November 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- It's Veterans Day
- The shutdown isn't really over
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome to
the show. Happy Veterans Day? Is that appropriate day? I've
always wondered about that. Is that the properate thing to
say Happy Veterans Day? Or just I should say it's
a Veteran's Day because it's it's a solemn occasion. I
think it can be happy, but it's also pretty solemn
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because I think we spend a lot of our time
remembering veterans who have passed on, either those who died
in war or were from a different generation have passed on.
I know we got a lot of reaction this morning
on Veteran's Day from Baby boomers whose father served during
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the Second World War. I think that was probably the
majority of them this morning. And you know, I get that.
I'm from that generation. I remember that very well. My
father served in the US Navy, my son Brian served
in the United States Navy. He was during Operation Desert Storm,
which seems like so long ago now, I can't believe
I've got to kid that old and and my dad.
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He was one of the typical way I heard this
story a lot this morning too. He was one of
those typical high school kids who was sixteen seventeen years
old when the war started and he wanted to sign up. Now,
he was too young at the beginning of the war
nineteen forty one. I think he was like fourteen fifteen
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years old. Maybe he got to his junior year in
high school seventeen years of age and talked his old
man into letting him sign up for the war. And
he never got out of the United States. He served
in Florida with the US Navy. They were patrolling the
coast of the United States, in this case, the coast
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of Florida, and his one claim to fame evidently was
that he was part of a group that captured an
Italian submarine. Well, capture might be a little bit of
an exaggeration. It was an Italian submarine. This is right
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at the end of the war for the Italians, and
they'd had enough. They weren't really interested in fighting anymore.
They were more interested. In fact, they they had headed
towards the United States with the purpose of surrendering, and
as soon as they found a navy ship, that's exactly
what they did. And it just happened to be the
ship that my dad was on, and ded up getting
a bunch of medals for capturing this Italian submarine, even
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though it wasn't again really captured. It was a surrender,
But he said he felt kind of sheepish about that.
I think that's the only story he ever told me
about his service.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I do remember seeing his uniform and thinking, oh my god,
look how skinny he was. I mean, this thing was tiny.
I always my dad wasn't a huge guy. I mean,
he was like five ten five eleven at the most.
He said he was five eleven. He was closer to
five ten five nine and a half maybe, And you know,
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I don't remember him as being small, but I remember
that uniform that was in mothballs. I remember how small
that was and being so surprised by that. Anyway, we
took some you know, some of the feedback from our
listeners on veterans that they wanted to remember from their
own lives on this veterans to day. I thought'd share
a little bit of that with you here in the
afternoon because it's it's it's pretty good stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Dave on Lake Conrolo, the son of the American Legion.
My dad, he was a master sergeant in the Army
of at Fort Hood by the same time Elvis Presley
was there that I'd also like to thank all the
sons of the American Legion and the veterans here at
Post six eighteen in Willis, Texas, and thanked them for
all the benefits they do for the veterans and children
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like Shriner's Hospital and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
God bless amen. That's good stuff. Who else has someone
for us?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
My name is Mary Elaine in Spring. I want to
thank Sky Mike for reminding Jimmy that there were ladies
that served too. My favorite vet is my mama. She
served in the US Navy.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Whyett from Porter. My grandpa, my
dad's dad, was born in eighteen ninety seven. He lied
about his age to enlist in the army and was
sent to Europe during World War One. I guess this
story fell apart because they sent him home almost immediate
Now he did realist a year or so later and
go back. I just thought it was kind of cool
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that my underage grandpa made it to Europe during World
War One.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Way Hunt just main took Europe. We got through basic training, right,
they did basic training for they sent you over there.
How in the world did he How in the world
being that young, how did he fool them for so long?
And more importantly, how did they find out? Made me?
Mom and dad came after him? Who knows, Jimmy.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
My grandfather served in the United States Merchant Marines as
a captain during World War Two. He really was the
toughest set of a gun I've ever known in my life.
I love him and I missed him every day. God
bless all of our veterans, past president future, We love you,
and God bless America.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
David and Oakridge like to salute my dad who spent
twenty three years in the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm my uncle who.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Was KIA in the Philippine Islands during World War Two.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know, I had an uncle. I don't know how
he didn't get killed during World War Two. My uncle
Bill was very studious, you know, very sensitive, very played
the violin and somehow he found himself in the United
States Army during World War Two. He was at Normandy.
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He was at the Battle of the Bulge, two of
the most horrific events during World War Two, and somehow
he survived both of those in other battles as well
and came back home again. You know, I think that
other thing the reason why my dad didn't mention much
about his service in the Navy. His service in the Navy,
he was pretty quiet compared to what Uncle Bill went through.
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What an amazing guy. All right, Moore, This is Henry
from Spring.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I am a veteran myself and I would like to
salute all veterans.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
This is Megan from Keema. I wanted to do a
shout out to not only my grandfather World War One,
my father World War Two, my father in law Vietnam,
but also to my son who was Lance Corporal Stephen Hardcastle.
He was a Marine body bearer at Arlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
My grandfather was a tail gunner to B twelve. What
mission you missed? That mission when somebody flew to this
place you had to be small and getting back of
that little thing. Well, he missed because my mother was
being born. The man that took his place was shot
down over France, and every day every year a fa
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he lived Cloves rose to his wife sacrifice with the husband.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
My name is Jimmy. I'm a veteran of the NASA's
Coast Guard, and I would like to give a shout
out to my great aunt Ruby, who was a veteran
of the Coast Guard as well during World War Two.
This is wes and Baycliffe. My father in law joined
the Navy when he was sixteen years old. He lied
about his age and he joined the Navy because he
heard they had the best food. Not only was he
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a Pearl Harbor survivor, but he was an Arizona survivor.
He was thrown off the back into the Arizona during
the attack on Pearl Harbor. Later on in life he
went on to become the Mayor pro tem of Dallas.
He passed away in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wow. All very cool. By the way, My father would
disagree about the Navy having the best food. They ruined
lobster for him. For the rest of his life, he
could never eat lobster after having lobster served by the
US Navy. All right, quick little break back with more
of than moment Jimmy Ferrett show Happy Vetnor's Day here
on Am nine fifty kprc OH. I think a lot
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of people are surprised today that the shutdown isn't really over.
I think once once the Senate gave up the ghost
and passed their resolution, they thought that the government would
just reopen it. It doesn't quite work that way. First
of all, there was multiple votes that had to take
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place in the Senate in order to get that continuing
Resolution passed, the one that's going to be used to
reopen the government. Now it's going on to the House.
