Houston is at a crossroad

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Houston is at a crossroad

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Common.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
About how American common sense.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh by the way, nice to be home again. We're
back from vacation. As I as I said before I left,
I promise you no more vacations for a while. I
might take a day around Labor Day weekend. That's it
until maybe Thanksgiving time. So not to worry, not going anywhere,
not that, not that you would necessarily mind, other than in fact,
you probably got tired of listening to the best stuffs.

(00:53):
No best stuffs. This week. We're here, ready to roll
and ready to go ahead and get some things off
our chest, some complaints off of our chest. One of
the complaints I came up this morning is I saw
this story and I realized, hey, listen, this is a
free country. Retailers can do what they want to do.
You can do what you want to do. I can

(01:14):
do what I want to do. Thank goodness for all that,
but it still bothers the crap out of me that
we just, you know, we just rush every single holiday,
at least the holidays that make money, and the latest
one is Halloween. Halloween is at the end of October, right,

(01:35):
that is a long waist away. We are still in July.
It's gonna be August by this weekend, but we're still
in July. Come Saturday, Spirit Halloween stores will be opening up.
They're little pop up stores all around the country where
you can go and buy Halloween decorps, Halloween decorations, Halloween costumes,

(01:55):
all those types of things. August, the second Woween, is
one day of the year where the kids used to
go trick or treating. They don't even hardly go trick
or treating anymore. It's a great excuse to dress up
like something you're not. It's a great great excuse for
women to get slutty or is they like to say, sexy,
you know, like the sexy maid or the sexy waitress

(02:20):
or the sexy teacher. There's a lot of sexy costumes
and I guess people enjoy doing that and that's fine.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Personally.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Halloween to me was a kid thing. I never really
took it into adulthood, and now that they take it
into adulthood, they have ruined it by making it last
too long. I don't want to be looking at Halloween
stuff in August. Kids haven't even gone back to school.
We haven't had Labor Day. You know, not that labor

(02:50):
days to be all into all holiday or the fact
you get a couple of days off. But come on,
why do we have Halloween's a fall, it's summertime. It's
not time to think about Halloween. It's like Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Thanksgiving gets short shripped thanks to Christmas. And that's also
thanks to retailers because Thanksgiving doesn't make anybody any money,
so if they're not making any money from it, they
just want to ignore it and move on to the
next thing. I don't want to think about Christmas until Thanksgiving.

(03:25):
Then that's fine. Day after Thanksgiving, boom, go right into
Christmas mode. Right. That's how it used to be. Nobody
play any Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving, or
maybe they would start on Thanksgiving Day. That's fine. Now,
of course they start weeks earlier than that. No retailers
didn't put up Christmas trees and Christmas steak or until

(03:47):
at least right around Thanksgiving. Now they put that stuff
up in October, right as soon as Halloween's done. They
might not even wait for Halloween. We go right from
Halloween to Christmas and we ignore Thanksgiving. And I just
wish we could kind of get back to the more
traditional way we used to recognize these holidays. Or am

(04:08):
I the only one who's who feels that way about it?
I sometimes wonder, So I asked that as a question
of the day today, I'm kat rh about, you know,
should there be some rules here? I mean, I'm not
talking about written rules, because again, Free Country. You want
to celebrate Halloween in August, go ahead, I just don't
wish to be subjected to it. So I asked for
your thoughts on the I heard radio app and here's

(04:31):
some of what we got.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
This is Laura and I don't want to see Alloween
until the first of October, and with Christmas the same thing,
not till after Thanksgiving. It just annoys the heck out
of me, and to me, it takes away from the holiday.

(04:53):
You're sick of it by the time the holiday gets here.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's so true. By the time I'm Christmas kits here.
I've had enough Christmas. I just did add enough Christmas.
And it's not like you can you can completely. I
would like to say, well, you'd probably say, well, if
you don't like it that much, or you don't want to,
you think it's too early, then just ignore it. Well
that's a little bit easier said than done. If I

(05:18):
want to go to home Depot or Low's to pick
up some supplies or whatever, and how are you going
to because they put them right there where you have
to see them when they put the Christmas trees up,
you know, for you to buy with the Christmas trees up,
and it's like October and and they're there and you go.
You know, you're subjected to it, whether you want to

