May 21, 2026 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Ebola hype in the media
- University commencement speechs
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, welcome to another rainy day in Houston, Texas.
Good Lord Almighty, before this weekend is over and done
with for Memorial Day. I mean, of all the times,
to have all this rain right before the holiday, right,
But welcome to the show. We're gonna talk about a
lot of things on the show today, not the least
of which is the ebola I'm making I'm making it.
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I'm not, by the way, I'm not making fun of
people who have ebola. I'm just making fun of the
media hyping up the ebola virus. They love a good virus,
they love to keep us scared. And there are some
people in the government who probably like to keep us
scared too, because, after all, they had so much fun
with us during COVID nineteen. Which is not to say
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that the ebola virus is not a serious thing. I
just don't believe it's a serious thing for people in
the United States of America. It's a serious thing for
people who live in Africa, or people who travel to Africa,
or Africans who potentially come here. And maybe that's why,
at least on a local basis, or hyping it up
a little bit. And I'm just talking about the media
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in general. I'm quite the opposite. I'm trying to downplay
it as much as I possibly can. We have people
from the Congo coming here for FIFA World Cup. They're
gonna be training here in Houston. They're gonna be participating
here in Houston. Again, I'm making an assumption I probably
shouldn't assume, but I'm making an assumption. These people are
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all being tested before they come here, so that there's
nobody that actively has or has been exposed to the
Ebola virus who's going to be in this country. You
would hope that would be the case, but I don't
know that we know that with one certainty. I do
know that whether or not you're going to get a
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physician to participate in the hype has a lot to
do with who that physician is. Mary Tally Bowden, who
is a well known doctor because of the things that
she did to try to fight back against the government
encroachment on our lives during COVID nineteen. Says, there's nothing
to worry about. You know, we're going to We're not
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going to get a massive bunch of cases of ebola
here in the United States. There's no reason for us
to get all bent out of shape about that. But
then you have other people such as doctor Robert Redfield.
You remember him. He was the director of the CDC
during Trump's first term back in twenty eighteen. Uh, doctor
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Redfield thinks that this is a fairly serious thing. So
we'll hear from him right now and get some reaction
to it. Here's doctor Robert Redfield, and.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
This is an outbreak right now that is really a
significant outbreak, that's a significant public health international concern. Partially
because what you said, it wasn't recognized very quickly. I'm
not sure why. Normally, when we had these bowl outbreaks,
and I had three of them when I was CDC director,
all of which were in the DRC, Normally we recognize
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them when we have five to ten cases, you know,
most this one really wasn't picked up till there was
over one hundred cases, as you said, Now there's over
five hundred cases. There's close to one hundred and fifty
deaths already, and it's moving very rapidly. It is spread
into Uganda already. There's concern that it may be spreading
into South Sudan. So I do think this is going
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to be a significant signific again a bula outbreak, this.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Strain of a bola, because there are many different strains
of this disease, but this one has no vaccine and
no treatment. Is that what makes the fatality rate so
high or is it something else? It's a fatality rate
of twenty five to fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, the original Diariyan strain that I had to deal with,
I had a mortality rate around seventy percent. But we
were able during the pandemic. We were able to develop
and not wave with the private sector pharmaceutical companies Merk
in particular, we're able to develop antibodies for treatment which
reduced the mortality under ten percent if we could treat
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a patient, and then they developed a vaccine that could
actually also reduce the mortality in the likelihood of infection.
The problem with the current strain is neither the vaccine
or the animodies that were developed for the Anxian strain work.
There is an mental vaccine that's been in trials in most.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
We need it now, they need it now.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yeah, has patients zero been identified? And why is it
so important to find whoever this person is?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't think that they know who the initial patient was.
You can see the real problem that happens just like
this doctor got infected. Normally, what happens is the patients
end up going into the hospital, they're not recognized, the
infection control procedures are not as tight as they need
to be. Then the doctors and nurses get infected frequently.
The doctors and nurses then infect on their patients. I
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had one hospital in the DRC when I was CIBC
director that over seventy percent of the patients ended up
dying of obola because it was spread from patient to
patient to patient by the healthcare professional.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Okay, so is it a problem in Africa? So the
out sounds like it could be a problem in Africa.
An you all go in Africa? No me either. Any
of the Africans coming here hopefully well, other than the
soccer players from the Congo hopefully not so. I don't
see this as being a big problem in the United States.
(05:59):
But again it's it's it's been a daily story for
the last few days. It probably is going to continue
to be a daily story. And you heard the anchor
that's from News Nation by the way, that's Elizabeth Bargas,
when he's talking about they may have a vaccine development.
Will they never get the vaccine? You know they're they're
more than happy to. Obviously, she's one of those people
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probably got all every COVID shot you could possibly get,
so you know, what a what a great chance to
go get vaccinated against something that you had very little
chance of being exposed to. It won't be long before
your local pharmacy right will probably be offering up ebola
vaccines here pretty soon. But I asked our listeners this
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morning on Katie I, h are you the least bit
worried about ebola?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
This is Henry from Spring. I don't give a fat
frogs behind about the ebola virus, but it is something
that should probably be monitored. And the less is gonna
fear amonger. Let them do their saying and run around
like a chicken little they off. This will all come
back on on one fine day.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
This is DNA from Summerwood. And with regards to your
question about ebola, it's an election year. They're gonna throw
everything into the wall to see what sticks. And how
do you subjugate a population, You make them afraid, not afraid.
I'm not scared and I don't care about the Ebola
virus and I'm not gonna watch the world come.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So there's that Dave on Lake conrol Man. I worked
down there when it flooded in the medical center.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Back then.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
They shot us with all kind of I don't know
what they've shot us up all with vaccines and this
and that. If that Ebola jumps on me, it's gonna
jump right back off. I guarantee I hardly ever get See.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
This is Debby from Baytown. I'm really not that concerned
about the Bola virus. But what I do think they
need to come up with is something to give people
who want to break other people's spirits and who think
it's okay to murder other people and it's justified, and
to just try to be mean spirited and always with
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their threats and accusations.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Falsely not quite sure where she was going with that one,
but okay, maybe we should give those people to eat bola.
All right, quick little break back with boring in a
moment Jimmy Bart Show, You're an am nine fifty k PRC.
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It is a college graduation season and I've been watching
with interest who universities are picking to give their commencement address.
A lot of athletes this year. LSU had Shaquille O'Neal, Yeah,
shack to get the commencement address. I think they gave
him a master's degree, or did he get a master
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I'm not sure if he earned it or if they
gave him one. Maybe, I don't know. Usually doctorates are
what they give up, so he did one. I know that.
At the University of Michigan, Jalen Rose, if you remember
the Fab five Michigan basketball back in the nineties, he
delivered the commencement address. I'm not quite sure what his thing.
I think his team had to do with where he
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began in life and how he's ended up as a
graduate at the University of Michigan. I think I think
that you know, and it's sort of a message to
people who come from humble beginnings that you know you
can you can be a success and that that's a
good that's a good message. I have no problem with that.
