Going to the Super Market

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Jimmy's latest experience at the super market

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right, it's Monday, and we're gonna start the show
today with something that is just utterly, at least in
my mind, ridiculous. If you follow me on Facebook, you
may have noticed that I posted on uh.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
When was it?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Saturday?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:45):
I think it was Saturday. Saturday morning. We went to
the supermarket. I usually call it the grocery store, but
Elizabeth keeps saying it's a supermarket. It's not just a
grocery store. They sell more than groceries. Okay, she's such
a stickler about this stuff. Anyway, we went to the supermarket.
It was Kroger in this particular case, and we I

(01:06):
just happen to be passing by the eggs and you know,
because of bird flu and you know, inflation on eggs.
I've been keeping my eye on the price of eggs
for quite some time, so I noticed what the price
of eggs is, and a few weeks ago, I it's
you know, I've been talking to people who said, this
is ridiculous, six dollars a dozen for eggs. Going were
you shopping that you just spend six dollars on eggs?

(01:28):
Three ninety nine a dozen. Where I am, it's still
three ninety nine a dozen. So I took a picture
this time of the sale price and I put it
up there. And I guess we're pretty lucky here in
Houston in that we're paying some of the cheaper prices
for eggs, you know, than other parts of the country.
There are places in the country where they are paying
six dollars for a dozen eggs. And I know it's

(01:50):
ridiculous because we're used to spending like, you know, a
couple of bucks at the most for a dozen eggs.
But we're starting to see stories like this, which I
think takes ridiculous to a whole new level. This this
is Easter week, right, Good Friday and Friday, Easter, Sunday
and Sunday. You know, think about some of the things
you do as parents, or have done as parents with

(02:11):
your kids having to do with Easter. You know, I
have a non religious Friday. I'm not getting I'm talking
about talking about going to church or brunch or whatever.
Just the things you do when your kids are a little,
like Easter baskets and and dying Easter eggs. So I
saw this story about dying Easter eggs, and here's the headline.
This is from USA today. Price is too high for

(02:32):
dying eggs this Easter. Try these budget friendly alternatives. And
I thought, okay, okay, what are alternatives to Easter eggs.
I would get the plastic ones. The plastic ones, I
would understand. You know, you could buy some plastic if
what you want to do as an egg hunt, you
know that a lot of parents do that, then that's

(02:54):
no big deal. They don't want to mess with the
die among other things. So they get these little plastic eggs, right,
and them full of candy, and they hide them around
the yard or whatever the kids go looking for them.
That's pretty traditional stuff. But when I was a kid,
I know it's a million years ago, but when I
was a kid, every Easter we would die Easter eggs.
You know, my mom was set up these you know,

(03:15):
little bowls, all the different colors in them, and you
try to come up with as many different color combinations
for the eggs as you could. And we probably did
about a dozen eggs, you know, back when I was
a kid. I mean, I'm sure that a dozen eggs
didn't even crack fifty probably with about fifty seventy five
cents a dozen something like that's certainly not a budget
buster by you stretch the imagination. But then again, for
your average family, if you're spending somewhere between four and

(03:35):
six dollars a dozen for eggs, is that really a
budget buster? I mean it's not. It's expensive, but it's
not completely unaffordable. We're not talking about hundreds of dollars here.
You know, I don't know how much you have to
spend on the die kid in order to dye the eggs,
although you could make the die yourself. It seems to
me my mother did, and I'm pretty sure she just

(03:57):
used food coloring and hot water to make the dye. Right,
it's not that complicated, although everybody wants to buy anything
already made for them now, But way back to this
list from USA Today of things that they consider appropriate
replacements for eggs because the eggs are just too expensive.

