Government Shutdown

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Will there be a government shutdown?

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, I had, I had
this and this will be fun for Friday. I had
two kind of topics of discussion for questions of the
day on the morning show today and kat I rich
that we can continue here this afternoon. Two things. Number one,
things that annoy you so much they would actually be

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willing to sue over it. We'll get into that in
a second. And also today's National Pancake Day, so we
got to talk about pancakes because you know me and food.
But let's start. Let's start with the the lawsuit thing first.
What prompted the question of the day having to do
with suing somebody is that a woman And you may
recall this, I remember this from last year. Well, evidently

(01:11):
this thing finally got decided in court. A woman had
sued the Hershey Corporation, you know, the chocolate makers and
the parent company of Reese's Peanut butter Cups over what
she'd called deceptive advertising. She was annoyed. She was annoyed
because the Reese's Peanut butter cup inside of the rapper

(01:33):
didn't match the one on the outside of the wrapper.
It was a special Halloween addition. You know, they're trying
to sell Reese's Peanut butter Cups, very popular Halloween candy,
trying to sell it by putting a Reese's Peanut butter
cup on the wrapper that has scary face on it,
and then you would open up the Reese's Peanut butter
cup and the one inside, the one inside did match

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the one on the wrapper. She's going, well, that's annoying.
I don't like that. I'm going to sue for five
million dollars. Well, I don't know what attorney decided this
would be a good case to try to follow up.
And they're probably going, oh, Hershey, Yeah, Hershey's got a
lot of money. Let's see if we can get Hershey
to settle out of court. And of course Hershey carp
raising going this is stupid. We're not We're not settling

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out of court. So thing went to trial. Judge said
that no, she couldn't prove that she'd been financially harmed
by the fact that the Reese's peanut butter cup on
the inside didn't have a scary face on it. So
you know, that was the end of that court case.
But then I thought to myself, Okay, she must have
really been annoyed, and I realized there's all kinds of

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things that annoy us and set us off in life.
Right now, the bane of my existence are robo calls.
I'm getting calls from New York State. I get some days,
I'll only get two or three. Other days I've gotten
six or seven, and they're all from different numbers, and
they're but they're all the same, the same pitch. It is.

(02:58):
It is a recorded message trying to get me to
contact this company, who evidently does I don't know what
it is they do. I think what they are they
are your name's come to our attention and blah blah
blah blah blah. They their debt consolidation or something along
those lines, Which is funny because I have like a
zero credit card balance. I don't The only debt I

(03:20):
have is real estate, that's it. And they're bugging me
about debt consolidation. Clearly, you know, clearly, they just are
randomly calling numbers. You would think after not getting that
phone answered, like the one hundred and nons some odd
times that they've called, that they give up, right that
beat the end of it. No, they're still calling. So

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if I could somehow get a hold of that company
that's responsible for that and sue them, I would be
I would happily do that. That's the only thing that
comes to mind. I generally I don't like I don't
like being in court. I don't like depositions. I don't
like anything having to do with the trial process. Normally
I wouldn't want to have anything to do with it,
but I would consider it worthwhile if I could get

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my hands on these people who are responsible for all
of these robo calls. So I asked this morning on
our show on the Morning Show, and Katie rh is
there anything you can think of that annoys you so
much that you would be willing to sue over it?

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Naddie, Jimmy, this is Lakes and Duchany if I could
see someone for five million dollars or something that drives
me crazy, I would sue every single person that doesn't
use the left lane to pass. The left lane is
pro passing only.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Okay, clearly we are frustrated or annoyed by other drivers today.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
Not only would I sue, I would also demand jail
time for people who drive slow in the fast lane,
and people who take off their shoes in restaurants, put
their feet on booths and restaurants, people who take off
their shoes in church, people who take off their shoes
in airplanes.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
This is Mike from Conroe.

Speaker 8 (04:58):
I could possibly sew over the cars for Kids commercial
because it gives me mental anguish every time I hear it.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, bad jingles kind of drive me crazy too, But
what's with the foot thing? Do you see people taking
off their shoes and restaurants? Really? I've seen it on
airplanes before and that is disgusting. I will admit that
it's disgusting, But restaurants.