But then you have other ones where they have maybe
somebody who's really progressive or just playing famous or both,
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which is what Arizona State got when they booked Harrison Ford. Yeah,
you know, Indiana Jones. He delivered the commencement address, so
he thought it was a great time to talk talk
about social justice and climate change and a whole whole
bunch of bs. Progressive bs is what he was talking about.
(10:10):
So here is a little bit of his commencement address
or portions of his commencement address. Was there some reaction
from Greg Getfeld and his panel on his late night show.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
We have essential mandate to protect thirty percent of the
world's land and sea by twenty thirty to prevent the
mass extinction, the slow the warming of our planet. We
need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We
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need to respect and elevate the indigenous peoples that are
being marginalized.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And in many cases killed in cold blood. Paul, what
the is he talking about?
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Land the man?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
When you hear an eight year old.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Man talking about social justice, which is another word for equity,
you're not creating anything but just taking things. This is
the guy who did seventy films with the carbon footprint
of like an entire city each year.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
He's got the carbon footprint of like Torontosaurus Rex. Yes,
and he's talking about global warming and all this stuff.
You're in the Arizona desert pile. It's gonna be hot,
all right. I mean that's what hello. I was just
you know, I did a little research, and you know,
it's amazing to me. This guy here, he's had a couple,
like at least four or five houses right now, he's
got two. Listen to this carbon footprint. He has in
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Wyoming a ranch of eight hundred acres. It's him and
the wife. They got four hundred acres each, all right,
And he doesn't look to me like he gets around that. Well,
four hundred acres he's got. Plus he's got an LA
house up to thirteen million dollars fourteen thousand square feet.
I mean, he's got seven beds, nine bets and a
guest caught yeah, Adam Millennium talking. So and the other
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thing is this just like really like Harrison Ford is
who you guys in nineteen eighty already, I mean really.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It gives it. Yeah, exactly. But here here's what I
get from that. First of all, you know, the progressive
crowd isn't being slowed down at all by these scientists
who are actually starting to say, yeah, well you know
this whole apocalyptic global warming thing. Yeah we're kind of yeah,
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we're backing way off on that. Evidently that's not making
a dent on the progressive crowd. They're still all in
on climate change. Also, the social justice warrior thing, the DEI,
they're all still in on that. They're not going to change. Now.
I knew that Harrison Ford, being an actor, I assumed
he was liberal, but I didn't realize that he was
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that progressive. But he's boy, he is all in and
then some isn't he. But here's here's the lesson I
walked away from. That's why I mentioned some of the
other commencement speakers. I doubt if Shaquille O'Neill at LSU
was talking about global warming and social justice and indigenous peoples.
I'm pretty sure he had a more uplifting message for
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the graduates. And I'm going to assume that Arizona State,
which is where Harrison Ford was giving that commencement address.
I'm going to assume that Arizona State knew exactly what
they were getting when they booked him. I'm sure they
knew exactly what he was going to talk about. I'm
sure they have no problem with the content, which tells
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me that if you're a parent here in Texas who's
moderate or conservative and you don't want your kids exposed
to that kind of stuff, you can gather a lot
of information about what's going on behind the scenes at
whatever university they're at based on who their commencement address
is being delivered by. And Arizona State would be high
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on my radar list right now to be sending a
kid to because you know what they're going to be
exposed to, which is not to say that they can't
fight back against it if they've been raised right, you know,
and have some basic knowledge of what's really going on
in the world. But you know, if you want to
avoid the issue to begin with, the problem to begin with,
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then to send them somewhere else. Take take a look
at the last ten commencement speakers. It's not hard to
get that information last ten commencement speakers and what they
talked about at any university, and that will give you
a pattern of behavior that would tell you whether or
not you that's a university that you want your child
exposed to. All right, this morning, here's here's the story
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I think is worth covering with you this morning. Briefly
before our morning show began, the price of oil got
below one hundred bucks a barrel. That came because yesterday
there was more talk that, you know, maybe the negotiations
are going better, that maybe maybe there's gonna be peace
deal with Iran. The straight of horm Moves is going
to get open. That's all it took for it to
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drop down, you know, from the low one hundred to
two like in mid nineties. But I didn't stay there
for long because, as usual, it turns out that you know,
there's not really a piece deal that's eminent, and it's
just as likely that in the next week or so
that there may be another attack on Iran. And I
think in either case the oil market would relate well
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if just something happened to get that situation off the dime.
Of course, nothing really has happened yet, because the price
went right back up after we went on the air
this morning, up around one hundred and three hundred and
four bucks a barrel. So I had Phil Flynn on.
He's he's a market analyst, you know, to talk about
the speculation over Iran, to talk about, you know, the
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price of oil. There are a lot of people who
seem to think that even once that whole thing has
resolved because of the oil manufacturing, if you will, we'll
be a little bit behind and it's going to take
a while to get all these tankers situation to where
they need to be, that even once that situation has
resolved one way or another, that the high prices are
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going to be with us for a while. He thinks
the drop is going to be a lot quicker than that.
Here's my conversation this morning with Phil Flynn. They had
it below one hundred bucks a barrel at one point
before we went on the air this morning, but it's
back up over one hundred bucks. So it didn't stay
there for long. No, it didn't.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
And you can blame the ia Toola for coming out
of his bunker. Come on, guys, I mean, you know
we haven't heard from this guy, the new Iatola of Iran,
the Grand Puba or I think they call him a
Supreme leader I don't know what they call him, but
supposedly he's the guy calling the shots over there. And
you know, yesterday markets were plummeting, really plummeting.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know, on.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Expectations that the US Iran tea still was in its
final stages. We're either going to get to a situation
where it's either going to be a peace steal or
we're going to you know, really take out Iran. And
so it looked like that they had negotiations going towards
the end of the month. We also saw some ships
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starting to get through the straight of horm moves, so
it seemed like we were heading in the right direction.
But then all of a sudden, boom, the Isola says,
we're not giving up the nukes, and here we go.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, I'll tell you what. Here's the good news that
I'm hearing of what you're saying is that the oil
market is reacting very quickly to whatever news is coming
on of Iran. And if we can somehow bring this
thing to an end one way or another, the prices
should drop relatively quickly, shouldn't.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
They They should and they will. And you know, I
know there's a lot of experts out there that are saying, hey,
there's so much damage done because of the production shut downs,
because of the straight of hor moves, and you know,
it may be months or years before we get back
to normal, And that all may be true to a
certain extent. But where there's a will, there's away. Right,
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We're already seeing oil moving in different directions. We're seeing
new pipelines be built and so, and we're also seeing
the US produce a record amount of oil. We're seeing
export flows go in different directions. So the doom and
gloomers are probably not on line. So what will normally
happen is that, you know, we'll get hopefully a peace deal,
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or the Iran regime gives up oil prices plummet, then
we start working back up a little bit based on
supplying demand. So I see better days ahead, and I
agree with the presidents. We're in the final stages of
this thing. One way or the other, either a peace
deal or Iran is going to be finished, and they're
going to retake the strait of horror moves. The US
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will open it up, and the Iranian regime will be
on the dusk keep of history.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, I think you're right about that. Sooner versus later,
hopefully one way or the other. I guess the other
piece of silver lining I would think for us in
Texas is is that when the oil industry is booming,
and the American oil industry is booming right now and
prices are high, that's good news for the oil industry
here in Texas, isn't there?
