August 27, 2025 • 27 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- What do you think of flag burning?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston. This
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett Man. We have a hot topic
this morning in more ways than one. The hot topic
this morning was flag burning. Flag burning, go figure. And
it all happened when I brought up the fact that
President Trump obviously has put out an executive order this
week about burning the flag, and he has made it
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a one year according to the executive order, He's made
it a one year in jail, no exceptions type of offense.
He says his rationale behind doing it is that it
causes other problems, and by that he means violence. People
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burn flags and then people violently react to that, and
before you know it, you've got a real problem on
your hands. So it's not as much about the act
of burning the flag is what the act of burning
the flag causes. He equates it to yelling fire in
a crowded theater. The Supreme Court has said several times
that burning the American flag is free speech and you
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may not like it, but you know, you are still
allowed to do it, is within your rights to do it.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The President has put in an executive action which may
or may not prove to be constitutional or enforceable. In fact,
we had an Army veteran who was arrested, I believe,
Monday after the President signed this executive order for burning
an American flag in a park in Washington, d c.
Across from the White House. He was not arrested, however,
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he was arrested for quote, burning an object, not burning
the American flag, burning an object, and they are supporting
the arrest based on the fact he was doing it
in a part of the park that you're not allowed
to have a fire. So they did not they did
not charge him with burning an American flag and are
trying to prosecute him for, you know, for going to
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jail for a year. They didn't put the American flag
in there. So there are plenty of blue cities that
are not going to want or will refuse to enforce this.
I'm pretty sure the places that would enforce it, I
guess it gives them a tool. But most of the
flag burning happens in blue cities, and it probably won't
get enforced. Here. Here, by the way, is President Trump
explaining his reasonings. Hang on, that's the wrong one. Here's
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President Trump explaining his rationale behind banning flag burning.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at
levels I've ever seen before. People go crazy in a way.
Both ways. There's some that are going crazy for doing it.
There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it.
And what the penalty is going to be if you
burn a flag you get one year in jail. No
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early exists, no nothing.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
President Trump has an uphill battle to fight. I completely
sympathize with him. I don't think anybody really approves of
burning the American flag. Let me quote the great Justice
Scalia here, who said, if he were king, he would
throw every scruffy, bearded, sandal wearing weirdo who wants to
burn the American flag in jail.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But then Justice Scalia said, I'm no king.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
The Supreme Court held in these two decisions from nineteen
eighty nine in nineteen ninety that burning the flag is
protected by free speech.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But you notice President Trump.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Rested his decision on incitement. There is an exception for
speech that's something along the lines of yelling fire in
a crowded theater, speech that really is designed not to
express thought, but is designed just to get people to fight. Here,
the government might have more discretion to try to limit
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the burning.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Of the flag. Okay, so that's just a professor John
you Is it you or rule? I'm not quite sure
anyway he's he's out on the left coast. But I
don't know. The Supreme Court had to decide this case.
I'm not quite sure which way would go at this point,
but I knew which way our listeners were going because
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that got a big reaction.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Our question of the day on our morning show today
was is burning the American flag protective free speech? Or
should you go to jail for burning the American flag?
Here's what some of you were saying.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Got from New cany As a veteran myself, I've served
with many people who are stuff on stupid, I mean Democrats.
I think it should be a punishable offen. You're showing
disrespect to all of the other people who served and
died for this country, regardless of race or gender, or
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you're showing disrespect to them. They didn't respect, so same thing.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
I think definitely the President is correct. Send a message
to these people that are burning the flags and not
appreciating our country. And if you don't like the America,
move to somewhere else, Move to Canada, move to Europe.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Love it, love it, or leave it, right is basically
when I'm hearing love it or leave it. So I'm
hearing two things, don't appreciate and don't respect. Unfortunately, not
respecting and not appreciating are not against the law. Well
they're not. They're not. It's not against the law. Do
your kids always appreciate what you do for them? No,
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so some times they have to learn to appreciate. I don't.
I don't see this as a jailable offense. I did
be bluntly honest about it. I don't think. I don't
think it's going to stand up to the law. I
really don't. But hey, I understand how you feel. Yeah,
if somebody burned a flag in front of me, then
you got to fight on your hands. Ask for dog on. Sure,
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let's see what some of our other listeners think.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Good morning, Jimmy. This is enough from Summerwood with regards
to people burning the American flag. I don't think we
should arrest them. I think we should revote their American citizenship.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Load them up on a.
Speaker 10 (06:33):
Plane and air drop them into Gaza. That'll solve that problem.
Two birds, one stone. They hate America, they love Palestinians. Fine,
go live there, have a great day.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Bye even Conroe. Yeah, on the burning of the flag. First,
I was going to say hang them high, but that's
not nice. I'd say deport them to a third world
country and see how they like it. They're you know,
no food, especially like somewhere where there's a lot of
sand in the water.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Man.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
You know, it's disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, you know, a couple of weeks in the Middle
East might cure a lot of people of their lack
of appreciation for this wonderful country that we live in.
Speaker 12 (07:16):
Jimmy, Yes, I believe you should be allowed to burn
the flag.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You shall also have your teeth knockout. This is Tony
in a Caskasita.
