June 2, 2026 • 37 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Is Centerpoint ready for Hurricane Season
- Maine politics
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
I think it was just yesterday on the show that
I promised that we weren't gonna hype hurricane season. So
so today I'm breaking by promise. No, Now, I don't
this is this is not really hype. This is just
a couple of things I think that we all care
about as it relates to hurricane season, that mainly being
the electric grid and whether or not Centerpoint is ready,
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and in our own personal preparations. I'm not gonna sit
here and do what television does. I've watched so all
of the local channels yesterday, and they spend all of
their time talking about the start of hurricane season. That's
what I mean by hype. I mean their newscasts were
virtually all about hurricane season, and every year they approach
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it from the same way. Is if we don't know
anything about hurricanes or hurricane preparation. You know they're doing
their list, here's the things you need to have. Come on,
how many years have we done this? I realize that
they're looking for content, but I've never thought that it's
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a really good idea to lecture people about how they
should prepare for something, because when you do that, you
treat people like they're idiots. You guys know what you need.
You know about flashlights and batteries, you know about water supply,
you know about backup power, you know about all that stuff.
You don't need me to tell you what you need
to have in your home to be prepared for hurricane season.
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And and if you just moved here from outer Mongolia
where you've never had a hurricane in your entire life,
maybe you can use that information. But most of the
people here at least have some idea of what's involved
in dealing with storms and dealing with hurricanes. I think
the biggest thing we all wonder about as it relates
to hurricane preparation is not our own personal preparation, but
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the preparation of Center Point. Is center Point ready? Has
Urkot done what they need to do? Are we in
better shape for a storm so that we don't lose
our power for ten days from a cab one hurricane,
because that's what happened after Beryl. Beryl was the last
hurricane that we've dealt with here as a cab one storm,
and some of us be included, lost our power for
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well over a week in my case, I think was
eight days. Some people lost their power for ten days
or longer. To me, that's that's that shows a lack
of proper preparation on behalf of the utility. That means
that we haven't cut back the vegetation enough. That means
that we know that we're using polls that snap too easily.
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When a cap one storm could do that level of
damage for that period of time, then we haven't done
enough preparation. And I think to their credit, and I
really do believe we should give them credit to a
certain extent, I think they finally heard the message, and
if not from you and me as consumers, they heard
the message from the state legislature and from the Governor's
office who basically threaten them with their livelihood. Well, maybe
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we need to find somebody else to be in charge
of our electric grid in the Southeast Texas. Not that
certain points are the only company. They're not the only company,
but they're the ones certainly with the worst reputation, and
they're the ones that serve the most amount of people.
By the way, here's the report on Centerpoint preparations from
our television partner KPRC too.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But we're being very strategic and how do we underground stuff.
And so there's area is that you really can't you
really can't trim the trees enough. They're really high risk
of fall ins. And so those are areas that we
look at strategically underground. We're also looking at vertical air episodes.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Then there's grid switching devices, which Nathan Brownwell, vice president
of Resilience and Capital Delivery at Center Point, calls automation devices.
More than five hundred of those have been installed. They're
designed to get power back right away.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Or we're installing automation devices that can automatically isolate falls
to get customers back on much quicker.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Next tree trimmic. Centerpoint Energy says it's cleared more than
eight thousand miles of trees that are at risk of
falling onto power lines or snapping utility poles, which finally
brings us to those utility poles. You may notice those.
The most chances are you have one in your neighborhood.
They hold up power lines, transformers, and other equipment that
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you said, sixty thousand of these have already gone up YEP.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So we've installed around almost sixty thousand harden poles. They're
not all fiberglass. In some instances, a larger wood pole
is just as good.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
The fiberglass poles do what traditional would where steel poles do,
but they're stronger. They're designed to withstand extreme hurricane force
winds of up to one hundred and thirty miles an hour.
For reference, Beryl struck Texas as a Category one. So
you do an assessment every year every year to see
where you are. And I guess it's just you notice
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which ones are weaker, right.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's writing. It's part of our inspection process. But you know,
I talked about the escalated workplane that we were doing.
So traditionally we do around you know, twenty five thousand
pole changeouts. Last year we did almost forty four thousand
pole changeouts. So you think about how we've gone from
twenty five the forty four thousand poles, huge jump in
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amount of work that's being done. And that's the pace
that we're going to be on for long term because
as part of our commitment through their Greater Houston Resiliency
Initiative is hardened our system.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
You have to play in Devil's advocate for a moment
and think about and think about the people at home
because they say, Okay, well are you just doing this now?
Because this is when we're watching because it's post barrel
and all those that's still fresh. How long is this
gonna is this going to continue?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Basically, so our our GHR our program is really going
to last for you know, a long time, many many years.
And you think about you think about the pool of
poles we got almost we got over one point two
million poles in the population, and so you think about
we've done over sixty thousand to day, it's going to
take time to do all.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That one pain. They've done sixty thousand so far, they
have one point two million. That is a that is
a drop in the bucket, is it not? Yeah, that's
a that's a drop in the bucket. That yeah. And
here's the thing. I think the fiberglass poles are good idea,
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but they are only as good as the ground and
for example, when we had Hurricane Harvey, what do we
have like forty five plus inches of rain. When the
ground gets that saturated with water, it loosens up. And
if you combine a whole bunch of rain with really
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high winds, then maybe the pole doesn't snap, but maybe
the pole just plane falls down because it's it's I
don't know how many feet into the ground it is,
but they could potentially give way, and certainly we've seen
that happen in the past. Less likely to be a
problem with a fiberglass pole than it is with a
wooden pole, But the problem is is still there and
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there's nothing you can do about that. You cannot possibly
prepare for every eventuality. There are gonna be storms that
are wind driven. There are gonna be storms that are
more rain driven. There be storms where it's a flooding
problem and not really an electric problem. There's gonna be
other ones where it's electric problem a flooding problem. You
can't necessarily prepare for every contingency. You just try to
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make sure you're as ready as you can be. All
right back with more in the moments, Stick around, Please
Jimmy Bart Show. You're on AM nine fifty KPRC. All right,
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let's call this one, uh politicians behaving badly. Several instances
will start in Maine with that instance. First, Maine. This
is a main politician, Graham Platner is his name. He's
a wooly looking dude, But then again, he's from Maine.
I'm guessing wooly plays really well in Maine, because, after all,
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that's kind of a wild and wooly kind of state.
I have to say, I don't pay much attention, if anything,
to Maine politics. But you show me a politician or
somebody running for office, especially for the United States Senate,
I'm not quite sure why I would put more of
an onus on the Senate than I would on Congress.
But when you show me somebody like That's how John
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Fetterman got my attention. I thought, you know, this guy's
had a stroke. You know, he wasn't really able to
articulate his thoughts there for a while while he was
recovering from that. And I'm thinking to myself, why would
this guy be running for the US Senate, And more
importantly than that, why would people be voting for him?
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A similar thing with this guy, Graham Platner, he's a Democrat.
He's running for the United States Senate in Maine. Near
as I can tell from his background, he doesn't have
a college degree, not that I think you have to.
