October 27, 2025 • 38 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Is there a coin shortage?
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Well, happy Monday. Here we go. Hey,
remind me to tell you about our listener trip to Alaska. Yes, Alaska.
We this morning on ktr H. I'll tell you more
about it is. Our show continues here because even if
you only listen to us on KPRC and you don't
listen to me on the mornings on ktr H, you're
welcome to come too. It's for for both station listeners,
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So I want to extend the invitation to you too.
We'll get to that in just a bit. First, though,
let's start with this. Retailers struggling with a coin shortage.
Industry groups like the Food Industry Association and the National
Grocers Association send a letter to Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke
Rowlands on October fourteenth. The shortage, they wrote, is beginning
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to cause a cascade of negative events in stores around
the country, specifically for retailers who take SNAP coupons the
SNAP program who have to comply with the Low Income
Family Program's Equal treatment provisions. Equal treatment means that you
have to accept all forms of payment, including cash. Due
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to the penny shortage, some retailers have to round to
the nearest nickel for cash paying customers, resulting at a
different price than that for customers playing paying electronically. According
to the letter, this poses SNAP compliance concerns, since retailers
that accept food assistance benefits are required to treat all
customers the same, whether or not they're involve SNAP. What's
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also interesting is that there are some states now, including Ohio,
where they don't have to take cash. By state law,
no mandating that a private business has to accept currency
or coins as payment. So if you have a business
in a state like Ohio, you can decide for yourself
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what you accept, and if you don't accept cash for
whatever reason, you don't have to. Now, from a practical standpoint,
I guess I understand the making change thing. How that
can be a bit of a hassle for some retailers,
especially when you have a situation where you can't keep
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enough pennies to make change, and we're not making any
more pennies. We're done making pennies because it costs too
much to make them. You know, Trump has pretty much
banned those. But maybe I should put some of my
pennies back in circulation. Have a whole jar full of shape,
including pennies, So I have no idea right now how
much is in there. But if there's a shortage, maybe
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I should just hang on to it. I may need
that someday for whatever reason. Just a great change. But
it got me thinking about you know, how I use cash,
when I use cash. If I use cash, and I
don't use cash all that often, I mean, I always
want to have cash with me, and I usually do
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always have cash with me because you never know when
you're gonna need it. Let's say, for example, the power
went out and you're eating in a restaurant and the
power goes out and you've got no cash. How are
you supposed to pay for your dinner? Is it? I mean,
I don't think the restaurant's going to consider it a
dull tough luck. We're sorry, we don't have any power
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right now. You still got to pay before you leave.
We're not taking iouse, so I always have at least
some cash on me. I'd also like to give cash tips,
you know, to wait staff and wait people. I'd let
them decide whether or not they want to report their
tips to the federal government or not. Of course, we're
at the point now where we're supposed to have no
tax on tips, right, so that shouldn't be that shouldn't
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be an issue going forward. But the point is is
that there they're the rare occasion anyway where cash can
come in relatively handy. It's just at the retail level
where it's got to be a bit of a pain.
The other thing that I prefer about electronic banking or
using a debit card versus paying cash for a lot
of things is that it's a lot easier for me
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anyway to track how I'm spending my money. And I think,
like most people, you know, until you run out of it,
you don't you don't really keep track necessarily of any
every penny that you spend. I know there are some
people who are on budgets and they have to keep
track of every penny they spend. I completely respect that,
but for me anyway, I'm not on that kind of
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a budget where I'm going to run out of money
any second, and I have to go ahead and and
and keep track of everything I do. But I do
like to be able to go back and take a
look at what I spent on, whatever it was I
spend it on. And you know, when you're using a
debit card, that's just a really easy thing to do.
So I got to be thinking, well, let's ask our
listeners about cash. How do you feel about cash? Do
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you carry cash? Do you use cash? Under what circumstances
do you prefer to use cash versus using your debit card?
And we came up I think with some of the
some of the usual answers that you would expect to
hear on something like.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
This, Yes, David and Oakridge. I'll always keep cash because
everybody takes it. But I have been using my card
more often and probably draw a line about twenty bucks.
If it's more than twenty bucks, i'll use my card.
If it's less than twenty bucks, I'll pay cash.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Good morning everyone, This is Henry from Spring. I use
cash whenever I can, so I can bring home the
smaller bills and the change and dump it into my
change jar, which we use to save for weekend fun
trips and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Hey you go on Lake Condra.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
The thing I use to pay for with cash is
I buy my gas because I get it ten cents
a gallon cheaper.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The thing I'm most scared about is my wife won't
let me go fishing.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I use cash only at gas stations and groceries.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh, I'm calling from Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Huntsville. Yeah, we got a call from Huntsville. Okay, cash
for gas? Yeah? I can you get a discount for
cash for gas, don't you? Hmm? You know. I haven't
done the math on that one. I have. I have
a card, a credit card that gives me double points
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on automotive items and travel. It's a United card. We
travel United all the time, of course, because Heston is
the hub. And so when I buy gas, or I
pay a toll fee that or get autoy, all that
stuff goes on the card because I get the points
for doing that. I get the miles for doing that.
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So I haven't really worked it. I guess until I
use the miles, I'm probably better off getting the money
off on the gas, right but then again, I also
buy my gas using the points card at usually at Kroger,
because if I shop there, I get points for what
I buy, and then I get money off the gas.
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So I guess I'm working. I'm working both ends against
each other on that one. But to be honest with you,
I'm not exactly sure how that's worked out. I don't
know if that's working out in my favor or not.
All right, let's grab a few more today from Lamark.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Well, you have to be rich if all you can
use at your credit card. I can't do that. I
don't have that luxury. I need my cats. If not,
when I pay my light bail, they're going to charge
me twenty five dollars fee to pay it with my card,
and I just don't have money like that to give
it away. So if that happened, they're going to be
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a lot of angry people, and uh hell, they might
even jump off a bridge.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Hey, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Because I have a one hour commute to work, I
mostly saved the cash in my wad for the gas
that I use. That way, I know I don't put
that much more pressure on my credit card.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Tom.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
I use cash is for tips for drivers or delivery
guys or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That's the only time I use cash.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, can't cash for tips and purchases under would
one guy say twenty bucks, he uses it for purchases
above twenty bucks, he uses the card for for under
twenty bucks. He uses cash. Pretty close to the same
for me, maybe not quite that strict. Elizabeth will will
put anything on the card. She could buy a pack
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of gum and put it on the debit card. And
it's not because she doesn't have cash in a wallet.
She does, I know she does. She hoards the cash.
She doesn't want to spend the cash. If it's something
like five or six, eight or nine or ten bucks,
I'm not gonna put that on my debit card. I'm
just I'll pay cash for that. But I pay all
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my bills with electronic banking, and they don't charge me
to do that. So I'm not quite sure where the
guy was coming from. Who's paying cash on things like
his utility bill because they were gonna charge him for
using a charge card. If you have a debit card,
that doesn't happen. At least it shouldn't. All right, quick
little break back with mortem. I'm a Jimmy Barrett show
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here an nine fifty KPRC. We continue to follow the
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ballroom story. I think we were talking about Friddy, how
they went and demolished the East wing of the White House.
