Jimmy will not Participate in Hurricane Hype

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Jimmy wil not participate in hurricane hype

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
What we need is more common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Common.

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

Speaker 4 (00:12):
About how American common sense.

Speaker 5 (00:13):
We'll see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, it's June, June the first, and I'm so proud
of myself. This morning I refused to participate in hurricane hype,
and I promise not to do it this afternoon. Every
television station down is running. You need to have you
this kid, of all these things, we know what we need.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
This ain't.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
This ain't our first rodeo. I mean, come on, we've
been through hurricane season before. We don't. We don't need
a laundry list of the things you're supposed to have
on hand in any case of a storm. Besides, we're
not going to bother to go out and buy any
of that stuff until the hurricane's bearing down on us,
So what would be the point of doing that too soon? Anyway?
So no, no hurricane hype. For one thing, it's supposed

(01:13):
to be a super al Nino which means that there
won't be as many hurricanes, and who knows if we'll
get it. I mean last year it was a good
year for us.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
So far.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
All the action is in the Pacific Ocean. So yeah,
no need to get all hype. Plenty of hype coming
if something actually shows up.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Instead, let's talk about what Harris County did last week.
And they did it kind of quickly. I'm not suggesting
that they tried to sneak something past us, but it's
interesting that they wanted a quick vote on this and
they got a quick vote approving the renewal of a

(01:50):
flock camera agreement with a Flock camera company. Now, I
looked it up because I've been asked to this a
couple of times already today. Is flock an acronym something?
What does that mean? Flock camera? Why is it called flock? Well,
the name of the company that makes the cameras is
called Flock. And where they came up with the name,
I'm not one hundred percent certain, but it might have
something to do with like flock of birds. It's kind

(02:12):
of like these flock of cameras, these cameras all of
the camera network, if you will, set up for law enforcement.
The Harris County Sheriff's Department is responsible for it here
in Harris County. And what they do is they use
these scanning devices to you know, scan license plates to

(02:34):
see if vehicles are stolen. They generally use them as
for either crime prevention or crime apprehension. That is the
main purpose of the flock cameras. But the people who
always stand up and complain about them are the quote
unquote privacy advocates. I'm not quite sure what part of
their lives are still private enough where they're concerned about

(02:57):
these cameras being out there, like there's some sort of
like there's some sort of great expectation of privacy in public.
You're at a public place. If you're at a mall
parking lot, that's a public place. Do you have any
reasonable expectation of privacy in a mall parking lot? You
wouldn't think so. So what are the objections? So we

(03:19):
opened it up to the listeners. I'll share some listener
comments at the moment, but first let's let's share the report.
This is the report from ABC thirteen on these flock
cameras and the renewal of this contract.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
Eliza Slate reading Flock camera and after oh clearly label
and those that aren't are getting different labels from skeptics.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
You're able to see that same centiment.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
You effectively are able to track them wherever they.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Go on full display.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
This morning, as Harris County commissioners voted to renew the
county's contract with Flock for just under eight hundred and
sixty nine thousand dollars, it puts Our County residence life
at risk of mass surveillance, loss of privacy personal data.
Harris County Sheriff's office says it now has access to
four hundred and eight Flock cameras across its jurisdiction. The
data the STRESS only accessible to authorize law enforcement personnel

(04:07):
and what it ultimately does is but Christopher Rivera with
the advocacy group Texas Civil Rights Project is worried about
rogue police officers who might misuse the information.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
There are no stafeguards. We actually reached out to the
Harris County Shriff's office and asked them to produce any
protocols which would justify a reasonable versus a non reasonable search,
and they were not able to provide this data.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
The Sheriff's office tells us the Flock database can only
be accessed for criminal investigations. To prevent abuse, it says
all access is logged and that any employee who misuses
data is subject to discipline, including possible termination. As for
Flock employees, the company says only a limited number have
access to the database and strictly for maintenance purposes.

Speaker 8 (04:51):
Anytime that is access, there is also an audit trail
of any sort of access in that.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Regard some of Ray's concerns, the company could sell the
data the third who.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Could build the consumer profiles on us use it to
further surveil.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Us, but Flock consists it's not allowed to since the
data is owned by local police departments and not the
company itself.