Harry Truman was President of the United States, he did
not have a college degree. So not that you necessarily
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have to have a college degree to run for the
United States Senator or any other political office, as far
as that goes. But there's a lot of things about
this guy that strikes me as sketchy, not the least
of which is he seems to be involved in a
sexting scan and the sexting was evidently discovered by his
wife and the site he was sexting to involves underage girls,
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so which by the way, he denies doing, although the
wife caught him in the act. So it's all very strange,
and so the stranger it is, the more interested I
think we all become in it. So let's see what's
going on with this. They were talking about it on
the five on Fox yesterday. We begin with Graham Plattner
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himself denying the accusations against him, standing right next to
him his loyal and loving wife, who later posted on
social media, we'll hear from that as well that marriage
is hard, Yes, especially when your husband is accused of sexting.
And also we find out from Jesse Waters, who did
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a little background check on the guy about his lack
of a college degree, and you know that maybe he
hasn't been much of an entrepreneur. Let's put it that way.
Here's all of that coming up. Curtsey A.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Fox, It's no surprise to me that the establishment media
outlets are just going to run gossip instead of wanting
to talk about the things that actually matter in this race.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
The stories are true, right about the texts? Now, are
you conserving that the messages did not exist?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Genevieve MacDonald said in The New York Times, is not true.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Apparently it was Planner's wife who first flagged the sexually
explicit text to a Senate campaign, but she's standing by
her man.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I just really wanted to make sure that everyone knows
that Graham and I have a great marriage.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Being married is hard.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I think it's shameful behavior to spend time and energy
and resources on negative ads and negative stories on when
all he's trying to do is improve the lives of
people who work for a living.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Okay, So this isn't Jesse, just isn't about these techs.
All men lie about these things. But there's a mosaic
of this man. This guy could never get a job
as a school teacher, a police officer, any public facing job.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
But let's make him as senator.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
You know what always said, Greg, discipline is destiny. It
wasn't me, it was someone else. But this guy has
no discipline. He's more of a congressman than a senator.
Like when you're a congressman, you can have food in
your beard and the sexting scandal and have tattoos, not
as a senator, the world's greatest deliberative body. These people
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vote on treaties and justices. You can't have this guy
in the US Senate. You know, he washed out of college.
Fetterman has three degrees, He's got.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
An NBA, he's got a.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Master's from Harvard and a bachelors's. This guy has nothing,
and I'm not a snob about it. He's smart enough
to get degrease. He just couldn't do it because he
lacks discipline. And he's a mommy's boy. You know, his
dad gave him two hundred grand for a house. His
mom gave him the money for the oyster farm, and
she's his biggest customer. But he doesn't even make enough
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money to do anything. Sixty grand a year is his income.
You know where he gets that from? Not from oysters,
He gets it from disability, from the army. And what
is he doing instead of trying to boost his business
or get a diploma? He's on some creepy website that's
like for minors.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, so it's all kind of all kind of creepy.
And this is who passes these days for people running
for national office for the nice they senate. Just amazing. Now,
maybe it's because we have gotten so in the utter
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is a society that we just can't find people that
don't engage in this kind of behavior, who are willing
to run for political office. This is what we're left with.
These these are the people that we're electing now. We
are electing people who who have no business running for office,
let alone being elected office. Well, we'll see, we'll see,
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we'll see if he decides to stay in the race.
It looks like he will. We'll see if Democrats support him.
It looks like some of that support is kind of
going away, So you know, maybe maybe he doesn't stand
a chance anyway, maybe this will be the best thing
that happens to the Republican candidate for Senate in Maine.
All right, now, a little closer to home, a race
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that probably a lot of us have not paid a
lot of attention to and probably should. As Harris County judge,
if you live in Harris County, I happen to live
in Harris County. Now I don't live in the city.
I live in Spring, but it's a part of Harris County,
and so I get to vote or whoever the next
judge is going to be, and one of those candidates
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who obviously I wouldn't be voting for anyway, you almost
any circumstance. But one side of the ticket, the Democrat
is Letitia Plumber. Now, Letitia Plumber is billing herself as
the most progressive Harris County candidate ever. Think about that,
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the most progressive Democratic candidate ever. She also has made
it very clear that she is not about fighting crime.
She's about fighting to get criminals out of jail. She
would like to empty the jails. She would like to
limit what the Houston Police Department can do in fighting crime.
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She's made her opinions very well known. Now, her opinions
haven't always evidently been this way, but they've gotten a
whole lot worse. We had Doug Griffith on, he's the
president of the Houston Police Officers Union. We had him
on this morning to talk about Letitia plumberkers By conversation
with him, none of those things say anything about reducing.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Crime, no, sir, not a single thing. In fact. You
know that part is we supported her in her runs
as city council and for some reason she has shifted
far left from what she was on council. I mean,
she was a little liberal, I get it, but it
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has completely went off the deep end. She wants to
take away the ability to make arrest for some pretty
serious offenses. We have these takeovers now where they go
into malls and kids will wrap up a bunch of
clothes and run out. Well, we arrest them over and over,
and her theory is that we don't need to be
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putting them in jail, we just need to tell them
give it back and move on down the road and
let it go. Well, that's a problem. We've seen this
in other cities and other states. We can't allow that here.
In Houston. She has has just completely went off the
depail with this stuff. Harris County spends more in legal
defense fund than any other area of the county and
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that's just wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Okay, So when she was on city Council, this is
not the Letitia Plumber you knew. Was she supportive of
the police department back then? And if so, how was she?
Speaker 11 (17:20):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (17:21):
She was. She supported all our contracts. She you know,
we did create crossways with her on some issues, but
she would always come over and we could hash it
out and it was never a big deal. But I
don't see that happening in this case. I see her
leading to the much more progressive side of the Democratic Party.
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And it's going to be a proper for Harrison County
because she's not gonna be any different than Leada Hidalgo.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
So that tells me that if she has done maybe
not a one eighty but a one sixty on her
policies here, that she's doing it at the hes to
somebody else. Is this is this her getting a Rodney
Ellis blessing in return for doing this.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
That is my opinion.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I really do.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Look, Rodney's the biggest crook in Harrison County. He does
everything he can to make sure and keep a stronghold
on Harris County. And he does that. He pushed Menifee
out and then he's now he's got Plumber in and
he's going to have another ally when Abbie came and
gets over there as.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Their attorney, well, I know, Letitia Plumber too is billing herself.
Is the most progressive candidate maybe in the history of
Harris County. So that tells me she might even be
further or planning to be even further left than Lena
Hildaga was.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Absolutely and she is smarter as the dog will, there's
no doubt about it. So the things she's going to
try to put in play are going to be detrimental
to Assistans Bears County.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, okay, what is your biggest fear if she
becomes Harris County judges? It relates to crime in Houston,
What is your biggest fear?
Speaker 10 (19:01):
I can see her defunding part of the d a's office.
I can see her trying to defund part of the
police department and put civilians into the running calls. We
saw how they happened up in Fort Worth in that
area when one of their savilias was shot and killed
trying to take a report. That's look, they need to
let police officers do police work and leave the submits
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to do their work. We can't have them mixing and
expect that to be a recipe for success.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That is again, Doug grip At, the president of the
Houston Police Officers Union. We're back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Barrett shew here in the M nine fifty KPRC.
