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Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, welcome to our Tuesday edition of a Jimmy
Barrett Show. On this National Potato Day. Did you know
the National Potato Day? You don't mean food. I gotta
talk food, and I love talking about potatoes because potatoes
not being particularly nutritious. Oh although I take that back.
If if you could eat a potato raw, it would
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actually be relatively nutritious. Still has a lost starch, but
it would be relatively nutritious. Except nobody used potatoes raw.
The method you cooked potatoes with can't have a lot
to do with its nutrition value. Boiling a potato is
better for you than frying a potato is just like
everything else in life. But here's the thing about potatoes.
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We use them in such a huge variety of ways.
So I thought it'd be a great topic, and we
did it this morning on our morning show. On Houston's
Morning News on Kati rh to talk about National Potato
Day and your favorite kind of potatoes and the potatoes
you like potatoes, you don't like your favorite potato dish,
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and we actually had some really good stuff. By the way,
The pole is based on a pole that was conducted
looked at the most popular homemade potato dishes and it
wasn't even close. Number one mashed potatoes. Given the choice,
people preferred the potatoes mashed. Now, I don't know if
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they prefer them flavored. I happened to. I love mashed potatoes,
and sometimes you have them with gravy. Sometimes you have
them flavored like garlic mashed potatoes. For example, loaded mashed potatoes,
you know where they got the chunks in there and
the cheese and the bacon like you would on a
baked potato. Yeah, there's all kinds of ways to make
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mashed potatoes, and they can be on the top of
something Shepherd's pie for example. And Shepherd's pie, I guess
is really really big in New England. They love Shepherd's pie.
It probably has something to do to with the with
the Irish population. A lot of there's a lot of
Irish ancestry in New England, and I want to say
that's an Irish dish, or at least an English dish.
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You know, Shepherd's pie's usually got ground beef or lamb
and you know, mixed vegetables in a kind of a
you know, a gravy like broth, and then they put
mashed potatoes over the top of that and cheese and
then they bake it in the oven. Yeah, that's good stuff.
I love that. That's comfort food, is what that is.
That's why I think we love potatoes so much. It's
it's the ultimate comfort food. You can eat them hot
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and eat them cold. Potato chips come chips and dips.
You have it for a snack, you can have it.
You know, it's a great side dish. I don't know
that you can make a meal out of potatoes. I've
never really tried to, all Right, So number one was
mashed potatoes number two. This surprised me until I realized
that this particular form of potato is really huge in
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the South and in particular in Texas, and as big
as we are here in Texas, I can see where
that now I get where we kind of drove the
number up on that. Potato salad came in second, same thing,
all different kinds of potato salad. You could have it
mustard based, there's mayonnaise based potato salad. There's something my
mom used to make called German potato salad that was
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pretty good stuff. Also, baked potatoes came in third. And
there's only so many things you can do with the
baked potato, right. You can put butter on it. You
can put butter and sour cream on it. You can
put butter, sour cream and bacon and cheese and and
and more butter, and you know, basically take something that's
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not baked potatoes actually not bad for you until you
put all the toppings on there, and then all of
a sudden, it's not so good for you. But they
that came in third, and then fourth was breakfast potatoes
or hash browns, which I have to argue a little
bit with that because hash browns are shreded potatoes. Can
we all agree on that if it's not shredded, it's
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not really hash brown it's some other kind of potato.
There's there's cottage fries, there's you know, which are basically
a potato that's been sliced relatively thin, and then you
know crisp made crispy, usually by deep frying it, although
you could do it on the on the top of
the stove too. There's the uh, you know, the chunks
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of potatoes. There's a you know, there's a variety different
kinds of breakfast potatoes, depending up on how you're going
to use them. So I guess they just lumped them
all into one. But hash browns would be the most
popular out of those. And the only reason why I
mentioned the difference in those is I've lived places where,
you know, the hash browns were not what I thought
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they were going to be here in Texas, any place
that advertises hash browns, it's always shredded. But when I
was in Virginia, you any kind of a breakfast potato,
they call them hash browns, even if they weren't hash browns. So,
being particularly you know, favorable to the shredded ones, I
was always disappointed when something else would show if that
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wasn't a shred of potato, I'd go, wait a minute,
that's not hash browns. So anyway, I asked all of you,
all of the listeners on our morning show, and Kati h
to weigh in, but their favorite potato dishes. This is
Randy from Spring.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I like my potatoes in a nice crawfish boil.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Really really helped to bring out the flavor.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good morning, Jimmy Billy, but cooling construct shit.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I like leftover mashed potatoes the next morning made it
into potato pancakes so good.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I haven't had them in a while.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But man, my favorite type of potatoes are heart attacked potatoes,
mashed potatoes, and potato salad.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Those are my top three. Those are all good choices.
I I had to look up heart. Had you ever
heard of heart attacked potatoes? I I'd never heard of that.
It turns out I've had them. I'd never heard it
referred to that way before. I guess. They're also called
funeral potatoes, mainly because they're kind of fancy and they're
usually served at you know, wakes after after a funeral
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or you know, some some big family get together a holiday.
It's it's it's you know, cheese and uh, cream of mushrooms,
soup and a whole variety of different things kind of
mixed in taking a potato dish and just you know,
basically adding you know about a brazillion calories to it
in high cholesterol. So I guess they called heart attacked
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potatoes because if you ate those every day, you'd probably
have a heart attack. All right, What else we we got? Oh,
the crawfish boiled idea was a good one. Yeah, I
think I mentioned that in a few minutes ago, that
you know, that's what I like boiled potatoes. Went with
crawfish because it picks up all the seasonings from the
crawfish boil. What else we got wice baked potatoes.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Get all that stuff out.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Of there, mix it with sour cream, cheese and onions
and bacon.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Put all that back in and felt a little bit
of barbecue.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
That's done the tiger.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Smoker for about a good don't know ours, Hey, just
go to town Man.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That is like the best.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Good morning guys.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Hey, Jimmy, it's Sarah Holden from Hobby Report. I like
potatoes in any way I can get them, except for
potatoes all grotten. I don't care for those. But other
than that, French fries, country style hash browns, I love them.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Jimmy, it's Andrew from College Station. I think I invented
those heart attacked potatoes. There there's so much butter and
sour cream. You couldn't eat those things every day. Basically
they're supposed to be eating Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Bye. Yeah, I'll make a four, and they usually do.
It's usually around holiday. I guess it would be almost
be like heart attacked potatoes. It's hash browns is the
main part of it. Hash browns, sour cream. Uh, there's
a garlic salt, onion salt.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cheddar cheese, you know, shredded cheddar cheese, all all cream
and potato soup. You put all that stuff in there
and and mix it all up together, and then you
bake it and both them. That's good. That's good with
any sort of a meat dish. What else we got, Hey.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Jimmy, this is Mark copper Field. My favorite potatoes are
from waffle House, scattered, smothered, covered and chumped. It's outside
the rings, scattered, smothered with cheese, covered with chili, and
chunked with ham.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh yump.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
Hey Jimmy, this is white from Porter. My favorite potatoes
are mashed with real butter goes without saying, and none
of that unsalted crab either.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Man.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
I found a mashed potato recipe some years back that
calls for using sour cream instead of milk. My goodness,
and mashed potatoes and make your trash talk your grandma
Thanksgiving dinner because she never made mashed potatoes that good.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
That's all I got, y'all, have a good.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
Day Jimmy's date. Yeah, a super large baked potato with
tons of butter smothered and sour cream with you. Gotta
have the cheese and then some brown bacon gravy dip
on the side.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh is it?
