November 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Christmas is early this year
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hey, is it too early to wish you a Merry Christmas?
And the answer is yes, of course, of course it's
too early to wish you merry Christmas. It's not even
Thanksgiving yet. Yes, somehow I have managed to succumb to
peer pressure. And I'm I'm I am sorely disappointed in myself. Well,
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in one way, I'm sorely disappointed myself. In another way,
I'm kind of relieved. I got a bunch of stuff done.
I'll tell you what happened. So when was it? Friday night? Yeah,
Friday night. I'm I'm going outside for some reason, and
I noticed there's Christmas lights on across the street. Now
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they just had it. Everybody in our street. I know
it's gonna sound a little snobbish, and I don't mean
it too, but everybody in our street has a company
that comes out or companies that come out and install
the Christmas lights a lot of reasons behind it. Number One,
nobody wants to store all that stuff. Number Two, nobody
wants to especially if you have a two story home.
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Don't want to get up on the big tall ladder
trying to do that, walk on the roof, you know,
break your neck, kill yourself putting up Christmas lights. So
we've all kind of gotten in the habit of hiring
somebody to do that. And you know, they usually come out.
They've come out as early as October. In fact, I
usually have mine put up in October because I get
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a cheaper price. So they'll come out in October, usually
right around Thanksgiving, maybe a week or two before Thanksgiving,
no surer than that. And they'll string the lights and
test the lights, make sure the lights are all working,
make sure everything's okay, and then that's it. Right. Just
because they're installed doesn't mean you need to turn them on.
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You wait until the appropriate time to turn them on.
Except this year, well every year it's gotten a little
bit earlier. This year, Friday night, I'm going outside and
I noticed the neighbor across the street the Christmas lights
are on. And then I kind of look up and
down the street, and everybody's Christmas lights are on. This
is on Friday. Now, Friday is like literally two weeks
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until Thanksgiving, two weeks until the appropriate date to turn
your lights on, at least in my mind, And they're
all on. What the heck? So I sit there and
I go to myself, well, what should I do here?
Should I just sitccumb to peer pressure? Everybody else has
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their lights on, so I have to have mind lights on.
No nobody can force you to turn your lights on.
But then I had the other to lim We bought
a brand new Christmas tree. My wife is not a
fan of a trolley brown Christmas tree, and last year
we bought a Christmas tree that turned out to be
a trolley brown Christmas tree. One of the problems I
have with online ordering things through Amazon and whatever is
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all you see is a picture and you can't really
tell from a picture what something's going to look like.
And she bought this tree quote unquote it was a
good deal, only when it came it was short, and
more than short, it was skinny. Now we don't care
much for skinny Christmas trees at our house. We like
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our Christmas trees, nice and fat and full, and I
like a lot of built in lights. I mean, I
like thousands of lights. You know, you show me a
tree that's got less than twelve hundred lights, I'm not
even gonna look at it. But she got this thing
and I put it up last year and I went,
is this what you thought you were getting? And she
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said no, I thought it would be bigger and fuller.
It looked bigger and fuller in the picture. I said, well,
what were the measurements, and to which he kind of responded, well,
you know, I'm not very good with measurements. You can
tell us something is six foot tall, and she has
a hard time imagining six feet anyway. Some people are
like that, you tell me something six feet tall. I
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have a pretty good idea what six feet is. So,
you know, this thing was skinny, and she didn't like
skinny trees, and so this year we're like it. I
think it was a home deep. We were looking at
the trees and I found when I said, look at
that one, look at that one, big and nice and full,
and look it's got two over two thousand lights. This thing,
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I mean, you mean a little up like a Christmas tree,
literally a little up like a Christmas tree. Look great,
Well this is what we need this we're talking about,
And she hemmed and she haunted. It was like four
hundred just under four hundred bucks, like three hundred and
ninety six dollars just over four hundred bucks when you
add taxes and all that stuff in. I don't know,
that's a lot of money for a Christmas tree. Honey.
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If you want a big, tall, fat Christmas tree that's
well made, you're gonna have to at least spend that
much money. It just is. So anyway, finally talked her
into buying the tree, and the tree got delivered, and
the tree is sitting in a box, big big old
box in the dining room, and so you know, everybody's
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Christmas lights are on. I got that tree sitting there
that I'm gonna have to put together. So I said, well,
at the least I could do get let's get rid
of the box. This is where the tree is gonna
go anyway, right in front of the bay window in
the dining room. Well, I'll put the tree together and
that part will be done for next weekend. So I
put the tree together, and I put it up and
I went, wow, that's a beautiful tree. And I plugged
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it in and the lights were amazing. I thought, well,
you know it's up, I might as well go ahead
and decorate it. So I start going through boxes in
the garage right looking for the lights, not for the lights,
but looking for the Christmas ornaments and all that kind
of stuff. And I find the tree from last year,
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and I thought, well, well I put that to waste.
It's a brand new tree. It's not very big. That'll
fit nicely in the breakfast nook right across from the
family room that we'll have two trees. We'll go two
trees this year. So I put that tree up and
then I start decorating. Long enough decorating one of might
as well decorate the other one for you, don't. I
got them both decorated, and I've got like three boxes
of stuff open. I'm going, well, I might as well
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put it all out, because if I put all this
stuff back, I'm just gonna have to haul it all
back out again next weekend. So I put it all up,
and as long as I got all that out there,
I might as well just go ahead and what turn
the lights on? And I did and that's how we
ended up turning our Christmas lights on Saturday, more than
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a week sooner than seems appropriate to me. So I thought, well,
I wonder if I'm the only one who's doing this.
I wonder if anybody else is decorating early and why
they're decorating early or do you have strict rules that
you're sticking by? Was our question of the day today
on our morning show on KTRH. When you set up
the lights, when do you turn them on? What are
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the rules that you follow? Here's some of the answers.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Daniel Reporter, Ay, my rules on Christmas decorating or Christmas
lights in general is, if I'm sweat, I'm not decorating.
I'm not going to do Christmas decorations of Christmas lights.