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All right, we haven't done you around updated in a while.
And I do this at my own danger, because anytime
you say something that even remotely sounds like it's criticism
of President Trump, then people in our audience anyway get
a little upset. This is not intended to be criticism
per se. It's just me wondering out loud why the
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president is doing this, and he may be doing it
with a specific idea in mind. I just can't figure
out what that idea is.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
He said yesterday that he thought a deal with Iran
is about a week away. This is I don't know
how many times now I could take off my shoes
and count on all my fingers, all my toes and
use them all up as far as the amount of
times that the President said we have a deal, or
we're close to a deal, or a deal's almost here,
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it's like every he seems like every day or every
other day he says it. And I've seen no evidence
that would indicate that that's the case. And knowing what
we do know about the Iranians, it seems pretty obvious
to me that, you know, we're getting and we're getting
played because they're trying to stall, and they're trying to stall,
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I believe, in an attempt to get ever closer to
the midterm elections and for the President to lose more
support and more power, and they think that that's the
best chance that they have to be able to do
what it is that they want to do. So they
kind of like, you know, they make it sound like
we're going to have a deal, and then they back away,
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and then they make it sound like we're going to
have a deal, and they change the conditions, and they
go back and forth on this stuff. And the President
obviously does not want to use ground troops, nor do
any of us want to see ground troops in Iran.
Would prefer not to have to go in there and
attack again. Because that opens him up for criticism from
our left and maybe from some folks on the right
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as well. And I think these Iranians are smart enough
to realize that we Americans are pretty impatient, you know,
we expect things to be wrapped up her in a hurry. Hey,
just go in there and want it and be done.
And somehow that doesn't seem to be the way that
things are going to go in this particular case. Let's
start with this though. Here's a report from Trey Yanks
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from Fox yesterday kind of on where we are at
right now with her on.
Speaker 13 (22:14):
Iranian state media says that Iranian negotiators are no longer
exchanging messages with the United States due to Israeli strikes
against Hesbola in Lebanon.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Now, those reports did.
Speaker 13 (22:25):
Not address the ongoing rocket fire from Iran's largest proxy,
dozens of which targeted northern Israel throughout the weekend. Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to strike the Lebanese capital
of Beirut, specifically the Daha neighborhood if the attacks continue, William.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
There will not be a situation where Hezbola attos or
cities and our citizens and it's terror headquarters in Beirut
and the Dahia remain out of bounds.
Speaker 13 (22:51):
This morning, Iran's Foreign Minister of bas Agachi and Iran's
parliament speaker Mohammed Khaliboff attached it possible deal with the
United States to the situation in Lebanon, with Kalibov saying
on x quote, the naval blockade and escalation of war
crimes in Lebanon by the genocidal Zionist regime are clear
evidence of US non compliance with the Seasfire. Every choice
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has a price, and the bill comes due, it will
all fall into place now. These remarks come hours after
the Iranians launched TU ballistic missiles toward a US base
in Kuwait that was in response to US forces conducting
multiple strikes over the weekend against Iranian targets. According to
US Central Command, these US strikes hit Iranian radar and
commanding control sites for drones in Guruk, Iran, along the coast,
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and on Kesham Island. Sentkam described the action as defensive
in nature to prevent Iran from attacking international shipping lanes,
and after Iran shut down a four million dollar US drone.
Now Aisha tonight, Iran's IRGC is threatening to target in
northern Israel if those Israeli strikes go after the Dakhia
neighborhood of southern Beirut.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
So after all this, President Trump evidently went to Netanyahu
and said, you need to stop striking in Lebanon or
we're not be able to get a deal. And evidently
he got at least temporarily got agreement to that. And
so the Iranians got what they wanted. They wanted the
attacks against hes Blah, who they are the state sponsor
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of terrorism when it comes to Hesblah, got them to
stop the Israeli attacks. Those are done at least for
right now, I don't know how for how long. And
then you know, by dangling the idea as long as
there's israel Is fighting Hesbla, then there'll be no deal. Well,
so Trump takes that off the table, and then there'll
be another reason why there's none deal, which is what
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I mean by I mean we're getting played here.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
At least.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I'm sorry, I just I feel that's the case. So,
and by the way, I'm not the only one that
feels that way. Here's let's get a military guy in
here who maybe can add a little bit bit of
that particular background to it. He is a retired brigadier
general by the name of John Teacherts. Here he is
talking about how we're getting played right now by the Iranians.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
Iran feels emboldened enough to walk away from the negotiating
table and support of their proxies or the arm of
the IRGC and Hesbola, and I'm concerned if we don't
continue to support Israel and their ability to defend themselves
in northern Israel against Hesbola, then we're just demonstrating further
eagerness and embolding the direction.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
All right, So what do you think is going on here?
So Aaranchi and Gallibaf have both talked about the ceasefire
includes Lebanon. I've never actually seen that in writing though
I haven't seen the new proposal, the memorandum of understanding.
But if they say, hey, you can't attack Lebanon and
expect us to talk about a ceasefire, and then President
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Trump calls net and Yahun says pull back to troops,
calls Hesbelo and says we'd appreciate it if you stopped
attacking Israel. It's not not throwing a bone to Iran,
which is behaving so badly through this whole thing, John.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I think it is.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
And we are now eight weeks into a two week ceasefire,
and I think steps like this further emboldened the regime
and strengthen their negotiating position, whereas strikes by the United
States and Israel on the heart of the regime.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Would reverse that. Okay, so I would have to agree
with the Brigadier general on that. I don't think that
Duran believes that we are willing to attack them right now.
Of course, Trump may prove us all wrong on that,
but that's I just think there's got to be a
finite into when we are going to allow these delayed
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tactics to continue, because this whole thing just keeps getting
stretched out and keeps going on and on and on
and on and from our aspect here, other than the
money that we're spending having the military over there, the
other aspect, of course, is the price of oil. Now,
nobody likes paying high prices for gasoline. We'll get past
all this at some point in time. But the longer
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this drags on, the closer it gets to the midterms,
than the worse it is for the Republican Party and
for President Trump and for those of us who don't
want to elect Democrats in the midterms. So the other
thing you got going on with the oil thing is
the story is not so much here but in Europe
in particular about oil shortages starting to appear. And there
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was even exce on Mobile even warning evidently US as
Americans that you know, this can't go on forever, and
at some point in time we're going to start to
see oil shortages here as well. So we got an
oil guy on our morning show on Katrace to talk
about it. His name is John Kelsey, chairman and founder
of America First Refining. Here's my conversation with him about
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potential oil shortages. Are we running dangerously low on oil?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
John?
Speaker 12 (27:37):
Good morning, and thanks for having me on. We are
going through a lot of oil right now, that's for sure.
It's not just here Domestically, the US produces about thirteen
to fifteen million barrels of a day or so of oil,
and we export about five million of that per day.