And I was a little surprised that that happened. I
wasn't really expecting that to happen. And I guess why.
I guess I understand why there some people are just
upset that they just went ahead and did that, you know,
knocking down history. It did go back to nineteen oh two.
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It's just this. Basically, it's an office wing, is what
it is. So I don't think that they that the
President Trump felt that that was he felt that he
needed the ballroom more, and law allows him to decide,
especially when he's not using taxpayer dollars, what it is
he wants to have. We've had plenty of other presidents.
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President President Obama put a he spent a lot on
hundreds of billions of dollars for new plumbing and a
basketball court. Seems like a big, beautiful ballroom for less
than that is a better deal for us, especially concerning
the fact that Obama used taxpayer money and Trump isn't.
But that aside the President's been hearing all of the
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back and forth about the ballroom, especially coming from the left,
and he had this to say.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
And every time the top people come over from China,
they're getting these big you know, beautiful they put a
tent on the White House.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We don't have a ballroom at the White House.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
I offered, by the way, Jerry years ago, to build
a ballroom at the White House free of charge.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
One hundred million dollar boreroom.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
I said, we'll get the top five architects in America,
We'll get the top people, top everything, will have the
best ballroom. Because I noticed they always put tents up
on the lawn. Number one, it's not a good security thing.
Number Two, the guy that owns the tens is making
a fortune. Okay, this poor guy, I mean, he's making
so much money. All he needs is one tent and
he charges them so much. He's making a fortune er. Right,
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But I said I will build a ballroom. I gave
it to the Obama. I actually told David axel Ort,
a good guy, you know, very capable guy. I told
David axel Right, David, I will build a ballroom free
of charge at least one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We'll make it the finest ballroom in the world.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We'll put it someplace so it works contextually magnificently.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It'll be done. We'll have committee set up. I never
heard back. I never heard back.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
It's you know, it's just one of just thousands of things.
I mean, if somebody's gonna give me a free but well,
I'm gonna take it. We'll put it in an area.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It look great. But you know we don't have a
ballroom at the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well you're gonna now. So so he offered it to Obama.
We'll build you a ballroom for free, won't charge you
for free. They never following up on it, never never
took him up on it. Why is that, do you suppose?
I mean back then, back then, this is before Donald
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Trump was running for president. This is you know, during
the Obama administration. He had he had a lot of
people that on the left there recording in for donations
and what have you get. Yet they ignored him when
he was offering up a free ballroom. So now there's
going to be a ballroom. And the left continues to
lose their collective minds over this. And by the way,
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well not only their reaction to this, but also Jesse
Waters reacting to.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
That there's a side by side of Trump's rendition of
a ballroom with the Winter Palace ballroom in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
We are living in that crazy, wacky alternate universe that
Obama conjured up that night thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's her at her desk.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
She was famously said, if the West wing is the
mind of the nation and the East wing is the heart,
well it has been ripped.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Out, symbolic of the changes that Donald Trump's second term
is bringing.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
What is it able to look like maybe a natural
disaster or more commonly these days war.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We're terrorism.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Jesse is the media, the legacy media, the liberals, They're
losing their.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Minds over this, the ballroom gate.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
So do you know that when you have a state dinner,
you have to use a tent and there's nowhere to
go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So you have to have a porta potty.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
We are making dignitaries from foreign countries go to the
bathroom in porta potties. This is a gift to the country,
a gift to any other Democrat. President Barack Obama spent
four hundred million to do a basketball court and rewire
a few pipes. This thing is a legacy. Of course
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he's naming it after himself. Trump steaks, Trump water, Trump wine.
I'm not surprised. Greg understands. Also a well timed F bomb.
Nothing better than that. The problem is Democrats think Trump
got to the White House through F bombs.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
He didn't.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
They look at him so one dimensional. The guy can
drop a few F bombs, but he could also be
the most tender man when he's comforting families in pain,
or orchestrating grand strategy with power players throughout the world,
or a policy wonk.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He's kind of a policy wonk.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
So this guy's a multi dimensional because he's a person
and he honed these skills over decade.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's in the media.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
It's not something you can copy in a playbook.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Politics is about people.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
The Democrats are so obsessed with identity politics they don't.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Know their own identity. Did you notice the part where
maybe you didn't notice, but yes, Donald Trump evidently is
going to name the ballroom after himself, which which seems appropriate.
You know, without him, there wouldn't be a ballroom, so
you can name it whatever you want. I don't know
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if they're gonna call it the President Trump Ballroom or
or what Trump National Ballroom. Who knows what they'll end
up calling it. And and well, I think I think,
like everything else in life, let's reserve your future judgment
on how this whole thing works out esthetically and for
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the best use of the confines of the space until
we actually see this thing built in, in use. Then
maybe we can figure it out from their as to
whether or not we thought this was a really good
idea or not a particularly good idea. All right, I
saw this story. I thought I share this with you.
They do an annual poll of real life fears of
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everyday Americans. This is Halloween week. Halloween's coming up on Friday.
I'll be off on Friday for Halloween. No, not for Halloween,
just take Friday. And what's interesting to me is what
made this list. It's not ghosts, it's not goblins, it's
not movies like The Shining. What people really fear Number
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one on the list, by the way, also number one
last year. Regardless of who is in power, the number
one thing that people fear the most is corrupt government officials.
Sixty nine percent of people SA either're afraid or very
afraid of corrupt government officials, followed by you love becoming
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seriously ill fifty nine percent, also second last year. Economic
or financial collapse fifty eight percent. That jumped up for
number fifteen last year. So evidently more people are concerned
about economic or financial collapse. I don't know if this
was tay when this was taken, this poll was taken,
if it's got anything to do with the government shutdown
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or not. Cyber terrorism came in fourth, people you love
dying came in fifth. Six Was the US becoming involved
in another World war? Really? I think there's far less
of a chance of that happening right now with Trump
than there was before. But we'll see pollution of drinking
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water up from number eleven last year. Pollution of drinking water, now,
why would that be up? See here's what I don't know.
This was a Chapman University poll, and being that as
from a university, could very will be that they talked
to more people who were on the left than people
who are on the right. And I can see why
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people on the left would be more worried about drinking
water pollution or pollution in general. Because the people on
the left think that Trump is is somehow more of
a danger to the environment, and the EPA won't be
you know, cracking down is hard on polluters as they
otherwise would if there was a Democrat in power, so
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that I would say, there's probably some left leaning concerns
on this, but I'll share it anyway. So pollution of
drinking water came in seventh. Russia using nuclear weapons came
in eighth. Pollution of oceans represent lakes fifty four percent,
up from number thirteen last year. Government tracking of personal
data came in number ten. So she had two things
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about the government that made that top ten. Now other
interesting ones that are in there at number seventeen AI,
that's the first time it's made the list. AI replacing
people in the workforce, Number twenty five fearing a new
pandemic or major epidemic. But what would be interesting to
find out is why they fear it. If you fear
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another pandemic, do you fear it for health reasons or
do you fear it to go back to you. Number
ten on the list government tracking of personal data or
corrupt government or the government using that as an excuse
to do whatever it is they do to you. Number
forty three is a fear of sharks. A fear of
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heights only made number forty four. I have a fear
of heights. I don't have a fear of flying, but
you have a fear of heights, and it's not a
debilitating fear. But I have a hard time at the
top of a tall step leadder, let alone then standing
on your roof or doing something else that puts you
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up high where you don't have anything around you. Text
you I don't have a fear of flying. That came
in number sixty four. Fear of illegal immigration came in
number fifty four, So more people are afraid, rightfully so,
of illegal immigration than they are fear of flying and
coming in. The last is homeless people. Hang on. There
are people who are afraid of homeless people. I guess if
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you are in a dark alley with a bunch of
people you don't know that are acting strange, like they
have issues, that would be fearful. But I mean it's
not like I would walk past a home, you know,
village of homeless people and be instantly afraid of that.