Speaker 8 (05:11):
In every single contract we have, it is explicitly laid
out that our customers own their data and that Flock
is prohibited from selling that data. Flock does not sell
customer data period I'm not worried about Flock selling the data.
Local government is much more worrisome when it comes to that.
The state is more worrisome when it comes to that

(05:35):
they sell that data all the time. Let me ask
you a question.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Today.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
You all get a whole bunch of texts right before
the run off election, like the week before the run
off election. I mean a constant stream of text for
all the different candidates because I sure did well. How
did they know how to contact me? They knew I

(06:02):
voted in the primary election. That's why I was getting
all these messages. And now they know that I voted
in the runoffs. So you think I'm going to get
hip for a whole lot more when it comes to
that kind of stuff. Darn right, I am. Now, we
have different rules for politicians than we do for other
commercial entities, but all this information generally is coming from

(06:23):
the state. The State of Texas continues to sell our information.
So is it too far fetched to think that the
Harris County Sheriff's Department might be able to generate revenue
for the Sheriff's Department by selling information that they gather
with these flock cameras. It's not too far fetched to think.
I don't know if that's the case or not, but

(06:44):
I was asking our listeners this morning over on KTRH,
are you generally supportive of the flock cameras? Are you
glad they renewed the contract. Do you want them out
there as far as a crime fighting tool or do
you have privacy concerns?

Speaker 9 (06:56):
It is a Josh from League City.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
There is a snowball chance in hell that.

Speaker 10 (07:02):
I believe that privacy would be maintained with flock camera systems.
They would sell your information, just like they do with
everything else, to anything that they can do to make
a profit or invade your privacy or personal space.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I can guarantee it, just like many people don't know,
like Kroger.

Speaker 10 (07:18):
Hub they have facial recognition software and license pipe readers.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Most people have no idea how surveiled you really are?

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh you on wake condall? Yeah, I'm all four of
the block cameras. Because if I go driving around the
ghetto house of sky Michael over here, some might start
shooting at me. They'll be able to attract the person
down faster.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Okay, I don't say what he's saying. He likes it
as a crime fighting tool. This is West from Baycliff.
I've got no problem with the flock cameras at all,
as long as sky Mike is in charge of them.

Speaker 11 (07:57):
Good ice got in Northwest Houston. Not sure if you're
twenty five years ago, it was put on the ballot
so that Houston didn't use cameras for enforcing red light
people running the red light. They turned it on, but
the city was forced to turn them back off.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, that's red light cameras. That's a different issue than
the flock cameras. The flock cameras are not what you
would call red light cameras. They're they're there for a
different purpose. They're not there to catch people running red lights.
They're there to track down stolen cars and do that
kind of stuff. Anyway, interesting, quick, a little break back
with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett Show. You're running
M nine fifty KPRC. All right, believe it or not,

(08:56):
we are still debating switching the time. I'm daylight saving
time year round. That's what the Sunshine Bill that's in
front of Congress right now would do. So that means
that we have to find some opponents to that out there,
and we did. By golly, there's a group out there
headed up by doctor Karen Johnson who's a UMass neurology professor.

(09:21):
She doesn't want us to make daylight saving time permanent.
She wants us to make standard time permanent. That's not
an option this time around, So she obviously is hoping
that the Sunshine Bill goes down to defeat, and honestly,
I think her chances are probably pretty good because Congress

(09:42):
strikes me as being unlikely to act before November when
we switch back to standard time, and then once we
go back to standard time, who knows what's going to
happen after that. I just see this as an issue
that's going to continue to go back and forth and
back and forth like it always does. I am curious,

(10:02):
why does this neurology professor, why is she concerned about
year round daylight saving time? Well, I think she thinks
that it would be bad for our circadian rhythm, if
you know what that means. Here is a doctor Karen
Johnson on the virtues of year round standard time and
what can happen or what can go wrong with your

(10:23):
brain on year round daylight saving time.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
The science is really clear.

Speaker 12 (10:27):
We do want to end clock changes because there are
certainly harms that occur, especially after.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
The spring change, when we're moving from.

Speaker 12 (10:34):
The preferable standard time to daylight saving time. But what
a lot of people don't realize is we actually have
harms that last throughout the entire daylight savings time period.
So studies now show that we are at risk for
increased reates of obesity and stroke and heart attacks and
cancer and suicide and pretty much every outcome we look at.

(10:55):
We see that when we are misaligned with the sun
and don't get the benefits of how healthy circadian rhythms
and sleep, our health, our mood, our productivity are all worse.