The House wasn't in session. I know that because we
had Chip Roy in the show the other day and
Chip Roy was here in Texas. So they have to
recall members of the House, and with the airline travel
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being what it is, I'm guessing that's not a very
easy task right now to get them back quickly. So
I think a vote is scheduled in the House tomorrow Wednesday,
and once that happens, it has to go to the
President for signature, and once that happens then they can
start the process of reopening the government. All this to
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say it is going to take a while in order
for things to get back up to speed the way
that they should be. President Trump, by the way, yesterday
reacting to the news on the shutdown deal and also
Kelly and Conway is a part of this cut. This
is from the Five yesterday and Fox. She reacts to
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Chuck Schimmer's future because it sure looks like his future
is pretty much over with the Democrats. We'll be opening
up our country very quickly. President, that deals does reverse
the mass fire race or administration put through during the shutdown.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Did you sign off on that?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And you will be by by that agus passes well,
I will be abided by the deal. The deal is
very good. Even though Schumer voted no.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
The knives are out progressives turning him into the scapegoat
or a deal that doesn't lock in any guarantee on
Obamacare subsidies. Lawmakers like Seth Moulten and Rocan are calling
for Schumer to be replaced, Others airing out their grievances
with the bipartisan deal.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Oh, I think this whole thing stinks, and I think
most members of the House Caucus on the Democratic side
are absolutely outraged.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We'll continue that fight today, tomorrow, this week, next week,
this month, next month, this year, next year.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
What this Senate is about to do is make a
horrific situation even worse.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No way to defend this, and you are right to
be angry about it. I'm angry about it. And so
folks in the liberal media want to see Schumer go.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
The president is kind of getting what he wanted. It
doesn't feel like a gentleman's agreement.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It feels like Lucy in the football are You're going
to open the government up? And what did you get
in return? Nothing? Nothing.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
This is the end of.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Chuck Schumer's We go forward. I think Chuck Schumer his
day are over and.
Speaker 12 (12:01):
He cannot put that and he cannot keep his pockets together.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
If he cannot keep his quockets together, he.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Needs to go.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
He needs to be all right, We've got to have
a great discussion, Kelly Anne. On the day that this began,
I said, we know how this is going to end.
It will end with the Democrats having a cave because
they don't have the votes. And in the end it does.
But Schumer walked himself into the situation.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And now do you think he'll have to go?
Speaker 13 (12:23):
Probably at Lisa as the minority leader. He's been in
politics Saner for fifty years and is starting to show.
So you were correct on day one. You knew how
it was going to end. The question was always went
with the end, and ended almost forty days later with
the exact deal that the Republicans offered thirty five days
before and were rejected by the Democrats. There's no way
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to spin it. They cave, they capitulated. They should claim
strategic bankruptcy. This is a party bereft of leadership, a
vision of ideas. And Chuck Schumer's had a terrible week.
This was just the Kapper. His week started out with
him not even acknowledging whether he voted for Mendami for
mayor a fellow Brooklynite, and wouldn't even endorse him. And
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then of course he's made nobody happy. The so called
moderates he ainate aren't happy, the progressors aren't happy. And
I think if you're a Schumer, you also have to
realize that this did nothing for the party's identity crisis,
of which he is in the center. Because if the
entire strategies get Trump, get Trump, he just got you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He played you completely got played. Yeah, and I would
agree with that assessment. All the way down the line.
Well done, Kelly and Conway. Yeah, I mean no, ain't
nobody happy. Nobody nobody with the Democrat parties happy. He
couldn't make anybody happy. So it was a complete waste
of time. They got nothing, just like we always said
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they would. They're gonna if they if they Republicans would
stick to the gun. That's the other pleasant surprise in this.
The Republicans stuck to the guns. They didn't cave like
you would think they normally would. I will say this,
if President has done nothing else for the Republican Party,
he's gotten them to understand that, you know, caving or
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capitulating is no longer the way to go. You have
to stand strong for your principles. And and that's what
they did this time. And guess what they won. They
won at the end of the day. They won. All right,
let's let's all add this to the mix as well.
The last thing that's going to recover, let's be honest
about this. The last thing that's going to recover from
this government shutdown is going to be the airlines. In
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air traffic now, thousands and thousands of flights canceled again today,
It'll be the same thing tomorrow, it'll be it's going
to take probably right up to Thanksgiving to get some
semblance of normal back at the airports. This is not
a all of a sudden you start everything back up
and everything's back to normal. It's it's going to take
at least a little bit. So here's a former air
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traffic controller here. Here's here's his thoughts not only on
how long it's going to take to get the airline
Indus be back up to speed on this, but also
why we continue to find ourselves so short an air
traffic controllers. You want somebody to blame for that, turns
out you can blame it on Obama.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
Well, I think he's based on staffing, and I think
it could take up to Thanksgiving to get it back
to normal. It's just basically a number getting enough bodies
into the different facilities enter Tower and treeton, which is
a radar approach control to make sure the system works.
Speaker 15 (15:28):
Officially, we don't have enough traffic controllers to start with.
I'm told that there's four thousand empty places. How fast
can they be filled?
Speaker 14 (15:37):
Well, this has been a problem since twenty eleven through
twenty thirteen, and the Obama administration make a concerted effort
to eliminate the controller pipeline the thirty six universities across
the country. And so this lack of controllers dates all
the way back to twenty eleven. And actually audi President
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Trump was right when he was talking about fatigue and
the fact that there weren't enough controllers. So this was
actually a political move made, a social engineering move made
by the Obama administration, which left this approximately three thousand and.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Thirty five hundred controllers short.
Speaker 14 (16:14):
We're still there, and it takes three or five years
to train enough controllers to get them into the system
where they're effective. So that three year period basically where
the fad and higher controllers, there were controller applicants who
were well trained and ready to come into the system.
We're still dealing with the residual effects of that.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
I think.
Speaker 15 (16:36):
Unfortunately I'm starting to interrupt you, boy, but I'm not
familiar with this. Whatever happened back in twenty eleven with
Obama and the air traffic controllers, did he deliberately cut
off the supply of trained controllers coming into the marketplace.
Speaker 14 (16:50):
Yeah, so it was delivered of social engineering. They didn't
feel that the controllers even though they were from universities
which are historically diverse and the problems are diverse.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
They felt the controller workforce was too white.
Speaker 14 (17:02):
There was some minialogues that got obtained high level positions
within the fa including the as president of the National
Black Controllers Association, became the civil Rights administrator for the FAA,
and they intentionally cut off the flow of controllers for
three years, and we're still dealing with residual effects of
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that experiment.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Did you realize that I'd forgotten all about that? To
be honest with you, that's part of the problem of
having such a poor memory, is you know, I kind
of put the Obama gears behind me. I forgot all
that that. The Obama administration thought that the air traffic
control was too white, too white, and too male. So
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they started turning down perfectly qualified people to fill positions,
theoretically hoping to train people of color and women to
do the job. And obviously there hasn't been that much
interest from minorities in doing that job. Now, maybe they
need more recruitment. I'm all in favor of recruiting, but
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in the meantime, can we fill the positions please? I mean,
we've been going the better part of twelve, thirteen, fourteen
years now behind the ball, having enough air traffic controllers,
all because of DEI. Well, I would like to think
in this new world we live, in, this non DEI
world we live, and we can get that fixed. At
least I would hope we could get that fixed for
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goodness sake. All right, quick, a little break, be right back,
Jimmy Verrett show here on the A nine fifty KTRC. When
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is the last time you vacationed in Mexico. I'm trying
to think when did we last. It's been a while.
