November 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Do you have any hobbies?
- President Trump's long form interviews
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Well here's I think this kind of a fun topic
to talk about, and that is hobbies. Had a story
this morning about hobbies and whether or not they're pretentious
and pretentious. It's I guess pretentious to me would mean
is this a hobby that you might find somebody who's
really snobbish doing. For example, if your hobby is to
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collect wine or to or to wine tasting, I would
think that that would lend itself towards somebody who's pretentious.
I have a friend, by the way who's building a
new house and he's building. He loves wine, but he's
building a wine room and he's going to stock it
full of wine, and it's just it's a room in
this house he's building where the only thing you really
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do is you go in there and you sip wine.
Now that that strikes me he's kind of pretentious that
that would be a pretentious hobby, you know, being a
wine collector. To see what else made the list, cyclist
made the list And I think the reason why cyclists
made the list is is this is generally an upper
income activity. People who are into cycling, they're not doing it.
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I think they're doing it for more than just the
exercise of it, although that is the preferred method of exercise.
But you think about the investment that you have to
do in order to participate in it. The cycles themselves,
the bicycles are very expensive. You're dressed up in spandex,
in helmets, and you know you've got all this equipment
they go along with it, and then you go out
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and you take over city streets, even streets that are
not set up for cycling, that are not necessarily safe
for cycling, and then you kind of dare people to
drive around you. To me, that's pretty pretentious. I think
running could be something that could be kind of pretentious.
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I guess, depending upon why you're doing it. If you're
just doing it to lose weight or to get exercise,
that's one thing. But if you are one of those
people who's participating with again all the equipment that goes
along with it. My only real hobby myself from the
past would be golfing, and golfing, I think is a
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sport that could go either way as far as being pretentious.
If you are not a snob about where you play,
you play at public courses, for example, you know you
don't necessarily have the latest technology when it comes to
the clubs, because that's really expended, and you're not you know,
you're not a snob about which golf ball you use.
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And you're again playing at a public course with your
buddies drinking beer and then he's smoking a cigar every
now and again. That doesn't strike me as being pretentious.
That seems like a very normal activity. If, however, you
belong to a country club and you have your own
golf cart that you use exclusively, or better yet, you
have a caddy who will caddy for you, that that
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takes golf from, you know, a normal every day or
every other weekend kind of activity into something that's a
little bit pretentious.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Doug Pike stuck his nose in the door a little
while ago. He said, uh, polo, perfect example of a
pretentious sport or a hobby. If you play polo, you're pretentious.
I don't even have to ask. I don't even have
to I don't even have to think about that. He
also said he thought highlight was a pretentious sport, and uh,
one of the other ones. Oh, fly fishing, not to
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be confused with regular fishing, regular old fishing. You know,
you're you've got you know, you got a pole. You
bought it, you know, at a hardware store or Dick's
Sporting Goods or something like that, and uh, you know,
it's not expensive. It's just it's just a fishing pole.
And you do it with your kids or your grandkids
so you can spend quality time with them talking about life,
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or you do it just because it relaxes you. That
to me is not pretentious. But if you're out there
running running a deep seat fishing boat for thousands of
dollars and you're out there to get, you know, get
a big old fish that you can put on a trophy,
that's kind of pretentious. So you know, there's some sports
that can go either way. But we did ask our
listeners this morning on kt r H, you know what's
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your what is your hobby and is your hobby pretentious.
And here's what a couple of them had to say.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
My hobby is shooting.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
I love it, my joy go every chance that I get,
and I recommend it to everybody, because hey, after all,
we are Texas.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Hey, you know over No four do I have a
great dad Jamie.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Someone think that attending a symphony would be very snobliged,
but not me. I'm a well cultured musician and I
can say it's just a matter of just opening your
ears and just taking in the new sounds or the
old sounds, and just enjoying it for what it is.
So go see to Hiss and symphony and enjoy it.
You don't have to be I total, it's not to
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Hey, Dave owns Lake Condro well fishing. But I think
the main one for me is playing music all my life.
You know, my brother's now played forty two years and
learned from my grandparents and my aunts and uncles and
my mom, and you get a lot of friends and
a lot of love and pass on the back and
it's just a george.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
There's a lot of things too that I think start
off like a hobby but turn into something else. And
what comes to mind would be, let's well, we've got
the holidays coming up, so let's say Christmas, and let's
say you collect nutcrackers. For example, I'm just throwing the
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top of my head. You collect nutcrackers, and you tried
to get different nutcrackers from all over the world that
all look different than then you put them out on
display during the holidays, that would be a hobby. Now
if I were to go to your home, however, and
I find your entire home is packed with nutcrackers. I
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mean thousands and thousands of nutcrackers. You've got rooms full
of nutcrackers. There's nothing else you can see the room
other than the nutcrackers. And you can't even see the
floor because it's filled with nutcrackers. That you just took
a hobby and you turned that into hoarding. There's collecting
and then there's hoarding, and those are two very very
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different things. That's what comes to mind. I just you know,
it's good to have hobbies. I think hobbies are relaxing
for a lot of people. There's stress relief for a
lot of people. They're anti car enthusias for example, who
tinker with cars is a hobby? If by the way
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if you want to take a look at that. If
you have let's say you have a sixty eight Camaro
and that was your dream car when you were in
high school or something. And you have one sixty eight
Camaro and you take great care of it and you've
restored it, and you do that kind of stuff, that's
a hobby. If you have a garage full of classic cars,
that's pretentious. You just took it from hobby to pretentious.
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All right, quick little break back with borne moment Jimmy
Birt Show here on the A nine fifty k PRC.
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So when when President Trump does long form interviews, I
like to listen to them and watch them, and I
like to watch how the interviewer handles him because he's
not easy to handle, and those long form things, it's
really really hard to keep him on track. And I've
been trying to decide for the last six plus years
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if it's a case of he's just rambling all over
the place, or does he do it on purpose? And
it might be a case of where he does it
on purpose, you know, because what he will do is
you'll ask him a question about something and he'll give
you a fairly short answer. Whatever it is you actually
asked him. But then he will without even taking a breath,
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he'll move on to whatever else he wants to talk about.
And I noticed that again last night in an interview
that he had done with Laura Ingram, and this is
an interview, by the way, that was done at the
White House. She got a little tour, by the way
of all the improvements that the President's been making at
the White House. Some of them are pretty impressive. He's
trying to get that place back to, you know, to
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being you know, a virtual palace, just absolutely beautiful. A
lot of restoration work going on in addition to the
ballroom that he's building there. But you'll notice, and I've
only took a couple of short clips from the interview
last night, but you will notice that the president quickly
will segue into something that he wants to talk about.
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And because he is who he is, and because Laura
Ingram does not want to interrupt him, it's hard to
keep him on track. But here he is. He got
asked about suing the BBC. President Trump has been very
successful at suing news organizations that have been doing mistruthful things.