Twelve percent of people are afraid of homeless people. Would deadly.
All right, another quick little break back with more in
just a second Jimmy Bart Show here on an AM
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nine fifty KPRC. All right, a couple of stories of
sort of intern national flair. If you will to work
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on our show today. I gotta remember to tell you
about the Alaska drip. Maybe maybe when we get done
covering these two stories here, because I want to make
sure you know about this. All right, but let's start
with this one, and that is evidently our relationship with
Canada is continuing to go backwards. Here's here's what has
happened now Ontario, which is a province of Canada, Ontario,
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that's where Toronto is, Ontario. He is running an ad
featuring the voice of former President Ronald Reagan, and it's
an anti tariff ad. What they did was they took
a clip of Reagan sounding like he's anti tariff. It
was taken out of context. He wasn't anti tariff at all,
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and they made it sound like if Ronald Reagan was around,
this wouldn't be happening kind of thing. And evidently I
got Trump's pissed off that he has stopped negotiations with
Canada over a trade deal. And evidently they were making
some sort of progress. But but that's what happens when
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you make Trump mad, is he's going to say no.
But in that case, we're not even talking to you anymore.
So they had Ari Fleischer, the former White House spokesperson.
Ari Fleischer was on Fox talking about this ad too.
Here's the reaction to the ad. That is disingenuous and
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and and this. Hey, this is the way that Trump is.
Trump is a tough negotiator. You make it mad with
this stuff, He's not He's not going to want to
negotiate with you.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
That ad was wrong.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I mean, it totally took what Ronald Reagan said out
of context, distorted his remarks. President Reagan was always clear
about the importance of fair trade and that trade has
to be reciprocal. I remember when I was in office,
we had huge trade disputes with Canada over soft with
lumber and over fishing rights off the coast of Maine.
So disputes with Canada are a long standing thing. Canada
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has not engaged in fair practices with the United States.
So President Trump, as typical, is flexing. He's throwing the
strengths down and saying, get that ad off the air
and we're not talking to you and you.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Need to fix this.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, here's Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on all of
this in a gaggle earlier today.
Speaker 11 (23:20):
My colleagues have been working with their American colleagues on detailed,
constructive negotiations, discussions on specific transactions, specific sectors steel, aluminum,
and energy, and a lot of progress has been made
and we stand ready to pick up on that progress
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and build on that progress when the Americans are ready
to have those discussions.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
We stand ready when the Americans are ready, tell me
what you take away from that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
While we have the White.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
House via Kevin Hassett responding to all of this and
reporters question earlier today, listen here, is this just a.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Knee jerk reaction.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
I think the frustration has built up over time. I've
been involved in some of these negotiations and the Canadians
have been very difficult to negotiate with. The fact that
we're now negotiating with Mexico separately reveals that it's not
just about what one add, that there's frustration that's built up.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Okay, this story is getting good, ari where does it
go next?
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Well, it's classic negotiation. Yeah, one party takes his hands
off the steering and wheel acts crazy, and the other
party says, whoops, we better do what they want otherwise
we're going to have.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
A crash here.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
So I think this President Trump has largely been successful
in these negotiations because of his hard to predict tactics,
and I think that is what's going to happen in
the end. All these tariffs all around the world. Is
just odd that the negotiations with Canada have been among
the most tricky. You would think Canada wouldn't play this game,
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and we reach an agreement with the United States, they
can reach an agree with the United States. But Canada's
playing hardball. President Trump plays hardball. No one knows how
it's going to turn out.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Huh yeah. The Cays are being tough about this, huh okay,
and they seem to be taking it very personally too.
That well, were your neighbors to the north, where your partners,
You shouldn't be doing this to us, except they do it.
They do it to us, So when we're threatening to
do it back to them, they don't like that. Well,
they don't like it because they've always gotten away with
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it before. I guess and now they're not getting away
with it, and that well that makes them angry, very
angry in fact. Okay, now here's one to consider as well,
speak of international the cartels, we are at a point
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where most of us are probably going to have to
reconsider a Mexican vacation. And I've got something scheduled that's
supposed to happen in February where we're going with another
couple and we're taking a cruise that involves I think
we stop in Cosamel and Belize and Honduras. So there's
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only one stop in Mexico and it's right by Cancun, Cosamel.
So you know, the last time we were there, there
were a lot of federalies there. There were a lot
of troops there to protect the tourists. I'm guessing we're
going to see something similar. There's a warning evidently Los Cabos,
which I've been to before too, evidently that has is
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under cartel control. The cartel they're pretty much large and
in charge, and they're basically saying, if you're smart, if
you don't come here, because we know they're making threats
against American tourists and part of the reason they're probably
making those threats is because we're making direct threats against them.
In fact, President Trump said the other day he said
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he's going to kill the cartel. He did. He came
right out and said that we're out to kill the cartel.
So here is President Trump saying what he said about
the cartels. We get some reaction to it from the
opposition leader in Venezuela who supports President Trump, of course.
And all this a.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Criminal network that has committed trunks in the US and
Canada up down to Argentina and Trini.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's all run by Madudo.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
He has been destroying the lives of millions of Venaissan
people and turned our country into the safe heaven for
Russian Iranian forces, Cuban agents Hezbola Hamas and the Colombian
Gorilla to operate freely for twenty six years. Look, the
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only way to is mantle a criminal structure is to
cut their inflows of criminal money. You have to cut
the resources that come from drug trafficking, gold smuggling, arms, morthling,
even human trafficking that Maduda heads and operates from Venezuela.
It was Madudo who declared a war on us Venezuelans
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after we won by the landslide in presidential election last year.
So he has applied state terrorism inside towards our people
and narco terrorism abroad to the nations of the West
Western hemisphere. So Madudo is the one who started the war.
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President Trump is stopping the war, ending the war.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, the president Venezuela, the dictator, I should say, Venezuela
has you know it is claiming that Trump started a
war by going after these drug cartel boats. We're just
we're defending our coastline from the cartel and from these
drug runners who Maduro supports because they support him and
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he's getting rich from from doing that. But you know,
now that we're fighting back, he probably sees that gravy
train coming to an end. And this is the first time,
of course, the United States has behave this way, the
first time we've really stood up and protected ourselves to
a certain extent from this kind of activity. Thank god,
we're finally getting around to doing that. All right, I
(29:23):
promise some information. I got to do it now before
I forget Alaska. We're doing a listener cruise, a KTRH
KPRC listener cruise. It's going to be to Alaska. It's
going to be this next August. It is going to
be We're going to fly to Seattle. The trip, by
the way, includes you around trip Bearfair. It includes a
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seven day cruise on the Celebrity Edge. You can look
the ship up. It's amazing. This ship was built in
like twenty twenty three. It's one of the newest ships.
