August 13, 2025 • 24 mins
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- Apple to build an AI data center in Houston
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Will see through with the common sense of Houston. I'm
just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston dot com.
This is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, we're gonna start the show today talking about
energy or lack thereof. It's, by the way, a story
we're doing tomorrow morning on kat r h on the
Morning Show, Houston's Morning News. Most Harris County residents, at
least the majority, are not convinced that Center Point has
their act together.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well why would we be? Why would we be?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Do we trust that Centerpoint is ready to provide us
with enough electricity that they're ready for the next big
storm whenever that big storm is. Hopefully it's not this year,
but whenever that next big storm is. I mean, there's
things brewing out there, but there's nothing that looks like
it's going to directly impact us. You've got that errand
thing that's you know, going to effect if it affects
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any land, is going to be on the Atlantic coast.
It's not going to be here, and you've got a
little system down around the Campeachy Bay that is Bay
Campeachy Actually, to be accurate, that looks like it could
have Well, it's only got a twenty percent chance of
developing into something tropical. It might just end up being
a rain maker, and it might not even be a
big ray maker for us. So right now, so far,
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so good on that stuff. But as far as energy
goes it, we'll talk about we'll talk about the center
point thing on tomorrow morning's program as to whether or
not they're really ready or not. But for right now,
my biggest concern, you know, looking down the road, is
whether or not we have enough energy in order to
be able to do business here in the great state
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of Texas. As we told you the other day, Apple
is going to build an artificial intelligence data center here
in Houston. I wonder if we are going to have
enough power in order to be able to power them.
I also wonder, I didn't mention this this morning. We
also wonder if is there a separate deal to provide
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power for this data center. Because when you have things
like cryptocurrency and data centers artificial intelligence drawing so much energy,
you've got to be able to provide enough energy for
everything to go around. One of our listeners, after I
did my bid on this morning, one of our listeners
called in with this question or I guess comment.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Good morning, mister Barrett, this is Teresa from Snook on
these energy issues. Why can't these big data centers build
their own many power plants, A and M systems doing it.
They're going to have the little nuclear power plants on campus.
These big centers ought to be able to do that
as well. Stay off our grid. Love your show, You'll
(02:58):
have a great.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Day, Thank you, Thank you. Buy Yeah. Well, hopefully that's
part of the deal. Hopefully that will be part of
the deal. But here's the thing. Even if it is
part of the deal, you know, for these for these
you know, data farms, if you will, coming in and
using up a whole bunch of energy, hopefully they're they're
going to provide for themselves. But what about the rest
of us? I mean, how many hundreds of thousands, if
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not millions of people have moved into Texas here in
the last ten years. We haven't built anything new, you know.
We we keep putting up wind turbines, but we haven't
really built anything new. Take the business grid out of this.
You know what about the residential grid. We need to
build more in order to be able to provide for
the for the residential grid. But here's here's the good news.
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I think the good news is is is nuclear is
back in the conversation. Cole is back in the conversation.
But to just stick with nuclear here for a second,
saw on Fox Business this segment with Lee Robinson. He's
at General General Matter is a company evidently that works
in the nuclear field. They are reviving US uranium enrichment programs,
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the uranium enriched just so could be used inside nuclear
power plants. Evidently they've got to deal with the government.
Here is Lee Robinson talking about it.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Well, I'm calling in from Paduka, Kentucky, where yesterday General Matter,
along with representatives from the Doe Congressman Comer, Senator Paul,
Senator McConnell, and Governor Basheer, announced the plans to build
America's first privately owned, privately operated uranium enrichment facility. And
here's why that's important. Nuclear fuel is the bottleneck for
American ambitions. All of America's future growth relies on power,
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whether it's advancing AI or reshoring manufacturing. We need electricity
at scale and that is going to require nuclear power.
But the fuel for nuclear power, the uranium, is enriched
by foreign parties, mostly owned by foreign governments. US companies
control less than one percent of global enrichment, and reliance
on foreign interests is going to end with this announcement.
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This is enrichment for commercial power, so enrichment for the
ninety four reactors that provide twenty percent of the grid
right now to American homes all throughout.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Just about every state in America.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
So what we're going to produce is low enriched uranium
which goes directly into those ninety four reactors.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Well, look, the Trump administration is working to make America
less reliant on foreign nuclear power and uranium, and the
Primitive Energy launched this program to build more advanced fuel
lines to help strengthen domestic supply chains. So how does
this program advance America's nuclear capabilities? And when do you
expect this to be up.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
And running by the end of the decade. And this
is thanks in large part to this administration. So the
least that we just signed with the Department of Energy
that would not happen without the executive orders that was
signed by President Trump. That would not happen without the
leadership from Secretary of Right and many other leaders across
the DOE. And we're going to do this starting a
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build as soon as possible and with commercial scale to
push out those Russian imports by the end of the decade.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Okay, love the idea, Love the idea, but there's two
things that stand out about that. Number One, the only
reason why it's happening is because of executive orders from
President Trump. If a Democrat comes into power after President Trump,
then they'll cancel those contracts if they can, and they
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certainly would make it difficult for a company like this
to exist, So I will give them credit. They're kind
of rolling the dice on this one because something could
come along that would mess this whole thing up. Is
there way to codify this into law so that we
don't have to worry about executive orders undoing what the
President's doing here. That's the first thing that comes to mind.