Speaker 13 (18:59):
It sure is, Listen. I mean, the oil industry is
a boom and bust industry, right and we've all been
through the uptimes and the downtimes. And one of the
problems a lot of the people have in the oil
industry with Donald Trump, he was too good at doing
what he was doing right. It was bringing prices down
too quickly, you know, it was hard for them to
adjust and make profits. Hopefully, a lot of the players
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in the industry have taken advantage of this price increase,
you know, started to hedge some of their production, which
means we can, you know, even at the war ends
tomorrow and prices go back down, Hopefully the lock in
these prices and they'll be able to produce a lot
more oil for a longer period of time. So I
think this is just going to drive new record highs
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on oil could we be producing fourteen million barrels a
day pretty soon? I think we could.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's Phil Flynn. I like what he's saying. All right, quick,
lill break back with Bore in a moment, Jimmy Barrett
Show here an AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, We're
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going to get into election fatigue in this segment of
the show, because I think there are there are people
who believe that we're all kind of tired of politics,
and there's a lot of reasons behind it. We'll get
into some of those reasons. Gary Pollin with a Texas
Conservative Review coming up here in just a couple of minutes,
but before, maybe as an example of why we are
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fatigued with politics and politicians. I saw an interview on
Mornings with Marie over there in Fox Business with the
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst talking about you and me as
taxpayers getting ripped off to the tune of one point
four billion dollars a day. Think about that for a second,
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one point four billion a day, the taxpayer dollars. They
are being stolen, fraud, whatever, whatever you want to say
about it's gone. It's gone to thieves. Some of its
inside jobs, some of its outside job. But I think
we look at that and that's one of the reasons
why we're fatigued this because we see this, we're finding
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out so much more about how we're being ripped off,
and we've been getting ripped off for years and nobody's
doing anything about it. Here's that interview with Senator Jonie Ernst.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
What we have discovered as I've worked through a number
of these fraud cases, is that we lose approximately one
point four billion dollars every single day to fraud. That's
taxpayer money, it's real money, Maria. And so through these
small business programs, we're now exposing people working within the system,
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actually working for our federal government agencies that are perpetuating
the fraud. We've got, you know, examples of a fraud
influencer who was using social media to recruit participants in
a small business scheme and she gained the system by
about three point five million dollars. We have another example
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of a VA representative who was really asking disabled veterans
for bribes in order to get their disability paperwork done.
So we have all kinds of bad actors out there.
We're going to expose them today. I'm thankful for Luke
Rosiack's great work and so many others that have really
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brought America's attention to the fraud that's being committed against
the federal government and our tech show.
Speaker 14 (22:42):
So where is this going? I mean, it's incredible how
much fraud there was when you start looking under rocks here,
and how come it's taken so long to actually identify
this and do something about it.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
What are next steps?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Then, Senator right, Thank you Maria, because I have worked
on this issue for about twelve years now. There are
a number of us that you know, before Doge was cool,
I've had my own efforts to uncover fraud, waste and
abuse within the federal government. But it has taken these
media personalities people that will bring it forward to the
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American people. Because when I'm talking about it as Joni Earnst,
a senator from Iowa, it's not that sexy and exciting.
But when you have others that are able to push
it nationwide to the media, it really does gain attention.
So we're thankful for that. But we're referring these cases
to the Office of Inspector General, putting together a case
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and then hopefully it can be referred for prosecution.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Hopefully it can you hear that, Hopefully it can be
referred for prosecution. The reason why we're don't think it's
sexy is because very few of these people get prosecuted.
And when you don't prosecute, when you don't throw people
in jail for doing this kind of stuff, then it
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just continues to happen because it's a risk reward situation
for a thief. If it's easy to get away with
ripping us off, then they're going to rip us off.
If you're not really worried that you're going to get caught,
if you're not really worried that if you do, you're
going to get prosecuted, and if you're not really worried
about going to jail, then you know the risk. The
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reward is much greater than the risk. So unless we're
willing to get really tough on these people, it's going
to continue. And that's where the frustration comes from. That's
where the fatigue comes from, because we're tired of electing
people and sending them to Washington, DC, or where it
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is we're sending them and they don't get anything done,
or if they do get something done, it doesn't amount
to much. I was talking, as they said to Gary
Polland about that Texas Conservative review about voter fatigue. It's
it's it's it's a real issue. It's it's a it's
a whole brood of things. But it also has a
lot to do. I think, would the tone that our
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elections have taken, and we've seen it right here in
Texas with the Texas primary season, and it also the
endless election cycles. Want election to the next Here's my
conversation with Gary Polham. Do you think that we have
a lot of voter burnout out there right now? Gary,
I do.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I mean, we have a lot of elections. I mean,
you think about just this year, we had special elections
for the city, we had the normal primaries, we have runoffs,
and then you know, you have bond issues that come
in and they just go on and on and on.
And the other problem is, you know, Jimmy, the voters
just don't have all the information they need. I mean, yes,
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they get a lot of mail and they get TV commercials,
but in terms of real substance, I mean you and
in the station at Katerrice does a terrific job. Okay,
who else does it's a it's a big problem, and
so people have gotten tired of it. I even had
a judge last week. I mean, they didn't know what
was on the ballot. They've been out of town. And
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these are well informed people. There's not an average citizen.
So we need to come up with some uniform election
dates and and that's it. And there are going to
be special elections for bond issues and the like, and
if somebody resigns from city council, they're just going to
have to wait till it's the primary and in general
and get on the ballot when that happens.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You know, though, when we have things like bond issues
or primary runoffs, the voter participation rate is not very high.
So I think it might go even deeper than just
having so many elections. Gary, I think I think it's
the style of the campaigns, and I think the Texas
primaries are a perfect example of that. They're just nothing
but attack ads and lies for the most part, and
I think people hear that and it completely turns them
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off in the entire process.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Well, I think there's a lot of truth to what
you say, Jimmy, though. The theory of political experts is
that negative campaigning draw helps and throw trash, shun your opponent.
You do enough of it, you can win. But I
think that it creates a distaste about how politics. Politics
are just nasty. There's an old saying. The old political
stage told me early when my career, and they said,
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you know how politics work. They're going to do negative
research on you. And I said, well, what if they
don't find anything? And the answer is then they'll make
it up.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do you think that maybe part of this too is
just a general dislike for both political parties at this
point that I don't know that voters feel like the
people that they're electing are getting things done.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
I think you've nailed it. I think there's a feeling
among voters. So generally you're told one thing during the campaign,
then they get into office, they forget everything that they
said they're going to do, and they're going to do
with whatever they do, but they're not doing what the
people want, and the people are under stind bickering. The
people are still getting stuff done. That's what it's supposed
to be, and we have persistent problems everywhere in our
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system and we're not getting people into office. Generally, they're
taking care of business, and so that creates a big
problem and people then believe does my vote even matter?