Speaker 13 (11:06):
Yeah, and obviously talking about this making sure that it's
lighter earlier in the morning. Why is it so beneficial
to have that daylight so early after you wake up?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah, And it's not nastlie that it's early light. It's
aligned light.

Speaker 12 (11:21):
We want the sun to be overhead as close to
noon as possible.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
And when we have balanced sunlight, which.

Speaker 12 (11:29):
Does make it earlier than daylight savings time, that aligns
our body's rhythm to our activities of the day. When
we set the clocks an hour later, it makes us
want to stay up later and get up later. And
so what daylight savings time does is it is forcing
an earlier wake up time by an hour. Because our

(11:50):
social schedules don't move later. As we move the clocks later,
we still need to get up for work at eight,
we need to get up for school at eight or
even earlier, and so we have more trouble falling asleep
and just lose out on sleep and lose out on
that natural alignment with the sun.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Being overhead at noon.

Speaker 12 (12:06):
So people who live on the western edges of time
zones already have a sun that's overhead after noon. Often
even on standard time, it's around one o'clock in the
afternoon in some places, or even later. So when you
add an extra hour, now the sun may only be
overhead at two o'clock at night, and this often will
lead to you know, sunsets that can occur as late

(12:27):
as you know, ten thirty eleven o'clock at night. So,
you know, as a mom, I can imagine telling my kid,
you know, go to.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Bed, and they're like, it's bright out.

Speaker 12 (12:35):
How am I going to bed at eight nine o'clock
when I need to to get enough sleep before school starts,
when it's late that late.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't buy into her argument for one thing, you know,
just the just the rotation of the planet has as
much as anything to do with where the sun is.
At twelve o'clock noon, it gets dark earlier in the wintertime.
The sun's not straight overhead at twelve noon during the
winter months. There's nowhere aside from like in Alaska or

(13:08):
someplace like that, where it is light at ten thirty
and eleven o'clock at night. I mean even the northern
states like Michigan, for example. It was in Michigan. It
was a couple of summers ago, and it didn't get
dark till almost ten pm. It was on Daylight Saving Time,

(13:30):
so that's that's as long as the sun was out.
And granted that's a little bit later than normal, but
still nine o'clock. It would it would have been normally
wouldn't set untilne o'clock if it had been on standard time.
I think we make just too big of a deal
about this at this point. I don't care if you
want to do your long daylight Saving time or year

(13:52):
long standard time. Just pick one. It's going back and forth.
It drives me crazy. Let's just pick one at this point,
regardless of what it is. Will adjust. You know, your
body will go to sleep when it's tired on a
natural basis. You know, I don't normally get tired until
two hours after local sunset. So yeah, it's it's a

(14:13):
little bit harder for me to go to sleep early
when it's when it's summertime. But you know, not that
much different. I don't you know. I think the neurologist
is overthinking herself. All right, let's move on to a
different topic here. This is from this morning. A guest
on the program was doctor Shannon Holzer, professor at Houston

(14:35):
Christian University, and I have met my conversation with him.
Well you'll see he he doesn't think. He doesn't like
the fact that Governor Greg Abbott has frozen again state
wide tuition for all public colleges. And he'll explain in
this why he doesn't like that. Here's my conversation with him.

(14:57):
I'm trying to recall the last time he did. When's
the last time tuition went up here in Texas?

Speaker 14 (15:03):
Oh gosh, Well, there's a difference sween uh the cost
of tuition and or the cost of the product and
the cost uh to the student. I mean, it's constantly
going up for the universities. I mean because they're offering
more and more amenities to the students. You've got new buildings,

(15:24):
you've got new gyms, you've got new uh you know,
luxuries that the students get. And then of course, and
you've got the cost to the student, and then where
does that get passed on to Does it get passed
on to the taxpayer?

Speaker 9 (15:39):
Does it get passed on to the.

Speaker 14 (15:41):
Student buying the uh, the actual education. And so as
soon as a governor says, well, we're no longer allowed
to you know, pass that on to the to the student,
to the person actually buying this, now we're not acting
like an open a car. And we were acting like
some kind of command economy from Cuba saying we're going

(16:03):
to price fix things. And so it becomes problematic in
and of itself because anytime the government decides it's going
to determine the costs, they.

Speaker 9 (16:15):
Never do it.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, well, that's true, but let's let's take a look
at this realistically. Even even if tuition is frozen, that's
the only thing that is frozen. I'm sure there are
other fees the students can get charged. Those fees can go.