(05:40):
or not. All right, let's get a couple more thoughts
on this thing.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Celebrating holidays too early is ridiculous. Yes, opening up stores
three months early is ridiculous. Yes, But to each is
their own. What's it hurting us? This is stacy from all.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Or Hey, Jimmy, this is Keith from Cyprus. I was
wondering if complaining about holidays is a long in the
same lines as complaining about airshows.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Just curious I'll complain about what I think quite make
out what you're saying. I yeah, complaining will not change anything.
You're you're absolutely right if that's what you meant by that. Yeah,
I realized my complaints are not going to change anything.
I would just like us to consider that we really

(06:24):
don't need a lead up to any holiday this longer
than thirty days, and that would work out fine. That
means that the day after Thanksgiving, you know, generally you're
a month away from from Christmas, get right to it.
You go right from Christmas to New Year's that you
can't do a thirty day separation there, obviously because they're

(06:46):
back to back. But for all the other holidays, I mean,
do we need do we really need to start on
the Halloween before I'll even give you like September, like
the middle of September. That'd be fine. That's a big
one month lead in. That's plenty of time to buy
your costumes and your candy and you know all the
other things that you need to do for the holiday.

(07:07):
Can we do that or at least consider doing something
like that. I guess the problem is I really thought
there would be some sort of a backlash for all
this that we would get tired to the point where
we would just kind of protest in our own little way,
stop shopping for this kind of stuff. Clearly that's not
the case. If it had a detrimental effect on retail sales,

(07:33):
then they would stop doing it. And so I might guess,
is it hasn't had a detrimental effect. Maybe we're just
we complain about it, but we go ahead and we
participate in it anyway, even though we think it's ridiculous.
All right, quick little break, We're back with more in
a moment. Jimmy Bird Show here an Am nine fifty KPRC.

(08:07):
All right, I thought we talk a little bit about homelessness,
or otherwise known as the unhoused. I don't use that term.
People on the left use that term. They don't. I've
never quite understood what makes them feel better about calling
somebody unhoused versus homeless. What's the difference either way? You

(08:29):
don't have a permanent home, do we? This is how
is unhoused going to make anybody who doesn't have a
home feel better about what they're being called? Maybe what
we should be calling them? At least in most cases,
are alcoholics or drug addicts or people who are having

(08:51):
mental health issues. No, I'm not going to say crazy people,
although there are some homeless people who act kind of crazy.
I'll be politically correct enough to say mental health issues.
But that's a far more honest approach to the problem
than saying they're homeless or unhoused. Is if somehow they

(09:16):
don't have an opportunity to have housing. We all have
opportunities to have housing. Some have nicer houses than others,
or nicer homes than others. Some are homeless because well,
they've allowed their demons to take over their lives. So
my question is, how are we helping them with the

(09:39):
way we are currently treating the homelessness issue. And I
think that's what President Trump th on. I mean, he
way back in his campaign he talked about making this
a major issue of solving the homelessness problem. Of hundreds
of thousands of people living in the streets, most of

(10:01):
them live there because they have a drug addiction issue,
they have a problem with alcohol or some other type
of substance, or they have mental health issues, and we
are doing nothing by allowing them to camp out in
our streets. We're not doing anything to help them get better.
We're not doing anything to help them get out of

(10:21):
that situation. There may be a handful of them that
prefer to live that way, But if you prefer to
live that way you refuse all help, then that doesn't
mean the rest of us should be subjected to ten
cities and squallor and drug issues and all kinds of
other things that go along with a problem. I mean,

(10:43):
how many of us have gone to an Astros game
and failed to notice that we have homeless people living
right by the ballpark, Not nearly as many as there
used to be. They all got moved there for a while.
No city, in reality, no city really wants to have
it from the standpoint, I mean, none of them. Maybe
they don't mind having it, but they certainly understand that

(11:05):
this is not putting your best foot forward as a city.
I mean, even Gavin Newsome out in California got the
homeless people out of sight. When Presidency made a visit
from China, Yeah, they didn't want him to see all
these homeless people. They realize what an embarrassment it is.
They did something about it, all bit very temporary. How

(11:29):
are we helping these people, by the way by giving
them things like hotel rooms. How they go to the
hotel room and they do their drugs there and then,
but nothing in their life changes, So they're only there
as long as somebody else is paying for that hotel room.
If you're going to spend money on homelessness, how about
spending money on the issues that cause people to be homeless,

(11:53):
the drugs and the alcohol and the mental health issues.
Greg Guttfeld on his show the other night was about it.
Here he is.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
When I'm back in the White House, we will use
every tool, lever and authority to get the homeless off
our streets. We want to take care of them, but
they have to be off our streets. There is nothing
compassionate about letting these individuals live in filth and squallor
rather than getting them the help that they need, we
need professionals to help them.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
So that was following through another promise made and kept.