If I'm sweat, I have to wait for the first
bit of cold weather in order to decorate.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Good morning, Jimmy, where do you live?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Because my ah always starts sending letters out if you
leave your lights up too long or put them up
too early. In fact, last year I took them down
at the end of January and still got a letter
because I left those clips. So but then I realized
there's a clause an RhoA agreement that allows for lights
as long as they're appropriate for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So now this year, I'm just gonna run red lights.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Valentine's Day, memorial page allow forth, so on.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Okay, uh, that's an interesting point about the HOA. Guess
who has the president of the HOA living on his street? Yep,
that's right. And guess who already has their Christmas lights on? Yes,
the president, the president of the HOA. So yeah, that
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that was not a problem. The sweating thing, I get that,
but you know, that's that's one of the things I
think I learned to do when I moved to Texas As. Y'all,
chances are good I'm a sweat ten out of twelve
months out of the year, so I can't necessarily let
sweating stop me from doing anything.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
David and oakreage. The reason why lives are going up
so early is because so many people are not doing
it themselves. For paying a company that's starting early so
that they can maximize the revenue. People who put up
their own lights typically wait till Thanksgiving or later.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay, on the Christmas light situation.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Thanksgiving Day, guys, that's when you put them up die
Hard start at Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's how you start your Christmas season off.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
The director of Diehard confirmed that was a Christmas movie
and will always be a Christmas movie and a discussion Jimmy, Now,
this is Gina.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
From Southwest Florida calling in about the Christmas lights. So
I noticed a whole bunch of people in my town
already had theirs up, so I went ahead and put
mine up too. And I really think it's just that
people are just excited. They're just happy. They're happy about
the way things are going. They're excited to be American again,
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excited about all that's going on, and they just want
to start celebrating early.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, that's interesting. Allow me to play Devil's advocate here
for just second. Though. Is it because we're excited and
we're happy or the counter to that is is that
when things aren't going well, when the bills are tied
and you know things aren't really going as well as
you would like them to go, that this is a
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place to Christmas is a great escape. Is a great
place to escape too. You put up your Christmas lights,
you started thinking about Christmas and happy thoughts and that
kind of stuff. So I guess it could work either way,
all right, tell you what quick little break back with
more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett Show here on the
M nine fifty KPRC. Last week on the show, we
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were talking about fifty year mortgages. I don't think they're
a good idea. I know it's a Trump administration idea.
I know it's one of many ideas that they're floating.
That one I don't say is a good idea. You're
saving hundreds of dollars a month, but paying hundreds of
thousands of dollars in additional interest rates over the course
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of that loan in order to be able to pay
it off, And that doesn't make any sense to me,
not to mention the fact that if you are in
your late thirties early forties, chances are good you will
never live long enough to pay it off, even if
you wanted to stay in that home for the fifty
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years it would take to pay off the loan. Yeah,
I guess you could refinance later on. There's always that possibility,
but that doesn't strike me as a reasonable solution. I
don't think two two h and fifty bucks a month
is going to make that big of a difference for
people as far as buying a home as to whether
or not they're going to qualify or not qualify for
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it in most cases. So I don't think that's a
good solution. Now I did hear another solution be a
hell of a great idea, well, two ideas actually. Number one,
why is it you can only finance a home for
fifteen years or thirty years? I guess there's some there's
some smaller mortgages you can get for less than that,
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But why not could you get like a twenty year
loan or a twenty five year loan or twenty six
year loan. Why can't we customize that? Would that help
it all? It might? It might make the difference, you know,
where you can you can go ahead and or maybe
thirty five years. That's a lot better than fifty and
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finance it that way. But an even better idea, and
this is one evidently Bill Poulty. Of course, he's a
home builder by trade. His family's homebuilders by trade. You've
heard of Poulty homes, I know you have. His idea
was to be able to take your mortgage with you,
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whatever mortgage you have now, at whatever interest rate you
have now you could take it with you to the
new house. They would just give you a new mortgage
at the same interest rate as your old mortgage. So
if you're somebody like me who refinanced when interest rates
were super low, and you got it like mindset, like
two point eighty six percent, I could go ahead and
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sell my home and get another home and get a
mortgage at two point eighty six percent. I mean, how
many people that are staying where they are would move
because they could take that interest rate with them. I
think it's a heck of an idea. They were talking
about this on the Big Money Show.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
I think that the affordability crisis is not going to
be solved by one policy alone, but I do love
this idea of being able to take your mortgage. Can
you imagine you have a two or three percent yes
or that you haven't been able to move, and now
all of a sudden you can take that to another property.
It will open up supply. As you mentioned the fifty
year mortgage, I didn't like that idea. I understand that
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it was just presented as one tool in the toolbox,
but ultimately you're paying so much interest, and I understand
that the payments are going to be lower per month.
But I just don't think that it was the best solution. However,
I do commend President Trump and the administration for trying
to solve the housing issue. I do think we need
to also eliminate red tape because so much we call
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blue tape. Oh yeah, I like that.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Never red tape, it's always blue. Tae's right to ask.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You a question is does it give does it give
the portable mortgage or does it give people who have
great mortgagees an unfair advantage in the marketing argument because
they're going.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
To go life isn't fair.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Brian, You're right, I know, I will believe me. I know,
but I'm just I'm just saying, so you get to
walk out with your three percent mortgage and can go
bid on other homes, it still seems like if you
didn't get the three percent mortgage, you're still going to
be at a big disadvantace. Is it more Is it
still more of a demand sign thing than a supply Well,
I know that.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
What your argument is is that prices will continue to
go up because now those people have more power and
they're able to bid up homes. I get that argument, right,
But I also get the argument that it's going to
open up properties where think about it, some people who
are empty nesters are living in a six bedroom house.
They don't need that much space, So it's going to
open up that inventory for a growing family. And again,
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I don't think one policy is going to be the
solution to all.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I mean, and listening to that, I mean, one
of the downsides of that course is if you've got
if what we're trying to do is we're trying to
attract first time buyers and give them an opportunity that
they don't have right now. They don't have an old
interest rate to work off of, so they're going to
they're going to get whatever the going interest rate is.
And my question would be is if we allow people
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to take their low interest mortgage loan with them to
wherever they're going next, does that drive up the cost
of mortgages for first time buyers because you would think
the bank is going to want to try to recoup
the money, right, They're going to try to figure out how, Okay, well,
if I got to give Jimmy Barrett a two point
eight six percent mortgage, then I'm going to have to
give somebody else a twelve percent mortgage, so I can
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make up for that as far as my ledger sheet goes.
That's the other thing I wonder about, whether or not
you know that that works out. But you know, again,
life is not fair. Life has never been fair. It's
not supposed to be fair for everybody. I'm sorry, it
just isn't. It just isn't fair for everybody equally high
by the way, because I noticed again over the weekend,
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I keep you know what I found that me and
the meat counter now is kind of like I'm kind
of like what women are like when they go to
a jewelry store and they're looking at diamonds. That's me
at the supermarket looking at stakes same look at my face.
Oh that's a beautiful steak. Oh, I'd love it. Love
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I wish somebody could afford to buy me that steak.
Where was I guess I was at Kruger this time around.
I shop all over the place, and the meat counter
and they've got these big tomahawk steaks, you know, the
ones that got the bone in there, looks like a tomahawk.
And you know, granted there's enough meat there for more
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than one person. That's a two person steak. But the
sticker price on this Tomahawk steak was like, you know,
fifty five sixty dollars, and I'm thinking, well, even if
two people are eating it, that's like, you know, twenty
eight thirty bucks apiece. That is expensive. And I don't
know about you. I think I'm a good griller. I'm
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a pretty good cook overall, but there's the part of
me that be scared to death to take a sixty
dollars steak and somehow ruin that, or you know, get
distracted and get burns on the grill, or whatever the
case may be. But that's kind of how it's gotten
out the meat counters, like going to the jewelry store.
You know, I'm looking at meat cuts I can't afford
to buy, or I don't think I can afford to buy,
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or I'm not willing to spend the money to buy them.
I spend. I spend almost no time anymore. In the
beef section. I'm buying pork chops, I'm buying chicken. You know,
I love beef, I really do, and I like to
have a steak every now and again. But it's it's
it's gotten to the point where it feels pretty cost prohibitive.