And that's that's the biggest problem we have when people
decide they're not going to vote, But then think of
the length of the ballot. Jimmy, you know when our
fall election were, we're going to have one hundred and
twenty people on the ballot and harriscanting. Think about that,
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and even well informed people that would include you and me.
We don't know every one of these candiates in their backgrounds,
can you. So you can imagine what happens for just
regular folks who go to work, take care of their families.
They don't have any information. They just don't know. And
so we've got to take a hard look at how
we do all of it, because it would if we
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were in a small county, people would know who the
judges were. Here, even lawyers who practice in the courthouse
regularly don't know all the judges in Canada.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Can't relieve you mentioned judges that there are. There are
plenty of races where there is not an opponent, you know,
where the Democrat is the loan candidate for that particular position.
No wonder that people get frustrated. If you don't have
an alternative to vote for it, that's very frustrating.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
It is very frustrating. And again and that's part of
the problem. So what do we do, I say, you know,
uniform elections. I think we need to look at how
we select judges and decide way that it works. It
gets the best and the brightest, that doesn't end up
with basically accidents getting elected because people vote straight Democrat
or a straight Republican.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That is from the texnas conservative view. There's Gary Palman.
All right, quick little break, final segment coming up. Stand
by for more Jimmy Bart show here in the AM
nine to fifty KPRC. All right, for the progressives or socialists,
(30:00):
is that kind of like one of the same. Can
I assume that most progressives are socialists at heart? Probably so,
But for them, it's very easy to blame wealth on
a whole lot of problems. You know. The tactic is
always to separate us based on a whole variety of
different things, whether it's skin color or religion, or you know,
(30:26):
our personal wealth of what we do for a living,
those types of things, and billionaires, at least for the
socialist crowd. Billionaires are always an easy target because there's
so few billionaires. How many people have over a billion dollars,
you know, it's very easy to make an accusation. Look,
they don't pay their fair share in taxes. Well, what
(30:49):
is their fair share? And how much taxes do they pay?
And are they following the law. And for the most
part they are. They're paying millions, perhaps even billions of
dollars in taxes. Take a Jeff Bezos for example, you know,
the guy that gave us Amazon. He he pays a
(31:10):
lot of taxes. Now, he doesn't pay a lot of
income taxes because he doesn't really his net worth is
based on the stock he owns more than his on
his salary. I think he pays it. Well, we'll get
into that this in this the little cut here, he doesn't.
He pays himself far less than you probably make a year,
because that's not how he makes his money. He makes
his money by making his company successful. And Amazon is
(31:33):
clearly highly successful. They're a multi billion dollar a year business.
But they don't think the progressives don't think the Jeff
Bezos pays taxes or certainly not his fair share of taxes,
And they think that, you know, it's easy to make
a target of him. Well, he's starting to push back
a little bit. He's tired of it. He started being
(31:54):
picked off because he happens to be successful. So here's
what Jeff Bezos had to say about being a billllionaire
and paying taxes and picking on billionaires. A little follow
up from Joe Rogan on the same topic. They're both
referring to AOC who made some comment about how you
shouldn't be allowed to make a billion dollars. You shouldn't
be you shouldn't be allowed to be a billionaire. And
then we'll have follow up from there from Jesse Waters
(32:17):
on the five.
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Politicians are using the kind of age old technique and
there's this tale of two economies and they're using this
age old technique of you know, picking a villain and
pointing fingers. But the problem is that doesn't solve anything.
People sometimes say that that, you know, I don't pay taxes.
(32:39):
So true, I paid billions of dollars in taxes. You
could double the taxes I pay and it's not going
to help that teacher in Queens.
Speaker 16 (32:47):
I promise you this idea that it's easy to become
a billionaire, and that these billionaires, somehow or another are
the problem because they're not paying their fair share is
so weird. We just assume that everybody who makes an
incredible amount of money stole it. I think I literally
heard AOC say this recently, that no one achieves substantial
(33:10):
wealth without somehow or another victimizing other people.
Speaker 17 (33:13):
Well, the billionaires need better pr and this is a
step in the right direction. It is a company that
employs a million people, a million Americans, and they make
great salaries.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 17 (33:27):
To be a driver and if your corporate you make
six figures easy.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It's a great company to start out.
Speaker 17 (33:32):
A stock price ten years ago, stock price at Amazon
was fifty dollars a share. Today it's like two hundred
and fifty dollars. The guy is a multi billionaire because
he owns a lot of the company. And you know
how much a salary is. Salary is eighty one grand
a year, because that's what he paid himself in like
nineteen ninety eight, and it's kept that way now. Doesn't
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pay a lot of income tax on eighty one thousand
dollars a year because you can't tax wealth. All of
his wealth is tied up in Amazon stock. He sold
it once, sold about four billion dollars in stock a
couple of years back, and paid about a billion dollars
in taxes. And he basically lives off that or he
(34:17):
borrows from whatever the assets are. And if you want
to go start grabbing his wealth and grabbing his company,
it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I think about what this company does.
Speaker 17 (34:27):
You can get whatever you want, a slip and slide, sneakers,
vitra at the click of a button.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
This has changed the world.
Speaker 17 (34:34):
We used to have to trade Indians for stuff. We
used to forage in the forest. We have to build things,
We have to elbow people out of the way on
Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
We don't have to do that anymore.
Speaker 17 (34:44):
This guy solved every single problem in commercial capitalism.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And you guys want to put him in prison. No good,
No good. That's a slight exaggeration, but not by much.
I mean the name Amazon itself right, No. On the logo,
they have like a like a little underline under A
and then another like a little smiley thing under Z.
He goes from A to Z. That's that's yeah, that's
(35:08):
because they sell everything from A to Z. That's then
entire alphabet. They sell it all. The guy's a billionaire
because he sells so much stuff to so many people,
and he's changed the landscape of modern shopping. I mean,
there are very few things I don't know about you,
but there are very few things I go to the
store to buy anymore. It's just easy to order them
(35:30):
online and to get them delivered right to your house,
sometimes the same day. So hey, God bless him. I mean,
he's successful for a reason because he created something that
everybody wants. And yeah, he pays taxes. He plays penny
plenty of taxes, and he provides jobs for other people
(35:50):
who pay taxes. So I don't want to hear this.
They aren't paying their fair share. Crap. All right, listen,
we're gonna we're gonna head on out. We're gonna enjoy
a nice long Memorial Day weekend. I hope you do too.
We'll be back. We'll have a best stuff for you tomorrow.
Not sure what we're doing on Memorial Day self, but
you're gonna be busy doing whatever, cooking out probably, and
we'll be back Tuesday. We'll see you then here on
(36:11):
AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Bartt Show,
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Common then breaking down the world's nonsense about how American
common sense will see us through with the common sense
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Houston dot com. This is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, welcome to another rainy day in Houston, Texas.
Good Lord Almighty, before this weekend is over and done
with for Memorial Day. I mean, of all the times,
to have all this rain right before the holiday, right,
But welcome to the show. We're gonna talk about a
lot of things on the show today, not the least
of which is the ebola I'm making I'm making it.
