October 24, 2025 • 26 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Do you have any tattoos?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense, common.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Common breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common
sense will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm just pro common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
For Houston from Houston Way. This is the Jimmy Barrett Show,
brought to you by viewind dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
It is Friday. What would be a good thing to
talk about on a Friday? How about this survey? This
poll that found the twenty eight percent, twenty eight percent.
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He's for me to say. A poll found twenty eight
percent of people with tattoos have at least one tattoo
that they regret, at least one tattoo that they regret.
How many tattoos do people get these days? I have zero.
You can't go by me. I have zero. Skymike and
the warning on our traffic has zero. As far as
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Arry Smith has zero, My wife has zero, My son
Matt has zero, my son Brian has two. I know
one of them is an old English bee standing for
his first name. I can't remember what the other one was.
Of course, I didn't serve in the military. My son
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Matt didn't serve in the military. Brian served in the navy.
Isn't that mandatory when you serve in the navy, you
have to get a tattoo. I'm pretty sure that's mandatory anyway.
I don't think either one of I don't think Brian
has any regrets about the tattoos that he got, because,
first of all, you can't see them. They are in
places where unless you have your shirt off completely off,
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you'd never see them. So I think the tattoos are
a lot easier to not regret if they cannot be
seen unless you want them to be seen. And I think,
and again, I'm not trying to judge if you have
a bunch of tattoos. I'm not trying to judge you
for having a bunch of tattoos. I want you to
know that just that that would not be my preference.
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Women with tattoos also would not be my preference. Now,
if you have like a tramp stamp, and we all
know what those are, I might I might get some
thoughts on my head about how you are, and you
probably would think that would be unfair of me to
think that. But but there's there's a reputation that kind
of goes along with the idea having a tramp stamp.
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That's the name tramp stamp. But I think of brides
all the time. I see wedding photos of brides that
have all these tattoos all over their arms and their legs,
and they're wearing a shorter wedding dress that's sleeveless. I'm thinking, Wow,
that kind of that kind of distracts away from, you know,
the wedding look that I would think you would be
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going for. So we kind of opened it up today
on our morning show on KTRH about tattoos. Your thoughts
on tattoos, like them, don't like them, have them, don't
have them, where they are, what they are of kind
of a thing, any of them that you regret all
that kind of a thing. And here's what some of
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our listeners were saying about all this.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I Jimmy Davil of Late Calrol. Yeah, we had this
young lady working force in construction. She bent down to
pick up a box and her shirt raised up and
she had a cliff note right over to the top
of her rear end. And I told a buddy of
mine about it, and he said she was probably trying
to play a tune.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Good morning, Jimmy, Sky, Mike, Terry, and Cliff. This is
Edna from Summerwood. Yes, I have six tattoos. I've got
toothless from How to Train Your Dragon? Got a tiger,
a lion, leopard, and Sylvester and a little tiny cat
on my ankle. I don't regret any of them. And
what are they gonna look like when I get old?
Exactly as they look now, because new slash.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I am old.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
So y'all have a great.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Day, Jimmy. In construction, we call that a rolling plan.
In the morning is rolling this way, and then an
afternoon it rolls the other way, and then when you
get back to next morning, it rolls the other way.
Been there done that man?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay? By the way, Edna, who sends us messages all
the time on Facebook, I will say this. She may
have six tattoos. You may think, well, that's ridiculous, had
that many tattoos? Whoever did the work on her tattoos
just amazing, especially the leopard. I mean I wrote it
back said that whoever did that leopard, that's beautiful. I
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mean it really wasn't amazing. And she's a very attractive woman,
so she's not old. By the way, I don't know
what she can consider as old to be, but she
certainly doesn't strike me as old. And again, Yo, you
want tattoos, that's your business. That's none of my business.
But I I you know, and I know I've said
this before, you know, for forgive me for repeating myself.
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But the tattoos in particular, I really don't understand, or
the tattoos on the face. You know, I think you
think of you jelly Rolls got tattoos on the face.
But here's a guy, and he also used to weigh
five hundred and some odd pounds and now he's lost
all this weight and he's become a successful recording artist
and he's doing very very positive things. But he was
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not that person what he was getting all these tattoos done.
You know, I think when I think of tattoos all
over the face, I think of gang members. You know,
maybe you know criminals. None of them have a very
positive association. And I don't know what kind of a
job unless you're a musical artist, unless you are Jelly
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roll and you're a musical artist, or in a line
of work where appearance just doesn't matter at all. You know,
how do you how do you, how are you employed
when you have, you know, facial tattoos. Same things with piercings.
You know, I guess in the piercing thing, you can
take the piercing out when you have to take it out.
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That's a little bit better unlike tattoos. And then there's
the world of romance. What about you know, if you
get a tattoo of your wife and you end up
getting divorced and you're carrying around a reminder of your
ex for your entire life, unless, of course, you go
back and you pay somebody to alter it into something else.