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And the other part of it is is that they're
not going to be online and ready to do this
until the end of the decade. So we're talking sometime
if the early is sometime in twenty twenty nine, that's
four years from now. Can we keep up knowing what
we know about the development of AI in particular, can
we wait four years to start this program up? You know,
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is there enough capability to produce power for these for
these for these different groups, these AI groups and cryptocurrency groups,
so that uh, you know, for the next four years
until this thing is up and running. You gotta hope,
So don't you, all right, quick little break back with
boor in a moment, Jimmy Parrett, show your a name
nine fifty KHRC. All right, Thursdays. There's a mystery that
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happened yesterday. We're still trying to figure it out. Nobody
last I heard, nobody's come up with an answer. Did
you hear about this mystery explosion some sort of boom
that was hurting Kingwood in the task Asda that area.
I'm in Spring. I didn't hear any boom. Then again,
I was in the house, probably, but I didn't hear
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any boom. But we are mystified what caused this boom
to occur. No reports of any sort of gas explosion
or a fire, No reports of some you know, major Well,
first of all, how far could the sound from a
car crash occur? No reports from the military that they
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were flying some supersonic aircraft over the Kingwoo of Task
Asda area and created a sonic boom. So what was this?
Here's a report from Fox twenty six Here in Houston.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Neighbors are left with more confusion than answered about explosion.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
They heard this morning.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Tuesday morning, a loud boom was heard in Kingwood, in
a task Asida, and even in Huffman, but no one
knows where it came from. A Task Asta Fire says
the initial call came in around ten point forty from
a neighbor on Burl Oak who says he heard the
sound of a loud explosion. Online, including on our Fox
twenty six Facebook page, many people were describing what the
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explosion sounded like, saying it made their house shake, sounded
like someone fell off a roof, thunder, even a sonic boom.
First responders with Harris County, a task Casita, and Humbele
are all puzzled by the mysterious noise. We spoke with
neighbors who described to us what the noise sounded like.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
They sounded like a bomb went off.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
But I heard a loud boom which shook and rattled
the windows and the house here, and I got up
out of the recliner. I went out, and being a
veteran firefighter, I looked around first smoke everywhere, which there
was not.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
They said it was an explosion. A ghastleek.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I was just confused. It felt like a big explosion
of a firecracker.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
But one of them exposed to firecrackers and it shook
me in the house one street. They had a whole
bunch of police officers and they were at this neighbor
house because that's where the address was. And the guy
at the address said that it wasn't his house. It
wasn't it's not here. So we just rode around looking
and looking everywhere. We still have them found it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I too, am confused. Now.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
We had a theory this morning, and to be I
guess there would be no way to prove that that's
what it was. But the we have meteor showers going
on right now. Any chance that that was a meteor
that you know, that passed through the atmosphere, it's the
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only thing I could think of that might be traveling
that fast that could create a sonic boom, because that
kind of what that sounded like to me was a
sonic boom. Either that or if we can find out
if there was any military aircraft in the area. That's
the only thing I can think of. There's no damage
on the ground that we can see or that we've
heard about. But if that was a meter passing through
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the atmosphere, could have you know, could have created the
boom and landed way way far away out in the
middle of nowhere where most of them probably do land
out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It's a mystery. Everybody loves a good mystery trying to
figure out what the heck is going on with that,
And I'll be dog gone if I can figure it out,
all right, this I can figure out, you know, the
Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Story.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
By the way, the National Guard already there, already before
ing their duties, less than twenty four hours after the
present made this announcement. The National Guard is there. And
you know, as much as she's playing for statehood and
non interfering with the business of Washington d C. Muriel Bowser,
who's the mayor there, claiming that she's going to cooperate
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with a national guard. How do you not how do
you tell your citizens? I don't know. I don't really
care about crime. I mean, people are getting killed. I
don't really care about people getting killed here. I just
want to make sure that we maintain our independence. Yeah,
you pretty much have to cooperate them. This is only
a thirty day deal. By the way, President Trump can
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only do this for thirty days, and then after thirty
days it requires a Congressional action. Now, if this works,
of course, because all these congressmen and women are in Washington,
d C. They understand what a creepy, grimy place it's become.