What you'll hear by the way in this is two cuts.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
One.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
The first one is what the BBC ran on January
the sixth of President Trump speaking at his public appearance
on January the sixth, and then you'll hear back to
back to that, you'll hear the clip that the BBC
edited and how they changed the complete meaning and intention
of what Trump was saying. And that's why President Trump
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is suing the BBC.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So you're going ahead ensuing the BBC.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Well, I guess I have to.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
You know, why not, because they defrauded the public and
they've admitted it and their top echelon. Then this is
within one of our great allies. You know, this is
supposedly a great ally BBC and the government has a
chunk of that one, I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But that's a pretty sad event.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
They actually changed my January sixth speech, which was a
beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they
made it sound radical and they actually changed it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And what they did was rather incredible.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Is they're showing me the results later on the results
of what they did, how they butchered it up. But
it was very dishonest, and the headman quit and a
lot of the other people we're actually going to play
it right now.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
We're going to walk down to the capital and I'll
be there with you, and we fight.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell,
you're not going to have.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
A country anymore.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
And after this, we're going to walk down and I'll
be there with you.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
We're going to walk down. We're going to walk.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Down anyone you want. But I think right here, we're
going to walk down to the capital and we're going
to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
And we're probably not going to be cheering so much
for some of them.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
But tonight you are saying to our viewers that you
will go forward and file a defamation lawsuit against the BBC.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Well, I think I have an obligation to do it
because you can't get people, you can't allow people to
do that.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I couldn't allow.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Sixty minutes, you know, we settle that one for a
lot of for many millions of dollars, and I couldn't
have allowed that to take place.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
No, No, And here's the thing. Nobody has ever held
the media accountable that way before. If there's one thing
that the media will pay attention to especially the people
that own these corporations, is having to settle multi million
dollar lawsuits, although ABC still has George Stephanopolis, much to
my surprise, even though they had to shell out millions
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of dollars for things that George Stephanopolis had said about Trump.
The other thing that they talked about last night when
they talked about numerous things, but the other thing they
talked about was inflation. And President Trump made a statement
that's kind of gone viral about what Walmart is saying
about the price of Thanksgiving this year. Here's Laura Ingram
with President Trump on inflation.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
We are doing phenomenally well. This is the greatest economy
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Their talking points.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Sorry, by the way, the only thing is beef.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Beef coffee is a little high because the ranchers are
doing great coffee coffee. We're going to lower some tariffs.
We're going to have some coffee come in. We're going
to take care of all this stuff quickly, very easily.
It's surgical. It's beautiful to watch. But our course are
way lower now. Walmart came out with a statement that
they do every year for many, many decades, and they
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said that a Thanksgiving meal cost twenty five percent less
this Thanksgiving coming up. Think of that than it did
last Thanksgiving under sleepy Joe Biden. That's the twenty five
percent reduction.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I think that's right.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
And if you remember when I first came in the
first two days, I had a news conference eggs.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
So we're hitting me with eggs.
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Eggs had quadrupled in price, and they're screaming.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I mean, I just got here.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
I didn't know about eggs and brook Rollins or Agricultural Commission.
That a secretary did a great job, and now eggs
are what they were. We got eggs down, we get
it all down, but our prices is much much lower.
Their line is price is affordability. That's the new word, affordability.
It's much less expensive under Trump. And you'll say, and
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I haven't been here long. Nine months is not a
long time, but look at what I've done to energy.
Look at the price of gasoline going from four to
fifty to two fifty or two seventy. It's going to
be two dollars gasoline.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I think the best point he made there's I haven't
been here that long nine months, and yak, he did
handle the egg thing almost as soon as he got there.
At least brook Rollins, the egg secretary, did the one
other thing that I think he said in there that's
not really accurate. He sounded like he was saying something
about how well the ranchers are doing because of the
high price of beef. The high price of beef is
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a supply and demand issue. The reason why we have
such a low supply is because of drought conditions and
other things have occurred, especially here in Texas in the past,
which meant that they had to cut back on the
herds and that decreased the supply. We had all kinds of,
you know, discussions about importing beef. He wanted to import
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more beef from Argentina. I don't know where that is at,
but I do recall from some of our guest experts
that we talked to that Argentinian beef is that's just
not the same as American beef, and you can use
it for things like hamburger, but you know, for you know,
file at mignon, you're not gonna be getting your filet
mignon from from Argentina. Interesting though interesting indeed well speaking
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speaking by the way, the high price of you know,
things like the Thanksgiving dinner. Walmart said it was down
twenty five percent. I mean to be very truthful about it.
There there's some different things about how they put those
numbers together. There's not the same amount of items that
they used in their little basket of items that came
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down by twenty five percent. The price of turk, I knows,
is getting inexpensive. I've seen butterball turkey for less than
a buck a pound in a whole variety of different places.
But Walbart evidently when they put their little price thing
together this time around, they replaced a lot of the
brand names with store brand names, the Walmart brand name,
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which also helped bring the price down. But I think
we can all agree right Thanksgiving is probably going to
be less expensive this year under Trump than it was
under Biden. You know exactly by how much, I don't know,
But as long as it's not any more expensive than
we're headed in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
One thing that is more expensive. Have you priced Christmas trees?
Have you done any of that. We have a artificial
tree at our house. It's just easier to deal with.
I haven't had a live tree in a long long time,
and don't like all the needles dropping and the fire
potential fire hazard or any of the stuff that goes
along with that. I like just to be able to,
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you know, if you get a good looking artificial tree,
it looks real enough for me anyway. But they have
gotten We were just looking. I think it was a
home depot that we were just looking. And they're trees,
especially the trees that are fairly nice and full and
have fair amount of lights on them. They were all
like in the five hundred dollars range, you know, the
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four hundred and fifty four hundred and twenty to five
hundred dollars range, which is used to be able to
get a really nice artificial tree. For the two fifty
to three hundred and three to twenty five range, not
so much anymore. And Balsom Hill, have you ever heard
of Balsam Hill, Balsam Hill, Bossom, Balsam pardon me. Balsam
Hill is a very upscale seller of artificial trees. They're trees.
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If you look at their catalog, they're like seven eight,
nine hundred, one thousand dollars for these artificial trees. The
head of the company, of the CEO of the company,
I saw him on Fox Business, and the thing that
really stuck out to me was where these trees are
coming from. Part of what's driving the price up is
because of terrace. Because evidently we don't make artificial Christmas
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trees here in the United States. I don't know why
we don't, but we don't. You know this, this upscale,
expensive artificial tree selling company gets all their stuff from
China or somewhere else inside Southeast Asia. They used to
get it all from China. Now they get it from
other countries in Southeast Asia. But is there a reason
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why we can't sell artificial or make artificial Christmas trees
in the United States? You know, is there a reason
why we have to outsource that to Southeast Asia? I mean,
if you're selling a thousand dollars Christmas tree, I mean,
it should be possible to build a thousand dollars artificial
Christmas tree here in the US. All right, quick little
break back with Morning moment. We visited with Lieutenant Governor
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Dan Patrick on our morning show today. I'll share that
interview with you coming up in just a moment here
on a nine fifty KTRC.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
So.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was a guest on our morning
show today on KTRH. We didn't really talk much about
Texas politics, because, after all, the legislature is not in session.
There's nothing much really going on right now other than
Governor Abbot. I rarely should have asked him about that
sho night, but if I'd had the time, I would have.
I should have asked him how he felt about Governor
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Abbot running for reelection. I would assume, or maybe he doesn't.
It's hard to say. I don't know if Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick wants to be governor of Texas. You would
think he would, right, because in most states, being lieutenant
governor is really you know, it doesn't take doesn't have
much cloud or much power with it. That's different here
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in Texas. In many ways, the lieutenant governor is more
powerful than the governor when it comes to policy here
in the state of Texas. So maybe Dan Patrick is
perfectly happy just being lieutenant governor. Maybe he doesn't need
to add that governor next to next to his title
as Governor Abbot runs for a fourth time. But he
was on the show this morning to talk about using
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a million dollars worth of his campaign money to open
up turning where's my exit coming from today? Turning Point
USA chapters at all of the Texas universities and also
at the high school. So here's my conversation from this
morning with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. I think this is
a terrific idea. What made you decide that this is
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something you really wanted to do?
