Government Shutdown Day 2

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• How is your sense of smell?
• Government shutdown day 2

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, Happy Thursday. Welcome to the show.
How's your sense of smell? We're gonna talk about smells
to start our program today because I think we all
have our favorites, and I'm sure we have plenty of them.
We don't particularly care for. Skunk comes to mind as
far as a bad smell, although it doesn't bother me

(00:52):
as much as it seems to bother some people. There's
not a lot of smells. Well, I take it back, decomposition, Okay,
that would be the worst smell. And I don't know
if you've ever smelled that or not. I hope that
you haven't, because that means you come across something dead.
But my wife, Elizabeth, used to work at the coroner's

(01:13):
office in Richmond, Virginia, and I remember going in to
see her and she pulled out a piece of paper
that evidently had been in a room where somebody had
died and had been there for a long long time,
and the paper had absorbed the smell of decomposition, and
it just about knocked me out, I mean knocked me
to the floor. That is just one of the worst smells.

(01:36):
But we got talking about smells this morning on our
morning show on KATRH because evidently Holiday inn Express is
going to come up, or they're testing in certain markets.
I think in Australia and New Zealand they're testing this
thing where you can set your alarm clock to release
a smell. When the alarm goes off, it will release
the smell. And the smell you get, I guess three

(02:00):
three choices. You could either have coffee because a lot
of people love the smell of coffee firstly in the morning.
You could also get blueberry muffins. And the third smell
was bacon. Now, firstly I would rather I would like
a combination of bacon and coffee. I think those two together,
I mean that just that makes me smile. That puts

(02:23):
me off on the right foot to start my day.
So we got to thinking, Okay, what are the smells
that make you smile? What are the smells that make
you happy? What are the smells that are your favorites
for whatever reason. And the more we thought about, the
more we came up with. The first one I came
up with this morning was Thanksgiving dinner. The smell of

(02:44):
Thanksgiving dinner, because that means that you're with friends or family,
you're going to have a great meal, and you're if
you're eating the same things that your mom used to
make you for Thanksgiving, it brings back all those kinds
of memories. So and there's nothing better to me than
and the smell of a Thanksgiving dinner cooking. It also
means it's kind of the beginning of the holidays, and
you're watching football and you're enjoying your day off, and

(03:08):
you're getting ready to eat a big meal, and hopefully
you're taking the time to be thankful for something in
your life, and hopefully you have plenty of things to
be thankful for. So that was the first one that
came to mind. And then I started asking our listeners, all, right,
favorite smell, what is it? Why is it your favorite smell?
And we had quite a laundry list of smells that
people wanted to talk about.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
Hey, Jimmy This is Jason from San Antonio, Man. I
love the smell of a feed store. It takes me
back to time on the farm with my popball and
my daddy. So feed stores take me back. Feed stores
make me happy.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
Have great day, guys, playing baseball for many years.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
The one smell I love is put your face into
a glove and smell that leather.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
It's awesome. And this is Robert from Leak City.

Speaker 8 (03:57):
Hey.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
The favorite smell, especially in.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
The morning if you're waking up with an alarm.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
For me, it's gotta be that Mexican choaties so with
flower tortillas.

Speaker 10 (04:05):
Baby, well, that brings back memories. For me, would be
a camp fire and i'most got my cowpoop is another
smell that brings back memories because I grew up in Manmo,
back when it was a country town. Have a great day, guys.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
But but but Mike, it's goot. Mike made the stipulation.
It's gotta be fresh, you know, not not old cow poops,
fresh fresh cow poop, but the old cowpoop. Well, I
guess old cowpoop really stops smelling, right. It's like dogs.
You know, when your dog first poops, you can really
smell it. I don't mean to get gross, but you
can't really smell it, and you know when you but

(04:41):
when you run across old dog poop, it doesn't really
smell anymore, at least not until you get right up
on it. All right, what are some more?

Speaker 8 (04:48):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Hang on a second, Uh? What are some more of
those smells? I came up with a cup of gasoline
is another one. Yeah, I actually do like the smell
of gasoline. What are some other ones?