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So here's my bottom line question. How long is it
going to be like this? I mean winter prices going
to come down? I mean is there any end in
sight to all this? I saw the CEO of Omaha
Steak on Fox Business and he got asked about it
by Maria Bartaroma.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
What is your reaction to the President encouraging our Chinean
beef Argentinian.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
Beef and how are you going to keep costs down
as prices go up?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Look, domestically, we need to get our arms around it.
Last time we got together, we talked about how the
herd is at a seventy year low, demand is at
an all time high, and the net result is prices
are through the roof. So there's this concept in the
industry called heifer attention, and it's a decision that the
rancher and the feed lot operator make to hold back
the female animal to build the herd, as opposed to
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send it to market. Now that's a double edged sword.
We've started to see good signals that that's happening, but
that means that the supply is going to continue to
shrink as fewer cattle are going to market. So we
are headed for what I'm calling Maria the ten dollars
a pound reality. By third quarter of twenty six, families
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are going to see ten dollars a pound ground beef
in the grocery store. So we're in for a bit
of a haul here. I don't believe we'll see price
come down in any meaningful way until sometime in twenty
twenty seven. Well, I do think that. You know, foreign
supply is part of the picture, but you know, Argentinian
beef only makes up about two percent of the total
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beef supply in America, so you know, the the domestic
supply is a super critical component to keeping prices low.
Companies like Omaha Steaks are leveraging methods that allow us
to take advantage of the market in a unique way.
A lot of people think the beef market is this stable,
smooth curve. The reality of it is is it looks
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very much more like a roller coaster. So you know,
we've got these big blast freezers. We can take advantage
of the valley, take a large position, freeze that product,
process it, and build inventory and extend that to our customers.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
In other words, we knew this was coming. We bought
a whole bunch of cheaper beef, and we flash froze
it and we don't have to raise our prices as high.
I haven't seen an Omaha steak catalog lately, so I
don't know what their prices are going for. My guess
is that if they're smart, they're still charging more because
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beef is in high demand and low supply and are
making a mint by doing it that way. All right, quick,
little break, no state for you, back with more in
a moment, Jimmy Bart, choke, you're an am nine to
fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
A couple of political things I want to get into
here with Sacred Number three on our show today. One
of them is a local story. We're going to do
that first. The other one is more of a national story,
having to do with the government shutdown that just ended
and the idea that another government shutdown could be coming
at the end of January. But first things first, there
is we have a secretary state. We have a bad
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habit in this state of having Democrats run as Republicans.
The Biland is a fine example of that. Evidently the
same can be said for our Texas Secretary of State,
who also is a Democrat who pretended to be a
Republican because it's hard to get elected statewide if you
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have a D next to your name. Right now, so
there's a suit. You know, the Republican Party of Texas
wants to close the primary. You have to declare ahead
of the primary if you're a Republican or you're a Democrat,
then you have to vote in either the Democrat or
the Republican. You can't cross over. You can't be a
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Democrat voting in a Republican primary, and you can't be
a Republican voting in a Democrat primary. The Texas Secretary
of State wants to change that. Actually, the law right
now is that they're open primaries and anybody can vote.
The GDP wants to close it, and she wants to
make sure that doesn't happen because that's how she got
a nomination, and that is how she got in by
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all estimations. So we had Abraham George on he's head
of the Texas GOP. We had him on our boarding
show today in KTRH talking about this particular issue. The
only one that doesn't seem to be on the same
page is the Texas Secretary of state. Who has an
our next door name Abraham or does the R stand
for Rhino in Republican?
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Well, in this case, I can guarantee you it does,
because no Republican in state of Texas wants an open
primary where the Democrats can come and choose our primary candidates.
I mean, it's not the election, it's it's naming our
primary candidates. And why would you want a Democrats to
do that? So it's crazy. What's happening with jan Nelson
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at the SOS office.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Right, Well, and she's willing to spend one point two
to five million taxpayer dollars in order to be able
to prevent us from going to a closed primary. That
tells me there's a commitment there. Certainly, that's our taxpayer
dollars being used against us.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
That's right. The state have an attorney he called him
Attorney general, right, and Ken Vaxton joined us, and that's
who's supposed to be out there protecting the state's interest.
And he looks at it and he goes, Yeah, Republican
Party have the right to close their primaries because that
is a constitutional right, the right to associate with the
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people we believe are Republicans. That is our first amendment right.
He agreed with us after we filed the lawsuit against
the state and the sos. But she's I was told,
she's committed to one point two five million dollars of
our dollars to fight against the Republican Party so she
can keep Democrats coming into our primaries. Not there, but
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our primaries.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So I guess at this point it will work its
way through the court system. Any idea how that process
is likely to work.
Speaker 13 (24:55):
Out, Well, we're still waiting on a court to get
us to date and have started the hearing and all
that stuff. We don't have an exact timing on this,
but we were hoping to get all of this done
before the twenty six primaries. But if Jane Nelson keeps
fighting us, she has unlimited dollars because it's our tax dollars,
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and if she keeps fighting us, it may take us
multiple years to get there because she can continue to
take us to the next court.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
All right, So there's an opportunity or there's a chance here,
I guess is what you're saying that this would not
be resolved before the next primary season came up for
the twenty six election, and therefore we would end up
with an open primary for the twenty six election, and
as crowded as the Republican field is in some areas,
that could make things very interesting.
Speaker 13 (25:49):
That's correct. So we have you know, Senate rates going on,
AG's rates going on, we have you know, downors. So
many of our feats are open or have strong candidates
running against each other, and that will make all the
difference because you know, a lot of Democrats are not
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happy with maga Republicans, so they're going to cross over
to the Republican primary and choose the most moderate Republican
who will in turn and go support Democrat policies once
they're elected. It could make a huge difference for President
Trump's agenda in twenty twenty six. It's a disaster. We
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should have gotten this done when we filed that Danielson
had no business opposing this.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But you did, and maybe we got out smarted again
because that seems to happen a lot, doesn't it. It does. Yeah,
you take a look at the usenter race in particular,
that's a crowded field at this point. You know, you've
got Hunt, You've got Ken Paxton, You've got the incumbent
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John Cornyn, and Democrats can come through to support Cornyn,
and otherwise Cornyn would be in big trouble, I would think,
in getting the nomination again. But not if not, if
he can, maybe maybe John Corny has got a little
something to do with this lawsuit by the Texas Secretary
of State as well. All Right, another little topic here,
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this is we're talking about because I think we just
we all got past the government shutdown. Bush and Hobby
are pretty much back to normal on this Monday. We've
got Thanksgiving coming up a week from Thursday, so just
in the neck of time Thanksgiving and Christmas travel has
been saved from the government shutdown. But most of the
continuing resolution will expire at the end of January. Would
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they be willing to do this again? And if you're
wondering what's in it for them, it's the economy, is
what's in it for them? In Tanking the Economy, Larry
Kudlow talked about it with Victor Davis Hand on his show.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
The Democrats want, they want to sabotage the Trump economy
when the midterm elections in the House and then started
pitching Trump all over again. Now, how sick is that?
But you know what I happen to agree with you.
Certainly the left wing of the party would go there.