They understand how runaway rampant the crime is. You know,
they're worried about becoming victims of crime themselves. So I
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would be very surprised if Congress didn't act after thirty days.
If this is showing that it works. But here is
the meltdown from either progressives on media or progressive members
of the media. With the reaction from Greg Guttfeld, Donald.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Trump is using rhetoric and playing on the real fears
that some people have because of what they've seen on
the news.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Be simply a media event to say that the president
is concerned about crime.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
When I go to DC.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as
I'm afraid of losing my vote.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm trying to hold my temper. We have to understand this, Chris,
within the context of Donald Trump's racial politics, like.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
People are one beat away from seeing super predators.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
It just feels familiar.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Maybe it's that he really enjoys using US military force
against American civilians on American soil.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
And I regret to inform you that the liberals are
once again singing to stop the DC crime crackdown. Check
out this protest.
Speaker 14 (14:13):
We start to show so many times with the left
is losing their minds. Can they please just lose their voice?
You know, I would rather hear RFK sing the Banana
Song then listen to them. Why do democrats think singing
is a solution for fixing things? Thank God they're not
airplane mechanics or pediatric neurosurgeons, because people would actually literally die.
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So this is like mass deportations, where the announcement of
the policy does most of the heavy lifting. Criminals see
the extra attention paid to criminality and they lose the
incentive to create crime, and then it stops and what
does that show you? It shows you how you've been
lied to by Democrats forever. Crime is a choice. It's
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not caused by anything but the lack of will to
stop it. When you when you engage your will to
stop it, it goes away.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
There is no root cause. If you can stop it with.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
The threat of punishment, it's not out of your control,
like you have this criminal tick.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Ah, I got a loot.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
No, it's only done because you have there's no disincentive.
So I think what's scary to the Dems is not
the military. It's the fact that they know this is
going to work, and that it's already working, just like deportation.
What are they going to do? And if it works there,
think about all the other cities, Chicago, Baltimore, DC. All
of a sudden you could see a change, and the
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Charlatans who are in charge, you know, they're not going
to be able to keep patting their nests and stay
in power.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, that's the scary part for them. That's the very
scary part for them. In order to keep the money
flowing from the ultra progressives and the progressive elitist in
the world that George Soros is the world. They had
to go soft on crime, so they they really can't,
you know, they can't make a stand on fighting crime.
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Trump is making a stand on fighting crime. There's no
successful way for them to answer it, because most Americans
realize that what he's doing is in the best interest
of Washington, d c. And that if they do it
in other cities in the it's in the best interests
of the residents of those cities. And the residents will
figure that out too, even the ones that don't like
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Donald Trump very much. When they find you, when they
find out they can walk out of their door at
seven o'clock at night and not worry about being mogged
or shot, then that will make all the difference in
the whole wide world. And and and the progressive left
can't do anything about it, because if they do, if
they were to get tough on crime, George Sorrows, he'd,
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you know, he'd you know, he'd find people who were
going to be soft on crime again, and he'd have
those those ones that got tough on crime primaried out,
just like what happened to Kim Ogg here in Aris County.
That's why she got replaces. The DA you know, she
wasn't playing ball with the sorrows people anymore, so she
got primaried out of existence. Besides, when you hear crime victims,
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mothers who are so grateful for what President Trump is doing,
when you hear them talking and telling their story, I mean,
how can you not react that way. Here's a mom
who lost her son to senseless violence in Washington, d C.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
When I heard the news today and he mentioned my
son not by name, and mentioned the others who have
been victims of violent crime, I was so happy things
will change so other people are safe when they go
visit DC or work in DC. President Trump was one
hundred percent spot on with what he said.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, yeah, let's start with the fact that there are
parts of DC that are an absolute war zone.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
They can talk.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
About reduced crime, you know, in the last year. I
take that with a healthy dose of skepticism, given that
we know one at least one police commander has been
cooking the books, and that's not terribly unusual. Unfortunately, some
departments have learned how to game the system now. Also,
you have to look at per capita crime crime per
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one hundred thousand residents versus the raw number of crimes committed.