(04:19):
Number one, potatoes. You're gonna hang on, You're gonna dye
potatoes for Easter potatoes. Here's what they said. They're round,
they're edible, They're easy to come by. The only question
is why would you not use potatoes instead of eggs
this Easter? Potatoes are even the perfect size for the

(04:40):
eggs scoopers that typically come in dyeing kits, especially if
you grab a bag of baby potatoes. They're also much
cheaper and a few dollars a bag, and because of
their texture, require less dye to achieve a vibrant color.
The potatoes don't need to be laborously prepped or boiled
before coloring, simply giving them a good wash and use
them as you would eggs. Well, if you're not going

(05:00):
to cook them, how would you eat them? If you
ever tried biting into a potato that's not been cooked,
it makes it'll make you wonder why anybody ever tried
to eat a potato to begin with. I mean they're
hard as a rock. Oh. In speaking of which, that's
the second choice to replace your eggs. Rocks want something

(05:21):
even cheaper and easier to find than potatoes. Nothing beats
a good old fashioned rock, Kids, love them. Not only
is this option free, it can be fully interactive activity
from start to finish. Instead of browsing aisles at the
grocery store, your family can go on a pre Easter
day hunt for the perfect rocks to bring home. After

(05:43):
searching for picture perfect round rocks, stock up on craft
supplies and buy some cheap paint and brushes from a
discount store online. This option opens up a whole new
world of creative opportunities, so you don't need to stick
to a traditional egg design or worry about delicate skins, shells,
or ability. Yeah, you're not eating the rocks, that's for sure. Rocks.

(06:05):
Replace them with rocks plastic gags. We already mentioned. And
here's their their final suggestion. I guess it's not their
final suggestion. One of their final suggestions marshmallows everybody loves
a peep in their Easter basket. No, I don't know,
I don't like. Don't think peeps are good for you.
Put them in the microwave and you set the microwave,

(06:26):
and you watch them as they get bigger and bigger
and bigger until they explode. That's the only good use
for a peep. But peeps come in a whole variety
of different colors. I guess, yeah, okay, Or you can
go ahead and use food coloring to make them a
different color if you want. And then it goes beyond.

(06:46):
It goes on to say that you're looking for a
craft that goes to step beyond dying in coloring. There
are plenty of options to level up your Easter decorating game.
You can use coffee filters, pipe cleaners, and dyeing kits
to make butterflies or even flowers. Isn't that special craft
time at home?

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Now?

Speaker 4 (07:03):
When you buy craft supplies, I'm pretty sure you're going
to spend as much on that as you're gonna spend
on eggs. So it's just I guess it's just a
story to try to make you think that eggs are
really super still super expensive and are cost prohibitive and
it's going to ruin your Easter if you have to
buy a dozen eggs at you know, six dollars a

(07:23):
dozen or whatever. It is, Okay, all right, I ain't
buying it, what about you? But it is Easter coming
up on Sunday, quick little break. We are back with
more in a moment. Jimmy Bert show here running in
nine fifty KPRC. All right, we're gonna start with the

(08:00):
news on the president's physical for this second segment today
in our show. I am I am very jealous of
Donald J. Trump, as it turns out. I'll get to
some more of the specifics from his physical here in
just a second. But here is a News Nation report
on the president's physical and how it turned out.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hey, Kelly, A clean bill of health here for President Trump.
That's according to the White House doctor who released this
three page memo today following President Trump's annual physical conducted
on Friday. Now, the memo shows no abnormalities in the
President's health, the White House physician, writing, President Trump weighs
two hundred and twenty four pounds and has a resting
heart rate of sixty two beats per minute, listing two medicines.

(08:44):
Also that the President is currently being prescribed for for
his high cholesterol. Now, aside from the scarring on the
President's ear from that assassination attempt that happened back in
July of last year, the doctor found no abnormalities in
the President's head, ears, or no or throat as well,
all good bills of health on that as well. Kelly, Yeah,
absolutely good.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
To hear Libby.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
What are we learning about his cognitive testing? I know
there was a big focus on that as well. Yeah,
he scored a thirty out of thirty on this cognitive
test that he took on Friday. Now, according to the
wine House position, the president touting this that was, of course,
according to the White House position, this thirty out of thirty.
But also President Trump has been touting this cognitive test.
It was touting the results long before they were even released.

(09:28):
At the conclusion of this report, the doctor cided Trump's
recent golf victories as evidence that he is fully fit
to execute the duties of the president. Now, this report
from the White House position going to be something that
President Trump and his administration officials point to throughout the
next year, throughout his entire administrative in these four years,
actually to prove that he's mentally and physically equipped here

(09:49):
to be president. And that's, of course, despite him being
the oldest US president sworn in in history. But this
is something that the White House is going to tout
heading into this week and later today as well as
the President returns here to the White House.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Okay, so the guy's resting heart rate is like sixty
two beats per minute.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
What's yours?