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All right, here's some more thoughts on tattoos.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Good Born and Brian from Lake Conroe. I'm not a
tattoo fan, but I do like one tattoo, tattoo from
Fantasy Island.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Order. I have several
large tattoos and zero regrets. One of the reasons I
don't get more tattoos is because a good tattoo artist
is expensive, and I have better things to spend my
money on these days. I've got a few opinions about tattoos,
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but I've only got thirty seconds to talk, so I'll
just leave it at that. That's all I got, and
I hope everybody has a great Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Good morning. It's Vincent and Westbury. Well, they will not
fix our roads. I don't have any tattoos.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I never wanted a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And I don't put beans in chili. Okay. I'm not
sure why he felt compelled to, you know, to to
remind us about there's no beans in Sex's chili, But okay,
I got it. Did you hear about the one guy
who's running for Senate in Maine who made the news
this week because they had a picture of him with
a very specific skull and crossbones, and it was it
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was the skull and crossbones used by I want to say,
the Gestapo, you know, the Nazis during World War Two.
And he didn't evidently realize that that's what it was.
He just thought it was, you know, like a pirate
skull and crossbones. He didn't realize it was that skull
and crossbones. And of course, you know, they have a
picture of that, and he's running for politics, so everything's
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fair game, and they're you know, saying, this guy's a
white supremacist, this guy's a Nazi. He's going what what
do you a minute? What are you talking about? I was,
I was in the military. I just I was in
the Marieans. For goodness sakes, I had this done when
I was in my twenties. I didn't know what had
anything to do with Nazis, so he probably he probably
forgets that one because he didn't do enough research on it.
All right, quick little break back with born a moment,
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Happy Friday, Jimmy Baird show here an Am nine fifty KPRC.
The feedback from the progressive far left on the Trump
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Ballroom is it's gotten to the point of being ridiculous.
Although I will say this and we'll get into this
in more detail in a second, but I was not
expecting the entire demolition of the East wing of the
White House, which was put in by Teddy Roosevelt way
back in nineteen oh two. I knew that they were
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going to make an alteration to the east wing they
can make room for a connection to the ballroom, but
I didn't know they were taking down the whole thing.
And it was never presented by President Trump like they
were taking down the whole thing. So I don't know
that the transparency was quite where it should have been
on that deal. And I'm also hearing now that they're
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talking about three hundred or three hundred and fifty million
versus two hundred and fifty million dollars. As long as
taxpayers are not on the dole for this, as long
as this is still being done with the President's money
and with donations, then the cost part of it, I'm
not going to worry about too much. I think President
Trump has a vision of what he wants to see
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in this ballroom. I am a little concerned that they
didn't end up tearing down the East wing, and nobody
seemed to present that to the American public that that
was going to happen. But overall, the reaction on the
far left is just well, first of all, it's been predictable,
but second hal has just been way over the top.
(10:03):
They have fixated themselves on this, which tells you how
little they have in other arenas, because they know that
the other things that Trump has been doing have been very,
very popular. I think they're hoping to strike a chord
with conservatives who are into American history that look, he's
destroying American history. Since when do democrats care about American
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history unless they can change it and make it look bad.
They're not the least bit interested in American history. They're
not interested in American heroes, They're not interested in anything
having to do with American history unless they're planning to
tear it down themselves. So here's Jesse Waters report on
all this last night on his show.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, I'm back here at the scene of the crime.
This is where Donald Trump is tearing down part of
the East wing of the White House so he can
build a massive, gaudy, gilded ballroom to the tune of
two hundred and fifty million dollars. And I wanted to
come down here today and just hear what people had
to say about it. And, in the words of one
DC resident, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know who you used to love.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
The sweet sounds of jackhammers, CNN and Barack Hussein Obama.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Sounds like they're building another wing to the White House.
But we appreciate you keeping.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
You can imagine to you today it's going to happen
for the next two years. All the banging, the jackhammering,
the dust, the confusion, the noise of all places to
do construction is happening right here the front lawn.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Of the White House.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's a four year.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Renovation project, estimated costs three hundred and seventy six million dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Barry tore up the White House and spent four hundred
million dollars in taxpayer money during a recession. And what
did he have to show for it? New pipes in.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
A basketball court. That's it translation.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
The contractors took Obama to the cleaners. Trump spending less
less three hundred million on a big, beautiful ballroom, and
you're not paying for it. No one's allowed to play
ball on Barry's court, but you are allowed to dance
the night away during Trump's third inauguration.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Kiddy, but hips isn't.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
He's ready to impeach.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Running the largest pay to play scheme in the history
of the country and probably soliciting donations from people who've
got business before the United States government, and all of
this is going to have to be investigated.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
It will.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
All of this will have to be uncovered, it will,
and these people are going to be held accountable no
matter how long it takes.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
They're going to impeach the president for the third time
because he built a ballroom. Suddenly Democrats are worried about historic.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Monuments Trump said, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I want my ballroom. If Trump next week began demolition
on the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
To make it more of a moral lago looking thing,
would Republicans stand up and say anything the.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
People who rip down famous statues now care about preserving
American history?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Since when do.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Democrats care so much about the White House structure? They
told us the White House was built on racism.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
According to the White House Historical Association, enslaved human beings
were likely involved in all aspects of the construction, including
the carpentry, masonry, carting, rafting, plastering, glazing, and painting.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You know who that is, right, Yeah, Houston's own representative,
Al Green, That's who that was. Yep. The White House
was built by slaves. It's a racist it's a racist thing,
the White House plus the name, it's called the White
House because it's just for the white people. I don't
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think he actually said that, but I'm sure he was
thinking that or thinking about saying it. Yep. It's amazing
how many changes have happened at the White House over
the years, some by Republicans but most by Democrats, and
a lot bigger projects than what's going on right now
with the ballroom, there was no east wing before nineteen
oh two, Teddy Roosevelt had it added on. You know,
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it's it's it's turned to the century. But I don't
know how it's part of the White House. Anything is
part of the White House. I guess you could consider historical,
which means that the ballroom will be historical at some
point in time, you know, twenty thirty years from now,
I'm sure there'll be a completely different opinion on you know,
having built the the ballroom and having a place now
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indoors we could hold state dinners. We have enough room
for everybody, so you don't have to go out on
the lawn and hold it in a tent, which is
what they've been doing. I will say this though, Caroline Levit,
who's always very cool under fire. I mean, she's so
good at this of answering questions. See questions that you know,
come in in selvos from liberal reporters who want to
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know why Trump is doing something. I will say that
I think she and I'm going by the expression on
her face, she just she had this little bit of
a worried look on her face, Like here I am
talking about how they just demoed the entire East wing
of the White House, and that's not what we've been saying.