Speaker 11 (05:00):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from porter Man. You hit
two of mine with coffee and bacon, among other things.
I mean fresh baked cookies, cinnamon rolls. But years ago
there was a wonderbread bakery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and every
time I drove by that place and caught the smell
of the fresh baked bread, it would just put a

(05:21):
smile on my face. Man. Anyway, that's all I got.
Y'all have a good day.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
This is Bob from Katie. And the smell that makes
me happy is when a fresh rain is coming your
way as a front is moving in and you can
smell that freshness of the rain coming.

Speaker 11 (05:38):
My favorite smell none but the warmth of my wife wonderful.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
That always gets me going in the morning.

Speaker 12 (05:47):
Good morning, this is Teresa and Snook. Some of my
favorite smells are puppy breath and fresh cut grass. Of course,
the leather and the bacon go along with that too.
Y'all are doing a great job morning, Miss Terry, love you,
sky Mike. We'll talk to Elson.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Bye bye. Here's a smell I like to I already
mentioned I like the smell gasoline, right, But here's a
combination that I didn't like the smell of I had
never until I lived in Richmond, Virginia, which has a
race track, and then host that At the time they
were hosting too. I think they're down to one race

(06:26):
a year that they host, NASCAR race. I went to
my first NASCAR race, and it's a weird combination. It's
the it's the combination of fuel burning rubber, and hot
dogs and beer. You put all the you smell all
of those things together. It's I mean, it's not a
disgusting smell. It's just it's just kind of a weird smell.

Speaker 13 (06:50):
Jimmy, the greatest smell on the planet is burning firewood
and a campfire. That oak firewood just burning in the
campfire is so beautiful. I can live with that every day.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Hey, y'all, this is DK from Montgomery.

Speaker 9 (07:04):
Fresh cut grass, a fresh rain, and of course two
stroke gas brat.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
He must like mow in the yard. I used to
be like that. I used to used to mow the grass,
and I'd love it because you know what I liked
about mowing the grass other than the smell the first
cut grass in the gasoline is I like the fact
that when I got done, it looked good. You know
what I do here on the radio. It's subjective, right,
Did I do a good show? Did I not do

(07:33):
a good show? Did a lot of people listen? Did
not a lot of people listen? At least when I
cut the grass, I could look, Hey, you did a
good job. It looks great. It wasn't as subjective as
what I was doing for a living that I think
That's why I liked it so much. We got some
more ideas.

Speaker 14 (07:48):
Hey, Jimmy Dustin from the North side of Houston.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
You gotta love the smell a new leather, leather and
maybe cutting down some mahogany.

Speaker 11 (07:58):
Hey Jimmy, Good morning Joe from Conra. My most favorite smell.
It's a Saturday night at the drag Strip, Nitro methhane
and burnt rubber.

Speaker 9 (08:10):
Hey, Jimmy and Mike, this is Scott from Magnolia. I
love the smell of a good fire when the air
is real cold. Something about that just brings back a
lot of memories. Have a good one skip from Webster.

Speaker 11 (08:23):
The smell of the brisket that I just smoked for
twenty hours when after it's rested and first open the.

Speaker 10 (08:30):
Foil and oh yeah it's money, Oh yes, it's fire andeyes.

Speaker 15 (08:36):
Hey, Jimmy and Mike, this is Jennifer Morsh Sharon. My
favorite smell is the rain here in Houston. Now let
me tell you something. Now, it's if you ever go
to Saint Louis, the rain doesn't smell good. It smells
like fish. So give me the rain here in Texas
any day.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
You ever heard that before? What do you think if
anybody's rain would smell like fish? Should be our rain
coming off the Gulf coast, out of the Gulf of America.
When you think, you know, if anything was gonna smell
like fish, you would think it would be that. Why
does why would the rain smell like fish? And Saint Louis,
I have no idea. All right, one more quick one
for you here, because to introduce one of these segments

(09:14):
this morning, I played Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, and
I asked the question, what does teens Spirit smell like?
I didn't have any idea what that had to do
with it, and then we got this call.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
Hey, Jimmy is Lewis from Houston, Texas. Teen Spirit was
an old deodorant that was for teenage girls back in
the day. And the story goes that the Kurt from
Nirvana said that it was his girlfriend's smell when he
would go over to her house. She had teen Spirit
in her bathroom and that's what she wore. So that's

(09:47):
why it smells like teen Spirit.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
I know that, did you. I had no idea that
that's where the title came from. All right, anyway, we
got to take a quick little break back with going
to moment Jimmy Vertt show here on the M nine
fifty KPRC. All right, let's start segment number two on