In a nano second.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
I think it's a certainty they will. And you know,
I think the shutdown was important, not just to affect
the elections recently, although it did, but we're starting to
learn that maybe they took out a point or a
point and a half of GDP in the fourth quarter,
and I think they'll do it again before the midterms
if they think that along with artificially keeping interest rates
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high and the media talking about recession, Wall Street collapse,
terra wars, China, all of this negative news, along with
the high interest rates and shutting down the government will
hurt the economy, at least they think before the midterms.
And that's what the midterms are going to be decided on.
I think I think everybody agrees on the status of
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the economy.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
That shutdown will stop the four percent growth momentum that
was already developing in Q two and Q three, So
Q four is going to be a couple of percentage
points lower and then victor, you recoup it next year.
But if they go back January January thirtieth or thirty first,
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is the end of the current resident the new cr
So if they shut down the government again, they will
stop the economy's momentum, or at least slow the momentum
in the next spring, which is a crucial time. I mean,
what a strategy that is.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Yeah, I think we have to be a little bit
less naive. I think everybody's saying, well, they blew it.
They didn't get anything out of it. That's not what
they think. They think they helped win those elections in
those even though they were blue states. But more importantly,
they think they slowed down the economy and now as
a proven formula to repeat when it really matters in
two thousand twenty six. So I'm afraid they're gonna do
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it again.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah. I think you're probably right, and they're not. They
would never admit it out loud, but they're more than
willing to You don't think so, I do. They're more
than willing to tank the economy or try to tank
the economy in order to win in the midterms. That's
that's how desperate they are for power. You're suffering, too bad,
too bad. We want to get reelected. So the best
(30:23):
way to make that happen is, especially during the midterm
elections is to make sure the economy is not humming
a longer doing well. All right, quick, we'll break back
with more in a moment. Final segment coming up Jimmy
Barrett Show here on AM nine fifty k PRC. All right,
(30:49):
one last topic here that we'll just throw up very
quickly for you here before we call to day on
this Monday, and that's Jeffrey Epstein. The moment that the
U the moment the government shutdown ended. Yo, here comes
the Jeffrey Epstein story again. It's just it's ridiculous. You know,
it went away for the government shutdown, now it's back again.
(31:11):
It's like it keeps playing out. Trump is saying, we
got to release everything. I've got nothing to hide, nobody's
got to you know, let's just get it all out there.
And you know, Democrats don't really want to do that.
They want to do it piecemeal. They want to they
want to take emails and other things and try to
make it look like there's recriminating evidence against Donald Trump,
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which there just isn't. Here's Greg Guttfeld riffing about it
on his program.
Speaker 12 (31:37):
All right, isn't it convenient that after the Democrats shut
down implodes.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
What do you hear from the press?
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Epscene, Epstein, Epstein.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
They ignored it until they were desperate, like Don Lemon
eyeing a fat biker at that at a bar.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
At closing time.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
And leaving out all the details that proves he's innocent. Instead,
they tried to tie Trump to the infamous mass pedophile,
like they were partners in a.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Three legged race.
Speaker 12 (32:05):
So media lemmings fell in line, calling them bombshells when
there were nothing more than burps from a gassy hummingbird.
But you know it's bad when even CNN has to
call Crocket out on their shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Republicans were saying that that victim is Virginia Giuffrey. Here's
the email right here on your screen. She wrote a book,
as you know, and she did not accuse him of
any wrongdoing.
Speaker 13 (32:28):
What do you make about it?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
And can you confirm that?
Speaker 14 (32:30):
Yeah, I don't know. Obviously it's redacted who the victim is,
so I won't necessarily take the Republican's word on who
it is that's redacted. And I don't know why they
would necessarily redact someone's name who is deceased. At this point,
the Democrats did that though the Democrats reduction I understand,
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but I'm just saying, like, our biggest concern is to
actually make sure that we are protecting victims right.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And she's a lawyer.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
I bet her clients ask for the death penalty just
to get her to stop talking. This latest Epstein dump,
and I emphasized dump was just inflated gossip based on
hilariously interpreted emails. Still, Trump supporters had to once again
endure the gauntlet of the fallacious firing squad.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
In fact, the story was.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
So weak that Dems did deliberately redact a supposed victim's name,
Gweffery or Gwiffrey, whatever it is, who publicly testified that
Trump was innocent. But they always with old important details,
much like how I withheld farts on our first date.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
But it backfired. What we learned that always does.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
But we learned really is that Michael Wolf, Trump's smear merchant,
was trying to work with Epstein on a blackmail scheme.
The New York Times tipped off Epstein on a hit piece,
and a lot of rich guys like to talk to Epstein.
And also that apparently Trump, based on suspicion, banded Epstein
from his club, which makes him look pretty good and
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the media looking phonier than the Rolexes I gifted my
writing staff this story meant nothing to them unless they
could make it about Trump, because for Democrats, other people's
suffering is just a political tool for gaining power. But sadly,
their selected leaks had a rebound effect vindicating and not
implicating Trump. But this latest exercise reveals how unsalvageable the
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media is. They truly may be the most discredited industry
in history. They make the tobacco industry look like the
Red Cross. They're corrupt, lying, and ultimately harmful to your health,
but only if you keep buying what they're selling.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, Unfortunately, there's always going to be a market for
what they're selling. With close to fifty percent of the population.
I guess Okay, Hey, before we call the day, before
we leave for the day, I do want to remind
you we have our trip to Alaska. You know it's
(35:11):
getting close enough. I made my big confession to start
of the show today about already having the Christmas stuff up,
so I've got Christmas on my mind a little bit.
I think it would make a wonderful Christmas present, maybe
for you as a couple, or I mean you want
to use You're going to spend that kind of money
on your kids, right Besides, if your kids don't listen
(35:31):
to the show, they they're gonna care about going on
vacation with Jimmy Barrett. Maybe you don't either. It's not
about going on vacation with me. It's about it's about
going to Alaska with a group of like minded people.
Kt r H and KPRC radio listeners. We're gonna be
going to Alaska. It's going to be next August, which
I know sounds like a long, long way away, but
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or anything else. Just get the itinerary. All the stops
along the way. It's a trip to Seattle, who, by
the way, just elected as socialist mayor, so I'm sure
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that'll be a fun place to be. Anyway, we're gonna
go to Seattle. We are gonna be there long. We're
gonna catch our cruise ship. We're going to go to Alaska.
We're going to see the untamed wilderness of Alaska from
the comfort of a beautiful cruise ship and take some
wonderful tours, and you'll have break bread together a few
times and have a good old time. And if you'd
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Speaker 2 (37:00):
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hey, is it too early to wish you a Merry Christmas?
And the answer is yes, of course, of course it's
too early to wish you merry Christmas. It's not even
Thanksgiving yet. Yes, somehow I have managed to succumb to
peer pressure. And I'm I'm I am sorely disappointed in myself. Well,
(00:52):
in one way, I'm sorely disappointed myself. In another way,
I'm kind of relieved. I got a bunch of stuff done.