Speaker 12 (20:20):
So I've known Charlie for a long long time, going
back to when he started because he came to Texas.
We were a conservative bred state placed to raise a
lot of money, and we helped this young man. And
I was on a call with the.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Top executive team last week.
Speaker 12 (20:35):
Talking about my goal to put a Turning Point a
chapter at every high school campus, every college campus.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I was at u of H last night speaking to
their chapter.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
And you know, Jimmy, since that sad day that we
lost Charlie, they've had requests for one hundred and thirty
five thousand. Imagine that chapters from around the world at all,
across the country. And Turning Point is, you know, teach values.
That's what Charlie did. He taught values about his faith,
about free markets, about capitalism, about America, about our history.
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That's what he did. And while I was on the
call with him for about an hour. I remember a
story that I shared with them back in twenty sixteen,
when President Trump was first elected. I was at the
Trump Hotel at the celebration party in Washington, and as
I walked in, Charlie was walking at the same time,
and we knew each other, and we just had a
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conversation and he told me about this dream, and he said,
I want to go to places where there aren't many conservatives.
I want to go and talk to young people because
he felt peer to peer he could reach them and
he wanted to listen to them.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
And talk to them.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
And as I told that story to them the first
real time we sat down and talked about his dream,
I just thought I needed to pay it forward.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I felt like I owed it to him.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
He gave his life for the things he believed in,
and I've been blessed. I've raised a lot of money,
and I used my campaign money for to help other
people get elected. We use it for things like helping
you know, we go to women's groups. You know, you
buy a table at the event. We can use it
for any type of political purpose or any purpose that
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deals with this.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
So I just thought that it was.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
It just struck me when I met him, not met him,
when I talked with him that night so many years ago,
that he did it, he made it happen. He started
with nothing, and and I just felt like I wanted
to do that because I want to put I want
to put this campus on every on every chapter, on
every school campus. It's Stratford High School, by the way.
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You know that they just started one and they only
have several hundred students involved, and they had a lot
of pushback. Do you realize these these these kids at Stratford,
they got docked by democrats and socialists just because they
stood up and they wanted to do that. And now
they have the biggest club in the entire state. So
I want to do that on every campus, which you
know we passed to build this last session sent a
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built ten that I'm proud of that put the Ten
Commandments in every classroom and and to bring prayer back.
It's okay in America to stand up for your faith,
no matter what it is. It's okay to stand up
for your values in America.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
It says.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It says a lot about Charlie Kirk that he had
that profound impact on you and just about everybody else
that he met in his life.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Uh. You mentioned the violence.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I mean, we've seen a lot of violence out of well,
I guess what would you expect out of cal Berkeley
other than you know, what we've seen there. We won't
have it to that extent here in Texas, but there
will be places that won't be welcoming.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
How do you handle that? Uh?
Speaker 12 (23:28):
You know the as a as a as a Christian
myself and and uh and as a politician. Look, you're
always going to run to people who don't agree with you.
You're not going to convert every person to believe in
your views. I don't get one hundred percent of the vote,
no one does. And so you but you have to
you have to. You have to talk to people. I
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told I told this the college students yesterday. Be willing
to talk to anyone, any time, at any place and
share your views. It's what you do on talk radio.
Think about it. Maybe they can't get in your face
because they're on the other side of the speaker in
the car, but it's okay for people to disagree. And
Charlie was so good at that, these turning point missions
that he had and when people just disagree. If someone
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ratcheted up to a higher level, just move on. But
there will be people who will listen and want to know,
particularly young people who are looking at their future at it.
And the big thing that Charlie said, and I'm the
chair of the Present's commissional really deliberti and after the
assassination we had our top executive on for education and
we played the.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Clip of Charlie.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
One of the things that Charlie said that our education
system fails in and I think this is going back
to taking prayer to public school a long time ago,
in the sixties. But the question in all of us,
any age, have to ask ourselves is where did we
come from?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Why are we here? Where are we going?
Speaker 12 (24:48):
And for everybody that's that could be a different answer,
same answer. We are basically a Christian nation, but we
respect all.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Faiths and that's what Charlie did. But we're did it
come from? Why are you here? Where you're going?
Speaker 12 (25:02):
And that's what Charlie said that we don't teach in
the education system.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
So he was about values.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
And you know all these things that people say about
the it just was all it's just the left saying.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Things that just weren't true.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
Charlie was the least hateful person you ever want to meet.
He loved everybody. And again the people, a lot of
people came and said, oh, Charlie's a bad guy. I'm
going to bring him down, you know when I come
and I'm gonna ask Hm questions he can't answer.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I would give him this.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
Answer, and a lot of people change their mind after talking.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
It's right good to visit with.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, Charlie Kirk cannot be rattled. And here here's
the other thing about Charlie Kirk and the difference between
a Charlie Kirk and the lieutenant governor there, and I
hope myself is we're not angry people. I'm not saying
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I never get angry, but I work. I work my
hard is to try to never get angry. That that's
always the goal. I'd be to have discussions with people
without getting angry. In fact, I don't. I really don't
want to debate anything with you if you're angry, because
you don't, you're not using If what is motivating you
right now is emotion. When you're emotional about something, it's very,
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very hard. It's okay to have passion but to be
emotional about something and be emotionally angry about something, you
can't have a civil conversation with somebody. You're not going
to it's going to be reduced to name calling in
short order. There's not going to be anything positive that's
going to come out of that. And I think we're
seeing some prime examples right now on the progressive far left.
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You know, what happened with the government shutdown is just amazing.
The meltdown that people in the mainstream media are having.
John Stewart on his show on The Daily Show, I mean,
he's just dropping f bomb's left and right there and
sensed that the Democrats caved on the government's shutdown, that
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they didn't get any of the things that they're holding
out for, that they decided to do what was best
for the citizens well, or at least cut their losses
in this particular case. So here's Jesse Waters talking about
that last night. And check out the woman who's the
second clip here, just to give you a little idea
what it's about. Here, This is a woman who traveled
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multiple states in two and a half hours to get
to Tim Kaine's office. Senator Tim Kane from Virginia to
get to his office because he's one of the eight
Democrats that voted to end the government shutdown, and she
is in sensed by it all. We start though with
John Stewart.
Speaker 12 (27:41):
Let's start Time's show with the big news out of Washington.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
On the shutdown. By the way, can I's show will
be brought to you by I can't believe it. I
can't believe it. Caved on the shutdown.
Speaker 13 (28:04):
Eight Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to reopen the government,
and the base is out for blood. Liberals are driving
across state lines hunting down the traders.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I went the game five.
Speaker 14 (28:17):
I spent about a couple hours trying to call this morning,
and y'all then picked up. So then I drove down
and have to be here. Just put us through five
weeks of suffering to just say, okay, that's fine. It
was most cowardly and weak move. Ever, he's a trader
and he's people will die because of him.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
Came trying to calm everybody down. But even CNN is
putting him in a sombrero.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
The shutdown?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
We have waged a batt alum behalf of the American
people but idea and are here you to get what
you want?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
So it wasn't worth waging this fight.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
He shut down the government and all he had to
show for it was a stupid sombrero.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Not for old Jockie boy, though.