Usually the challenge is with the shortage caused by the
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t for moves. The rest of the world is coming
to our doorstep. To fill up. So it's not just
here in the US. Many countries around the world had
been tapping their strategic patrollum reserves, especially Japan for example,
who imporce oli of our oil to try and through
this period when the Middle East is shut down. So
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I don't don't know if I sally grew X on it.
It's weeks away, but certainly across the system the supply
is much tighter.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Okay, well let's start with this because I know you're
kind of from the America first guy, right, If we're
if we're having a hard time providing for our own needs,
why export oil at this point? Why don't we just
keep that oil for ourselves?
Speaker 12 (28:41):
On that front, we did that for quite a while.
So from the oil embargained with the seventies through twenty fifteen,
the UX actually did not export any oil. The challenge
on that front is the oil that we produce today
is for the most part, oil than we can use.
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So the five million barrels a day that I referenced
that gets exported mostly from the Gulf Coast, is oil
that doesn't fit our US refining spec Our refineries were
designed and the last one was built actually in the
nineteen seventies to process a heavier grade of oil. All
the shale fields you've been hearing about, especially in West Texas,
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typically produced a lighter grade of oil. And so today
the oil that we export is actually oil that our
refiners cannot process.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Right back, why, which is why we're building that refinery
in Brownsfield. But that's going to be a while before
that's up and running.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
That is correct. That's our project, America First Refining. We
designed the first American refinery in fifty years specifically designed
to process US shale oil. We're in construction right now,
but we won't be operational until twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
We have a new relationship with Venezuela. Is that helping
to fill the gap a little bit as far? Or
is any potential oil shortage?
Speaker 12 (30:02):
That has helped quite a bit. As a matter of fact,
Venezuela is now producing almost two million barrels a day,
some between one point five million and two million barrels
a day, and the bulk of that oil is headed
to the US fulf coast, and those refiners that I
described but are typically maxed out on light US shell
crewed are sucking up as much of the Venezuelan crew
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as they can get because their refinery is designed to
process that type of crude.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
All right, last question for you, sir, because I'm running
out of time, but in your best guesstimation, how many
more weeks or months do we have do you think
before we reach a point where the price of oil
is going to be so high and it's going to
be so difficult to get our hands on. That is
going to just drive the price to a point where
it's going to be pretty unaffordable for your average American assuming,
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of course.
Speaker 12 (30:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean again, this is purely best guess.
I think you've got a couple of months. The reality
is they're already there in Europe. For example, in Europe
they're paying eight dollars a gallon for gasoline. Yesterday, India
began rationing jets fuel. So around the world, you're already
hitting that point. In the US were somewhat insulated, but
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I think you'll see it sometime this summer. If there's
no resolution, you'll see prices creep up quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
By John, Thank you so much for your time this morning.
Appreciate it. Chairman and founder of Barberica. First refining. That's
John Kelsey. It's five fifty seven. Oh, they've get a
time check for this morning and there. All right, quick
little break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrick
AM nine to fifty KPRC. All right for our final
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segment today. I wanted to share this because I had
not heard this story anywhere before, and I saw this
and I just had to laugh. Oh my goodness. Uh,
Bill Bill Gates. There's a lot of things about Bill
Gates that tell me he's a little bit of a
freaky dude. For one thing, you know, his potential connection
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to Jeffrey Epstein and uh, you know his little island
of pleasure. Uh, there's some deep connections there. But one
of the other things we've learned about Bill Gates is
that evidently he solicited help in trying to cultivate his
(32:37):
image or redo his image. For whatever reason, he wanted
to look like mister Rogers. You know, it's a beautiful
day in the neighborhood that mister Rogers. You know, the
sweater vest, you know, the khaki plants. You wouldn't think
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it'd be that hard to cultivate the look, would you.
Evidently he was trying to appear to be more approachable
or more friendly. I'm not sure for what reason he
wanted to do that, but supposedly he had a mannequin
and people would bring in clothing ideas, and they'd used
the cling clothing ideas on the mannequin to see if
they could achieve a look for him that was marry
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mister Rodgers. Like, again, that doesn't strike me as a
very very hard thing to do. But Greg Guttfeld on
his late night show and his panel, we're talking about
it on the program. Here's how that conversation went.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Gates wanted mister Rogers. Look, kah, you're into fashion, talk
about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Nauseates us.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
The Wall Street Journal reports at current and former employees
of Bill Gates say he spent years and lots of
money trying to look like kind and approachable mister Rogers.
They even had a custom mannequin where they tested plain sweaters, shirts,
and glasses. They actually had a mannequin to build his
image so he would become a more admired public figure.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Have you ever thought about something like this?
Speaker 15 (34:01):
No, no, because they don't have Bill Gates money. Yeah right,
this this makes you don't have a mannequin. It makes
perfect sense. No I can afford a mannequin. And also
if I couldn't, what that's say about you?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
He hey, oh I have all of you throw ah,
you're so poor.
Speaker 11 (34:26):
You're so poor, girl who works for me?
Speaker 15 (34:30):
You have the private plane, you can go on whatever
trip you want, You have all you know, all this
champagne fancy, and it's at a certain point you don't
know what to spend your money on anymore. Probably, so
you're like, you know what, I've always wanted to look
like mister Rogers. And then everyone wants to get on
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your good side. So people are like, I think I
can be the guy who helps you look like mister
Rogers because they want to be on the jet too.
So then people start coming up with people are like,
oh no, I'll get the manecan, or I'll get this,
I'll get that, because everyone wants to feed your delusion,
because feeding your delusion means that you're going to be there.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
I still can't figure why you why do you need
help looking like mister Rogers. It's a simple look, it
really is. I mean, for one thing, if you really
want to look like Fred Rogers, you wear you wear
the same sweater every day, right, didn't he have that
red sweater? Didn't he wear the same sweater every day? Yeah,
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because he'd come in, he'd come into the neighborhood and
he'd put on the sweater and then, uh, what was
with the shoes. I'm trying to remember what he did
with the shoes. Did he take off the shoes and
put on some slippers or take off he would change
his shoes and put on the sweater vest, and then
you know, while out there you go, there's mister Rogers.
But maybe the thing that Bill Gates didn't understand is
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it wasn't so much the look as it was the demeanor.
I mean, And if you really want to be mister Rogers,
you have to act like mister Rogers. You have to
be friendly. Maybe Bill Gates wasn't very good at being friendly.
You have to be non intimidating, obviously. I guess if
you're in the presence of somebody like Bill Gates, you
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probably feel automatically a little bit intimidated, just because of
the amount of money he's got, in the amount of
power he had. But you would think that, you know,
with your demeanor, you could dispel some of that. It
just come across as a regular guy, Hello, neighbor, won't
you be my neighbor? You would think that would be
a little bit easier than that. All right, Okay, everybody's
got the thing. I guess all right, Hey, thank you
(36:36):
for listening. Appreciate it. We will see you tomorrow morning,
bright early at five AM over our news radio seven
forty k TRH. We are back here at four on
AM nine fifty kprc
Speaker 12 (37:00):
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Well, what we need is more common sense, the.