Speaker 8 (12:27):
Of course, a lot of people will oppose this because
he's the one doing it, even though for decades politicians
said they'd fix homelessness but never had the guts to
get it done, and so we were led to believe
that this grim reality was simply inevitable. But Trump's focusing
on returning a decent life to Americans, including them mentally ill.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Once again, he says, you don't have to live like this.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
Of course, homeless advocacy groups will push back because.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Suffering is a cash cow.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
There's a whole, entire homeless industrial complex of NGOs that
paid themselves.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Fat salaries while making the problem worse.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
Remember when Bill Deblasio gave his wife nine hundred million
taxpayer dollars to address these issues, and that cash disappeared faster.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Than a plate of nachos at the view.

Speaker 8 (13:15):
Hell, if I gave my wife eight hundred million, at
least our walls would be changed from eggshell white to cream.
In California, an audit last year found that twenty four
billion was spent over five years without ever tracking its
effect on homelessness. The cash vanished and the suffering continued. Really,
they should run Gavin Newsom out of town on a
rail if they could only.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Build a rail.

Speaker 8 (13:39):
Of course, the ACLU has already lashed out saying it's
targeting people.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
But it's not targeting anybody. It's protecting everyone.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
As the White House notes, the goal is to ensure
that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that
individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles get the
help they need.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
And that's the bottom line. Get these people the help
they need. Twenty four billion in the last few years,
that's what California has spent on homeless, twenty four billion,
and the problem has gotten worse, certainly hasn't gotten any better,
because all they spend the money on is trying to
provide housing for people who don't have a home. They

(14:21):
don't do anything in typical typical fashion. They don't do
anything to address the issues they cause these people to
be homeless to begin with. But you know, I'm not homeless.
I'm not an alcoholic, at least I don't think I am.
And I'm not a drug addict. So what do I
know about it? Right? How about it? We hear from

(14:42):
a guy by the name of Tom Wolf who is
a former homeless drug addict. What does he think of
President Trump's executive order? Does he think it's mean and cruel?

Speaker 9 (14:53):
What it's going to do is it's going to provide,
first of all, an incentive for cities to actually start
enforcing the laws that are already on the books. You
have to understand that even in San Francisco, there is
a ban on street camping, it just hasn't been enforced
for years and years and years. Now cities can actually
go out and enforce the law and get some resources
from the federal government as an incentive for them to

(15:15):
actually build out shelters, build more treatment, hold people accountable.
A lot of people don't realize or they don't want
to admit that the drugs is fueling a lot of
the homeless crisis and that once you get down to
the street, drugs keep you there. So by actually providing
funding to help open up more treatment spaces for people,
we can get people the help they need and get

(15:37):
them healthy. People that are on the street are just
like me in that most have the capability to make
a new life if they're given the right opportunities to
do so. So this is a great step in that direction.
But people have to understand is what this executive order
is that it doesn't mean that tomorrow poof all the
people on the street are going to disappear. It requires
time and effort and grant funding all that stuff to

(15:58):
build out infrastructs. But what it does is it basically
puts the policies that we've had in place, the radical
harm reduction policies housing first, all of that on blast
to let them know that things are going to change.
We have to start actually building out infrastructure. We can't
just take someone off the street, stick them in a
hotel room with their drugs, and wash our hands of

(16:21):
it and say, hey, we've housed them, because two weeks
later we find a body in that room because they've
died of an overdose. We actually have to fund treatment.
This executive order begins that process and starts that conversation,
which is the most important thing. It changes the narrative
to one that focuses on treatment, accountability, and recovery, something
that's been missing from our policies around homelessness for the

(16:42):
last decade or more.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I mean, that's a guy who was homeless. That's a
guy who was a drug adding. I saw a guy.
The story just kind of made me think. I live,
as many of you know, I live in Spring technically Spring.
I'm very close to the Woodlands and I'm just north
of Graham Parkway in Gosling Road right in that area.