Speaker 9 (05:24):
Then.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
The other topic we had this morning was was the
National Pancake Day thing, and I professed my love for
even even though they're not exactly in the best of
graces with me these days, I do believe that my
favorite pancake is a cracker barrel, you know, the pecan pancake.
They have a cracker barrel. Its a griddle cake. I
like those dents, you know, the little bit crispy griddle

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cakes versus a fluffy pancake. I'm not a big fluffy
pancake kind of guy. So we got on a discussion
about favorite pancakes.

Speaker 10 (05:53):
God, I'm retired Houston firefighter. There used to be a
cook in the Houston Fire Department named Larry Bla. We
called them, Mom made the best pancake you'd ever want
to eat. We call them manhole covers made with cake flour,
and you could only eat one rest in peace, Larry.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Wow. Okay, so that's not exactly a restaurant pancake. What
about I hop Remember when I Hop had because after all,
they wore the original International House of Pancakes. Remember when
they had like they must have had twenty or thirty
different kinds of pancakes. Now they've got like maybe five
or six different kinds of syrup that you basically put

(06:33):
on the same pancake. You know, they're little fluffy pancakes.
They used to have a lot more varietium pancakes, but
they changed a long time ago.

Speaker 11 (06:42):
Hey, Jimmy, I don't know which restaurant and Heuston has
the best pancakes. Since I'm not there very often, but
when I go over, this is being reverend to visit
my mother in law in Louisiana. She makes, without a doubt,
the best tasting pumpkins spice pancakes in the world. Yes,
pumpkin spice pancakes. Get a little butter and a little
maple syrud about it. You talk about a perfect treat

(07:05):
in the fall. And that's not a trick either, Jimmy.

Speaker 12 (07:09):
Yeah, da you go on Lake Conroe. Think of flapjack.
They come up with that, you know, when they would
take a cast iron skillet and flip it over and
then catch it back in the deal. But yeah, the
griddle cake, man, you know, I like making them, and
I'll make them for my wife. But I'll put them
in a heart shape. Oh and then I take you know,

(07:30):
and then I make sure that they burned.

Speaker 13 (07:32):
Good morning, guys. The two best places to get pancakes
in Houston area is Kelly's Country Kitchen with a pancake
is the size of the plate and Avalon Diners. Anyway,
have a great day, guys.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Hey, what's up, Jimmy.

Speaker 10 (07:48):
Good morning.

Speaker 14 (07:50):
Let's see pancakes, Dallastan Miller's on the Seawall.

Speaker 9 (07:54):
Their breakfast is awesome.

Speaker 14 (07:56):
Have an amazing breakfast, and they have some amazing shrimp
and gris as well if you like those. And Sky Mike, Shame, shame, Shame,
gets your bud to work, buddy.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh, he wasn't playing, he wasn't playing hooky today. He
was you know, he was legitimately not feeling good anyway. Okay,
that Kelly's Country Kitchen has come up quite a bit,
and talking about breakfast, I'm I'm definitely going to have
to make a trip there back with Morning Moment Jimmy
Barrett show here a name of nine fifty k PRC.

(08:41):
All right, I'm sure you heard the news yesterday right
about James Comy, the former FBI director indicted by federal
grand jury for lyne to Congress could face up to
five years in prison. So I saw a couple of
different features on this one yesterday, and I'm I'm trying

(09:04):
to think of which one I should play for you first. Here,
maybe we'll start. Let's start with this one. It's a
little clip of James Comy lying in front of Congress
with some analysis here legally of what could happen to him?
From constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley.

Speaker 15 (09:25):
Have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports
about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Never have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI
to be an anonymous source in news reports about the
Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
Now, you know, Comy is a careful player, but he's
also a bit of a rogue operator when things get tense.
You know, he went rogue with the Clinton press conference,
but he particularly went rogue when he was being fired.
He removed material from the FBI. The Inspector General issued

(10:08):
a scathing report saying that he violated the FBI rules.
It did not find that he leaked to classified information,
but that information was FBI information he should never have removed.
And then he himself admitted that he called up a
friend to leak some information to the media. Now that

(10:29):
doesn't actually give him a pristine appearance. It suggests a
foundation for this type of charge. You know, none of
us are happy about seeing political opponents charged, and so
this case is going to remain controversial. The President truly
despises this individual, and it appears to be a mutual feeling.