(00:52):
I'm not, by the way, I'm not making fun of
people who have ebola. I'm just making fun of the
media hyping up the ebola virus. They love a good virus,
they love to keep us scared. And there are some
people in the government who probably like to keep us
scared too, because, after all, they had so much fun
with us during COVID nineteen. Which is not to say
(01:14):
that the ebola virus is not a serious thing. I
just don't believe it's a serious thing for people in
the United States of America. It's a serious thing for
people who live in Africa, or people who travel to Africa,
or Africans who potentially come here. And maybe that's why,
at least on a local basis, or hyping it up
a little bit. And I'm just talking about the media
(01:37):
in general. I'm quite the opposite. I'm trying to downplay
it as much as I possibly can. We have people
from the Congo coming here for FIFA World Cup. They're
gonna be training here in Houston. They're gonna be participating
here in Houston. Again, I'm making an assumption I probably
shouldn't assume, but I'm making an assumption. These people are
(01:58):
all being tested before they come here, so that there's
nobody that actively has or has been exposed to the
Ebola virus who's going to be in this country. You
would hope that would be the case, but I don't
know that we know that with one certainty. I do
know that whether or not you're going to get a
(02:18):
physician to participate in the hype has a lot to
do with who that physician is. Mary Tally Bowden, who
is a well known doctor because of the things that
she did to try to fight back against the government
encroachment on our lives during COVID nineteen. Says, there's nothing
to worry about. You know, we're going to We're not
(02:40):
going to get a massive bunch of cases of ebola
here in the United States. There's no reason for us
to get all bent out of shape about that. But
then you have other people such as doctor Robert Redfield.
You remember him. He was the director of the CDC
during Trump's first term back in twenty eighteen. Uh, doctor
(03:02):
Redfield thinks that this is a fairly serious thing. So
we'll hear from him right now and get some reaction
to it. Here's doctor Robert Redfield, and.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
This is an outbreak right now that is really a
significant outbreak, that's a significant public health international concern. Partially
because what you said, it wasn't recognized very quickly. I'm
not sure why. Normally, when we had these bowl outbreaks,
and I had three of them when I was CDC director,
all of which were in the DRC, Normally we recognize
(03:35):
them when we have five to ten cases, you know,
most this one really wasn't picked up till there was
over one hundred cases, as you said, Now there's over
five hundred cases. There's close to one hundred and fifty
deaths already, and it's moving very rapidly. It is spread
into Uganda already. There's concern that it may be spreading
into South Sudan. So I do think this is going
(03:57):
to be a significant signific again a bula outbreak, this.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Strain of a bola, because there are many different strains
of this disease, but this one has no vaccine and
no treatment. Is that what makes the fatality rate so
high or is it something else? It's a fatality rate
of twenty five to fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, the original Diariyan strain that I had to deal with,
I had a mortality rate around seventy percent. But we
were able during the pandemic. We were able to develop
and not wave with the private sector pharmaceutical companies Merk
in particular, we're able to develop antibodies for treatment which
reduced the mortality under ten percent if we could treat
(04:38):
a patient, and then they developed a vaccine that could
actually also reduce the mortality in the likelihood of infection.
The problem with the current strain is neither the vaccine
or the animodies that were developed for the Anxian strain work.
There is an mental vaccine that's been in trials in most.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
We need it now, they need it now.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yeah, has patients zero been identified? And why is it
so important to find whoever this person is?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't think that they know who the initial patient was.
You can see the real problem that happens just like
this doctor got infected. Normally, what happens is the patients
end up going into the hospital, they're not recognized, the
infection control procedures are not as tight as they need
to be. Then the doctors and nurses get infected frequently.
The doctors and nurses then infect on their patients. I
(05:27):
had one hospital in the DRC when I was CIBC
director that over seventy percent of the patients ended up
dying of obola because it was spread from patient to
patient to patient by the healthcare professional.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Okay, so is it a problem in Africa? So the
out sounds like it could be a problem in Africa.
An you all go in Africa? No me either. Any
of the Africans coming here hopefully well, other than the
soccer players from the Congo hopefully not so. I don't
see this as being a big problem in the United States.
(05:59):
But again it's it's it's been a daily story for
the last few days. It probably is going to continue
to be a daily story. And you heard the anchor
that's from News Nation by the way, that's Elizabeth Bargas,
when he's talking about they may have a vaccine development.
Will they never get the vaccine? You know they're they're
more than happy to. Obviously, she's one of those people
(06:20):
probably got all every COVID shot you could possibly get,
so you know, what a what a great chance to
go get vaccinated against something that you had very little
chance of being exposed to. It won't be long before
your local pharmacy right will probably be offering up ebola
vaccines here pretty soon. But I asked our listeners this
(06:41):
morning on Katie I, h are you the least bit
worried about ebola?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
This is Henry from Spring. I don't give a fat
frogs behind about the ebola virus, but it is something
that should probably be monitored. And the less is gonna
fear amonger. Let them do their saying and run around
like a chicken little they off. This will all come
back on on one fine day.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
This is DNA from Summerwood. And with regards to your
question about ebola, it's an election year. They're gonna throw
everything into the wall to see what sticks. And how
do you subjugate a population, You make them afraid, not afraid.
I'm not scared and I don't care about the Ebola
virus and I'm not gonna watch the world come.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So there's that Dave on Lake conrol Man. I worked
down there when it flooded in the medical center.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Back then.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
They shot us with all kind of I don't know
what they've shot us up all with vaccines and this
and that. If that Ebola jumps on me, it's gonna
jump right back off. I guarantee I hardly ever get See.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
This is Debby from Baytown. I'm really not that concerned
about the Bola virus. But what I do think they
need to come up with is something to give people
who want to break other people's spirits and who think
it's okay to murder other people and it's justified, and
to just try to be mean spirited and always with
(08:05):
their threats and accusations.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Falsely not quite sure where she was going with that one,
but okay, maybe we should give those people to eat bola.
All right, quick little break back with boring in a
moment Jimmy Bart Show, You're an am nine fifty k PRC.
(08:36):
It is a college graduation season and I've been watching
with interest who universities are picking to give their commencement address.
A lot of athletes this year. LSU had Shaquille O'Neal, Yeah,
shack to get the commencement address. I think they gave
him a master's degree, or did he get a master
(08:59):
I'm not sure if he earned it or if they
gave him one. Maybe, I don't know. Usually doctorates are
what they give up, so he did one. I know that.
At the University of Michigan, Jalen Rose, if you remember
the Fab five Michigan basketball back in the nineties, he
delivered the commencement address. I'm not quite sure what his thing.
I think his team had to do with where he
(09:20):
began in life and how he's ended up as a
graduate at the University of Michigan. I think I think
that you know, and it's sort of a message to
people who come from humble beginnings that you know you
can you can be a success and that that's a
good that's a good message. I have no problem with that.