(17:06):
There there was a guy who appeared to be homeless, wheelchair.
I'm not sure what his story is. As far as
why he was in a wheelchair, but he had parked
himself along with some of his gear, underneath an overpass
at Gosling Road and he just appeared there one day

(17:30):
and he was there for I want to say, the
better part of a week. I'm guessing he was probably there.
This is very cynical on my part, I know as
I say this, but I'm guessing he was probably there
to panhandle. He's probably there to try to raise some money.
I mean he never I never saw him solicit anybody

(17:51):
for money. But he was there for about a week
and then he was gone, and I wondered to myself, Yeah,
I wonder if that turned out to be a bad
it's about to be that he wasn't able to, you know,
get the resources he was looking for there. You know
a certain amount of people who who who do that activity,

(18:12):
you know, do it as a scam. They do it
to make money, They do it to to prey on
most of us who who want to help and think
somehow that we're making ourselves feel good by trying to
help somebody like that by giving them some money. And
we've all heard stories of people who you know who

(18:33):
payhandle for a living and make a very good little
living doing it. That's that's not a mental health issue.
Well maybe it is a mental health issue, but it's
certainly not a drug or alcohol problem. I mean, there
are a lot of reasons why we see the people
we see, but very little of what government ever does
is for the benefit of actually trying to change the
lives of these people. It's just about trying to make

(18:56):
themselves feel better about them being out there. All right,
quick little break back with a moment Jimmy bet show
a nine fifty KPRS. All right, I'm noticing people starting

(19:25):
to get a little bit more political here in Harris
County that have not been at least I haven't been
out front political before. Mattress Mac is one of those people.
And you know, I've always known that he's a pretty
conservative guy. I mean, after all, he listens source to
our stations, especially KTRH and Michael Barry and I think

(19:48):
my show in the morning on KTRH. But so I
know his loyalties lie with conservative radio for the most part,
but he's never very outfront about him. By the way,
is there a more generous person the Mattress back? I mean,
last seg we were talking about the homeless. I mean
all the people who were temporarily displaced during Hurricane Harvey,

(20:10):
all the people. He didn't care what they looked like
when they'd showered, what they smelled like. He invited them
into his store to sleep on his furniture, and to
get something to eat, and and and and some of
these so called Christians in our city didn't do wouldn't
open up their churches, wouldn't let wouldn't let those people in.

(20:31):
You tell me who the humanitarian is is mattress back
But I've never really hurt him get overly political before.
But I think he feels, and he's probably right about this,
that Harris County, Texas is kind of at a crossroads.
We either get some things figured out, or we're going

(20:54):
to become the next name, whatever big blue city you
want to name that that people don't want to live
in anymore. We don't want Houston to become that. We
don't want Harris County to empty outing all go to
Montgomery County or other surrounding counties because they can't stand
the way the county is being run, because people the

(21:15):
politicians are stealing from them, because the judges are allowing
all the criminals to get out of jail on a
get out of jail free card. That's not who we
need to be. That's what we need to change. And
to that end, he's become part of a pack, a
mega packa or in this amaha make well, No, that

(21:36):
wouldn't work out either, make Harris County great again. Let's
just go with that. And he spoke at this pack,
this group of conservatives or at very least Republicans, more
modern people who live in Harris County coming together to
try to figure out how do we change people's minds

(21:56):
about who they vote for. How do we do that,
how do we how do we come up with good
candidates to run to give people a choice, candidates who
will be tough on crime, the candidates who will demand
that we give criminals appropriate punishment, who will make our
city safe to be in again. So mattress Mac spoke

(22:16):
to this pack evidently last week, and we had him
on our morning show today on kat rh talking about
the pack and what he was talking about, what his
concerns are in Harris County. Here is that interview. Well,
you know what the same thing to be said for
Harris County, Make Harris County great again? Twenty seventeen. When
I first moved here, Harris County was a different place.

(22:38):
I mean, it's amazing to me in the last seven
or eight years how much Harris County has changed, and
it has not changed for the better. Here to talk
about with us is Mattress Mac Jim mckenvale, of course,
speaking at a pack rally, I guess, for lack of
a better term for Harris County last week, Mac, welcome
back to the show. What was the message you were
trying to give the people who attended this event?

Speaker 6 (23:01):
The mess it was, Jimmy, that we have to get
a hold of the law and order in Harris County
and get both the right people in otherwise we're going
to be another Detroit, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, as if
we're already not there. So, as you said, it's shocking
the crime wave in Harris County and shocking the number
of people that are moving out of Harris County moving

(23:23):
Montgomery County. But we can stop it, we can turn
it around, we can make Harris County great again.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, I believe you're absolutely right about that, and you
know I've been mentioning my own experience from seven eight
years ago. We had an entirely different hierarchy in Harris County.
Harris County was controlled by Republicans. The Harris County Judge
was a Republican. That's no longer the case.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Yeah, it is in the graft of the politicians, and
the money they waste is shameful. What we are to
do is take all the money they're wasting and pay
the policeman more in the people that are really going
to get out there and police these these small percentage
of criminals that commit a huge percent of the crimes
that make it miserable for all of us and Harris County.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
And you know, they've.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
The criminals run over the metro bus stops, they've run
over the gallery area. It's just a shame. And we've
got to put a coatus on this and make Harris
County a county people want to move to and live in,
because a great county with great schools and great people,
which ninety five percent of the people are. We just
got to get rid of the five percent causing all