Speaker 12 (07:26):
Hey, this is Jeremy from Tomball. But there is someone
that's in uh jail for burning a Pride flag. So
what's going on? If they burned the American flag, they
definitely need to be going to jail for a year
and sit their punishment. But it's a two way street.
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Someone burns the Pride flag, they're in jail, but not
the American flag. That don't make no SIPs, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I don't think a lot of people realize the proper
way to dispose of an American flag when it becomes
tattered is to in fact burn it and then bury
the ashes, not throw it in the garbage. One thing
I think should be mandatory is American flags. I'll be
made in America. You don't believe me by one of
these Chinese made ones, and they last for about ninety
days and then they're ready to be disposed.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That's why I have a.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
True American made flag hanging in front of my house.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
One of the interesting points there in the last batch
of callers was going to jail for burning the Pride
flag because why because it's Is it not free speech
to burn a Pride flag? Oh oh, it's a hate crime?
I see, Okay, that's it in burning the American flag
is not a hate crime. That's not an I hate
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America crimes. It's interesting how we interpret these things. Right,
The law is not evenly handed out as it turns out,
all right, we're gonna take a little break back with
more in a moment. Jimmy Bart Show, You're an AM
nine fifty KPRC, a little Cracker Barrel follow up. You
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saw what happened, right Yep? What finally seemed to be
the campbell or the straw rather that broke the Campbell's back,
that campbell being Cracker Barrel in this particular case, was
President Trump, who posted on his social media that they
had made a poor decision. They needed to bring the
old logo back, they needed to concentrate on just running
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a better company. Blah blah blah, And before you know it,
Cracker Barrel says, Okay, we're bringing the old logo back.
But that's half the battle. That's half the battle, because
even if they're bringing the old logo back, they're not.
They didn't say that they were going to stop redecorating
the stores. They'd stopped repainting them and changing them around
and all that kind of stuff. You know, here's the thing.
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It is Cracker Barrel's writers corporation to do whatever they want,
just like it's our right to do whatever we want
if we don't like what we're doing. We don't need
to patronize them. It's that simple. And I don't know,
being you know, kind of forced by public opinion and
the president into going back to your old logo, it
really should count towards forgiveness. When you get right down
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to it, you know, they're not doing it because they
want to. They're doing it because they now feel like
they have to go back to it. Laura Ingram was
talking about the whole Cracker Barrel thing on her program
last night. Let's listen into that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Because when you really think this through, no one and
his or her right mind would have thought that going
from this featuring Uncle Herschel to this blah computer generated
nothing would have appealed to core customers and Paducah, Kentucky
or east Ridge, Tennessee. So what did happen? Was this
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a simple corporate boo boo or was this actual hostility
to traditional country culture somewhere in the corporation itself. Online
commentator Robbie Starbuck pointed to Cracker Barrel board member Gilbert Davila,
who was put on the board interestingly during the height
of the George Floyd hysteria. Starbuck asked what qualified Davila
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for this board seat. Well, he owned a DEI consulting
and strategy firm for fifteen years that focuses on pushing
DEI and DEI advertising.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Huh. Well, do you think.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
David La or Dabaila, with his background and his views,
loved the idea of any rebrand or any brand celebrating
country culture From Fox Business. Davila's LinkedIn page states that
he's widely recognized for his multicultural market knowledge and has
proven track record on how to best embed multicultural perspective
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into a corporation's entire oper Well, that's what it sortainly
looks like. Might have happened here in twenty twenty. Cracker
Barrel was feeling the heat, remember, and he put this
woke fool on its board. So a lot of people thought, well,
it just deserved everything it was going to get for
ditching what made them special and in the process insulting
Middle America and giving into corporate group think.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, well, that's all that is true. All that is true.
That that board member, by the way, was hired right
after the George Floyd thing. That's when a lot of
these corporations went woke. That's when they all they got,
they got, they got afraid. Then they decided, well, we
got to show that we love we embraced diversity, or
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we're gonna get pickted by black people. Blah blah blah.
And before you know it, they all had these board
members on board who don't proceeded to tell them how
they needed to change. You know, I'm sure this guy
and the Cracker Barrel board has been lobbying for a
long time to get rid of the He probably wanted
to get rid of the name. I wouldn't be surprised
we wanted to get rid of the name. So I
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don't know, you know, was this over and done with
quickly enough that Cracker Barrel? Everything will stay normal at
Cracker Barrel? After all, they hadn't really remodeled that many stores,
you know, putting the logo back in place. Okay, that's fine.
You know, do you care what color the walls are
inside the Cracker Barrel? If the if the feeling is
see the problem is is the feeling probably isn't the same.
(13:27):
You know, these corporations all seem to have the same
idea about decor. They all want this uniform Everything has
to look the same. Nondescript, plain white kind of approach.
You know, it's it's true of our studios here too.
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You know, we're owned by big corporate group, and all
of our radio stations in the group all have the
exact same decore. Doesn't matter if they're a rock station,
a news talk station, a country station, doesn't matter what
the format is. We all look exactly the same. And
everything in here is gray or white, gray or white.
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Everything is great, just completely nondescript. And it's all gray
and white. And you know what, the most impractical colors
to pay in a radio station are black or white.