Speaker 11 (10:03):
Is it potato or potato?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I don't know. Is it one or two? I don't know.
I think I might switch out the brown gravy for brisket.
I love that. I love that at barbecue places, you
know that big huge honk in baked potato with either
pole pork or or chopped brisket on top of Oh
that's good stuff. All right, quick little break back with
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Borne Mama, Jimmy Bart Show, AM nine fifty KPRC Right, Yo.
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I hate to keep talking about potatoes, but we we
had had somebody calls on it, got an interview I'm
gonna share with you in our next segment. I think
you're gonna want to check out and We're also going
to trunk talk about the Trump Zelenski Summit, if you
will as soon as I get the rest of these
potatoes out of here. I like leftover potatoes, but I
don't want to leave these four tomorrow or some other day.
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So we've been talking about National Potato Day being today
and this morning on our morning show and katrh we're
asking our listeners to tell us about their favorite potato dish.
What's your favorite kind of potato or your favorite potato dish?
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
This is Henry from Spring.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
My favorite thing.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
With potatoes is a spud gun.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You all have a great day. Hey, Jimmy Christopher Rosenberg here.
I like my potatoes made into vodka. This is Charles
from West Columbia.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I like a baked potato filled with barbecue. Like baked
potato filled with chopped brisket and barbecue sauce and all
the baked potato fixings work also works well. Besides that,
I think tater tots are really great. But uh, yeah,
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that's how I like my potatoes.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, I like tater tots too. You like him crispy, yeah,
I like uh, I like any any kind of potato
that's fried. I prefer it crispy. It's like onion rings.
I like them crispy too. I found you know that
some places just don't quite cook them long enough. There's
nothing there's nothing great about a limpy French frier, Indian ring.
(12:32):
You know, they sh'd have a little crunch to it.
I'm big on crunch I like crunchy. Crunchy is real
important to me. All right, let's just grab two more
real quick.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
Hey, good morning. It's Vincent and Westbury. I'm married to
a Swiss and our favorite potato dish isra Klet. It's
melted cheese with boiled potatoes, little onions and little pickles,
and it is d.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Try it, Hey, Jimmy Rick from the East Side.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Have you ever had the mashed potatoes at the Republic
Grill with that wonderful gravy you guys have potato?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yes? I have, Yes, I have had that. They they have.
They serve that up with their chicken fried steak, chicken
fried chicken with mashed potatoes and the gravy that they
have at the Republic Grill. I talk about it all
the time on the morning show on ktr H. They're
a sponsor on our show on ktr H. I talk
about them all the time, and the reason why do
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oh they're so good. I don't know what they have
done to their gravy they used for the chicken fried
steak and the chicken fried chicken is unbelievable. I think
they've won some I'm not sure, but I think they've
won some awards for it. I wouldn't be I wouldn't
be the least bit surprised. It is the best chicken
fried I'm boring the chicken fried chicken, the chicken fried steak,
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but it's the best chicken fried chicken, bear head. It's
just really really good stuff. All right, enough food talk.
Let's move on to the summit between President Trump and
uh President Zelenski from Ukraine, meeting at White House, and
obviously mister Zelenski got some much better advice. First of all,
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don't wear the military fatigues. All right, you're not a
pandomanium dictator. Uh you're you're you're the president of an
Eastern European country. So let's ditch the fatigues. Let's wear something,
you know, Let's let's not just you know, where the
where the cargo pants. Let's let's see if we can't
take it up a notch. So he looked like Johnny
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Casho's like all in black. He's wearing like a black
suit and black shirt and black pants. But he looked
a lot more professionally did the last time, and certainly
his demeanor was much more professional. Here he is thanking
President Trump, thank you very much for.
Speaker 13 (15:01):
Your EFTs posts to stop kiangs and somebody's warm thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
This isn't my war. This is Joe Biden's war.
Speaker 14 (15:09):
He's the one that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Had a lot to do with this happening.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yes, almost, President Linski, you look fabulous in that suit.
Speaker 15 (15:17):
I said, it's a good thing that Zelenski wore a
suit or a semi suit. People say that's trivial, Jesse,
Why do you care what he wears. I care because
it's a sign of respect and the American people agree
with me. And it's also a sign that he stepped
up his suit game of warming relations between Trump and
Zelensky's Remember a couple of months ago they had the
(15:37):
big nasty blow up. And what do we say at
the time, You know, deals.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Blow up and they get put back together.
Speaker 15 (15:42):
Guys fight and then they patch it up. Not like
women women hold grudges, Dana. Could you imagine Kamala Harris
doing this type of diplomacy, flying to Alaska, bringing all
these world leaders to DC. She could never have pulled
it off, not because she's a woman, Dana, because she's
called a leh be in duty free.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Most of the.
Speaker 15 (16:02):
Time, the war has lasted three years. Every war over
the last one hundred years has been longer, both world wars, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
If he can patch us up this quickly, it would
be an historic success.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And how did he do it?
Speaker 15 (16:21):
I believe it was these secondary sanctions on Russian energy
exports because that was about three weeks after he did that.
They had that phone call, and then they had this meeting.
And also these oligarchs want their Yachtspeck.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's Jesse Waters on the five of course, so you know, yeah,
much better meeting. And then after that meeting, Trump Benzoleski
met with the East, the European leaders from all the
major countries in Europe who all have committed to go
from two percent to five percent for NATO and are
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also on board with the plan, evidently providing you know,
if the if a piece deal is made of providing
some sort of security for Ukraine so that Russia doesn't
go back and do it all over again. Uh, General
Jack Keen watch what happened yesterday with all this, and
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he happens to think things went a whole lot better too.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
One is, I think Zelenski handled himself very well during
the Oval Office meeting and suddenly the introduction to the
security guarantee meeting with the Europeans which we all witness
and start contrast till several months ago when he managed
to blow up the meeting in the in the Oval
Office in front of international American media, so that that
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was a vast improvement. And I really think which has
already been sent. All I can do is on the score.
It is the significance of what President Trump has done here.
First of all, so audience on the stand, Larry. He
is been talking to these European leaders and Zelenski four
weeks and they dialogue virtually or on the phone on
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a regular basis. A case in point, after an exhausting
day at the Alaska summit, sometime between am and two
thirty in the morning on Air Force one, which has
very good secure comms, he spoke to Olenski and all
those European leaders for an hour and a half and
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finished up the conversation on the tarmacris They didn't want
to leave those secure comms even though they had landed,
and so this dialogue has been continuous for some time.
But bringing them together and talking to each other is
always more vital than a virtual or even a phone call.
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So he understood that. But think of that. He calls them.
It's early Saturday morning, their time, and he says, listen,
I want you to come to Washington on Monday and
we'll have a meeting when Zelensky well iron out you
know what these security guarantees are, and what a kind
of a counter offer if Zelenski is willing to do,
it would look like, well, that's Saturday morning. That means
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they're all flying Saturday Sunday to get here, and most
all of them were here last night given all the
security stuff I saw going on in town last night.
So uh, that's that's an amazing response given who those
leaders are. But it also, in my mind, it demonstrates
their commitment and the resolve here.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And again I think that went just about as well
as you could hope it to go. Now what's next?