(24:30):
the problems.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
You know, normally you're pretty much behind the scenes when
it comes to politics, This is the first time I've
seen you get up in front of something like this.
What was the breaking point for you? What was the
straw of the brook? You're back? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
When these guys that work for me that live in
the Heights say their wives are scared to live in
the heights and they want to move way out to Conroe.
I think that Conra is a great place, but so
is the Heights, and so is Harris County. My friends
of mine get he shot at on the freeway by
road rage. The never any cops on the freeways riding

(25:07):
tickets like there used to be because they don't have
enough police. We need to get behind the people in
Harris County. They are for law in order and turn
the city around. People come to Houston from Singapore and
I ask them all the time, would you rather live
in Houston or Singapore? And they all say, you're kidding.
Singapore is the safest place in the world. Granted they
got some tough laws, but why can't we be somewhere close.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah. Of course, a lot of the problems are with
the judges when it comes to law and order aspect.
Right now, these are elected judges. The hierarchy of Harris County.
These are elected officials. I mean, granted, they hire plenty
of people that are not elected to work for them,
but there has to be a real change in voter

(25:50):
attitude here. How do you get that message? I know
you can. You can get to get people like me
and Precinct iree to to vote republic and that's not
an issue, But how do you get people in the
city to change their minds about their future and who
they should vote for?

Speaker 6 (26:05):
This make Harris County great again. Pack has a good
idea to go to the areas that are heavily d
and talk to the citizen there, talk to the residents
they don't like crime any more than we do, and
try to get people to vote out these bad judges.
And by making a concerted effort in a several districts

(26:27):
that are blue right now, we can turn those districts
red and turn Harris County around. I think if Alex
Mieler would have been running for county judge with Trump
on the taking, she had won so things. There's always
light at the end of the tunnel. There's great people
all over Harris County, and we just got to rally
them and say, look, let's take our county back, let's
take our schools back. Let's make Harris County a great

(26:49):
place to live, work, playing, and raise the family. That's
what it's all about, not a great place to be
shot in.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
And let me ask you this back, have you ever
thought about running for political office? Because it strikes me
as well the one of the problems we have in
Aris County is we don't have a lot of good
Republican candidates are willing to run for office.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
Well, I got lost of Republicans asking me for money,
and they're very dedicated. I decided a long time time ago,
gim me I'd be better off for furnasure man. That's
not any political office.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I don't blame you. I don't blame it at all.
Thanks for joining us. Good that's out Mattress back from
earlier today and again it's a it's sort of a
MAGA style pack, which is the political Action Committee of course,
trying to get the word out, I think to voters,
and I wonder, how do you do that is the message?

(27:41):
I mean, let's be blunt about this. Does the message
have to come from other black people? Can you get
black people in the city of Houston to vote for
somebody who's not black. Or do we need to have
more black Republican candidates? What do we need to do here?
Do we need more black Republican judges to run? Can
we we find people who are tough on crime? Can

(28:01):
we educate people to pay attention to how these people
are likely to take care of criminals once they appear
in front of them, what they are likely to do
as far as spending money on public safety? How do
we turn that around? These again, these are all the
kinds of questions that you have to keep asking if
you ever hope to make a change in all this

(28:22):
back with more moment. We'll wrap it up next Jimmy
Bird Show. You're an am nine fifty KPRC. All right,

(28:45):
a couple of things to work on here before we
wrap it up for today. One of them has to
do with I told you so, not so much. I
told you so because I'm appreciate you're the choir right now,
you know this better than anybody else. But things that
you should have seen coming from a million miles away,
that liberals always do over and over and over again,

(29:09):
and yet they keep doing it even though it doesn't
work or or it coses problems. In this case, California
is twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for fast food workers. Now,
when they decided they were going to do that, you know,
every fast food worker would, yeah, I need a raise.
And what we said at the time was pretty simple. Okay,

(29:31):
if we raise you to twenty dollars an hour for
flipping burgers and making fries, then they're going to have
to raise the prices in order to be able to
pay you that wage. And if they raise the prices
to where they have to go to pay that wage,
then you're going to have less business. And if you
have less business, then they're not going to need to

(29:53):
have as many fast food outlets, at least not a
state where you have to pay twenty dollars an hour
minimum way age for fast food worker. And lo and
behold here we are, however, many months later since that
went into effect, and guess what, shock upon shock, eighteen
thousand fewer fast food workers in California than there was

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before the minimum wage went into effect eighteen thousand. You know,
this is a furlis. I know, California is a big
state population wise, but that's still relatively significant. They were
talking about this over the weekend on The Big Money Show, a.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Hard lesson in economics.