And we're going to leave Seattle. We're going to cruise
all these different stops in Alaska. We even have a
stop in Canada, assuming that the Canadians let us in.
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I'm assuming they still want a tourist dollars, right, and
it's gonna be amazing. Skagway all just just so many
things that we're gonna do. We're gonna have but we're
gonna have guided tours. We're gonna be uh checking out
glaciers and whales. I'm guessing Greenna see some whales and
eagles and moose and bears and and all guys of
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eating salmon. We're gonna be having one heck of a
time in Alaska. It's a luxury cruise to Alaska. It
includes a whole bunch of stuff. But rather than have
me rattle off all the things, that includes I'll just
send you to Travel with Jimmy dot Com. Just go
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is available uh at the website if you prefer to
make a phone call. When it comes time to reserve
a spot, I will say this, I think because we
already First of all, we already have bookings. Some of
our listeners who went last year with US degrees have
already booked. And in addition to that, we have a
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lot of people who heard that we're going to do
this and are starting to book We have limited space.
We can only hold so many people on this. We
only have so many rooms reserved. Somebody cabin's reserved on this.
So I'm just going to urge you if you would
like to go or want to explore it, please don't
hesitate or wait. Do it early enough where you have
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com to get the details on that Alaska cruise they're
gonna be taking next August. All right, let's move on
to Kamala Harris. Don't worry. I won't spend much time
with Kamala. Kamala Harris evidently has managed to talk to
enough people that actually do love her that she has
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somehow convinced herself that maybe she should run again. You know,
maybe maybe she should run again. Don't don't don't p
any attention to the fact that she lost all those
swing states, or she really has gotten herself convinced that
she just didn't have enough time. If she'd if Joe
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Biden had just quit sooner, if she'd had enough time,
she would have won. She's she's still doing interviews as
a part of her book tour, and she did an
interview with the BBC where she said this.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Stories of your baby nieces, Ammara and Leila, when are
they going to see a woman in charge in the
White House in their lifetime?
Speaker 15 (33:04):
For sure.
Speaker 14 (33:06):
Could it be you possibly have you made a decision yet.
Speaker 13 (33:10):
No, I have not, But you say in your book
I'm not done.
Speaker 15 (33:15):
That is correct. I am not done. I have lived
my entire career a life of service, and it's in
my bones, and there are many ways to serve. I've
not decided yet what I will do in the future
beyond what I am doing right now.
Speaker 14 (33:31):
But you've been very clear that it's a possibility you
might run again to become president. And in my experience
interviewing politicians, when someone says I'm not done, it means
they are thinking seriously about running that when you look
at the bookies' odds, they put you as an outsider,
even behind Dwayne Johnson. I mean, is that underestimating you?
Speaker 15 (33:53):
I think there are all kinds of polls that will
tell you a variety of things. I've never listened to polls.
If I listen to polls, I would have not run
for my first office or my second office, and I
certainly wouldn't be sitting here in this interview.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Okay, she didn't commit to running for president there. I
mean I shouldn't. I should make it sound like she's
committed to running for president. She hasn't committed a running
for president, but she certainly looks like she's not interested
in going away. I think I personally, I would just
love to see her just just go away. But I
don't think she's going to just go away. We're not
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going to be that lucky, all right. And one more
item for you, because I feel compelled to put this
warning in. I think most of us haven't really noticed
anything when it comes to the government shut down. I
don't know about you, but I'm not getting Snap benefits.
So if there's no Snap benefits coming out next week
when we hit November, then it's not going to have
an impact on me. I can't think of any other
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government service that I use or will be using between
now and the end of the year they would have
any sort of impact on me. But there is something
going on that may impact you if you're traveling for
Thanksgiving or Christmas, or just traveling between now and the
end of the year. We're seeing the amount of instances
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of canceled flights and delayed flights grow. We're having increasing
problems with air traffic control as a result of that.
So here is Sean Duffy. He was on one of
the talking hit shows. I think of Sunday Morning Futures
with Maria Bartoromo over the weekend talking about how we're
having bigger and bigger problems with air traffic control. Do
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the government shutdown?
Speaker 16 (35:38):
Yeah, So they got their notice on Thursday and Friday,
they get a notice of what they're going to be
paid on Tuesday and they got a big fat zero
no paycheck is coming on Tuesday. And so I've been
out talking to our air traffic controllers and you can
see the stress. These are people that oftentimes live paycheck
to paycheck, or one controller has a stay at home spouse.
They're concerned about gas in the car, They're concerned about
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childcare and mortgages, and so I'm seeing the stress come
for the controllers. Just yesterday, Marie, we had twenty two
staffing triggers. That's one of the highest that we've seen
in the system since the shutdown began. And that's a
sign that the controllers are wearing thin and again they're
taking second jobs. They're out there looking can I drive uber?
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Can I find another source of income to make ends meet?
Until Democrats stop with the radical push for illegal migrants
and actually open up the government. And so what I
see coming forward as we get to Monday, Tomorrow, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, that you're going to see more staffing shortages
and towers, which means you're going to see more delays,
more cancelations. And then you see more Americans frustrated at
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Democrats and they'll say, open up the government.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 16 (36:47):
We're trying to bring more controllers into the pipeline, into
the career path. Our academy is in Oklahoma City, and
right now we're not paying the instructors at the academy,
but the students they get at ip in that help
them live while they go be trained up to be
a controller. That stiping runs out in a little over
a week, we could lose this, this tranche of air
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traffic controllers. So instead of going in the right direction
trying to bring more controllers into the system, I'm going
to lose them. This has long term implications on our
ability to make sure we don't have the staffing shortages
and our flights are on time and they're not delayed,
which I think frustrates so many darn Americans.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, well I think, yeah, I think we're all pretty
frustrated with that. And like I said, I think the
only way this gets solved is by a whole lot
more pressure. And I think when Americans find themselves not
being able to get home for Thanksgiving or for Christmas,
that might be just the pressure you need. All right,
got to leave it at that. You all have a
great day. We'll see tomorrow morning break nearly starting at
five am over our news radio seven forty k t H.
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Well, happy Monday. Here we go. Hey,
remind me to tell you about our listener trip to Alaska. Yes, Alaska.
We this morning on ktr H. I'll tell you more
about it is. Our show continues here because even if
you only listen to us on KPRC and you don't
listen to me on the mornings on ktr H, you're
welcome to come too. It's for for both station listeners,
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So I want to extend the invitation to you too.
We'll get to that in just a bit. First, though,
let's start with this. Retailers struggling with a coin shortage.