(15:32):
So I'm going to have a This is not going
to be the easiest press conference I've ever done. So
here she is dealing with a couple of questions about
the ballroom and looking pretty uncomfortable while she did it.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Can the President tear down anything he wants without oversight?
Speaker 12 (15:48):
Could he demolish this building or say the Jefferson Memorial.
So it's not the President who came up with that
legal opinion himself. That's a legal opinion that's been held
by the NCPC for many years. It's written so we
can get to that background in that research if you
wish to include it in your reporting, because it is
very important. They have ruled consistently. Their General Council has said,
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when it comes to phase one of this project, the
tearing down of the current East wing structure, a submission
is not required legally for that. Only for vertical construction
will a submission be required. And that's a legal opinion
from them, and we are following that legal opinion. And
again I would just add, can any president do such
a thing to the White House? Grounds. There have been
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many presidents in the past who have made their mark
on this beautiful White House complex. This briefing room, as
you all know, was not once a briefing room. It
was a swimming pool. There have been presidents who have
completely torn down the executive mansion. If you look at
what President Truman did, some of the photos of the
construction project that took place in those years. I think,
sitting here today, we're all grateful for those efforts and
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the modifications that happened at that time. And again in
due time, the east wing is going to be more
beautiful and modern than ever before. And in addition, there
will be a big, beautiful ballroom that can hold big
parties and state visits for generations to come there.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You go once, you did a good job of, you know,
trying to resell it. By the way, that that pool,
I think it's still there. I'm trying to remember if
that was an FDR thing. I think it was Franklin
Delano Roosevelt who had that pool put in because you know,
I used to go to Hot Springs, Georgia, because he
had had polio and the pool was therapeutic. If memory
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serves me correctly, it rarely does, but if memory serves
me correctly, I think that's the case. I think that
was put in by FDR and I think it was
Gerald Ford who put an outdoor swimming pool in. I
don't know if that's still there or not. I have
no idea presidents knew that, and that was interesting the
warning there though, you don't have to have permission to
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go horizontal, just vertical. So the east wing, which is
based a single floor that goes horizontal. I guess you
can do whatever you want to if you're a president
of the United States. It is the people's House. There's
no doubt about that. It is the people's house. But
at the end of the day, who's living at and
who's in charge of the People's House? Whoever? The President
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of the United States is all right, quick globe break
back with going on a moment Jimmy Barrett show here
an Am nine to fifty KPRC. All right, so I
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had to guest on our morning show today. I thought
i'd share a little bit of that interview with him.
Jared wood Phil We've talked to Jared Woodville on our
show many times. Today. I've talked to him about something
that Evidently, Governor Greg Abbott said while he was in
Cyprus that basically he wants to turn Harris County dark red,
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and he's committing ninety million dollars to do it. Ninety well,
I mean, obviously not his personal money, obviously not state money.
I've assumed this is campaign donation money and money you know,
from donors and other Republicans who want to see this happen.
The question is how reasonable a goal is that. After all,
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Harris County is anchored, you know, around the city of Houston,
which is very blue. The suburbs of Houston are not
very blue. And where I live in Precinct Thring Commissioner
Ramses Precinct, it is red. There's no doubt about it.
But as long as you have the Lena Hildagos of
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the world, as long as the Harris County Judge is
a Democrat, you can't make it deep red. As long
as the majority of the Harris County commissioners are Democrats,
you can't make it deep red. So anyway, here's my
conversation with Jared Woodville about this commitment to try to
turn Harris County not just red, but deep red. Jared
Woodfield joined just conservative Republicans of Texas. So is a
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lack of attention or a lack of money or is
this just a hopeless cause at this point?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Jared Well, I definitely don't think it's a hopeless cause.
In fact, I'm very encouraged by what I'm seeing at
the county level going into this election cycle. Jimmy, and
you go back to twenty twenty four, we won ten
out of sixteen judicial races where we actually had candidates
show up and run, and so one of the problems
we had during that cycle was we didn't recruit enough candidates.