We have a trip coming up in February. It's a cruise.
We like the cruise. You probably figured that out. Oh,
by the way, that reminds me Alaska cruise. There is
still spaces available, but I do want to remind you
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about that. We're doing our KTRH KPRC listener cruise to Alaska,
the next next item on my bucket list. Right. We
did Greece last year, this year we're doing Alaska. I
go to travel with Jimmy dot com. The details are
there if you'd like to sign up for it. There
is limited space, but if you go to travel with
Jimmy dot com. Where we're going, where we're stopping, what
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we're doing, what's included, what is it included? It's all
there so you can get the details and then figure
out if you'd like to come join us. But don't
wait on this one. I know August twenty twenty six
seems like a long long ways away, but it'll be
here before you know it. And I think there's a
lot of people interested in going to Alaska, so I
don't want you to get shut out on this one.
Be sure to check it out so that if you
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are interested in going, you can sign up for it. Okay, Now,
in February, Elizabeth and I have another trip we're taking.
This time it's it's a cruise. We're going out of
Galveston because we don't have to fly anywhere. Yes, no flying,
Bring whatever we want on the trip we're gonna go.
We're gonna do like a Western Caribbean cruise. It's got
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Costa Rica, we got a police stop. We've got at
least one stop in Mexico. And I'm not I'm trying.
You say cosamel, probably cosamel, And so if I don't,
is it safe, If it's not that safe. I guess
I don't have to get off the ship in cozamel
I've been there plenty of times, but I used to
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travel to Mexico all the time. It bothers the hell
out of me that Mexico is not a safe place
to travel for the most part, that the cartels are
so involved in running towns there that it's it's a
very very difficult place to go at least for your safety.
It is. We had a guest on our morning show today.
I'll share this with you right now. He's a writer
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for Breitbart. Ildefonso Ortiz is his name. He does a story.
You know, we've got We have a president and administration
currently that has designated the cartels is narco terras, which
means that they see boat full of drugs headed to
the United States, boom, they're gonna blow it up. And
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they're talking about using drones along the Mexican border to intercept,
you know, people hauling drugs to the United States and
doing the same thing. And the President of Mexico, Claudia Sinbaum,
is not happy about this, mainly because of the fact
that her party is in powering at least in certain
respects thanks to the drug cartels. Yeah, politics and the
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drug cartels go hand in hand. In Mexico, they quote
unquote legitimate government with the illegitimate government that is the cartel.
So here's my conversation with Ildefonso Ortiz from Breitbart about
the situation with Mexico, which is a deil. Defonso, what
is her problem with us taking out the drug cartels?
Speaker 16 (22:05):
Well, you see, she's in a tight spot right now
because these cartels. If you look at the Mexican elections
going back seven years, her predecessors, who's founded the ruling
party in Mexico under the Manuelo pez Balor, got to
power by basically protecting cartels. He basically started the approach
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of hugs not bullets. We're going to have the Mexican
military stand down, the federal police stand down, and we're
going to the way he said it, they were going
to push social programs to get people out of the
organized crime life. That was his approach, and that's how
he claimed it out in publicly, but privately, he was
getting his campaigns funded by these drug cartels and he
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was actually having the cartels have people go out and
vote for them. So then comes Claudia, you know, she
says she came after him, and she's trying to appease
the cartels because they're you know, they pretty much got
her in power and got a lot of people in
her party in power. However, right now she has a
pressure from the Trump administration, so she's between the rock
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and a hard place. So privately she may be helping
the US in some ways, but publicly she actually has
to denounce the warn drugs claims that you know, they're
violating cartel members' rights by just targeting them and killing them, that,
you know, and so forth. So that's sort of what's
been going on in Mexico. But yes, there is a
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direct connection between a lot of these politicians having their
campaigns funded with money from drug cartels.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And there she is trying to thread the needle between
trying to appease the cartels and trying to appease the
Trump administration. That seems like a no win situation.
Speaker 16 (23:49):
You're right, and you know, and Trump has said it
several times before that you know, she's afraid of her
own shadow. That Mexico is in fact controlled by drug cartels,
and that is very true. There are several parts of
Mexico where these cartels have more power than Mexico's government,
to the point where if you want to, say, you
buy some items in the US, like a used car
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and so forth, you have to pay your taxes to
the cartel to be able to bring that vehicle into Mexico.
That's how much power these guys have.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, you know, we heard the stories about Los Convos
that that was no longer a safe place for American tourists.
Is that indeed the case? And what other areas are
places that if you're an American you probably should not
consider going there on vacation.
Speaker 16 (24:32):
Well, I mean, first of all, like most of the
border towns are actually not safe. You will likely be
stopped by organized crime, and you will have to pay
a fee just to travel through there or to bring
any type of goods. Plus the danger of risk is
very high. Most of the border cities are labeled as
Level four territories by the US Department of State. Level
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four is the same level that's used for active war zones,
So that kind of gives you an idea of how
bad the border cities are. Of course, politicians will tell
you things are great, our crime stats are so low
and so forth. That's just you know, them trying to
to kind of pretend that you know, this war that
I love to use, no pasanada, nothing's happening.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And that's the rhetoric that Mexico loves to push.
Speaker 16 (25:17):
But in reality, the highest, the most prevalent crime for
American citizens as the risk of kidnapping and extortion.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well again, you know, just at the risk of sounding
like a broken record that you talk about rock and
a hard place here in Mexico has relied on traditional
and tourism for much of its income. If people are
afraid to travel to Mexico, that income goes away, and
then you're dependent on the drug cartel income.
Speaker 16 (25:44):
Well and you know, and but the drug cartels are
actually encroaching other areas that are you know, we're deemed
safe in the past. For example, everybody likes going to
Concon for spring break and summer vacations and so forth. However,
can Coon has actually eight different cartels fighting for control
of that region. So you see, you know, they're trying
to fight for the local drug trade, the local sex
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trade and so forth, and the control even the control
of alcohol because most of the resorts and most of
the bars and so forth will have to buy from
a designated cartel vendor.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
So that is why there's a lot of.
Speaker 16 (26:20):
Violence going on in the Concorn area as well, and
tourists have been caught in the middle in the past,
so that that's sort of the risk, and it's spreading
to pretty much all parts of Mexico.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So you're telling me there's no safe place to go,
which is not what I want to hear, because I
love Mexico. I love going to Mexico. But yeah, not
a particularly safe place to go. I know. You know,
we have this debate every year or too about spring
break and that kind of thing. And if I had,
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if I had a college aged kid, I certainly wouldn't
want to see them going to Mexico first break. I
would hope they would go, you know, Corpus Christy, or
stay closer to home than to do something. Do go
to Florida, wherever you want to go. Go go somewhere
in the United States, go go to Mexico, because I
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just don't think that's a very very safe place to be.