And you also have to look at the fact that
they've been the police. Police have been backed off on
the streets. They're not you know, they're they're not willing
to make the arrest in some cases. And witness the
police union backing these measures one hundred percent. So I
will you can mark my words, crime will go down
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with the National Guard out on the street as a
visible deterrent, with federal agents out there working next to
local police officers, they will get the worst of the
worst off the street and they will deter crime. And
you will see crime go down in the next thirty
days and the extensions because mainly they will get the
worst of the worst incarcerated with some aggressive prosecution from
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Jeanine Piro.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, sounds like a good combination of me. That's by
the way, former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker talking about
all this. All right, quick little break. We are back
with more in a moment. Please stay with us. Jimmy
Bert Show, Am nine to fifty Kate arc All right,
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we have a brand new ice facility that is getting
ready to open up. That's gonna be fun. It's at
Fort Bliss and we're learning a little bit more. By
the way, El Paso for those of you who are
not familiar where Fort Bliss is just outside of l Paso,
So good spot to have it, and there's gonna be
plenty of people to stay there. Did you hear that
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ICE is arrested over three hundred and fifty gang members
just here in Houston. Yeah, over three hundred and fifty
forty different gangs represented, including MS thirteen Trend de Arragua
Street Crews. They collectively, the three hundred and fifty people
they've arrested are responsible for one thousand, six hundred and
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eighty five criminal offenses, including murder, child sex crimes, sex trafficking, arson,
and theft. The number of gang members arrested here in
the Houston area during the first six months of the
Trump administration three hundred and seventy five percent higher than
during the first six months of the Biden administration. I'm
surprises not more than that. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia
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McLaughlin crediting the surge and arrest to aggressive enforcement under
the Trump administration, saying ICE is targeting vicious gangs. They
commit heinous crimes. That's a fact that that is a fact.
Some of them will end up and that and maybe
already are at this new ice detention facility. We got
them popping up all over. We've got you've got al
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gator Ac Alcatraze, You've got the speedway. Uh, you know
the one in Indiana. How quickly I forget the name
of it? And what did we decide we wanted to
call this one? Uh lone star lock up or lone
star lockdown, either one, either one works for me.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Here's the report, by the way on Fox four in
Dallas about this new facility. Here's some of the details
about this new ice facility. Just outside of al Paso.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
The US military is building the largest federal deportation detention
center in America's history. The construction of Camp East Montana
at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, began mid July
in response to a request from Homeland Security. Pentagon Press
Secretary Kingsley Wilson defended the use of the military base
to initially detain one thousand migrants awaiting deportation.
Speaker 15 (21:52):
Once DOOD achieves initial stand up, we will finish construction
for up to five thousand beds in the weeks and
months ahead. Upon completion, This will be the largest federal
detention center in history for this critical mission, the deportation
of the legal aliens.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
So far, the Army has spent two hundred and thirty
two million dollars on the tent city at Fort Bliss.
The US Army oversees the one point two four billion
dollar contract for the five thousand bed ice facility, and
last month awarded the contract to build the facility to
acquisition logistics of Virginia based company. In January, President Trump
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announced migrants would be sent to Guantanamo Bay, where Defense
Secretary Hegseth promised the Marines could build a thirty thousand
bed facility.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Well, okay, thirty thousand beds. I don't know that we
need a thirty thousand bed facility, But think about the
statistics from this Fort Bliss facility. Two hundred and thirty
two million dollars for tent city. I think I'm in
the wrong business. I should be selling tents. There must
be a lot of money to be made in tents. Well,
there's beds there too, five thousand beds. You put all
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that stuff together and all the other things involved in
making it secure, then that's how you end up. I
guess spending two hundred and thirty two million dollars, it
won't be the worst money we ever spent. Here's some
more good news though, as it relates to ICE, this
is like more help on the way. More than one
hundred thousand Americans have applied for a role with ICE
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since the recruiting drive for the agency began. Their goal
is to hire ten thousand additional agents. They have over
one hundred thousand applicants, and that's due to a couple
of things. Now, there are incentives, I get those in
a second, but one of the real incentives of this
is that you now have a country committed to enforcing
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the border. You now have a president who you know
is going to let you do your job. In addition
to that, they're offering signing bonuses of up to fifty
thousand dollars, student loan repayment options, and other benefits to
attract more applicants. The acting ICE Director todd lyons, highlighting
the need for patriotic Americans to join ICE and help
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remove criminal illegal aliens from the country.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
And of course, you know this comes with a little
bit of danger, because we've talked a little bit about
this morning that there's a socialist group here in Houston
that wants to try to plan attacks on ice here
in Houston. You know all of what they did on
Los Angeles. So it's it's not an easy job and
it's not not a dangerous job. It can be a
dangerous job. So hey, I'm glad to see. Let's see
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help is on the way. All right, listen, y'all have
a great day. Thank you for listening. We will see
you tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting at five am
over on news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back
here at four an am, nine to fifty KPRC
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Will see through with the common sense of Houston. I'm
just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston dot com.