Industry groups like the Food Industry Association and the National
Grocers Association send a letter to Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke
Rowlands on October fourteenth. The shortage, they wrote, is beginning
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to cause a cascade of negative events in stores around
the country, specifically for retailers who take SNAP coupons the
SNAP program who have to comply with the Low Income
Family Program's Equal treatment provisions. Equal treatment means that you
have to accept all forms of payment, including cash. Due
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to the penny shortage, some retailers have to round to
the nearest nickel for cash paying customers, resulting at a
different price than that for customers playing paying electronically. According
to the letter, this poses SNAP compliance concerns, since retailers
that accept food assistance benefits are required to treat all
customers the same, whether or not they're involve SNAP. What's
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also interesting is that there are some states now, including Ohio,
where they don't have to take cash. By state law,
no mandating that a private business has to accept currency
or coins as payment. So if you have a business
in a state like Ohio, you can decide for yourself
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what you accept, and if you don't accept cash for
whatever reason, you don't have to. Now, from a practical standpoint,
I guess I understand the making change thing. How that
can be a bit of a hassle for some retailers,
especially when you have a situation where you can't keep
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enough pennies to make change, and we're not making any
more pennies. We're done making pennies because it costs too
much to make them. You know, Trump has pretty much
banned those. But maybe I should put some of my
pennies back in circulation. Have a whole jar full of shape,
including pennies, So I have no idea right now how
much is in there. But if there's a shortage, maybe
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I should just hang on to it. I may need
that someday for whatever reason. Just a great change. But
it got me thinking about you know, how I use cash,
when I use cash. If I use cash, and I
don't use cash all that often, I mean, I always
want to have cash with me, and I usually do
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always have cash with me because you never know when
you're gonna need it. Let's say, for example, the power
went out and you're eating in a restaurant and the
power goes out and you've got no cash. How are
you supposed to pay for your dinner? Is it? I mean,
I don't think the restaurant's going to consider it a
dull tough luck. We're sorry, we don't have any power
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right now. You still got to pay before you leave.
We're not taking iouse, so I always have at least
some cash on me. I'd also like to give cash tips,
you know, to wait staff and wait people. I'd let
them decide whether or not they want to report their
tips to the federal government or not. Of course, we're
at the point now where we're supposed to have no
tax on tips, right, so that shouldn't be that shouldn't
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be an issue going forward. But the point is is
that there they're the rare occasion anyway where cash can
come in relatively handy. It's just at the retail level
where it's got to be a bit of a pain.
The other thing that I prefer about electronic banking or
using a debit card versus paying cash for a lot
of things is that it's a lot easier for me
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anyway to track how I'm spending my money. And I think,
like most people, you know, until you run out of it,
you don't you don't really keep track necessarily of any
every penny that you spend. I know there are some
people who are on budgets and they have to keep
track of every penny they spend. I completely respect that,
but for me anyway, I'm not on that kind of
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a budget where I'm going to run out of money
any second, and I have to go ahead and and
and keep track of everything I do. But I do
like to be able to go back and take a
look at what I spent on, whatever it was I
spend it on. And you know, when you're using a
debit card, that's just a really easy thing to do.
So I got to be thinking, well, let's ask our
listeners about cash. How do you feel about cash? Do
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you carry cash? Do you use cash? Under what circumstances
do you prefer to use cash versus using your debit card?
And we came up I think with some of the
some of the usual answers that you would expect to
hear on something like.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
This, Yes, David and Oakridge. I'll always keep cash because
everybody takes it. But I have been using my card
more often and probably draw a line about twenty bucks.
If it's more than twenty bucks, i'll use my card.
If it's less than twenty bucks, I'll pay cash.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Good morning everyone, This is Henry from Spring. I use
cash whenever I can, so I can bring home the
smaller bills and the change and dump it into my
change jar, which we use to save for weekend fun
trips and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Hey you go on Lake Condra.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
The thing I use to pay for with cash is
I buy my gas because I get it ten cents
a gallon cheaper.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The thing I'm most scared about is my wife won't
let me go fishing.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I use cash only at gas stations and groceries.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh, I'm calling from Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Huntsville. Yeah, we got a call from Huntsville. Okay, cash
for gas? Yeah? I can you get a discount for
cash for gas, don't you? Hmm? You know. I haven't
done the math on that one. I have. I have
a card, a credit card that gives me double points
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on automotive items and travel. It's a United card. We
travel United all the time, of course, because Heston is
the hub. And so when I buy gas, or I
pay a toll fee that or get autoy, all that
stuff goes on the card because I get the points
for doing that. I get the miles for doing that.
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So I haven't really worked it. I guess until I
use the miles, I'm probably better off getting the money
off on the gas, right but then again, I also
buy my gas using the points card at usually at Kroger,
because if I shop there, I get points for what
I buy, and then I get money off the gas.
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So I guess I'm working. I'm working both ends against
each other on that one. But to be honest with you,
I'm not exactly sure how that's worked out. I don't
know if that's working out in my favor or not.
All right, let's grab a few more today from Lamark.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Well, you have to be rich if all you can
use at your credit card. I can't do that. I
don't have that luxury. I need my cats. If not,
when I pay my light bail, they're going to charge
me twenty five dollars fee to pay it with my card,
and I just don't have money like that to give
it away. So if that happened, they're going to be
(08:00):
a lot of angry people, and uh hell, they might
even jump off a bridge.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Hey, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Because I have a one hour commute to work, I
mostly saved the cash in my wad for the gas
that I use. That way, I know I don't put
that much more pressure on my credit card.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Tom.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
I use cash is for tips for drivers or delivery
guys or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That's the only time I use cash.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, can't cash for tips and purchases under would
one guy say twenty bucks, he uses it for purchases
above twenty bucks, he uses the card for for under
twenty bucks. He uses cash. Pretty close to the same
for me, maybe not quite that strict. Elizabeth will will
put anything on the card. She could buy a pack
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of gum and put it on the debit card. And
it's not because she doesn't have cash in a wallet.
She does, I know she does. She hoards the cash.
She doesn't want to spend the cash. If it's something
like five or six, eight or nine or ten bucks,
I'm not gonna put that on my debit card. I'm
just I'll pay cash for that. But I pay all
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my bills with electronic banking, and they don't charge me
to do that. So I'm not quite sure where the
guy was coming from. Who's paying cash on things like
his utility bill because they were gonna charge him for
using a charge card. If you have a debit card,
that doesn't happen. At least it shouldn't. All right, quick
little break back with mortem. I'm a Jimmy Barrett show
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here an nine fifty KPRC. We continue to follow the
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ballroom story. I think we were talking about Friddy, how
they went and demolished the East wing of the White House.
And I was a little surprised that that happened. I
wasn't really expecting that to happen. And I guess why.
I guess I understand why there some people are just
upset that they just went ahead and did that, you know,
knocking down history. It did go back to nineteen oh two.
(10:13):
It's just this. Basically, it's an office wing, is what
it is. So I don't think that they that the
President Trump felt that that was he felt that he
needed the ballroom more, and law allows him to decide,
especially when he's not using taxpayer dollars, what it is
he wants to have. We've had plenty of other presidents.