All right, tom coming up here, I want to share
a little audio with you about well, a couple of
little pieces here because always like a little humor added
end of the show. Greg Guttfeld had a couple of
tapes takes yesterday, one on Trump derangement syndrome, which I
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found very very funny, and also he and his panel
talking about the Sydney Sweeney interview. Did you see the
Sydney Sweeney interview that she did with GQ? Hilarious? Well,
not hilarious so much as you could tell. You could
tell that the the interviewer of Sydney Sweeney was trying
to get a gotcha moment about her jeans ad and
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she wasn't playing along with it, so sheld it pretty deptely. Well,
we'll share that audio with you. Coming up next, Jimmy
Barrett show. Here an AM nine fifty KPRC. All right,
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So Sidney's Sweeney, the actress, the one that is in
the Genes commercial, the one, as it turns out, that
is a conservative. How refreshing is this? Sydney Sweeney did
that gene ad for it was an American Eagles, Yeah,
American Eagle genead and kind of put them on the
map with it. I don't know if she's doing any
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follow up commercials with them or not. If I were them,
I would keep hiring this chick as long as she's
getting you, you know, getting you publicity, because she certainly
is putting you on the map. So she's been getting
a lot of interview requests, and she got an interview
request with GQ Gentlemen's Quarterly magazin, who sent a female
reporter who clearly was trying to kind of get a
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gotcha kind of a moment with Sidney Sweeney, you know,
asking her questions that the indicator she's trying to get
her to maybe say that maybe the gene ad was
in such a good idea, you know, maybe maybe I
should have been more sensitive to the parody on good genes,
you know that that might have some you know, white
supremacist undertones to it or whatever. So here's the here's
(29:30):
a little little bit of Greg Gutfeld in his panel
taking this one on. You. Hear some audio from the
interview is this is this interviewer tries desperately to get
Sidney Sweeney to say something damning and then reaction from
the Gutfeld panel, we're.
Speaker 17 (29:44):
Sort of talking around this American eagle ad right now,
and maybe we should just talk about it. So we're
you surprised by the reaction.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I did a gene ad. I mean the reaction stuff
definitely was a surprise, but it was I love gens.
Speaker 17 (30:06):
The President tweeted about the genes ad and I wondered.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
What that was like.
Speaker 17 (30:12):
It was surreal, It was surreal.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
She raised some good questions.
Speaker 12 (30:24):
Huh, like when did Gentlemen's Quarterly turn into an annoying
ag daily? But the journalist wasn't taking the hint, combining
both a grimace and a smile that she kept trying
to make Sydney slip watch.
Speaker 17 (30:38):
Is there something that you want to say about the
ad itself? The Sydney Swinging has great genes? Do you
have the odd spoke for itself? You think the ads
fit for itself?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Okay?
Speaker 17 (30:48):
And the criticism of the content, which was basically that
maybe specifically in this political climate, like white people shouldn't
joke about genetic superiority. Like that was kind of like
the criticism broadly speaking, And since you are talking about this,
I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk
about that specifically.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think that when I have an issue that I
want to speak about, people here.
Speaker 11 (31:15):
Yeah, anybody else need a cigarette?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
After that? One yo? Jail. You deal with the press
a lot. How do you grade that?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, that takes a level of training, by the way,
and she came off as very untrained while nailing those answers.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I mean, there was a real simplicity to say it.
If I have a message, I'll let you know. Yeah, yeah,
I have a message for you, lady. Get the hell
out of here. How about the reporters? Is she like
the typical California girl or what?
Speaker 12 (31:50):
You know?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
She just had that whole valley girl thing going on.
I don't know if she's from California, but she sure
sounded like she was from California, So I thought i'd
share that with it. Sidney Sweety still getting asked about
that and still just you know, handling it now. The
reporter for GQ probably is one of those people that
suffers from Trump derangement syndrome. Here's Greg Guttfeld taking on
(32:12):
that topic of where it comes from, how it manifests itself.
You have the usual stuff is only Greg Gutfeld can
tell the story.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
But as Scott Adams says, you are what you think,
and that explains why so many Democrats have gone nuts.
If all you think about is Trump hate. It's going
to come at a cost to all your other thoughts,
which maybe why this estrangement thing is a bigger problem
for the left. A recent survey found that fifty percent
of Libs would cut off family over politics, only eleven
(32:45):
percent of varieties would do the same some Nazis. I mean,
sure liberals can annoy us, but sometimes it's nice to
hear from a rational Democrat, like during the holidays, or
when they announced that your machiato's ready, So like a
week old chalupa coursing through Jerry Nadler's bowels. This estrangement
(33:13):
only goes in one direction. Why don't we see stories
of Trumper's disowning their kin. Maybe it's because we can
handle being wrong because it's not tied to our self worth.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
But for the left, politics has.
Speaker 12 (33:25):
Become so intertwined with ego, and what drives them mad
is that we don't share that same defect. There must
be something wrong with us not to care as deeply
as they do. Missus Kimmel sent a ten point email.
Speaker 11 (33:40):
To her relatives before the election to sway their vote,
and was so distraught that no one responded. What did
she expect, Dear, oh, you were right all along.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
How dumb of us not to see the wisdom behind
your virtuous concerns.
Speaker 12 (33:58):
No Puplicans, they had better stuff to do, which leads
to a bigger question. Why does the virtuous liberal need
you to agree with them?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Why is it that so important?
Speaker 12 (34:11):
Could it be due to their own self doubt about
their own positions?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Because if we're not as worked up.
Speaker 12 (34:17):
Over Trump as they are, they might wonder could they
be wrong?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Could be? Could be? I mean I've got that going
on in my own family dynamic right now. I have
a granddaughter who I never we'd never talked about politics.
I don't bring up politics, you know, with teens and
young people, especially if I think they might be a liberal.
(34:43):
I just don't do it. It's not important to me.
It's not important to me to argue with a with
a young female liberal and try to convince her that
I'm right and she's wrong. But god no, she works really, really,
really hard to try to convince me how wrong I am,
and they get it's mad. But I don't want to
argue with her. I don't want to argue with honey.
(35:04):
I love you. You can believe what you want to believe.
I happen to think you're brainwashed, but you can believe
what you want to believe. I'm not going to try
to change your opinion. Why do you have to try
to argue with me about mine. You're not going to
change my opinion either. Let's just leave it at that.
I don't need to talk about it any more than
(35:25):
that with you, all right. I say all this because
we have Thanksgiving right around the corner, right, and we
may all find ourselves in a situation where we're sitting
down to break bread with people who maybe don't believe
all the same things that we do. And that's okay.
I just know that my people will react a lot
more positively than the folks on the other side. You
(35:46):
all have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, hope,
right and early at five am on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. We are back here at four on AM
nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 16 (36:00):
The extended
Speaker 2 (36:03):
The
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Common breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common
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I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind
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dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome to
the show. Happy Veterans Day? Is that appropriate day? I've
always wondered about that. Is that the properate thing to
say Happy Veterans Day? Or just I should say it's
a Veteran's Day because it's it's a solemn occasion. I
think it can be happy, but it's also pretty solemn
(00:48):
because I think we spend a lot of our time
remembering veterans who have passed on, either those who died
in war or were from a different generation have passed on.