This is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by
viewind dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, we're gonna start the show today talking about
energy or lack thereof. It's, by the way, a story
we're doing tomorrow morning on kat r h on the
Morning Show, Houston's Morning News. Most Harris County residents, at
least the majority, are not convinced that Center Point has
their act together.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well why would we be? Why would we be?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Do we trust that Centerpoint is ready to provide us
with enough electricity that they're ready for the next big
storm whenever that big storm is. Hopefully it's not this year,
but whenever that next big storm is. I mean, there's
things brewing out there, but there's nothing that looks like
it's going to directly impact us. You've got that errand
thing that's you know, going to effect if it affects
(01:12):
any land, is going to be on the Atlantic coast.
It's not going to be here, and you've got a
little system down around the Campeachy Bay that is Bay
Campeachy Actually, to be accurate, that looks like it could
have Well, it's only got a twenty percent chance of
developing into something tropical. It might just end up being
a rain maker, and it might not even be a
big ray maker for us. So right now, so far,
(01:35):
so good on that stuff. But as far as energy
goes it, we'll talk about we'll talk about the center
point thing on tomorrow morning's program as to whether or
not they're really ready or not. But for right now,
my biggest concern, you know, looking down the road, is
whether or not we have enough energy in order to
be able to do business here in the great state
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of Texas. As we told you the other day, Apple
is going to build an artificial intelligence data center here
in Houston. I wonder if we are going to have
enough power in order to be able to power them.
I also wonder, I didn't mention this this morning. We
also wonder if is there a separate deal to provide
(02:18):
power for this data center. Because when you have things
like cryptocurrency and data centers artificial intelligence drawing so much energy,
you've got to be able to provide enough energy for
everything to go around. One of our listeners, after I
did my bid on this morning, one of our listeners
called in with this question or I guess comment.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Good morning, mister Barrett, this is Teresa from Snook on
these energy issues. Why can't these big data centers build
their own many power plants, A and M systems doing it.
They're going to have the little nuclear power plants on campus.
These big centers ought to be able to do that
as well. Stay off our grid. Love your show, You'll
(02:58):
have a great.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Day, Thank you, Thank you. Buy Yeah. Well, hopefully that's
part of the deal. Hopefully that will be part of
the deal. But here's the thing. Even if it is
part of the deal, you know, for these for these
you know, data farms, if you will, coming in and
using up a whole bunch of energy, hopefully they're they're
going to provide for themselves. But what about the rest
of us? I mean, how many hundreds of thousands, if
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not millions of people have moved into Texas here in
the last ten years. We haven't built anything new, you know.
We we keep putting up wind turbines, but we haven't
really built anything new. Take the business grid out of this.
You know what about the residential grid. We need to
build more in order to be able to provide for
the for the residential grid. But here's here's the good news.
(03:44):
I think the good news is is is nuclear is
back in the conversation. Cole is back in the conversation.
But to just stick with nuclear here for a second,
saw on Fox Business this segment with Lee Robinson. He's
at General General Matter is a company evidently that works
in the nuclear field. They are reviving US uranium enrichment programs,
(04:11):
the uranium enriched just so could be used inside nuclear
power plants. Evidently they've got to deal with the government.
Here is Lee Robinson talking about it.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Well, I'm calling in from Paduka, Kentucky, where yesterday General Matter,
along with representatives from the Doe Congressman Comer, Senator Paul,
Senator McConnell, and Governor Basheer, announced the plans to build
America's first privately owned, privately operated uranium enrichment facility. And
here's why that's important. Nuclear fuel is the bottleneck for
American ambitions. All of America's future growth relies on power,
(04:44):
whether it's advancing AI or reshoring manufacturing. We need electricity
at scale and that is going to require nuclear power.
But the fuel for nuclear power, the uranium, is enriched
by foreign parties, mostly owned by foreign governments. US companies
control less than one percent of global enrichment, and reliance
on foreign interests is going to end with this announcement.
(05:06):
This is enrichment for commercial power, so enrichment for the
ninety four reactors that provide twenty percent of the grid
right now to American homes all throughout.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Just about every state in America.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
So what we're going to produce is low enriched uranium
which goes directly into those ninety four reactors.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Well, look, the Trump administration is working to make America
less reliant on foreign nuclear power and uranium, and the
Primitive Energy launched this program to build more advanced fuel
lines to help strengthen domestic supply chains. So how does
this program advance America's nuclear capabilities? And when do you
expect this to be up.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
And running by the end of the decade. And this
is thanks in large part to this administration. So the
least that we just signed with the Department of Energy
that would not happen without the executive orders that was
signed by President Trump. That would not happen without the
leadership from Secretary of Right and many other leaders across
the DOE. And we're going to do this starting a
(06:03):
build as soon as possible and with commercial scale to
push out those Russian imports by the end of the decade.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Okay, love the idea, Love the idea, but there's two
things that stand out about that. Number One, the only
reason why it's happening is because of executive orders from
President Trump. If a Democrat comes into power after President Trump,
then they'll cancel those contracts if they can, and they
(06:35):
certainly would make it difficult for a company like this
to exist, So I will give them credit. They're kind
of rolling the dice on this one because something could
come along that would mess this whole thing up. Is
there way to codify this into law so that we
don't have to worry about executive orders undoing what the
President's doing here. That's the first thing that comes to mind.