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We don't have that problem this time. The local party
has done a good job making sure that every single
Democrat incumbent has a challenger. And so we see what's
happening on the macro level and the great job that
President Trump is doing, we're winning again. That obviously trickles
down and at the local level we'll see Democrats imploding.
I mean, almost every single day I'm listening to your
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show and I hear something crazy that Lena Hidalgo has done,
or something just outrageous that the Democrat controlled Commissioner's Court
has done. There's a reason to be encouraged based on
the past results base, what's happening on the national level,
what we're seeing locally from Democrats. I think it's going
to be a great cycle.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, you know, Jared, that is very good news about
more candidates running. I think the question becomes, so will
there be the financial resources devoted to those candidates in
order to make it possible for them to win, because
that's another thing that's been lacking in the past. In
some races, we've just kind of conceded the race, feeling
like it's a waste of money to put resources into
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the race because there's no way you're going to beat
the income a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That's exactly right. But when folks feel like there's an
opportunity to win, they're willing to invest their money. And
you see Governor Abbott making that commitment to Harris County
right now, which is a wonderful thing. And so it
won't just be Governor Rabbit, but there'll be a whole
lot of other folks who will not only run, but
now the money will follow those candidates because they see
an opportunity for success in Aris County. So it's two ful.
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So we had some success in twenty twenty four. Obviously
having success at the national level right now and so
everything everyone understands and appreciates that this could be a
wonderful cycle for us, but we got to stick to
the blocking and tackling of politics. We've got to make
sure we're registering folks during a hot Harris County summer
and then we're working to turn him back out in November.
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And so right now we're seeing that level of energy
and enthusiasm, but we can't get complacent and we can't
get comfortable. We need to continue to work as if
we're way behind and spread through the finish line.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You're right about that, Thank you, Jared, appreciate it. Yeah,
we'll see if that happens. We'll see if that happens.
It is. I do see that. It's extremely good news
that at least we are not allowing Democrats to run
on the post in Harris County. At least there's no
immediate concession that there's no way to win, because if
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you concede that you can't win, then clearly you're not
going to You can't win if you don't run. That
is pretty dog one obvious. All right, Let's see what
I want to do for my last report for you today.
Let's see here, where is that cut I want to
share with you? Let's let's did you hear about this
the FBI bust of illegal sports gambling but ties to
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the mafia. You know, we've done so much in this
country to legalize sports gambling. How is it that we
have professional athletes and in a coach NBA coach participating
in in this scheme. I mean, these are these are
highly paid people, do they do they really need the
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money so much that they're willing to throw games or
to share, you know, information that would have an impact
on how things are bet Laura Ingram did a segment
on her show last night. Uh and in dealing with
this this latest bust. And and also you hear Cash Ptel,
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the director of the FBI, speaking out about what it
is that they busted. Hang on hit that button a
little too hard that time, Laura Ingram on her show
last night along with Cash Bettel. Second time it did
that one more time, third times to charm. You got
to get the right touch.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
So Miami Heat, the guard Terry Roger and former player
Damon Jones involved. Also Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips,
dozens of others arrested in connection with this. What are
the American people need to know about this and sports betting, poker,
the mafia involved.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
What do we need to know?
Speaker 13 (24:34):
It's simple, we follow the money and look, while the
NBA is a piece of this, they are just a
piece of that. And what the American people should know
is this FBI has no business in being the morality police.
We are the police and the enforcement of the laws.
If you break the law, we're coming for you, whether
you playing the NBA, coaching the NBA, and these individuals
got in bed with La Casa Nostra and four of
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the five major crime families in New York City to
create gambling empires, to to rob people of their money,
to extort people, to commit acts of wire fraud, to
rig games in poker games and basketball games just so
they can make a few extra bucks. And then they
had the protection of the mafia in New York around
this country so that they could continue the scheme to
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fleece innocent victims of tens of millions of dollars. That's
what the FBAI and the American people need to understand.
That we showcase today nationwide takedown of over thirty individuals
involved in this scheme, and we are doing it because
they committed acts of illegality. It has nothing to do
with legal gambling, and it has everything to do with
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those in positions of power in places like the NBA
getting in bed with La Casa Nostra and committing acts
of extortion, fraud, money wandering, and a wire fraud and
so many other crimes. And this investigation, by the way, today,
this massive takedown that the FBI led in multiple jurisdictions,
coordinating arrests across dozens of cities, is just the start.
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This investigation is very much ongoing. And as I said
at the news conference New York today, if you didn't
do anything wrong or illegal, there's nothing to worry about.
And so when people start chirping at us that we're
coming after them for sports betting and the like, they're
sounding the start like Governor Pritsker, who's just looking for
a popshot on TV.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, that's the most I've heard about the mafia
in New York or anywhere else in this country in
a long long time. Guess they're still around, Huh, all right?
Listen y'all have a great weekend. Thanks for listening. See
you Monday morning, bright and early five am over our
news radio seven k TRH. We are back here at
four on a nine fifty KPRC
Well, what we need is more common sense, common.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Common breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common
sense will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm just pro common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
For Houston from Houston Way. This is the Jimmy Barrett Show,
brought to you by viewind dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
It is Friday. What would be a good thing to
talk about on a Friday? How about this survey? This
poll that found the twenty eight percent, twenty eight percent.