Especially white. You've got a bunch of people walking around
drinking coffee, spilling stuff. You know, in every spill shows.
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It doesn't white at a radio station, it doesn't. You know,
in a lot of places, white doesn't work because it
stains too easily. It looks shabby too easily. It only
looks nice when it first starts, and within a couple
of months it's look at shabby. That's that's my thought anyway,
But that's what happens, you know, with the kind of
the corporate thing. Yo, we're all going to be exactly
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the same. We're all going to do this exactly the same.
Everybody's everybody's place is gonna look exactly the same. And
that's true corporate restaurants. I guess that's why I like
the local restaurants so much better, is because you don't
have that corporate group think. You just you know, you're
running an individual business. You can make it as different
as you want it to be. You may own more
than one restaurant that has the same name, and you
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may make both of those look the same, but at
least you're not making hundreds of restaurants look exactly the same.
Why does every cracker rorel have to look exactly the same?
I guess it all goes back to fast food. You know,
where one of the things when they started fast food industry,
you would find that individual I'll just throw McDonald's in there,
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for example, or Burger King or any of these other
burger joints when they first started up, when they first
started to franchise, they found that everybody was running their
store a little bit differently. You know, the food tasted
just a little bit different, and they wanted to create
an environment where if you went to McDonald's you knew
exactly what it was going to taste like you knew
exactly what it was going to look like, you you
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would feel comfortable there. But along with that, we lost
all our individuality, all of our ability to just be
a little bit different. Don't you think, for example, again,
just to use McDonald's as an example, don't you think
that maybe they would like different sauces on their French
fries in the South than they would in the north.
Why can't you regionalize things for individual taste? Makes more
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sense to me, But I walk alone down that road.
So anyway, you've got that going on, we'll see if
that dies out. Oh a story. I'm only going to
mention this once, I promise, and I'm not going to
talk about it because I know it would drive you crazy.
He would drive me crazy too. You heard about Travis
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Kelcey and Taylor Swift, right, you heard they got engaged. Yeah,
I'm just I'm just preparing you, if you, if you're
a football lover like me, be prepared for the National
Football League to be all over this. You know, they're
gonna be showing how many more Kansasity Chiefs national broadcast
are we going to have to watch? Just so they
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can look for Taylor Swift in one of the suites, right,
you know that's going to happen. You know it's going
to get constant mentions. You know, social media is going
to be all about this. The Swifties will be all
about this. It's just I mean when they when she
did his podcast, The Kelsey Brothers have a podcast. When
she did his podcast, it broke all the records for podcasting,
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broke them all. As far as as far as sampling
of people listening to the podcast, there's a huge group
of people. We're not among them, but there's a huge
group of people who care very much what's going on
with Travis Kelcey and with Taylor Swift. So you know
this is going to be insane. Talk about the wedding's
going to be insane. Talks about the wedding dresses and
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what the groomsmen are wearing and what kind of cake
they're going to have. In fact, the already started in Vegas.
You can bet on how many slcenes a wedding cake
Andy Reid is going to eat. By the way, the
over under is four point five and he's a big boy.
You've seen that, right, This is an over under. How
eight pieces of wedding cake. Andy Reid's gonna eat Oh,
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it's gonna be the same. All right, quick little break,
We're back with born a Moment Jimmy Bird Show here
on a nine fifty k PRC. When President Trump used
(18:33):
to speak book in the beginning, let's go back to
the first turn. Let's go back to when he was
running for president the first time and serving as president
for the first time. He would drive me crazy listening
to the way he talked, you know, with all the
run on sentences without a period, you know, switching topics
(18:54):
in the middle of a sentence. But you know what,
I have grown used to it, and now I've grown
to the point where I appreciate it because he doesn't
talk like the elites do, the political elites do, down
their nose at you. He's just a regular guy. At
least I think he's kind of a regular guy. At least.
He may not be actually a regular guy, but he
(19:16):
talks like one. Not His speech is not that polished.
He doesn't use a lot of big words. He talks
in a language that every American can understand, and in
a language the elites hate, they absolutely hate. They spend
all their time trying to sound smarter than anybody else,
and they're not. Tom Shalou was filling in for Greg
(19:38):
Guttfeld last night on the Gutfeld Program, and they got
into that topic, and that bainly got into the topic
because the President had a three and a half our
cabinet meeting. That's insane. Three and a half our cabinet meeting,
answered every question any member of the press had for him,
and did it in the way the only Trump can.
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Here's Tom Shlou.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
The President held his seventh cabinet meeting earlier, seven in
just seven months, compared with Biden's nine during his entire term.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Trump talked about a lot.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
Energy to crime, to transgender, for everybody transgender.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
For everybody. They fought for it, they're still fighting for it.
I saw a guy today, a politician that you all
know very well, fighting like hell for men playing in
women's sports.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
You don't understand the human beings also, well.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I agree the human beings, but you can't have a
seven foot guy playing basketball with the women and just
one of those little problems in life.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And we all have a place. Okay, I've got my
place too. Then he saw this dag go ahead, get
rum bring it up for the president. Then he saw
this poor stupid Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
And then I saw this poor stupid choke. Sure looks
like he's aged.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
One hundred years. And they don't like getting into looks.