(10:52):
But when you look at the charge itself, it is
different from what some people might have thought. It's going
to come down to whether Jim Comey is a leaker
and a.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Liar, which I think he is, and of the question
that got asked him. He may not have technically lied
on the first question, but he did on the second
one because he was asked if he had ever leaked,
because he came back later and said that he had
given information to somebody to leak for him. So if

(11:24):
you do that, if you're providing information that leaked to
somebody you know who will leak it for you, then
that this just is guilty is doing it yourself. I
have some more analysis from Jesse Waters from his show
last night.

Speaker 16 (11:38):
Mister McCabe, who works for you as publicly and repeatedly
stated that he leaked information to the Wall Street Journal
and that you were a directly aware of it and
that you directly authorized it.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
I just can only speak to my testimony. I stand
by what the testimony you summarized that I gave in
May of twenty seventeen.

Speaker 16 (11:57):
So your testimony is you've never authorized anyone to.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Leak, not going to characterize Andy's testimony, but mine is
the same.

Speaker 17 (12:03):
Today, no one's above the law and lying to Congress
as a crime, and now he's facing up to five
years in prison. Komy should have known this would have
caught up to him. He knew Hillary planted the Russia hoax,
and he used the hoax to spy on the Trump campaign.
He used undercover agents and doctored evidence. After Trump won,

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Komy tried to take him down from the inside.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
But got caught. He's accused of.

Speaker 17 (12:28):
Authorizing his dirty number two, Andy McCabe, to leak to
the press. That's what he lied to Congress about, and
this obstructed the congressional investigation and tore our country to pieces.

Speaker 16 (12:42):
Now, after he got.

Speaker 17 (12:43):
Fired, he confessed to leaking documents to a reporter to
trigger a special counsel in order to impeach Trump.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
Did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside
of the Department of Justice?

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (13:00):
And to whom did you show copies?

Speaker 4 (13:03):
I asked? President tweeted on Friday after I got fired
that I better hope there's not tapes. I woke up
in the middle of the night on Monday night because
it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be
corroboration for our conversation, there might be a tape, and
my judgment was I needed to get that out into
the public square, and so I asked a friend of
mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter.

(13:26):
Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but
I asked him to because I thought that might prompt
the appointment of a special counsel, and so I asked
a close friend of mine to do it.

Speaker 17 (13:35):
Komy was sniffed out staging a coup and framing the
president as a trader, a Russian operative, then leaking and
lying to Congress about his operations.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
These are actual crimes.

Speaker 17 (13:46):
Remember, they had to make up crimes to charge Trump
thirty four felon accounts, charges for a crime that have
never been brought before in the history of our country.
This isn't revenge, it's accountability. And gave Merrick Garland the
green light to indict Trump, and they indicted dozens of
high ranking Republican officials and hundreds of Republican activists. They

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put a lot of people in prison. They censured us,
they debanked us, they spied on parents.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
So this is nothing.

Speaker 17 (14:17):
So far, the Trump dj has indicted two Republicans, John
Bolton and James Comy. And why would we believe Komy's.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Side of the story.

Speaker 17 (14:27):
He lied about Russia for years now. He's innocent until
proven guilty, and he's going to have to make his
case in court. But we just hope he didn't spend
all of his book advance money because he's going to
have to spend a lot on lawyers.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Anybody believe that James Commy's really a Republican? How could
you believe that that's a rhino for you Republican name only?
At what point was he a Republican? At what point
has he acted like a Republican? Or what are Republicans
to act like? The question is, is you know? Of course,

(15:04):
it depends on how the prosecution goes. But is this
just the beginning? Because obviously Hillary Clinton was need I'm sorry,
I was gonna say knee deep, No, how about neck
deep in the whole Russian hoast thing. Where are the
charges against her? She's not a former sitting president of
the United States. No reason why you can't bring charges

(15:26):
against her, No reason why you can't make her sweat
a little and as far as revenge versus justice, how
about a little bit of both, because the sweetest revenge
is victory. Right, what's the best way to conquer your
opponents who who have broken the law to try to
conquer you, Prosecute them, make them pay for what it

(15:51):
is that they've done. Maybe it won't happen so often
going forward. At least you can hope for that. All right,
Any TikTok fans out there, I'm not a TikTok fan.
That's okay. TikTok was not meant for people like me.
It's all right. I don't have to be a fan
of everything. I'm not even a fan of Facebook anymore.
I'm just down on social media. I spend this little

(16:13):
time now on social media as I can, and if
I do, I'm watching all kinds of things that got
nothing to do with politics. So it wasn't a big
deal to me if we weren't going to have TikTok
around anymore. But the President has signed an executive order
on TikTok. Here is the President signing that order. As

(16:34):
we find out about what was in that executive order
as he signed it.