Speaker 14 (16:27):
Up, right, Yes, yeah, that's one of the hidden costs.
And of course come along with your bill. You got
the tuition costs, and then you've got you know, room
and boards, you've got the thing you know, your gym
memberships and games and.

Speaker 9 (16:46):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 14 (16:47):
And of course, with you know, private institutions, they may
be able to do this a little better because, you know,
you don't have a governor that gets to say what happens.
You get boards and stuff like that, and so it's
not going to be as political in that regard, and
so they have to compete, where as the state schools,

(17:11):
you can have a governor make choice in any given
political year, you know, trying to make a decision that
perhaps helps him in a life and helps his people
in a life and just you know, or they just
pass on to future, you know.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
Students down the road.

Speaker 14 (17:32):
Private institutions aren't going to have that luxury to do
so they've got bills to pay that aren't necessarily paid
off by you know, the taxpayers. They're usually shouldered by
the donors or by by the students themselves.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're talking to doctor Shannon Holdser is a professor at
Houston Christian University. I think, you know, politics aside from
all this, professor, I think realistically, you know, the cost
of a college education has just skyrocketed over the course
of the last couple of decades and seemingly nothing has
been done at the university level in order to curtail costs.

(18:09):
And because I think they will help, we will just
raise prices, will just continue to raise tuition, will raise prices.
People will say it they have to have a college education.
That's got parents sort of rethinking the whole college education thing.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Doesn't there need to be somebody at the university level
who's saying we need to find a way to curtail
costs because this is getting ridiculous, right, It would be.

Speaker 14 (18:33):
Good if certain people at the top would be able
to judge the different departments and ask the questions such as,
you know, does your degree in gender studies? Is that
going to offer you, at one a real education? And
then two maybe if it's not going to offer you
a real education, maybe at least for a season or two,

(18:56):
your degree will help make you some money. But you know,
there are degrees that will always be worth it just
for the you know, for example, in certain degrees in
the humanities, uh, you know, polyfi philosophy, These are actually
valuable degrees of religion. They have a good that is

(19:19):
associated with humanity.

Speaker 9 (19:21):
But then there's another degree.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
You said something, I'm very curious about what kind of
a job, good being job could I get with a
philosophy degree.

Speaker 14 (19:30):
Jobs, there are lots of jobs, but that's not why
they offer them. But you can get a lot of
people from in philosophy go into law, a lot of
them go into ministry.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
There's a church on every corner.

Speaker 14 (19:45):
There's always a need for an educated uh you know,
pastoral you know group, you know, priesthood or the like,
and so you'd rather go learn under somebody, you know,
at a church, somebody who's actually educated. So, I mean
there there really are some practical uses, but the you know,

(20:08):
the monetary value of a degree such as that isn't.

Speaker 9 (20:12):
As good as the as the value to society.

Speaker 14 (20:15):
Because the you know, philosophy degree is a degree. It's
the love of wisdom, and a foolish society is a society.

Speaker 9 (20:24):
That destroys itself.

Speaker 14 (20:26):
And so we do need an educated class and what
is known as the transcendentals the good, the true, and
the beautiful, and without that, society failed.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, that's quite an argument that he makes for a
philosophy degree. I guess maybe you should have stuck with
lawyer at the beginning there, because lawyers it doesn't really
what you major in until you actually go in and
get your law degree. In fact, most of the better
attorneys I know are dramatic arts majors, because actually that's

(20:58):
that's the best degree probably could get if you're going
to be an attorney, because that's all you do when
you get to quarters act. Right, Okay, quick little break
back with born. I'm with Jimmy verschow a nine fifty KPRC.

(21:24):
All right, So this is interesting from a standpoint of
we've got the we're June now, right, when's the FIFA
World Cup start?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Pretty soon? Pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
We've had all kinds of stories that we've shared with
you about the hotel bookings not being what we anticipated
they would be, ticket sales not being what they anticipated
it would be, ticket prices being higher they anticipated what
it would be, all sorts of things, none of which
should have really surprised us. Has there ever been an event,

(21:56):
short of maybe the Super Bowl, that has ever lived
up to the hype of what it was supposed to
provide as far as revenue for local government for the city.
Has there ever been anything other than a super Bowl
type of event that has ever lived up to the
hype doesn't seem like it was. Certainly I don't think
FIFA World Cup is living up to the hype. But hey,

(22:17):
that's just me based on what I'm seeing in Houston
so far, and from what I can tell, this is
not the only place. Evidently, Atlanta is reporting similar issues.
Here's a report from eleven Alive in Atlanta.