But then you have other ones where they have maybe
somebody who's really progressive or just playing famous or both,
(09:48):
which is what Arizona State got when they booked Harrison Ford. Yeah,
you know, Indiana Jones. He delivered the commencement address, so
he thought it was a great time to talk talk
about social justice and climate change and a whole whole
bunch of bs. Progressive bs is what he was talking about.
(10:10):
So here is a little bit of his commencement address
or portions of his commencement address. Was there some reaction
from Greg Getfeld and his panel on his late night show.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
We have essential mandate to protect thirty percent of the
world's land and sea by twenty thirty to prevent the
mass extinction, the slow the warming of our planet. We
need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We
(10:49):
need to respect and elevate the indigenous peoples that are
being marginalized.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And in many cases killed in cold blood. Paul, what
the is he talking about?
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Land the man?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
When you hear an eight year old.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Man talking about social justice, which is another word for equity,
you're not creating anything but just taking things. This is
the guy who did seventy films with the carbon footprint
of like an entire city each year.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
He's got the carbon footprint of like Torontosaurus Rex. Yes,
and he's talking about global warming and all this stuff.
You're in the Arizona desert pile. It's gonna be hot,
all right. I mean that's what hello. I was just
you know, I did a little research, and you know,
it's amazing to me. This guy here, he's had a couple,
like at least four or five houses right now, he's
got two. Listen to this carbon footprint. He has in
(11:41):
Wyoming a ranch of eight hundred acres. It's him and
the wife. They got four hundred acres each, all right,
And he doesn't look to me like he gets around that. Well,
four hundred acres he's got. Plus he's got an LA
house up to thirteen million dollars fourteen thousand square feet.
I mean, he's got seven beds, nine bets and a
guest caught yeah, Adam Millennium talking. So and the other
(12:04):
thing is this just like really like Harrison Ford is
who you guys in nineteen eighty already, I mean really.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It gives it. Yeah, exactly. But here here's what I
get from that. First of all, you know, the progressive
crowd isn't being slowed down at all by these scientists
who are actually starting to say, yeah, well you know
this whole apocalyptic global warming thing. Yeah we're kind of yeah,
(12:32):
we're backing way off on that. Evidently that's not making
a dent on the progressive crowd. They're still all in
on climate change. Also, the social justice warrior thing, the DEI,
they're all still in on that. They're not going to change. Now.
I knew that Harrison Ford, being an actor, I assumed
he was liberal, but I didn't realize that he was
(12:54):
that progressive. But he's boy, he is all in and
then some isn't he. But here's here's the lesson I
walked away from. That's why I mentioned some of the
other commencement speakers. I doubt if Shaquille O'Neill at LSU
was talking about global warming and social justice and indigenous peoples.
I'm pretty sure he had a more uplifting message for
(13:15):
the graduates. And I'm going to assume that Arizona State,
which is where Harrison Ford was giving that commencement address.
I'm going to assume that Arizona State knew exactly what
they were getting when they booked him. I'm sure they
knew exactly what he was going to talk about. I'm
sure they have no problem with the content, which tells
(13:37):
me that if you're a parent here in Texas who's
moderate or conservative and you don't want your kids exposed
to that kind of stuff, you can gather a lot
of information about what's going on behind the scenes at
whatever university they're at based on who their commencement address
is being delivered by. And Arizona State would be high
(13:57):
on my radar list right now to be sending a
kid to because you know what they're going to be
exposed to, which is not to say that they can't
fight back against it if they've been raised right, you know,
and have some basic knowledge of what's really going on
in the world. But you know, if you want to
avoid the issue to begin with, the problem to begin with,
(14:17):
then to send them somewhere else. Take take a look
at the last ten commencement speakers. It's not hard to
get that information last ten commencement speakers and what they
talked about at any university, and that will give you
a pattern of behavior that would tell you whether or
not you that's a university that you want your child
exposed to. All right, this morning, here's here's the story
(14:40):
I think is worth covering with you this morning. Briefly
before our morning show began, the price of oil got
below one hundred bucks a barrel. That came because yesterday
there was more talk that, you know, maybe the negotiations
are going better, that maybe maybe there's gonna be peace
deal with Iran. The straight of horm Moves is going
to get open. That's all it took for it to
(15:01):
drop down, you know, from the low one hundred to
two like in mid nineties. But I didn't stay there
for long because, as usual, it turns out that you know,
there's not really a piece deal that's eminent, and it's
just as likely that in the next week or so
that there may be another attack on Iran. And I
think in either case the oil market would relate well
(15:22):
if just something happened to get that situation off the dime.
Of course, nothing really has happened yet, because the price
went right back up after we went on the air
this morning, up around one hundred and three hundred and
four bucks a barrel. So I had Phil Flynn on.
He's he's a market analyst, you know, to talk about
the speculation over Iran, to talk about, you know, the
(15:44):
price of oil. There are a lot of people who
seem to think that even once that whole thing has
resolved because of the oil manufacturing, if you will, we'll
be a little bit behind and it's going to take
a while to get all these tankers situation to where
they need to be, that even once that situation has
resolved one way or another, that the high prices are
(16:06):
going to be with us for a while. He thinks
the drop is going to be a lot quicker than that.
Here's my conversation this morning with Phil Flynn. They had
it below one hundred bucks a barrel at one point
before we went on the air this morning, but it's
back up over one hundred bucks. So it didn't stay
there for long. No, it didn't.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
And you can blame the ia Toola for coming out
of his bunker. Come on, guys, I mean, you know
we haven't heard from this guy, the new Iatola of Iran,
the Grand Puba or I think they call him a
Supreme leader I don't know what they call him, but
supposedly he's the guy calling the shots over there. And
you know, yesterday markets were plummeting, really plummeting.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know, on.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Expectations that the US Iran tea still was in its
final stages. We're either going to get to a situation
where it's either going to be a peace steal or
we're going to you know, really take out Iran. And
so it looked like that they had negotiations going towards
the end of the month. We also saw some ships
(17:07):
starting to get through the straight of horm moves, so
it seemed like we were heading in the right direction.
But then all of a sudden, boom, the Isola says,
we're not giving up the nukes, and here we go.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, I'll tell you what. Here's the good news that
I'm hearing of what you're saying is that the oil
market is reacting very quickly to whatever news is coming
on of Iran. And if we can somehow bring this
thing to an end one way or another, the prices
should drop relatively quickly, shouldn't.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
They They should and they will. And you know, I
know there's a lot of experts out there that are saying, hey,
there's so much damage done because of the production shut downs,
because of the straight of hor moves, and you know,
it may be months or years before we get back
to normal, And that all may be true to a
certain extent. But where there's a will, there's away. Right,
(17:55):
We're already seeing oil moving in different directions. We're seeing
new pipelines be built and so, and we're also seeing
the US produce a record amount of oil. We're seeing
export flows go in different directions. So the doom and
gloomers are probably not on line. So what will normally
happen is that, you know, we'll get hopefully a peace deal,
(18:15):
or the Iran regime gives up oil prices plummet, then
we start working back up a little bit based on
supplying demand. So I see better days ahead, and I
agree with the presidents. We're in the final stages of
this thing. One way or the other, either a peace
deal or Iran is going to be finished, and they're
going to retake the strait of horror moves. The US
(18:37):
will open it up, and the Iranian regime will be
on the dusk keep of history.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, I think you're right about that. Sooner versus later,
hopefully one way or the other. I guess the other
piece of silver lining I would think for us in
Texas is is that when the oil industry is booming,
and the American oil industry is booming right now and
prices are high, that's good news for the oil industry
here in Texas, isn't there?
