, and as a result of that,
we would have clogging issues. Low float toilets with a
lot of toilet paper in them, it doesn't work real well.
It's a recipe for disaster. So the plunger always had
to be nearby because of all the toilet paper and
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the toilet and I finally one day said, you know,
I've had enough of this. We need to do something
about it. So I contacted a plumber and I said,
give me a solution for toilets that constantly clog. What
do you have that could suck a golf ball through
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a hose. What do you have that would just you know,
when you put hit that body goes oh, and it
just takes everything out of that bowl. It makes it disappear,
never backs up, never get it's clogged. He said, I
got just the thing for you. He says. It's it's
it's a tank inside of a tank, and it looks
like it's a regular toilet, but inside the toilet tank
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is another pressurized tank. And what happens is the water
goes in there. And I'm not sure how all it works,
but boy does it work good. And you hit the button,
you know, you hit the you hit the button on
that thing, and it just who it is. Never clogged
one time, not one time. We've had it probably for
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two three years now. Love that toy as much as
I could love a toilet. I love that toilet of
just it's fantastic. Never never have had to haul out
the plunger. The plunger in that bathrooms obsolete. We did
it into they're expensive. We only did it in two
of the bathrooms. But every now and again I find myself,
for whatever reason, having to use one of the bathrooms
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that doesn't have that toilet in there. And man, what
a difference. What made me think of all this is
Cohler has come out and it calls a pretty well
known brand name for faucets and you know, toilet fixtures
and all that kind of stuff. They have just debuted
a new six hundred dollars toilet camera. This this is
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one of the sillier stories I think I've ever seen. This.
This is for people who are obsessed, I guess obsessed
with their health, or they are paranoid about colorectal cancer
or whatever. The case is that you would want to
have a toilet the only somebody like that would want
to have a toilet like this. The toilet has a
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camera is a six The camera alone is six hundred bucks.
And the camera won't take a picture of your junk
or anything, but it analyzes what's going into your tank.
It films it, hey, it uses an algorithm to analyze
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the results and to track your health. It's called Dakota
d e k O d A. The plan on the
word decode. Six hundred dollars fits on the side of
most toilet bowls, so you don't have to buy a
new toilet uses optical sensors to scan your waste and
then it spits the data out on your phone on
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an app you sign in on a fingerprint scanner, so
it knows who's waist it's scanning. Because you can set
up for yourself and set it up for anybody else
in the household that you want to monitor. It can
tell you whether or not you're dehydrated. Do I need
a toilet bowl camera to tell me I'm dehydrated? You
if your urine is is dark in color, dark yellow,
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then you're dehydrated. Just drink some more water. And by
the way, just drink some more water anyway. It's good
for you, So I don't need it for that. It
can tell you whether you're dehydrated. What percentage of your sessions?
Is that what we're calling this now, Yes, I'm having
a session. I'm sitting down doing number two. Let's call
about a session. What percentage of your sessions are regular
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each week? And will also look for any signs of blood.
Now the last one I can see where that would
come in handy unless you have a hemorrhoid and you
pop your hemorrhoid, in which case, you know, maybe that's
the problem. I just think you're asking for trouble. Most
most people don't need this, you know, I can't imagine,
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you know what kind of you'd probably be very obsessive
about it. Right, if you felt like you had to
have this camera, you'd you'd be tracking every ball movement
you ever had and looking just looking for problems. Now,
maybe on the plus side, maybe for people who have
a high risk of colorectal cancer, maybe this is just
another tool to make them feel better about you know,
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where they're at and knowing that you know they're on
the lookout for anything that might possibly be wrong. Oh,
by the way, there's more than just the charge for
the six hundred dollars for the camera. There's also an
annual subscription fee seventy bucks a year. If it was
just you, one hundred and thirty dollars for the family plan.
You know, if you want to if you want to
analyze your kids poop for example. All right, quick up,
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break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett Show
here at NAM nine fifty KPRC. All right, this is
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our local segment today. These are all local stories we
can we can think about and comment on. It's a
busy day for local news here in Houston. I'm not
saying that these are all mine altering stories or end
of the world kind of stories, or even super important stories.
But I have been watching with interest the Montrose ringbow
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crosswalk story. You know, they had a cross they had
two crosswalks in the same intersection, both of them, you know,
traditional crosswalk only the rainbow flag was painted in the crosswalk.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
President Trump said that he put the federal edict and
tied federal tax dollars to it. That required that that
there's no political messaging for either side, but no political
messaging having to do with the roadways. So Governor Abbott
put out the eating here in the in Texas, and
on a local standpoint, Mayor Whittmeyer, realizing that there are
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federal dollars they could lose if they didn't comply, went
ahead and got that done. So yesterday I'm not sure
did they did they really have to asphalt over this intersection?
Why not just painted? Why not just go over the
paint with with black paint and cover it up that way. Anyway,
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they brought out asphalt drugs and they and they repaid
that intersection there. Here's the report from KHOU eleven.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
It's been nearly fourteen hours since the colorful crosswalks were
paved over. You can see that they're no longer out
here at this intersection. Despite that, the community is not
backing down. Dozens of community members gathering early this morning
at Wesheimer and Taff to protest the removal of the
rainbow crosswalks. Houston police were seen handcuffing some protesters and
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then carrying them away. HPD tells me that four people
were taken into custody from blocking the roadway shortly after.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The paving began.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
For many, the rainbow crosswalks were a symbol of pride
for the LGBTQ plus community.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
We have urgent matters that need to be attended to,
and we are wasting time on a distraction and a
vilification of you know, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans people.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
The removal follows a direct from the Trump administration and
in order from Governor Greg Abbott calling on Transportation Department
statewide to get rid of what he described as political
ideologies from roadways.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
But protesters say the city should have protected the crosswalks.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And if anything, this crosswalk is doing the city a
favor by being here that we are providing safety, not
only to our Queer community, but to our Houston community overall.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Mayor John Whitmeyer doubling down today because.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
A mayor, I'm not going to risk federal funding.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
I'm talking about healthcare, transportation, Metro schedule get over a
billion dollars in the next five years.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You know, I have a responsibility to the entire city.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Harris County Precinct four Commissioner Leslie Brionez, however, says quote,
I'm deeply disappointed by the decision to remove Texas's first
Pride crosswalk, a symbol of safety, unity, equality and respect
and historic Montrose. Local community is not state or federal
pressure should decide how we honor our values. Is there
a plan of action moving forward now?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, first of all, we're rather disappointed. Still, advocates say
their fight is not over. Looking forward, we.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Are going to try to coordinate with some of the
businesses and the residents to.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
See if they're interested in painting their driveways and their
parking lots.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Late today, Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo releasing a statement
questioning why the Metro Board of Directors did not have
any input on the decision. We've reached out to Metro
repeatedly about the crosswalk removal.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But we're still waiting to hear back.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You'll be waiting for the rest of your life to
here back from Metro. Are you kidding. Let's examine this
for a second though. All right, First of all, this
is considered by the LGBTQ plus community to be an
urgent matter. What is urgent about a rainbow crosswalk? This
is Montrose. There are rainbow flags and everything else all
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throughout Montrose. How is this crosswalk so important that it
has to be on the roadway. I mean, you just
heard in there that they're approaching businesses about, you know,
painting their parking lots rainbow colors, or their their driveways.