Of course that's the big question. Can can Putin be
counted on in order to uh to go ahead and
uh and it makes some sort of an agreement. Can
he be counted on? I mean, can he at least
be counted on to have a meeting? I guess we'll
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find out. Back with Mortimops, please stick around, doctor Bobby
Everlee from our morning show. Coming up in our next segments.
The Democrats are back at Austin. We'll talk about that
coming up next. Here a name of nine fifty eight
ARC and the Jimmy Birschow. All right, let's do this.
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We've got Democrats back in Austin. They reported for work,
They have a quorum, and things are going to get done.
And they're not gonna get the least this is my prediction. Anyway,
They're not gonna get the least bit punished. No, they're not.
You know, they all talked a good game, but the
end of the day, Republicans threaten, but they don't really
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do most of the time. And I predict that's what's
gonna happen here too. But anyway, here's the report from
Fox on Democrats back in Austin.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
A group of.
Speaker 16 (20:59):
Democrats were seen gathering around Abia around eleven o'clock Monday morning.
Their charter flight back to Texas included a bus ride
to downtown Austin. When they arrived at the state capital,
supporters cheered the Democrats as they walked into the Texas House,
the same legislative chamber that they walked out of two
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weeks ago. They forms presidence House Speaker Dustin Burroughs now
with enough members to end the contentious quorum break, indicated
it was time for some fence mending. It will withstand
this too, and we will remain as a chamber where
the majority has the right to prevail and the minority
has the right to be heard.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
That has always been the mark of a functioning Texas House.
Speaker 17 (21:43):
Well, I really appreciate that. My part istan nature and look,
Texas Democrats have been under attacked for the last two weeks,
whether it was bomb threats at hotels people thought we
were at. We've had members have their tire slash in
front of their homes. We had over twenty members received
pizzas that were unsolicited to their homes with the Minnesota
shooter's name as the sender. So it's very concerning and
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we need to calm down this harmful rhetoric.
Speaker 16 (22:09):
Several Republicans told me the A Wall Democrats should at
least pay the five hundred dollars a day fine that
they accumulated, and the speaker's welcome host speech didn't sit
very well with a Lothian Republican.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
With Brian Harrison's.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Conciliatory, you're right, that was the tone, but it's the
exact opposite tone. Texas wanted actions, they wanted punishments. We
got absolutely nothing. Any regrets, absolutely not, no one regret.
Speaker 16 (22:33):
Representative Tony Rose and her quorm breaking colleagues were not
allowed to leave the House chamber Before going to a
back room there, they had to sign a document promising
to return Wednesday when the House reconvenes, and playing close.
DPS troopers were also assigned to each Democrat to shadow them.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That think is the hope of unnecessary use the safe hands.
I mean we came back. You know how colleagues know us,
they know their I mean came back today that we're
here to work. You know we did. That was the
first one of our strategy. And it's time making get up.
Just need the bill done. I mean I can get up.
Speaker 16 (23:10):
It was at a pot house Democrat CONCUSS chairman Jean
Wu explain why they're now going to rush to vote
on a redistricting map that they originally tried to stop.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
And the real issue remaining is he's just going to
get an.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Important time because the Fourth House, what's known as the
newly created for cell doc friend says, if it's too
close to the electioneering election times that the court people
say the map is unconstitutional, but it's too late to
do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You can't hold it.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
You can't use this map well the next time, but
you can use it this time.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
First of all, that map is not unconstitutional. Second of all,
if it's getting too late, whose fault is that? Y'all
didn't have to you know, leave and head out of state.
You could if the idea was that the bill gets
past and we're just going to kick it to the
court like that. One female representative said, why not just
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do that in the beginning, right, Well, okay, we're gonna
lose this vote, but we're gonna kick it right to
the court. That did that would save you a little
over a week. No no, no, no no no. You
had to do your political grand standing first right exactly so.
And Geen Wu, by the way, he looked like a
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Japanese soldier getting ready to commit Harry carry. He always
has this glum look on his face, like like he
just lost his best friend or his mama died. You
know what, what are these people thinking? What are these
people thinking? Anyway, the Republicans, I don't think are handling
this very well. And I think our next guest, this
is from our morning show today on KTRH. I think
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when we had doctor Bobby Everley on early this morning
here on KTRH, I think he would agree with my assessment.
Thisism going real well, so let's let's hear what doctor
doctor Everley has to say about it. Nobody has really
come up with any sort of acountability. Does there need
to be more accountability here? Hey, well, good morning, Thanks
thanks for having me on. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
You know what's interesting is the use they're they're being tailed, right,
they're being followed this time, so they can't leave, or
supposedly can't leave. But what does that say about the
first session? I mean, is it was it just designed
to be a throwaway and they knew this was going
to happen. I mean because the word, you know, out
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there in the base and the and the movement. Is
very frustrating because even at the national level, one of
the things that excited voters going into November was this
idea of accountability that hey, you might have run things
in your state or on the national level one way,
but now we are going to look at this corruption,
get rid of corruption, and hold people accountable. We still
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haven't really seen it at the national level. And now
here in Texas you've got this glaring example where people
left the state.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
There were all these threats of.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Hey, we're going to arrest you, we're going to vacate
your offices, and nothing has been done. And what's really
frustrating is that now they're back. You know, Gene Wu,
the leader of the Democrats, put out a statement saying,
we killed this corrupt special session and withstood unprecedented surveillance,
whatever that means. And he's still on the redistricting committee.
(26:24):
He's still on it. And so when you consider that
they created these these vice chairmanships, those people should be
removed from those, even positions on committees.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
They should be removed. Budgets should be lowered.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
And no one has received anything so it's like they
got a free pass and were able to just you know,
destroy the special session without any kind of repercussions at all.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And you know, I blame two people first and foremost
for this. And this may seem a little harsh, but
I don't think anybody will argue with me over Speaker
Dustin Burroughs. I don't know if you heard his speech
yesterday when they gabbled in the quorum, but he basically said, oh,
it's so nice to have you back, and you know,
let's get to work on some stuff. Okay, kids, you
know that kind of time. I mean, he's the major
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problem right now.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, and people are tired of that. They are they're
tired of just this what it seems like. You've heard
this word that's a uniparty where it's we fight to
make Texas a Republican state, and in many ways it
doesn't seem to mean anything.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, it has to mean something.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
We've earned these majorities, just like you work for that
razor then majority on the national level in the US House,
we don't have a razor thin majority. We've got a
good majority in the Texas House, and we should exercise that.
We should use that to our advantage, and instead it's like, hey,
welcome back. It's all good, you know, and and who
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knows what's going to happen with this debate. All we
did was give the Democrats time to stall and put
out press releases and fundraise off of this. And and
there needs to be some penalties or else people will
lose faith in the process and motivated voters people respond
to Republicans doing the right thing that affects future elections.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, and we'll see if Governor Having moves forward on this.
I see him as being also part of the issue
here because he's just happy they're back, and he knows, hey,
we won, we won this thing. We're gonna have redistricting
by the end of the week. It's gonna pass. So
he just seems to be happy to take that win
and let the Democrats slide. Right.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Well, the thing is is that the statements were put
out right. We did our version of the strongly worded letter.