Speaker 13 (18:59):
It sure is, Listen. I mean, the oil industry is
a boom and bust industry, right and we've all been
through the uptimes and the downtimes. And one of the
problems a lot of the people have in the oil
industry with Donald Trump, he was too good at doing
what he was doing right. It was bringing prices down
too quickly, you know, it was hard for them to
adjust and make profits. Hopefully, a lot of the players
(19:19):
in the industry have taken advantage of this price increase,
you know, started to hedge some of their production, which
means we can, you know, even at the war ends
tomorrow and prices go back down, Hopefully the lock in
these prices and they'll be able to produce a lot
more oil for a longer period of time. So I
think this is just going to drive new record highs
(19:40):
on oil could we be producing fourteen million barrels a
day pretty soon? I think we could.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's Phil Flynn. I like what he's saying. All right, quick,
lill break back with Bore in a moment, Jimmy Barrett
Show here an AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, We're
(20:10):
going to get into election fatigue in this segment of
the show, because I think there are there are people
who believe that we're all kind of tired of politics,
and there's a lot of reasons behind it. We'll get
into some of those reasons. Gary Pollin with a Texas
Conservative Review coming up here in just a couple of minutes,
but before, maybe as an example of why we are
(20:33):
fatigued with politics and politicians. I saw an interview on
Mornings with Marie over there in Fox Business with the
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst talking about you and me as
taxpayers getting ripped off to the tune of one point
four billion dollars a day. Think about that for a second,
(20:56):
one point four billion a day, the taxpayer dollars. They
are being stolen, fraud, whatever, whatever you want to say
about it's gone. It's gone to thieves. Some of its
inside jobs, some of its outside job. But I think
we look at that and that's one of the reasons
why we're fatigued this because we see this, we're finding
(21:19):
out so much more about how we're being ripped off,
and we've been getting ripped off for years and nobody's
doing anything about it. Here's that interview with Senator Jonie Ernst.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
What we have discovered as I've worked through a number
of these fraud cases, is that we lose approximately one
point four billion dollars every single day to fraud. That's
taxpayer money, it's real money, Maria. And so through these
small business programs, we're now exposing people working within the system,
(21:52):
actually working for our federal government agencies that are perpetuating
the fraud. We've got, you know, examples of a fraud
influencer who was using social media to recruit participants in
a small business scheme and she gained the system by
about three point five million dollars. We have another example
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of a VA representative who was really asking disabled veterans
for bribes in order to get their disability paperwork done.
So we have all kinds of bad actors out there.
We're going to expose them today. I'm thankful for Luke
Rosiack's great work and so many others that have really
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brought America's attention to the fraud that's being committed against
the federal government and our tech show.
Speaker 14 (22:42):
So where is this going? I mean, it's incredible how
much fraud there was when you start looking under rocks here,
and how come it's taken so long to actually identify
this and do something about it.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
What are next steps?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Then, Senator right, Thank you Maria, because I have worked
on this issue for about twelve years now. There are
a number of us that you know, before Doge was cool,
I've had my own efforts to uncover fraud, waste and
abuse within the federal government. But it has taken these
media personalities people that will bring it forward to the
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American people. Because when I'm talking about it as Joni Earnst,
a senator from Iowa, it's not that sexy and exciting.
But when you have others that are able to push
it nationwide to the media, it really does gain attention.
So we're thankful for that. But we're referring these cases
to the Office of Inspector General, putting together a case
(23:39):
and then hopefully it can be referred for prosecution.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Hopefully it can you hear that, Hopefully it can be
referred for prosecution. The reason why we're don't think it's
sexy is because very few of these people get prosecuted.
And when you don't prosecute, when you don't throw people
in jail for doing this kind of stuff, then it
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just continues to happen because it's a risk reward situation
for a thief. If it's easy to get away with
ripping us off, then they're going to rip us off.
If you're not really worried that you're going to get caught,
if you're not really worried that if you do, you're
going to get prosecuted, and if you're not really worried
about going to jail, then you know the risk. The
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reward is much greater than the risk. So unless we're
willing to get really tough on these people, it's going
to continue. And that's where the frustration comes from. That's
where the fatigue comes from, because we're tired of electing
people and sending them to Washington, DC, or where it
(24:48):
is we're sending them and they don't get anything done,
or if they do get something done, it doesn't amount
to much. I was talking, as they said to Gary
Polland about that Texas Conservative review about voter fatigue. It's
it's it's it's a real issue. It's it's a it's
a whole brood of things. But it also has a
lot to do. I think, would the tone that our
(25:09):
elections have taken, and we've seen it right here in
Texas with the Texas primary season, and it also the
endless election cycles. Want election to the next Here's my
conversation with Gary Polham. Do you think that we have
a lot of voter burnout out there right now? Gary,
I do.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I mean, we have a lot of elections. I mean,
you think about just this year, we had special elections
for the city, we had the normal primaries, we have runoffs,
and then you know, you have bond issues that come
in and they just go on and on and on.
And the other problem is, you know, Jimmy, the voters
just don't have all the information they need. I mean, yes,
(25:46):
they get a lot of mail and they get TV commercials,
but in terms of real substance, I mean you and
in the station at Katerrice does a terrific job. Okay,
who else does it's a it's a big problem, and
so people have gotten tired of it. I even had
a judge last week. I mean, they didn't know what
was on the ballot. They've been out of town. And
(26:06):
these are well informed people. There's not an average citizen.
So we need to come up with some uniform election
dates and and that's it. And there are going to
be special elections for bond issues and the like, and
if somebody resigns from city council, they're just going to
have to wait till it's the primary and in general
and get on the ballot when that happens.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You know, though, when we have things like bond issues
or primary runoffs, the voter participation rate is not very high.
So I think it might go even deeper than just
having so many elections. Gary, I think I think it's
the style of the campaigns, and I think the Texas
primaries are a perfect example of that. They're just nothing
but attack ads and lies for the most part, and
I think people hear that and it completely turns them
(26:48):
off in the entire process.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Well, I think there's a lot of truth to what
you say, Jimmy, though. The theory of political experts is
that negative campaigning draw helps and throw trash, shun your opponent.
You do enough of it, you can win. But I
think that it creates a distaste about how politics. Politics
are just nasty. There's an old saying. The old political
stage told me early when my career, and they said,
(27:13):
you know how politics work. They're going to do negative
research on you. And I said, well, what if they
don't find anything? And the answer is then they'll make
it up.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do you think that maybe part of this too is
just a general dislike for both political parties at this
point that I don't know that voters feel like the
people that they're electing are getting things done.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
I think you've nailed it. I think there's a feeling
among voters. So generally you're told one thing during the campaign,
then they get into office, they forget everything that they
said they're going to do, and they're going to do
with whatever they do, but they're not doing what the
people want, and the people are under stind bickering. The
people are still getting stuff done. That's what it's supposed
to be, and we have persistent problems everywhere in our
(27:55):
system and we're not getting people into office. Generally, they're
taking care of business, and so that creates a big
problem and people then believe does my vote even matter?