If it is a private parking lot or a private driveway,
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go ahead, paint it all you want. All we're talking
about here is a public crosswalk. All we're talking about
here is complying with the law. Put you could put
a rainbow put surround all the buildings at the intersection
with rainbow flags. Everybody knows what Montros is, everybody knows
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how gay friendly it is. Why why is this such
a big deal? By the way, I'm just curious here,
did did did k H? O U eleven need to
send a gay reporter to cover this story, because they
clearly did. Wouldn't it be more interesting television if you said,
maybe the biggest, burliest, you know, most conservative muh person
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down there in order to cover the story. I mean,
that would be that would make for more interesting television,
I think. And then and by the same you send
you could send the gay guy to like a you know,
Friday night football game or something high school football game
and let him report on that. I think that would
make more interesting television. Might not work well for radio,
but I think it would make more interesting television. Let's
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let's get back to this. Though the crosswalk did the
city of favor by being there, the crosswalk did the
city of favor by being there. That was actually said
in that segment, Well, there's still a crosswalk there, isn't there.
I mean, we're not eliminating the crosswalk, We're just eliminating
the ringbow. So it's still a crosswalk and you still
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have to follow the traffic rules. So I don't know
that that really changed from a safety standpoint. That didn't
change anything, you know, how and how was a rainbow
a symbol of safety? The crosswalk may be as symbol
of safety, but not the fact that it was a
rainbow crosswalk. And by the way, word it has it
that today they've been down there repainting the rainbow. So
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this has all the feel of a back and forth. Okay,
we're going to get into a real pissing war on
this one. Back and forth and back and forth. How
much money is going to get wasted in paint, mate,
unless unless you get a paint sponsor. You think Sherwin
Williams wants anything to do with sponsoring any of this stuff. Yeah, no,
probably not all right? In the third story, No second
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story I want to do. Also, a local story that
I find very interesting is the homeless hub, the super hub,
where the city wants to spend sixteen and they haven't
even voted on this yet, but they want to spend
sixteen million dollars to convert a building valued at six
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million dollars by the way, into a homeless shelter, homeless hub,
whether it be drug treatment and mental health facilities. And
we're told a higher than normal police presence that's for
the neighborhood to make them feel better about this. Although
I don't think there's a whole lot of people in
the neighborhood are feeling better about know hosting a super
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hub for the homeless right outside of their neighborhood. But
here's the report on that story from our television partner KPRC.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Too.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
We at least get the civility ordinance in place within
a one mile radiance of this area.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I think it's might help.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Okay, So the civility zone is a civili zone, like
the Eto Civility Zone and the downtown such business Sutter
civility Zone, both of them. However far that reaches right
now is twenty.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Four to seven.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
Time Egan showed up to the Houston Homeless Living Center
on Emancipation Avenue, hoping to be a part of the
mayor's tour. The city says the news site will serve
as a triage and transitional center, connecting people to health care,
treatment and housing.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
And concern is that they're sixteen million being spent on
this very quick and it's appraised at six million. There
is no security implementation that's been given to.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Us other than trust us.
Speaker 13 (17:09):
He wants answers about safety and how the city plans
to protect her neighborhood.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
How are they going to keep us secure, keep it clean.
They held this media event now they haven't voted on it.
Speaker 13 (17:23):
During the door city leaders show reporters where people would
receive care and counseling. Satter Wait says, the facility will
include two hundred and twenty five beds, twenty four hour security,
and patrols to help keep the area safe.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
We will have resources in this area doing additional patrols
work on because we made a promise to this community
that we were going to make this area the best area.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So that's the plan.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
We will we will have additional resources out here. If
we get additional funding, we will deploy that funding to
security and outreach in this area. The idea is that
everybody close to this facility, it's the most benefit of
how this facility.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Okay, so we're gonna make this area the best area
by putting a super hub in for the homeless. And
on one hand, this is kind of like the none
in my backyard nimby thing as finest. Everybody thinks that
you know, corralling the homeless into a specific area to
keep them from sleeping under the bridges or you having
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to step over them on your way to an astros game,
for example, is a good idea in less, of course,
you want to put them in in your neighborhood, in
which case nobody seems to want that. But I think
it's a legitimate concern about whether or not the city
is being good stewards with the taxpayers money. If you
are buying a building that is worth maybe six million
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dollars and you're spending sixteen million dollars to do the facility,
how much of that are you are you spending on
the building?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Is is that you know? Are you going to Not
that the city worries about such things, not that any
government worries about such things, But is that smart investment?
And I get if it solves at least partially the
homeless problems and gives them a place where they can
be and get treatment, then maybe it is worth it
to everybody except maybe the people live next door to
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it who are concerned about it. And I get that
I wouldn't want I wouldn't want a homeless facility right
next door to me either. And then we got the
third story. This is maybe my favorite story. It comes
from Fox twenty six. We've already talked about this one
one point three million Harris County taxpayer dollars being spent
to provide legal representation for illegals. Yes, we're going to
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spend one point three million dollars of taxpayer money to
give legal representation to try to help people who came
here illegally stay here illegally. Doesn't seem like that's a
core service that Harris Counting should be responsible for. And
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as you can imagine, there's only one person who voted
against this. Thank god for Precinct three Commissioner Tom Ramsey.
At least we got one guy. He's got his head
screwed uns right. This report from Fox twenty six starts
with that, But you're gonna love the end where what's
your point is the show? This is from where the
panel gives some reaction to the idea that this is
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how taxpayer money is going to be spent.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I find it interesting the first meeting of our new
budget year, we began to spend money on things that
we don't need to and then the facts we're spending
it on something that people all over America are questioning
whether we should be paying tax dollars to represent people
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that are not here legally.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Pedal You may not know that undocumented people facing deportation
are not entitled to pro bono legal defence and immigration
court because the proceeding is considered civil and not criminal.
Me talk to Allanna Shadwick about that later. You hear
it that said there are a lot of folks in
this county who would veto their taxes being used for
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this purpose tomorrow, Bill, are you one of them?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Hell yeah. Listen.