I know we got a lot of reaction this morning
on Veteran's Day from Baby boomers whose father served during
(01:09):
the Second World War. I think that was probably the
majority of them this morning. And you know, I get that.
I'm from that generation. I remember that very well. My
father served in the US Navy, my son Brian served
in the United States Navy. He was during Operation Desert Storm,
which seems like so long ago now, I can't believe
I've got to kid that old and and my dad.
(01:34):
He was one of the typical way I heard this
story a lot this morning too. He was one of
those typical high school kids who was sixteen seventeen years
old when the war started and he wanted to sign up. Now,
he was too young at the beginning of the war
nineteen forty one. I think he was like fourteen fifteen
(01:59):
years old. Maybe he got to his junior year in
high school seventeen years of age and talked his old
man into letting him sign up for the war. And
he never got out of the United States. He served
in Florida with the US Navy. They were patrolling the
coast of the United States, in this case, the coast
(02:19):
of Florida, and his one claim to fame evidently was
that he was part of a group that captured an
Italian submarine. Well, capture might be a little bit of
an exaggeration. It was an Italian submarine. This is right
(02:40):
at the end of the war for the Italians, and
they'd had enough. They weren't really interested in fighting anymore.
They were more interested. In fact, they they had headed
towards the United States with the purpose of surrendering, and
as soon as they found a navy ship, that's exactly
what they did. And it just happened to be the
ship that my dad was on, and ded up getting
a bunch of medals for capturing this Italian submarine, even
(03:04):
though it wasn't again really captured. It was a surrender,
But he said he felt kind of sheepish about that.
I think that's the only story he ever told me
about his service.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I do remember seeing his uniform and thinking, oh my god,
look how skinny he was. I mean, this thing was tiny.
I always my dad wasn't a huge guy. I mean,
he was like five ten five eleven at the most.
He said he was five eleven. He was closer to
five ten five nine and a half maybe, And you know,
(03:39):
I don't remember him as being small, but I remember
that uniform that was in mothballs. I remember how small
that was and being so surprised by that. Anyway, we
took some you know, some of the feedback from our
listeners on veterans that they wanted to remember from their
own lives on this veterans to day. I thought'd share
a little bit of that with you here in the
afternoon because it's it's it's pretty good stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Dave on Lake Conrolo, the son of the American Legion.
My dad, he was a master sergeant in the Army
of at Fort Hood by the same time Elvis Presley
was there that I'd also like to thank all the
sons of the American Legion and the veterans here at
Post six eighteen in Willis, Texas, and thanked them for
all the benefits they do for the veterans and children
(04:25):
like Shriner's Hospital and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
God bless amen. That's good stuff. Who else has someone
for us?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
My name is Mary Elaine in Spring. I want to
thank Sky Mike for reminding Jimmy that there were ladies
that served too. My favorite vet is my mama. She
served in the US Navy.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Whyett from Porter. My grandpa, my
dad's dad, was born in eighteen ninety seven. He lied
about his age to enlist in the army and was
sent to Europe during World War One. I guess this
story fell apart because they sent him home almost immediate
Now he did realist a year or so later and
go back. I just thought it was kind of cool
(05:05):
that my underage grandpa made it to Europe during World
War One.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Way Hunt just main took Europe. We got through basic training, right,
they did basic training for they sent you over there.
How in the world did he How in the world
being that young, how did he fool them for so long?
And more importantly, how did they find out? Made me?
Mom and dad came after him? Who knows, Jimmy.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
My grandfather served in the United States Merchant Marines as
a captain during World War Two. He really was the
toughest set of a gun I've ever known in my life.
I love him and I missed him every day. God
bless all of our veterans, past president future, We love you,
and God bless America.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
David and Oakridge like to salute my dad who spent
twenty three years in the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm my uncle who.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Was KIA in the Philippine Islands during World War Two.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know, I had an uncle. I don't know how
he didn't get killed during World War Two. My uncle
Bill was very studious, you know, very sensitive, very played
the violin and somehow he found himself in the United
States Army during World War Two. He was at Normandy.
(06:21):
He was at the Battle of the Bulge, two of
the most horrific events during World War Two, and somehow
he survived both of those in other battles as well
and came back home again. You know, I think that
other thing the reason why my dad didn't mention much
about his service in the Navy. His service in the Navy,
he was pretty quiet compared to what Uncle Bill went through.
(06:45):
What an amazing guy. All right, Moore, This is Henry
from Spring.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I am a veteran myself and I would like to
salute all veterans.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
This is Megan from Keema. I wanted to do a
shout out to not only my grandfather World War One,
my father World War Two, my father in law Vietnam,
but also to my son who was Lance Corporal Stephen Hardcastle.
He was a Marine body bearer at Arlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
My grandfather was a tail gunner to B twelve. What
mission you missed? That mission when somebody flew to this
place you had to be small and getting back of
that little thing. Well, he missed because my mother was
being born. The man that took his place was shot
down over France, and every day every year a fa
(07:43):
he lived Cloves rose to his wife sacrifice with the husband.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
My name is Jimmy. I'm a veteran of the NASA's
Coast Guard, and I would like to give a shout
out to my great aunt Ruby, who was a veteran
of the Coast Guard as well during World War Two.
This is wes and Baycliffe. My father in law joined
the Navy when he was sixteen years old. He lied
about his age and he joined the Navy because he
heard they had the best food. Not only was he
(08:10):
a Pearl Harbor survivor, but he was an Arizona survivor.
He was thrown off the back into the Arizona during
the attack on Pearl Harbor. Later on in life he
went on to become the Mayor pro tem of Dallas.
He passed away in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wow. All very cool. By the way, My father would
disagree about the Navy having the best food. They ruined
lobster for him. For the rest of his life, he
could never eat lobster after having lobster served by the
US Navy. All right, quick little break back with more
of than moment Jimmy Ferrett show Happy Vetnor's Day here
on Am nine fifty kprc OH. I think a lot
(09:07):
of people are surprised today that the shutdown isn't really over.
I think once once the Senate gave up the ghost
and passed their resolution, they thought that the government would
just reopen it. It doesn't quite work that way. First
of all, there was multiple votes that had to take
(09:28):
place in the Senate in order to get that continuing
Resolution passed, the one that's going to be used to
reopen the government. Now it's going on to the House.