(10:22):
our show today with something I never got to this morning.
Did you hear about this Trump meme, this sombrero meme
that he's got going I couldn't quite figure out what
this was all about in the very beginning, but he
started posting AI generated memes of Hakeem Jeffries wearing a

(10:45):
sombrero in a big Mexican mustache, you know, very cartoonish,
talking about healthcare, and I thought, well, what's this. What
it was really all about, I guess is that he
was trolling Hakeem Jeffries for holding up the government and
you know, shutting down the government over wanting to expand

(11:08):
Obamacare for illegal aliens. And so that's where that's where
the Mexican meme came from, and he's done several of them.
They are they are rather funny. Of course, the progressive
left calling them racist and zena phoebek, because well that's
what they do. You know, Heaven forbid you should try

(11:30):
to put a little levity into the situation, and heaven
forbid that you should turn somebody into, you know, a
caricature Mexican to illustrate illegal immigration. But that's exactly what
he did. So Megan Kelly and Glenn Greenwald we're talking
about it on Magan Kelly's podcast and they're both get
a big kick out of it.

Speaker 16 (11:51):
Trump very effectively. I discussed this yesterday on the show.
Drops this video of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. It's
AI altered with Hakeem Jefferis, a sombrero comes down on
his head, a Mexican mustache appears on his face, and
then they have Chuck Schumer in an AI voice saying,

(12:11):
we have no voters left because of all of our
woke trans Okay, so Trump posts this on Monday night.
It's got over twenty million views. I mean, it weighed
a call attention to a shutdown and who you say.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Is to blame?

Speaker 16 (12:26):
Like very effective and went so viral because it was
so different from anything any president has ever done for
all sorts of reasons. And then you had the left
meltdown over it, calling more attention. So it's a very
effective smart move by Trump. It was, you know, of course,
his brand of humor, but it also was an effective
political move I think is so much attention got called

(12:47):
to it. Then last night Trump doubled down by putting
a new spin on it. And here that is and
top three.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Good Tree, We'll get you nowhere.

Speaker 17 (12:57):
We are fighting to protect the healthcare.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
Team face.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
And the hat comes down and the mustache comes on.
But now there's a mariachi band behind all wearing sombreros,
and they're all Donald Trump playing the guitar or whatever
behind him. It's very funny.

Speaker 16 (13:26):
And if Democrats were smart, they would laugh at themselves
or roll their eyes at Trump and maybe come up
with their own response. I'm sorry, but this is the
funniest thing with Trump. It's playing the Trump that playing
the guitar, doing all the instruments.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Trump is soffer. I find it very funny. But that
they're not.

Speaker 18 (13:48):
Smart, everybody find everybody finds it funny. That's the whole thing,
you know.

Speaker 19 (13:52):
I think one of the most clever things Trump did
was like, and to this day I laugh about this
when I think about this, is when that whole thing
with Elizabeth Warren emerged about how she'd faked being a
Native American. He started calling her a Pocahontas, which you know,
it's just like a perfect name to call somebody who's
this like white lady who tried to be a Native American.
And I remember even one time he had these like
elders from some like Cherokee tribe in the Oval office

(14:15):
where he was like honoring Native American Day or something,
and he was like to them, he was saying, and
we have a woman who's in Congress. We call her Pocahontas.

Speaker 18 (14:23):
And every time he would do it, the Democrats and
the media would be like, he's a racist, he's a racist,
he's mocking it Native Americans, when in reality, he was
always mocking Elizabeth Warren for pretending to be Native American.
He was never mocking Native Americans themself. And the more
angry they got, the funnier it became. This is so basic,
Like how do you not know this? You know, It's

(14:43):
like if you go on the internet and somebody's mocking you,
the worst thing you can do, The best thing you
can do for them is gon um on your high
horse and say, how dare you? Like everybody knows this.
This is so basic and so I don't know they've
been doing this for eight years. They like play right
into Trump's hands so perfectly, and you know, you can
make an argument like, yeah, the president should be above that,

(15:04):
but that's no longer our politics. That's the politics that
Trump broke. I don't think people like that in our politics,
and everybody has to pretend to be one thing but
in reality is something else. And this is the kind
of thing people laugh at over the water poolers, even
if they know that they're not supposed to. And it
is a huge powerful weapon that Trump has a Democrat still,
you know, like, oh, he's gonna go around and be