Speaker 14 (21:18):
I told y'all three weeks ago, don't trust them. They
were pretending to be common sensically, and I'm gonna tell
you this, logical consequences are the beacons of wise men
and the scarecrows of fools. Because I'm telling you Tom
Ramsey been saying, don't waste money on this. I told
you Adrian and Lensley was showing that sheep skin they
threw up.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Face still wolves.
Speaker 14 (21:39):
They gonna come after you for your money to do
some stuff like this. Get them out of there if
you want to take that million dollars dregs to damn
buy you where you've been lying and telling people it's
sixteen people in the Bayu. It's thirty three people been
found in the Bayous since January tenth and.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Y'all ain't doing a damn think about it.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Bayou's out of county.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You good girl? I love her? All right, quick, litle break.
We're run like Jimmy Barrett Show here and they an
fifty KPRC. All right, So let's talk a little bit
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about the No King's protest. We've already talked some about
this obviously yesterday on the show, but let's follow up
a little bit more today on the No Kings protest.
Let's start with this today. Who were the people protesting?
Who was funding the people protesting? What is the point
of the protest? We can cover all those things in
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this segment. Let's start with who paid for this? Who
are these people? Are these paid protesters? Is there anything
about this that is, you know, like the Tea Party
just kind of grew out of a groundswell of disagreement. Yeah, no,
not so much. A couple of people I saw guesterday
in Fox. One of them is Pearl Project editor Ezra Nomani.
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The other one is Jason Rants, He's the Seattle Washington
talk show host. Here they are talking about who these
protesters are and who's responsible for them, Who's paying for
all this?
Speaker 15 (23:21):
This is a protest industry. And so what I did
is what I learned to do in journalism, which is
follow the money. And I established that there's two hundred
and sixty organizations that were behind this No King's protest.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And as Jessica.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
Jenica Pounds, a computer scientist with Data Republican, said to me,
they have built an empire, these left wing organizations using
nonprofit status to use the machine that we have in
America to wage a war, a political war.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
On Donald Trump. And so everything was orchestrated.
Speaker 15 (23:59):
It was political theater from beginning to end, from social media.
And the real question for people is the fact that
these organizations we're living rent free, basically tax free in America,
pulling off these protests.
Speaker 16 (24:16):
Yeah, SAMs like Jason, there are hundreds of organizations behind
these protests. That's not one particular organization, but it is,
like I really think it's actually their social life. I
don't know if because we don't have clubs, communities, civics
organizations anymore, they think those are racists. I don't know,
but this is as close to church as many, not all,
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but many of the protesters who showed up really have anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, they don't believe in God, but they do believe
in this kind of activism and this is what they
do professionally. And they're taking advantage of different tax CODs
like five oh one C four status, which a.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Lot of these organizations are.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Those are supposed to be social welfare organizations and they're
allowed to get political, but they don't have to disclose
their donor list, which is how all of this dark
money ends up getting funneled here. I mean, in the
case of No Kings, you have Indivisible, which is the
primary organization behind it. It gets funding, however, from places
like the George Soros Foundation, his Open Society foundations.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
They're getting that kind of money, and.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Then they're getting institutional support from all of these other
groups that Ozra just pointed out, everything from the mainstream
stuff like the ACLU, but also to groups like the
Communist Party of America where they might not donate directly
to Indivisible, but what they do is they share their
contact lists, or they reach out to their contact lists,
say hey, show up at so and so for this event,
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and the money that they do end up spending these
groups in generals for like signage things like that, but
also the professional activists who show up, who then use
this to get more contact information for the people who
show up, and then solicit for funds for donations from them.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Who would ever thought you could make a living being
a protester. How much do you think the average protester
gets paid? I mean, can you make like fifty grand
a year doing that?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I'm surprised that more universities aren't offering that as a degree,
considering that universities are a hotbed of this kind of activity.
Seems like they'd offer that up as a major. Yeah,
I'm majored in violent protesting and a minor at sign
making made those Yeah, of course, anyway, that's always interesting
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to me. Also, the makeup of the people, the makeup
of these are just people who are ugly. I don't
mean physically ugly, I mean morally ugly. Ugly on the inside,
I guess is what I'm trying to say. They're ugly
on the inside. Will Caine talked about that on his
show yesterday, shared some of some of the things that
we've seen coming from the protesters, in particular in Chicago.
Speaker 17 (26:55):
While the protests were admittedly overwhelmingly peaceful, it's a question
of what you accept, what you associate with him. For
the Party of Tolerance, what do you tolerate Paul morrow
a Fox News pointed out when he said, this is
an example of a five star a hole, a sign
which reads what heals faster a Trump's ear or b
Erica's heart one example, one could say.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
But it's not just one example.
Speaker 17 (27:19):
There was this grotesque display of a teacher from Chicago,
I repeat, a teacher from Chicago giving a bullet in
the neck gesture to a Charlie Kirk fan driving by.
They seemed to be adding up these singular examples. There's more.
Luigi Mangione supporters showed up. They held signs read free Luigi,
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no kings, but yes to murder suspects in Seattle, grown
adults dressed up as lice agents and proceeded to roll
around on the United States Constitution. But it wasn't just
bizarre displays. There were overt ugly calls action.
Speaker 13 (28:01):
We gotta grab a cod we gotta children around, the
gods of this fascist system, these ice Asians gotta get
shot and wipe out.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
The stay the stay machinery.
Speaker 13 (28:14):
That's a share the spray right there, has to get wiped.
Speaker 17 (28:18):
Out, wipe out ICE agents, take up arms, wipe out ICE.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Early reports are that Man too is an educator.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, well, you know that's who's brainwashing our nation's children.
Those educators that are doing that, that that's that's where
they come from. And we continue to send our kids
to our schools, our public schools. Which is not to
say again that all public schools are like that, but
if you go to a public school in Seattle or
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in Chicago, I think chances are pretty good that those
children are being educated that way. It's kind of like
the brainwashing that occurs with children who grow up in Gaza,
right where they're supposed to Hamas and Hamas's political policies,
and the way that they think of the Jewish people.
You know, you're you're taught to hate in Gaza, You're
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taught to hate Jews. You're taught the thing is perfectly
okay to kill them. Well, we're doing the same thing
here in in in our Blue city public schools when
it comes to ICE. We're teaching children that they're you know,
ICE agents are are criminals, that they're they're they're fascists,
they're the Nazis. You know along with Trump and Trump supporters.
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Therefore it's okay to kill people like that. In fact,
you probably should. So you know, what do we expect?
That's why you know it is optimistic. If I try
to be about our future, I just I can't really
come up with much optimism as relates to blue cities.
