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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right, Happy Friday. It's it is Friday, so you
know I like to have a little bit of fun
on Friday. You know what else today is other than Friday.
It's June the fifth, and Friday, June the fifth just
happens to be National Donut Day. Donuts at National Donut Day.
So he got me thinking, because food always gets me
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thinking about what a donut is. Why are two different
spellings for donut? Do anybody know the answer to that one?
There's do n ut, which I think most donut shops use,
and then there's d o U g h n ut.
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You know, dough like like because that's what donuts are
made from, or dough like bread dough kind of like
bread dough. I'm not sure why there's two different kinds
of spellings for donuts, but there's two different spellings for donuts.
We got into a whole debate today about who has
the best donuts. We always do when that question comes up.
We talked a little bit about our favorite donuts, and uh,
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you know, the kind of would you prefer, for example,
a glazed donuts or if you prefer a cake donut.
I've been criticized in the past. I don't care. You
can make criticize me all you wish, but I prefer
a cake, usually a cake donut, to a glaze donut,
mainly because the glazed donuts. You know, when the glaze
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donuts are good. The lazed donuts are good in two
different circumstances, either right when they come out, I mean
super super fresh, they got to be super super fresh,
or as used as a hamburger bun. No, boy, no,
I know what you're thinking. It really does work if
you ever try that. You know, that's like State Fair food.
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But you cut a glazed donut in half and then
you put a burger in between it, and you know,
it becomes sweet and savory. It really is very good.
You gotta try it. Is it a donut if it
doesn't have a hole, because that's the whole mark of
a donut, right, it's got the big hole in the middle.
But bare claws aren't considered donuts, they don't have any hole.
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Jelly donuts are considered donuts. They're even called donuts even
though well, I guess they do have a hole, don't they. They
have that little hole that gets punched into the donut
to get the filling inside of the doughnut. They just
don't have the big round hole. Anyway, There's a lot
of things to talk about as relates to donuts. So
we were we were taking calls and from our listeners,
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questions from our listeners about this and getting their two
cents worth it and on their feelings about donuts.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Hey, Jimmy case guy, Mike, it's Andrew from Spring.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Nothing better than a Bavarian cream donut. That's They're just amazing. Secondly,
I know this is going to be controversial, but Shipleys
are garbage. There's not a mom and pop donut shop
in the town that's not better than them.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
There's a small shop in Dickinson Southern Donuts. The glades
on those donuts of Heaven.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
This is Edna from Summerwood Donuts.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You best.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Plain glaze and cake donuts or Shipley's the best chocolate
cake donuts. All right, Donucan and the best powdered donuts.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Is at River Stnuts.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
And if so can bring me some, that would be
awesome to go with my coffee this morning.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
I have a great day day from Lake Conro.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
I graduated from Saint Paston's High School in seventy nine
with Billy Shipley, his grandma grandpa founded Shipley's Donuts, and
my mom would always call up and find out when
they were coming hot out of the friar and send
me down to get her a dozen.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That's the best way to get when they when they
first come out. That that's the key to Krispy Kreme,
you know, Krispy Kreme donuts. If they've been saying I
wouldn't buy Krispy Kreme donut in a grocery store. It's
been sitting around too long. It's gonna be hard, it's
it's it's not gonna be fresh, it's not gonna be
that good. But if you get them right out of
the friar, that that's a whole different story of fact.
They they turned the sign on when when they've just
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had a batch come out. So you know, you know,
I think it's the science is like hot and now
something like that, and when the sign's on, you know
that the donuts are ready to go. Okay. The other
observation there about the Shipleys listen, I've never met a
bad donut. There are donuts that are better than the
other ones. I've enjoyed my fair share of Shipley donuts.
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I have no problem with Shipley donuts whatsoever. I'm not
saying they're the best donut, but they're good. There's nothing
wrong with Shipley donuts, so I'll give them a pat
on the back there. Also, I feel compelled to do
that because when my wife was doing a genealogy search,
which she did the twenty three meter thing, she researched
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her family tree and we referred to as the Sicilian
Princess because her dad was Sicilian and her mom is
half Sicilian, but the other half is German, so she's
not one hundred percent Sicilian, and from the German side.
She gets that from her mother's mother, and her mother's
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mother has roots evidently, family roots to go back to Texas,
which we didn't know about until we started doing this research.
And one of the names that showed up in the
genealogy search was Shipley and we started tracing the Shipley say.
It turns out you got to go way way back,
but there's a link there between her mother's mother's family
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and the Shipley's, so there's some there's some sort of
a connection there. There's some sort of a relation there.
We also found out that she's she's distantly related to
Davy Crockett for goodness sakes, which you know is pretty
wild when you think about it. So, I mean, that's
about as good as you could do in Texas. Isn't
it used to be related to them out of Davy Crockett,
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I would think so. Anyway. More observations on donuts, because
that's the thing about donuts. Everybody has an opinion about donuts.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Hi, Jimmy, it season for Mandland.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Bottom line, it's fried dough with sugar and no matter what.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You call it, donut benyet soap o piya.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
I like it and I'll eat it.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
My favorite donut is a plane cake donut from Shipley's
and a fresh and hot glazed donut from Shipley's. Hippis
is the best.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
This is Linen Magnolia.
Speaker 12 (07:04):
Ah, Jimmy, I have changed my opinion about you fruit
over a weenie and a kolachi.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's just sad.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
What people call a colachi with the sausage inside. It's
actually a clobus nikki. A true colatchi is the fruit. Yes,
skip from Webster, don't nuts when you're a kid.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
They got lots of greas and sugar and everything you
need to clog up your arteries when you get older.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
This age yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Heck, at this age, you muy as well enjoy yourself.
That's that's my thought. See, that's the thing. We brought
colatchi's as well, And I said, it's not really a
colotchi unless it's got fruit inside. If it's got if
it's got the Wii in there, it's it's not. It's
it's something else. It's just it's not, you know, not
at least not my idea. But what a klachiota be?
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All right, quick little break back with morning Moment Jimmy
Barretchow and the Brody running in nine fifty k PRC.
All right, let's do a little follow up on a
couple of local stories we were doing yesterday. In this segment,
the first story was the eighteen year old they keep
referring to him as an eighteen year old Texas State
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University student. I'm not quite sure why this didn't happen
at school. He wasn't in class. I'm not quite sure
why they're using that to identify this young man. Okay,
he was going to Texas State University. But you know,
how about you know, whatever town he was in, local
Missouria County man or whatever. I'm not sure why the
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college student identifier. But they made a big deal about
not knowing the name of the deputy who shot this kid.
This is the kid I was telling you about yesterday
who was with a group of friends at the park.
And this patrol car, this Bassouria County Shriff's deputy patrol
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car polls over and he's observing what they're doing, and
that makes them nervous for some reason. I'm not quite
sure why. What were you What were you doing in
the park That having a cop watch you do is
going to make you nervous. If you're just sitting around
talking to each other, it's done, big deal, right, unless
you're doing something you should know to be doing. Anyway,
they get nervous, they decide to leave, and the police
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officer decides he's going to pull this kid over. So
he's got he's got the lights going and the siren going,
and this kid's not pulling over. For whatever reason. This
kid decides that he's going to go home, and so
he goes home and he pulls the car into the
garage and that's when this shooting happened, which has been
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called accidental shooting, the accidental discharge of the firearm. Anyway,
we'll get to the bottom of all that, including I
would hope whatever reason the kid had for fleeing from
the police. If you are continuing to drive and you're
not following the officer's instructions, you're not pulling over, you're
fleeing the from the place. And that's something that seems
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to be lost in this story, at least by mostly
coverage I've seen. But here's an update from GPRC two
regarding the sheriff's deputy. What we've learned about the sheriff's
deputy involved in the shooting.