The House wasn't in session. I know that because we
had Chip Roy in the show the other day and
Chip Roy was here in Texas. So they have to
recall members of the House, and with the airline travel
(09:52):
being what it is, I'm guessing that's not a very
easy task right now to get them back quickly. So
I think a vote is scheduled in the House tomorrow Wednesday,
and once that happens, it has to go to the
President for signature, and once that happens then they can
start the process of reopening the government. All this to
(10:12):
say it is going to take a while in order
for things to get back up to speed the way
that they should be. President Trump, by the way, yesterday
reacting to the news on the shutdown deal and also
Kelly and Conway is a part of this cut. This
is from the Five yesterday and Fox. She reacts to
(10:34):
Chuck Schimmer's future because it sure looks like his future
is pretty much over with the Democrats. We'll be opening
up our country very quickly. President, that deals does reverse
the mass fire race or administration put through during the shutdown.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Did you sign off on that?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And you will be by by that agus passes well,
I will be abided by the deal. The deal is
very good. Even though Schumer voted no.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
The knives are out progressives turning him into the scapegoat
or a deal that doesn't lock in any guarantee on
Obamacare subsidies. Lawmakers like Seth Moulten and Rocan are calling
for Schumer to be replaced, Others airing out their grievances
with the bipartisan deal.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Oh, I think this whole thing stinks, and I think
most members of the House Caucus on the Democratic side
are absolutely outraged.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We'll continue that fight today, tomorrow, this week, next week,
this month, next month, this year, next year.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
What this Senate is about to do is make a
horrific situation even worse.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No way to defend this, and you are right to
be angry about it. I'm angry about it. And so
folks in the liberal media want to see Schumer go.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
The president is kind of getting what he wanted. It
doesn't feel like a gentleman's agreement.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It feels like Lucy in the football are You're going
to open the government up? And what did you get
in return? Nothing? Nothing.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
This is the end of.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Chuck Schumer's We go forward. I think Chuck Schumer his
day are over and.
Speaker 12 (12:01):
He cannot put that and he cannot keep his pockets together.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
If he cannot keep his quockets together, he.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Needs to go.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
He needs to be all right, We've got to have
a great discussion, Kelly Anne. On the day that this began,
I said, we know how this is going to end.
It will end with the Democrats having a cave because
they don't have the votes. And in the end it does.
But Schumer walked himself into the situation.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And now do you think he'll have to go?
Speaker 13 (12:23):
Probably at Lisa as the minority leader. He's been in
politics Saner for fifty years and is starting to show.
So you were correct on day one. You knew how
it was going to end. The question was always went
with the end, and ended almost forty days later with
the exact deal that the Republicans offered thirty five days
before and were rejected by the Democrats. There's no way
(12:43):
to spin it. They cave, they capitulated. They should claim
strategic bankruptcy. This is a party bereft of leadership, a
vision of ideas. And Chuck Schumer's had a terrible week.
This was just the Kapper. His week started out with
him not even acknowledging whether he voted for Mendami for
mayor a fellow Brooklynite, and wouldn't even endorse him. And
(13:07):
then of course he's made nobody happy. The so called
moderates he ainate aren't happy, the progressors aren't happy. And
I think if you're a Schumer, you also have to
realize that this did nothing for the party's identity crisis,
of which he is in the center. Because if the
entire strategies get Trump, get Trump, he just got you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He played you completely got played. Yeah, and I would
agree with that assessment. All the way down the line.
Well done, Kelly and Conway. Yeah, I mean no, ain't
nobody happy. Nobody nobody with the Democrat parties happy. He
couldn't make anybody happy. So it was a complete waste
of time. They got nothing, just like we always said
(13:46):
they would. They're gonna if they if they Republicans would
stick to the gun. That's the other pleasant surprise in this.
The Republicans stuck to the guns. They didn't cave like
you would think they normally would. I will say this,
if President has done nothing else for the Republican Party,
he's gotten them to understand that, you know, caving or
(14:07):
capitulating is no longer the way to go. You have
to stand strong for your principles. And and that's what
they did this time. And guess what they won. They
won at the end of the day. They won. All right,
let's let's all add this to the mix as well.
The last thing that's going to recover, let's be honest
about this. The last thing that's going to recover from
this government shutdown is going to be the airlines. In
(14:30):
air traffic now, thousands and thousands of flights canceled again today,
It'll be the same thing tomorrow, it'll be it's going
to take probably right up to Thanksgiving to get some
semblance of normal back at the airports. This is not
a all of a sudden you start everything back up
and everything's back to normal. It's it's going to take
at least a little bit. So here's a former air
(14:51):
traffic controller here. Here's here's his thoughts not only on
how long it's going to take to get the airline
Indus be back up to speed on this, but also
why we continue to find ourselves so short an air
traffic controllers. You want somebody to blame for that, turns
out you can blame it on Obama.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
Well, I think he's based on staffing, and I think
it could take up to Thanksgiving to get it back
to normal. It's just basically a number getting enough bodies
into the different facilities enter Tower and treeton, which is
a radar approach control to make sure the system works.
Speaker 15 (15:28):
Officially, we don't have enough traffic controllers to start with.
I'm told that there's four thousand empty places. How fast
can they be filled?
Speaker 14 (15:37):
Well, this has been a problem since twenty eleven through
twenty thirteen, and the Obama administration make a concerted effort
to eliminate the controller pipeline the thirty six universities across
the country. And so this lack of controllers dates all
the way back to twenty eleven. And actually audi President
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Trump was right when he was talking about fatigue and
the fact that there weren't enough controllers. So this was
actually a political move made, a social engineering move made
by the Obama administration, which left this approximately three thousand and.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Thirty five hundred controllers short.
Speaker 14 (16:14):
We're still there, and it takes three or five years
to train enough controllers to get them into the system
where they're effective. So that three year period basically where
the fad and higher controllers, there were controller applicants who
were well trained and ready to come into the system.
We're still dealing with the residual effects of that.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
I think.
Speaker 15 (16:36):
Unfortunately I'm starting to interrupt you, boy, but I'm not
familiar with this. Whatever happened back in twenty eleven with
Obama and the air traffic controllers, did he deliberately cut
off the supply of trained controllers coming into the marketplace.
Speaker 14 (16:50):
Yeah, so it was delivered of social engineering. They didn't
feel that the controllers even though they were from universities
which are historically diverse and the problems are diverse.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
They felt the controller workforce was too white.
Speaker 14 (17:02):
There was some minialogues that got obtained high level positions
within the fa including the as president of the National
Black Controllers Association, became the civil Rights administrator for the FAA,
and they intentionally cut off the flow of controllers for
three years, and we're still dealing with residual effects of
(17:22):
that experiment.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Did you realize that I'd forgotten all about that? To
be honest with you, that's part of the problem of
having such a poor memory, is you know, I kind
of put the Obama gears behind me. I forgot all
that that. The Obama administration thought that the air traffic
control was too white, too white, and too male. So
(17:47):
they started turning down perfectly qualified people to fill positions,
theoretically hoping to train people of color and women to
do the job. And obviously there hasn't been that much
interest from minorities in doing that job. Now, maybe they
need more recruitment. I'm all in favor of recruiting, but
(18:09):
in the meantime, can we fill the positions please? I mean,
we've been going the better part of twelve, thirteen, fourteen
years now behind the ball, having enough air traffic controllers,
all because of DEI. Well, I would like to think
in this new world we live, in, this non DEI
world we live, and we can get that fixed. At
least I would hope we could get that fixed for
(18:29):
goodness sake. All right, quick, a little break, be right back,
Jimmy Verrett show here on the A nine fifty KTRC. When
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is the last time you vacationed in Mexico. I'm trying
to think when did we last. It's been a while.