(06:58):
And the other part of it is is that they're
not going to be online and ready to do this
until the end of the decade. So we're talking sometime
if the early is sometime in twenty twenty nine, that's
four years from now. Can we keep up knowing what
we know about the development of AI in particular, can
we wait four years to start this program up? You know,
(07:23):
is there enough capability to produce power for these for
these for these different groups, these AI groups and cryptocurrency groups,
so that uh, you know, for the next four years
until this thing is up and running. You gotta hope,
So don't you, all right, quick little break back with
boor in a moment, Jimmy Parrett, show your a name
nine fifty KHRC. All right, Thursdays. There's a mystery that
(08:01):
happened yesterday. We're still trying to figure it out. Nobody
last I heard, nobody's come up with an answer. Did
you hear about this mystery explosion some sort of boom
that was hurting Kingwood in the task Asda that area.
I'm in Spring. I didn't hear any boom. Then again,
I was in the house, probably, but I didn't hear
(08:23):
any boom. But we are mystified what caused this boom
to occur. No reports of any sort of gas explosion
or a fire, No reports of some you know, major Well,
first of all, how far could the sound from a
car crash occur? No reports from the military that they
(08:44):
were flying some supersonic aircraft over the Kingwoo of Task
Asda area and created a sonic boom. So what was this?
Here's a report from Fox twenty six Here in Houston.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Neighbors are left with more confusion than answered about explosion.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
They heard this morning.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Tuesday morning, a loud boom was heard in Kingwood, in
a task Asida, and even in Huffman, but no one
knows where it came from. A Task Asta Fire says
the initial call came in around ten point forty from
a neighbor on Burl Oak who says he heard the
sound of a loud explosion. Online, including on our Fox
twenty six Facebook page, many people were describing what the
(09:26):
explosion sounded like, saying it made their house shake, sounded
like someone fell off a roof, thunder, even a sonic boom.
First responders with Harris County, a task Casita, and Humbele
are all puzzled by the mysterious noise. We spoke with
neighbors who described to us what the noise sounded like.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
They sounded like a bomb went off.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
But I heard a loud boom which shook and rattled
the windows and the house here, and I got up
out of the recliner. I went out, and being a
veteran firefighter, I looked around first smoke everywhere, which there
was not.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
They said it was an explosion. A ghastleek.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I was just confused. It felt like a big explosion
of a firecracker.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
But one of them exposed to firecrackers and it shook
me in the house one street. They had a whole
bunch of police officers and they were at this neighbor
house because that's where the address was. And the guy
at the address said that it wasn't his house. It
wasn't it's not here. So we just rode around looking
and looking everywhere. We still have them found it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I too, am confused. Now.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
We had a theory this morning, and to be I
guess there would be no way to prove that that's
what it was. But the we have meteor showers going
on right now. Any chance that that was a meteor
that you know, that passed through the atmosphere, it's the
(11:03):
only thing I could think of that might be traveling
that fast that could create a sonic boom, because that
kind of what that sounded like to me was a
sonic boom. Either that or if we can find out
if there was any military aircraft in the area. That's
the only thing I can think of. There's no damage
on the ground that we can see or that we've
heard about. But if that was a meter passing through
(11:25):
the atmosphere, could have you know, could have created the
boom and landed way way far away out in the
middle of nowhere where most of them probably do land
out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It's a mystery. Everybody loves a good mystery trying to
figure out what the heck is going on with that,
And I'll be dog gone if I can figure it out,
all right, this I can figure out, you know, the
Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Story.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
By the way, the National Guard already there, already before
ing their duties, less than twenty four hours after the
present made this announcement. The National Guard is there. And
you know, as much as she's playing for statehood and
non interfering with the business of Washington d C. Muriel Bowser,
who's the mayor there, claiming that she's going to cooperate
(12:12):
with a national guard. How do you not how do
you tell your citizens? I don't know. I don't really
care about crime. I mean, people are getting killed. I
don't really care about people getting killed here. I just
want to make sure that we maintain our independence. Yeah,
you pretty much have to cooperate them. This is only
a thirty day deal. By the way, President Trump can
(12:35):
only do this for thirty days, and then after thirty
days it requires a Congressional action. Now, if this works,
of course, because all these congressmen and women are in Washington,
d C. They understand what a creepy, grimy place it's become.