Speaker 12 (10:14):
The source confirming to me today the Brazoria County deputy
at the center of this deadly shooting investigation is Kevin Tippett.
He's been with the department less than two years and
before that, record show he had a jailer license in
Brazoria County. Now he is on administrative leave. We first
obtained this video this week showing Tippet pursuing a car
driven by Mendoza John Mendoza Junior. He had been trying
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to pull him over for about two minutes prior to this,
and then when both cars stop and the sirens go off,
about eight seconds pass before a single gunshot. That bullet
went through Mendoza's rolled up driver side window while he
sat parked in his dad's garage. According to the family,
he later died at the hospital. Now, before all of this,
Mendoza had been at a park with friends when the
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family says a deputy pulled up and started watching them.
They felt uncomfortable and decided to go home. Mendoza just
feeling scared and wanting to get to his dad, according
to the family attorney.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But the deputy followed.
Speaker 13 (11:09):
You know, I mean, you know, justice is justice and
what's right is right. You know, that's what they proactively
preach to us, and it's like, hey, and that's what
we want. You know, this is a senseless situation that
could have been avoided.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You know, and it's just like.
Speaker 13 (11:25):
Put them all, put it all together. You know, my
son was murdered in his garage, and you know, this
just isn't right tonight.
Speaker 12 (11:34):
The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office has not publicly identified Tippett
or answered any questions about what prompted the traffic stop
in the first place. The DA in Brazoria County says
this investigation, led by the rangers could take months, and
the findings are eventually expected to be presented to a
grand jury tomorrow afternoon. The Lake Jackson community and Mendoza's
family have a protest planned at the county courthouse.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Okay, and again, you know, there's a lot of information
that's still missing from this great We have an identifier
for the deputy, We know a little bit more about him,
that still doesn't tell us what happened, and that sells
us and tell us why this kid was not cooperating
with the police. You know, was he really scared? And
if he was scared, why was he scared? Is he
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just scared of police officers or did he have something
in his possession he did not want this police officer
to see. And those are the answers that we need
to get now. None of this means that this kid
should have gotten shot and killed. None of it means that.
But by the same token, there's more to this story
that meets the eye, and we're gonna wait to hear
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more about it before we render any final decision on
what went wrong here. All right, Another local story that
I'd like to do a little follow upon has to
do with the story we were doing yesterday about how
Texas now leads the nation and canceled flood insurance. Over
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forty eight thousand policies canceled just in the last year.
People who have given up their flood insurance I will
assume the vast majority of which it's because of the price.
It's just got too expensive. They can't afford to do
it anymore. We had Rich Johnson on the show this morning.
Rich's with the Insurance Council of Texas. Here's my conversation
with him about flood insurance. So we're number one in
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the entire country for canceled flood insurance policies, and I'm
guessing it's all about the price.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Well, thanks for having me. I think it's a couple
of things.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
Yes, price, I think people are just looking for ways
to save money right now when it comes to food
and gas prices and just housing prices in general. But
I also think it's catastrophe amnesia. We forget a lot,
you know, we forget that just six or seven years
ago we had a hurricane Barrel or I mean the
Hurricane Harvey that came in and flooded Houston. And it's
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really concerning because we were already vastly, vastly insured when
it comes to flood in Texas anyway, we were already
in the single percentage that A digits in most parts
of Texas when it comes to people who actually had
flood insurance in the first place.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
So, you know, I'll disagree with you just a little
bit in that. I think I think people still remember Harvey.
It's been almost nine years, but they still remember Harvey.
That's a that's a hard storm to forget. But we've
we've gotten to the point. I'll give you. I'll just
use myself an example. We have a we have a
place in Freeport that is that one row off one
row off the off the ocean, and our flood insurance
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is about thirty eight hundred dollars a year plus another
thirty eight hundred dollars a year for wind in hail insurance,
plus the regular homeowners policy that that there's nothing selling
down there right now because people can't afford their insurance payments.
Speaker 14 (14:49):
Yeah, I agree, I think I think it's a I
think it's a lot of those things combined. And you know,
when when talking about flood insurance, those are all rates
and things that are set by the federal government.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
You know, as we know, FEMA manages the flood insurance.
Speaker 14 (15:05):
But you're right, everything else is going up, and we've
seen we have seen it flattened when it comes to
the private market. Over the last two years, we had huge,
pretty large spikes following COVID two for varying reasons the economy,
supply chain, labor issues when it comes to cost to rebuild.
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But you know, the big thing is, you know, you
talked about, you know, being several rows off the ocean.
We keep building in places that are high risk areas,
and we need to figure out ways to create public
policy about how we're going to rebuild and how we're
going to build. You know, whether it's fortified roofs up
in the Dallas and San Antonio and Austin area when
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it comes to hail, because that's actually the biggest claim
that happens here in Texas, or how we rebuild or
develop on the coast when it comes to being fortified
when it comes to hurricanes and when because that's what's
driving up costs is the claims. When we're when insurance
companies and FEMA and TWEA are paying out more in
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claims than they're.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
Taking in in premiums. That's that's an issue as well.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
How How is the competition, because competition always brings down
prices at least a little bit as well. How many
insurance companies do we have dealing with these particular issues
here in Texas? And is it a few or over
than we had a decade ago for example.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
No, it's actually increasing.
Speaker 14 (16:26):
We had there's been very few companies that have actually
left Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
If they did leave, they.
Speaker 14 (16:31):
Were smaller h and actually they were related. We had
a couple in the past couple of years that but
they were related to insolvency issues in in Florida. So
which you don't want. You don't want insurance insurance companies insolvent.
You want them to be able to pay. We have
roughly two hundred companies that that write home insurance and
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a total of four hundred companies or more that do
business in Texas in general.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Okay, all right, So is there anything that you can
see in the future that might drive down the price
of things like flood insurance and the wind inhale insurance
or is this just something This is just the new normal.
They cost more to build to rebuild. This is just
something we're going to have to face for the future.
Speaker 14 (17:17):
Well, I think it is something that we're gonna have
to face for the future. I mean, as as property
values increase, you know, we all want want the value
of our homes to increase, and along with that, your
insurance is going to increase. But there are a couple
of things, like I talked about thinking of ways that
we can make our homes and our buildings and the
way we build more resilient. They need to be fortified.
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They need to be you know, whether it's wildfire or hail,
or wind or flood. They're building things that you can
do and their modifications to your home that you can
make that reduce those claims because that's what's driving up costs.
And the other thing is you know, something that we're
really working on right now is is tort reform or
lawsuit abuse. You know, we every you know, every couple
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of hundred yards on a on a freeway, we see
a lawyer that you know wants wants to get a
piece of your insurance claim.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
And and that's an issue we're starting.