You know, Looks don't mean anything right when you're in politics.
Looks No matter I said, look at.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Pam, I would never say she's beautiful because it's that'd
be the end of by political story and it wouldn't
be a Trump event without bashing the lame stream media.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I'll tell you they showed one scene where a bunch
of trend dear ragua guys or whatever maybe MS their
ten maybe and maybe MSDNC okay, just to be they're worse.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I think they're worse. MSNBC maybe is worse than trend
de orub real scum, yes, com real dishonest people.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
On the elite side.
Speaker 14 (21:49):
On the Democrat side, they can't stand him, you know,
because he talks like one of us.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Right.
Speaker 14 (21:55):
The Democrats are busy saying, look, let's try to find
words that we can say that will make a sound.
Trump is, whether you like him or hate him, the
dude is relatable. He sounds like you know, every neighbor
I've ever lived next to Frankly, so he's I think
that part of it is fantastic. I will say one
o the things, which is as far as the transgender
sports goes, yeah, I think we could solve this whole
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issue if we could just get one really solid NBA
quality player, right who decides that they're a dame and
do we still say that yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And and joins the w NBA. That would be it.
Speaker 14 (22:33):
I guarantee you things would start to turn around if
we had that happen. But until that, you know, we're
gonna be arguing about this all day.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I think he's right about that. You get an NBA
caliber male player to identify as female and playing the
w n B A and they would dominate the league.
They would dominate the league. And how long do you
think it is before all the real women complain and
decide that maybe maybe, you know, having men and women's
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sports is not such a good idea after all. But
here's the big question too, that gets discussed a lot
these days because the Democrats can't seem to get out
of their own way. I mean, it really does feel
like they're on the death march here, that that the
Trump derangement syndrome is such that they just they can't
work around it. I was sharing with you a clip
(23:26):
from Harold Ford Junior. He's on the five. He's a
Democrat that is on the five talking about yesterday, and
I thought I thought his sports analogy was great. Of
course I love sports analogies, but I thought sports analogy
was great that you know, imagine Trump is the picture
and the Democrats are the battery. They they're swinging at
everything anything he throws up there. They're not swinging at strikes.
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They're swinging the balls that are in the ground. They're
swinging the balls are way outside or way inside, balls
that are over their head. You know, they're they're they're
trying to fight things that makes no sense to fight
only because of where Trump's stands on that particular issue.
And you have to wonder at some point do they
go extinct when the only part of the party that
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still was functioning are the progressive radicals? Do they go extinct?
They talked about that yesterday on the Five.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
If population projections hold in twenty thirty two, a Democratic
presidential candidate who wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada loses
the presidency, and the Obama squad says there's never been
a worse time to be a Democrat.
Speaker 15 (24:31):
I do not think that people at the helm of
the party full have been willing to contend with the
death of the crisis the party is in, I mean,
is at its worst point than at almost any point
in our history. And I would probably even occlude after
the nineteen eighty four election when we lost forty nine.
Speaker 13 (24:51):
States, Okay, Stegosaurus velociraptor, Dana, what will the Democrats look
like in twenty thirty.
Speaker 16 (25:00):
Well, also, I agree that in a way it feels
like they're just done, that they're never coming back. But
usually parties do bounce back eventually. As they said, maybe
since nineteen eighty four, it hasn't been this bad. Like
the cicad cicadas, they come back every seventeen years. That
is a possibility. This is the double down conference. They're
trying to figure out a way to how can we
most not learn our lesson from the last election. And
(25:23):
in this scenario that you have them talking about the
Hamas Israel war, and I know that that is a
serious phone of contention with a lot of people there,
and it's severe and it's striking, but they also talked
about dark money and politics and land acknowledgements instead of
talking about economics or policing or education.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
There.
Speaker 16 (25:43):
It's not that there aren't issues that they could grab onto,
they just choose not to. Maybe they shouldn't have had
this meeting in public, right, Maybe should have had this
one behind closed doors and try to figure out and
hash it out and really have it out with each other.
I like seeing it in person, but just it's from
a calm standpoint, I might have taken it behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, she's talking about Democrats are We're having a big
meeting up in Minneapolis. And I guess the head of
the party, I can't recall this name. I guess he
was crying. They're demoralized. But they also don't know what
to do other than to scream about Trump. They just
they're not coming up with any policies of their own.
(26:23):
They're not all they're only policies to a post Trump.
That's it. That's it. And if that's the only policy
you're going to have, you're not going to be very
successful going forward. All right, Listen, Labor Day weekend, for
me gets started right now, well after the tomorrow's morning program.
We'll have a couple of best stubs for you for
Thursday and Friday, and then some special stuff for Labor
(26:44):
Day on Monday. You're probably busy doing some stuff for
the Labor Day weekend too, right, We'll have a great
Labor Day and a great Labor Day weekend. I'll see
you Tuesday afternoon at four. You're on AM nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 15 (27:01):
Yvan was no ready.
Speaker 10 (27:04):
In fact, the
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston. This
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett Man. We have a hot topic
this morning in more ways than one. The hot topic
this morning was flag burning. Flag burning, go figure. And
it all happened when I brought up the fact that
President Trump obviously has put out an executive order this
week about burning the flag, and he has made it
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a one year according to the executive order, He's made
it a one year in jail, no exceptions type of offense.