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Hmm? I think mine, at this lowest is maybe seventy
five beats per minute, sometimes higher than that, so that
that would seem to indicate because I'm I don't know
if this is medically true or not, but I think
your heart only has X amount of beats in it.
And every heart I'm sure is different, but you only
get so many beats per lifetime right before your heart

(10:28):
just says okay, we're all. That's enough. And and I
don't know where I stand on mind. I have a
I have a feeling that that Donald Trump probably has
somewhere between a quarter and a half a tank, and
I'm down around a quarter of a tank as far
as what's left in the in the in the tank
at this point?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
What else do I say? Always?

Speaker 4 (10:47):
If blood pressure one eight over seventy four, what's your
blood pressure? Mine is? And I take I take blood
pressure medication and mine is usually about one thirty two
over eighty. So he has a lower blood pressure reading
than I do, and he's not taking any medication for it.

(11:09):
The only medication he's taking is for high cholesterol because
because the well, you know why he eats McDonald's and KFC,
And he probably told his doctor, I'm not giving up
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
That's what I like to eat.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
So the doctor said, okay, well then we're gonna prescribe
you some cholesterol medication. I'm not one of those people
who I've heard so many mixed reports about cholesterol and
back cholesterol. And you know, if your readings to high,
is a really that bad? I think Trump has proved
positive that clearly. You know, if you maintain a steady weight,

(11:43):
even if it's a little bit overweight, if you maintain
a steady weight, and if you are consistent with your habits,
then you know chance and you don't have anything wrong
with your numbers. That's not likely to change. It's just
it's just not likely to change. And in his case
they certainly didn't did not change. Of course, the fact
that he's so dogone popular might have a whole lot

(12:05):
to do with how you know, how he's feeling about things,
and the fact that he's getting so much accomplished. Although
he does, I don't know how this guy has so
much energy. He has so much more energy than I do.
And I'm young, I'm quite a bit younger than the
President is. I don't have the same energy he does.
Where was he on Saturday? He was in Miami. He

(12:27):
was at the UFC fight in Miami. You know, I
was mentioning it this morning, at the risk of turning
in my man card. I'm not. I'm not a big
UFC fight fan. I don't know why I was ever
a big boxing fan either. You know. Part of it,
I guess is indeference to my wife, Elizabeth, who who
does who abhors you know, that kind of physical violence

(12:50):
and therefore turns off the TV if anything even close
to that is on. So maybe I've absorbed a little
bit of that. But I certainly don't begrudge anybody who
likes UFC and wants to go UFC. But it was
another great sign of this guy's popularity. President Trump goes
into Miami, and when he's there, they bring him on
like they're bringing on one of the professional fighters. Of course,

(13:13):
you might say he's a professional fighter, but he's got
like walk up music in the whole bit. Here's his
big entrance in Miami. Listen to the crowd going on
and on and on as TNN TNT God said TNT
describes the president's entrance into the arena and making the.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Entrance runk now.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
Through up standing, okay, ship the forty seventh President of
the United States, So America.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
He's like, God, you havec CEO K And why can't
all there is John River? Jack?

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Is there anybody else set Miwaukee?

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Why he has some music?

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Kid?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
What's the blitzard for? Dude really always gets a walk out.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
It's like it's like a free record in May's coming.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Give him the walk down.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
People love it, they do well. What he wants is
pitched martial arts, right.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
I mean he talks about watching these white nights when
he is not in the buildings at President Shot, making
his way until the octagon yet again for a massive
US and paper U of X got.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Fights okay, lovely Freeland fights.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Think about this, he's at the White House watching the fights.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
That crazy thought, like crazy thought. He's at the White House.
The fights are off. It's pretty incredible crazy, it's insane.
That's crazy.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
It's great to have the president with us once again.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Thank you, serg.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
And this is in former Democrats stronghold Miami, Florida. No
longer that way at all. And dudes a rock star
wherever he goes. Of course, right now, what the rock
star is trying to do is make sure his agenda
gets past. And you know, the President has enacted a
lot of measures through executive order and Congress, you know,