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President President Obama put a he spent a lot on
hundreds of billions of dollars for new plumbing and a
basketball court. Seems like a big, beautiful ballroom for less
than that is a better deal for us, especially concerning
the fact that Obama used taxpayer money and Trump isn't.
But that aside the President's been hearing all of the
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back and forth about the ballroom, especially coming from the left,
and he had this to say.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
And every time the top people come over from China,
they're getting these big you know, beautiful they put a
tent on the White House.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We don't have a ballroom at the White House.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
I offered, by the way, Jerry years ago, to build
a ballroom at the White House free of charge.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
One hundred million dollar boreroom.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
I said, we'll get the top five architects in America,
We'll get the top people, top everything, will have the
best ballroom. Because I noticed they always put tents up
on the lawn. Number one, it's not a good security thing.
Number Two, the guy that owns the tens is making
a fortune. Okay, this poor guy, I mean, he's making
so much money. All he needs is one tent and
he charges them so much. He's making a fortune er. Right,
(11:37):
But I said I will build a ballroom. I gave
it to the Obama. I actually told David axel Ort,
a good guy, you know, very capable guy. I told
David axel Right, David, I will build a ballroom free
of charge at least one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We'll make it the finest ballroom in the world.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We'll put it someplace so it works contextually magnificently.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It'll be done. We'll have committee set up. I never
heard back. I never heard back.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
It's you know, it's just one of just thousands of things.
I mean, if somebody's gonna give me a free but well,
I'm gonna take it. We'll put it in an area.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It look great. But you know we don't have a
ballroom at the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well you're gonna now. So so he offered it to Obama.
We'll build you a ballroom for free, won't charge you
for free. They never following up on it, never never
took him up on it. Why is that, do you suppose?
I mean back then, back then, this is before Donald
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Trump was running for president. This is you know, during
the Obama administration. He had he had a lot of
people that on the left there recording in for donations
and what have you get. Yet they ignored him when
he was offering up a free ballroom. So now there's
going to be a ballroom. And the left continues to
lose their collective minds over this. And by the way,
(13:01):
well not only their reaction to this, but also Jesse
Waters reacting to.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
That there's a side by side of Trump's rendition of
a ballroom with the Winter Palace ballroom in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
We are living in that crazy, wacky alternate universe that
Obama conjured up that night thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's her at her desk.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
She was famously said, if the West wing is the
mind of the nation and the East wing is the heart,
well it has been ripped.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Out, symbolic of the changes that Donald Trump's second term
is bringing.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
What is it able to look like maybe a natural
disaster or more commonly these days war.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We're terrorism.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Jesse is the media, the legacy media, the liberals, They're
losing their.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Minds over this, the ballroom gate.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
So do you know that when you have a state dinner,
you have to use a tent and there's nowhere to
go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So you have to have a porta potty.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
We are making dignitaries from foreign countries go to the
bathroom in porta potties. This is a gift to the country,
a gift to any other Democrat. President Barack Obama spent
four hundred million to do a basketball court and rewire
a few pipes. This thing is a legacy. Of course
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he's naming it after himself. Trump steaks, Trump water, Trump wine.
I'm not surprised. Greg understands. Also a well timed F bomb.
Nothing better than that. The problem is Democrats think Trump
got to the White House through F bombs.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
He didn't.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
They look at him so one dimensional. The guy can
drop a few F bombs, but he could also be
the most tender man when he's comforting families in pain,
or orchestrating grand strategy with power players throughout the world,
or a policy wonk.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He's kind of a policy wonk.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
So this guy's a multi dimensional because he's a person
and he honed these skills over decade.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's in the media.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
It's not something you can copy in a playbook.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Politics is about people.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
The Democrats are so obsessed with identity politics they don't.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Know their own identity. Did you notice the part where
maybe you didn't notice, but yes, Donald Trump evidently is
going to name the ballroom after himself, which which seems appropriate.
You know, without him, there wouldn't be a ballroom, so
you can name it whatever you want. I don't know
(15:30):
if they're gonna call it the President Trump Ballroom or
or what Trump National Ballroom. Who knows what they'll end
up calling it. And and well, I think I think,
like everything else in life, let's reserve your future judgment
on how this whole thing works out esthetically and for
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the best use of the confines of the space until
we actually see this thing built in, in use. Then
maybe we can figure it out from their as to
whether or not we thought this was a really good
idea or not a particularly good idea. All right, I
saw this story. I thought I share this with you.
They do an annual poll of real life fears of
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everyday Americans. This is Halloween week. Halloween's coming up on Friday.
I'll be off on Friday for Halloween. No, not for Halloween,
just take Friday. And what's interesting to me is what
made this list. It's not ghosts, it's not goblins, it's
not movies like The Shining. What people really fear Number
(16:38):
one on the list, by the way, also number one
last year. Regardless of who is in power, the number
one thing that people fear the most is corrupt government officials.
Sixty nine percent of people SA either're afraid or very
afraid of corrupt government officials, followed by you love becoming
(17:01):
seriously ill fifty nine percent, also second last year. Economic
or financial collapse fifty eight percent. That jumped up for
number fifteen last year. So evidently more people are concerned
about economic or financial collapse. I don't know if this
was tay when this was taken, this poll was taken,
if it's got anything to do with the government shutdown
(17:22):
or not. Cyber terrorism came in fourth, people you love
dying came in fifth. Six Was the US becoming involved
in another World war? Really? I think there's far less
of a chance of that happening right now with Trump
than there was before. But we'll see pollution of drinking
(17:45):
water up from number eleven last year. Pollution of drinking water, now,
why would that be up? See here's what I don't know.
This was a Chapman University poll, and being that as
from a university, could very will be that they talked
to more people who were on the left than people
who are on the right. And I can see why
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people on the left would be more worried about drinking
water pollution or pollution in general. Because the people on
the left think that Trump is is somehow more of
a danger to the environment, and the EPA won't be
you know, cracking down is hard on polluters as they
otherwise would if there was a Democrat in power, so
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that I would say, there's probably some left leaning concerns
on this, but I'll share it anyway. So pollution of
drinking water came in seventh. Russia using nuclear weapons came
in eighth. Pollution of oceans represent lakes fifty four percent,
up from number thirteen last year. Government tracking of personal
data came in number ten. So she had two things
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about the government that made that top ten. Now other
interesting ones that are in there at number seventeen AI,
that's the first time it's made the list. AI replacing
people in the workforce, Number twenty five fearing a new
pandemic or major epidemic. But what would be interesting to
find out is why they fear it. If you fear
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another pandemic, do you fear it for health reasons or
do you fear it to go back to you. Number
ten on the list government tracking of personal data or
corrupt government or the government using that as an excuse
to do whatever it is they do to you. Number
forty three is a fear of sharks. A fear of
(19:36):
heights only made number forty four. I have a fear
of heights. I don't have a fear of flying, but
you have a fear of heights, and it's not a
debilitating fear. But I have a hard time at the
top of a tall step leadder, let alone then standing
on your roof or doing something else that puts you
(19:57):
up high where you don't have anything around you. Text
you I don't have a fear of flying. That came
in number sixty four. Fear of illegal immigration came in
number fifty four, So more people are afraid, rightfully so,
of illegal immigration than they are fear of flying and
coming in. The last is homeless people. Hang on. There
are people who are afraid of homeless people. I guess if
(20:20):
you are in a dark alley with a bunch of
people you don't know that are acting strange, like they
have issues, that would be fearful. But I mean it's
not like I would walk past a home, you know,
village of homeless people and be instantly afraid of that.