Speaker 18 (16:38):
Next, here we have an executive order on TikTok from
the first days of your administration. You've charged a team
from your administration, led by Vice President Vance, with ensuring
that we can preserve TikTok as a platform for the
one hundred and seventy million Americans who use it, while
ensuring that their data is properly protected as required by law.
With this executive order, you will be effective bringing into

(17:00):
effect the agreement that we'll save TikTok and ensure that
it can operate safely and securely.

Speaker 19 (17:06):
So this is interesting because I had a very good
talk with President she let of respect for him, hopefully
his letter of respect for me too, and we talked
about TikTok and other things, but we talked about TikTok
and he gave us to go ahead. You know, it's
run by American investors and American companies, great ones, great

(17:27):
investors are the biggest.

Speaker 9 (17:29):
You don't get bigger.

Speaker 19 (17:30):
I don't imagine. And maybe I'll have JD. JD was
very much involved in charge of it, and maybe I'll
have you, so a few words about the deal. He
would report back and the points of the deal I
think are great for our country. So JD, do you
want to give it a little talk place.

Speaker 20 (17:48):
Yes, sir, Yeah, So thank you, sir for your leadership
and for your help. We really could have done this
without the President actually ushering this deal over the finish line.
There was some resistance on the Chinese side, but the
fundamental thing that we wanted to publish is that we
wanted to keep TikTok operating, but we also wanted to
make sure that we protected Americans data privacy as required
by law, both because it's the right thing to do,

(18:08):
but also because it's a legal requirement of the law
that was passed last year by Congress. So we think
that we were able to do that. Of course, we're
going to keep on working at it, but this deal
really does mean that Americans can use TikTok, but actually
use it with more confidence than they had in the past,
because their data is going to be secure and it's
not going to be used as a propaganda weapon against
our fellow citizens.

Speaker 9 (18:28):
We're very excited about it.

Speaker 20 (18:30):
We appreciate the cooperation of everybody involved, and it's.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
A big day.

Speaker 19 (18:34):
And I think I can say that especially the young people,
they really wanted this to happen. They did not want
to have TikTok close and I got a little used
to TikTok. I used it myself during the campaign and
it was very successful because you know how I did
with the young voter. And Charlie helped me a lot too,
and he said to me, you should go on TikTok.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yeah, and he did, and he won the election and
he turned around a lot of young people on that thing.
I understand why President Trump likes TikTok so much. Me
not so much. And there's the part of me that
really doesn't trust that the Chinese will not figure out
a way to continue to have their algorithm involved in
TikTok and continue to gather information about us, even though

(19:20):
it's owned by Americans. They're still gonna bite dances, still
gonna have somebody on the board, and I wouldn't be
I mean, they're gonna have to be very careful about
making sure that China can no longer gather that information
from TikTok. All right, quick little break back with boor
in a moment government shut down potentially looming next week,

(19:41):
is that concern you at all? Born that coming up
next year on a nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy
Baird Show. So on top of the first that is

(20:07):
the drop dead dates for Congress to come up with
another continuing resolution, of which we've had more than two
hundred of them. And the Democrats are doing what the
Democrats like to do. They're threatening a government shutdown. And
what they're trying to do is they're trying to get
back I don't know about a trillion dollars worth of

(20:28):
stuff that's been cut from the budget by President Trump
and by Ela Musk. So they're trying to get that
stuff back, public broadcasting, you know, that kind of stuff
they're trying to get. They're trying to call that money
back in return for not shutting down the government. It's
a non starter. It's not going to happen. There's a

(20:51):
completely with the Republicans in control, with Trump and control
of the White House, I think there's a completely different
stance coming. The Republicans seem at this point like they're
not going to cave, at least with the Lit's hope,
they're not going to cave. So I had a special
guest on political analyst led the video on our morning
show today on Katy Right, and we talked about the
specter of a government shutdown. I say we talked about

(21:16):
the specter of them. Hang on a second, the specter
of a government shutdown. We always get to the eleventh
hour and they work something out, but unfortunately they usually
work it out lad by Republicans capitulating. Does that happen
this time?