So what do we do with this strongly worded letter
when we say we're going to vacate offices, which I
think is very valid if these people abandon their duties,
if they did not show up to vote, which is
their job. Then they abandoned their office. Let's get some
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new people in there, and nothing is coming of that too,
so it kind of loses. This is its weight, loses
its sting if you say things and don't.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Follow through it right, and all of this is very
very bad, don't you think for the Republican Party, because
if they don't take action, then then people just say,
look at this, same old, same old Republicans. You know,
they talk a good game, but they don't do anything.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
And that is the absolute worst thing that could happen.
Because again, we've got this momentum. We have a movement
that is populist, and that means, you know, looking out
for the person that doesn't necessarily have.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
That power, have that voice. We are that voice.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
But in order for it to maintain this momentum, we
have to have results, and we have to go after
the corrupt politicians. And when you see a whole fifty
five or so that just leave and show their corruption
and their abandonment of duties, if we don't do anything,
that will affect our morale and our willingness to get
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out there and do those things.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
That volunteers do. Yep, I think Republicans are in danger
of blowing this. You know, at this point you have
to you have to make voters believe that you're actually
going to do something. And that's the reputation unfortunately Republicans
have is that they they talk a good game, but
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they don't play. They don't play the game. They have
an opportunity here to make Democrats pay for this. Yet
there you know, they're all about no, no, no, that's
all good. All just get along. You know, you have
a speaker, still have a speaker of the House who's
a rhino and that and there you go. That's what
you end up with. All right, we are back with
more final statement coming up in just a moment. Are
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you excited about football season? I'm so excited about football season.
I love football season more than that coming up next
year on a nine fifty kPr C and the Jimmy Bart Show.
(31:02):
All right, we've got football season coming up. College football. Well,
they're playing the NFL preseason. I don't get excited about
the NFL preseason. I've done. I'll maybe watch for a
couple of minutes, but you know, the preseason is about
who's going to make the team. You know, which players
on the bubble are going to make the team, and
(31:23):
I you know, the results still't matter. Nobody cares about
the results, only care about how rookies and and people
who are getting getting tried out for the team, how
they play. It's not a real indicative of of how
that season is going to go for that particular team.
I did see a couple of stories though, involving the
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National Football The college football starts next weekend. There might
be one this upcoming weekend overseas, isn't I forget who's playing?
Somebody's playing I think in Germany. I think so they're
They're playing a college football game in Germany. Anyway, I
care about it. I'm a Michigan football fan, I always
have been. And they open up a week from Saturday,
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so that's why I'll start paying attention to that. NFL.
Of course, the regular season doesn't start until a couple
of weeks from now. Actually, the weekend after Labor Day
weekend will be the opening for the NFL. Did you
see the story that the Minnesota Vikings have hired male cheerleaders,
and not just any male cheerleaders, I mean, there are
(32:28):
straight male cheerleaders. I'm sure there's got to be a few, right,
there's a few straight mail there's got to be. There's
straight male cheerleaders, and there's gay male cheerleaders. And there's
no doubt in your mind which category these cheerleaders go into,
because they are more effeminate than the female cheerleaders are.
So this is going to become the norm. We're told
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it's becoming a bigger part of the league. A reported
twelve teams are going to feature male cheerleaders this year.
Twelve of the teams, not just the Minnesota Vikings, twelve
of the teams. So they they put out odds. I
guess they're betting on this. Put out odds as to
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which team would be the next team to hire male cheerleaders.
The Washington Commanders won odds of three to one, followed
by the Seattle Seahawks, because after all, it's Seattle. Arizona Cardinals,
Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Las Vegas Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati
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Bengals were ten to one odds. Detroit Lions sixteen to one.
You know, the Detroit Lions did not even have female
cheerleaders up until maybe about ten years ago. They had
no cheerleader. The only they had, they'd have high school
cheerleaders comeing chair, they'd have their own cheerleaders. Houston Texans
thirty three to one odds. They're amongst the last dead last.
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Dallas Cowboys eighty to one chance. So the two Texas
NFL teams don't have real high chances of having male
cheerleaders at least anytime soon. But I mentioned the Washington
Commanders formerly know as the Redskins, had the best odds.
I saw. George Allen. George Allen is a used to
be a United States Senator. In addition to that, his
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father was the head coach of the Washington Redskins. Evidently
it was during his tenure that they came up with
the Redskins logo design that had the chief's head on
it with the feathers. Before that, there was like a
circle with feathers with an R for Redskins in it.
George Allen was the one responsible for putting that Indian
(34:38):
chief on there, and evidently the grands I think it's
the grandson of the Indian chief that was used for
that logo, is requesting that the Washington Redskins go back
to being the Washington Redskins. In fact, This is all
about Native Americans asking for or the Washington Redskins name
(35:01):
and logo to be restored.
Speaker 18 (35:03):
When they have these folks putting like a no parking
sign to that logo. That logo was recommended, designed and
advocated by American Indians.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
It's our word.
Speaker 19 (35:14):
The European words are Indian and savage and now indigenous.
And you know, we're sick and tired of the intellectual
elite at the top of the university towers, you know,
like they're all in their own little hogwarts telling us
what to do with our names.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Who so, David, you want to build on what they said?
Speaker 14 (35:37):
Yeah, I agree with one, you know, and it was
to me it was a tragedy that they history and
heritage in this country, which is sad because natives were
part of, you know, getting America started.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
So would you be happy would you be if they kept.
Speaker 19 (35:55):
The logo of the picture of the former tribal chief and.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Kept the name Commanders?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
Would you ever be happy with a split there?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
The logo goes back on, but the Commanders remained.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
The name or the logo is somewhere in the stadium,
the new stadium.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
No, I mean that would that?
Speaker 14 (36:17):
Would I guess I would kind of help.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
My feeling.
Speaker 14 (36:23):
That's you got to do it all, you know, put
the logo back on and change the name back to Redskins.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
See, here's the thing is, most Native Americans there are
activists Native Americans, just like they're activists in any other
part of life. Most of them understand that the term
redskins was not meant to denote like, you know, like
wasn't racial in nature. Redskins was a term used by
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Native Americans to describe an Indian warrior. It was not
derogatory in any way, shape or form. You know, people
at turned it into a racist term. That's never what
it was until we got all politically correct. And this
has been going on for years though. I mean, the
the university I went to had the nickname Hurons, as
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in the Huron Indian tribe. A group of activists, of
small group of activists forced them to change their name.
They're now the Eagles. The high school I went to
where the braves, and you know what what's racist about braves?
They they changed their name. I don't even know what
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their name is any They're oh, they're the Grizzlies. Now
they're not. They're not the Braves. So there's a lot
of places where they've removed this tradition. And you know,
they never did a lot of consulting with very many
Native Americans before they removed these names before, and in fact,
a lot of these groups are upset that. You know,
what little attention they did get from having their name
(37:55):
associated with these sports teams has now gone away because
there's no longer any association anyway. I don't know DC
is politically correct, as DC is the District of Columbia,
I don't see them restoring the name unfortunately. Hey listen,
gotta leave it at that. You all have a great day.
See you tomorrow morning, bright early five am over our
news radio seven forty k TRH. We are back here
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, welcome to our Tuesday edition of a Jimmy
Barrett Show. On this National Potato Day. Did you know
the National Potato Day? You don't mean food. I gotta
talk food, and I love talking about potatoes because potatoes
not being particularly nutritious. Oh although I take that back.