I'll tell you what happened. So when was it? Friday night? Yeah,
Friday night. I'm I'm going outside for some reason, and
I noticed there's Christmas lights on across the street. Now
(01:12):
they just had it. Everybody in our street. I know
it's gonna sound a little snobbish, and I don't mean
it too, but everybody in our street has a company
that comes out or companies that come out and install
the Christmas lights a lot of reasons behind it. Number One,
nobody wants to store all that stuff. Number Two, nobody
wants to especially if you have a two story home.
(01:34):
Don't want to get up on the big tall ladder
trying to do that, walk on the roof, you know,
break your neck, kill yourself putting up Christmas lights. So
we've all kind of gotten in the habit of hiring
somebody to do that. And you know, they usually come out.
They've come out as early as October. In fact, I
usually have mine put up in October because I get
(01:55):
a cheaper price. So they'll come out in October, usually
right around Thanksgiving, maybe a week or two before Thanksgiving,
no surer than that. And they'll string the lights and
test the lights, make sure the lights are all working,
make sure everything's okay, and then that's it. Right. Just
because they're installed doesn't mean you need to turn them on.
(02:18):
You wait until the appropriate time to turn them on.
Except this year, well every year it's gotten a little
bit earlier. This year, Friday night, I'm going outside and
I noticed the neighbor across the street the Christmas lights
are on. And then I kind of look up and
down the street, and everybody's Christmas lights are on. This
is on Friday. Now, Friday is like literally two weeks
(02:42):
until Thanksgiving, two weeks until the appropriate date to turn
your lights on, at least in my mind, And they're
all on. What the heck? So I sit there and
I go to myself, well, what should I do here?
Should I just sitccumb to peer pressure? Everybody else has
(03:05):
their lights on, so I have to have mind lights on.
No nobody can force you to turn your lights on.
But then I had the other to lim We bought
a brand new Christmas tree. My wife is not a
fan of a trolley brown Christmas tree, and last year
we bought a Christmas tree that turned out to be
a trolley brown Christmas tree. One of the problems I
have with online ordering things through Amazon and whatever is
(03:27):
all you see is a picture and you can't really
tell from a picture what something's going to look like.
And she bought this tree quote unquote it was a
good deal, only when it came it was short, and
more than short, it was skinny. Now we don't care
much for skinny Christmas trees at our house. We like
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our Christmas trees, nice and fat and full, and I
like a lot of built in lights. I mean, I
like thousands of lights. You know, you show me a
tree that's got less than twelve hundred lights, I'm not
even gonna look at it. But she got this thing
and I put it up last year and I went,
is this what you thought you were getting? And she
(04:08):
said no, I thought it would be bigger and fuller.
It looked bigger and fuller in the picture. I said, well,
what were the measurements, and to which he kind of responded, well,
you know, I'm not very good with measurements. You can
tell us something is six foot tall, and she has
a hard time imagining six feet anyway. Some people are
like that, you tell me something six feet tall. I
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have a pretty good idea what six feet is. So,
you know, this thing was skinny, and she didn't like
skinny trees, and so this year we're like it. I
think it was a home deep. We were looking at
the trees and I found when I said, look at
that one, look at that one, big and nice and full,
and look it's got two over two thousand lights. This thing,
(04:52):
I mean, you mean a little up like a Christmas tree,
literally a little up like a Christmas tree. Look great,
Well this is what we need this we're talking about,
And she hemmed and she haunted. It was like four
hundred just under four hundred bucks, like three hundred and
ninety six dollars just over four hundred bucks when you
add taxes and all that stuff in. I don't know,
that's a lot of money for a Christmas tree. Honey.
(05:14):
If you want a big, tall, fat Christmas tree that's
well made, you're gonna have to at least spend that
much money. It just is. So anyway, finally talked her
into buying the tree, and the tree got delivered, and
the tree is sitting in a box, big big old
box in the dining room, and so you know, everybody's
(05:35):
Christmas lights are on. I got that tree sitting there
that I'm gonna have to put together. So I said, well,
at the least I could do get let's get rid
of the box. This is where the tree is gonna
go anyway, right in front of the bay window in
the dining room. Well, I'll put the tree together and
that part will be done for next weekend. So I
put the tree together, and I put it up and
I went, wow, that's a beautiful tree. And I plugged
(05:56):
it in and the lights were amazing. I thought, well,
you know it's up, I might as well go ahead
and decorate it. So I start going through boxes in
the garage right looking for the lights, not for the lights,
but looking for the Christmas ornaments and all that kind
of stuff. And I find the tree from last year,
(06:17):
and I thought, well, well I put that to waste.
It's a brand new tree. It's not very big. That'll
fit nicely in the breakfast nook right across from the
family room that we'll have two trees. We'll go two
trees this year. So I put that tree up and
then I start decorating. Long enough decorating one of might
as well decorate the other one for you, don't. I
got them both decorated, and I've got like three boxes
of stuff open. I'm going, well, I might as well
(06:39):
put it all out, because if I put all this
stuff back, I'm just gonna have to haul it all
back out again next weekend. So I put it all up,
and as long as I got all that out there,
I might as well just go ahead and what turn
the lights on? And I did and that's how we
ended up turning our Christmas lights on Saturday, more than
(07:01):
a week sooner than seems appropriate to me. So I thought, well,
I wonder if I'm the only one who's doing this.
I wonder if anybody else is decorating early and why
they're decorating early or do you have strict rules that
you're sticking by? Was our question of the day today
on our morning show on KTRH. When you set up
the lights, when do you turn them on? What are
(07:24):
the rules that you follow? Here's some of the answers.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Daniel Reporter, Ay, my rules on Christmas decorating or Christmas
lights in general is, if I'm sweat, I'm not decorating.
I'm not going to do Christmas decorations of Christmas lights.
If I'm sweat, I have to wait for the first
bit of cold weather in order to decorate.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Good morning, Jimmy, where do you live?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Because my ah always starts sending letters out if you
leave your lights up too long or put them up
too early. In fact, last year I took them down
at the end of January and still got a letter
because I left those clips. So but then I realized
there's a clause an RhoA agreement that allows for lights
as long as they're appropriate for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So now this year, I'm just gonna run red lights.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Valentine's Day, memorial page allow forth, so on.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Okay, uh, that's an interesting point about the HOA. Guess
who has the president of the HOA living on his street? Yep,
that's right. And guess who already has their Christmas lights on? Yes,
the president, the president of the HOA. So yeah, that
(08:37):
that was not a problem. The sweating thing, I get that,
but you know, that's that's one of the things I
think I learned to do when I moved to Texas As. Y'all,
chances are good I'm a sweat ten out of twelve
months out of the year, so I can't necessarily let
sweating stop me from doing anything.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
David and oakreage. The reason why lives are going up
so early is because so many people are not doing
it themselves. For paying a company that's starting early so
that they can maximize the revenue. People who put up
their own lights typically wait till Thanksgiving or later.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay, on the Christmas light situation.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Thanksgiving Day, guys, that's when you put them up die
Hard start at Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's how you start your Christmas season off.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
The director of Diehard confirmed that was a Christmas movie
and will always be a Christmas movie and a discussion Jimmy, Now,
this is Gina.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
From Southwest Florida calling in about the Christmas lights. So
I noticed a whole bunch of people in my town
already had theirs up, so I went ahead and put
mine up too. And I really think it's just that
people are just excited. They're just happy. They're happy about
the way things are going. They're excited to be American again,
(09:49):
excited about all that's going on, and they just want
to start celebrating early.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, that's interesting. Allow me to play Devil's advocate here
for just second. Though. Is it because we're excited and
we're happy or the counter to that is is that
when things aren't going well, when the bills are tied
and you know things aren't really going as well as
you would like them to go, that this is a
(10:16):
place to Christmas is a great escape. Is a great
place to escape too. You put up your Christmas lights,
you started thinking about Christmas and happy thoughts and that
kind of stuff. So I guess it could work either way,
all right, tell you what quick little break back with
more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett Show here on the
M nine fifty KPRC. Last week on the show, we
(10:49):
were talking about fifty year mortgages. I don't think they're
a good idea. I know it's a Trump administration idea.