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I think it was just yesterday on the show that
I promised that we weren't gonna hype hurricane season. So
so today I'm breaking by promise. No, Now, I don't
this is this is not really hype. This is just
a couple of things I think that we all care
about as it relates to hurricane season, that mainly being
the electric grid and whether or not Centerpoint is ready,
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and in our own personal preparations. I'm not gonna sit
here and do what television does. I've watched so all
of the local channels yesterday, and they spend all of
their time talking about the start of hurricane season. That's
what I mean by hype. I mean their newscasts were
virtually all about hurricane season, and every year they approach
(01:15):
it from the same way. Is if we don't know
anything about hurricanes or hurricane preparation. You know they're doing
their list, here's the things you need to have. Come on,
how many years have we done this? I realize that
they're looking for content, but I've never thought that it's
(01:35):
a really good idea to lecture people about how they
should prepare for something, because when you do that, you
treat people like they're idiots. You guys know what you need.
You know about flashlights and batteries, you know about water supply,
you know about backup power, you know about all that stuff.
You don't need me to tell you what you need
to have in your home to be prepared for hurricane season.
(01:59):
And and if you just moved here from outer Mongolia
where you've never had a hurricane in your entire life,
maybe you can use that information. But most of the
people here at least have some idea of what's involved
in dealing with storms and dealing with hurricanes. I think
the biggest thing we all wonder about as it relates
to hurricane preparation is not our own personal preparation, but
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the preparation of Center Point. Is center Point ready? Has
Urkot done what they need to do? Are we in
better shape for a storm so that we don't lose
our power for ten days from a cab one hurricane,
because that's what happened after Beryl. Beryl was the last
hurricane that we've dealt with here as a cab one storm,
and some of us be included, lost our power for
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well over a week in my case, I think was
eight days. Some people lost their power for ten days
or longer. To me, that's that's that shows a lack
of proper preparation on behalf of the utility. That means
that we haven't cut back the vegetation enough. That means
that we know that we're using polls that snap too easily.
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When a cap one storm could do that level of
damage for that period of time, then we haven't done
enough preparation. And I think to their credit, and I
really do believe we should give them credit to a
certain extent, I think they finally heard the message, and
if not from you and me as consumers, they heard
the message from the state legislature and from the Governor's
office who basically threaten them with their livelihood. Well, maybe
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we need to find somebody else to be in charge
of our electric grid in the Southeast Texas. Not that
certain points are the only company. They're not the only company,
but they're the ones certainly with the worst reputation, and
they're the ones that serve the most amount of people.
By the way, here's the report on Centerpoint preparations from
our television partner KPRC too.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But we're being very strategic and how do we underground stuff.
And so there's area is that you really can't you
really can't trim the trees enough. They're really high risk
of fall ins. And so those are areas that we
look at strategically underground. We're also looking at vertical air episodes.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Then there's grid switching devices, which Nathan Brownwell, vice president
of Resilience and Capital Delivery at Center Point, calls automation devices.
More than five hundred of those have been installed. They're
designed to get power back right away.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Or we're installing automation devices that can automatically isolate falls
to get customers back on much quicker.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Next tree trimmic. Centerpoint Energy says it's cleared more than
eight thousand miles of trees that are at risk of
falling onto power lines or snapping utility poles, which finally
brings us to those utility poles. You may notice those.
The most chances are you have one in your neighborhood.
They hold up power lines, transformers, and other equipment that
(04:45):
you said, sixty thousand of these have already gone up YEP.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So we've installed around almost sixty thousand harden poles. They're
not all fiberglass. In some instances, a larger wood pole
is just as good.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
The fiberglass poles do what traditional would where steel poles do,
but they're stronger. They're designed to withstand extreme hurricane force
winds of up to one hundred and thirty miles an hour.
For reference, Beryl struck Texas as a Category one. So
you do an assessment every year every year to see
where you are. And I guess it's just you notice
(05:19):
which ones are weaker, right.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's writing. It's part of our inspection process. But you know,
I talked about the escalated workplane that we were doing.
So traditionally we do around you know, twenty five thousand
pole changeouts. Last year we did almost forty four thousand
pole changeouts. So you think about how we've gone from
twenty five the forty four thousand poles, huge jump in
(05:40):
amount of work that's being done. And that's the pace
that we're going to be on for long term because
as part of our commitment through their Greater Houston Resiliency
Initiative is hardened our system.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
You have to play in Devil's advocate for a moment
and think about and think about the people at home
because they say, Okay, well are you just doing this now?
Because this is when we're watching because it's post barrel
and all those that's still fresh. How long is this
gonna is this going to continue?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Basically, so our our GHR our program is really going
to last for you know, a long time, many many years.
And you think about you think about the pool of
poles we got almost we got over one point two
million poles in the population, and so you think about
we've done over sixty thousand to day, it's going to
take time to do all.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That one pain. They've done sixty thousand so far, they
have one point two million. That is a that is
a drop in the bucket, is it not? Yeah, that's
a that's a drop in the bucket. That yeah. And
here's the thing. I think the fiberglass poles are good idea,
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but they are only as good as the ground and
for example, when we had Hurricane Harvey, what do we
have like forty five plus inches of rain. When the
ground gets that saturated with water, it loosens up. And
if you combine a whole bunch of rain with really
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high winds, then maybe the pole doesn't snap, but maybe
the pole just plane falls down because it's it's I
don't know how many feet into the ground it is,
but they could potentially give way, and certainly we've seen
that happen in the past. Less likely to be a
problem with a fiberglass pole than it is with a
wooden pole, But the problem is is still there and
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there's nothing you can do about that. You cannot possibly
prepare for every eventuality. There are gonna be storms that
are wind driven. There are gonna be storms that are
more rain driven. There be storms where it's a flooding
problem and not really an electric problem. There's gonna be
other ones where it's electric problem a flooding problem. You
can't necessarily prepare for every contingency. You just try to
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make sure you're as ready as you can be. All
right back with more in the moments, Stick around, Please
Jimmy Bart Show. You're on AM nine fifty KPRC. All right,
(08:18):
let's call this one, uh politicians behaving badly. Several instances
will start in Maine with that instance. First, Maine. This
is a main politician, Graham Platner is his name. He's
a wooly looking dude, But then again, he's from Maine.
I'm guessing wooly plays really well in Maine, because, after all,
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that's kind of a wild and wooly kind of state.
I have to say, I don't pay much attention, if anything,
to Maine politics. But you show me a politician or
somebody running for office, especially for the United States Senate,
I'm not quite sure why I would put more of
an onus on the Senate than I would on Congress.
But when you show me somebody like That's how John
(09:02):
Fetterman got my attention. I thought, you know, this guy's
had a stroke. You know, he wasn't really able to
articulate his thoughts there for a while while he was
recovering from that. And I'm thinking to myself, why would
this guy be running for the US Senate, And more
importantly than that, why would people be voting for him?
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A similar thing with this guy, Graham Platner, he's a Democrat.
He's running for the United States Senate in Maine. Near
as I can tell from his background, he doesn't have
a college degree, not that I think you have to.