If if you could eat a potato raw, it would
(00:53):
actually be relatively nutritious. Still has a lost starch, but
it would be relatively nutritious. Except nobody used potatoes raw.
The method you cooked potatoes with can't have a lot
to do with its nutrition value. Boiling a potato is
better for you than frying a potato is just like
everything else in life. But here's the thing about potatoes.
(01:16):
We use them in such a huge variety of ways.
So I thought it'd be a great topic, and we
did it this morning on our morning show. On Houston's
Morning News on Kati rh to talk about National Potato
Day and your favorite kind of potatoes and the potatoes
you like potatoes, you don't like your favorite potato dish,
(01:37):
and we actually had some really good stuff. By the way,
The pole is based on a pole that was conducted
looked at the most popular homemade potato dishes and it
wasn't even close. Number one mashed potatoes. Given the choice,
people preferred the potatoes mashed. Now, I don't know if
(01:59):
they prefer them flavored. I happened to. I love mashed potatoes,
and sometimes you have them with gravy. Sometimes you have
them flavored like garlic mashed potatoes. For example, loaded mashed potatoes,
you know where they got the chunks in there and
the cheese and the bacon like you would on a
baked potato. Yeah, there's all kinds of ways to make
(02:21):
mashed potatoes, and they can be on the top of
something Shepherd's pie for example. And Shepherd's pie, I guess
is really really big in New England. They love Shepherd's pie.
It probably has something to do to with the with
the Irish population. A lot of there's a lot of
Irish ancestry in New England, and I want to say
that's an Irish dish, or at least an English dish.
(02:42):
You know, Shepherd's pie's usually got ground beef or lamb
and you know, mixed vegetables in a kind of a
you know, a gravy like broth, and then they put
mashed potatoes over the top of that and cheese and
then they bake it in the oven. Yeah, that's good stuff.
I love that. That's comfort food, is what that is.
That's why I think we love potatoes so much. It's
it's the ultimate comfort food. You can eat them hot
(03:05):
and eat them cold. Potato chips come chips and dips.
You have it for a snack, you can have it.
You know, it's a great side dish. I don't know
that you can make a meal out of potatoes. I've
never really tried to, all Right, So number one was
mashed potatoes number two. This surprised me until I realized
that this particular form of potato is really huge in
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the South and in particular in Texas, and as big
as we are here in Texas, I can see where
that now I get where we kind of drove the
number up on that. Potato salad came in second, same thing,
all different kinds of potato salad. You could have it
mustard based, there's mayonnaise based potato salad. There's something my
mom used to make called German potato salad that was
(03:50):
pretty good stuff. Also, baked potatoes came in third. And
there's only so many things you can do with the
baked potato, right. You can put butter on it. You
can put butter and sour cream on it. You can
put butter, sour cream and bacon and cheese and and
and more butter, and you know, basically take something that's
(04:12):
not baked potatoes actually not bad for you until you
put all the toppings on there, and then all of
a sudden, it's not so good for you. But they
that came in third, and then fourth was breakfast potatoes
or hash browns, which I have to argue a little
bit with that because hash browns are shreded potatoes. Can
we all agree on that if it's not shredded, it's
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not really hash brown it's some other kind of potato.
There's there's cottage fries, there's you know, which are basically
a potato that's been sliced relatively thin, and then you
know crisp made crispy, usually by deep frying it, although
you could do it on the on the top of
the stove too. There's the uh, you know, the chunks
(04:57):
of potatoes. There's a you know, there's a variety different
kinds of breakfast potatoes, depending up on how you're going
to use them. So I guess they just lumped them
all into one. But hash browns would be the most
popular out of those. And the only reason why I
mentioned the difference in those is I've lived places where,
you know, the hash browns were not what I thought
(05:19):
they were going to be here in Texas, any place
that advertises hash browns, it's always shredded. But when I
was in Virginia, you any kind of a breakfast potato,
they call them hash browns, even if they weren't hash browns. So,
being particularly you know, favorable to the shredded ones, I
was always disappointed when something else would show if that
(05:41):
wasn't a shred of potato, I'd go, wait a minute,
that's not hash browns. So anyway, I asked all of you,
all of the listeners on our morning show, and Kati h
to weigh in, but their favorite potato dishes. This is
Randy from Spring.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I like my potatoes in a nice crawfish boil.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Really really helped to bring out the flavor.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good morning, Jimmy Billy, but cooling construct shit.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I like leftover mashed potatoes the next morning made it
into potato pancakes so good.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I haven't had them in a while.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But man, my favorite type of potatoes are heart attacked potatoes,
mashed potatoes, and potato salad.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Those are my top three. Those are all good choices.
I I had to look up heart. Had you ever
heard of heart attacked potatoes? I I'd never heard of that.
It turns out I've had them. I'd never heard it
referred to that way before. I guess. They're also called
funeral potatoes, mainly because they're kind of fancy and they're
usually served at you know, wakes after after a funeral
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or you know, some some big family get together a holiday.
It's it's it's you know, cheese and uh, cream of mushrooms,
soup and a whole variety of different things kind of
mixed in taking a potato dish and just you know,
basically adding you know about a brazillion calories to it
in high cholesterol. So I guess they called heart attacked
(07:06):
potatoes because if you ate those every day, you'd probably
have a heart attack. All right, What else we we got? Oh,
the crawfish boiled idea was a good one. Yeah, I
think I mentioned that in a few minutes ago, that
you know, that's what I like boiled potatoes. Went with
crawfish because it picks up all the seasonings from the
crawfish boil. What else we got wice baked potatoes.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Get all that stuff out.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Of there, mix it with sour cream, cheese and onions
and bacon.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Put all that back in and felt a little bit
of barbecue.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
That's done the tiger.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Smoker for about a good don't know ours, Hey, just
go to town Man.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That is like the best.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Good morning guys.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Hey, Jimmy, it's Sarah Holden from Hobby Report. I like
potatoes in any way I can get them, except for
potatoes all grotten. I don't care for those. But other
than that, French fries, country style hash browns, I love them.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Jimmy, it's Andrew from College Station. I think I invented
those heart attacked potatoes. There there's so much butter and
sour cream. You couldn't eat those things every day. Basically
they're supposed to be eating Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Bye. Yeah, I'll make a four, and they usually do.
It's usually around holiday. I guess it would be almost
be like heart attacked potatoes. It's hash browns is the
main part of it. Hash browns, sour cream. Uh, there's
a garlic salt, onion salt.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cheddar cheese, you know, shredded cheddar cheese, all all cream
and potato soup. You put all that stuff in there
and and mix it all up together, and then you
bake it and both them. That's good. That's good with
any sort of a meat dish. What else we got, Hey.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Jimmy, this is Mark copper Field. My favorite potatoes are
from waffle House, scattered, smothered, covered and chumped. It's outside
the rings, scattered, smothered with cheese, covered with chili, and
chunked with ham.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh yump.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
Hey Jimmy, this is white from Porter. My favorite potatoes
are mashed with real butter goes without saying, and none
of that unsalted crab either.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Man.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
I found a mashed potato recipe some years back that
calls for using sour cream instead of milk. My goodness,
and mashed potatoes and make your trash talk your grandma
Thanksgiving dinner because she never made mashed potatoes that good.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
That's all I got, y'all, have a good.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
Day Jimmy's date. Yeah, a super large baked potato with
tons of butter smothered and sour cream with you. Gotta
have the cheese and then some brown bacon gravy dip
on the side.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh is it?