How are things ever going to change in a place
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like Chicago or Los Angeles or Seattle? How are things
ever going to be different if those are the people
that are brainwashing our children? All right, quick, a little
break back with Vaudemama Jimmy Bart show here on NAM
nine fifty KPRC. One more thing here on the no
(30:29):
Kings protest before we move on, And that is what
are we protesting?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Really?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
What are they protesting? At its surface, it doesn't make
sense to protest against kings when we don't have any
kings in this country. This country was found to try
to get away from kings. Ironically, Canada does have they
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were protesting. They changed the name from no Kings, however,
to no Tyrants because they actually do have a king. Technically,
Canada is still an independent commonwealth of the British Empire.
They're they're head of government. Is the Prime Minister, and
they don't have a president because they have a king.
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King Charles of Great Britain is the King of Canada,
so they already have a king. And there's a lot
of countries where they're protesting where they do have kings,
interestingly enough, but at any rate, do they even know
what it is they're protesting? I guess some of them
would tell you they're protesting Ice or they're protesting Trump,
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but a lot of them can't even tell you what
it is that they're protesting, or Okay, you're protesting Trump.
What is it that Trump's doing that you're protesting? And
then they struggle mightily to come up with an answer,
which tells me that a lot of them are there
because they're either paid to be there or because they
have friends who are there who maybe do have a
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reason for being there, and they're just along for the ride,
kind of a thing. Greg Guttfeld talking about all this
on his show last night.
Speaker 18 (32:10):
So why are they pushing this made up fear of
a king?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Could it be that they believe it?
Speaker 18 (32:16):
And if so, why maybe they're unfamiliar with real solutions
For years they think having a conversation is a solution
for crime or the border.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
All they do is talk and talk.
Speaker 18 (32:27):
It's like watching an action movie with your wife, but.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Dam's never actually do anything. So when Trump comes in
and gets stuff done, it comes as a shock.
Speaker 18 (32:38):
They think it's an autocracy because they aren't used to
a president doing the job. You mean you can deport
illegals and arrest criminals since when? Of course, they give
reasons for the king delusion.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Trump's taking away our rights. He's authoritarian.
Speaker 18 (32:52):
But these are concepts and impossible to score.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Is there a.
Speaker 18 (32:56):
Statistic on how much authoritarianism we're experiencing. I'm sure CNN
is working on that now that the climate stats are toast.
But the Dems exist in a fake world of trans
bathrooms and sanctuary cities, conceptual fantasies where solutions are terrible
concepts too. But as Trump shows, you can actually fix things,
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and regular Democrats must wonder why didn't our leaders think
of this. Republicans focus on crime, drugs, immigration, because you
can score them, and the only issues you can score
are the real ones. If you can't measure.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It, then it's not real.
Speaker 18 (33:33):
It's just a concept, like children's soccer. If there's no scoring,
it's just pointless exercise.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
This is a great analogy children's soccer. Does anybody win
children's soccer games?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
That, you know? That's kind of I think that's kind
of the problem I have with soccer in general, even
professional soccer. You ever looked at the record words of
some of those teams, they'll have a record like eleven wins,
eleven losses and sixteen ties.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Ties.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I mean, we used to have ties in professional football
until somebody finally figured out, you know, we really need
to have a winner. We need to declare a winner.
There's always going to be a winner and a loser,
so we need to have winners and losers. None of this,
you know, none of this kissing your sister stuff. Tie
what do you mean a tie? No, we play until
somebody wins. Which is why I can't stand I think
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professional soccer, or children's soccer, or any other sport where
they don't keep scoring. Well, this is not about winning,
yes it is. It doesn't have to be life or death.
Isn't there a lesson to be learned not just by winning,
but by being a good loser or a good winner.
I mean, you can win, you can beat somebody at
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something and still congratulate them for their participation. You don't
have to be a you know, a sore loser, and
you don't have to be a you know, a boastful winner.
But there will be winners. Life will make sure there
will always be winners and losers. Life is not a tie.
There's always a winner or a loser in life. All right,
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here's maybe a little news you can use before we
wrap up the day today. There's a report from Google
that said the best time I don't normally talk about
a holiday like Thanksgiving when we haven't even gotten to
Halloween yet, but we're close enough, I guess. Report from
Google found the best time to buy a plane ticket
for Thanksgiving is now. You get the best price thirty
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five days before your travel date, and Thanksgiving is thirty
seven days away, so sometime and sometime before this work
week is over is probably the best time to get
the best price for a Thanksgiving plane ticket thirty five
days before you want to travel, aka right now. Good
news is you can still get a decent price up
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to twenty four days before you fly, So if you
need to wait another week, you're probably probably going to
be fine. But you don't want to wait too long.
Bad news is those might not be the only tickets
you're buying in the next few weeks. The best time
to book tickets for Christmas fifty one days out. So
if you want to travel for the holidays, and I
rarely have ever do want to do that because oh
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the Air Force are just a mess. But if you
want to travel for Christmas, November the fourth, fifty one
days before Christmas, so that might be the optimum time
to buy a plane ticket for Christmas. By the way,
you're probably not going to try to fly on Christmas Day,
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which is actually, by the way, if you can do it,
a great time to fly. Most people are wherever they're
going to be and not worried about coming back yet
on Christmas Day itself. So if you wait until Christmas,
you know, take a flight like on Christmas morning, you
can still get there before the day's over done with
and you can probably save yourself some money. All right,
enough of that, you all have a great day. Thanks
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for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
starting at five am. Hope to see you this afternoon
at four on AM nine fifty kt r C. Well,
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All right, we have we have a lot of local
stories to talk about here today on AM nine fifty
KPRC and The Jimmy Barrett Show. We'll get I think
next segment we're gonna make that the local story segment.
We've got an update on the Rainbow crosswalks in Montrose.
We also have an update on the homeless hub that
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the city wants to put in and spend sixteen million
dollars on, so you know, well, I'll get to that.
Oh and we have a great reaction to the one
point three million dollars approved by the Harris County Commissioner's
Court to help fund defense for illegal immigrants who are
(01:15):
being deported. Yes, your taxpayer dollars in Harris County being
spent in a county by the way, that is you
know over well they're not over budget. Now, but in
a county where they can't come up with enough money
for basic services, but they want to spend one point
three million dollars on legal services for people who are
in this country illegally. That means you broke the law
to be here to begin with, all right, first, so
(01:37):
let's start with this one. This is kind of a
funny story because I'm obsessed. Hang on, I gotta be
careful how I phrase this. I'm obsessed with toilets that
are very, very efficient. One of the things I hate
about low I hate low flow. I am I am
mister anti low flow. I don't like low flow faucets,
(02:00):
I don't like low flow shower heads, and I certainly
don't like low flow toilets. So the only way you
can get me excited about a toilet is if it
somehow takes that less water but still manages to do
more with less when it comes to flushing. As I
think we've discussed here before, much to my own personal peril.