Speaker 14 (18:16):
We're starting to see more and more lawsuits here in Texas.
We're actually the number one state for what they call
nuclear verdicts, which are lawsuits over ten million dollars.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
We lead the nation on that, and that's something that
we don't want to.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Lead the nation.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I think we we all have kind of a love
hate relationship with insurance companies and lawyers both. And I
do get to a certain extent why we hire attorneys
to go after insurance companies, because insurance companies are notoriously
stingy when it comes to paying out claims. And if
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you feel like you've been paying insurance to be insured
against something and they're in there and they're not cooperating,
or they're dragging their heels they or they don't want
to pay the claim, and you think you're legitimately entitled
to have the claim paid that's how these attorneys get hired.
That's why these attorneys make so much money. Maybe if
there's more of a spirit of cooperation with paying claims
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with some of these insurance companies, maybe they wouldn't get
sued so much. All right, quick low break back with
more in a moment, Jimmy Bairt show, You're an AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, I heard about this yesterday.
I thought, this is this is actually a pretty good idea.
Evidently the Vice president came up with this idea and
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sold at the cash pattel of the FBI that the
FBI should have a top ten list not just of criminals,
but a top ten list of fraudsters. Not that fraudsters
aren't criminals, they are, but a completely separate type of list.
You know, people who are wanted for ripping off the
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tax people who are wanted for stealing from Medicare or Medicaid,
people who are wanted for, you know, defrauding the American people.
Because when you defraud US government, you're defrauding the American people.
We're the ones that are financing it with our tax dollars.
So here he is that report. It starts with cash
Pattel talking about how he got the idea from JD.
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Vance and then it goes from there.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Importantly for the FBI, and thanks to Vice President jad
Vance's vision, he had an idea. He said, Hey, you
guys have a top ten most wanted list for all
gang bangers, terrorists, narco traffickers, murders and rapists around the world.
How about we have a top ten list for most
wanted fraudsters. So, mister Vice President, thanks to your vision,
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we're here to deliver and you see it here today.
It is live officially on the FBI website.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
I want all.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Americans to take a look at these most wanted individuals
and look at the amounts, the tens of millions and
billions of dollars in fraud that they have decimated our
societies from We really on you. Our best form of
information is the American public. Take a look at this
top ten most wanted. Let us know any information. There
is no bad piece of information. The only bad piece
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of information is the one you don't give us.
Speaker 15 (21:13):
Well, first, thank you to an administration that actually cares
about people that are ripping off taxpayers and we're finally
having accountability for all of these different programs throughout the
federal government where people for probably decades have been ripping
off taxpayers and stealing millions and billions of dollars in
these different programs, from burrito stands registered as hospices in California,
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to child welfare in Minnesota, to medicare fraud, to all
these different areas of fraud. And thankfully, we have an
administration that's finally focusing on that and going after people
that are ripping off the taxpayers.
Speaker 16 (21:45):
So the Trump administration also today decertified Hawaii State Medicaid
Fraud Control Unit. It brought in zero, no indictments in
four years, even as Medicaid spending went up nearly thirty percent.
So what do you make of the administration decertifying why
State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. It means they're going to
cut off federal funding to that unit. It was given
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millions of dollars annually.
Speaker 15 (22:08):
That is the only way that we will be able
to control these states that are allowing fraud to happen
in their states is by cutting off federal funding.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
You start cutting federal funding.
Speaker 15 (22:17):
To all of these different programs and all of these
states that are doing nothing to actually go after to
the fraud that are doing nothing to actually administer these
programs in a way that has proved it to the taxpayer.
Then absolutely that is how you're going to get to
the bottom of doing away with the fraud in these states.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yep, that's Representative Greg Stuby. He's a Florida a Republican.
By the way, another story that I'd like to share
with you. This one has to do with China, but
it also has a very buch a local component. I
didn't realize until this morning just how many AI and
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data centers we have here in the Greater Houston area.
Just in data centers alone. Do you know there are
sixty two data centers in the Greater Houston area sixty
two and we know what kind of power needs they have.
I don't know how many of them are on the
Houston grid or how many of them are actually providing
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for their own power. I would love to know that,
but we have a ton of data centers who are
chewing through a whole lot of power sixty two. So
when I saw this other story about China and China's
connection to data centers, from the standpoint of they really
don't want American data centers and they're really willing to.
They don't want us involve that much in AI either.
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We are, we're ahead of the game. We're ahead of
China when it comes to AI and data centers, and
they don't like that. So we brought on Gordon Chang.
Here's my conversation with Gordon Chang, a well known national
expert on all things having to do with China in
the Chinese Here's my conversation with him about the AI
data center connection. What is China worried about it? I
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guess they want to make sure that we don't get
a corner on AI. For one thing, right.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
China wants to make sure the United States does not
compete with China on AI. They know we have a
lead right now and they want to impede our development.
So they've been funding these protests across the US against
data centers. Now, there are some legitimate concerns about data centers,
as you pointed out, but a lot of these protests
are not organic. You know, you go back to the
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Cold War, the Soviets, we're funding that disarmament movement. Then
you have China supporting climate change protests in the US.
Now it's data centers. They're doing everything possible to prevent
the US from being the leader in Ai. And by
the way, Jimmy, the leader in AI is the leader
of the twenty first century.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
No, I think you're absolutely right about that. Whether you
like AI or you don't like it, it is at
the very least a necessary evil if you want to
compete in the world, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Absolutely, Because it's going to control the economy, and it's
going to control militaries. It's just everything, you know. Unfortunately,
the machines are better than we are at some things.
And yeah, I'm worried about the terminator scenario, especially because
you know, you marry AI with humanoid robots. That really
gets very scary. But the point is the Chinese are
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doing that, and we've got to understand that we've got
to compete because if we don't compete, they will rule.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The world, Okay, And of course that's what they ultimately
would like to do. I think there's a recognition by
the Trump administration of that, don't you.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh, certainly, And we are seeing the Trump administration work
very closely with the big AI companies. President Trump issued
his AI Executive Order a couple of days ago, that is,
with a lot of cooperation with the big companies, and
they're doing that because there are some problems. Of course,
these AI models can actually attack, you know, networks, they're
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very good at it, and the federal government needs time
to build patches and to be able to defend America's networks.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So this was a very good development. I think.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I was kind of fascinated by what you were saying
about China wanting the corner of the market on AI.
I want to pick your brain here for a second
on these protests, because obviously we've got some violet protesting
that's going on right now in New Jersey over an
ice facility. Are the Chinese in any way, shape or form,
Are they behind any of the other non organic protesting
that we see going on in this country right now.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well, certainly, and it's not just right now, it's going
back to twenty twenty. Chinese were actually fomenting violence on
American streets, both openly and illicitly, I mean and under
the surface. And by the way, that's an active war
to foment violence on the streets of another country, and
unfortunately we did not take effective measures, and the Chinese
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saw that, and they said, well.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Okay, if we can do that now, we can do
it in the future. And they have been doing it
in the future.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
So they're going to gettinue to do that. You think,
who until we stopped them. They are they funding it?