Speaker 9 (21:30):
I think it's going to be extremely hard for Republicans
to be able to fall on their sword like they
usually do. They have strong leadership in the White House
and in both chambers of the United States Legislature, and
so it's inconceivable at this point that they're going to
back down to people like Chuck Schumer and Kim Jeffries.

(21:51):
I think the demands that demands are the Democrats are
making amount to a one trillion dollar ransom because they're
holding the American people hostage, They're holding American government hostage.
I don't think Trump but is going to back down
to that kind of demand.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Well, I certainly wouldn't expect him to do it, and
I'm and if he doesn't want it done, I'm pretty
sure he's going to try to make sure that leadership
in both the Senate and the House understand that. So
exactly what is it the Democrats are looking for to
avoid the shutdown? You mentioned a one trillion dollar ransom.
What does this included that one trillion dollars?

Speaker 9 (22:27):
Well, like they want crazy things like restoring funding for
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or they want they want
money that allows them to provide healthcare and services for
a legal aliens. It's it's not really a serious demand
and a serious negotiation for all intents and purposes. Every

(22:50):
single time a Democrat goes on television and speaking about
the looming shutdown, they're basically tricking and hoodweeking the American
people over their demands. Because what it amounts to is
they want to find a way to keep that slush
fund going that they got so spoiled on when Joe
Biden was in office. They loved the amounts of money

(23:13):
that Joe Biden and his team were shoveling towards every
single leftist agenda item, and they want that to continue.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
And I would guess too that they probably want to
be able to have the talking point right. They want
to be able to say, hey, listen, we tried to negotiate.
The President wouldn't even meet with us. The Republicans are
the reason why there's a government shutdown. It's not us.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
Yeah, And that has always worked in the past, going
back twenty thirty years, that whatever happens, in every single case,
Republicans are going to get blamed for the shutdown, even
if it was something the Democrats did. But that is
no longer the case, that metric no longer applies. That
narrative will not hold, especially given the fact that Republicans

(23:55):
hold not only the White House, but the Senate and
the Congress, and that people are starting to wake up
to the fake news that the Democrats keep pushing. The
fact that President Trump has announced publicly and spoken publicly
about his negotiations about the failures that the Democrats bringing
about his refusal to give into their crazy demands has

(24:17):
really set the table because now Americans understand what republic
what Democrats are asking for is not only unreasonable, but
it's already out of the question to half the country.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
And to be clear, for the majority of Americans, the
government shut down, they aren't even going to notice it,
are they. If it does shut up, the.

Speaker 9 (24:35):
Vast majority will not even see what a government shut
down equates to in their life. The unseerious the ridiculous
demands that Democrats are making is to keep fringe benefits.
It's to keep flush funds, flush funds going. It's not
to keep the central services. No one's going to miss
out on their Social Security check, no one's going to

(24:58):
miss out on mailed delivery. Police and fire services will continue,
the military will continue to stand strong defending our nation.
The vast majority of those impacted by the government shutdown
are people who are protected by, implemented by, and managed
by Democrat controlled cities in Democrat controlled districts across the country.

(25:21):
And what they're trying to do is they're trying to
keep that bloat. They're trying to keep that that that
overspending in place.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Could this backfire on Democrats? Could they end up losing
some of these people through through through a firing for example.
Would the president have the ability to fire any of
these people who end up going out on the government
shutdown or shutting any of these departments down or thinning
them out.

Speaker 9 (25:44):
I think I think it could very seriously and very
quickly backfire on Democrats. I think most Americans have had
to deal with a contracting economy, and we're in a
worsteneing comomy that manifested under Joe Biden with much higher inflation,
higher taxes, and they've all had to tighten their belts,
they've had to find ways to manage their resources, and

(26:06):
now Congress refuses to do so, even though they see
the evidence of what happened in twenty twenty four when
President Trump won re election, and they've seen the unification,
really the increasing unity across our country following democratic violence
across the country, including with the murder of Charlie Kirk.