Twelve percent of people are afraid of homeless people. Would deadly.
All right, another quick little break back with more in
just a second Jimmy Bart Show here on an AM
(20:41):
nine fifty KPRC. All right, a couple of stories of
sort of intern national flair. If you will to work
(21:02):
on our show today. I gotta remember to tell you
about the Alaska drip. Maybe maybe when we get done
covering these two stories here, because I want to make
sure you know about this. All right, but let's start
with this one, and that is evidently our relationship with
Canada is continuing to go backwards. Here's here's what has
happened now Ontario, which is a province of Canada, Ontario,
(21:26):
that's where Toronto is, Ontario. He is running an ad
featuring the voice of former President Ronald Reagan, and it's
an anti tariff ad. What they did was they took
a clip of Reagan sounding like he's anti tariff. It
was taken out of context. He wasn't anti tariff at all,
(21:50):
and they made it sound like if Ronald Reagan was around,
this wouldn't be happening kind of thing. And evidently I
got Trump's pissed off that he has stopped negotiations with
Canada over a trade deal. And evidently they were making
some sort of progress. But but that's what happens when
(22:10):
you make Trump mad, is he's going to say no.
But in that case, we're not even talking to you anymore.
So they had Ari Fleischer, the former White House spokesperson.
Ari Fleischer was on Fox talking about this ad too.
Here's the reaction to the ad. That is disingenuous and
(22:31):
and and this. Hey, this is the way that Trump is.
Trump is a tough negotiator. You make it mad with
this stuff, He's not He's not going to want to
negotiate with you.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
That ad was wrong.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I mean, it totally took what Ronald Reagan said out
of context, distorted his remarks. President Reagan was always clear
about the importance of fair trade and that trade has
to be reciprocal. I remember when I was in office,
we had huge trade disputes with Canada over soft with
lumber and over fishing rights off the coast of Maine.
So disputes with Canada are a long standing thing. Canada
(23:01):
has not engaged in fair practices with the United States.
So President Trump, as typical, is flexing. He's throwing the
strengths down and saying, get that ad off the air
and we're not talking to you and you.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Need to fix this.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, here's Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on all of
this in a gaggle earlier today.
Speaker 11 (23:20):
My colleagues have been working with their American colleagues on detailed,
constructive negotiations, discussions on specific transactions, specific sectors steel, aluminum,
and energy, and a lot of progress has been made
and we stand ready to pick up on that progress
(23:43):
and build on that progress when the Americans are ready
to have those discussions.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
We stand ready when the Americans are ready, tell me
what you take away from that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
While we have the White.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
House via Kevin Hassett responding to all of this and
reporters question earlier today, listen here, is this just a.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Knee jerk reaction.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
I think the frustration has built up over time. I've
been involved in some of these negotiations and the Canadians
have been very difficult to negotiate with. The fact that
we're now negotiating with Mexico separately reveals that it's not
just about what one add, that there's frustration that's built up.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Okay, this story is getting good, ari where does it
go next?
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Well, it's classic negotiation. Yeah, one party takes his hands
off the steering and wheel acts crazy, and the other
party says, whoops, we better do what they want otherwise
we're going to have.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
A crash here.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
So I think this President Trump has largely been successful
in these negotiations because of his hard to predict tactics,
and I think that is what's going to happen in
the end. All these tariffs all around the world. Is
just odd that the negotiations with Canada have been among
the most tricky. You would think Canada wouldn't play this game,
(24:59):
and we reach an agreement with the United States, they
can reach an agree with the United States. But Canada's
playing hardball. President Trump plays hardball. No one knows how
it's going to turn out.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Huh yeah. The Cays are being tough about this, huh okay,
and they seem to be taking it very personally too.
That well, were your neighbors to the north, where your partners,
You shouldn't be doing this to us, except they do it.
They do it to us, So when we're threatening to
do it back to them, they don't like that. Well,
they don't like it because they've always gotten away with
(25:31):
it before. I guess and now they're not getting away
with it, and that well that makes them angry, very
angry in fact. Okay, now here's one to consider as well,
speak of international the cartels, we are at a point
(25:52):
where most of us are probably going to have to
reconsider a Mexican vacation. And I've got something scheduled that's
supposed to happen in February where we're going with another
couple and we're taking a cruise that involves I think
we stop in Cosamel and Belize and Honduras. So there's
(26:16):
only one stop in Mexico and it's right by Cancun, Cosamel.
So you know, the last time we were there, there
were a lot of federalies there. There were a lot
of troops there to protect the tourists. I'm guessing we're
going to see something similar. There's a warning evidently Los Cabos,
which I've been to before too, evidently that has is
(26:37):
under cartel control. The cartel they're pretty much large and
in charge, and they're basically saying, if you're smart, if
you don't come here, because we know they're making threats
against American tourists and part of the reason they're probably
making those threats is because we're making direct threats against them.
In fact, President Trump said the other day he said
(27:00):
he's going to kill the cartel. He did. He came
right out and said that we're out to kill the cartel.
So here is President Trump saying what he said about
the cartels. We get some reaction to it from the
opposition leader in Venezuela who supports President Trump, of course.
And all this a.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Criminal network that has committed trunks in the US and
Canada up down to Argentina and Trini.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's all run by Madudo.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
He has been destroying the lives of millions of Venaissan
people and turned our country into the safe heaven for
Russian Iranian forces, Cuban agents Hezbola Hamas and the Colombian
Gorilla to operate freely for twenty six years. Look, the
(27:49):
only way to is mantle a criminal structure is to
cut their inflows of criminal money. You have to cut
the resources that come from drug trafficking, gold smuggling, arms, morthling,
even human trafficking that Maduda heads and operates from Venezuela.
It was Madudo who declared a war on us Venezuelans
(28:12):
after we won by the landslide in presidential election last year.
So he has applied state terrorism inside towards our people
and narco terrorism abroad to the nations of the West
Western hemisphere. So Madudo is the one who started the war.
(28:32):
President Trump is stopping the war, ending the war.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, the president Venezuela, the dictator, I should say, Venezuela
has you know it is claiming that Trump started a
war by going after these drug cartel boats. We're just
we're defending our coastline from the cartel and from these
drug runners who Maduro supports because they support him and
(29:03):
he's getting rich from from doing that. But you know,
now that we're fighting back, he probably sees that gravy
train coming to an end. And this is the first time,
of course, the United States has behave this way, the
first time we've really stood up and protected ourselves to
a certain extent from this kind of activity. Thank god,
we're finally getting around to doing that. All right, I
(29:23):
promise some information. I got to do it now before
I forget Alaska. We're doing a listener cruise, a KTRH
KPRC listener cruise. It's going to be to Alaska. It's
going to be this next August. It is going to
be We're going to fly to Seattle. The trip, by
the way, includes you around trip Bearfair. It includes a
(29:45):
seven day cruise on the Celebrity Edge. You can look
the ship up. It's amazing. This ship was built in
like twenty twenty three. It's one of the newest ships.