(02:24):
By the way, my wife is somewhat obsessed with toilet paper.
She's obsessed with running out of toilet paper. She's obsessed
with with with having a stockpile of toilet paper. You know,
when we had that whole COVID lockdown thing and we
had the supply issues and it was hard to find paper,
towels and toilet paper in any supermarket in the Greater
(02:46):
Houston area. She was going crazy. She was just driving
herself and saying about finding her next roll of toilet paper.
So it makes her nervous. So one of the things
that as a result of her love of toilet paper,
as she has the tendency to use too much of it.
You would think that somebody who's afraid of running out
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of it would conserve more, but she doesn't. She uses
a lot of toilet paper, and as a result of that,
we would have clogging issues. Low float toilets with a
lot of toilet paper in them, it doesn't work real well.
It's a recipe for disaster. So the plunger always had
to be nearby because of all the toilet paper and
(03:28):
the toilet and I finally one day said, you know,
I've had enough of this. We need to do something
about it. So I contacted a plumber and I said,
give me a solution for toilets that constantly clog. What
do you have that could suck a golf ball through
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a hose. What do you have that would just you know,
when you put hit that body goes oh, and it
just takes everything out of that bowl. It makes it disappear,
never backs up, never get it's clogged. He said, I
got just the thing for you. He says. It's it's
it's a tank inside of a tank, and it looks
like it's a regular toilet, but inside the toilet tank
(04:12):
is another pressurized tank. And what happens is the water
goes in there. And I'm not sure how all it works,
but boy does it work good. And you hit the button,
you know, you hit the you hit the button on
that thing, and it just who it is. Never clogged
one time, not one time. We've had it probably for
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two three years now. Love that toy as much as
I could love a toilet. I love that toilet of
just it's fantastic. Never never have had to haul out
the plunger. The plunger in that bathrooms obsolete. We did
it into they're expensive. We only did it in two
of the bathrooms. But every now and again I find myself,
for whatever reason, having to use one of the bathrooms
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that doesn't have that toilet in there. And man, what
a difference. What made me think of all this is
Cohler has come out and it calls a pretty well
known brand name for faucets and you know, toilet fixtures
and all that kind of stuff. They have just debuted
a new six hundred dollars toilet camera. This this is
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one of the sillier stories I think I've ever seen. This.
This is for people who are obsessed, I guess obsessed
with their health, or they are paranoid about colorectal cancer
or whatever. The case is that you would want to
have a toilet the only somebody like that would want
to have a toilet like this. The toilet has a
(05:42):
camera is a six The camera alone is six hundred bucks.
And the camera won't take a picture of your junk
or anything, but it analyzes what's going into your tank.
It films it, hey, it uses an algorithm to analyze
(06:02):
the results and to track your health. It's called Dakota
d e k O d A. The plan on the
word decode. Six hundred dollars fits on the side of
most toilet bowls, so you don't have to buy a
new toilet uses optical sensors to scan your waste and
then it spits the data out on your phone on
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an app you sign in on a fingerprint scanner, so
it knows who's waist it's scanning. Because you can set
up for yourself and set it up for anybody else
in the household that you want to monitor. It can
tell you whether or not you're dehydrated. Do I need
a toilet bowl camera to tell me I'm dehydrated? You
if your urine is is dark in color, dark yellow,
(06:45):
then you're dehydrated. Just drink some more water. And by
the way, just drink some more water anyway. It's good
for you, So I don't need it for that. It
can tell you whether you're dehydrated. What percentage of your sessions?
Is that what we're calling this now, Yes, I'm having
a session. I'm sitting down doing number two. Let's call
about a session. What percentage of your sessions are regular
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each week? And will also look for any signs of blood.
Now the last one I can see where that would
come in handy unless you have a hemorrhoid and you
pop your hemorrhoid, in which case, you know, maybe that's
the problem. I just think you're asking for trouble. Most
most people don't need this, you know, I can't imagine,
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you know what kind of you'd probably be very obsessive
about it. Right, if you felt like you had to
have this camera, you'd you'd be tracking every ball movement
you ever had and looking just looking for problems. Now,
maybe on the plus side, maybe for people who have
a high risk of colorectal cancer, maybe this is just
another tool to make them feel better about you know,
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where they're at and knowing that you know they're on
the lookout for anything that might possibly be wrong. Oh,
by the way, there's more than just the charge for
the six hundred dollars for the camera. There's also an
annual subscription fee seventy bucks a year. If it was
just you, one hundred and thirty dollars for the family plan.
You know, if you want to if you want to
analyze your kids poop for example. All right, quick up,
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break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett Show
here at NAM nine fifty KPRC. All right, this is
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our local segment today. These are all local stories we
can we can think about and comment on. It's a
busy day for local news here in Houston. I'm not
saying that these are all mine altering stories or end
of the world kind of stories, or even super important stories.
But I have been watching with interest the Montrose ringbow
(08:57):
crosswalk story. You know, they had a cross they had
two crosswalks in the same intersection, both of them, you know,
traditional crosswalk only the rainbow flag was painted in the crosswalk.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
President Trump said that he put the federal edict and
tied federal tax dollars to it. That required that that
there's no political messaging for either side, but no political
messaging having to do with the roadways. So Governor Abbott
put out the eating here in the in Texas, and
on a local standpoint, Mayor Whittmeyer, realizing that there are
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federal dollars they could lose if they didn't comply, went
ahead and got that done. So yesterday I'm not sure
did they did they really have to asphalt over this intersection?