Are they helping to organize it? What is there involvement
in the Are they just funding other individuals to get
involved in it? How does that work for the Chinese?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
All of the above, because we've seen Chinese nationals on
our streets engaging in violent acts, especially in the night
that Saint John's Church was burned.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That's the church that is one block from the White House.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
In twenty twenty, there were organized gangs of Chinese, and
our government believes that they were not just individuals protesting,
they were actually organized by Beijing. But we have seen
China not only fund protests, but try to smuggle in
automatic weapons parts, smuggle in counterfeit currency, all sorts of.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Things that they've been doing across the country.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
And that means this is a vital this is a
critical national security threat.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I wonder sometimes if our government believes that they are
the national security threat that we believe that they are.
I wonder sometimes if President Trump believes that he may.
I wouldn't be surprised if he very much does believe it,
but he cozies up. What's the old saying keep your
friends close and your enemies closer. Maybe that that explains
(28:24):
the relationship he seems to have with China's president and
with Russia's president both. Doesn't mean he trusts them, doesn't
mean that he's trying to cooperate with them as much
as he is just trying to get close enough to
them to learn more about what it is they're trying
to do to us. Maybe I don't know, all right,
(28:45):
Buck Live break back on our final segment in Just
a Moment on Friday, Jimmy Birt Show, You're k Perc.
You know people people today there's still talking about I
played this for you yesterday, but they're still talking today
about this shoe exchange between Secretary of State Marco Rubio
(29:05):
and this California representative who evidently she was trying somehow
to get Marco Rubio to admit. Her name is Sarah Jacobs,
by the way, Representative Sarah Jacobs. She was trying to
get Rubio to admit that he had been gifted a
pair of shoes from President Trump, but the shoes didn't fit,
(29:31):
and I don't I'm not quite sure where she was
where she was trying to go with that. But here's
more of that exchange and reaction to it all from
our buddy Greg Guttfeld.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this
reckless war of choice, and just like you.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Couldn't admit that the shoes the President bought you were
too big.
Speaker 17 (29:48):
I don't know what shoes she's talking about. What is
she talking about? I mean, he made me some floor
stims shoes. They are actually pretty good, they fit fine.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I don't know what she's talking about. And maybe that's
what she's referring to. Your shoes look very nice today,
mister secretary. How can you see them? Their way down here?
Speaker 17 (30:03):
We're talking about shoes? Are you guys kidding me? I mean,
is this the Foreign Affairs Committee? Or is this like
a circus?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
What is this?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So we've noticed, Greg, that these people get up and
they just read whatever stupid joke the staff wrote.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I would never do that.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Would do?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You come up with it all yourself?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Now, you know?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, So when I'm watching this, I get this.
Speaker 18 (30:24):
I get this feeling like I'm watching on Instagram when
a kind of an exhausted flight attendant is dealing with
a psychotic tantrum throwing passenger.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I feel like the country somehow.
Speaker 18 (30:38):
Is divided into not by political belief anymore, but by
skills in how to handle life. You know, the world
doesn't have I don't think the world has more problems.
What it does have is more people who cannot handle problems.
And I think that's what you see in this contrast,
which is you have Rubio is a problem solver, and
(31:01):
they look at him like he's a space alien. You know,
we think that the world is god, Oh my god,
what's going on?
Speaker 10 (31:07):
This chaos?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, we have a population that is handicapped by.
Speaker 18 (31:10):
A culture that has excused their lethargy and their gracelessness
as part of their identity, a part of them being agreed.
They don't have to try. They don't have to. These
people they're not trying. They look it's actually they are.
They got to try that hard to look stupid, but
they certainly aren't like preparing. They don't feel they have
(31:32):
to prepare. Marco Rubio comes off as Winston Churchill. Not
because he's super brilliant, but because they're barely sentient. Al
Green sounded like a homeless vagrant. Jacob sounds like she
just got arrested for shoplifting lip gloss at the CBS.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
He speaks like Rubio, speaks like an adult.
Speaker 18 (31:49):
And it's like, you go, what happened to the rest
of these people, these democrats.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's like, Harold, you're the last one. You're the last one.
I am legend you are the last man walking among the.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Zombies, well, walking amongst the children. Anyway, It's amazing to
me how generally, I mean, some of these representatives, these
young progressive representatives we have serving in Congress now, they
just strike me as so incredibly immature. Their children, they
(32:29):
sound like children, They behave like children, like petulant children.
All Right, one more story I want to share with
you today, because I you know, I've been on the
planet long enough and maybe you have too, to have
had plenty of scary stories about the demise of social security.
It's going to end by this year, it's going to
(32:53):
be broke by that year. And it's always you know,
anywhere from five to twenty years down the road. And
this is when social Security is going to go broke. Well,
so far, social Security hasn't gone broke, much to my surprise,
it hasn't gone broke. And well, let's share the report first,
and then I'll give you my humble opinion on this.
(33:16):
The report comes from our television partner KPRC too as
they run a story about the demise of social Security.
Speaker 19 (33:23):
Hey, you want to talk about a gigantic story. This
is one that could financially cripple tens of millions of
people all across the country in every state including Texas.
The Social Security Administration is now estimating that the trust
fund that pays social Security benefits is projected to run
out of money completely by twenty twenty three, which would
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result in immediate twenty four percent cut to all retirees,
meaning the average person receiving Social Security would see on average,
a five hundred dollars a month cut to their social
Security check. In some states, it would be even worse
than that. According to this by the Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget, no state or retiree would be spared
(34:06):
by from this potentially devastating effect. So what would happen
to our social Security benefits? Right here in Texas, Texans
would see their monthly benefits slashed by four hundred and
eighty nine dollars a month. In many states it would
be worse than that. New Jersey would see a five
hundred and fifty four dollars cut, Washington five hundred and
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thirty one dollars, Michigan five hundred and twenty three dollars,
and again Texas four hundred and eighty nine dollars cut
a month. So what can we do about all this
right now? Well, if you're currently getting Social Security benefits,
simply multiply your payment by zero point seventy six to
find out how much money you'd actually lose if this happens.
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Then make two lists, a must pay bills list like utilities,
food and car insurance things you have to pay, and
a possible cut list things like streaming service subscriptions and
eating out. And then try to identify just two bills
that you can reduce or eliminate completely. Now, this report
(35:09):
shows what researchers say will happen if no changes are made.
If Congress or the President acts before twenty thirty two,
the report says these deductions could be avoided.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Don't you think they will I mean, that's what makes
the whole story pointless. It's the third rail of American society.
Is there any way possible that they're not going to
make sure that social security exists? They would all be
voted out of office if social security cuts happened or
social security went way, all of them, and they all
(35:43):
understand that. They'll rob from Peter or Paul wherever they
got to get it. There will be no cuts to
your social security if you're receiving it now. There'll be
no cuts to your social security. Maybe for people twenty
thirty forty years from now, but there won't be aion cuts.
Not even then, there probably won't be any cuts. All right, Listen,
we'll have a great weekend. I'll see you Monday morning, bright,
(36:06):
nearly five. Hope to see you Monday after four. You're
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right, Happy Friday. It's it is Friday, so you
know I like to have a little bit of fun
on Friday. You know what else today is other than Friday.
It's June the fifth, and Friday, June the fifth just
happens to be National Donut Day. Donuts at National Donut Day.
So he got me thinking, because food always gets me
(00:53):
thinking about what a donut is. Why are two different
spellings for donut? Do anybody know the answer to that one?