And we're going to leave Seattle. We're going to cruise
all these different stops in Alaska. We even have a
stop in Canada, assuming that the Canadians let us in.
(30:06):
I'm assuming they still want a tourist dollars, right, and
it's gonna be amazing. Skagway all just just so many
things that we're gonna do. We're gonna have but we're
gonna have guided tours. We're gonna be uh checking out
glaciers and whales. I'm guessing Greenna see some whales and
eagles and moose and bears and and all guys of
(30:27):
eating salmon. We're gonna be having one heck of a
time in Alaska. It's a luxury cruise to Alaska. It
includes a whole bunch of stuff. But rather than have
me rattle off all the things, that includes I'll just
send you to Travel with Jimmy dot Com. Just go
to Travel with Jimmy dot Com. Or there's a toll
free number you can also call. That number, by the way,
(30:48):
is available uh at the website if you prefer to
make a phone call. When it comes time to reserve
a spot, I will say this, I think because we
already First of all, we already have bookings. Some of
our listeners who went last year with US degrees have
already booked. And in addition to that, we have a
(31:09):
lot of people who heard that we're going to do
this and are starting to book We have limited space.
We can only hold so many people on this. We
only have so many rooms reserved. Somebody cabin's reserved on this.
So I'm just going to urge you if you would
like to go or want to explore it, please don't
hesitate or wait. Do it early enough where you have
a chance to, you know, to get in before it
gets sold out, because I really do believe this one's
(31:32):
going to get sold on again. You go to Travel
with Jimmy dot Com. All the details are there, what's included,
what's not included, Where we go on our tour, to
Alaska next August. That's travel with Jimmy dot Com. Back
with mort a moment, Jimmy vershow here in am nine
fifty KHRC. All right, go to travel at Jimmy dot
(32:03):
com to get the details on that Alaska cruise they're
gonna be taking next August. All right, let's move on
to Kamala Harris. Don't worry. I won't spend much time
with Kamala. Kamala Harris evidently has managed to talk to
enough people that actually do love her that she has
(32:24):
somehow convinced herself that maybe she should run again. You know,
maybe maybe she should run again. Don't don't don't p
any attention to the fact that she lost all those
swing states, or she really has gotten herself convinced that
she just didn't have enough time. If she'd if Joe
(32:46):
Biden had just quit sooner, if she'd had enough time,
she would have won. She's she's still doing interviews as
a part of her book tour, and she did an
interview with the BBC where she said this.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Stories of your baby nieces, Ammara and Leila, when are
they going to see a woman in charge in the
White House in their lifetime?
Speaker 15 (33:04):
For sure.
Speaker 14 (33:06):
Could it be you possibly have you made a decision yet.
Speaker 13 (33:10):
No, I have not, But you say in your book
I'm not done.
Speaker 15 (33:15):
That is correct. I am not done. I have lived
my entire career a life of service, and it's in
my bones, and there are many ways to serve. I've
not decided yet what I will do in the future
beyond what I am doing right now.
Speaker 14 (33:31):
But you've been very clear that it's a possibility you
might run again to become president. And in my experience
interviewing politicians, when someone says I'm not done, it means
they are thinking seriously about running that when you look
at the bookies' odds, they put you as an outsider,
even behind Dwayne Johnson. I mean, is that underestimating you?
Speaker 15 (33:53):
I think there are all kinds of polls that will
tell you a variety of things. I've never listened to polls.
If I listen to polls, I would have not run
for my first office or my second office, and I
certainly wouldn't be sitting here in this interview.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Okay, she didn't commit to running for president there. I
mean I shouldn't. I should make it sound like she's
committed to running for president. She hasn't committed a running
for president, but she certainly looks like she's not interested
in going away. I think I personally, I would just
love to see her just just go away. But I
don't think she's going to just go away. We're not
(34:28):
going to be that lucky, all right. And one more
item for you, because I feel compelled to put this
warning in. I think most of us haven't really noticed
anything when it comes to the government shut down. I
don't know about you, but I'm not getting Snap benefits.
So if there's no Snap benefits coming out next week
when we hit November, then it's not going to have
an impact on me. I can't think of any other
(34:52):
government service that I use or will be using between
now and the end of the year they would have
any sort of impact on me. But there is something
going on that may impact you if you're traveling for
Thanksgiving or Christmas, or just traveling between now and the
end of the year. We're seeing the amount of instances
(35:14):
of canceled flights and delayed flights grow. We're having increasing
problems with air traffic control as a result of that.
So here is Sean Duffy. He was on one of
the talking hit shows. I think of Sunday Morning Futures
with Maria Bartoromo over the weekend talking about how we're
having bigger and bigger problems with air traffic control. Do
(35:36):
the government shutdown?
Speaker 16 (35:38):
Yeah, So they got their notice on Thursday and Friday,
they get a notice of what they're going to be
paid on Tuesday and they got a big fat zero
no paycheck is coming on Tuesday. And so I've been
out talking to our air traffic controllers and you can
see the stress. These are people that oftentimes live paycheck
to paycheck, or one controller has a stay at home spouse.
They're concerned about gas in the car, They're concerned about
(36:00):
childcare and mortgages, and so I'm seeing the stress come
for the controllers. Just yesterday, Marie, we had twenty two
staffing triggers. That's one of the highest that we've seen
in the system since the shutdown began. And that's a
sign that the controllers are wearing thin and again they're
taking second jobs. They're out there looking can I drive uber?
(36:21):
Can I find another source of income to make ends meet?
Until Democrats stop with the radical push for illegal migrants
and actually open up the government. And so what I
see coming forward as we get to Monday, Tomorrow, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, that you're going to see more staffing shortages
and towers, which means you're going to see more delays,
more cancelations. And then you see more Americans frustrated at
(36:43):
Democrats and they'll say, open up the government.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 16 (36:47):
We're trying to bring more controllers into the pipeline, into
the career path. Our academy is in Oklahoma City, and
right now we're not paying the instructors at the academy,
but the students they get at ip in that help
them live while they go be trained up to be
a controller. That stiping runs out in a little over
a week, we could lose this, this tranche of air
(37:09):
traffic controllers. So instead of going in the right direction
trying to bring more controllers into the system, I'm going
to lose them. This has long term implications on our
ability to make sure we don't have the staffing shortages
and our flights are on time and they're not delayed,
which I think frustrates so many darn Americans.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, well I think, yeah, I think we're all pretty
frustrated with that. And like I said, I think the
only way this gets solved is by a whole lot
more pressure. And I think when Americans find themselves not
being able to get home for Thanksgiving or for Christmas,
that might be just the pressure you need. All right,
got to leave it at that. You all have a
great day. We'll see tomorrow morning break nearly starting at
five am over our news radio seven forty k t H.
(37:50):
We're back here at four on a nine fifty Kprcady.
Speaker 10 (38:01):
And then the ban was ready.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
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