Why not just painted? Why not just go over the
paint with with black paint and cover it up that way. Anyway,
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they brought out asphalt drugs and they and they repaid
that intersection there. Here's the report from KHOU eleven.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
It's been nearly fourteen hours since the colorful crosswalks were
paved over. You can see that they're no longer out
here at this intersection. Despite that, the community is not
backing down. Dozens of community members gathering early this morning
at Wesheimer and Taff to protest the removal of the
rainbow crosswalks. Houston police were seen handcuffing some protesters and
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then carrying them away. HPD tells me that four people
were taken into custody from blocking the roadway shortly after.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The paving began.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
For many, the rainbow crosswalks were a symbol of pride
for the LGBTQ plus community.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
We have urgent matters that need to be attended to,
and we are wasting time on a distraction and a
vilification of you know, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans people.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
The removal follows a direct from the Trump administration and
in order from Governor Greg Abbott calling on Transportation Department
statewide to get rid of what he described as political
ideologies from roadways.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
But protesters say the city should have protected the crosswalks.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And if anything, this crosswalk is doing the city a
favor by being here that we are providing safety, not
only to our Queer community, but to our Houston community overall.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Mayor John Whitmeyer doubling down today because.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
A mayor, I'm not going to risk federal funding.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
I'm talking about healthcare, transportation, Metro schedule get over a
billion dollars in the next five years.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You know, I have a responsibility to the entire city.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Harris County Precinct four Commissioner Leslie Brionez, however, says quote,
I'm deeply disappointed by the decision to remove Texas's first
Pride crosswalk, a symbol of safety, unity, equality and respect
and historic Montrose. Local community is not state or federal
pressure should decide how we honor our values. Is there
a plan of action moving forward now?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, first of all, we're rather disappointed. Still, advocates say
their fight is not over. Looking forward, we.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Are going to try to coordinate with some of the
businesses and the residents to.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
See if they're interested in painting their driveways and their
parking lots.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Late today, Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo releasing a statement
questioning why the Metro Board of Directors did not have
any input on the decision. We've reached out to Metro
repeatedly about the crosswalk removal.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But we're still waiting to hear back.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You'll be waiting for the rest of your life to
here back from Metro. Are you kidding. Let's examine this
for a second though. All right, First of all, this
is considered by the LGBTQ plus community to be an
urgent matter. What is urgent about a rainbow crosswalk? This
is Montrose. There are rainbow flags and everything else all
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throughout Montrose. How is this crosswalk so important that it
has to be on the roadway. I mean, you just
heard in there that they're approaching businesses about, you know,
painting their parking lots rainbow colors, or their their driveways.
If it is a private parking lot or a private driveway,
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go ahead, paint it all you want. All we're talking
about here is a public crosswalk. All we're talking about
here is complying with the law. Put you could put
a rainbow put surround all the buildings at the intersection
with rainbow flags. Everybody knows what Montros is, everybody knows
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how gay friendly it is. Why why is this such
a big deal? By the way, I'm just curious here,
did did did k H? O U eleven need to
send a gay reporter to cover this story, because they
clearly did. Wouldn't it be more interesting television if you said,
maybe the biggest, burliest, you know, most conservative muh person
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down there in order to cover the story. I mean,
that would be that would make for more interesting television,
I think. And then and by the same you send
you could send the gay guy to like a you know,
Friday night football game or something high school football game
and let him report on that. I think that would
make more interesting television. Might not work well for radio,
but I think it would make more interesting television. Let's
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let's get back to this. Though the crosswalk did the
city of favor by being there, the crosswalk did the
city of favor by being there. That was actually said
in that segment, Well, there's still a crosswalk there, isn't there.
I mean, we're not eliminating the crosswalk, We're just eliminating
the ringbow. So it's still a crosswalk and you still
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have to follow the traffic rules. So I don't know
that that really changed from a safety standpoint. That didn't
change anything, you know, how and how was a rainbow
a symbol of safety? The crosswalk may be as symbol
of safety, but not the fact that it was a
rainbow crosswalk. And by the way, word it has it
that today they've been down there repainting the rainbow. So
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this has all the feel of a back and forth. Okay,
we're going to get into a real pissing war on
this one. Back and forth and back and forth. How
much money is going to get wasted in paint, mate,
unless unless you get a paint sponsor. You think Sherwin
Williams wants anything to do with sponsoring any of this stuff. Yeah, no,
probably not all right? In the third story, No second
(15:33):
story I want to do. Also, a local story that
I find very interesting is the homeless hub, the super hub,
where the city wants to spend sixteen and they haven't
even voted on this yet, but they want to spend
sixteen million dollars to convert a building valued at six
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million dollars by the way, into a homeless shelter, homeless hub,
whether it be drug treatment and mental health facilities. And
we're told a higher than normal police presence that's for
the neighborhood to make them feel better about this. Although
I don't think there's a whole lot of people in
the neighborhood are feeling better about know hosting a super
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hub for the homeless right outside of their neighborhood. But
here's the report on that story from our television partner KPRC.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Too.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
We at least get the civility ordinance in place within
a one mile radiance of this area.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I think it's might help.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Okay, So the civility zone is a civili zone, like
the Eto Civility Zone and the downtown such business Sutter
civility Zone, both of them. However far that reaches right
now is twenty.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Four to seven.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
Time Egan showed up to the Houston Homeless Living Center
on Emancipation Avenue, hoping to be a part of the
mayor's tour. The city says the news site will serve
as a triage and transitional center, connecting people to health care,
treatment and housing.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
And concern is that they're sixteen million being spent on
this very quick and it's appraised at six million. There
is no security implementation that's been given to.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Us other than trust us.
Speaker 13 (17:09):
He wants answers about safety and how the city plans
to protect her neighborhood.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
How are they going to keep us secure, keep it clean.
They held this media event now they haven't voted on it.
Speaker 13 (17:23):
During the door city leaders show reporters where people would
receive care and counseling. Satter Wait says, the facility will
include two hundred and twenty five beds, twenty four hour security,
and patrols to help keep the area safe.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
We will have resources in this area doing additional patrols
work on because we made a promise to this community
that we were going to make this area the best area.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So that's the plan.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
We will we will have additional resources out here. If
we get additional funding, we will deploy that funding to
security and outreach in this area. The idea is that
everybody close to this facility, it's the most benefit of
how this facility.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Okay, so we're gonna make this area the best area
by putting a super hub in for the homeless. And
on one hand, this is kind of like the none
in my backyard nimby thing as finest. Everybody thinks that
you know, corralling the homeless into a specific area to
keep them from sleeping under the bridges or you having
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to step over them on your way to an astros game,
for example, is a good idea in less, of course,
you want to put them in in your neighborhood, in
which case nobody seems to want that. But I think
it's a legitimate concern about whether or not the city
is being good stewards with the taxpayers money. If you
are buying a building that is worth maybe six million
(18:47):
dollars and you're spending sixteen million dollars to do the facility,
how much of that are you are you spending on
the building?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Is is that you know? Are you going to Not
that the city worries about such things, not that any
government worries about such things, But is that smart investment?
And I get if it solves at least partially the
homeless problems and gives them a place where they can
be and get treatment, then maybe it is worth it
to everybody except maybe the people live next door to
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it who are concerned about it. And I get that
I wouldn't want I wouldn't want a homeless facility right
next door to me either. And then we got the
third story. This is maybe my favorite story. It comes
from Fox twenty six. We've already talked about this one
one point three million Harris County taxpayer dollars being spent
to provide legal representation for illegals. Yes, we're going to
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spend one point three million dollars of taxpayer money to
give legal representation to try to help people who came
here illegally stay here illegally. Doesn't seem like that's a
core service that Harris Counting should be responsible for. And
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as you can imagine, there's only one person who voted
against this. Thank god for Precinct three Commissioner Tom Ramsey.