(15:25):
like this is racist, this is bigotry. How dare I mean?
It's just it's so it makes it funnier, honestly.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
It does. It actually makes it makes it funnier for
people like us who actually have a sense of humor. Yeah,
we still have a sense of humor. The progressive left
lost there's a long if they ever had one, they
lost it a long, long, long, long time ago. But

(15:52):
the trolling will continue, especially I would assume as this
drags on, because I again, here we are, it's day
two of the government shout down. Democrats had a chance
to vote yesterday in the Senate again for a clean
a cr which would get the government back open again.
They voted against it. So they are sticking to their
guns at least for now. But you know, we'll wait

(16:16):
and see, you know, they if they continue too long,
here's what's going to happen. We're going to end up
with President Trump being able to significantly reduce the size
of government if that's what he decides to do. And
I'm guessing he probably has sent a message to both
Chuck Schumer and a King Jeffries that the longer you

(16:40):
hold out, the more people are going to be furloughed permanently,
the more jobs, federal government jobs are going to be lost.
And I would think that would be the last thing
that it came Jefferies and and Chuck Schumer would want
would be to have that happen. By the way, coming

(17:00):
up in our next segment, Matt Margolis, he writes for
PJA media will ask him about what he thinks is
going to happen as far as the government shut down
and whether or not there's going to be a bunch
of layoffs as a result of that. But that's, you know, again,
where's the sense of humor here? How do how do
we make people understand that this doesn't have to be

(17:23):
deadly serious, at least not at this particular point. All right,
speaking of deadly serious and just kind of losing the point,
let me try to find this cut here. I played
it this morning, and it is it was really an
amazing thing to me to see this that we had

(17:46):
actually had you remember Joy Read right, Joy Reid has
not learned anything from her dismissal, and she has decided
what a fascist is. So here is Joy read redefining
what a fascist is with some response here from Jesse

(18:08):
Waters on the five.

Speaker 20 (18:09):
We are in a fascist moment and what that means
is a right wing, white nationalist, white supremacist moment, and
that is centered around hierarchy. If you go back before
the twentieth century, there were no income taxes, there were
no regulations on business. You could earn as much money
as you want, leave one hundred percent of it to
your children with no taxes. That's the world they want back.

Speaker 21 (18:32):
Well, if fascism is wanting regulation, estate and income tax cuts,
and I am the biggest fascist of all time, and
that would make the entire Republican Party fascist and a
healthy slice of the Democrat Party fascist as well. As
you said, I haven't seen her tax returns, but I
would bet she pays her tax people very well to

(18:53):
reduce her income and reduce her estate taxes, and is
doing everything possible to accumulate as much well so she
too can pass it on to her children. It's what
every smart functioning person does in this country because you
want your children to live a better life than you.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
In other words, if you are a conservative white male
who makes a decent living and would like to pay
less in taxes, especially in an estate tax for things
you're going to leave your children, you too are a fascist.
Now I'm the only the only part of her definition

(19:34):
I'm unwilling to accept as the white nationalist part.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
I'm not a racist and I'm not a white nationalist
by a stretch of the imagination. But evidently she thinks
that if you're a conservative white male, you are that
that is her idea of who the Republican Party is.
Oh sick. Anyway, quick little break back with Born the
Mom with Jimmy Fairs show here on the AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, so let's continue our discussion here

(20:14):
on the government shut down day number two. I know
we'll probably, unfortunately grow tired of talking about this because
I have a stinking suspicion that this is going to
go on for at least a couple of weeks, minimally
a couple of weeks. But as I said in our
last segment, I really do believe that President Trump probably

(20:35):
sees this as an opportunity to weed out more federal workers,
to shut down more departments that he thinks are unnecessary.
You know, we've got we've got the really truly necessary
people who are still working, you know, the ones, the
ones that are indispensable are still working. The other ones
not so much. So here's an opportunity to take a

(20:56):
look at some of the ones that aren't so indispensable
and makes some decisions about whether or not this is
something that could be removed, deleted, whatever the case may be.
And you know, without any ability to pay them at
some point in time, I guess the president has the
power to make some decisions about that. Previous presidents have

(21:18):
had the power as well. They've never used it, but
they've had it, and this president will, I think, be
willing to use it, at least to a certain extent.
I don't think he's going to use it to make
wholesale just cut out complete departments or just unemploy a
whole bunch of people, because I mean, there's some ramifications
when it comes to, you know, driving up the unemployment rate.