(00:42):
He's for me to say. A poll found twenty eight
percent of people with tattoos have at least one tattoo
that they regret, at least one tattoo that they regret.
How many tattoos do people get these days? I have zero.
You can't go by me. I have zero. Skymike and
the warning on our traffic has zero. As far as
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Arry Smith has zero, My wife has zero, My son
Matt has zero, my son Brian has two. I know
one of them is an old English bee standing for
his first name. I can't remember what the other one was.
Of course, I didn't serve in the military. My son
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Matt didn't serve in the military. Brian served in the navy.
Isn't that mandatory when you serve in the navy, you
have to get a tattoo. I'm pretty sure that's mandatory anyway.
I don't think either one of I don't think Brian
has any regrets about the tattoos that he got, because,
first of all, you can't see them. They are in
places where unless you have your shirt off completely off,
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you'd never see them. So I think the tattoos are
a lot easier to not regret if they cannot be
seen unless you want them to be seen. And I think,
and again, I'm not trying to judge if you have
a bunch of tattoos. I'm not trying to judge you
for having a bunch of tattoos. I want you to
know that just that that would not be my preference.
(02:08):
Women with tattoos also would not be my preference. Now,
if you have like a tramp stamp, and we all
know what those are, I might I might get some
thoughts on my head about how you are, and you
probably would think that would be unfair of me to
think that. But but there's there's a reputation that kind
of goes along with the idea having a tramp stamp.
(02:30):
That's the name tramp stamp. But I think of brides
all the time. I see wedding photos of brides that
have all these tattoos all over their arms and their legs,
and they're wearing a shorter wedding dress that's sleeveless. I'm thinking, Wow,
that kind of that kind of distracts away from, you know,
the wedding look that I would think you would be
(02:53):
going for. So we kind of opened it up today
on our morning show on KTRH about tattoos. Your thoughts
on tattoos, like them, don't like them, have them, don't
have them, where they are, what they are of kind
of a thing, any of them that you regret all
that kind of a thing. And here's what some of
(03:13):
our listeners were saying about all this.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I Jimmy Davil of Late Calrol. Yeah, we had this
young lady working force in construction. She bent down to
pick up a box and her shirt raised up and
she had a cliff note right over to the top
of her rear end. And I told a buddy of
mine about it, and he said she was probably trying
to play a tune.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Good morning, Jimmy, Sky, Mike, Terry, and Cliff. This is
Edna from Summerwood. Yes, I have six tattoos. I've got
toothless from How to Train Your Dragon? Got a tiger,
a lion, leopard, and Sylvester and a little tiny cat
on my ankle. I don't regret any of them. And
what are they gonna look like when I get old?
Exactly as they look now, because new slash.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I am old.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
So y'all have a great.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Day, Jimmy. In construction, we call that a rolling plan.
In the morning is rolling this way, and then an
afternoon it rolls the other way, and then when you
get back to next morning, it rolls the other way.
Been there done that man?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay? By the way, Edna, who sends us messages all
the time on Facebook, I will say this. She may
have six tattoos. You may think, well, that's ridiculous, had
that many tattoos? Whoever did the work on her tattoos
just amazing, especially the leopard. I mean I wrote it
back said that whoever did that leopard, that's beautiful. I
(04:36):
mean it really wasn't amazing. And she's a very attractive woman,
so she's not old. By the way, I don't know
what she can consider as old to be, but she
certainly doesn't strike me as old. And again, Yo, you
want tattoos, that's your business. That's none of my business.
But I I you know, and I know I've said
this before, you know, for forgive me for repeating myself.
(04:59):
But the tattoos in particular, I really don't understand, or
the tattoos on the face. You know, I think you
think of you jelly Rolls got tattoos on the face.
But here's a guy, and he also used to weigh
five hundred and some odd pounds and now he's lost
all this weight and he's become a successful recording artist
and he's doing very very positive things. But he was
(05:20):
not that person what he was getting all these tattoos done.
You know, I think when I think of tattoos all
over the face, I think of gang members. You know,
maybe you know criminals. None of them have a very
positive association. And I don't know what kind of a
job unless you're a musical artist, unless you are Jelly
(05:41):
roll and you're a musical artist, or in a line
of work where appearance just doesn't matter at all. You know,
how do you how do you, how are you employed
when you have, you know, facial tattoos. Same things with piercings.
You know, I guess in the piercing thing, you can
take the piercing out when you have to take it out.
(06:01):
That's a little bit better unlike tattoos. And then there's
the world of romance. What about you know, if you
get a tattoo of your wife and you end up
getting divorced and you're carrying around a reminder of your
ex for your entire life, unless, of course, you go
back and you pay somebody to alter it into something else.