At least we got one guy. He's got his head
screwed uns right. This report from Fox twenty six starts
with that, But you're gonna love the end where what's
your point is the show? This is from where the
panel gives some reaction to the idea that this is
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how taxpayer money is going to be spent.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I find it interesting the first meeting of our new
budget year, we began to spend money on things that
we don't need to and then the facts we're spending
it on something that people all over America are questioning
whether we should be paying tax dollars to represent people
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that are not here legally.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Pedal You may not know that undocumented people facing deportation
are not entitled to pro bono legal defence and immigration
court because the proceeding is considered civil and not criminal.
Me talk to Allanna Shadwick about that later. You hear
it that said there are a lot of folks in
this county who would veto their taxes being used for
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this purpose tomorrow, Bill, are you one of them?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Hell yeah. Listen.
Speaker 14 (21:18):
I told y'all three weeks ago, don't trust them. They
were pretending to be common sensically, and I'm gonna tell
you this, logical consequences are the beacons of wise men
and the scarecrows of fools. Because I'm telling you Tom
Ramsey been saying, don't waste money on this. I told
you Adrian and Lensley was showing that sheep skin they
threw up.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Face still wolves.
Speaker 14 (21:39):
They gonna come after you for your money to do
some stuff like this. Get them out of there if
you want to take that million dollars dregs to damn
buy you where you've been lying and telling people it's
sixteen people in the Bayu. It's thirty three people been
found in the Bayous since January tenth and.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Y'all ain't doing a damn think about it.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Bayou's out of county.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You good girl? I love her? All right, quick, litle break.
We're run like Jimmy Barrett Show here and they an
fifty KPRC. All right, So let's talk a little bit
(22:25):
about the No King's protest. We've already talked some about
this obviously yesterday on the show, but let's follow up
a little bit more today on the No Kings protest.
Let's start with this today. Who were the people protesting?
Who was funding the people protesting? What is the point
of the protest? We can cover all those things in
(22:47):
this segment. Let's start with who paid for this? Who
are these people? Are these paid protesters? Is there anything
about this that is, you know, like the Tea Party
just kind of grew out of a groundswell of disagreement. Yeah, no,
not so much. A couple of people I saw guesterday
in Fox. One of them is Pearl Project editor Ezra Nomani.
(23:09):
The other one is Jason Rants, He's the Seattle Washington
talk show host. Here they are talking about who these
protesters are and who's responsible for them, Who's paying for
all this?
Speaker 15 (23:21):
This is a protest industry. And so what I did
is what I learned to do in journalism, which is
follow the money. And I established that there's two hundred
and sixty organizations that were behind this No King's protest.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And as Jessica.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
Jenica Pounds, a computer scientist with Data Republican, said to me,
they have built an empire, these left wing organizations using
nonprofit status to use the machine that we have in
America to wage a war, a political war.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
On Donald Trump. And so everything was orchestrated.
Speaker 15 (23:59):
It was political theater from beginning to end, from social media.
And the real question for people is the fact that
these organizations we're living rent free, basically tax free in America,
pulling off these protests.
Speaker 16 (24:16):
Yeah, SAMs like Jason, there are hundreds of organizations behind
these protests. That's not one particular organization, but it is,
like I really think it's actually their social life. I
don't know if because we don't have clubs, communities, civics
organizations anymore, they think those are racists. I don't know,
but this is as close to church as many, not all,
(24:37):
but many of the protesters who showed up really have anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, they don't believe in God, but they do believe
in this kind of activism and this is what they
do professionally. And they're taking advantage of different tax CODs
like five oh one C four status, which a.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Lot of these organizations are.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Those are supposed to be social welfare organizations and they're
allowed to get political, but they don't have to disclose
their donor list, which is how all of this dark
money ends up getting funneled here. I mean, in the
case of No Kings, you have Indivisible, which is the
primary organization behind it. It gets funding, however, from places
like the George Soros Foundation, his Open Society foundations.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
They're getting that kind of money, and.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Then they're getting institutional support from all of these other
groups that Ozra just pointed out, everything from the mainstream
stuff like the ACLU, but also to groups like the
Communist Party of America where they might not donate directly
to Indivisible, but what they do is they share their
contact lists, or they reach out to their contact lists,
say hey, show up at so and so for this event,
(25:40):
and the money that they do end up spending these
groups in generals for like signage things like that, but
also the professional activists who show up, who then use
this to get more contact information for the people who
show up, and then solicit for funds for donations from them.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Who would ever thought you could make a living being
a protester. How much do you think the average protester
gets paid? I mean, can you make like fifty grand
a year doing that?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I'm surprised that more universities aren't offering that as a degree,
considering that universities are a hotbed of this kind of activity.
Seems like they'd offer that up as a major. Yeah,
I'm majored in violent protesting and a minor at sign
making made those Yeah, of course, anyway, that's always interesting
(26:30):
to me. Also, the makeup of the people, the makeup
of these are just people who are ugly. I don't
mean physically ugly, I mean morally ugly. Ugly on the inside,
I guess is what I'm trying to say. They're ugly
on the inside. Will Caine talked about that on his
show yesterday, shared some of some of the things that
we've seen coming from the protesters, in particular in Chicago.
Speaker 17 (26:55):
While the protests were admittedly overwhelmingly peaceful, it's a question
of what you accept, what you associate with him. For
the Party of Tolerance, what do you tolerate Paul morrow
a Fox News pointed out when he said, this is
an example of a five star a hole, a sign
which reads what heals faster a Trump's ear or b
Erica's heart one example, one could say.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
But it's not just one example.
Speaker 17 (27:19):
There was this grotesque display of a teacher from Chicago,
I repeat, a teacher from Chicago giving a bullet in
the neck gesture to a Charlie Kirk fan driving by.
They seemed to be adding up these singular examples. There's more.
Luigi Mangione supporters showed up. They held signs read free Luigi,
(27:42):
no kings, but yes to murder suspects in Seattle, grown
adults dressed up as lice agents and proceeded to roll
around on the United States Constitution. But it wasn't just
bizarre displays. There were overt ugly calls action.
Speaker 13 (28:01):
We gotta grab a cod we gotta children around, the
gods of this fascist system, these ice Asians gotta get
shot and wipe out.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
The stay the stay machinery.
Speaker 13 (28:14):
That's a share the spray right there, has to get wiped.
Speaker 17 (28:18):
Out, wipe out ICE agents, take up arms, wipe out ICE.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Early reports are that Man too is an educator.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, well, you know that's who's brainwashing our nation's children.