Speaker 13 (29:05):
They're throwing him in a wheelchair and rolling him right
out the door.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Democrats drew a line in the sand. They said, we
are not going over this. And today, after forty one days,
they pulled out a shovel and a bucket and they
ate all that sand and gone nothing for it.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 11 (29:22):
I mean, it is incredible at his age that Chuck
Schumer is still able to bend over.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
So far.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
The Messiah's disciples have descended down from heaven with a
message Chuck's not getting me tooed, but his time's up.
Speaker 15 (29:38):
I think he's been in trouble. I think he is
in bigger trouble now. I honestly, I think Santa Schumer's
been there since nineteen eighty two. My guess is that
he won't be leader of the party in two thousand
and twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
No, you don't think No, I don't think so either.
I think you could stick a fork at Chuck Schumer.
He's done alright, quick little break back with Borne the moment,
Jimmy Baird Show Here an Am nine fifty KTRC. I
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thought we'd throw a couple of local stories in here
to day end our program today. I want to start
with this one. We had doctor Robin Armstrong on our
morning show today on katrh and. Doctor Armstrong is a
Galveston County commissioner. He is also a Republican Party of
Texas leader, but this makes it a little bit closer
to his neck of the woods. There are four cities
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in Texas. One of them closest one to US is Lamark,
which is in Galveston County. Lamark where evidently they have
been running to the ground by overspending Democrats, and they
had a new aught had done in August, and they
realized that they were ready to run out of money
in September, and therefore they have decided to break state
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law and tried and request a property tax increase without
consulting with the voters. So they've declared a financial emergency
and that's what they're going to try to do now.
Ken Paxton is probably going to I'm certain who's going
to end up taking them to court over this. But
I had doctor Robin Armstrong and to talk about the
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problem in Lamark and some of these other Texas cities
that have been fiscally mismanaged. I don't know how much
you know about the city finances in the Mark, but
what do you know about what's gone wrong there, doctor Armstrong?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Well, I know what has happened is is mismanagement. And
they will they will even admit to that that it's
been mismanaged. The problem is they've been the ones in power,
you know, those Democrats and then Liberals have been in
power for the last you know, fifteen to twenty years,
and so they say it's mismanagement by their city former
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city manager, you know. But it's their producer responsibility to
make sure that the budgets are in line. They haven't
turned in an audit in many years, and so they're
required to turn in an audit to the government, to the.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
State government every year.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
They haven't done it in many years, and so they
just have not managed their budgets well, and so they've
spent more than they've taken in. And now they're at
the point where they're about to be bankrupt if they
don't do something emergently, and so now the desire is
for them to raise taxes. Of course, that's always the
Democrats answer. But we have statute in place, in a
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law that just passed as last legislative session, that prevents
them from doing that, like you said, without a vote
and without these audits being done. And so they have
to hold off on that from a state wife perspective,
from the state law, they have to hold off. But
they're saying they're going to have to do it, and
so we'll see what happens. You're right, it's going to
play out in court and we'll see what happens. But
this is democratic mismanagement. This is happening in these largest
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cities all over the country now as well.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Of course the people you know holding holding the bag
on this, or the citizens who live in Lamark. If
you don't have any money, how do you provide you know,
basic city services uh to your taxpayers in the interim
while you try to figure out do you borrow money?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Well? I mean they're they're they're shifting some money around
right now.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
They're certainly going to have to go into more debt
to try and try and get this money. But this
is something that every city and every every municipality and
county has to deal with. Uh, we're required to pay
our bills, and you know, we're not like the federal
government that can just continue to borrow, borrow.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Borrow money.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
So what will happen is that is that the city
will will go bankrupt and then they'll they'll have to
sort of unincorporate, and so it it's in a tragged
situation for the residents there, and then eventually they'll have
to move out of that city just because this city
is so poorly run, which is happening in large cities
all over the country, And so I think it's a
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it's a it's a it's a telltale story of I think,
what's going to happen to New York City, what's gonna
happen in Houston, what's happening in.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
All these different cities.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
But but these cities are going to be so large
that that it's going to be it's going to have
a lot bigger effect. And so we just need to
not elect liberals and Democrats who do not know how
to manage budgets to these positions because they don't know
how to manage them, and they're not doing well, and
they're causing problems, bankruptcies.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It's just horrible.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
You know what, though, for for for for the Liberals,
the answer is a federal Baylon right or a state bailout.
They're not going to get a state bail out Lamark
or any of these other cities. I'm pretty sure that
there's no there wouldn't be any Republican support for bailing
them out. I'm sure New York City would count on
electing a Democrat president next time around, who would be
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willing to bail out New York City or any of
these other MA cities that run into they're run by
Democrats that run into these fiscal problems. At least I
will say this about most of our Texas cities, including Houston,
even though we have a Democrat mayor in Houston, I
think that there's a real understanding that there's a need
for fiscal responsibility. Which is not to say that unfortunately
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that Harris County feels that way, But least I think
in the City of Houston public safety and fiscal accountability
are still important. They may not be in Harris County,
but there in the city of Houston, So I still
have hope for Houston. All Right, one more for you here,
just because it's so surreal. It's gone viral. A liberal podcaster,
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her name is Stephanie Miller. She's a former attorney and
evidently she had Jasmine Crockett represented Crockett into do an
interview on her podcast, and she proceeded to get down
on her hands and knees and kiss her feet and
that's kind of weird. Well, it's very word here. Here
(36:03):
it is. Here's how it happened. And we have some
comments from the host of the Ruthless podcast about how
this is likely to be playing in Texas and can.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You confirm it? I just kissed your sneakers. She's on
camera thing, she'll do the radio. I am, I am.
We're doing it. Future Senator of the Great State of Texas.
I'm a miss tad Crew so much. She's so likable.
All right, John, you go first this time.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Where's this going?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean, it's bizarre.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
First of all, these Libs absolutely worship their politicians, which
is basically the opposite of how Republicans handle their House members.
Of that Republican House member shows up in public, everybody's like,
I'm gonna give that guy a piece of my mind.
But these left wingers worship these people, and it's bizarre
to me.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It is strange how they genuflect before their politicians. But
I gotta say, on popular opinion, I kind of want
to kiss her feet too. I think what she's doing
running for higher office would be great for the Republican Party.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
Oh, John, how do you think that plays in Texas?
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I don't think it plays. I don't think it plays
real good.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Bill, And you know, they've got a big primary for
Senate in Texas and she's probably gonna throw her hat
in the ring, and it will just add to this
Democrat civil war that we're seeing breakout all over the country.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Yeah, it probably will. You know thing about Jasmine Crockett
is though I've seen enough of some of her interviews
in the past before she went on Ghetto, and she
she's articulate. She is when she wants to be. She
is very civil and very measured. What we see from
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her most of the time is an act because she
figured out that that's how you get attention. She figured
out that's how you get to the head of the
republican of the Democrat Party is by acting that way.
It's a shame, but that's that's how it works. But
as far as her running for Senate, can you imagine
her against you know, her, her running for senate here
(38:09):
in the great state of Texas hard, It's hard to imagine.
But we'll see, we'll see if she decides to run. Hey, listen,
you'll have a great day. Thanks for listening. I do
appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well here's I think this kind of a fun topic
to talk about, and that is hobbies. Had a story
this morning about hobbies and whether or not they're pretentious
and pretentious. It's I guess pretentious to me would mean
is this a hobby that you might find somebody who's
really snobbish doing. For example, if your hobby is to
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collect wine or to or to wine tasting, I would
think that that would lend itself towards somebody who's pretentious.