(21:41):
There's some potential ramifications for the economy. Like we talked
about on the show yesterday, but I have Matt Mark
Goolison from PJ Media on our morning show today I'm
KTRH to talk about what he thinks President Trump is
likely to do. But it seems pretty clear that there's
an opportunity here for President Trump to make some significant
reductions in the federal workforce. Do you think that's going

(22:01):
to happen?

Speaker 8 (22:03):
I certainly hope so, you know, I mean, we've we've
known for years that the government is way too bloated,
and we've had people running for president for you know,
every year who are making promises about making government more
efficient and never do. And I want to see this happen,
and I hope it does.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
Where do you think he should start? Oh?

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Everywhere, everywhere, you know, I mean, you know there's like
two point four million federal employees, you know, I mean,
just just start going through the whole place with an axe,
as far as I'm concerned, because you know, I mean
this there's just there's just so much waste that's going
on that people pretend isn't happening, but but we know

(22:46):
that it is. And you know, we just if the
government just ran more like the private sector, things would
be a lot better. And I think that's really what
what Trump is after here. He wants to see that
the government work more efficiently by the same rules that
the private sector does.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
I think that the way, though, that you go about
selling this to the American public is to explain what
you're cutting, why you're cutting it, how much it costs
to run it, how little that particular department or these
individuals do in reality, why we don't need this, and
what it means to reducing the deficit. I think Americans

(23:24):
have to pretty clearly hear how this is going to
benefit them before he does it, don't you.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
Think, Oh for sure? I mean I think I think
people want to know what's going on and why, and
you know, but you know, they're certainly not going to
be happy if they're paying, you know, one hundred thousand
dollars a year for some anonymous paper pusher. You know.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that we
have to get rid of, and it's the kind of

(23:48):
waste and fraud that we see happen a lot. I
mean in in federal the federal government and state government
as well. And you know, I think if we start
with making the federal government efficient, we can see that
the Trump has the opportunity to prove that we don't
need this huge federal workforce. And it's happened before with

(24:09):
Elon Musk when he bought Twitter. He did massive cuts
into the workforce there and found that, you know, the
company could confunction just fine with even fewer employees. So
that's the kind of thing we need to see here.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
You know, I think I saw a figure here in Houston.
We have something in the neighborhood of thirty six thousand
federal employees working here in the greater Houston area. To me,
that is granted, Nassa's here, but that's a To me,
that's a shocking number. I think a lot of people
would be shocked by how many federal workers they have
in their own town or their own state.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
Oh yeah, for sure. People have no idea how bad
it really is. And I think bringing attention to this
issue is only going to help Trump in the long run.
And I think people have been blissfully ignorant about just
how bad the problem really is, and it's just gotten
worse and worse. You know, the thing goes that, you know,
one you're hired by the government, it's really hard to

(25:02):
lose your job, and it's about time that these people
who have been kind of floating around doing nothing for
three years and years are let go and let the
people who do who actually do the works, stick around
and do their job.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
That's all we need, well, and we'll see if that's
what ends up happening from it. In the meantime, the
president's poll numbers are actually up. They're actually up the
the government shutdown, at least, of course, nobody's really feeling
it at this point. The government shutdown has not had
a negative impact whatsoever on the poll numbers. I saw

(25:38):
this little peace on on Fox Business with Liz Peak,
who we've had on our program, our morning show anyway
on KTRH several times, but Liz Peak talking about the
poll numbers and how these approval numbers are up despite
what's going on with the government shutdown.