(26:28):
This is a time for us to come together and
focus on our priorities and focus on buildings stronger, not
giving in to the left its agenda.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
It's glad to Vidi again joining us earlier today on
kat rh All Right, so he doesn't think the government
shut down is a big deal. I don't think the
government shut down is a big deal either. You know,
if you're senior to get a Social Security check, guess what,
you still get your Social Security check if you remember
the military. Yeah, maybe maybe a few checks for a

(26:57):
few people get delayed along the way, but everybody get
their money. It's not like anything is really going to change.
And in fact, you'll probably of course it's been a
long time since we actually had a government shut down,
so most people don't remember what that was like. Few
will notice, very few people would even notice. Okay, so

(27:18):
you can't go to a national park for a couple
of days. Is that really a big deal? I don't
think so. And at the end of the day, maybe
this all comes back to haunt the Democrats if they
decide to go ahead and play chicken with it. The
only reason why they're doing this is because this works
so well with Republicans in the past. The Republicans of
the past have rolled over when it came right down

(27:40):
to the deadline, fearful that they would be blamed for
a government shutdown, that it's really not that big of
a deal to begin with. So anyway, Nude Gingrich, who's
been through a few of these things when he was
serving in Congress, here's what he had to say about
the possibility of a government shutdown.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Well, look, I think that the Democrats are in a
hopeless situation. And I've been looking at people like congress
Woman Spenberger, who's running for governor of Virginia. How can
she vote against keeping the government open when it is
her constituents in northern Virginia, who are going to bear
the brunt of any government shutdown. The fact is that

(28:14):
the Schumer and to some extent Hakim Jeffreys, the Democrat
leaders in the House and Senate, have walked themselves into
a total trap. The House Republicans, under Mike Johnson's leadership,
have already passed a clean continuing resolution that gets them
into November, gives them time to keep passing appropriations. Bills

(28:35):
had nothing in it that was a problem for the
Democrats and the Senate. Now to stop that bill and
close the government I think is almost suicidal because under
the rules, the president will be able in this kind
of situation to decide with the limited money he will
have what to spend and what not to spend. And

(28:57):
if they start picking out various left doing bureaucracies that
frankly they don't care about anyway, and they begin dismantling them,
you're going to see people lose their jobs who are
not going.

Speaker 9 (29:10):
To be called back.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
And I think that the Democrats are really playing with
nitroglycerund or dynamite right now, because all the strength is
on the present side. We just did a survey at
America's New Majority Project and it's clear the American people
do not want to increase spending. They would like to
keep the government open, but not at the cost of
massive increases in spending.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
I agree. Nothing to argue with their Yeah, so it
could all come back to haunt them. They lose people
and potentially departments and programs that only they care about.
That you know that that feeds their friends, because you know,
if Trump is in charge of what they're going to

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spend the money on and what they're not going to
spend the money on. You know, he's not going to
spend it on anything that the the Democrats wanted to
spend on. He's gonna spend on the things he wants
to spend it on. Yeah, they're taking a big chance,
big chance. I'd like I'd like to see it shut
it down for a few days, just to see what happens.
We'll see, We'll see what happens. As long as the
Republicans they're they're in charge, they're in control. As long

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as they don't cave to the Democrats, I'm gonna be
fine either way. Quick little break back with more in
a moment Jimmy Bart Show. Here a name nine fifty
KPRC all right, a couple more stories before we call

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it a day. On this Friday. Friday's kind of the day.
It's kind of like I try, I try to clean
out the fridge, you know, things that things that I
especially didn't get to this morning that I want to
get to here for this afternoon because I find them
kind of interesting, and hopefully you do too. I find
it very interesting because you can't have your cake and
eat to two. I mean, that tourist statement was never made,

(31:10):
and I don't care what you're talking about. You can't
have your cake and eat two. Gavin Newsom, the governor California,
is trying to prevent energy companies from leaving his state,
even though he's done everything but declare war on them.
He has set up a whole bunch of regulations that
make it very expensive for them to do business. He's

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made it very hard for them to use their refineries
to bring in American oil. Anything you can think of
that's been detrimental to the energy business, they pretty much
are guilty of doing it. Now you've got Chevron getting
ready to leave. Other energy companies are talking about doing
the same thing, and Gavin Newsom is trying to figure

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out how he can force them to stay. They don't
want to stay, and every policy they put into effect
in California tells the world he doesn't want them there.
So why is he trying to keep them? Tax revenue?
Tax revenue. They're losing all these fortune five hundred companies
to stays like Texas, and they're losing the tax revenue

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that goes along with it. They have an incredible budget
deficit there. They don't want energy companies, but they can't
afford not to have them. So anyway, here's a little
bit of a discussion I saw that I thought I
would share with you here. It starts with Chevron executive
Andy Walls talking about the reason why they were leaving
California to begin with, over the way they were treated

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is and then the panel from The Big Money Show
kicks in and talks about it.