He says his rationale behind doing it is that it
causes other problems, and by that he means violence. People
(01:13):
burn flags and then people violently react to that, and
before you know it, you've got a real problem on
your hands. So it's not as much about the act
of burning the flag is what the act of burning
the flag causes. He equates it to yelling fire in
a crowded theater. The Supreme Court has said several times
that burning the American flag is free speech and you
(01:34):
may not like it, but you know, you are still
allowed to do it, is within your rights to do it.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The President has put in an executive action which may
or may not prove to be constitutional or enforceable. In fact,
we had an Army veteran who was arrested, I believe,
Monday after the President signed this executive order for burning
an American flag in a park in Washington, d c.
Across from the White House. He was not arrested, however,
(02:02):
he was arrested for quote, burning an object, not burning
the American flag, burning an object, and they are supporting
the arrest based on the fact he was doing it
in a part of the park that you're not allowed
to have a fire. So they did not they did
not charge him with burning an American flag and are
trying to prosecute him for, you know, for going to
(02:25):
jail for a year. They didn't put the American flag
in there. So there are plenty of blue cities that
are not going to want or will refuse to enforce this.
I'm pretty sure the places that would enforce it, I
guess it gives them a tool. But most of the
flag burning happens in blue cities, and it probably won't
get enforced. Here. Here, by the way, is President Trump
explaining his reasonings. Hang on, that's the wrong one. Here's
(02:50):
President Trump explaining his rationale behind banning flag burning.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at
levels I've ever seen before. People go crazy in a way.
Both ways. There's some that are going crazy for doing it.
There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it.
And what the penalty is going to be if you
burn a flag you get one year in jail. No
(03:17):
early exists, no nothing.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
President Trump has an uphill battle to fight. I completely
sympathize with him. I don't think anybody really approves of
burning the American flag. Let me quote the great Justice
Scalia here, who said, if he were king, he would
throw every scruffy, bearded, sandal wearing weirdo who wants to
burn the American flag in jail.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But then Justice Scalia said, I'm no king.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
The Supreme Court held in these two decisions from nineteen
eighty nine in nineteen ninety that burning the flag is
protected by free speech.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But you notice President Trump.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Rested his decision on incitement. There is an exception for
speech that's something along the lines of yelling fire in
a crowded theater, speech that really is designed not to
express thought, but is designed just to get people to fight. Here,
the government might have more discretion to try to limit
(04:13):
the burning.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Of the flag. Okay, so that's just a professor John
you Is it you or rule? I'm not quite sure
anyway he's he's out on the left coast. But I
don't know. The Supreme Court had to decide this case.
I'm not quite sure which way would go at this point,
but I knew which way our listeners were going because
(04:35):
that got a big reaction.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Our question of the day on our morning show today
was is burning the American flag protective free speech? Or
should you go to jail for burning the American flag?
Here's what some of you were saying.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Got from New cany As a veteran myself, I've served
with many people who are stuff on stupid, I mean Democrats.
I think it should be a punishable offen. You're showing
disrespect to all of the other people who served and
died for this country, regardless of race or gender, or
(05:11):
you're showing disrespect to them. They didn't respect, so same thing.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
I think definitely the President is correct. Send a message
to these people that are burning the flags and not
appreciating our country. And if you don't like the America,
move to somewhere else, Move to Canada, move to Europe.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Love it, love it, or leave it, right is basically
when I'm hearing love it or leave it. So I'm
hearing two things, don't appreciate and don't respect. Unfortunately, not
respecting and not appreciating are not against the law. Well
they're not. They're not. It's not against the law. Do
your kids always appreciate what you do for them? No,
(05:59):
so some times they have to learn to appreciate. I don't.
I don't see this as a jailable offense. I did
be bluntly honest about it. I don't think. I don't
think it's going to stand up to the law. I
really don't. But hey, I understand how you feel. Yeah,
if somebody burned a flag in front of me, then
you got to fight on your hands. Ask for dog on. Sure,
(06:21):
let's see what some of our other listeners think.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Good morning, Jimmy. This is enough from Summerwood with regards
to people burning the American flag. I don't think we
should arrest them. I think we should revote their American citizenship.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Load them up on a.
Speaker 10 (06:33):
Plane and air drop them into Gaza. That'll solve that problem.
Two birds, one stone. They hate America, they love Palestinians. Fine,
go live there, have a great day.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Bye even Conroe. Yeah, on the burning of the flag. First,
I was going to say hang them high, but that's
not nice. I'd say deport them to a third world
country and see how they like it. They're you know,
no food, especially like somewhere where there's a lot of
sand in the water.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Man.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
You know, it's disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, you know, a couple of weeks in the Middle
East might cure a lot of people of their lack
of appreciation for this wonderful country that we live in.
Speaker 12 (07:16):
Jimmy, Yes, I believe you should be allowed to burn
the flag.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You shall also have your teeth knockout. This is Tony
in a Caskasita.
Speaker 12 (07:26):
Hey, this is Jeremy from Tomball. But there is someone
that's in uh jail for burning a Pride flag. So
what's going on? If they burned the American flag, they
definitely need to be going to jail for a year
and sit their punishment. But it's a two way street.