There's do n ut, which I think most donut shops use,
and then there's d o U g h n ut.
(01:13):
You know, dough like like because that's what donuts are
made from, or dough like bread dough kind of like
bread dough. I'm not sure why there's two different kinds
of spellings for donuts, but there's two different spellings for donuts.
We got into a whole debate today about who has
the best donuts. We always do when that question comes up.
We talked a little bit about our favorite donuts, and uh,
(01:37):
you know, the kind of would you prefer, for example,
a glazed donuts or if you prefer a cake donut.
I've been criticized in the past. I don't care. You
can make criticize me all you wish, but I prefer
a cake, usually a cake donut, to a glaze donut,
mainly because the glazed donuts. You know, when the glaze
(01:58):
donuts are good. The lazed donuts are good in two
different circumstances, either right when they come out, I mean
super super fresh, they got to be super super fresh,
or as used as a hamburger bun. No, boy, no,
I know what you're thinking. It really does work if
you ever try that. You know, that's like State Fair food.
(02:20):
But you cut a glazed donut in half and then
you put a burger in between it, and you know,
it becomes sweet and savory. It really is very good.
You gotta try it. Is it a donut if it
doesn't have a hole, because that's the whole mark of
a donut, right, it's got the big hole in the middle.
But bare claws aren't considered donuts, they don't have any hole.
(02:46):
Jelly donuts are considered donuts. They're even called donuts even
though well, I guess they do have a hole, don't they. They
have that little hole that gets punched into the donut
to get the filling inside of the doughnut. They just
don't have the big round hole. Anyway, There's a lot
of things to talk about as relates to donuts. So
we were we were taking calls and from our listeners,
(03:06):
questions from our listeners about this and getting their two
cents worth it and on their feelings about donuts.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Hey, Jimmy case guy, Mike, it's Andrew from Spring.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Nothing better than a Bavarian cream donut. That's They're just amazing. Secondly,
I know this is going to be controversial, but Shipleys
are garbage. There's not a mom and pop donut shop
in the town that's not better than them.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
There's a small shop in Dickinson Southern Donuts. The glades
on those donuts of Heaven.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
This is Edna from Summerwood Donuts.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You best.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Plain glaze and cake donuts or Shipley's the best chocolate
cake donuts. All right, Donucan and the best powdered donuts.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Is at River Stnuts.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
And if so can bring me some, that would be
awesome to go with my coffee this morning.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
I have a great day day from Lake Conro.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
I graduated from Saint Paston's High School in seventy nine
with Billy Shipley, his grandma grandpa founded Shipley's Donuts, and
my mom would always call up and find out when
they were coming hot out of the friar and send
me down to get her a dozen.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That's the best way to get when they when they
first come out. That that's the key to Krispy Kreme,
you know, Krispy Kreme donuts. If they've been saying I
wouldn't buy Krispy Kreme donut in a grocery store. It's
been sitting around too long. It's gonna be hard, it's
it's it's not gonna be fresh, it's not gonna be
that good. But if you get them right out of
the friar, that that's a whole different story of fact.
They they turned the sign on when when they've just
(04:38):
had a batch come out. So you know, you know,
I think it's the science is like hot and now
something like that, and when the sign's on, you know
that the donuts are ready to go. Okay. The other
observation there about the Shipleys listen, I've never met a
bad donut. There are donuts that are better than the
other ones. I've enjoyed my fair share of Shipley donuts.
(05:01):
I have no problem with Shipley donuts whatsoever. I'm not
saying they're the best donut, but they're good. There's nothing
wrong with Shipley donuts, so I'll give them a pat
on the back there. Also, I feel compelled to do
that because when my wife was doing a genealogy search,
which she did the twenty three meter thing, she researched
(05:21):
her family tree and we referred to as the Sicilian
Princess because her dad was Sicilian and her mom is
half Sicilian, but the other half is German, so she's
not one hundred percent Sicilian, and from the German side.
She gets that from her mother's mother, and her mother's
(05:43):
mother has roots evidently, family roots to go back to Texas,
which we didn't know about until we started doing this research.
And one of the names that showed up in the
genealogy search was Shipley and we started tracing the Shipley say.
It turns out you got to go way way back,
but there's a link there between her mother's mother's family
(06:08):
and the Shipley's, so there's some there's some sort of
a connection there. There's some sort of a relation there.
We also found out that she's she's distantly related to
Davy Crockett for goodness sakes, which you know is pretty
wild when you think about it. So, I mean, that's
about as good as you could do in Texas. Isn't
it used to be related to them out of Davy Crockett,
(06:29):
I would think so. Anyway. More observations on donuts, because
that's the thing about donuts. Everybody has an opinion about donuts.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Hi, Jimmy, it season for Mandland.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Bottom line, it's fried dough with sugar and no matter what.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You call it, donut benyet soap o piya.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
I like it and I'll eat it.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
My favorite donut is a plane cake donut from Shipley's
and a fresh and hot glazed donut from Shipley's. Hippis
is the best.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
This is Linen Magnolia.
Speaker 12 (07:04):
Ah, Jimmy, I have changed my opinion about you fruit
over a weenie and a kolachi.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's just sad.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
What people call a colachi with the sausage inside. It's
actually a clobus nikki. A true colatchi is the fruit. Yes,
skip from Webster, don't nuts when you're a kid.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
They got lots of greas and sugar and everything you
need to clog up your arteries when you get older.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
This age yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Heck, at this age, you muy as well enjoy yourself.
That's that's my thought. See, that's the thing. We brought
colatchi's as well, And I said, it's not really a
colotchi unless it's got fruit inside. If it's got if
it's got the Wii in there, it's it's not. It's
it's something else. It's just it's not, you know, not
at least not my idea. But what a klachiota be?
(07:56):
All right, quick little break back with morning Moment Jimmy
Barretchow and the Brody running in nine fifty k PRC.
All right, let's do a little follow up on a
couple of local stories we were doing yesterday. In this segment,
the first story was the eighteen year old they keep
referring to him as an eighteen year old Texas State
(08:17):
University student. I'm not quite sure why this didn't happen
at school. He wasn't in class. I'm not quite sure
why they're using that to identify this young man. Okay,
he was going to Texas State University. But you know,
how about you know, whatever town he was in, local
Missouria County man or whatever. I'm not sure why the
(08:38):
college student identifier. But they made a big deal about
not knowing the name of the deputy who shot this kid.
This is the kid I was telling you about yesterday
who was with a group of friends at the park.
And this patrol car, this Bassouria County Shriff's deputy patrol
(08:58):
car polls over and he's observing what they're doing, and
that makes them nervous for some reason. I'm not quite
sure why. What were you What were you doing in
the park That having a cop watch you do is
going to make you nervous. If you're just sitting around
talking to each other, it's done, big deal, right, unless
you're doing something you should know to be doing. Anyway,
they get nervous, they decide to leave, and the police
(09:22):
officer decides he's going to pull this kid over. So
he's got he's got the lights going and the siren going,
and this kid's not pulling over. For whatever reason. This
kid decides that he's going to go home, and so
he goes home and he pulls the car into the
garage and that's when this shooting happened, which has been
(09:43):
called accidental shooting, the accidental discharge of the firearm. Anyway,
we'll get to the bottom of all that, including I
would hope whatever reason the kid had for fleeing from
the police. If you are continuing to drive and you're
not following the officer's instructions, you're not pulling over, you're
fleeing the from the place. And that's something that seems
(10:03):
to be lost in this story, at least by mostly
coverage I've seen. But here's an update from GPRC two
regarding the sheriff's deputy. What we've learned about the sheriff's
deputy involved in the shooting.