Speaker 22 (25:54):
I think the biggest thing that you get from this
poll Stewart is that he's getting things done and he's
following through on promises made during the campaign. How many
presidents do that? Practically nobody right, And the numbers, I
think it's forty four percent say he has actually followed
through on those campaign promises. Another thing that I took
away from the poll is that the issues of most

(26:16):
importance to voters always and ever, economy is number one,
and he always gets pretty high ratings on his handling
of the economy, maybe not as well as back during
his first term when we had mostly the focus was
on lower tax rates and so forth. Another big issue
constantly these days is immigration. Even though some people are saying, well,

(26:39):
he's got a problem, He's shut down the border, so
this is no longer an issue people are really going
to care about a solid majority in this poll. Lots
of contradictions in this poll, including thinking he's gone too
far on deportations and stuff, but a solid majority like
that he's deporting illegal immigrants. It's probably the biggest majority
in the poll. So I think that's quite interesting. Also,

(27:01):
even though it's totally split between Kamala Harris voters and
Donald Trump voters, far more identify as conservative or very
conservative than liberal or very liberal, and so I think
that's very interesting. I say, there are some red flashing
signs in this poll. You know, the congressional which you
vote for a Democrat or Republican. Right now, the Democrats

(27:23):
have a slight edge that's not always the case. It's
historically was always the case, but in recent years we've
seen that go back and forth. The other thing that
I find very worrisome is that Israel is really not
in favor and one of the things that Trump has
hurt worse for is his support of Israel.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah, that's that concerns me too, and we've talked a
lot about that. I don't Yeah, it's amazing to me
how quickly that is shifted, and yet we don't see
and it's come mainly from Democrats who don't support Israel,

(28:05):
and yet most most of the highest percentage of the
voting Jewish population is Democrat. I don't know how. I
don't know how they put those two together like that.
I really don't. I'm still mystified by that. But anyway,
I mean, the poll numbers are what the poll numbers are.
They fluctuate, they change, and the approval ratings only I

(28:26):
say only because you would you'd like to think that
the majority of the country would give him an approval number.
His approval numbers forty three percent. Of course, that compares
to a Joe Biden number. Was what was Joe Biden's number,
Like thirty thirty one percent something like that. I don't
put a lot of stock in approval numbers with anybody

(28:48):
other than independence, so called independence, although again I don't
think there's that many independence left anymore. I wouldn't think
there's not that many people are on the fence. But
you know, Republicans are going to give a Democrats are
going to give the thumbs down. It's the independence. I mean,
are you winning the war with the few independents that
are left? I mean, how do they feel about what
it is you're doing versus the progressive left. The progressive

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left is going to hate everything Trump does. I mean
he's going to he's he's never going to get a
progressive Democrat to give him an approval ever. You know,
just like you know you're never going to get somebody
who's you know, far right conservative to give an approval
number to somebody like a Joe Biden or a Kamala Harris.
You're just not so. I mean, it's the people in

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the middle of the people that can be persuaded one
way or the other. I guess those are the ones
you have to worry about, all right, quick, a little
break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Verchow here
in am nine fifty KPRC. All right, final sec for

(30:00):
our show today. Let's see here what unfinished business do
we have? We have We have a little unfinished business,
I guess as it relates to, you know, the back
and forth that continues to go on over this whole
government shutdown thing. This comes from the five Democrats and Republicans,

(30:22):
mainly Democrats going back and forth on the government shutdown.

Speaker 18 (30:26):
Democrats in Congress have officially shut down the United States government.

Speaker 17 (30:31):
Democrats want to avert this crisis, but Republicans tried to
bully us.

Speaker 8 (30:36):
Chuck Schumer is listening to the far left radicals in
his own party.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Republican leadership is off playing make believe in La La Land.

Speaker 8 (30:43):
They prioritize taxpayer funded benefits for illegal aliens over keeping
the government open for American citizens.

Speaker 17 (30:50):
They don't even have the guts to be on Capitol
Hill and the bade us face to face.

Speaker 23 (30:54):
They have taken the American people hostage.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
The women were in charge, we'd have done this fine.

Speaker 24 (30:58):
Aw saw sexist President Trump already squeezing Chuck Schumer state
the White House, freezing eighteen billion dollars in New York
City infrastructure funding, and DJT is warning the Dems that
their shutdown lamps could be irreversible.

Speaker 14 (31:13):
We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible,
that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like
cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like,
cutting programs that they like. When you shut it down,
you have to do layoffs. So we'd be laying off
a lot of people that are going to be very affected,
and the Democrats they're going to be Democrats.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
I made the shutdown drama.