Harry Truman was President of the United States, he did
not have a college degree. So not that you necessarily
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have to have a college degree to run for the
United States Senator or any other political office, as far
as that goes. But there's a lot of things about
this guy that strikes me as sketchy, not the least
of which is he seems to be involved in a
sexting scan and the sexting was evidently discovered by his
wife and the site he was sexting to involves underage girls,
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so which by the way, he denies doing, although the
wife caught him in the act. So it's all very strange,
and so the stranger it is, the more interested I
think we all become in it. So let's see what's
going on with this. They were talking about it on
the five on Fox yesterday. We begin with Graham Plattner
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himself denying the accusations against him, standing right next to
him his loyal and loving wife, who later posted on
social media, we'll hear from that as well that marriage
is hard, Yes, especially when your husband is accused of sexting.
And also we find out from Jesse Waters, who did
(10:54):
a little background check on the guy about his lack
of a college degree, and you know that maybe he
hasn't been much of an entrepreneur. Let's put it that way.
Here's all of that coming up. Curtsey A.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Fox, It's no surprise to me that the establishment media
outlets are just going to run gossip instead of wanting
to talk about the things that actually matter in this race.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
The stories are true, right about the texts? Now, are
you conserving that the messages did not exist?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Genevieve MacDonald said in The New York Times, is not true.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Apparently it was Planner's wife who first flagged the sexually
explicit text to a Senate campaign, but she's standing by
her man.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I just really wanted to make sure that everyone knows
that Graham and I have a great marriage.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Being married is hard.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I think it's shameful behavior to spend time and energy
and resources on negative ads and negative stories on when
all he's trying to do is improve the lives of
people who work for a living.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Okay, So this isn't Jesse, just isn't about these techs.
All men lie about these things. But there's a mosaic
of this man. This guy could never get a job
as a school teacher, a police officer, any public facing job.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
But let's make him as senator.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
You know what always said, Greg, discipline is destiny. It
wasn't me, it was someone else. But this guy has
no discipline. He's more of a congressman than a senator.
Like when you're a congressman, you can have food in
your beard and the sexting scandal and have tattoos, not
as a senator, the world's greatest deliberative body. These people
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vote on treaties and justices. You can't have this guy
in the US Senate. You know, he washed out of college.
Fetterman has three degrees, He's got.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
An NBA, he's got a.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Master's from Harvard and a bachelors's. This guy has nothing,
and I'm not a snob about it. He's smart enough
to get degrease. He just couldn't do it because he
lacks discipline. And he's a mommy's boy. You know, his
dad gave him two hundred grand for a house. His
mom gave him the money for the oyster farm, and
she's his biggest customer. But he doesn't even make enough
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money to do anything. Sixty grand a year is his income.
You know where he gets that from? Not from oysters,
He gets it from disability, from the army. And what
is he doing instead of trying to boost his business
or get a diploma? He's on some creepy website that's
like for minors.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, so it's all kind of all kind of creepy.
And this is who passes these days for people running
for national office for the nice they senate. Just amazing. Now,
maybe it's because we have gotten so in the utter
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is a society that we just can't find people that
don't engage in this kind of behavior, who are willing
to run for political office. This is what we're left with.
These these are the people that we're electing now. We
are electing people who who have no business running for office,
let alone being elected office. Well, we'll see, we'll see,
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we'll see if he decides to stay in the race.
It looks like he will. We'll see if Democrats support him.
It looks like some of that support is kind of
going away, So you know, maybe maybe he doesn't stand
a chance anyway, maybe this will be the best thing
that happens to the Republican candidate for Senate in Maine.
All right, now, a little closer to home, a race
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that probably a lot of us have not paid a
lot of attention to and probably should. As Harris County judge,
if you live in Harris County, I happen to live
in Harris County. Now I don't live in the city.
I live in Spring, but it's a part of Harris County,
and so I get to vote or whoever the next
judge is going to be, and one of those candidates
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who obviously I wouldn't be voting for anyway, you almost
any circumstance. But one side of the ticket, the Democrat
is Letitia Plumber. Now, Letitia Plumber is billing herself as
the most progressive Harris County candidate ever. Think about that,
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the most progressive Democratic candidate ever. She also has made
it very clear that she is not about fighting crime.
She's about fighting to get criminals out of jail. She
would like to empty the jails. She would like to
limit what the Houston Police Department can do in fighting crime.
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She's made her opinions very well known. Now, her opinions
haven't always evidently been this way, but they've gotten a
whole lot worse. We had Doug Griffith on, he's the
president of the Houston Police Officers Union. We had him
on this morning to talk about Letitia plumberkers By conversation
with him, none of those things say anything about reducing.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Crime, no, sir, not a single thing. In fact. You
know that part is we supported her in her runs
as city council and for some reason she has shifted
far left from what she was on council. I mean,
she was a little liberal, I get it, but it
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has completely went off the deep end. She wants to
take away the ability to make arrest for some pretty
serious offenses. We have these takeovers now where they go
into malls and kids will wrap up a bunch of
clothes and run out. Well, we arrest them over and over,
and her theory is that we don't need to be
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putting them in jail, we just need to tell them
give it back and move on down the road and
let it go. Well, that's a problem. We've seen this
in other cities and other states. We can't allow that here.
In Houston. She has has just completely went off the
depail with this stuff. Harris County spends more in legal
defense fund than any other area of the county and
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that's just wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Okay, So when she was on city Council, this is
not the Letitia Plumber you knew. Was she supportive of
the police department back then? And if so, how was she?
Speaker 11 (17:20):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (17:21):
She was. She supported all our contracts. She you know,
we did create crossways with her on some issues, but
she would always come over and we could hash it
out and it was never a big deal. But I
don't see that happening in this case. I see her
leading to the much more progressive side of the Democratic Party.
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And it's going to be a proper for Harrison County
because she's not gonna be any different than Leada Hidalgo.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
So that tells me that if she has done maybe
not a one eighty but a one sixty on her
policies here, that she's doing it at the hes to
somebody else. Is this is this her getting a Rodney
Ellis blessing in return for doing this.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
That is my opinion.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I really do.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Look, Rodney's the biggest crook in Harrison County. He does
everything he can to make sure and keep a stronghold
on Harris County. And he does that. He pushed Menifee
out and then he's now he's got Plumber in and
he's going to have another ally when Abbie came and
gets over there as.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Their attorney, well, I know, Letitia Plumber too is billing herself.
Is the most progressive candidate maybe in the history of
Harris County. So that tells me she might even be
further or planning to be even further left than Lena
Hildaga was.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Absolutely and she is smarter as the dog will, there's
no doubt about it. So the things she's going to
try to put in play are going to be detrimental
to Assistans Bears County.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, okay, what is your biggest fear if she
becomes Harris County judges? It relates to crime in Houston,
What is your biggest fear?
Speaker 10 (19:01):
I can see her defunding part of the d a's office.
I can see her trying to defund part of the
police department and put civilians into the running calls. We
saw how they happened up in Fort Worth in that
area when one of their savilias was shot and killed
trying to take a report. That's look, they need to
let police officers do police work and leave the submits
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to do their work. We can't have them mixing and
expect that to be a recipe for success.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That is again, Doug grip At, the president of the
Houston Police Officers Union. We're back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Barrett shew here in the M nine fifty KPRC.