(06:21):
All right, here's some more thoughts on tattoos.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Good Born and Brian from Lake Conroe. I'm not a
tattoo fan, but I do like one tattoo, tattoo from
Fantasy Island.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Order. I have several
large tattoos and zero regrets. One of the reasons I
don't get more tattoos is because a good tattoo artist
is expensive, and I have better things to spend my
money on these days. I've got a few opinions about tattoos,
(06:52):
but I've only got thirty seconds to talk, so I'll
just leave it at that. That's all I got, and
I hope everybody has a great Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Good morning. It's Vincent and Westbury. Well, they will not
fix our roads. I don't have any tattoos.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I never wanted a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And I don't put beans in chili. Okay. I'm not
sure why he felt compelled to, you know, to to
remind us about there's no beans in Sex's chili, But okay,
I got it. Did you hear about the one guy
who's running for Senate in Maine who made the news
this week because they had a picture of him with
a very specific skull and crossbones, and it was it
(07:30):
was the skull and crossbones used by I want to say,
the Gestapo, you know, the Nazis during World War Two.
And he didn't evidently realize that that's what it was.
He just thought it was, you know, like a pirate
skull and crossbones. He didn't realize it was that skull
and crossbones. And of course, you know, they have a
picture of that, and he's running for politics, so everything's
(07:50):
fair game, and they're you know, saying, this guy's a
white supremacist, this guy's a Nazi. He's going what what
do you a minute? What are you talking about? I was,
I was in the military. I just I was in
the Marieans. For goodness sakes, I had this done when
I was in my twenties. I didn't know what had
anything to do with Nazis, so he probably he probably
forgets that one because he didn't do enough research on it.
All right, quick little break back with born a moment,
(08:11):
Happy Friday, Jimmy Baird show here an Am nine fifty KPRC.
The feedback from the progressive far left on the Trump
(08:37):
Ballroom is it's gotten to the point of being ridiculous.
Although I will say this and we'll get into this
in more detail in a second, but I was not
expecting the entire demolition of the East wing of the
White House, which was put in by Teddy Roosevelt way
back in nineteen oh two. I knew that they were
(08:57):
going to make an alteration to the east wing they
can make room for a connection to the ballroom, but
I didn't know they were taking down the whole thing.
And it was never presented by President Trump like they
were taking down the whole thing. So I don't know
that the transparency was quite where it should have been
on that deal. And I'm also hearing now that they're
(09:18):
talking about three hundred or three hundred and fifty million
versus two hundred and fifty million dollars. As long as
taxpayers are not on the dole for this, as long
as this is still being done with the President's money
and with donations, then the cost part of it, I'm
not going to worry about too much. I think President
Trump has a vision of what he wants to see
(09:40):
in this ballroom. I am a little concerned that they
didn't end up tearing down the East wing, and nobody
seemed to present that to the American public that that
was going to happen. But overall, the reaction on the
far left is just well, first of all, it's been predictable,
but second hal has just been way over the top.
(10:03):
They have fixated themselves on this, which tells you how
little they have in other arenas, because they know that
the other things that Trump has been doing have been very,
very popular. I think they're hoping to strike a chord
with conservatives who are into American history that look, he's
destroying American history. Since when do democrats care about American
(10:25):
history unless they can change it and make it look bad.
They're not the least bit interested in American history. They're
not interested in American heroes, They're not interested in anything
having to do with American history unless they're planning to
tear it down themselves. So here's Jesse Waters report on
all this last night on his show.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, I'm back here at the scene of the crime.
This is where Donald Trump is tearing down part of
the East wing of the White House so he can
build a massive, gaudy, gilded ballroom to the tune of
two hundred and fifty million dollars. And I wanted to
come down here today and just hear what people had
to say about it. And, in the words of one
DC resident, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know who you used to love.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
The sweet sounds of jackhammers, CNN and Barack Hussein Obama.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Sounds like they're building another wing to the White House.
But we appreciate you keeping.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
You can imagine to you today it's going to happen
for the next two years. All the banging, the jackhammering,
the dust, the confusion, the noise of all places to
do construction is happening right here the front lawn.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Of the White House.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's a four year.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Renovation project, estimated costs three hundred and seventy six million dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Barry tore up the White House and spent four hundred
million dollars in taxpayer money during a recession. And what
did he have to show for it? New pipes in.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
A basketball court. That's it translation.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
The contractors took Obama to the cleaners. Trump spending less
less three hundred million on a big, beautiful ballroom, and
you're not paying for it. No one's allowed to play
ball on Barry's court, but you are allowed to dance
the night away during Trump's third inauguration.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Kiddy, but hips isn't.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
He's ready to impeach.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Running the largest pay to play scheme in the history
of the country and probably soliciting donations from people who've
got business before the United States government, and all of
this is going to have to be investigated.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
It will.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
All of this will have to be uncovered, it will,
and these people are going to be held accountable no
matter how long it takes.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
They're going to impeach the president for the third time
because he built a ballroom. Suddenly Democrats are worried about historic.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Monuments Trump said, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I want my ballroom. If Trump next week began demolition
on the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
To make it more of a moral lago looking thing,
would Republicans stand up and say anything the.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
People who rip down famous statues now care about preserving
American history?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Since when do.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Democrats care so much about the White House structure? They
told us the White House was built on racism.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
According to the White House Historical Association, enslaved human beings
were likely involved in all aspects of the construction, including
the carpentry, masonry, carting, rafting, plastering, glazing, and painting.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You know who that is, right, Yeah, Houston's own representative,
Al Green, That's who that was. Yep. The White House
was built by slaves. It's a racist it's a racist thing,
the White House plus the name, it's called the White
House because it's just for the white people. I don't
(13:59):
think he actually said that, but I'm sure he was
thinking that or thinking about saying it. Yep. It's amazing
how many changes have happened at the White House over
the years, some by Republicans but most by Democrats, and
a lot bigger projects than what's going on right now
with the ballroom, there was no east wing before nineteen
oh two, Teddy Roosevelt had it added on. You know,
(14:23):
it's it's it's turned to the century. But I don't
know how it's part of the White House. Anything is
part of the White House. I guess you could consider historical,
which means that the ballroom will be historical at some
point in time, you know, twenty thirty years from now,
I'm sure there'll be a completely different opinion on you know,
having built the the ballroom and having a place now
(14:46):
indoors we could hold state dinners. We have enough room
for everybody, so you don't have to go out on
the lawn and hold it in a tent, which is
what they've been doing. I will say this though, Caroline Levit,
who's always very cool under fire. I mean, she's so
good at this of answering questions. See questions that you know,
come in in selvos from liberal reporters who want to
(15:10):
know why Trump is doing something. I will say that
I think she and I'm going by the expression on
her face, she just she had this little bit of
a worried look on her face, Like here I am
talking about how they just demoed the entire East wing
of the White House, and that's not what we've been saying.