Speaker 10 (30:31):
We knew what was going to happen, and yet they
willfully went forward with This is a math problem.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
It's a math equation that can be easily.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
Solved before you put into a place a really bad policy.
Beyond having to lay people off, businesses leave and flea
states that require higher minimum wages, we need to remember
it's a minimum wage. It's not supposed to be a
living wage. And I think those are the distinctions. We
need to provide a pathway, training opportunities to get people
from those jobs into the next level where it is
higher wages, not force the bottom up and businesses to

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bear the brunt of it because they can't.

Speaker 11 (31:02):
Yeah, and yesterday we talked about in and out Burger
not wanting to stay in California or its headquarters. And
you know, you've seen so much business move to the
South to Texas. You've seen Florida take off, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia. All of these states have lower costs
of labor and they're very popular with employers, and there's
a good reason for it. I just see this trend

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continuing and not going away.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
And I would have to agree with that. I don't
think they've ever really learned their lesson when it comes
to this stuff. They don't seem if California realizes why
they have lost so many residents and continue to lose residents,
they either don't care that they are or I'm thinking
they don't care what they are because the people who

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are leaving are people who are more they're fed up. Obviously,
they want the people who are crazy enough to think
that the politics in California are fine to stay there
so they can keep getting re elected. The few of
you that are conservative California, you go ahead and leave,
Go to Texas, get out of our hair. At least

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we know that you haven't got a prayer of beating
us in the next election. All right, And one more
topic worth doing for you. The latest bizarre, stupid and
downright dangerous TikTok challenge is reported on by NBC News.

Speaker 12 (32:26):
The thread outside this Tampa area home looks very real.
A mass figure approaching the door, kicking it hard than
firing a weapon, which deputies say is an aerosoft gun,
before fleeing late last Friday night. The County Sheriff's office says.
This incident, which has left the community shaken, is part
of a growing prank trending on TikTok called the door

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kick challenge.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
This is Florida.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
We're allowed to carry, We're allowed to protect ourselves, our homes,
our property, our children, our pets, neighbors.

Speaker 12 (32:54):
Like the one here warning the practical jokes could end
in tragedy.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
It's going to be like for Dasky really canpy and
your mom's not gonna want to have to.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Cry your eulogy about it. So I think next time.

Speaker 12 (33:06):
Reported incidents of the challenge popping up, not just in Florida,
but in Minnesota in California too. It's sort of like
Ding Dong ditch, but much more aggressive, daring teens to
go up to a random door, kick it hard and
then flee. But those kicks can be extremely loud.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Now it's just asleep and I just woke up, startled
and scared and.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Just wanted to make sure I get my kid out
the way.

Speaker 12 (33:33):
And they can cause damage, like in this other Florida
incident in Volusha County where you can see the door
hanging open after the teens run away, Deputies making arrest
just hours later.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
It is crystal beer, Himmery.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Those sorts of ardouscnds.

Speaker 12 (33:46):
Of catching the moment on bodycam and prompting the county
sheriff to issue a blunt warning.

Speaker 13 (33:52):
That's a good way to end up dead, especially in Florida.
You got to think you're about to become a victim
of a home invasion robbery and you're under a castle. Doctor,
You're gonna shoot first and ask questions later.

Speaker 12 (34:04):
Other law enforces been begging kids to sit this trend
out too. From Arizona.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
You want to encourage parents to speak with their teens
about the dangers and potential criminal charges associated with participating
in this challenge.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Now, Johnny, you know it'd be really dangerous to go
try to kick in somebody's door and run away. You
might get shot. You know, kids, they've always done I
guess stupid things, but I mean there's making mistakes, legitimate
mistakes that trying to be a stupid mistake, and then
there's just you know, why would you do something like

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this so you can post yourself on social media? What
the hell's the point of that? Who cares? Why are
we having contests to see who the biggest idiot is?
Who wants that award. TikTok. Huh yeah, always TikTok, and
nothing's changed. I thought we were getting rid of TikTok.

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