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All right, we haven't done you around updated in a while.
And I do this at my own danger, because anytime
you say something that even remotely sounds like it's criticism
of President Trump, then people in our audience anyway get
a little upset. This is not intended to be criticism
per se. It's just me wondering out loud why the
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president is doing this, and he may be doing it
with a specific idea in mind. I just can't figure
out what that idea is.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
He said yesterday that he thought a deal with Iran
is about a week away. This is I don't know
how many times now I could take off my shoes
and count on all my fingers, all my toes and
use them all up as far as the amount of
times that the President said we have a deal, or
we're close to a deal, or a deal's almost here,
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it's like every he seems like every day or every
other day he says it. And I've seen no evidence
that would indicate that that's the case. And knowing what
we do know about the Iranians, it seems pretty obvious
to me that, you know, we're getting and we're getting
played because they're trying to stall, and they're trying to stall,
(21:07):
I believe, in an attempt to get ever closer to
the midterm elections and for the President to lose more
support and more power, and they think that that's the
best chance that they have to be able to do
what it is that they want to do. So they
kind of like, you know, they make it sound like
we're going to have a deal, and then they back away,
(21:27):
and then they make it sound like we're going to
have a deal, and they change the conditions, and they
go back and forth on this stuff. And the President
obviously does not want to use ground troops, nor do
any of us want to see ground troops in Iran.
Would prefer not to have to go in there and
attack again. Because that opens him up for criticism from
our left and maybe from some folks on the right
(21:48):
as well. And I think these Iranians are smart enough
to realize that we Americans are pretty impatient, you know,
we expect things to be wrapped up her in a hurry. Hey,
just go in there and want it and be done.
And somehow that doesn't seem to be the way that
things are going to go in this particular case. Let's
start with this though. Here's a report from Trey Yanks
(22:08):
from Fox yesterday kind of on where we are at
right now with her on.
Speaker 13 (22:14):
Iranian state media says that Iranian negotiators are no longer
exchanging messages with the United States due to Israeli strikes
against Hesbola in Lebanon.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Now, those reports did.
Speaker 13 (22:25):
Not address the ongoing rocket fire from Iran's largest proxy,
dozens of which targeted northern Israel throughout the weekend. Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to strike the Lebanese capital
of Beirut, specifically the Daha neighborhood if the attacks continue, William.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
There will not be a situation where Hezbola attos or
cities and our citizens and it's terror headquarters in Beirut
and the Dahia remain out of bounds.
Speaker 13 (22:51):
This morning, Iran's Foreign Minister of bas Agachi and Iran's
parliament speaker Mohammed Khaliboff attached it possible deal with the
United States to the situation in Lebanon, with Kalibov saying
on x quote, the naval blockade and escalation of war
crimes in Lebanon by the genocidal Zionist regime are clear
evidence of US non compliance with the Seasfire. Every choice
(23:11):
has a price, and the bill comes due, it will
all fall into place now. These remarks come hours after
the Iranians launched TU ballistic missiles toward a US base
in Kuwait that was in response to US forces conducting
multiple strikes over the weekend against Iranian targets. According to
US Central Command, these US strikes hit Iranian radar and
commanding control sites for drones in Guruk, Iran, along the coast,
(23:33):
and on Kesham Island. Sentkam described the action as defensive
in nature to prevent Iran from attacking international shipping lanes,
and after Iran shut down a four million dollar US drone.
Now Aisha tonight, Iran's IRGC is threatening to target in
northern Israel if those Israeli strikes go after the Dakhia
neighborhood of southern Beirut.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
So after all this, President Trump evidently went to Netanyahu
and said, you need to stop striking in Lebanon or
we're not be able to get a deal. And evidently
he got at least temporarily got agreement to that. And
so the Iranians got what they wanted. They wanted the
attacks against hes Blah, who they are the state sponsor
(24:16):
of terrorism when it comes to Hesblah, got them to
stop the Israeli attacks. Those are done at least for
right now, I don't know how for how long. And
then you know, by dangling the idea as long as
there's israel Is fighting Hesbla, then there'll be no deal. Well,
so Trump takes that off the table, and then there'll
be another reason why there's none deal, which is what
(24:38):
I mean by I mean we're getting played here.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
At least.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I'm sorry, I just I feel that's the case. So,
and by the way, I'm not the only one that
feels that way. Here's let's get a military guy in
here who maybe can add a little bit bit of
that particular background to it. He is a retired brigadier
general by the name of John Teacherts. Here he is
talking about how we're getting played right now by the Iranians.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
Iran feels emboldened enough to walk away from the negotiating
table and support of their proxies or the arm of
the IRGC and Hesbola, and I'm concerned if we don't
continue to support Israel and their ability to defend themselves
in northern Israel against Hesbola, then we're just demonstrating further
eagerness and embolding the direction.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
All right, So what do you think is going on here?
So Aaranchi and Gallibaf have both talked about the ceasefire
includes Lebanon. I've never actually seen that in writing though
I haven't seen the new proposal, the memorandum of understanding.
But if they say, hey, you can't attack Lebanon and
expect us to talk about a ceasefire, and then President
(25:40):
Trump calls net and Yahun says pull back to troops,
calls Hesbelo and says we'd appreciate it if you stopped
attacking Israel. It's not not throwing a bone to Iran,
which is behaving so badly through this whole thing, John.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I think it is.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
And we are now eight weeks into a two week ceasefire,
and I think steps like this further emboldened the regime
and strengthen their negotiating position, whereas strikes by the United
States and Israel on the heart of the regime.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Would reverse that. Okay, so I would have to agree
with the Brigadier general on that. I don't think that
Duran believes that we are willing to attack them right now.
Of course, Trump may prove us all wrong on that,
but that's I just think there's got to be a
finite into when we are going to allow these delayed
(26:27):
tactics to continue, because this whole thing just keeps getting
stretched out and keeps going on and on and on
and on and from our aspect here, other than the
money that we're spending having the military over there, the
other aspect, of course, is the price of oil. Now,
nobody likes paying high prices for gasoline. We'll get past
all this at some point in time. But the longer
(26:48):
this drags on, the closer it gets to the midterms,
than the worse it is for the Republican Party and
for President Trump and for those of us who don't
want to elect Democrats in the midterms. So the other
thing you got going on with the oil thing is
the story is not so much here but in Europe
in particular about oil shortages starting to appear. And there
(27:09):
was even exce on Mobile even warning evidently US as
Americans that you know, this can't go on forever, and
at some point in time we're going to start to
see oil shortages here as well. So we got an
oil guy on our morning show on Katrace to talk
about it. His name is John Kelsey, chairman and founder
of America First Refining. Here's my conversation with him about
(27:31):
potential oil shortages. Are we running dangerously low on oil?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
John?
Speaker 12 (27:37):
Good morning, and thanks for having me on. We are
going through a lot of oil right now, that's for sure.
It's not just here Domestically, the US produces about thirteen
to fifteen million barrels of a day or so of oil,
and we export about five million of that per day.