Speaker 11 (10:03):
Is it potato or potato?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I don't know. Is it one or two? I don't know.
I think I might switch out the brown gravy for brisket.
I love that. I love that at barbecue places, you
know that big huge honk in baked potato with either
pole pork or or chopped brisket on top of Oh
that's good stuff. All right, quick little break back with
(10:27):
Borne Mama, Jimmy Bart Show, AM nine fifty KPRC Right, Yo.
(10:53):
I hate to keep talking about potatoes, but we we
had had somebody calls on it, got an interview I'm
gonna share with you in our next segment. I think
you're gonna want to check out and We're also going
to trunk talk about the Trump Zelenski Summit, if you
will as soon as I get the rest of these
potatoes out of here. I like leftover potatoes, but I
don't want to leave these four tomorrow or some other day.
(11:14):
So we've been talking about National Potato Day being today
and this morning on our morning show and katrh we're
asking our listeners to tell us about their favorite potato dish.
What's your favorite kind of potato or your favorite potato dish?
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
This is Henry from Spring.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
My favorite thing.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
With potatoes is a spud gun.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You all have a great day. Hey, Jimmy Christopher Rosenberg here.
I like my potatoes made into vodka. This is Charles
from West Columbia.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I like a baked potato filled with barbecue. Like baked
potato filled with chopped brisket and barbecue sauce and all
the baked potato fixings work also works well. Besides that,
I think tater tots are really great. But uh, yeah,
(12:06):
that's how I like my potatoes.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, I like tater tots too. You like him crispy, yeah,
I like uh, I like any any kind of potato
that's fried. I prefer it crispy. It's like onion rings.
I like them crispy too. I found you know that
some places just don't quite cook them long enough. There's
nothing there's nothing great about a limpy French frier, Indian ring.
(12:32):
You know, they sh'd have a little crunch to it.
I'm big on crunch I like crunchy. Crunchy is real
important to me. All right, let's just grab two more
real quick.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
Hey, good morning. It's Vincent and Westbury. I'm married to
a Swiss and our favorite potato dish isra Klet. It's
melted cheese with boiled potatoes, little onions and little pickles,
and it is d.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Try it, Hey, Jimmy Rick from the East Side.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Have you ever had the mashed potatoes at the Republic
Grill with that wonderful gravy you guys have potato?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yes? I have, Yes, I have had that. They they have.
They serve that up with their chicken fried steak, chicken
fried chicken with mashed potatoes and the gravy that they
have at the Republic Grill. I talk about it all
the time on the morning show on ktr H. They're
a sponsor on our show on ktr H. I talk
about them all the time, and the reason why do
(13:35):
oh they're so good. I don't know what they have
done to their gravy they used for the chicken fried
steak and the chicken fried chicken is unbelievable. I think
they've won some I'm not sure, but I think they've
won some awards for it. I wouldn't be I wouldn't
be the least bit surprised. It is the best chicken
fried I'm boring the chicken fried chicken, the chicken fried steak,
(13:58):
but it's the best chicken fried chicken, bear head. It's
just really really good stuff. All right, enough food talk.
Let's move on to the summit between President Trump and
uh President Zelenski from Ukraine, meeting at White House, and
obviously mister Zelenski got some much better advice. First of all,
(14:24):
don't wear the military fatigues. All right, you're not a
pandomanium dictator. Uh you're you're you're the president of an
Eastern European country. So let's ditch the fatigues. Let's wear something,
you know, Let's let's not just you know, where the
where the cargo pants. Let's let's see if we can't
take it up a notch. So he looked like Johnny
(14:45):
Casho's like all in black. He's wearing like a black
suit and black shirt and black pants. But he looked
a lot more professionally did the last time, and certainly
his demeanor was much more professional. Here he is thanking
President Trump, thank you very much for.
Speaker 13 (15:01):
Your EFTs posts to stop kiangs and somebody's warm thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
This isn't my war. This is Joe Biden's war.
Speaker 14 (15:09):
He's the one that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Had a lot to do with this happening.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yes, almost, President Linski, you look fabulous in that suit.
Speaker 15 (15:17):
I said, it's a good thing that Zelenski wore a
suit or a semi suit. People say that's trivial, Jesse,
Why do you care what he wears. I care because
it's a sign of respect and the American people agree
with me. And it's also a sign that he stepped
up his suit game of warming relations between Trump and
Zelensky's Remember a couple of months ago they had the
(15:37):
big nasty blow up. And what do we say at
the time, You know, deals.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Blow up and they get put back together.
Speaker 15 (15:42):
Guys fight and then they patch it up. Not like
women women hold grudges, Dana. Could you imagine Kamala Harris
doing this type of diplomacy, flying to Alaska, bringing all
these world leaders to DC. She could never have pulled
it off, not because she's a woman, Dana, because she's
called a leh be in duty free.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Most of the.
Speaker 15 (16:02):
Time, the war has lasted three years. Every war over
the last one hundred years has been longer, both world wars, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
If he can patch us up this quickly, it would
be an historic success.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And how did he do it?
Speaker 15 (16:21):
I believe it was these secondary sanctions on Russian energy
exports because that was about three weeks after he did that.
They had that phone call, and then they had this meeting.
And also these oligarchs want their Yachtspeck.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's Jesse Waters on the five of course, so you know, yeah,
much better meeting. And then after that meeting, Trump Benzoleski
met with the East, the European leaders from all the
major countries in Europe who all have committed to go
from two percent to five percent for NATO and are
(16:56):
also on board with the plan, evidently providing you know,
if the if a piece deal is made of providing
some sort of security for Ukraine so that Russia doesn't
go back and do it all over again. Uh, General
Jack Keen watch what happened yesterday with all this, and
(17:18):
he happens to think things went a whole lot better too.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
One is, I think Zelenski handled himself very well during
the Oval Office meeting and suddenly the introduction to the
security guarantee meeting with the Europeans which we all witness
and start contrast till several months ago when he managed
to blow up the meeting in the in the Oval
Office in front of international American media, so that that
(17:46):
was a vast improvement. And I really think which has
already been sent. All I can do is on the score.
It is the significance of what President Trump has done here.
First of all, so audience on the stand, Larry. He
is been talking to these European leaders and Zelenski four
weeks and they dialogue virtually or on the phone on
(18:07):
a regular basis. A case in point, after an exhausting
day at the Alaska summit, sometime between am and two
thirty in the morning on Air Force one, which has
very good secure comms, he spoke to Olenski and all
those European leaders for an hour and a half and
(18:29):
finished up the conversation on the tarmacris They didn't want
to leave those secure comms even though they had landed,
and so this dialogue has been continuous for some time.
But bringing them together and talking to each other is
always more vital than a virtual or even a phone call.
(18:50):
So he understood that. But think of that. He calls them.
It's early Saturday morning, their time, and he says, listen,
I want you to come to Washington on Monday and
we'll have a meeting when Zelensky well iron out you
know what these security guarantees are, and what a kind
of a counter offer if Zelenski is willing to do,
it would look like, well, that's Saturday morning. That means
(19:12):
they're all flying Saturday Sunday to get here, and most
all of them were here last night given all the
security stuff I saw going on in town last night.
So uh, that's that's an amazing response given who those
leaders are. But it also, in my mind, it demonstrates
their commitment and the resolve here.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And again I think that went just about as well
as you could hope it to go. Now what's next?