I have a friend, by the way who's building a
new house and he's building. He loves wine, but he's
building a wine room and he's going to stock it
full of wine, and it's just it's a room in
this house he's building where the only thing you really
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do is you go in there and you sip wine.
Now that that strikes me he's kind of pretentious that
that would be a pretentious hobby, you know, being a
wine collector. To see what else made the list, cyclist
made the list And I think the reason why cyclists
made the list is is this is generally an upper
income activity. People who are into cycling, they're not doing it.
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I think they're doing it for more than just the
exercise of it, although that is the preferred method of exercise.
But you think about the investment that you have to
do in order to participate in it. The cycles themselves,
the bicycles are very expensive. You're dressed up in spandex,
in helmets, and you know you've got all this equipment
they go along with it, and then you go out
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and you take over city streets, even streets that are
not set up for cycling, that are not necessarily safe
for cycling, and then you kind of dare people to
drive around you. To me, that's pretty pretentious. I think
running could be something that could be kind of pretentious.
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I guess, depending upon why you're doing it. If you're
just doing it to lose weight or to get exercise,
that's one thing. But if you are one of those
people who's participating with again all the equipment that goes
along with it. My only real hobby myself from the
past would be golfing, and golfing, I think is a
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sport that could go either way as far as being pretentious.
If you are not a snob about where you play,
you play at public courses, for example, you know you
don't necessarily have the latest technology when it comes to
the clubs, because that's really expended, and you're not you know,
you're not a snob about which golf ball you use.
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And you're again playing at a public course with your
buddies drinking beer and then he's smoking a cigar every
now and again. That doesn't strike me as being pretentious.
That seems like a very normal activity. If, however, you
belong to a country club and you have your own
golf cart that you use exclusively, or better yet, you
have a caddy who will caddy for you, that that
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takes golf from, you know, a normal every day or
every other weekend kind of activity into something that's a
little bit pretentious.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Doug Pike stuck his nose in the door a little
while ago. He said, uh, polo, perfect example of a
pretentious sport or a hobby. If you play polo, you're pretentious.
I don't even have to ask. I don't even have
to I don't even have to think about that. He
also said he thought highlight was a pretentious sport, and uh,
one of the other ones. Oh, fly fishing, not to
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be confused with regular fishing, regular old fishing. You know,
you're you've got you know, you got a pole. You
bought it, you know, at a hardware store or Dick's
Sporting Goods or something like that, and uh, you know,
it's not expensive. It's just it's just a fishing pole.
And you do it with your kids or your grandkids
so you can spend quality time with them talking about life,
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or you do it just because it relaxes you. That
to me is not pretentious. But if you're out there
running running a deep seat fishing boat for thousands of
dollars and you're out there to get, you know, get
a big old fish that you can put on a trophy,
that's kind of pretentious. So you know, there's some sports
that can go either way. But we did ask our
listeners this morning on kt r H, you know what's
(04:43):
your what is your hobby and is your hobby pretentious.
And here's what a couple of them had to say.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
My hobby is shooting.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
I love it, my joy go every chance that I get,
and I recommend it to everybody, because hey, after all,
we are Texas.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Hey, you know over No four do I have a
great dad Jamie.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Someone think that attending a symphony would be very snobliged,
but not me. I'm a well cultured musician and I
can say it's just a matter of just opening your
ears and just taking in the new sounds or the
old sounds, and just enjoying it for what it is.
So go see to Hiss and symphony and enjoy it.
You don't have to be I total, it's not to
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Hey, Dave owns Lake Condro well fishing. But I think
the main one for me is playing music all my life.
You know, my brother's now played forty two years and
learned from my grandparents and my aunts and uncles and
my mom, and you get a lot of friends and
a lot of love and pass on the back and
it's just a george.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
There's a lot of things too that I think start
off like a hobby but turn into something else. And
what comes to mind would be, let's well, we've got
the holidays coming up, so let's say Christmas, and let's
say you collect nutcrackers. For example, I'm just throwing the
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top of my head. You collect nutcrackers, and you tried
to get different nutcrackers from all over the world that
all look different than then you put them out on
display during the holidays, that would be a hobby. Now
if I were to go to your home, however, and
I find your entire home is packed with nutcrackers. I
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mean thousands and thousands of nutcrackers. You've got rooms full
of nutcrackers. There's nothing else you can see the room
other than the nutcrackers. And you can't even see the
floor because it's filled with nutcrackers. That you just took
a hobby and you turned that into hoarding. There's collecting
and then there's hoarding, and those are two very very
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different things. That's what comes to mind. I just you know,
it's good to have hobbies. I think hobbies are relaxing
for a lot of people. There's stress relief for a
lot of people. They're anti car enthusias for example, who
tinker with cars is a hobby? If by the way
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if you want to take a look at that. If
you have let's say you have a sixty eight Camaro
and that was your dream car when you were in
high school or something. And you have one sixty eight
Camaro and you take great care of it and you've
restored it, and you do that kind of stuff, that's
a hobby. If you have a garage full of classic cars,
that's pretentious. You just took it from hobby to pretentious.
(07:29):
All right, quick little break back with borne moment Jimmy
Birt Show here on the A nine fifty k PRC.
(07:53):
So when when President Trump does long form interviews, I
like to listen to them and watch them, and I
like to watch how the interviewer handles him because he's
not easy to handle, and those long form things, it's
really really hard to keep him on track. And I've
been trying to decide for the last six plus years
(08:19):
if it's a case of he's just rambling all over
the place, or does he do it on purpose? And
it might be a case of where he does it
on purpose, you know, because what he will do is
you'll ask him a question about something and he'll give
you a fairly short answer. Whatever it is you actually
asked him. But then he will without even taking a breath,
(08:41):
he'll move on to whatever else he wants to talk about.
And I noticed that again last night in an interview
that he had done with Laura Ingram, and this is
an interview, by the way, that was done at the
White House. She got a little tour, by the way
of all the improvements that the President's been making at
the White House. Some of them are pretty impressive. He's
trying to get that place back to, you know, to
(09:03):
being you know, a virtual palace, just absolutely beautiful. A
lot of restoration work going on in addition to the
ballroom that he's building there. But you'll notice, and I've
only took a couple of short clips from the interview
last night, but you will notice that the president quickly
will segue into something that he wants to talk about.
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And because he is who he is, and because Laura
Ingram does not want to interrupt him, it's hard to
keep him on track. But here he is. He got
asked about suing the BBC. President Trump has been very
successful at suing news organizations that have been doing mistruthful things.