I know it's one of many ideas that they're floating.
That one I don't say is a good idea. You're
saving hundreds of dollars a month, but paying hundreds of
thousands of dollars in additional interest rates over the course
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of that loan in order to be able to pay
it off, And that doesn't make any sense to me,
not to mention the fact that if you are in
your late thirties early forties, chances are good you will
never live long enough to pay it off, even if
you wanted to stay in that home for the fifty
(11:32):
years it would take to pay off the loan. Yeah,
I guess you could refinance later on. There's always that possibility,
but that doesn't strike me as a reasonable solution. I
don't think two two h and fifty bucks a month
is going to make that big of a difference for
people as far as buying a home as to whether
or not they're going to qualify or not qualify for
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it in most cases. So I don't think that's a
good solution. Now I did hear another solution be a
hell of a great idea, well, two ideas actually. Number one,
why is it you can only finance a home for
fifteen years or thirty years? I guess there's some there's
some smaller mortgages you can get for less than that,
(12:17):
But why not could you get like a twenty year
loan or a twenty five year loan or twenty six
year loan. Why can't we customize that? Would that help
it all? It might? It might make the difference, you know,
where you can you can go ahead and or maybe
thirty five years. That's a lot better than fifty and
(12:37):
finance it that way. But an even better idea, and
this is one evidently Bill Poulty. Of course, he's a
home builder by trade. His family's homebuilders by trade. You've
heard of Poulty homes, I know you have. His idea
was to be able to take your mortgage with you,
(12:58):
whatever mortgage you have now, at whatever interest rate you
have now you could take it with you to the
new house. They would just give you a new mortgage
at the same interest rate as your old mortgage. So
if you're somebody like me who refinanced when interest rates
were super low, and you got it like mindset, like
two point eighty six percent, I could go ahead and
(13:22):
sell my home and get another home and get a
mortgage at two point eighty six percent. I mean, how
many people that are staying where they are would move
because they could take that interest rate with them. I
think it's a heck of an idea. They were talking
about this on the Big Money Show.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
I think that the affordability crisis is not going to
be solved by one policy alone, but I do love
this idea of being able to take your mortgage. Can
you imagine you have a two or three percent yes
or that you haven't been able to move, and now
all of a sudden you can take that to another property.
It will open up supply. As you mentioned the fifty
year mortgage, I didn't like that idea. I understand that
(14:02):
it was just presented as one tool in the toolbox,
but ultimately you're paying so much interest, and I understand
that the payments are going to be lower per month.
But I just don't think that it was the best solution. However,
I do commend President Trump and the administration for trying
to solve the housing issue. I do think we need
to also eliminate red tape because so much we call
(14:25):
blue tape. Oh yeah, I like that.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Never red tape, it's always blue. Tae's right to ask.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You a question is does it give does it give
the portable mortgage or does it give people who have
great mortgagees an unfair advantage in the marketing argument because
they're going.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
To go life isn't fair.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Brian, You're right, I know, I will believe me. I know,
but I'm just I'm just saying, so you get to
walk out with your three percent mortgage and can go
bid on other homes, it still seems like if you
didn't get the three percent mortgage, you're still going to
be at a big disadvantace. Is it more Is it
still more of a demand sign thing than a supply Well,
I know that.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
What your argument is is that prices will continue to
go up because now those people have more power and
they're able to bid up homes. I get that argument, right,
But I also get the argument that it's going to
open up properties where think about it, some people who
are empty nesters are living in a six bedroom house.
They don't need that much space, So it's going to
open up that inventory for a growing family. And again,
(15:23):
I don't think one policy is going to be the
solution to all.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I mean, and listening to that, I mean, one
of the downsides of that course is if you've got
if what we're trying to do is we're trying to
attract first time buyers and give them an opportunity that
they don't have right now. They don't have an old
interest rate to work off of, so they're going to
they're going to get whatever the going interest rate is.
And my question would be is if we allow people
(15:50):
to take their low interest mortgage loan with them to
wherever they're going next, does that drive up the cost
of mortgages for first time buyers because you would think
the bank is going to want to try to recoup
the money, right, They're going to try to figure out how, Okay, well,
if I got to give Jimmy Barrett a two point
eight six percent mortgage, then I'm going to have to
give somebody else a twelve percent mortgage, so I can
(16:13):
make up for that as far as my ledger sheet goes.
That's the other thing I wonder about, whether or not
you know that that works out. But you know, again,
life is not fair. Life has never been fair. It's
not supposed to be fair for everybody. I'm sorry, it
just isn't. It just isn't fair for everybody equally high
by the way, because I noticed again over the weekend,
(16:37):
I keep you know what I found that me and
the meat counter now is kind of like I'm kind
of like what women are like when they go to
a jewelry store and they're looking at diamonds. That's me
at the supermarket looking at stakes same look at my face.
Oh that's a beautiful steak. Oh, I'd love it. Love
(17:00):
I wish somebody could afford to buy me that steak.
Where was I guess I was at Kruger this time around.
I shop all over the place, and the meat counter
and they've got these big tomahawk steaks, you know, the
ones that got the bone in there, looks like a tomahawk.
And you know, granted there's enough meat there for more
(17:22):
than one person. That's a two person steak. But the
sticker price on this Tomahawk steak was like, you know,
fifty five sixty dollars, and I'm thinking, well, even if
two people are eating it, that's like, you know, twenty
eight thirty bucks apiece. That is expensive. And I don't
know about you. I think I'm a good griller. I'm
(17:44):
a pretty good cook overall, but there's the part of
me that be scared to death to take a sixty
dollars steak and somehow ruin that, or you know, get
distracted and get burns on the grill, or whatever the
case may be. But that's kind of how it's gotten
out the meat counters, like going to the jewelry store.
You know, I'm looking at meat cuts I can't afford
to buy, or I don't think I can afford to buy,
(18:05):
or I'm not willing to spend the money to buy them.
I spend. I spend almost no time anymore. In the
beef section. I'm buying pork chops, I'm buying chicken. You know,
I love beef, I really do, and I like to
have a steak every now and again. But it's it's
it's gotten to the point where it feels pretty cost prohibitive.