They understand how runaway rampant the crime is. You know,
they're worried about becoming victims of crime themselves. So I
(12:57):
would be very surprised if Congress didn't act after thirty days.
If this is showing that it works. But here is
the meltdown from either progressives on media or progressive members
of the media. With the reaction from Greg Guttfeld, Donald.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Trump is using rhetoric and playing on the real fears
that some people have because of what they've seen on
the news.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Be simply a media event to say that the president
is concerned about crime.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
When I go to DC.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as
I'm afraid of losing my vote.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm trying to hold my temper. We have to understand this, Chris,
within the context of Donald Trump's racial politics, like.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
People are one beat away from seeing super predators.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
It just feels familiar.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Maybe it's that he really enjoys using US military force
against American civilians on American soil.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
And I regret to inform you that the liberals are
once again singing to stop the DC crime crackdown. Check
out this protest.
Speaker 14 (14:13):
We start to show so many times with the left
is losing their minds. Can they please just lose their voice?
You know, I would rather hear RFK sing the Banana
Song then listen to them. Why do democrats think singing
is a solution for fixing things? Thank God they're not
airplane mechanics or pediatric neurosurgeons, because people would actually literally die.
(14:38):
So this is like mass deportations, where the announcement of
the policy does most of the heavy lifting. Criminals see
the extra attention paid to criminality and they lose the
incentive to create crime, and then it stops and what
does that show you? It shows you how you've been
lied to by Democrats forever. Crime is a choice. It's
(15:00):
not caused by anything but the lack of will to
stop it. When you when you engage your will to
stop it, it goes away.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
There is no root cause. If you can stop it with.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
The threat of punishment, it's not out of your control,
like you have this criminal tick.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Ah, I got a loot.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
No, it's only done because you have there's no disincentive.
So I think what's scary to the Dems is not
the military. It's the fact that they know this is
going to work, and that it's already working, just like deportation.
What are they going to do? And if it works there,
think about all the other cities, Chicago, Baltimore, DC. All
of a sudden you could see a change, and the
(15:40):
Charlatans who are in charge, you know, they're not going
to be able to keep patting their nests and stay
in power.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, that's the scary part for them. That's the very
scary part for them. In order to keep the money
flowing from the ultra progressives and the progressive elitist in
the world that George Soros is the world. They had
to go soft on crime, so they they really can't,
you know, they can't make a stand on fighting crime.
(16:08):
Trump is making a stand on fighting crime. There's no
successful way for them to answer it, because most Americans
realize that what he's doing is in the best interest
of Washington, d c. And that if they do it
in other cities in the it's in the best interests
of the residents of those cities. And the residents will
figure that out too, even the ones that don't like
(16:30):
Donald Trump very much. When they find you, when they
find out they can walk out of their door at
seven o'clock at night and not worry about being mogged
or shot, then that will make all the difference in
the whole wide world. And and and the progressive left
can't do anything about it, because if they do, if
they were to get tough on crime, George Sorrows, he'd,
(16:51):
you know, he'd you know, he'd find people who were
going to be soft on crime again, and he'd have
those those ones that got tough on crime primaried out,
just like what happened to Kim Ogg here in Aris County.
That's why she got replaces. The DA you know, she
wasn't playing ball with the sorrows people anymore, so she
got primaried out of existence. Besides, when you hear crime victims,
(17:17):
mothers who are so grateful for what President Trump is doing,
when you hear them talking and telling their story, I mean,
how can you not react that way. Here's a mom
who lost her son to senseless violence in Washington, d C.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
When I heard the news today and he mentioned my
son not by name, and mentioned the others who have
been victims of violent crime, I was so happy things
will change so other people are safe when they go
visit DC or work in DC. President Trump was one
hundred percent spot on with what he said.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, yeah, let's start with the fact that there are
parts of DC that are an absolute war zone.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
They can talk.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
About reduced crime, you know, in the last year. I
take that with a healthy dose of skepticism, given that
we know one at least one police commander has been
cooking the books, and that's not terribly unusual. Unfortunately, some
departments have learned how to game the system now. Also,
you have to look at per capita crime crime per
(18:26):
one hundred thousand residents versus the raw number of crimes committed.