Speaker 21 (32:43):
I think it's been a tyranny of about twenty five
years of trying to get the refining business to leave California.
They've been putting in regulations and bureaucracy and taxes and
programs to push us out of the state.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Saying it was planning state a clean energy future, when
it was all LACN the result refinery closures that's in
the last thirty some odd years, and industry exodus and
of course skyrocketing prices. And now the chickens are coming

(33:19):
home to roost and we're here to watch it all
and report on it. Gavin Newsom state is having a
sudden change of heart. The pompadour of pomposity himself just
signed a bill to fast track approvals for two thousand
new oil and gas wells annually. This is in near Bakersfield, California,

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Kern County. Trying to keep energy companies from fleeing California.
It may be too little, too late. And Newsom and frankly,
all the people in California who voted for him and
all the other Democrats, they are getting what they deserve
and what they voted for. Mike to you on this.

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You have relatives who are in politics out there.

Speaker 16 (34:07):
What has happened.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Gavin Newsom sued the big oil companies, but California has
to import half of the crew that is still able
to refine in the state from places like Saudi Arabia,
a Rock and Brazil and the co two emissions, the
smog and pollution from the tankers that have to ship

(34:34):
it in has caused emissions to go up and pollution
to go up. So it's actually damaging human health in
California because they've tried to phase out fossil fuels.

Speaker 22 (34:46):
Yeah, so my dad lived in California for a long time.
And it's to say, like the crazy people in this
country just keep moving west and like it just stops
in California because they'll fall in the ocean if they
keep going any further. And like there couldn't be more
a true statement in the world. These politicians, they don't
govern for results. They don't say, hey, what's worked really
well in the past, and let's try to make.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
It work really well here at California.

Speaker 22 (35:08):
It's it's I need to govern for a narrative. I
need there to be anything shoplifted under one thousand dollars.
We don't need to arrest you for that. We don't
need cash bail, Okay, we don't need to arrest criminals.
We want this green utopia. And like what happens with
that is you go from two percent or so, you

(35:28):
start at thirteen percent of the US oil production in
the US. Now we're down to two percent okay, it's
still close to fun. Between five and ten percent of
their overall revenue for California comes from this from the
energy industry. It is an unbelievable state. It is one
of the most, if the not most beautiful state in
the Union. You have technology, you have Hollywood, you have
amazing natural resources. Yet somehow these lefties have found a

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way to almost completely ruin it.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Hang on, what's what's beautiful about Hollywood. I've been to Hollywood.
I get yeah, there's some beautiful areas. I guess it's
a pretty state. But there's no reason to leave there now.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
People.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
I just I'm old enough to remember, you know when
people were just flocking to California in the seventies and
the eighties in particular, And the opposite is happening now.
They've become an impossible place to live. Even if you're
willing to put up with the politics, how can you
put up with the taxes and the home prices. You

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easily would have to double whatever you're making now to
have a chance to live at the very same lifestyle
that you currently live in. There's no good reason to
go to California. That's why everybody is coming here. All right,
last story for you because I find it interesting. Merriam
Webster Dictionary finally got around to adding more than five
thousand terms that they hadn't added as a part of

(36:53):
their dictionary. I don't know how often you use the
dictionary anymore, but here's some of the ones that they added.
Beast mode dad. Body' all know where the dadbod is, right,
I don't need to define most of these. Dumb phone,
which is a cell phone that does not include any
advanced software. You don't get email, you don't have an
Internet browser. By the way, it's the opposite of a smartphone.

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Farm to table wasn't in there. That's a big thing.
Hard pass as not passing the ball. Hard hard pass
like no thank you, I want nothing to do. I'll
take a hard pass on that. I use that one
all the time. Love language that wasn't in there, riz,
which is slang for a romantic appeal or charm and

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side I sideye. Wasn't in there when you look at
somebody side eyed, that sidelong lancer gaze, especially when you're
expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval, or veiled curiosity. Five thousand new
terms in the Merriam Webster Dictionary. Hey, listen, you' all
have a great weekend. Enjoy it. I make the most
out of it. I'll see you Monday morning, bright, early

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