Speaker 12 (10:14):
The source confirming to me today the Brazoria County deputy
at the center of this deadly shooting investigation is Kevin Tippett.
He's been with the department less than two years and
before that, record show he had a jailer license in
Brazoria County. Now he is on administrative leave. We first
obtained this video this week showing Tippet pursuing a car
driven by Mendoza John Mendoza Junior. He had been trying
(10:36):
to pull him over for about two minutes prior to this,
and then when both cars stop and the sirens go off,
about eight seconds pass before a single gunshot. That bullet
went through Mendoza's rolled up driver side window while he
sat parked in his dad's garage. According to the family,
he later died at the hospital. Now, before all of this,
Mendoza had been at a park with friends when the
(10:56):
family says a deputy pulled up and started watching them.
They felt uncomfortable and decided to go home. Mendoza just
feeling scared and wanting to get to his dad, according
to the family attorney.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But the deputy followed.
Speaker 13 (11:09):
You know, I mean, you know, justice is justice and
what's right is right. You know, that's what they proactively
preach to us, and it's like, hey, and that's what
we want. You know, this is a senseless situation that
could have been avoided.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You know, and it's just like.
Speaker 13 (11:25):
Put them all, put it all together. You know, my
son was murdered in his garage, and you know, this
just isn't right tonight.
Speaker 12 (11:34):
The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office has not publicly identified Tippett
or answered any questions about what prompted the traffic stop
in the first place. The DA in Brazoria County says
this investigation, led by the rangers could take months, and
the findings are eventually expected to be presented to a
grand jury tomorrow afternoon. The Lake Jackson community and Mendoza's
family have a protest planned at the county courthouse.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Okay, and again, you know, there's a lot of information
that's still missing from this great We have an identifier
for the deputy, We know a little bit more about him,
that still doesn't tell us what happened, and that sells
us and tell us why this kid was not cooperating
with the police. You know, was he really scared? And
if he was scared, why was he scared? Is he
(12:18):
just scared of police officers or did he have something
in his possession he did not want this police officer
to see. And those are the answers that we need
to get now. None of this means that this kid
should have gotten shot and killed. None of it means that.
But by the same token, there's more to this story
that meets the eye, and we're gonna wait to hear
(12:40):
more about it before we render any final decision on
what went wrong here. All right, Another local story that
I'd like to do a little follow upon has to
do with the story we were doing yesterday about how
Texas now leads the nation and canceled flood insurance. Over
(13:00):
forty eight thousand policies canceled just in the last year.
People who have given up their flood insurance I will
assume the vast majority of which it's because of the price.
It's just got too expensive. They can't afford to do
it anymore. We had Rich Johnson on the show this morning.
Rich's with the Insurance Council of Texas. Here's my conversation
with him about flood insurance. So we're number one in
(13:23):
the entire country for canceled flood insurance policies, and I'm
guessing it's all about the price.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Well, thanks for having me. I think it's a couple
of things.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
Yes, price, I think people are just looking for ways
to save money right now when it comes to food
and gas prices and just housing prices in general. But
I also think it's catastrophe amnesia. We forget a lot,
you know, we forget that just six or seven years
ago we had a hurricane Barrel or I mean the
Hurricane Harvey that came in and flooded Houston. And it's
(13:57):
really concerning because we were already vastly, vastly insured when
it comes to flood in Texas anyway, we were already
in the single percentage that A digits in most parts
of Texas when it comes to people who actually had
flood insurance in the first place.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
So, you know, I'll disagree with you just a little
bit in that. I think I think people still remember Harvey.
It's been almost nine years, but they still remember Harvey.
That's a that's a hard storm to forget. But we've
we've gotten to the point. I'll give you. I'll just
use myself an example. We have a we have a
place in Freeport that is that one row off one
row off the off the ocean, and our flood insurance
(14:34):
is about thirty eight hundred dollars a year plus another
thirty eight hundred dollars a year for wind in hail insurance,
plus the regular homeowners policy that that there's nothing selling
down there right now because people can't afford their insurance payments.
Speaker 14 (14:49):
Yeah, I agree, I think I think it's a I
think it's a lot of those things combined. And you know,
when when talking about flood insurance, those are all rates
and things that are set by the federal government.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
You know, as we know, FEMA manages the flood insurance.
Speaker 14 (15:05):
But you're right, everything else is going up, and we've
seen we have seen it flattened when it comes to
the private market. Over the last two years, we had huge,
pretty large spikes following COVID two for varying reasons the economy,
supply chain, labor issues when it comes to cost to rebuild.
(15:26):
But you know, the big thing is, you know, you
talked about, you know, being several rows off the ocean.
We keep building in places that are high risk areas,
and we need to figure out ways to create public
policy about how we're going to rebuild and how we're
going to build. You know, whether it's fortified roofs up
in the Dallas and San Antonio and Austin area when
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it comes to hail, because that's actually the biggest claim
that happens here in Texas, or how we rebuild or
develop on the coast when it comes to being fortified
when it comes to hurricanes and when because that's what's
driving up costs is the claims. When we're when insurance
companies and FEMA and TWEA are paying out more in
(16:09):
claims than they're.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
Taking in in premiums. That's that's an issue as well.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
How How is the competition, because competition always brings down
prices at least a little bit as well. How many
insurance companies do we have dealing with these particular issues
here in Texas? And is it a few or over
than we had a decade ago for example.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
No, it's actually increasing.
Speaker 14 (16:26):
We had there's been very few companies that have actually
left Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
If they did leave, they.
Speaker 14 (16:31):
Were smaller h and actually they were related. We had
a couple in the past couple of years that but
they were related to insolvency issues in in Florida. So
which you don't want. You don't want insurance insurance companies insolvent.
You want them to be able to pay. We have
roughly two hundred companies that that write home insurance and
(16:52):
a total of four hundred companies or more that do
business in Texas in general.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Okay, all right, So is there anything that you can
see in the future that might drive down the price
of things like flood insurance and the wind inhale insurance
or is this just something This is just the new normal.
They cost more to build to rebuild. This is just
something we're going to have to face for the future.
Speaker 14 (17:17):
Well, I think it is something that we're gonna have
to face for the future. I mean, as as property
values increase, you know, we all want want the value
of our homes to increase, and along with that, your
insurance is going to increase. But there are a couple
of things, like I talked about thinking of ways that
we can make our homes and our buildings and the
way we build more resilient. They need to be fortified.
(17:39):
They need to be you know, whether it's wildfire or hail,
or wind or flood. They're building things that you can
do and their modifications to your home that you can
make that reduce those claims because that's what's driving up costs.
And the other thing is you know, something that we're
really working on right now is is tort reform or
lawsuit abuse. You know, we every you know, every couple
(18:02):
of hundred yards on a on a freeway, we see
a lawyer that you know wants wants to get a
piece of your insurance claim.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
And and that's an issue we're starting.