We have a trip coming up in February. It's a cruise.
We like the cruise. You probably figured that out. Oh,
by the way, that reminds me Alaska cruise. There is
still spaces available, but I do want to remind you
(19:12):
about that. We're doing our KTRH KPRC listener cruise to Alaska,
the next next item on my bucket list. Right. We
did Greece last year, this year we're doing Alaska. I
go to travel with Jimmy dot com. The details are
there if you'd like to sign up for it. There
is limited space, but if you go to travel with
Jimmy dot com. Where we're going, where we're stopping, what
(19:35):
we're doing, what's included, what is it included? It's all
there so you can get the details and then figure
out if you'd like to come join us. But don't
wait on this one. I know August twenty twenty six
seems like a long long ways away, but it'll be
here before you know it. And I think there's a
lot of people interested in going to Alaska, so I
don't want you to get shut out on this one.
Be sure to check it out so that if you
(19:56):
are interested in going, you can sign up for it. Okay, Now,
in February, Elizabeth and I have another trip we're taking.
This time it's it's a cruise. We're going out of
Galveston because we don't have to fly anywhere. Yes, no flying,
Bring whatever we want on the trip we're gonna go.
We're gonna do like a Western Caribbean cruise. It's got
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Costa Rica, we got a police stop. We've got at
least one stop in Mexico. And I'm not I'm trying.
You say cosamel, probably cosamel, And so if I don't,
is it safe, If it's not that safe. I guess
I don't have to get off the ship in cozamel
I've been there plenty of times, but I used to
(20:39):
travel to Mexico all the time. It bothers the hell
out of me that Mexico is not a safe place
to travel for the most part, that the cartels are
so involved in running towns there that it's it's a
very very difficult place to go at least for your safety.
It is. We had a guest on our morning show today.
I'll share this with you right now. He's a writer
(20:59):
for Breitbart. Ildefonso Ortiz is his name. He does a story.
You know, we've got We have a president and administration
currently that has designated the cartels is narco terras, which
means that they see boat full of drugs headed to
the United States, boom, they're gonna blow it up. And
(21:20):
they're talking about using drones along the Mexican border to intercept,
you know, people hauling drugs to the United States and
doing the same thing. And the President of Mexico, Claudia Sinbaum,
is not happy about this, mainly because of the fact
that her party is in powering at least in certain
respects thanks to the drug cartels. Yeah, politics and the
(21:44):
drug cartels go hand in hand. In Mexico, they quote
unquote legitimate government with the illegitimate government that is the cartel.
So here's my conversation with Ildefonso Ortiz from Breitbart about
the situation with Mexico, which is a deil. Defonso, what
is her problem with us taking out the drug cartels?
Speaker 16 (22:05):
Well, you see, she's in a tight spot right now
because these cartels. If you look at the Mexican elections
going back seven years, her predecessors, who's founded the ruling
party in Mexico under the Manuelo pez Balor, got to
power by basically protecting cartels. He basically started the approach
(22:28):
of hugs not bullets. We're going to have the Mexican
military stand down, the federal police stand down, and we're
going to the way he said it, they were going
to push social programs to get people out of the
organized crime life. That was his approach, and that's how
he claimed it out in publicly, but privately, he was
getting his campaigns funded by these drug cartels and he
(22:50):
was actually having the cartels have people go out and
vote for them. So then comes Claudia, you know, she
says she came after him, and she's trying to appease
the cartels because they're you know, they pretty much got
her in power and got a lot of people in
her party in power. However, right now she has a
pressure from the Trump administration, so she's between the rock
(23:12):
and a hard place. So privately she may be helping
the US in some ways, but publicly she actually has
to denounce the warn drugs claims that you know, they're
violating cartel members' rights by just targeting them and killing them, that,
you know, and so forth. So that's sort of what's
been going on in Mexico. But yes, there is a
(23:33):
direct connection between a lot of these politicians having their
campaigns funded with money from drug cartels.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And there she is trying to thread the needle between
trying to appease the cartels and trying to appease the
Trump administration. That seems like a no win situation.
Speaker 16 (23:49):
You're right, and you know, and Trump has said it
several times before that you know, she's afraid of her
own shadow. That Mexico is in fact controlled by drug cartels,
and that is very true. There are several parts of
Mexico where these cartels have more power than Mexico's government,
to the point where if you want to, say, you
buy some items in the US, like a used car
(24:10):
and so forth, you have to pay your taxes to
the cartel to be able to bring that vehicle into Mexico.
That's how much power these guys have.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, you know, we heard the stories about Los Convos
that that was no longer a safe place for American tourists.
Is that indeed the case? And what other areas are
places that if you're an American you probably should not
consider going there on vacation.
Speaker 16 (24:32):
Well, I mean, first of all, like most of the
border towns are actually not safe. You will likely be
stopped by organized crime, and you will have to pay
a fee just to travel through there or to bring
any type of goods. Plus the danger of risk is
very high. Most of the border cities are labeled as
Level four territories by the US Department of State. Level
(24:54):
four is the same level that's used for active war zones,
So that kind of gives you an idea of how
bad the border cities are. Of course, politicians will tell
you things are great, our crime stats are so low
and so forth. That's just you know, them trying to
to kind of pretend that you know, this war that
I love to use, no pasanada, nothing's happening.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And that's the rhetoric that Mexico loves to push.
Speaker 16 (25:17):
But in reality, the highest, the most prevalent crime for
American citizens as the risk of kidnapping and extortion.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well again, you know, just at the risk of sounding
like a broken record that you talk about rock and
a hard place here in Mexico has relied on traditional
and tourism for much of its income. If people are
afraid to travel to Mexico, that income goes away, and
then you're dependent on the drug cartel income.
Speaker 16 (25:44):
Well and you know, and but the drug cartels are
actually encroaching other areas that are you know, we're deemed
safe in the past. For example, everybody likes going to
Concon for spring break and summer vacations and so forth. However,
can Coon has actually eight different cartels fighting for control
of that region. So you see, you know, they're trying
to fight for the local drug trade, the local sex
(26:04):
trade and so forth, and the control even the control
of alcohol because most of the resorts and most of
the bars and so forth will have to buy from
a designated cartel vendor.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
So that is why there's a lot of.
Speaker 16 (26:20):
Violence going on in the Concorn area as well, and
tourists have been caught in the middle in the past,
so that that's sort of the risk, and it's spreading
to pretty much all parts of Mexico.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So you're telling me there's no safe place to go,
which is not what I want to hear, because I
love Mexico. I love going to Mexico. But yeah, not
a particularly safe place to go. I know. You know,
we have this debate every year or too about spring
break and that kind of thing. And if I had,
(26:52):
if I had a college aged kid, I certainly wouldn't
want to see them going to Mexico first break. I
would hope they would go, you know, Corpus Christy, or
stay closer to home than to do something. Do go
to Florida, wherever you want to go. Go go somewhere
in the United States, go go to Mexico, because I
(27:13):
just don't think that's a very very safe place to be.