What you'll hear by the way in this is two cuts.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
One.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
The first one is what the BBC ran on January
the sixth of President Trump speaking at his public appearance
on January the sixth, and then you'll hear back to
back to that, you'll hear the clip that the BBC
edited and how they changed the complete meaning and intention
of what Trump was saying. And that's why President Trump
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is suing the BBC.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So you're going ahead ensuing the BBC.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Well, I guess I have to.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
You know, why not, because they defrauded the public and
they've admitted it and their top echelon. Then this is
within one of our great allies. You know, this is
supposedly a great ally BBC and the government has a
chunk of that one, I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But that's a pretty sad event.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
They actually changed my January sixth speech, which was a
beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they
made it sound radical and they actually changed it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And what they did was rather incredible.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Is they're showing me the results later on the results
of what they did, how they butchered it up. But
it was very dishonest, and the headman quit and a
lot of the other people we're actually going to play
it right now.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
We're going to walk down to the capital and I'll
be there with you, and we fight.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell,
you're not going to have.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
A country anymore.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
And after this, we're going to walk down and I'll
be there with you.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
We're going to walk down. We're going to walk.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Down anyone you want. But I think right here, we're
going to walk down to the capital and we're going
to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
And we're probably not going to be cheering so much
for some of them.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
But tonight you are saying to our viewers that you
will go forward and file a defamation lawsuit against the BBC.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Well, I think I have an obligation to do it
because you can't get people, you can't allow people to
do that.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I couldn't allow.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Sixty minutes, you know, we settle that one for a
lot of for many millions of dollars, and I couldn't
have allowed that to take place.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
No, No, And here's the thing. Nobody has ever held
the media accountable that way before. If there's one thing
that the media will pay attention to especially the people
that own these corporations, is having to settle multi million
dollar lawsuits, although ABC still has George Stephanopolis, much to
my surprise, even though they had to shell out millions
(12:21):
of dollars for things that George Stephanopolis had said about Trump.
The other thing that they talked about last night when
they talked about numerous things, but the other thing they
talked about was inflation. And President Trump made a statement
that's kind of gone viral about what Walmart is saying
about the price of Thanksgiving this year. Here's Laura Ingram
with President Trump on inflation.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
We are doing phenomenally well. This is the greatest economy
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Their talking points.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Sorry, by the way, the only thing is beef.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Beef coffee is a little high because the ranchers are
doing great coffee coffee. We're going to lower some tariffs.
We're going to have some coffee come in. We're going
to take care of all this stuff quickly, very easily.
It's surgical. It's beautiful to watch. But our course are
way lower now. Walmart came out with a statement that
they do every year for many, many decades, and they
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said that a Thanksgiving meal cost twenty five percent less
this Thanksgiving coming up. Think of that than it did
last Thanksgiving under sleepy Joe Biden. That's the twenty five
percent reduction.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I think that's right.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
And if you remember when I first came in the
first two days, I had a news conference eggs.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
So we're hitting me with eggs.
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Eggs had quadrupled in price, and they're screaming.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I mean, I just got here.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
I didn't know about eggs and brook Rollins or Agricultural Commission.
That a secretary did a great job, and now eggs
are what they were. We got eggs down, we get
it all down, but our prices is much much lower.
Their line is price is affordability. That's the new word, affordability.
It's much less expensive under Trump. And you'll say, and
(13:58):
I haven't been here long. Nine months is not a
long time, but look at what I've done to energy.
Look at the price of gasoline going from four to
fifty to two fifty or two seventy. It's going to
be two dollars gasoline.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I think the best point he made there's I haven't
been here that long nine months, and yak, he did
handle the egg thing almost as soon as he got there.
At least brook Rollins, the egg secretary, did the one
other thing that I think he said in there that's
not really accurate. He sounded like he was saying something
about how well the ranchers are doing because of the
high price of beef. The high price of beef is
(14:32):
a supply and demand issue. The reason why we have
such a low supply is because of drought conditions and
other things have occurred, especially here in Texas in the past,
which meant that they had to cut back on the
herds and that decreased the supply. We had all kinds of,
you know, discussions about importing beef. He wanted to import
(14:56):
more beef from Argentina. I don't know where that is at,
but I do recall from some of our guest experts
that we talked to that Argentinian beef is that's just
not the same as American beef, and you can use
it for things like hamburger, but you know, for you know,
file at mignon, you're not gonna be getting your filet
mignon from from Argentina. Interesting though interesting indeed well speaking
(15:20):
speaking by the way, the high price of you know,
things like the Thanksgiving dinner. Walmart said it was down
twenty five percent. I mean to be very truthful about it.
There there's some different things about how they put those
numbers together. There's not the same amount of items that
they used in their little basket of items that came
(15:40):
down by twenty five percent. The price of turk, I knows,
is getting inexpensive. I've seen butterball turkey for less than
a buck a pound in a whole variety of different places.
But Walbart evidently when they put their little price thing
together this time around, they replaced a lot of the
brand names with store brand names, the Walmart brand name,
(16:02):
which also helped bring the price down. But I think
we can all agree right Thanksgiving is probably going to
be less expensive this year under Trump than it was
under Biden. You know exactly by how much, I don't know,
But as long as it's not any more expensive than
we're headed in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
One thing that is more expensive. Have you priced Christmas trees?
Have you done any of that. We have a artificial
tree at our house. It's just easier to deal with.
I haven't had a live tree in a long long time,
and don't like all the needles dropping and the fire
potential fire hazard or any of the stuff that goes
along with that. I like just to be able to,
(16:39):
you know, if you get a good looking artificial tree,
it looks real enough for me anyway. But they have
gotten We were just looking. I think it was a
home depot that we were just looking. And they're trees,
especially the trees that are fairly nice and full and
have fair amount of lights on them. They were all
like in the five hundred dollars range, you know, the
(17:01):
four hundred and fifty four hundred and twenty to five
hundred dollars range, which is used to be able to
get a really nice artificial tree. For the two fifty
to three hundred and three to twenty five range, not
so much anymore. And Balsom Hill, have you ever heard
of Balsam Hill, Balsam Hill, Bossom, Balsam pardon me. Balsam
Hill is a very upscale seller of artificial trees. They're trees.
(17:23):
If you look at their catalog, they're like seven eight,
nine hundred, one thousand dollars for these artificial trees. The
head of the company, of the CEO of the company,
I saw him on Fox Business, and the thing that
really stuck out to me was where these trees are
coming from. Part of what's driving the price up is
because of terrace. Because evidently we don't make artificial Christmas
(17:46):
trees here in the United States. I don't know why
we don't, but we don't. You know this, this upscale,
expensive artificial tree selling company gets all their stuff from
China or somewhere else inside Southeast Asia. They used to
get it all from China. Now they get it from
other countries in Southeast Asia. But is there a reason
(18:06):
why we can't sell artificial or make artificial Christmas trees
in the United States? You know, is there a reason
why we have to outsource that to Southeast Asia? I mean,
if you're selling a thousand dollars Christmas tree, I mean,
it should be possible to build a thousand dollars artificial
Christmas tree here in the US. All right, quick little
break back with Morning moment. We visited with Lieutenant Governor
(18:29):
Dan Patrick on our morning show today. I'll share that
interview with you coming up in just a moment here
on a nine fifty KTRC.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
So.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was a guest on our morning
show today on KTRH. We didn't really talk much about
Texas politics, because, after all, the legislature is not in session.
There's nothing much really going on right now other than
Governor Abbot. I rarely should have asked him about that
sho night, but if I'd had the time, I would have.
I should have asked him how he felt about Governor
(19:10):
Abbot running for reelection. I would assume, or maybe he doesn't.
It's hard to say. I don't know if Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick wants to be governor of Texas. You would
think he would, right, because in most states, being lieutenant
governor is really you know, it doesn't take doesn't have
much cloud or much power with it. That's different here
(19:32):
in Texas. In many ways, the lieutenant governor is more
powerful than the governor when it comes to policy here
in the state of Texas. So maybe Dan Patrick is
perfectly happy just being lieutenant governor. Maybe he doesn't need
to add that governor next to next to his title
as Governor Abbot runs for a fourth time. But he
was on the show this morning to talk about using
(19:55):
a million dollars worth of his campaign money to open
up turning where's my exit coming from today? Turning Point
USA chapters at all of the Texas universities and also
at the high school. So here's my conversation from this
morning with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. I think this is
a terrific idea. What made you decide that this is
(20:17):
something you really wanted to do?