And you also have to look at the fact that
they've been the police. Police have been backed off on
the streets. They're not you know, they're they're not willing
to make the arrest in some cases. And witness the
police union backing these measures one hundred percent. So I
will you can mark my words, crime will go down
(18:47):
with the National Guard out on the street as a
visible deterrent, with federal agents out there working next to
local police officers, they will get the worst of the
worst off the street and they will deter crime. And
you will see crime go down in the next thirty
days and the extensions because mainly they will get the
worst of the worst incarcerated with some aggressive prosecution from
(19:09):
Jeanine Piro.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, sounds like a good combination of me. That's by
the way, former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker talking about
all this. All right, quick little break. We are back
with more in a moment. Please stay with us. Jimmy
Bert Show, Am nine to fifty Kate arc All right,
(19:33):
we have a brand new ice facility that is getting
ready to open up. That's gonna be fun. It's at
Fort Bliss and we're learning a little bit more. By
the way, El Paso for those of you who are
not familiar where Fort Bliss is just outside of l Paso,
So good spot to have it, and there's gonna be
plenty of people to stay there. Did you hear that
(19:56):
ICE is arrested over three hundred and fifty gang members
just here in Houston. Yeah, over three hundred and fifty
forty different gangs represented, including MS thirteen Trend de Arragua
Street Crews. They collectively, the three hundred and fifty people
they've arrested are responsible for one thousand, six hundred and
(20:17):
eighty five criminal offenses, including murder, child sex crimes, sex trafficking, arson,
and theft. The number of gang members arrested here in
the Houston area during the first six months of the
Trump administration three hundred and seventy five percent higher than
during the first six months of the Biden administration. I'm
surprises not more than that. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia
(20:42):
McLaughlin crediting the surge and arrest to aggressive enforcement under
the Trump administration, saying ICE is targeting vicious gangs. They
commit heinous crimes. That's a fact that that is a fact.
Some of them will end up and that and maybe
already are at this new ice detention facility. We got
them popping up all over. We've got you've got al
(21:04):
gator Ac Alcatraze, You've got the speedway. Uh, you know
the one in Indiana. How quickly I forget the name
of it? And what did we decide we wanted to
call this one? Uh lone star lock up or lone
star lockdown, either one, either one works for me.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Here's the report, by the way on Fox four in
Dallas about this new facility. Here's some of the details
about this new ice facility. Just outside of al Paso.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
The US military is building the largest federal deportation detention
center in America's history. The construction of Camp East Montana
at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, began mid July
in response to a request from Homeland Security. Pentagon Press
Secretary Kingsley Wilson defended the use of the military base
to initially detain one thousand migrants awaiting deportation.
Speaker 15 (21:52):
Once DOOD achieves initial stand up, we will finish construction
for up to five thousand beds in the weeks and
months ahead. Upon completion, This will be the largest federal
detention center in history for this critical mission, the deportation
of the legal aliens.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
So far, the Army has spent two hundred and thirty
two million dollars on the tent city at Fort Bliss.
The US Army oversees the one point two four billion
dollar contract for the five thousand bed ice facility, and
last month awarded the contract to build the facility to
acquisition logistics of Virginia based company. In January, President Trump
(22:29):
announced migrants would be sent to Guantanamo Bay, where Defense
Secretary Hegseth promised the Marines could build a thirty thousand
bed facility.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Well, okay, thirty thousand beds. I don't know that we
need a thirty thousand bed facility, But think about the
statistics from this Fort Bliss facility. Two hundred and thirty
two million dollars for tent city. I think I'm in
the wrong business. I should be selling tents. There must
be a lot of money to be made in tents. Well,
there's beds there too, five thousand beds. You put all
(23:00):
that stuff together and all the other things involved in
making it secure, then that's how you end up. I
guess spending two hundred and thirty two million dollars, it
won't be the worst money we ever spent. Here's some
more good news though, as it relates to ICE, this
is like more help on the way. More than one
hundred thousand Americans have applied for a role with ICE
(23:22):
since the recruiting drive for the agency began. Their goal
is to hire ten thousand additional agents. They have over
one hundred thousand applicants, and that's due to a couple
of things. Now, there are incentives, I get those in
a second, but one of the real incentives of this
is that you now have a country committed to enforcing
(23:42):
the border. You now have a president who you know
is going to let you do your job. In addition
to that, they're offering signing bonuses of up to fifty
thousand dollars, student loan repayment options, and other benefits to
attract more applicants. The acting ICE Director todd lyons, highlighting
the need for patriotic Americans to join ICE and help
(24:02):
remove criminal illegal aliens from the country.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
And of course, you know this comes with a little
bit of danger, because we've talked a little bit about
this morning that there's a socialist group here in Houston
that wants to try to plan attacks on ice here
in Houston. You know all of what they did on
Los Angeles. So it's it's not an easy job and
it's not not a dangerous job. It can be a
dangerous job. So hey, I'm glad to see. Let's see
(24:31):
help is on the way. All right, listen, y'all have
a great day. Thank you for listening. We will see
you tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting at five am
over on news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back
here at four an am, nine to fifty KPRC
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