All right, tom coming up here, I want to share
a little audio with you about well, a couple of
little pieces here because always like a little humor added
end of the show. Greg Guttfeld had a couple of
tapes takes yesterday, one on Trump derangement syndrome, which I
(27:35):
found very very funny, and also he and his panel
talking about the Sydney Sweeney interview. Did you see the
Sydney Sweeney interview that she did with GQ? Hilarious? Well,
not hilarious so much as you could tell. You could
tell that the the interviewer of Sydney Sweeney was trying
to get a gotcha moment about her jeans ad and
(27:57):
she wasn't playing along with it, so sheld it pretty deptely. Well,
we'll share that audio with you. Coming up next, Jimmy
Barrett show. Here an AM nine fifty KPRC. All right,
(28:21):
So Sidney's Sweeney, the actress, the one that is in
the Genes commercial, the one, as it turns out, that
is a conservative. How refreshing is this? Sydney Sweeney did
that gene ad for it was an American Eagles, Yeah,
American Eagle genead and kind of put them on the
map with it. I don't know if she's doing any
(28:43):
follow up commercials with them or not. If I were them,
I would keep hiring this chick as long as she's
getting you, you know, getting you publicity, because she certainly
is putting you on the map. So she's been getting
a lot of interview requests, and she got an interview
request with GQ Gentlemen's Quarterly magazin, who sent a female
reporter who clearly was trying to kind of get a
(29:07):
gotcha kind of a moment with Sidney Sweeney, you know,
asking her questions that the indicator she's trying to get
her to maybe say that maybe the gene ad was
in such a good idea, you know, maybe maybe I
should have been more sensitive to the parody on good genes,
you know that that might have some you know, white
supremacist undertones to it or whatever. So here's the here's
(29:30):
a little little bit of Greg Gutfeld in his panel
taking this one on. You. Hear some audio from the
interview is this is this interviewer tries desperately to get
Sidney Sweeney to say something damning and then reaction from
the Gutfeld panel, we're.
Speaker 17 (29:44):
Sort of talking around this American eagle ad right now,
and maybe we should just talk about it. So we're
you surprised by the reaction.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I did a gene ad. I mean the reaction stuff
definitely was a surprise, but it was I love gens.
Speaker 17 (30:06):
The President tweeted about the genes ad and I wondered.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
What that was like.
Speaker 17 (30:12):
It was surreal, It was surreal.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
She raised some good questions.
Speaker 12 (30:24):
Huh, like when did Gentlemen's Quarterly turn into an annoying
ag daily? But the journalist wasn't taking the hint, combining
both a grimace and a smile that she kept trying
to make Sydney slip watch.
Speaker 17 (30:38):
Is there something that you want to say about the
ad itself? The Sydney Swinging has great genes? Do you
have the odd spoke for itself? You think the ads
fit for itself?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Okay?
Speaker 17 (30:48):
And the criticism of the content, which was basically that
maybe specifically in this political climate, like white people shouldn't
joke about genetic superiority. Like that was kind of like
the criticism broadly speaking, And since you are talking about this,
I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk
about that specifically.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think that when I have an issue that I
want to speak about, people here.
Speaker 11 (31:15):
Yeah, anybody else need a cigarette?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
After that? One yo? Jail. You deal with the press
a lot. How do you grade that?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, that takes a level of training, by the way,
and she came off as very untrained while nailing those answers.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I mean, there was a real simplicity to say it.
If I have a message, I'll let you know. Yeah, yeah,
I have a message for you, lady. Get the hell
out of here. How about the reporters? Is she like
the typical California girl or what?
Speaker 12 (31:50):
You know?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
She just had that whole valley girl thing going on.
I don't know if she's from California, but she sure
sounded like she was from California, So I thought i'd
share that with it. Sidney Sweety still getting asked about
that and still just you know, handling it now. The
reporter for GQ probably is one of those people that
suffers from Trump derangement syndrome. Here's Greg Guttfeld taking on
(32:12):
that topic of where it comes from, how it manifests itself.
You have the usual stuff is only Greg Gutfeld can
tell the story.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
But as Scott Adams says, you are what you think,
and that explains why so many Democrats have gone nuts.
If all you think about is Trump hate. It's going
to come at a cost to all your other thoughts,
which maybe why this estrangement thing is a bigger problem
for the left. A recent survey found that fifty percent
of Libs would cut off family over politics, only eleven
(32:45):
percent of varieties would do the same some Nazis. I mean,
sure liberals can annoy us, but sometimes it's nice to
hear from a rational Democrat, like during the holidays, or
when they announced that your machiato's ready, So like a
week old chalupa coursing through Jerry Nadler's bowels. This estrangement
(33:13):
only goes in one direction. Why don't we see stories
of Trumper's disowning their kin. Maybe it's because we can
handle being wrong because it's not tied to our self worth.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
But for the left, politics has.
Speaker 12 (33:25):
Become so intertwined with ego, and what drives them mad
is that we don't share that same defect. There must
be something wrong with us not to care as deeply
as they do. Missus Kimmel sent a ten point email.
Speaker 11 (33:40):
To her relatives before the election to sway their vote,
and was so distraught that no one responded. What did
she expect, Dear, oh, you were right all along.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
How dumb of us not to see the wisdom behind
your virtuous concerns.
Speaker 12 (33:58):
No Puplicans, they had better stuff to do, which leads
to a bigger question. Why does the virtuous liberal need
you to agree with them?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Why is it that so important?
Speaker 12 (34:11):
Could it be due to their own self doubt about
their own positions?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Because if we're not as worked up.
Speaker 12 (34:17):
Over Trump as they are, they might wonder could they
be wrong?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Could be? Could be? I mean I've got that going
on in my own family dynamic right now. I have
a granddaughter who I never we'd never talked about politics.
I don't bring up politics, you know, with teens and
young people, especially if I think they might be a liberal.
(34:43):
I just don't do it. It's not important to me.
It's not important to me to argue with a with
a young female liberal and try to convince her that
I'm right and she's wrong. But god no, she works really, really,
really hard to try to convince me how wrong I am,
and they get it's mad. But I don't want to
argue with her. I don't want to argue with honey.
(35:04):
I love you. You can believe what you want to believe.
I happen to think you're brainwashed, but you can believe
what you want to believe. I'm not going to try
to change your opinion. Why do you have to try
to argue with me about mine. You're not going to
change my opinion either. Let's just leave it at that.
I don't need to talk about it any more than
(35:25):
that with you, all right. I say all this because
we have Thanksgiving right around the corner, right, and we
may all find ourselves in a situation where we're sitting
down to break bread with people who maybe don't believe
all the same things that we do. And that's okay.
I just know that my people will react a lot
more positively than the folks on the other side. You
(35:46):
all have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, hope,
right and early at five am on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. We are back here at four on AM
nine fifty KPRC.
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Speaker 2 (36:03):
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