Speaker 14 (18:16):
We're starting to see more and more lawsuits here in Texas.
We're actually the number one state for what they call
nuclear verdicts, which are lawsuits over ten million dollars.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
We lead the nation on that, and that's something that
we don't want to.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Lead the nation.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I think we we all have kind of a love
hate relationship with insurance companies and lawyers both. And I
do get to a certain extent why we hire attorneys
to go after insurance companies, because insurance companies are notoriously
stingy when it comes to paying out claims. And if
(18:54):
you feel like you've been paying insurance to be insured
against something and they're in there and they're not cooperating,
or they're dragging their heels they or they don't want
to pay the claim, and you think you're legitimately entitled
to have the claim paid that's how these attorneys get hired.
That's why these attorneys make so much money. Maybe if
there's more of a spirit of cooperation with paying claims
(19:18):
with some of these insurance companies, maybe they wouldn't get
sued so much. All right, quick low break back with
more in a moment, Jimmy Bairt show, You're an AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, I heard about this yesterday.
I thought, this is this is actually a pretty good idea.
Evidently the Vice president came up with this idea and
(19:39):
sold at the cash pattel of the FBI that the
FBI should have a top ten list not just of criminals,
but a top ten list of fraudsters. Not that fraudsters
aren't criminals, they are, but a completely separate type of list.
You know, people who are wanted for ripping off the
(19:59):
tax people who are wanted for stealing from Medicare or Medicaid,
people who are wanted for, you know, defrauding the American people.
Because when you defraud US government, you're defrauding the American people.
We're the ones that are financing it with our tax dollars.
So here he is that report. It starts with cash
Pattel talking about how he got the idea from JD.
(20:22):
Vance and then it goes from there.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Importantly for the FBI, and thanks to Vice President jad
Vance's vision, he had an idea. He said, Hey, you
guys have a top ten most wanted list for all
gang bangers, terrorists, narco traffickers, murders and rapists around the world.
How about we have a top ten list for most
wanted fraudsters. So, mister Vice President, thanks to your vision,
(20:43):
we're here to deliver and you see it here today.
It is live officially on the FBI website.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
I want all.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Americans to take a look at these most wanted individuals
and look at the amounts, the tens of millions and
billions of dollars in fraud that they have decimated our
societies from We really on you. Our best form of
information is the American public. Take a look at this
top ten most wanted. Let us know any information. There
is no bad piece of information. The only bad piece
(21:11):
of information is the one you don't give us.
Speaker 15 (21:13):
Well, first, thank you to an administration that actually cares
about people that are ripping off taxpayers and we're finally
having accountability for all of these different programs throughout the
federal government where people for probably decades have been ripping
off taxpayers and stealing millions and billions of dollars in
these different programs, from burrito stands registered as hospices in California,
(21:33):
to child welfare in Minnesota, to medicare fraud, to all
these different areas of fraud. And thankfully, we have an
administration that's finally focusing on that and going after people
that are ripping off the taxpayers.
Speaker 16 (21:45):
So the Trump administration also today decertified Hawaii State Medicaid
Fraud Control Unit. It brought in zero, no indictments in
four years, even as Medicaid spending went up nearly thirty percent.
So what do you make of the administration decertifying why
State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. It means they're going to
cut off federal funding to that unit. It was given
(22:06):
millions of dollars annually.
Speaker 15 (22:08):
That is the only way that we will be able
to control these states that are allowing fraud to happen
in their states is by cutting off federal funding.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
You start cutting federal funding.
Speaker 15 (22:17):
To all of these different programs and all of these
states that are doing nothing to actually go after to
the fraud that are doing nothing to actually administer these
programs in a way that has proved it to the taxpayer.
Then absolutely that is how you're going to get to
the bottom of doing away with the fraud in these states.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yep, that's Representative Greg Stuby. He's a Florida a Republican.
By the way, another story that I'd like to share
with you. This one has to do with China, but
it also has a very buch a local component. I
didn't realize until this morning just how many AI and
(22:54):
data centers we have here in the Greater Houston area.
Just in data centers alone. Do you know there are
sixty two data centers in the Greater Houston area sixty
two and we know what kind of power needs they have.
I don't know how many of them are on the
Houston grid or how many of them are actually providing
(23:15):
for their own power. I would love to know that,
but we have a ton of data centers who are
chewing through a whole lot of power sixty two. So
when I saw this other story about China and China's
connection to data centers, from the standpoint of they really
don't want American data centers and they're really willing to.
They don't want us involve that much in AI either.
(23:37):
We are, we're ahead of the game. We're ahead of
China when it comes to AI and data centers, and
they don't like that. So we brought on Gordon Chang.
Here's my conversation with Gordon Chang, a well known national
expert on all things having to do with China in
the Chinese Here's my conversation with him about the AI
data center connection. What is China worried about it? I
(23:57):
guess they want to make sure that we don't get
a corner on AI. For one thing, right.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
China wants to make sure the United States does not
compete with China on AI. They know we have a
lead right now and they want to impede our development.
So they've been funding these protests across the US against
data centers. Now, there are some legitimate concerns about data centers,
as you pointed out, but a lot of these protests
are not organic. You know, you go back to the
(24:25):
Cold War, the Soviets, we're funding that disarmament movement. Then
you have China supporting climate change protests in the US.
Now it's data centers. They're doing everything possible to prevent
the US from being the leader in Ai. And by
the way, Jimmy, the leader in AI is the leader
of the twenty first century.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
No, I think you're absolutely right about that. Whether you
like AI or you don't like it, it is at
the very least a necessary evil if you want to
compete in the world, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Absolutely, Because it's going to control the economy, and it's
going to control militaries. It's just everything, you know. Unfortunately,
the machines are better than we are at some things.
And yeah, I'm worried about the terminator scenario, especially because
you know, you marry AI with humanoid robots. That really
gets very scary. But the point is the Chinese are
(25:17):
doing that, and we've got to understand that we've got
to compete because if we don't compete, they will rule.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The world, Okay, And of course that's what they ultimately
would like to do. I think there's a recognition by
the Trump administration of that, don't you.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh, certainly, And we are seeing the Trump administration work
very closely with the big AI companies. President Trump issued
his AI Executive Order a couple of days ago, that is,
with a lot of cooperation with the big companies, and
they're doing that because there are some problems. Of course,
these AI models can actually attack, you know, networks, they're
(25:56):
very good at it, and the federal government needs time
to build patches and to be able to defend America's networks.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So this was a very good development. I think.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I was kind of fascinated by what you were saying
about China wanting the corner of the market on AI.
I want to pick your brain here for a second
on these protests, because obviously we've got some violet protesting
that's going on right now in New Jersey over an
ice facility. Are the Chinese in any way, shape or form,
Are they behind any of the other non organic protesting
that we see going on in this country right now.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well, certainly, and it's not just right now, it's going
back to twenty twenty. Chinese were actually fomenting violence on
American streets, both openly and illicitly, I mean and under
the surface. And by the way, that's an active war
to foment violence on the streets of another country, and
unfortunately we did not take effective measures, and the Chinese
(26:52):
saw that, and they said, well.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Okay, if we can do that now, we can do
it in the future. And they have been doing it
in the future.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
So they're going to gettinue to do that. You think,
who until we stopped them. They are they funding it?