And that's that's the biggest problem we have when people
decide they're not going to vote, But then think of
the length of the ballot. Jimmy, you know when our
fall election were, we're going to have one hundred and
twenty people on the ballot and harriscanting. Think about that,
(28:19):
and even well informed people that would include you and me.
We don't know every one of these candiates in their backgrounds,
can you. So you can imagine what happens for just
regular folks who go to work, take care of their families.
They don't have any information. They just don't know. And
so we've got to take a hard look at how
we do all of it, because it would if we
(28:39):
were in a small county, people would know who the
judges were. Here, even lawyers who practice in the courthouse
regularly don't know all the judges in Canada.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Can't relieve you mentioned judges that there are. There are
plenty of races where there is not an opponent, you know,
where the Democrat is the loan candidate for that particular position.
No wonder that people get frustrated. If you don't have
an alternative to vote for it, that's very frustrating.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
It is very frustrating. And again and that's part of
the problem. So what do we do, I say, you know,
uniform elections. I think we need to look at how
we select judges and decide way that it works. It
gets the best and the brightest, that doesn't end up
with basically accidents getting elected because people vote straight Democrat
or a straight Republican.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That is from the texnas conservative view. There's Gary Palman.
All right, quick little break, final segment coming up. Stand
by for more Jimmy Bart show here in the AM
nine to fifty KPRC. All right, for the progressives or socialists,
(30:00):
is that kind of like one of the same. Can
I assume that most progressives are socialists at heart? Probably so,
But for them, it's very easy to blame wealth on
a whole lot of problems. You know. The tactic is
always to separate us based on a whole variety of
different things, whether it's skin color or religion, or you know,
(30:26):
our personal wealth of what we do for a living,
those types of things, and billionaires, at least for the
socialist crowd. Billionaires are always an easy target because there's
so few billionaires. How many people have over a billion dollars,
you know, it's very easy to make an accusation. Look,
they don't pay their fair share in taxes. Well, what
(30:49):
is their fair share? And how much taxes do they pay?
And are they following the law. And for the most
part they are. They're paying millions, perhaps even billions of
dollars in taxes. Take a Jeff Bezos for example, you know,
the guy that gave us Amazon. He he pays a
(31:10):
lot of taxes. Now, he doesn't pay a lot of
income taxes because he doesn't really his net worth is
based on the stock he owns more than his on
his salary. I think he pays it. Well, we'll get
into that this in this the little cut here, he doesn't.
He pays himself far less than you probably make a year,
because that's not how he makes his money. He makes
his money by making his company successful. And Amazon is
(31:33):
clearly highly successful. They're a multi billion dollar a year business.
But they don't think the progressives don't think the Jeff
Bezos pays taxes or certainly not his fair share of taxes,
And they think that, you know, it's easy to make
a target of him. Well, he's starting to push back
a little bit. He's tired of it. He started being
(31:54):
picked off because he happens to be successful. So here's
what Jeff Bezos had to say about being a billllionaire
and paying taxes and picking on billionaires. A little follow
up from Joe Rogan on the same topic. They're both
referring to AOC who made some comment about how you
shouldn't be allowed to make a billion dollars. You shouldn't
be you shouldn't be allowed to be a billionaire. And
then we'll have follow up from there from Jesse Waters
(32:17):
on the five.
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Politicians are using the kind of age old technique and
there's this tale of two economies and they're using this
age old technique of you know, picking a villain and
pointing fingers. But the problem is that doesn't solve anything.
People sometimes say that that, you know, I don't pay taxes.
(32:39):
So true, I paid billions of dollars in taxes. You
could double the taxes I pay and it's not going
to help that teacher in Queens.
Speaker 16 (32:47):
I promise you this idea that it's easy to become
a billionaire, and that these billionaires, somehow or another are
the problem because they're not paying their fair share is
so weird. We just assume that everybody who makes an
incredible amount of money stole it. I think I literally
heard AOC say this recently, that no one achieves substantial
(33:10):
wealth without somehow or another victimizing other people.
Speaker 17 (33:13):
Well, the billionaires need better pr and this is a
step in the right direction. It is a company that
employs a million people, a million Americans, and they make
great salaries.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 17 (33:27):
To be a driver and if your corporate you make
six figures easy.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It's a great company to start out.
Speaker 17 (33:32):
A stock price ten years ago, stock price at Amazon
was fifty dollars a share. Today it's like two hundred
and fifty dollars. The guy is a multi billionaire because
he owns a lot of the company. And you know
how much a salary is. Salary is eighty one grand
a year, because that's what he paid himself in like
nineteen ninety eight, and it's kept that way now. Doesn't
(33:55):
pay a lot of income tax on eighty one thousand
dollars a year because you can't tax wealth. All of
his wealth is tied up in Amazon stock. He sold
it once, sold about four billion dollars in stock a
couple of years back, and paid about a billion dollars
in taxes. And he basically lives off that or he
(34:17):
borrows from whatever the assets are. And if you want
to go start grabbing his wealth and grabbing his company,
it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I think about what this company does.
Speaker 17 (34:27):
You can get whatever you want, a slip and slide, sneakers,
vitra at the click of a button.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
This has changed the world.
Speaker 17 (34:34):
We used to have to trade Indians for stuff. We
used to forage in the forest. We have to build things,
We have to elbow people out of the way on
Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
We don't have to do that anymore.
Speaker 17 (34:44):
This guy solved every single problem in commercial capitalism.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And you guys want to put him in prison. No good,
No good. That's a slight exaggeration, but not by much.
I mean the name Amazon itself right, No. On the logo,
they have like a like a little underline under A
and then another like a little smiley thing under Z.
He goes from A to Z. That's that's yeah, that's
(35:08):
because they sell everything from A to Z. That's then
entire alphabet. They sell it all. The guy's a billionaire
because he sells so much stuff to so many people,
and he's changed the landscape of modern shopping. I mean,
there are very few things I don't know about you,
but there are very few things I go to the
store to buy anymore. It's just easy to order them
(35:30):
online and to get them delivered right to your house,
sometimes the same day. So hey, God bless him. I mean,
he's successful for a reason because he created something that
everybody wants. And yeah, he pays taxes. He plays penny
plenty of taxes, and he provides jobs for other people
(35:50):
who pay taxes. So I don't want to hear this.
They aren't paying their fair share. Crap. All right, listen,
we're gonna we're gonna head on out. We're gonna enjoy
a nice long Memorial Day weekend. I hope you do too.
We'll be back. We'll have a best stuff for you tomorrow.
Not sure what we're doing on Memorial Day self, but
you're gonna be busy doing whatever, cooking out probably, and
we'll be back Tuesday. We'll see you then here on
(36:11):
AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Bartt Show,
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