Those educators that are doing that, that that's that's where
they come from. And we continue to send our kids
to our schools, our public schools. Which is not to
say again that all public schools are like that, but
if you go to a public school in Seattle or
(28:48):
in Chicago, I think chances are pretty good that those
children are being educated that way. It's kind of like
the brainwashing that occurs with children who grow up in Gaza,
right where they're supposed to Hamas and Hamas's political policies,
and the way that they think of the Jewish people.
You know, you're you're taught to hate in Gaza, You're
(29:09):
taught to hate Jews. You're taught the thing is perfectly
okay to kill them. Well, we're doing the same thing
here in in in our Blue city public schools when
it comes to ICE. We're teaching children that they're you know,
ICE agents are are criminals, that they're they're they're fascists,
they're the Nazis. You know along with Trump and Trump supporters.
(29:32):
Therefore it's okay to kill people like that. In fact,
you probably should. So you know, what do we expect?
That's why you know it is optimistic. If I try
to be about our future, I just I can't really
come up with much optimism as relates to blue cities.
How are things ever going to change in a place
(29:53):
like Chicago or Los Angeles or Seattle? How are things
ever going to be different if those are the people
that are brainwashing our children? All right, quick, a little
break back with Vaudemama Jimmy Bart show here on NAM
nine fifty KPRC. One more thing here on the no
(30:29):
Kings protest before we move on, And that is what
are we protesting?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Really?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
What are they protesting? At its surface, it doesn't make
sense to protest against kings when we don't have any
kings in this country. This country was found to try
to get away from kings. Ironically, Canada does have they
(30:56):
were protesting. They changed the name from no Kings, however,
to no Tyrants because they actually do have a king. Technically,
Canada is still an independent commonwealth of the British Empire.
They're they're head of government. Is the Prime Minister, and
they don't have a president because they have a king.
(31:16):
King Charles of Great Britain is the King of Canada,
so they already have a king. And there's a lot
of countries where they're protesting where they do have kings,
interestingly enough, but at any rate, do they even know
what it is they're protesting? I guess some of them
would tell you they're protesting Ice or they're protesting Trump,
(31:41):
but a lot of them can't even tell you what
it is that they're protesting, or Okay, you're protesting Trump.
What is it that Trump's doing that you're protesting? And
then they struggle mightily to come up with an answer,
which tells me that a lot of them are there
because they're either paid to be there or because they
have friends who are there who maybe do have a
(32:03):
reason for being there, and they're just along for the ride,
kind of a thing. Greg Guttfeld talking about all this
on his show last night.
Speaker 18 (32:10):
So why are they pushing this made up fear of
a king?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Could it be that they believe it?
Speaker 18 (32:16):
And if so, why maybe they're unfamiliar with real solutions
For years they think having a conversation is a solution
for crime or the border.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
All they do is talk and talk.
Speaker 18 (32:27):
It's like watching an action movie with your wife, but.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Dam's never actually do anything. So when Trump comes in
and gets stuff done, it comes as a shock.
Speaker 18 (32:38):
They think it's an autocracy because they aren't used to
a president doing the job. You mean you can deport
illegals and arrest criminals since when? Of course, they give
reasons for the king delusion.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Trump's taking away our rights. He's authoritarian.
Speaker 18 (32:52):
But these are concepts and impossible to score.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Is there a.
Speaker 18 (32:56):
Statistic on how much authoritarianism we're experiencing. I'm sure CNN
is working on that now that the climate stats are toast.
But the Dems exist in a fake world of trans
bathrooms and sanctuary cities, conceptual fantasies where solutions are terrible
concepts too. But as Trump shows, you can actually fix things,
(33:17):
and regular Democrats must wonder why didn't our leaders think
of this. Republicans focus on crime, drugs, immigration, because you
can score them, and the only issues you can score
are the real ones. If you can't measure.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It, then it's not real.
Speaker 18 (33:33):
It's just a concept, like children's soccer. If there's no scoring,
it's just pointless exercise.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
This is a great analogy children's soccer. Does anybody win
children's soccer games?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
That, you know? That's kind of I think that's kind
of the problem I have with soccer in general, even
professional soccer. You ever looked at the record words of
some of those teams, they'll have a record like eleven wins,
eleven losses and sixteen ties.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Ties.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I mean, we used to have ties in professional football
until somebody finally figured out, you know, we really need
to have a winner. We need to declare a winner.
There's always going to be a winner and a loser,
so we need to have winners and losers. None of this,
you know, none of this kissing your sister stuff. Tie
what do you mean a tie? No, we play until
somebody wins. Which is why I can't stand I think
(34:33):
professional soccer, or children's soccer, or any other sport where
they don't keep scoring. Well, this is not about winning,
yes it is. It doesn't have to be life or death.
Isn't there a lesson to be learned not just by winning,
but by being a good loser or a good winner.
I mean, you can win, you can beat somebody at
(34:54):
something and still congratulate them for their participation. You don't
have to be a you know, a sore loser, and
you don't have to be a you know, a boastful winner.
But there will be winners. Life will make sure there
will always be winners and losers. Life is not a tie.
There's always a winner or a loser in life. All right,
(35:15):
here's maybe a little news you can use before we
wrap up the day today. There's a report from Google
that said the best time I don't normally talk about
a holiday like Thanksgiving when we haven't even gotten to
Halloween yet, but we're close enough, I guess. Report from
Google found the best time to buy a plane ticket
for Thanksgiving is now. You get the best price thirty
(35:35):
five days before your travel date, and Thanksgiving is thirty
seven days away, so sometime and sometime before this work
week is over is probably the best time to get
the best price for a Thanksgiving plane ticket thirty five
days before you want to travel, aka right now. Good
news is you can still get a decent price up
(35:56):
to twenty four days before you fly, So if you
need to wait another week, you're probably probably going to
be fine. But you don't want to wait too long.
Bad news is those might not be the only tickets
you're buying in the next few weeks. The best time
to book tickets for Christmas fifty one days out. So
if you want to travel for the holidays, and I
rarely have ever do want to do that because oh
(36:17):
the Air Force are just a mess. But if you
want to travel for Christmas, November the fourth, fifty one
days before Christmas, so that might be the optimum time
to buy a plane ticket for Christmas. By the way,
you're probably not going to try to fly on Christmas Day,
(36:38):
which is actually, by the way, if you can do it,
a great time to fly. Most people are wherever they're
going to be and not worried about coming back yet
on Christmas Day itself. So if you wait until Christmas,
you know, take a flight like on Christmas morning, you
can still get there before the day's over done with
and you can probably save yourself some money. All right,
enough of that, you all have a great day. Thanks
(36:58):
for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
starting at five am. Hope to see you this afternoon
at four on AM nine fifty kt r C. Well,
actually you just did. We'll see you tomorrow morning at
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