(15:39):
they're just doing what Congress does, you know, just kind
of working their way through the bureaucracy slowly but hopefully surely.
And of course the budget and tax cuts are big
on the list. And Sarator James Langford, I saw him
on Fox talking about tariffs and the budget and all
that kind of stuff. And he was on Fox, as

(16:02):
I said, and in addition to talking about all of that,
he also talked about what the Treasury Secretary had said
about terror. So we start with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson,
what he was saying on terras. As we continued this
little trade war going on right now with China and
Senator Langfor's reaction to.

Speaker 9 (16:21):
That, a Spanish official said today that maybe Europe should
look to China instead of the US. And I can
tell you that is a losing proposition for the Europeans.
We put up the tariff wall. China's business model is
predicated on this incredibly imbalanced economy and exporting low cost

(16:41):
goods to subsidize goods to.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
The rest of the world.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
And guess where they are going to land on the
European shores. The US is trying to rebalance toward more manufacturing,
China needs to rebalance towards more consumption.

Speaker 10 (16:57):
More on the Europeans for a moment Santa. The EU
says it will impose its first countermeasures against US tariff.
That will be April fifty, but those talents could be
suspended if there's a deal. It seems like the deal
making all over the place, but not with China. China's isolated.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
What say you, yeah, the deal making all of the
place is the key at this point.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
Let's resolve issues we've got with Argentina, with Europe, with
Central America, with lots of Asia. Vietnam has already come
to the table and said, hey, they want to be
able to clear all their barriers.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
That's positive.

Speaker 8 (17:30):
This could be a very rapid turnaround in access to
those markets which the United States has tried to get
literally for decades. If Trump is able to land this
multiple balls in the air one time, just start landing
in one at a time, that will be historic. In
a million ways. But China will be the big issue
because they are very focused on trying to dig in.
You look at Vietnam versus China. Vietnam emily said we're

(17:52):
going to drop tariffs, We're going to open up our market. China,
Meily said, we're going to close our market even more so,
the two big economic supers have got to be able
to work this out. In China's got to be reasonable
in this because they have been the problem in the
entire globe knows it well.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Then why would they be reasonable? They wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Right, There's this ai American manufacturing video going on produced
by the Chinese that makes it look like every you know,
every manufacturing job in the United States is filled by
a person who's overweight and lazy and it is miserable. Now,

(18:30):
you you can say what you want about the overweight part,
because most Americans are overweight, But the lazy and the
unmotivated and the miserable part of it, I think are
up for some sort of consideration, some sort of a
discussion as not any of that's true, And again it's
not even real. It's artificial intelligence. A right back with

(18:50):
Morna Mama. Jimmy Barrett show here on AM nine fifty KPRC. Hey,

(19:12):
guess what. There's another daylight saving time bill, federal bill,
not a state bill, federal bill coming up. Republicans and
Democrats supposedly uniting. Really this is the issue that unites
them to address a long standing issue. The Senate Commerce
Committee hearing examined the end of daylight saving time the

(19:33):
polarizing practice were told of Daylight Saving Time, a bipartisan
effort aiming to stop the twice yearly clock changes related
to DST. Senator Ted Cruz leading the charge. Last Thursday,
the Texas Republican shared the hearing and highlighted the negative
impacts on daylight saving on health and the economy. It's

(19:58):
detrimental to the United State, to the health and the
economy of our country. He went on to say that
many Americans find the ritual more than just a minor inconvenience.
Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester joined the effort, agreeing on
the need for a permanent time blood. Rochester acknowledging regional
differences what works in Delaware may not suit Washington State. Still,

(20:22):
she stressed in urgency to resolve the issue, health concerns
took the central stage critical stage. At the hearing, Cruise
referencing research on spring transition, Losing an hour sleep disrupts
circadian rhythms, he explained. Doctor Karen Johnson, also testifying at
the hearing alongside Cruise, the Massachusetts neurologist, detailed vascular system

(20:46):
effects sleep deprivation from DST changes posing serious risks. So
did they do anything about it? Not yet, and this
would not just like it the state leaf. We've had
multiple bills addressing making either daylight saving time permanent or
eliminating it all together. It's never gotten anywhere at the