Speaker 12 (20:20):
So I've known Charlie for a long long time, going
back to when he started because he came to Texas.
We were a conservative bred state placed to raise a
lot of money, and we helped this young man. And
I was on a call with the.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Top executive team last week.
Speaker 12 (20:35):
Talking about my goal to put a Turning Point a
chapter at every high school campus, every college campus.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I was at u of H last night speaking to
their chapter.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
And you know, Jimmy, since that sad day that we
lost Charlie, they've had requests for one hundred and thirty
five thousand. Imagine that chapters from around the world at all,
across the country. And Turning Point is, you know, teach values.
That's what Charlie did. He taught values about his faith,
about free markets, about capitalism, about America, about our history.
(21:08):
That's what he did. And while I was on the
call with him for about an hour. I remember a
story that I shared with them back in twenty sixteen,
when President Trump was first elected. I was at the
Trump Hotel at the celebration party in Washington, and as
I walked in, Charlie was walking at the same time,
and we knew each other, and we just had a
(21:28):
conversation and he told me about this dream, and he said,
I want to go to places where there aren't many conservatives.
I want to go and talk to young people because
he felt peer to peer he could reach them and
he wanted to listen to them.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
And talk to them.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
And as I told that story to them the first
real time we sat down and talked about his dream,
I just thought I needed to pay it forward.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I felt like I owed it to him.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
He gave his life for the things he believed in,
and I've been blessed. I've raised a lot of money,
and I used my campaign money for to help other
people get elected. We use it for things like helping
you know, we go to women's groups. You know, you
buy a table at the event. We can use it
for any type of political purpose or any purpose that
(22:10):
deals with this.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
So I just thought that it was.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
It just struck me when I met him, not met him,
when I talked with him that night so many years ago,
that he did it, he made it happen. He started
with nothing, and and I just felt like I wanted
to do that because I want to put I want
to put this campus on every on every chapter, on
every school campus. It's Stratford High School, by the way.
(22:35):
You know that they just started one and they only
have several hundred students involved, and they had a lot
of pushback. Do you realize these these these kids at Stratford,
they got docked by democrats and socialists just because they
stood up and they wanted to do that. And now
they have the biggest club in the entire state. So
I want to do that on every campus, which you
know we passed to build this last session sent a
(22:56):
built ten that I'm proud of that put the Ten
Commandments in every classroom and and to bring prayer back.
It's okay in America to stand up for your faith,
no matter what it is. It's okay to stand up
for your values in America.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
It says.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It says a lot about Charlie Kirk that he had
that profound impact on you and just about everybody else
that he met in his life.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Uh. You mentioned the violence.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I mean, we've seen a lot of violence out of well,
I guess what would you expect out of cal Berkeley
other than you know, what we've seen there. We won't
have it to that extent here in Texas, but there
will be places that won't be welcoming.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
How do you handle that? Uh?
Speaker 12 (23:28):
You know the as a as a as a Christian
myself and and uh and as a politician. Look, you're
always going to run to people who don't agree with you.
You're not going to convert every person to believe in
your views. I don't get one hundred percent of the vote,
no one does. And so you but you have to
you have to. You have to talk to people. I
(23:50):
told I told this the college students yesterday. Be willing
to talk to anyone, any time, at any place and
share your views. It's what you do on talk radio.
Think about it. Maybe they can't get in your face
because they're on the other side of the speaker in
the car, but it's okay for people to disagree. And
Charlie was so good at that, these turning point missions
that he had and when people just disagree. If someone
(24:10):
ratcheted up to a higher level, just move on. But
there will be people who will listen and want to know,
particularly young people who are looking at their future at it.
And the big thing that Charlie said, and I'm the
chair of the Present's commissional really deliberti and after the
assassination we had our top executive on for education and
we played the.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Clip of Charlie.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
One of the things that Charlie said that our education
system fails in and I think this is going back
to taking prayer to public school a long time ago,
in the sixties. But the question in all of us,
any age, have to ask ourselves is where did we
come from?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Why are we here? Where are we going?
Speaker 12 (24:48):
And for everybody that's that could be a different answer,
same answer. We are basically a Christian nation, but we
respect all.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Faiths and that's what Charlie did. But we're did it
come from? Why are you here? Where you're going?
Speaker 12 (25:02):
And that's what Charlie said that we don't teach in
the education system.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
So he was about values.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
And you know all these things that people say about
the it just was all it's just the left saying.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Things that just weren't true.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
Charlie was the least hateful person you ever want to meet.
He loved everybody. And again the people, a lot of
people came and said, oh, Charlie's a bad guy. I'm
going to bring him down, you know when I come
and I'm gonna ask Hm questions he can't answer.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I would give him this.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
Answer, and a lot of people change their mind after talking.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
It's right good to visit with.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, Charlie Kirk cannot be rattled. And here here's
the other thing about Charlie Kirk and the difference between
a Charlie Kirk and the lieutenant governor there, and I
hope myself is we're not angry people. I'm not saying
(25:53):
I never get angry, but I work. I work my
hard is to try to never get angry. That that's
always the goal. I'd be to have discussions with people
without getting angry. In fact, I don't. I really don't
want to debate anything with you if you're angry, because
you don't, you're not using If what is motivating you
right now is emotion. When you're emotional about something, it's very,
(26:16):
very hard. It's okay to have passion but to be
emotional about something and be emotionally angry about something, you
can't have a civil conversation with somebody. You're not going
to it's going to be reduced to name calling in
short order. There's not going to be anything positive that's
going to come out of that. And I think we're
seeing some prime examples right now on the progressive far left.
(26:40):
You know, what happened with the government shutdown is just amazing.
The meltdown that people in the mainstream media are having.
John Stewart on his show on The Daily Show, I mean,
he's just dropping f bomb's left and right there and
sensed that the Democrats caved on the government's shutdown, that
(27:03):
they didn't get any of the things that they're holding
out for, that they decided to do what was best
for the citizens well, or at least cut their losses
in this particular case. So here's Jesse Waters talking about
that last night. And check out the woman who's the
second clip here, just to give you a little idea
what it's about. Here, This is a woman who traveled
(27:26):
multiple states in two and a half hours to get
to Tim Kaine's office. Senator Tim Kane from Virginia to
get to his office because he's one of the eight
Democrats that voted to end the government shutdown, and she
is in sensed by it all. We start though with
John Stewart.
Speaker 12 (27:41):
Let's start Time's show with the big news out of Washington.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
On the shutdown. By the way, can I's show will
be brought to you by I can't believe it. I
can't believe it. Caved on the shutdown.
Speaker 13 (28:04):
Eight Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to reopen the government,
and the base is out for blood. Liberals are driving
across state lines hunting down the traders.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I went the game five.
Speaker 14 (28:17):
I spent about a couple hours trying to call this morning,
and y'all then picked up. So then I drove down
and have to be here. Just put us through five
weeks of suffering to just say, okay, that's fine. It
was most cowardly and weak move. Ever, he's a trader
and he's people will die because of him.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
Came trying to calm everybody down. But even CNN is
putting him in a sombrero.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
The shutdown?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
We have waged a batt alum behalf of the American
people but idea and are here you to get what
you want?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
So it wasn't worth waging this fight.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
He shut down the government and all he had to
show for it was a stupid sombrero.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Not for old Jockie boy, though.