(07:47):
Someone burns the Pride flag, they're in jail, but not
the American flag. That don't make no SIPs, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I don't think a lot of people realize the proper
way to dispose of an American flag when it becomes
tattered is to in fact burn it and then bury
the ashes, not throw it in the garbage. One thing
I think should be mandatory is American flags. I'll be
made in America. You don't believe me by one of
these Chinese made ones, and they last for about ninety
days and then they're ready to be disposed.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That's why I have a.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
True American made flag hanging in front of my house.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
One of the interesting points there in the last batch
of callers was going to jail for burning the Pride
flag because why because it's Is it not free speech
to burn a Pride flag? Oh oh, it's a hate crime?
I see, Okay, that's it in burning the American flag
is not a hate crime. That's not an I hate
(08:42):
America crimes. It's interesting how we interpret these things. Right,
The law is not evenly handed out as it turns out,
all right, we're gonna take a little break back with
more in a moment. Jimmy Bart Show, You're an AM
nine fifty KPRC, a little Cracker Barrel follow up. You
(09:17):
saw what happened, right Yep? What finally seemed to be
the campbell or the straw rather that broke the Campbell's back,
that campbell being Cracker Barrel in this particular case, was
President Trump, who posted on his social media that they
had made a poor decision. They needed to bring the
old logo back, they needed to concentrate on just running
(09:39):
a better company. Blah blah blah, And before you know it,
Cracker Barrel says, Okay, we're bringing the old logo back.
But that's half the battle. That's half the battle, because
even if they're bringing the old logo back, they're not.
They didn't say that they were going to stop redecorating
the stores. They'd stopped repainting them and changing them around
and all that kind of stuff. You know, here's the thing.
(10:04):
It is Cracker Barrel's writers corporation to do whatever they want,
just like it's our right to do whatever we want
if we don't like what we're doing. We don't need
to patronize them. It's that simple. And I don't know,
being you know, kind of forced by public opinion and
the president into going back to your old logo, it
really should count towards forgiveness. When you get right down
(10:26):
to it, you know, they're not doing it because they
want to. They're doing it because they now feel like
they have to go back to it. Laura Ingram was
talking about the whole Cracker Barrel thing on her program
last night. Let's listen into that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Because when you really think this through, no one and
his or her right mind would have thought that going
from this featuring Uncle Herschel to this blah computer generated
nothing would have appealed to core customers and Paducah, Kentucky
or east Ridge, Tennessee. So what did happen? Was this
(10:58):
a simple corporate boo boo or was this actual hostility
to traditional country culture somewhere in the corporation itself. Online
commentator Robbie Starbuck pointed to Cracker Barrel board member Gilbert Davila,
who was put on the board interestingly during the height
of the George Floyd hysteria. Starbuck asked what qualified Davila
(11:20):
for this board seat. Well, he owned a DEI consulting
and strategy firm for fifteen years that focuses on pushing
DEI and DEI advertising.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Huh. Well, do you think.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
David La or Dabaila, with his background and his views,
loved the idea of any rebrand or any brand celebrating
country culture From Fox Business. Davila's LinkedIn page states that
he's widely recognized for his multicultural market knowledge and has
proven track record on how to best embed multicultural perspective
(11:58):
into a corporation's entire oper Well, that's what it sortainly
looks like. Might have happened here in twenty twenty. Cracker
Barrel was feeling the heat, remember, and he put this
woke fool on its board. So a lot of people thought, well,
it just deserved everything it was going to get for
ditching what made them special and in the process insulting
Middle America and giving into corporate group think.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, well, that's all that is true. All that is true.
That that board member, by the way, was hired right
after the George Floyd thing. That's when a lot of
these corporations went woke. That's when they all they got,
they got, they got afraid. Then they decided, well, we
got to show that we love we embraced diversity, or
(12:41):
we're gonna get pickted by black people. Blah blah blah.
And before you know it, they all had these board
members on board who don't proceeded to tell them how
they needed to change. You know, I'm sure this guy
and the Cracker Barrel board has been lobbying for a
long time to get rid of the He probably wanted
to get rid of the name. I wouldn't be surprised
we wanted to get rid of the name. So I
(13:03):
don't know, you know, was this over and done with
quickly enough that Cracker Barrel? Everything will stay normal at
Cracker Barrel? After all, they hadn't really remodeled that many stores,
you know, putting the logo back in place. Okay, that's fine.
You know, do you care what color the walls are
inside the Cracker Barrel? If the if the feeling is
see the problem is is the feeling probably isn't the same.
(13:27):
You know, these corporations all seem to have the same
idea about decor. They all want this uniform Everything has
to look the same. Nondescript, plain white kind of approach.
You know, it's it's true of our studios here too.
(13:47):
You know, we're owned by big corporate group, and all
of our radio stations in the group all have the
exact same decore. Doesn't matter if they're a rock station,
a news talk station, a country station, doesn't matter what
the format is. We all look exactly the same. And
everything in here is gray or white, gray or white.
(14:09):
Everything is great, just completely nondescript. And it's all gray
and white. And you know what, the most impractical colors
to pay in a radio station are black or white.