(18:28):
So here's my bottom line question. How long is it
going to be like this? I mean winter prices going
to come down? I mean is there any end in
sight to all this? I saw the CEO of Omaha
Steak on Fox Business and he got asked about it
by Maria Bartaroma.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
What is your reaction to the President encouraging our Chinean
beef Argentinian.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
Beef and how are you going to keep costs down
as prices go up?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Look, domestically, we need to get our arms around it.
Last time we got together, we talked about how the
herd is at a seventy year low, demand is at
an all time high, and the net result is prices
are through the roof. So there's this concept in the
industry called heifer attention, and it's a decision that the
rancher and the feed lot operator make to hold back
the female animal to build the herd, as opposed to
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send it to market. Now that's a double edged sword.
We've started to see good signals that that's happening, but
that means that the supply is going to continue to
shrink as fewer cattle are going to market. So we
are headed for what I'm calling Maria the ten dollars
a pound reality. By third quarter of twenty six, families
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are going to see ten dollars a pound ground beef
in the grocery store. So we're in for a bit
of a haul here. I don't believe we'll see price
come down in any meaningful way until sometime in twenty
twenty seven. Well, I do think that. You know, foreign
supply is part of the picture, but you know, Argentinian
beef only makes up about two percent of the total
(19:57):
beef supply in America, so you know, the the domestic
supply is a super critical component to keeping prices low.
Companies like Omaha Steaks are leveraging methods that allow us
to take advantage of the market in a unique way.
A lot of people think the beef market is this stable,
smooth curve. The reality of it is is it looks
(20:20):
very much more like a roller coaster. So you know,
we've got these big blast freezers. We can take advantage
of the valley, take a large position, freeze that product,
process it, and build inventory and extend that to our customers.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
In other words, we knew this was coming. We bought
a whole bunch of cheaper beef, and we flash froze
it and we don't have to raise our prices as high.
I haven't seen an Omaha steak catalog lately, so I
don't know what their prices are going for. My guess
is that if they're smart, they're still charging more because
(20:57):
beef is in high demand and low supply and are
making a mint by doing it that way. All right, quick,
little break, no state for you, back with more in
a moment, Jimmy Bart, choke, you're an am nine to
fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
A couple of political things I want to get into
here with Sacred Number three on our show today. One
of them is a local story. We're going to do
that first. The other one is more of a national story,
having to do with the government shutdown that just ended
and the idea that another government shutdown could be coming
at the end of January. But first things first, there
is we have a secretary state. We have a bad
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habit in this state of having Democrats run as Republicans.
The Biland is a fine example of that. Evidently the
same can be said for our Texas Secretary of State,
who also is a Democrat who pretended to be a
Republican because it's hard to get elected statewide if you
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have a D next to your name. Right now, so
there's a suit. You know, the Republican Party of Texas
wants to close the primary. You have to declare ahead
of the primary if you're a Republican or you're a Democrat,
then you have to vote in either the Democrat or
the Republican. You can't cross over. You can't be a
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Democrat voting in a Republican primary, and you can't be
a Republican voting in a Democrat primary. The Texas Secretary
of State wants to change that. Actually, the law right
now is that they're open primaries and anybody can vote.
The GDP wants to close it, and she wants to
make sure that doesn't happen because that's how she got
a nomination, and that is how she got in by
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all estimations. So we had Abraham George on he's head
of the Texas GOP. We had him on our boarding
show today in KTRH talking about this particular issue. The
only one that doesn't seem to be on the same
page is the Texas Secretary of state. Who has an
our next door name Abraham or does the R stand
for Rhino in Republican?
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Well, in this case, I can guarantee you it does,
because no Republican in state of Texas wants an open
primary where the Democrats can come and choose our primary candidates.
I mean, it's not the election, it's it's naming our
primary candidates. And why would you want a Democrats to
do that? So it's crazy. What's happening with jan Nelson
(23:43):
at the SOS office.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Right, Well, and she's willing to spend one point two
to five million taxpayer dollars in order to be able
to prevent us from going to a closed primary. That
tells me there's a commitment there. Certainly, that's our taxpayer
dollars being used against us.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
That's right. The state have an attorney he called him
Attorney general, right, and Ken Vaxton joined us, and that's
who's supposed to be out there protecting the state's interest.
And he looks at it and he goes, Yeah, Republican
Party have the right to close their primaries because that
is a constitutional right, the right to associate with the
(24:23):
people we believe are Republicans. That is our first amendment right.
He agreed with us after we filed the lawsuit against
the state and the sos. But she's I was told,
she's committed to one point two five million dollars of
our dollars to fight against the Republican Party so she
can keep Democrats coming into our primaries. Not there, but
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our primaries.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So I guess at this point it will work its
way through the court system. Any idea how that process
is likely to work.
Speaker 13 (24:55):
Out, Well, we're still waiting on a court to get
us to date and have started the hearing and all
that stuff. We don't have an exact timing on this,
but we were hoping to get all of this done
before the twenty six primaries. But if Jane Nelson keeps
fighting us, she has unlimited dollars because it's our tax dollars,
(25:18):
and if she keeps fighting us, it may take us
multiple years to get there because she can continue to
take us to the next court.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
All right, So there's an opportunity or there's a chance here,
I guess is what you're saying that this would not
be resolved before the next primary season came up for
the twenty six election, and therefore we would end up
with an open primary for the twenty six election, and
as crowded as the Republican field is in some areas,
that could make things very interesting.
Speaker 13 (25:49):
That's correct. So we have you know, Senate rates going on,
AG's rates going on, we have you know, downors. So
many of our feats are open or have strong candidates
running against each other, and that will make all the
difference because you know, a lot of Democrats are not
(26:10):
happy with maga Republicans, so they're going to cross over
to the Republican primary and choose the most moderate Republican
who will in turn and go support Democrat policies once
they're elected. It could make a huge difference for President
Trump's agenda in twenty twenty six. It's a disaster. We
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should have gotten this done when we filed that Danielson
had no business opposing this.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But you did, and maybe we got out smarted again
because that seems to happen a lot, doesn't it. It does. Yeah,
you take a look at the usenter race in particular,
that's a crowded field at this point. You know, you've
got Hunt, You've got Ken Paxton, You've got the incumbent
(27:04):
John Cornyn, and Democrats can come through to support Cornyn,
and otherwise Cornyn would be in big trouble, I would think,
in getting the nomination again. But not if not, if
he can, maybe maybe John Corny has got a little
something to do with this lawsuit by the Texas Secretary
of State as well. All Right, another little topic here,
(27:26):
this is we're talking about because I think we just
we all got past the government shutdown. Bush and Hobby
are pretty much back to normal on this Monday. We've
got Thanksgiving coming up a week from Thursday, so just
in the neck of time Thanksgiving and Christmas travel has
been saved from the government shutdown. But most of the
continuing resolution will expire at the end of January. Would
(27:48):
they be willing to do this again? And if you're
wondering what's in it for them, it's the economy, is
what's in it for them? In Tanking the Economy, Larry
Kudlow talked about it with Victor Davis Hand on his show.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
The Democrats want, they want to sabotage the Trump economy
when the midterm elections in the House and then started
pitching Trump all over again. Now, how sick is that?
But you know what I happen to agree with you.
Certainly the left wing of the party would go there.