(15:32):
So I'm going to have a This is not going
to be the easiest press conference I've ever done. So
here she is dealing with a couple of questions about
the ballroom and looking pretty uncomfortable while she did it.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Can the President tear down anything he wants without oversight?
Speaker 12 (15:48):
Could he demolish this building or say the Jefferson Memorial.
So it's not the President who came up with that
legal opinion himself. That's a legal opinion that's been held
by the NCPC for many years. It's written so we
can get to that background in that research if you
wish to include it in your reporting, because it is
very important. They have ruled consistently. Their General Council has said,
(16:11):
when it comes to phase one of this project, the
tearing down of the current East wing structure, a submission
is not required legally for that. Only for vertical construction
will a submission be required. And that's a legal opinion
from them, and we are following that legal opinion. And
again I would just add, can any president do such
a thing to the White House? Grounds. There have been
(16:33):
many presidents in the past who have made their mark
on this beautiful White House complex. This briefing room, as
you all know, was not once a briefing room. It
was a swimming pool. There have been presidents who have
completely torn down the executive mansion. If you look at
what President Truman did, some of the photos of the
construction project that took place in those years. I think,
sitting here today, we're all grateful for those efforts and
(16:55):
the modifications that happened at that time. And again in
due time, the east wing is going to be more
beautiful and modern than ever before. And in addition, there
will be a big, beautiful ballroom that can hold big
parties and state visits for generations to come there.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You go once, you did a good job of, you know,
trying to resell it. By the way, that that pool,
I think it's still there. I'm trying to remember if
that was an FDR thing. I think it was Franklin
Delano Roosevelt who had that pool put in because you know,
I used to go to Hot Springs, Georgia, because he
had had polio and the pool was therapeutic. If memory
(17:30):
serves me correctly, it rarely does, but if memory serves
me correctly, I think that's the case. I think that
was put in by FDR and I think it was
Gerald Ford who put an outdoor swimming pool in. I
don't know if that's still there or not. I have
no idea presidents knew that, and that was interesting the
warning there though, you don't have to have permission to
(17:52):
go horizontal, just vertical. So the east wing, which is
based a single floor that goes horizontal. I guess you
can do whatever you want to if you're a president
of the United States. It is the people's House. There's
no doubt about that. It is the people's house. But
at the end of the day, who's living at and
who's in charge of the People's House? Whoever? The President
(18:14):
of the United States is all right, quick globe break
back with going on a moment Jimmy Barrett show here
an Am nine to fifty KPRC. All right, so I
(18:35):
had to guest on our morning show today. I thought
i'd share a little bit of that interview with him.
Jared wood Phil We've talked to Jared Woodville on our
show many times. Today. I've talked to him about something
that Evidently, Governor Greg Abbott said while he was in
Cyprus that basically he wants to turn Harris County dark red,
(18:56):
and he's committing ninety million dollars to do it. Ninety well,
I mean, obviously not his personal money, obviously not state money.
I've assumed this is campaign donation money and money you know,
from donors and other Republicans who want to see this happen.
The question is how reasonable a goal is that. After all,
(19:20):
Harris County is anchored, you know, around the city of Houston,
which is very blue. The suburbs of Houston are not
very blue. And where I live in Precinct Thring Commissioner
Ramses Precinct, it is red. There's no doubt about it.
But as long as you have the Lena Hildagos of
(19:41):
the world, as long as the Harris County Judge is
a Democrat, you can't make it deep red. As long
as the majority of the Harris County commissioners are Democrats,
you can't make it deep red. So anyway, here's my
conversation with Jared Woodville about this commitment to try to
turn Harris County not just red, but deep red. Jared
Woodfield joined just conservative Republicans of Texas. So is a
(20:05):
lack of attention or a lack of money or is
this just a hopeless cause at this point?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Jared Well, I definitely don't think it's a hopeless cause.
In fact, I'm very encouraged by what I'm seeing at
the county level going into this election cycle. Jimmy, and
you go back to twenty twenty four, we won ten
out of sixteen judicial races where we actually had candidates
show up and run, and so one of the problems
we had during that cycle was we didn't recruit enough candidates.