Especially white. You've got a bunch of people walking around
drinking coffee, spilling stuff. You know, in every spill shows.
(14:34):
It doesn't white at a radio station, it doesn't. You know,
in a lot of places, white doesn't work because it
stains too easily. It looks shabby too easily. It only
looks nice when it first starts, and within a couple
of months it's look at shabby. That's that's my thought anyway,
But that's what happens, you know, with the kind of
the corporate thing. Yo, we're all going to be exactly
(14:55):
the same. We're all going to do this exactly the same.
Everybody's everybody's place is gonna look exactly the same. And
that's true corporate restaurants. I guess that's why I like
the local restaurants so much better, is because you don't
have that corporate group think. You just you know, you're
running an individual business. You can make it as different
as you want it to be. You may own more
than one restaurant that has the same name, and you
(15:18):
may make both of those look the same, but at
least you're not making hundreds of restaurants look exactly the same.
Why does every cracker rorel have to look exactly the same?
I guess it all goes back to fast food. You know,
where one of the things when they started fast food industry,
you would find that individual I'll just throw McDonald's in there,
(15:40):
for example, or Burger King or any of these other
burger joints when they first started up, when they first
started to franchise, they found that everybody was running their
store a little bit differently. You know, the food tasted
just a little bit different, and they wanted to create
an environment where if you went to McDonald's you knew
exactly what it was going to taste like you knew
exactly what it was going to look like, you you
(16:01):
would feel comfortable there. But along with that, we lost
all our individuality, all of our ability to just be
a little bit different. Don't you think, for example, again,
just to use McDonald's as an example, don't you think
that maybe they would like different sauces on their French
fries in the South than they would in the north.
Why can't you regionalize things for individual taste? Makes more
(16:25):
sense to me, But I walk alone down that road.
So anyway, you've got that going on, we'll see if
that dies out. Oh a story. I'm only going to
mention this once, I promise, and I'm not going to
talk about it because I know it would drive you crazy.
He would drive me crazy too. You heard about Travis
(16:45):
Kelcey and Taylor Swift, right, you heard they got engaged. Yeah,
I'm just I'm just preparing you, if you, if you're
a football lover like me, be prepared for the National
Football League to be all over this. You know, they're
gonna be showing how many more Kansasity Chiefs national broadcast
are we going to have to watch? Just so they
(17:05):
can look for Taylor Swift in one of the suites, right,
you know that's going to happen. You know it's going
to get constant mentions. You know, social media is going
to be all about this. The Swifties will be all
about this. It's just I mean when they when she
did his podcast, The Kelsey Brothers have a podcast. When
she did his podcast, it broke all the records for podcasting,
(17:29):
broke them all. As far as as far as sampling
of people listening to the podcast, there's a huge group
of people. We're not among them, but there's a huge
group of people who care very much what's going on
with Travis Kelcey and with Taylor Swift. So you know
this is going to be insane. Talk about the wedding's
going to be insane. Talks about the wedding dresses and
(17:51):
what the groomsmen are wearing and what kind of cake
they're going to have. In fact, the already started in Vegas.
You can bet on how many slcenes a wedding cake
Andy Reid is going to eat. By the way, the
over under is four point five and he's a big boy.
You've seen that, right, This is an over under. How
eight pieces of wedding cake. Andy Reid's gonna eat Oh,
(18:12):
it's gonna be the same. All right, quick little break,
We're back with born a Moment Jimmy Bird Show here
on a nine fifty k PRC. When President Trump used
(18:33):
to speak book in the beginning, let's go back to
the first turn. Let's go back to when he was
running for president the first time and serving as president
for the first time. He would drive me crazy listening
to the way he talked, you know, with all the
run on sentences without a period, you know, switching topics
(18:54):
in the middle of a sentence. But you know what,
I have grown used to it, and now I've grown
to the point where I appreciate it because he doesn't
talk like the elites do, the political elites do, down
their nose at you. He's just a regular guy. At
least I think he's kind of a regular guy. At least.
He may not be actually a regular guy, but he
(19:16):
talks like one. Not His speech is not that polished.
He doesn't use a lot of big words. He talks
in a language that every American can understand, and in
a language the elites hate, they absolutely hate. They spend
all their time trying to sound smarter than anybody else,
and they're not. Tom Shalou was filling in for Greg
(19:38):
Guttfeld last night on the Gutfeld Program, and they got
into that topic, and that bainly got into the topic
because the President had a three and a half our
cabinet meeting. That's insane. Three and a half our cabinet meeting,
answered every question any member of the press had for him,
and did it in the way the only Trump can.
(19:58):
Here's Tom Shlou.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
The President held his seventh cabinet meeting earlier, seven in
just seven months, compared with Biden's nine during his entire term.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Trump talked about a lot.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
Energy to crime, to transgender, for everybody transgender.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
For everybody. They fought for it, they're still fighting for it.
I saw a guy today, a politician that you all
know very well, fighting like hell for men playing in
women's sports.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
You don't understand the human beings also, well.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I agree the human beings, but you can't have a
seven foot guy playing basketball with the women and just
one of those little problems in life.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And we all have a place. Okay, I've got my
place too. Then he saw this dag go ahead, get
rum bring it up for the president. Then he saw
this poor stupid Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
And then I saw this poor stupid choke. Sure looks
like he's aged.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
One hundred years. And they don't like getting into looks.