Of course that's the big question. Can can Putin be
counted on in order to uh to go ahead and
uh and it makes some sort of an agreement. Can
he be counted on? I mean, can he at least
be counted on to have a meeting? I guess we'll
(19:54):
find out. Back with Mortimops, please stick around, doctor Bobby
Everlee from our morning show. Coming up in our next segments.
The Democrats are back at Austin. We'll talk about that
coming up next. Here a name of nine fifty eight
ARC and the Jimmy Birschow. All right, let's do this.
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We've got Democrats back in Austin. They reported for work,
They have a quorum, and things are going to get done.
And they're not gonna get the least this is my prediction. Anyway,
They're not gonna get the least bit punished. No, they're not.
You know, they all talked a good game, but the
end of the day, Republicans threaten, but they don't really
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do most of the time. And I predict that's what's
gonna happen here too. But anyway, here's the report from
Fox on Democrats back in Austin.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
A group of.
Speaker 16 (20:59):
Democrats were seen gathering around Abia around eleven o'clock Monday morning.
Their charter flight back to Texas included a bus ride
to downtown Austin. When they arrived at the state capital,
supporters cheered the Democrats as they walked into the Texas House,
the same legislative chamber that they walked out of two
(21:20):
weeks ago. They forms presidence House Speaker Dustin Burroughs now
with enough members to end the contentious quorum break, indicated
it was time for some fence mending. It will withstand
this too, and we will remain as a chamber where
the majority has the right to prevail and the minority
has the right to be heard.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
That has always been the mark of a functioning Texas House.
Speaker 17 (21:43):
Well, I really appreciate that. My part istan nature and look,
Texas Democrats have been under attacked for the last two weeks,
whether it was bomb threats at hotels people thought we
were at. We've had members have their tire slash in
front of their homes. We had over twenty members received
pizzas that were unsolicited to their homes with the Minnesota
shooter's name as the sender. So it's very concerning and
(22:06):
we need to calm down this harmful rhetoric.
Speaker 16 (22:09):
Several Republicans told me the A Wall Democrats should at
least pay the five hundred dollars a day fine that
they accumulated, and the speaker's welcome host speech didn't sit
very well with a Lothian Republican.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
With Brian Harrison's.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Conciliatory, you're right, that was the tone, but it's the
exact opposite tone. Texas wanted actions, they wanted punishments. We
got absolutely nothing. Any regrets, absolutely not, no one regret.
Speaker 16 (22:33):
Representative Tony Rose and her quorm breaking colleagues were not
allowed to leave the House chamber Before going to a
back room there, they had to sign a document promising
to return Wednesday when the House reconvenes, and playing close.
DPS troopers were also assigned to each Democrat to shadow them.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That think is the hope of unnecessary use the safe hands.
I mean we came back. You know how colleagues know us,
they know their I mean came back today that we're
here to work. You know we did. That was the
first one of our strategy. And it's time making get up.
Just need the bill done. I mean I can get up.
Speaker 16 (23:10):
It was at a pot house Democrat CONCUSS chairman Jean
Wu explain why they're now going to rush to vote
on a redistricting map that they originally tried to stop.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
And the real issue remaining is he's just going to
get an.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Important time because the Fourth House, what's known as the
newly created for cell doc friend says, if it's too
close to the electioneering election times that the court people
say the map is unconstitutional, but it's too late to
do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You can't hold it.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
You can't use this map well the next time, but
you can use it this time.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
First of all, that map is not unconstitutional. Second of all,
if it's getting too late, whose fault is that? Y'all
didn't have to you know, leave and head out of state.
You could if the idea was that the bill gets
past and we're just going to kick it to the
court like that. One female representative said, why not just
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do that in the beginning, right, Well, okay, we're gonna
lose this vote, but we're gonna kick it right to
the court. That did that would save you a little
over a week. No no, no, no no no. You
had to do your political grand standing first right exactly so.
And Geen Wu, by the way, he looked like a
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Japanese soldier getting ready to commit Harry carry. He always
has this glum look on his face, like like he
just lost his best friend or his mama died. You
know what, what are these people thinking? What are these
people thinking? Anyway, the Republicans, I don't think are handling
this very well. And I think our next guest, this
is from our morning show today on KTRH. I think
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when we had doctor Bobby Everley on early this morning
here on KTRH, I think he would agree with my assessment.
Thisism going real well, so let's let's hear what doctor
doctor Everley has to say about it. Nobody has really
come up with any sort of acountability. Does there need
to be more accountability here? Hey, well, good morning, Thanks
thanks for having me on. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
You know what's interesting is the use they're they're being tailed, right,
they're being followed this time, so they can't leave, or
supposedly can't leave. But what does that say about the
first session? I mean, is it was it just designed
to be a throwaway and they knew this was going
to happen. I mean because the word, you know, out
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there in the base and the and the movement. Is
very frustrating because even at the national level, one of
the things that excited voters going into November was this
idea of accountability that hey, you might have run things
in your state or on the national level one way,
but now we are going to look at this corruption,
get rid of corruption, and hold people accountable. We still
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haven't really seen it at the national level. And now
here in Texas you've got this glaring example where people
left the state.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
There were all these threats of.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Hey, we're going to arrest you, we're going to vacate
your offices, and nothing has been done. And what's really
frustrating is that now they're back. You know, Gene Wu,
the leader of the Democrats, put out a statement saying,
we killed this corrupt special session and withstood unprecedented surveillance,
whatever that means. And he's still on the redistricting committee.
(26:24):
He's still on it. And so when you consider that
they created these these vice chairmanships, those people should be
removed from those, even positions on committees.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
They should be removed. Budgets should be lowered.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
And no one has received anything so it's like they
got a free pass and were able to just you know,
destroy the special session without any kind of repercussions at all.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And you know, I blame two people first and foremost
for this. And this may seem a little harsh, but
I don't think anybody will argue with me over Speaker
Dustin Burroughs. I don't know if you heard his speech
yesterday when they gabbled in the quorum, but he basically said, oh,
it's so nice to have you back, and you know,
let's get to work on some stuff. Okay, kids, you
know that kind of time. I mean, he's the major
(27:10):
problem right now.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, and people are tired of that. They are they're
tired of just this what it seems like. You've heard
this word that's a uniparty where it's we fight to
make Texas a Republican state, and in many ways it
doesn't seem to mean anything.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, it has to mean something.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
We've earned these majorities, just like you work for that
razor then majority on the national level in the US House,
we don't have a razor thin majority. We've got a
good majority in the Texas House, and we should exercise that.
We should use that to our advantage, and instead it's like, hey,
welcome back. It's all good, you know, and and who
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knows what's going to happen with this debate. All we
did was give the Democrats time to stall and put
out press releases and fundraise off of this. And and
there needs to be some penalties or else people will
lose faith in the process and motivated voters people respond
to Republicans doing the right thing that affects future elections.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, and we'll see if Governor Having moves forward on this.
I see him as being also part of the issue
here because he's just happy they're back, and he knows, hey,
we won, we won this thing. We're gonna have redistricting
by the end of the week. It's gonna pass. So
he just seems to be happy to take that win
and let the Democrats slide. Right.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Well, the thing is is that the statements were put
out right. We did our version of the strongly worded letter.