Speaker 13 (29:05):
They're throwing him in a wheelchair and rolling him right
out the door.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Democrats drew a line in the sand. They said, we
are not going over this. And today, after forty one days,
they pulled out a shovel and a bucket and they
ate all that sand and gone nothing for it.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 11 (29:22):
I mean, it is incredible at his age that Chuck
Schumer is still able to bend over.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
So far.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
The Messiah's disciples have descended down from heaven with a
message Chuck's not getting me tooed, but his time's up.
Speaker 15 (29:38):
I think he's been in trouble. I think he is
in bigger trouble now. I honestly, I think Santa Schumer's
been there since nineteen eighty two. My guess is that
he won't be leader of the party in two thousand
and twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
No, you don't think No, I don't think so either.
I think you could stick a fork at Chuck Schumer.
He's done alright, quick little break back with Borne the moment,
Jimmy Baird Show Here an Am nine fifty KTRC. I
(30:24):
thought we'd throw a couple of local stories in here
to day end our program today. I want to start
with this one. We had doctor Robin Armstrong on our
morning show today on katrh and. Doctor Armstrong is a
Galveston County commissioner. He is also a Republican Party of
Texas leader, but this makes it a little bit closer
to his neck of the woods. There are four cities
(30:45):
in Texas. One of them closest one to US is Lamark,
which is in Galveston County. Lamark where evidently they have
been running to the ground by overspending Democrats, and they
had a new aught had done in August, and they
realized that they were ready to run out of money
in September, and therefore they have decided to break state
(31:11):
law and tried and request a property tax increase without
consulting with the voters. So they've declared a financial emergency
and that's what they're going to try to do now.
Ken Paxton is probably going to I'm certain who's going
to end up taking them to court over this. But
I had doctor Robin Armstrong and to talk about the
(31:33):
problem in Lamark and some of these other Texas cities
that have been fiscally mismanaged. I don't know how much
you know about the city finances in the Mark, but
what do you know about what's gone wrong there, doctor Armstrong?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Well, I know what has happened is is mismanagement. And
they will they will even admit to that that it's
been mismanaged. The problem is they've been the ones in power,
you know, those Democrats and then Liberals have been in
power for the last you know, fifteen to twenty years,
and so they say it's mismanagement by their city former
(32:06):
city manager, you know. But it's their producer responsibility to
make sure that the budgets are in line. They haven't
turned in an audit in many years, and so they're
required to turn in an audit to the government, to the.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
State government every year.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
They haven't done it in many years, and so they
just have not managed their budgets well, and so they've
spent more than they've taken in. And now they're at
the point where they're about to be bankrupt if they
don't do something emergently, and so now the desire is
for them to raise taxes. Of course, that's always the
Democrats answer. But we have statute in place, in a
(32:44):
law that just passed as last legislative session, that prevents
them from doing that, like you said, without a vote
and without these audits being done. And so they have
to hold off on that from a state wife perspective,
from the state law, they have to hold off. But
they're saying they're going to have to do it, and
so we'll see what happens. You're right, it's going to
play out in court and we'll see what happens. But
this is democratic mismanagement. This is happening in these largest
(33:06):
cities all over the country now as well.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Of course the people you know holding holding the bag
on this, or the citizens who live in Lamark. If
you don't have any money, how do you provide you know,
basic city services uh to your taxpayers in the interim
while you try to figure out do you borrow money?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Well? I mean they're they're they're shifting some money around
right now.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
They're certainly going to have to go into more debt
to try and try and get this money. But this
is something that every city and every every municipality and
county has to deal with. Uh, we're required to pay
our bills, and you know, we're not like the federal
government that can just continue to borrow, borrow.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Borrow money.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
So what will happen is that is that the city
will will go bankrupt and then they'll they'll have to
sort of unincorporate, and so it it's in a tragged
situation for the residents there, and then eventually they'll have
to move out of that city just because this city
is so poorly run, which is happening in large cities
all over the country, And so I think it's a
(34:06):
it's a it's a it's a telltale story of I think,
what's going to happen to New York City, what's gonna
happen in Houston, what's happening in.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
All these different cities.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
But but these cities are going to be so large
that that it's going to be it's going to have
a lot bigger effect. And so we just need to
not elect liberals and Democrats who do not know how
to manage budgets to these positions because they don't know
how to manage them, and they're not doing well, and
they're causing problems, bankruptcies.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It's just horrible.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
You know what, though, for for for for the Liberals,
the answer is a federal Baylon right or a state bailout.
They're not going to get a state bail out Lamark
or any of these other cities. I'm pretty sure that
there's no there wouldn't be any Republican support for bailing
them out. I'm sure New York City would count on
electing a Democrat president next time around, who would be
(34:57):
willing to bail out New York City or any of
these other MA cities that run into they're run by
Democrats that run into these fiscal problems. At least I
will say this about most of our Texas cities, including Houston,
even though we have a Democrat mayor in Houston, I
think that there's a real understanding that there's a need
for fiscal responsibility. Which is not to say that unfortunately
(35:19):
that Harris County feels that way, But least I think
in the City of Houston public safety and fiscal accountability
are still important. They may not be in Harris County,
but there in the city of Houston, So I still
have hope for Houston. All Right, one more for you here,
just because it's so surreal. It's gone viral. A liberal podcaster,
(35:40):
her name is Stephanie Miller. She's a former attorney and
evidently she had Jasmine Crockett represented Crockett into do an
interview on her podcast, and she proceeded to get down
on her hands and knees and kiss her feet and
that's kind of weird. Well, it's very word here. Here
(36:03):
it is. Here's how it happened. And we have some
comments from the host of the Ruthless podcast about how
this is likely to be playing in Texas and can.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You confirm it? I just kissed your sneakers. She's on
camera thing, she'll do the radio. I am, I am.
We're doing it. Future Senator of the Great State of Texas.
I'm a miss tad Crew so much. She's so likable.
All right, John, you go first this time.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Where's this going?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean, it's bizarre.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
First of all, these Libs absolutely worship their politicians, which
is basically the opposite of how Republicans handle their House members.
Of that Republican House member shows up in public, everybody's like,
I'm gonna give that guy a piece of my mind.
But these left wingers worship these people, and it's bizarre
to me.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It is strange how they genuflect before their politicians. But
I gotta say, on popular opinion, I kind of want
to kiss her feet too. I think what she's doing
running for higher office would be great for the Republican Party.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
Oh, John, how do you think that plays in Texas?
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I don't think it plays. I don't think it plays
real good.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Bill, And you know, they've got a big primary for
Senate in Texas and she's probably gonna throw her hat
in the ring, and it will just add to this
Democrat civil war that we're seeing breakout all over the country.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Yeah, it probably will. You know thing about Jasmine Crockett
is though I've seen enough of some of her interviews
in the past before she went on Ghetto, and she
she's articulate. She is when she wants to be. She
is very civil and very measured. What we see from
(37:48):
her most of the time is an act because she
figured out that that's how you get attention. She figured
out that's how you get to the head of the
republican of the Democrat Party is by acting that way.
It's a shame, but that's that's how it works. But
as far as her running for Senate, can you imagine
her against you know, her, her running for senate here
(38:09):
in the great state of Texas hard, It's hard to imagine.
But we'll see, we'll see if she decides to run. Hey, listen,
you'll have a great day. Thanks for listening. I do
appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting
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