You know, Looks don't mean anything right when you're in politics.
Looks No matter I said, look at.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Pam, I would never say she's beautiful because it's that'd
be the end of by political story and it wouldn't
be a Trump event without bashing the lame stream media.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I'll tell you they showed one scene where a bunch
of trend dear ragua guys or whatever maybe MS their
ten maybe and maybe MSDNC okay, just to be they're worse.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I think they're worse. MSNBC maybe is worse than trend
de orub real scum, yes, com real dishonest people.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
On the elite side.
Speaker 14 (21:49):
On the Democrat side, they can't stand him, you know,
because he talks like one of us.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Right.
Speaker 14 (21:55):
The Democrats are busy saying, look, let's try to find
words that we can say that will make a sound.
Trump is, whether you like him or hate him, the
dude is relatable. He sounds like you know, every neighbor
I've ever lived next to Frankly, so he's I think
that part of it is fantastic. I will say one
o the things, which is as far as the transgender
sports goes, yeah, I think we could solve this whole
(22:17):
issue if we could just get one really solid NBA
quality player, right who decides that they're a dame and
do we still say that yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And and joins the w NBA. That would be it.
Speaker 14 (22:33):
I guarantee you things would start to turn around if
we had that happen. But until that, you know, we're
gonna be arguing about this all day.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I think he's right about that. You get an NBA
caliber male player to identify as female and playing the
w n B A and they would dominate the league.
They would dominate the league. And how long do you
think it is before all the real women complain and
decide that maybe maybe, you know, having men and women's
(23:04):
sports is not such a good idea after all. But
here's the big question too, that gets discussed a lot
these days because the Democrats can't seem to get out
of their own way. I mean, it really does feel
like they're on the death march here, that that the
Trump derangement syndrome is such that they just they can't
work around it. I was sharing with you a clip
(23:26):
from Harold Ford Junior. He's on the five. He's a
Democrat that is on the five talking about yesterday, and
I thought I thought his sports analogy was great. Of
course I love sports analogies, but I thought sports analogy
was great that you know, imagine Trump is the picture
and the Democrats are the battery. They they're swinging at
everything anything he throws up there. They're not swinging at strikes.
(23:47):
They're swinging the balls that are in the ground. They're
swinging the balls are way outside or way inside, balls
that are over their head. You know, they're they're they're
trying to fight things that makes no sense to fight
only because of where Trump's stands on that particular issue.
And you have to wonder at some point do they
go extinct when the only part of the party that
(24:08):
still was functioning are the progressive radicals? Do they go extinct?
They talked about that yesterday on the Five.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
If population projections hold in twenty thirty two, a Democratic
presidential candidate who wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada loses
the presidency, and the Obama squad says there's never been
a worse time to be a Democrat.
Speaker 15 (24:31):
I do not think that people at the helm of
the party full have been willing to contend with the
death of the crisis the party is in, I mean,
is at its worst point than at almost any point
in our history. And I would probably even occlude after
the nineteen eighty four election when we lost forty nine.
Speaker 13 (24:51):
States, Okay, Stegosaurus velociraptor, Dana, what will the Democrats look
like in twenty thirty.
Speaker 16 (25:00):
Well, also, I agree that in a way it feels
like they're just done, that they're never coming back. But
usually parties do bounce back eventually. As they said, maybe
since nineteen eighty four, it hasn't been this bad. Like
the cicad cicadas, they come back every seventeen years. That
is a possibility. This is the double down conference. They're
trying to figure out a way to how can we
most not learn our lesson from the last election. And
(25:23):
in this scenario that you have them talking about the
Hamas Israel war, and I know that that is a
serious phone of contention with a lot of people there,
and it's severe and it's striking, but they also talked
about dark money and politics and land acknowledgements instead of
talking about economics or policing or education.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
There.
Speaker 16 (25:43):
It's not that there aren't issues that they could grab onto,
they just choose not to. Maybe they shouldn't have had
this meeting in public, right, Maybe should have had this
one behind closed doors and try to figure out and
hash it out and really have it out with each other.
I like seeing it in person, but just it's from
a calm standpoint, I might have taken it behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, she's talking about Democrats are We're having a big
meeting up in Minneapolis. And I guess the head of
the party, I can't recall this name. I guess he
was crying. They're demoralized. But they also don't know what
to do other than to scream about Trump. They just
they're not coming up with any policies of their own.
(26:23):
They're not all they're only policies to a post Trump.
That's it. That's it. And if that's the only policy
you're going to have, you're not going to be very
successful going forward. All right, Listen, Labor Day weekend, for
me gets started right now, well after the tomorrow's morning program.
We'll have a couple of best stubs for you for
Thursday and Friday, and then some special stuff for Labor
(26:44):
Day on Monday. You're probably busy doing some stuff for
the Labor Day weekend too, right, We'll have a great
Labor Day and a great Labor Day weekend. I'll see
you Tuesday afternoon at four. You're on AM nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 15 (27:01):
Yvan was no ready.
Speaker 10 (27:04):
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