Usually the challenge is with the shortage caused by the
(27:59):
t for moves. The rest of the world is coming
to our doorstep. To fill up. So it's not just
here in the US. Many countries around the world had
been tapping their strategic patrollum reserves, especially Japan for example,
who imporce oli of our oil to try and through
this period when the Middle East is shut down. So
(28:21):
I don't don't know if I sally grew X on it.
It's weeks away, but certainly across the system the supply
is much tighter.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Okay, well let's start with this because I know you're
kind of from the America first guy, right, If we're
if we're having a hard time providing for our own needs,
why export oil at this point? Why don't we just
keep that oil for ourselves?
Speaker 12 (28:41):
On that front, we did that for quite a while.
So from the oil embargained with the seventies through twenty fifteen,
the UX actually did not export any oil. The challenge
on that front is the oil that we produce today
is for the most part, oil than we can use.
(29:01):
So the five million barrels a day that I referenced
that gets exported mostly from the Gulf Coast, is oil
that doesn't fit our US refining spec Our refineries were
designed and the last one was built actually in the
nineteen seventies to process a heavier grade of oil. All
the shale fields you've been hearing about, especially in West Texas,
(29:23):
typically produced a lighter grade of oil. And so today
the oil that we export is actually oil that our
refiners cannot process.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Right back, why, which is why we're building that refinery
in Brownsfield. But that's going to be a while before
that's up and running.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
That is correct. That's our project, America First Refining. We
designed the first American refinery in fifty years specifically designed
to process US shale oil. We're in construction right now,
but we won't be operational until twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
We have a new relationship with Venezuela. Is that helping
to fill the gap a little bit as far? Or
is any potential oil shortage?
Speaker 12 (30:02):
That has helped quite a bit. As a matter of fact,
Venezuela is now producing almost two million barrels a day,
some between one point five million and two million barrels
a day, and the bulk of that oil is headed
to the US fulf coast, and those refiners that I
described but are typically maxed out on light US shell
crewed are sucking up as much of the Venezuelan crew
(30:24):
as they can get because their refinery is designed to
process that type of crude.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
All right, last question for you, sir, because I'm running
out of time, but in your best guesstimation, how many
more weeks or months do we have do you think
before we reach a point where the price of oil
is going to be so high and it's going to
be so difficult to get our hands on. That is
going to just drive the price to a point where
it's going to be pretty unaffordable for your average American assuming,
(30:50):
of course.
Speaker 12 (30:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean again, this is purely best guess.
I think you've got a couple of months. The reality
is they're already there in Europe. For example, in Europe
they're paying eight dollars a gallon for gasoline. Yesterday, India
began rationing jets fuel. So around the world, you're already
hitting that point. In the US were somewhat insulated, but
(31:14):
I think you'll see it sometime this summer. If there's
no resolution, you'll see prices creep up quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
By John, Thank you so much for your time this morning.
Appreciate it. Chairman and founder of Barberica. First refining. That's
John Kelsey. It's five fifty seven. Oh, they've get a
time check for this morning and there. All right, quick
little break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrick
AM nine to fifty KPRC. All right for our final
(31:50):
segment today. I wanted to share this because I had
not heard this story anywhere before, and I saw this
and I just had to laugh. Oh my goodness. Uh,
Bill Bill Gates. There's a lot of things about Bill
Gates that tell me he's a little bit of a
freaky dude. For one thing, you know, his potential connection
(32:13):
to Jeffrey Epstein and uh, you know his little island
of pleasure. Uh, there's some deep connections there. But one
of the other things we've learned about Bill Gates is
that evidently he solicited help in trying to cultivate his
(32:37):
image or redo his image. For whatever reason, he wanted
to look like mister Rogers. You know, it's a beautiful
day in the neighborhood that mister Rogers. You know, the
sweater vest, you know, the khaki plants. You wouldn't think
(32:57):
it'd be that hard to cultivate the look, would you.
Evidently he was trying to appear to be more approachable
or more friendly. I'm not sure for what reason he
wanted to do that, but supposedly he had a mannequin
and people would bring in clothing ideas, and they'd used
the cling clothing ideas on the mannequin to see if
they could achieve a look for him that was marry
(33:18):
mister Rodgers. Like, again, that doesn't strike me as a
very very hard thing to do. But Greg Guttfeld on
his late night show and his panel, we're talking about
it on the program. Here's how that conversation went.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Gates wanted mister Rogers. Look, kah, you're into fashion, talk
about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Nauseates us.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
The Wall Street Journal reports at current and former employees
of Bill Gates say he spent years and lots of
money trying to look like kind and approachable mister Rogers.
They even had a custom mannequin where they tested plain sweaters, shirts,
and glasses. They actually had a mannequin to build his
image so he would become a more admired public figure.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Have you ever thought about something like this?
Speaker 15 (34:01):
No, no, because they don't have Bill Gates money. Yeah right,
this this makes you don't have a mannequin. It makes
perfect sense. No I can afford a mannequin. And also
if I couldn't, what that's say about you?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
He hey, oh I have all of you throw ah,
you're so poor.
Speaker 11 (34:26):
You're so poor, girl who works for me?
Speaker 15 (34:30):
You have the private plane, you can go on whatever
trip you want, You have all you know, all this
champagne fancy, and it's at a certain point you don't
know what to spend your money on anymore. Probably, so
you're like, you know what, I've always wanted to look
like mister Rogers. And then everyone wants to get on
(34:51):
your good side. So people are like, I think I
can be the guy who helps you look like mister
Rogers because they want to be on the jet too.
So then people start coming up with people are like,
oh no, I'll get the manecan, or I'll get this,
I'll get that, because everyone wants to feed your delusion,
because feeding your delusion means that you're going to be there.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
I still can't figure why you why do you need
help looking like mister Rogers. It's a simple look, it
really is. I mean, for one thing, if you really
want to look like Fred Rogers, you wear you wear
the same sweater every day, right, didn't he have that
red sweater? Didn't he wear the same sweater every day? Yeah,
(35:31):
because he'd come in, he'd come into the neighborhood and
he'd put on the sweater and then, uh, what was
with the shoes. I'm trying to remember what he did
with the shoes. Did he take off the shoes and
put on some slippers or take off he would change
his shoes and put on the sweater vest, and then
you know, while out there you go, there's mister Rogers.
But maybe the thing that Bill Gates didn't understand is
(35:55):
it wasn't so much the look as it was the demeanor.
I mean, And if you really want to be mister Rogers,
you have to act like mister Rogers. You have to
be friendly. Maybe Bill Gates wasn't very good at being friendly.
You have to be non intimidating, obviously. I guess if
you're in the presence of somebody like Bill Gates, you
(36:15):
probably feel automatically a little bit intimidated, just because of
the amount of money he's got, in the amount of
power he had. But you would think that, you know,
with your demeanor, you could dispel some of that. It
just come across as a regular guy, Hello, neighbor, won't
you be my neighbor? You would think that would be
a little bit easier than that. All right, Okay, everybody's
got the thing. I guess all right, Hey, thank you
(36:36):
for listening. Appreciate it. We will see you tomorrow morning,
bright early at five AM over our news radio seven
forty k TRH. We are back here at four on
AM nine fifty kprc
Speaker 12 (37:00):
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