Speaker 23 (31:35):
Forty seven's been trolling the hell out a dem leader,
slapping some breros on Hakem's head, shoving Trump twenty twenty
eight hats in their faces, serving up diet cokes, and
showing up Biden's auto pen portrait.

Speaker 22 (31:47):
Watched this when he tried to hand you that Trump
twenty twenty eight hat, what was your reaction?

Speaker 17 (31:54):
Well, actually he did not try to hand Leader Sumer
and I the Trump twenty twenty eight hat. They just
randomly appeared in the middle of the meeting on the desk.
It was the strangest thing ever. And I just looked
at the hat, looked at jd Vance, who was seated
to my left, and said, don't you got a problem
with this? And he said, no comment.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
He did have a he's trolling you, HACKEM HUCKEM Jeffers.
He's trolling you, dude. Oh, and they want to they
want to if you heard these claims lately last few
days that there's something wrong with Trump mentally, you know,
he's doing these weird things like having the Trump twenty
twenty eight hat. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's

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beating these these people, and it's evidently very effective, and
they should know by now that that's what he's doing,
and yet it still seems to be highly effective for
some unknown reason. All Right, I want to revisit this
one quickly because we told you about this story earlier
in the week. This is out of des Moines, Iowa.
This is the uh the superintendent that turns out is

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an illegal alien and had some sort of a weapons charge,
a legal alien with a criminal record that had been
hired as the superintendent of des Moines Public Schools. Here
is the school board president who says that citizenship is
a complicated matter. It's a complicated issue. It is I

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thought it was really quite simple, but here she is,
and we get some response to her statement about it
being a complicated issue from Laura Ingram.

Speaker 25 (33:31):
I think there's no doubt he brought spark and enthusiasm
to education and learning, and you saw that in the kits.
And that's why I think we really have to stay
focused on how we're communicating with our young people, because
citizenship is a very complex issue. Somebody can have a
citizenship status that may not be legal, and at the

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same time a person could be a good human being.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
This really exemplifies the Democrats' problems on simple issues, and
it shows you why they're not connecting on the issue
of immigration and crime, why Republicans are really leading on
these issues. Jackie Norris, remember was Michelle Obama's chief of staff.
She's been around, you know, she knows politics. She knows
that these issues are resonating with the American people. Yet

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the party itself is so committed to open borders that
you can see almost internally she's kind of going, oh no,
this is not going to sound good, but she says
it anyway with the complex issue comment. And I think
the proper messaging to kids is, of course We love
all human beings, that's not the point here.

Speaker 8 (34:37):
We love everybody.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
But actions have consequences, and this individual, it looks like,
you know, lied on his employment forms and in fact
is probably guilty of several federal crimes. And for that reason,
he's a deportable alien. Like that's just common sense, and
that's a logical if you even want to get into
that many details of the kids. But actions have consequences.

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Move on, reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Yeah, do your core mission, but that's not what they do.
That's not what they do. Citizenship is a complicated issue.
It is what's complicated about it. You hired somebody to
be your superintendent, and you didn't either didn't bother to

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do enough of a background check to determine that this
person was in the country illegally. Shouldn't have been that
hard to find that out, or that they had a
criminal charge in their background. I guess they claim they
knew about the criminal charge. They just they just they
asked him about it, and they they accepted his explanation.

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Did they also ask him about his legal status in
this country? If you asked about the web, Well no,
because they were more concerned about the gun right, they're
probably yes, they're probably much more concerned about him having
had a gun then they would be about whether or
not he's an illegal alien or not. And did what
does she mean by this the statement, you know basically

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where she says, just because you know, just because you're
not a you know, just because you're a legal alien,
doesn't mean you're not a good human being. Well, nobody,
nobody's making any qualifiers on good human beings. Is that
who you hire for your superintendent? Well, we just want
to make sure he's a good human being. We don't
care if he's here legally or not. We don't care

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if he's a citizen. We just want to hire somebody
that's a good human being. Well that's a pretty low threshold.
There are a lot of good human beings out there.
They don't have the qualifications to be a superintendent of
public schools. They just don't. I mean, it's ridiculous. Anyway, listen,
y'all have a great day. Thank you for listening. I
do appreciate it. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early,

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five am over our news radio seven forty KTRH. We
are back here at four on a nine fifty KPRCD.

Speaker 8 (37:03):
Again the defender

Speaker 12 (37:06):
And then the demand