In a nano second.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
I think it's a certainty they will. And you know,
I think the shutdown was important, not just to affect
the elections recently, although it did, but we're starting to
learn that maybe they took out a point or a
point and a half of GDP in the fourth quarter,
and I think they'll do it again before the midterms
if they think that along with artificially keeping interest rates
(28:42):
high and the media talking about recession, Wall Street collapse,
terra wars, China, all of this negative news, along with
the high interest rates and shutting down the government will
hurt the economy, at least they think before the midterms.
And that's what the midterms are going to be decided on.
I think I think everybody agrees on the status of
(29:02):
the economy.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
That shutdown will stop the four percent growth momentum that
was already developing in Q two and Q three, So
Q four is going to be a couple of percentage
points lower and then victor, you recoup it next year.
But if they go back January January thirtieth or thirty first,
(29:24):
is the end of the current resident the new cr
So if they shut down the government again, they will
stop the economy's momentum, or at least slow the momentum
in the next spring, which is a crucial time. I mean,
what a strategy that is.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Yeah, I think we have to be a little bit
less naive. I think everybody's saying, well, they blew it.
They didn't get anything out of it. That's not what
they think. They think they helped win those elections in
those even though they were blue states. But more importantly,
they think they slowed down the economy and now as
a proven formula to repeat when it really matters in
two thousand twenty six. So I'm afraid they're gonna do
(30:02):
it again.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah. I think you're probably right, and they're not. They
would never admit it out loud, but they're more than
willing to You don't think so, I do. They're more
than willing to tank the economy or try to tank
the economy in order to win in the midterms. That's
that's how desperate they are for power. You're suffering, too bad,
too bad. We want to get reelected. So the best
(30:23):
way to make that happen is, especially during the midterm
elections is to make sure the economy is not humming
a longer doing well. All right, quick, we'll break back
with more in a moment. Final segment coming up Jimmy
Barrett Show here on AM nine fifty k PRC. All right,
(30:49):
one last topic here that we'll just throw up very
quickly for you here before we call to day on
this Monday, and that's Jeffrey Epstein. The moment that the
U the moment the government shutdown ended. Yo, here comes
the Jeffrey Epstein story again. It's just it's ridiculous. You know,
it went away for the government shutdown, now it's back again.
(31:11):
It's like it keeps playing out. Trump is saying, we
got to release everything. I've got nothing to hide, nobody's
got to you know, let's just get it all out there.
And you know, Democrats don't really want to do that.
They want to do it piecemeal. They want to they
want to take emails and other things and try to
make it look like there's recriminating evidence against Donald Trump,
(31:32):
which there just isn't. Here's Greg Guttfeld riffing about it
on his program.
Speaker 12 (31:37):
All right, isn't it convenient that after the Democrats shut
down implodes.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
What do you hear from the press?
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Epscene, Epstein, Epstein.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
They ignored it until they were desperate, like Don Lemon
eyeing a fat biker at that at a bar.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
At closing time.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
And leaving out all the details that proves he's innocent. Instead,
they tried to tie Trump to the infamous mass pedophile,
like they were partners in a.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Three legged race.
Speaker 12 (32:05):
So media lemmings fell in line, calling them bombshells when
there were nothing more than burps from a gassy hummingbird.
But you know it's bad when even CNN has to
call Crocket out on their shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Republicans were saying that that victim is Virginia Giuffrey. Here's
the email right here on your screen. She wrote a book,
as you know, and she did not accuse him of
any wrongdoing.
Speaker 13 (32:28):
What do you make about it?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
And can you confirm that?
Speaker 14 (32:30):
Yeah, I don't know. Obviously it's redacted who the victim is,
so I won't necessarily take the Republican's word on who
it is that's redacted. And I don't know why they
would necessarily redact someone's name who is deceased. At this point,
the Democrats did that though the Democrats reduction I understand,
(32:50):
but I'm just saying, like, our biggest concern is to
actually make sure that we are protecting victims right.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And she's a lawyer.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
I bet her clients ask for the death penalty just
to get her to stop talking. This latest Epstein dump,
and I emphasized dump was just inflated gossip based on
hilariously interpreted emails. Still, Trump supporters had to once again
endure the gauntlet of the fallacious firing squad.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
In fact, the story was.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
So weak that Dems did deliberately redact a supposed victim's name,
Gweffery or Gwiffrey, whatever it is, who publicly testified that
Trump was innocent. But they always with old important details,
much like how I withheld farts on our first date.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
But it backfired. What we learned that always does.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
But we learned really is that Michael Wolf, Trump's smear merchant,
was trying to work with Epstein on a blackmail scheme.
The New York Times tipped off Epstein on a hit piece,
and a lot of rich guys like to talk to Epstein.
And also that apparently Trump, based on suspicion, banded Epstein
from his club, which makes him look pretty good and
(34:09):
the media looking phonier than the Rolexes I gifted my
writing staff this story meant nothing to them unless they
could make it about Trump, because for Democrats, other people's
suffering is just a political tool for gaining power. But sadly,
their selected leaks had a rebound effect vindicating and not
implicating Trump. But this latest exercise reveals how unsalvageable the
(34:33):
media is. They truly may be the most discredited industry
in history. They make the tobacco industry look like the
Red Cross. They're corrupt, lying, and ultimately harmful to your health,
but only if you keep buying what they're selling.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, Unfortunately, there's always going to be a market for
what they're selling. With close to fifty percent of the population.
I guess Okay, Hey, before we call the day, before
we leave for the day, I do want to remind
you we have our trip to Alaska. You know it's
(35:11):
getting close enough. I made my big confession to start
of the show today about already having the Christmas stuff up,
so I've got Christmas on my mind a little bit.
I think it would make a wonderful Christmas present, maybe
for you as a couple, or I mean you want
to use You're going to spend that kind of money
on your kids, right Besides, if your kids don't listen
(35:31):
to the show, they they're gonna care about going on
vacation with Jimmy Barrett. Maybe you don't either. It's not
about going on vacation with me. It's about it's about
going to Alaska with a group of like minded people.
Kt r H and KPRC radio listeners. We're gonna be
going to Alaska. It's going to be next August, which
I know sounds like a long, long way away, but
(35:51):
you know, these things fill up rather quickly, so I
want to make sure you get the notification that it's It's.
All you have to do is ask for brochure for
right now. You don't have to give them any money
or anything else. Just get the itinerary. All the stops
along the way. It's a trip to Seattle, who, by
the way, just elected as socialist mayor, so I'm sure
(36:11):
that'll be a fun place to be. Anyway, we're gonna
go to Seattle. We are gonna be there long. We're
gonna catch our cruise ship. We're going to go to Alaska.
We're going to see the untamed wilderness of Alaska from
the comfort of a beautiful cruise ship and take some
wonderful tours, and you'll have break bread together a few
times and have a good old time. And if you'd
(36:32):
like to find out more about it so you can
consider going with us, then go to travel with Jimmy
dot com. That's travel with Jimmy dot Com. You all
have a great day. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright
nearly at five am over on news radio seven forty
ktr H. You're back here at four on AM nine
to fifty k prc
Speaker 2 (37:00):
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