(21:10):
federal level, and one we guess it probably won't get
anywhere again because they did for whatever reason. They just
can't seem to get everybody on the same page when
it relates to this stuff. Everybody complains about it, but
nobody wants to do anything about it. All right, And
here's what I want to share with you, because I
think you'll get a chuckle out of this, and it
is the perfect first example of what's so wrong with bureaucracy,

(21:34):
what goes wrong with bureaucracy. Greg Gutfield tells the tale
of DOGE working with the Internal Revenue Service just to
try to make a simple anybody could do it in
a few minutes kind of website change. And what Doge
was told by the federal government about making that change?

(21:56):
Here is and how long it it takes. Here's Greg
Gutfeldt this week.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Oh's perfectly exposed government bureaucracy in a nutshell. While working
on the IRS website, dose noticed the site's login button
wasn't in the top right like most websites. It's a
small thing, but Dosee noted it was weirdly placed in
the middle of the page. So Doese wanted to move
it to the right spot, but an IRS engineer said,

(22:22):
as soon as they could do that was July twenty first,
over one hundred days from now.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
So what did dose do?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
They stepped in and fixed it in seventy minutes.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Here's how it looks now. Say there it is. They
moved in it from the middle to the top. It's
a small thing, yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
But the government would have needed one hundred days to
go it.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
To go from there to there, So imagine how long
it takes for them to do stuff that actually requires
more efforts. This is how the government works. Hey, Steve,
can we change the websit a little, no problem, Joe.
I'll have to submit a work order for that, which
requires approval from the boss, and then we'll circle back at.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
The monthly meeting for the next round of approvals.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Then we'll hire a contractor to hire a subcontractor that.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Will hire a teenager to make the change.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
Total costs John Kyne taxpayer sixteen billion, but.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Hyperventilated.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
But when it's no longer on the taxpayer's dime, it
gets done in minutes.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
See this is why you need Elon and Doze.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
A government website shouldn't be harder than translating Jasmine Crockett
into English. And this week Doze uncovered millions of taxpayer
dollars with unemployment insurance claims for people who haven't been
born yet over the age of one hundred and fifteen,
and even even between the ages of one and five,

(23:54):
which makes you wonder how many Gerber models go on disability.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (24:03):
You know what I thought of this morning too, and
it's worth I think sharing again is the government is
a perfect example of how not to run a business.
But I feel like more and more, at least corporate
businesses are being run more like government than they are
being run like a small business. If you work for

(24:23):
a big corporation and they have centralized a lot of
things that these major corporations, you know, there used to
be a local person to do that, and there's not
a local person to do that anymore. So you either
on a regional basis or on a national basis, you
have to go to corporate headquarters in some way, shape
or form when you got a piece of equipment that's broken,

(24:47):
or some sort of a managerial decision along those lines.
It slows down the process, It turns it into a bureaucracy.
It makes it less efficient, and things that used to
get fixed in a day or two now are getting
fixed in a week or two if you're lucky. And
all it does is frustrate the people working for you.

(25:09):
So I would just say this, if you are working
or you have a corporate position, you know, try to
impress if you can. Hopefully it's not falling on deaf ears.
Try to impress if you can on people that listen.
We should localize as many decisions as we can. If

(25:29):
I were running a corporation, I would try to do that.
Try to localize as many decisions as you possibly can
you know. Let me give you an example. As a restaurant.
There's a lot of chain restaurants out there, and they
take all the data from all the restaurants all around
the country and that's how they determine what their menu

(25:50):
is going to be. And they may try an item
and it may sell like gangbusters in some locations and
sell like crap in other locations. So rather than get
the menu off the item in the locations where it
sells like crap, they just take it off the menu.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Period.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
In some cases, they take a favorite item away from
a certain market because people there really really like it.
But it came down to a corporate national decision. Decisions
need to be local.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
You know.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
We may move all around the country, but you know what,
people people are different from place to place. We need
to take that into consideration. All right, you all have
a great day. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright early
five am over on news radio seven forty KRH. I
hope to see you tomorrow afternoon at four right here
in a nine fifty KPRC