(20:30):
We don't have that problem this time. The local party
has done a good job making sure that every single
Democrat incumbent has a challenger. And so we see what's
happening on the macro level and the great job that
President Trump is doing, we're winning again. That obviously trickles
down and at the local level we'll see Democrats imploding.
I mean, almost every single day I'm listening to your
(20:51):
show and I hear something crazy that Lena Hidalgo has done,
or something just outrageous that the Democrat controlled Commissioner's Court
has done. There's a reason to be encouraged based on
the past results base, what's happening on the national level,
what we're seeing locally from Democrats. I think it's going
to be a great cycle.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, you know, Jared, that is very good news about
more candidates running. I think the question becomes, so will
there be the financial resources devoted to those candidates in
order to make it possible for them to win, because
that's another thing that's been lacking in the past. In
some races, we've just kind of conceded the race, feeling
like it's a waste of money to put resources into
(21:29):
the race because there's no way you're going to beat
the income a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That's exactly right. But when folks feel like there's an
opportunity to win, they're willing to invest their money. And
you see Governor Abbott making that commitment to Harris County
right now, which is a wonderful thing. And so it
won't just be Governor Rabbit, but there'll be a whole
lot of other folks who will not only run, but
now the money will follow those candidates because they see
an opportunity for success in Aris County. So it's two ful.
(21:56):
So we had some success in twenty twenty four. Obviously
having success at the national level right now and so
everything everyone understands and appreciates that this could be a
wonderful cycle for us, but we got to stick to
the blocking and tackling of politics. We've got to make
sure we're registering folks during a hot Harris County summer
and then we're working to turn him back out in November.
(22:19):
And so right now we're seeing that level of energy
and enthusiasm, but we can't get complacent and we can't
get comfortable. We need to continue to work as if
we're way behind and spread through the finish line.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You're right about that, Thank you, Jared, appreciate it. Yeah,
we'll see if that happens. We'll see if that happens.
It is. I do see that. It's extremely good news
that at least we are not allowing Democrats to run
on the post in Harris County. At least there's no
immediate concession that there's no way to win, because if
(22:48):
you concede that you can't win, then clearly you're not
going to You can't win if you don't run. That
is pretty dog one obvious. All right, Let's see what
I want to do for my last report for you today.
Let's see here, where is that cut I want to
share with you? Let's let's did you hear about this
the FBI bust of illegal sports gambling but ties to
(23:12):
the mafia. You know, we've done so much in this
country to legalize sports gambling. How is it that we
have professional athletes and in a coach NBA coach participating
in in this scheme. I mean, these are these are
highly paid people, do they do they really need the
(23:35):
money so much that they're willing to throw games or
to share, you know, information that would have an impact
on how things are bet Laura Ingram did a segment
on her show last night. Uh and in dealing with
this this latest bust. And and also you hear Cash Ptel,
(23:55):
the director of the FBI, speaking out about what it
is that they busted. Hang on hit that button a
little too hard that time, Laura Ingram on her show
last night along with Cash Bettel. Second time it did
that one more time, third times to charm. You got
to get the right touch.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
So Miami Heat, the guard Terry Roger and former player
Damon Jones involved. Also Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips,
dozens of others arrested in connection with this. What are
the American people need to know about this and sports betting, poker,
the mafia involved.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
What do we need to know?
Speaker 13 (24:34):
It's simple, we follow the money and look, while the
NBA is a piece of this, they are just a
piece of that. And what the American people should know
is this FBI has no business in being the morality police.
We are the police and the enforcement of the laws.
If you break the law, we're coming for you, whether
you playing the NBA, coaching the NBA, and these individuals
got in bed with La Casa Nostra and four of
(24:55):
the five major crime families in New York City to
create gambling empires, to to rob people of their money,
to extort people, to commit acts of wire fraud, to
rig games in poker games and basketball games just so
they can make a few extra bucks. And then they
had the protection of the mafia in New York around
this country so that they could continue the scheme to
(25:16):
fleece innocent victims of tens of millions of dollars. That's
what the FBAI and the American people need to understand.
That we showcase today nationwide takedown of over thirty individuals
involved in this scheme, and we are doing it because
they committed acts of illegality. It has nothing to do
with legal gambling, and it has everything to do with
(25:37):
those in positions of power in places like the NBA
getting in bed with La Casa Nostra and committing acts
of extortion, fraud, money wandering, and a wire fraud and
so many other crimes. And this investigation, by the way, today,
this massive takedown that the FBI led in multiple jurisdictions,
coordinating arrests across dozens of cities, is just the start.
(25:58):
This investigation is very much ongoing. And as I said
at the news conference New York today, if you didn't
do anything wrong or illegal, there's nothing to worry about.
And so when people start chirping at us that we're
coming after them for sports betting and the like, they're
sounding the start like Governor Pritsker, who's just looking for
a popshot on TV.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, that's the most I've heard about the mafia
in New York or anywhere else in this country in
a long long time. Guess they're still around, Huh, all right?
Listen y'all have a great weekend. Thanks for listening. See
you Monday morning, bright and early five am over our
news radio seven k TRH. We are back here at
four on a nine fifty KPRC
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