Are they helping to organize it? What is there involvement
in the Are they just funding other individuals to get
involved in it? How does that work for the Chinese?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
All of the above, because we've seen Chinese nationals on
our streets engaging in violent acts, especially in the night
that Saint John's Church was burned.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That's the church that is one block from the White House.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
In twenty twenty, there were organized gangs of Chinese, and
our government believes that they were not just individuals protesting,
they were actually organized by Beijing. But we have seen
China not only fund protests, but try to smuggle in
automatic weapons parts, smuggle in counterfeit currency, all sorts of.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Things that they've been doing across the country.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
And that means this is a vital this is a
critical national security threat.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I wonder sometimes if our government believes that they are
the national security threat that we believe that they are.
I wonder sometimes if President Trump believes that he may.
I wouldn't be surprised if he very much does believe it,
but he cozies up. What's the old saying keep your
friends close and your enemies closer. Maybe that that explains
(28:24):
the relationship he seems to have with China's president and
with Russia's president both. Doesn't mean he trusts them, doesn't
mean that he's trying to cooperate with them as much
as he is just trying to get close enough to
them to learn more about what it is they're trying
to do to us. Maybe I don't know, all right,
(28:45):
Buck Live break back on our final segment in Just
a Moment on Friday, Jimmy Birt Show, You're k Perc.
You know people people today there's still talking about I
played this for you yesterday, but they're still talking today
about this shoe exchange between Secretary of State Marco Rubio
(29:05):
and this California representative who evidently she was trying somehow
to get Marco Rubio to admit. Her name is Sarah Jacobs,
by the way, Representative Sarah Jacobs. She was trying to
get Rubio to admit that he had been gifted a
pair of shoes from President Trump, but the shoes didn't fit,
(29:31):
and I don't I'm not quite sure where she was
where she was trying to go with that. But here's
more of that exchange and reaction to it all from
our buddy Greg Guttfeld.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this
reckless war of choice, and just like you.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Couldn't admit that the shoes the President bought you were
too big.
Speaker 17 (29:48):
I don't know what shoes she's talking about. What is
she talking about? I mean, he made me some floor
stims shoes. They are actually pretty good, they fit fine.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I don't know what she's talking about. And maybe that's
what she's referring to. Your shoes look very nice today,
mister secretary. How can you see them? Their way down here?
Speaker 17 (30:03):
We're talking about shoes? Are you guys kidding me? I mean,
is this the Foreign Affairs Committee? Or is this like
a circus?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
What is this?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So we've noticed, Greg, that these people get up and
they just read whatever stupid joke the staff wrote.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I would never do that.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Would do?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You come up with it all yourself?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Now, you know?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, So when I'm watching this, I get this.
Speaker 18 (30:24):
I get this feeling like I'm watching on Instagram when
a kind of an exhausted flight attendant is dealing with
a psychotic tantrum throwing passenger.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I feel like the country somehow.
Speaker 18 (30:38):
Is divided into not by political belief anymore, but by
skills in how to handle life. You know, the world
doesn't have I don't think the world has more problems.
What it does have is more people who cannot handle problems.
And I think that's what you see in this contrast,
which is you have Rubio is a problem solver, and
(31:01):
they look at him like he's a space alien. You know,
we think that the world is god, Oh my god,
what's going on?
Speaker 10 (31:07):
This chaos?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, we have a population that is handicapped by.
Speaker 18 (31:10):
A culture that has excused their lethargy and their gracelessness
as part of their identity, a part of them being agreed.
They don't have to try. They don't have to. These
people they're not trying. They look it's actually they are.
They got to try that hard to look stupid, but
they certainly aren't like preparing. They don't feel they have
(31:32):
to prepare. Marco Rubio comes off as Winston Churchill. Not
because he's super brilliant, but because they're barely sentient. Al
Green sounded like a homeless vagrant. Jacob sounds like she
just got arrested for shoplifting lip gloss at the CBS.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
He speaks like Rubio, speaks like an adult.
Speaker 18 (31:49):
And it's like, you go, what happened to the rest
of these people, these democrats.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's like, Harold, you're the last one. You're the last one.
I am legend you are the last man walking among the.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Zombies, well, walking amongst the children. Anyway, It's amazing to
me how generally, I mean, some of these representatives, these
young progressive representatives we have serving in Congress now, they
just strike me as so incredibly immature. Their children, they
(32:29):
sound like children, They behave like children, like petulant children.
All Right, one more story I want to share with
you today, because I you know, I've been on the
planet long enough and maybe you have too, to have
had plenty of scary stories about the demise of social security.
It's going to end by this year, it's going to
(32:53):
be broke by that year. And it's always you know,
anywhere from five to twenty years down the road. And
this is when social Security is going to go broke. Well,
so far, social Security hasn't gone broke, much to my surprise,
it hasn't gone broke. And well, let's share the report first,
and then I'll give you my humble opinion on this.
(33:16):
The report comes from our television partner KPRC too as
they run a story about the demise of social Security.
Speaker 19 (33:23):
Hey, you want to talk about a gigantic story. This
is one that could financially cripple tens of millions of
people all across the country in every state including Texas.
The Social Security Administration is now estimating that the trust
fund that pays social Security benefits is projected to run
out of money completely by twenty twenty three, which would
(33:44):
result in immediate twenty four percent cut to all retirees,
meaning the average person receiving Social Security would see on average,
a five hundred dollars a month cut to their social
Security check. In some states, it would be even worse
than that. According to this by the Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget, no state or retiree would be spared
(34:06):
by from this potentially devastating effect. So what would happen
to our social Security benefits? Right here in Texas, Texans
would see their monthly benefits slashed by four hundred and
eighty nine dollars a month. In many states it would
be worse than that. New Jersey would see a five
hundred and fifty four dollars cut, Washington five hundred and
(34:26):
thirty one dollars, Michigan five hundred and twenty three dollars,
and again Texas four hundred and eighty nine dollars cut
a month. So what can we do about all this
right now? Well, if you're currently getting Social Security benefits,
simply multiply your payment by zero point seventy six to
find out how much money you'd actually lose if this happens.
(34:48):
Then make two lists, a must pay bills list like utilities,
food and car insurance things you have to pay, and
a possible cut list things like streaming service subscriptions and
eating out. And then try to identify just two bills
that you can reduce or eliminate completely. Now, this report
(35:09):
shows what researchers say will happen if no changes are made.
If Congress or the President acts before twenty thirty two,
the report says these deductions could be avoided.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Don't you think they will I mean, that's what makes
the whole story pointless. It's the third rail of American society.
Is there any way possible that they're not going to
make sure that social security exists? They would all be
voted out of office if social security cuts happened or
social security went way, all of them, and they all
(35:43):
understand that. They'll rob from Peter or Paul wherever they
got to get it. There will be no cuts to
your social security if you're receiving it now. There'll be
no cuts to your social security. Maybe for people twenty
thirty forty years from now, but there won't be aion cuts.
Not even then, there probably won't be any cuts. All right, Listen,
we'll have a great weekend. I'll see you Monday morning, bright,
(36:06):
nearly five. Hope to see you Monday after four. You're
riding at ninth at the KRC
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