So what do we do with this strongly worded letter
when we say we're going to vacate offices, which I
think is very valid if these people abandon their duties,
if they did not show up to vote, which is
their job. Then they abandoned their office. Let's get some
(28:54):
new people in there, and nothing is coming of that too,
so it kind of loses. This is its weight, loses
its sting if you say things and don't.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Follow through it right, and all of this is very
very bad, don't you think for the Republican Party, because
if they don't take action, then then people just say,
look at this, same old, same old Republicans. You know,
they talk a good game, but they don't do anything.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
And that is the absolute worst thing that could happen.
Because again, we've got this momentum. We have a movement
that is populist, and that means, you know, looking out
for the person that doesn't necessarily have.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
That power, have that voice. We are that voice.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
But in order for it to maintain this momentum, we
have to have results, and we have to go after
the corrupt politicians. And when you see a whole fifty
five or so that just leave and show their corruption
and their abandonment of duties, if we don't do anything,
that will affect our morale and our willingness to get
(29:54):
out there and do those things.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
That volunteers do. Yep, I think Republicans are in danger
of blowing this. You know, at this point you have
to you have to make voters believe that you're actually
going to do something. And that's the reputation unfortunately Republicans
have is that they they talk a good game, but
(30:18):
they don't play. They don't play the game. They have
an opportunity here to make Democrats pay for this. Yet
there you know, they're all about no, no, no, that's
all good. All just get along. You know, you have
a speaker, still have a speaker of the House who's
a rhino and that and there you go. That's what
you end up with. All right, we are back with
more final statement coming up in just a moment. Are
(30:39):
you excited about football season? I'm so excited about football season.
I love football season more than that coming up next
year on a nine fifty kPr C and the Jimmy Bart Show.
(31:02):
All right, we've got football season coming up. College football. Well,
they're playing the NFL preseason. I don't get excited about
the NFL preseason. I've done. I'll maybe watch for a
couple of minutes, but you know, the preseason is about
who's going to make the team. You know, which players
on the bubble are going to make the team, and
(31:23):
I you know, the results still't matter. Nobody cares about
the results, only care about how rookies and and people
who are getting getting tried out for the team, how
they play. It's not a real indicative of of how
that season is going to go for that particular team.
I did see a couple of stories though, involving the
(31:44):
National Football The college football starts next weekend. There might
be one this upcoming weekend overseas, isn't I forget who's playing?
Somebody's playing I think in Germany. I think so they're
They're playing a college football game in Germany. Anyway, I
care about it. I'm a Michigan football fan, I always
have been. And they open up a week from Saturday,
(32:06):
so that's why I'll start paying attention to that. NFL.
Of course, the regular season doesn't start until a couple
of weeks from now. Actually, the weekend after Labor Day
weekend will be the opening for the NFL. Did you
see the story that the Minnesota Vikings have hired male cheerleaders,
and not just any male cheerleaders, I mean, there are
(32:28):
straight male cheerleaders. I'm sure there's got to be a few, right,
there's a few straight mail there's got to be. There's
straight male cheerleaders, and there's gay male cheerleaders. And there's
no doubt in your mind which category these cheerleaders go into,
because they are more effeminate than the female cheerleaders are.
So this is going to become the norm. We're told
(32:51):
it's becoming a bigger part of the league. A reported
twelve teams are going to feature male cheerleaders this year.
Twelve of the teams, not just the Minnesota Vikings, twelve
of the teams. So they they put out odds. I
guess they're betting on this. Put out odds as to
(33:12):
which team would be the next team to hire male cheerleaders.
The Washington Commanders won odds of three to one, followed
by the Seattle Seahawks, because after all, it's Seattle. Arizona Cardinals,
Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Las Vegas Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati
(33:34):
Bengals were ten to one odds. Detroit Lions sixteen to one.
You know, the Detroit Lions did not even have female
cheerleaders up until maybe about ten years ago. They had
no cheerleader. The only they had, they'd have high school
cheerleaders comeing chair, they'd have their own cheerleaders. Houston Texans
thirty three to one odds. They're amongst the last dead last.
(33:56):
Dallas Cowboys eighty to one chance. So the two Texas
NFL teams don't have real high chances of having male
cheerleaders at least anytime soon. But I mentioned the Washington
Commanders formerly know as the Redskins, had the best odds.
I saw. George Allen. George Allen is a used to
be a United States Senator. In addition to that, his
(34:17):
father was the head coach of the Washington Redskins. Evidently
it was during his tenure that they came up with
the Redskins logo design that had the chief's head on
it with the feathers. Before that, there was like a
circle with feathers with an R for Redskins in it.
George Allen was the one responsible for putting that Indian
(34:38):
chief on there, and evidently the grands I think it's
the grandson of the Indian chief that was used for
that logo, is requesting that the Washington Redskins go back
to being the Washington Redskins. In fact, This is all
about Native Americans asking for or the Washington Redskins name
(35:01):
and logo to be restored.
Speaker 18 (35:03):
When they have these folks putting like a no parking
sign to that logo. That logo was recommended, designed and
advocated by American Indians.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
It's our word.
Speaker 19 (35:14):
The European words are Indian and savage and now indigenous.
And you know, we're sick and tired of the intellectual
elite at the top of the university towers, you know,
like they're all in their own little hogwarts telling us
what to do with our names.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Who so, David, you want to build on what they said?
Speaker 14 (35:37):
Yeah, I agree with one, you know, and it was
to me it was a tragedy that they history and
heritage in this country, which is sad because natives were
part of, you know, getting America started.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
So would you be happy would you be if they kept.
Speaker 19 (35:55):
The logo of the picture of the former tribal chief and.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Kept the name Commanders?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
Would you ever be happy with a split there?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
The logo goes back on, but the Commanders remained.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
The name or the logo is somewhere in the stadium,
the new stadium.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
No, I mean that would that?
Speaker 14 (36:17):
Would I guess I would kind of help.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
My feeling.
Speaker 14 (36:23):
That's you got to do it all, you know, put
the logo back on and change the name back to Redskins.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
See, here's the thing is, most Native Americans there are
activists Native Americans, just like they're activists in any other
part of life. Most of them understand that the term
redskins was not meant to denote like, you know, like
wasn't racial in nature. Redskins was a term used by
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Native Americans to describe an Indian warrior. It was not
derogatory in any way, shape or form. You know, people
at turned it into a racist term. That's never what
it was until we got all politically correct. And this
has been going on for years though. I mean, the
the university I went to had the nickname Hurons, as
(37:13):
in the Huron Indian tribe. A group of activists, of
small group of activists forced them to change their name.
They're now the Eagles. The high school I went to
where the braves, and you know what what's racist about braves?
They they changed their name. I don't even know what
(37:34):
their name is any They're oh, they're the Grizzlies. Now
they're not. They're not the Braves. So there's a lot
of places where they've removed this tradition. And you know,
they never did a lot of consulting with very many
Native Americans before they removed these names before, and in fact,
a lot of these groups are upset that. You know,
what little attention they did get from having their name
(37:55):
associated with these sports teams has now gone away because
there's no longer any association anyway. I don't know DC
is politically correct, as DC is the District of Columbia,
I don't see them restoring the name unfortunately. Hey listen,
gotta leave it at that. You all have a great day.
See you tomorrow morning, bright early five am over our
news radio seven forty k TRH. We are back here
(38:17):
at four on AM nine fifty KR
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