Speaker 15 (22:31):
A source that one hotel tells me they projected six
hundred thousand dollars in revenue for the month of June.
And get this, according to my source, they only have
thirteen thousand dollars on the books right now. But it's
not just massive hotel chains affected. Some airbb hosts are
feeling it too.

Speaker 16 (22:49):
It's one month away from the matches being played, and
my place isn't booked at all.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
That's Olmo Akin Toys.

Speaker 15 (22:56):
He took to TikTok to talk about his airbnb still
not being booked ahead of the World Cup.

Speaker 16 (23:02):
The loss that I'm taking right now is probably en
upward in like at least five grand, five six grand,
and that's just for June, and not to mention July
at all.

Speaker 15 (23:13):
Akintoy joined me on Zoom from DC. He says originally
he prices four bedroom home that sleeps twell for eleven
hundred dollars a night, but now he's marked it down
hoping to attract Taurus.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
If there's an actual game.

Speaker 16 (23:26):
You know, we left it around nine hundred. There's not
an actual game going on in the day, and we
brought it down to like around eight hundred, like you know,
somewhere around there.

Speaker 15 (23:34):
And it's not just airbnb hosts having to cut their rates,
so are some hotels.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Was like a little over.

Speaker 17 (23:40):
Eight hundred dollars at the taxes and fees, it was
virtually one thousand dollars.

Speaker 15 (23:44):
One thousand and fifty dollars to be exact. That's how
much Donia Elliott says she paid for a one night
stay at the Tests and Buckhead during the World Cup.
Keep in mind, this reservation was made in February.

Speaker 17 (23:56):
So when I heard that hotels were not getting room's
book and people were canceling, I went back online again,
same hotel, room, same hotel, but it was like three
hundred and something dollars.

Speaker 15 (24:08):
That's close to a seven hundred dollars difference. Just three
months later.

Speaker 17 (24:12):
I was like, what the heck, they're ripping me off?
Like that is a ripoff to come down from one
thousand dollars to three hundred and eight three dollars. That
is absurd, all because of one main event.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Okay, so they're not making money from it doesn't look
like either. It's not just us, which would tell me
that maybe we kind of over expected this to go better,
that there would be more interest in people coming to

(24:46):
the United States, if not from people in the United
States themselves, Maybe we overestimated the level of enthusiasm that
foreigners would have about coming to the United States to
see Fever World Cup. Maybe yeah, that might that might
be it. Of course, some of those maybe they couldn't
get their visas cleared. Maybe maybe is that Do we

(25:09):
have a problem with that?

Speaker 9 (25:10):
You know?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
One of the things that I noticed about the Trump
administration that they are targeting now big immigration's legal industrial complex.
In other words, attorneys attorneys in immigration who are filing
claims for asylum that are not legitimate, and plenty of
them aren't. So evidently the Trump administration is decided now

(25:34):
they're going to go after some of these attorneys and
try to curtail the problem.

Speaker 9 (25:38):
I had.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Mark Metcalf, he's a former US immigration judge. He joined
me this morning here on Houston's Morning News over on
kt H. Here's my conversation with him about the DOJ
going after these attorneys. Is is that a legitimate right
by the administration that there are just way too many
immigration attorneys out there filing false claims?

Speaker 18 (26:00):
Legitimate concern, Jimmy, thanks for having me on one of
the things you can depend on in your urban areas Miami,
New York, Brooklyn identified in the statements by the Justice Department,
they're often ground zero for immigration fraud. And what the

(26:20):
listeners can gain from this is that often smugglers and
attorneys work hand in hand to promote these false claims
and obtain asylum for fraudulent asylum seekers. This is nothing new,
but it's gone from being a cottage industry to an
industrial scale type industry. The immigration advocates say, well, it's

(26:45):
not that much is really going on that's false, and
that's why this investigation has gotten off the ground. It
will serve as a deterrent to attorneys thinking about doing
these kinds of things. Will also serve a deterrent to
the aliens who believe that they can game the system
and obtain asylum in the United states, And remember, asylum

(27:08):
is the gold card. It opens up citizenship to the
recipient of asylum.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's pretty hard to claim asylum though, unless you're from
certain countries, isn't it. If you're from an open society
or a democratic form of society, Not that there's a
ton of those, But if you're not from a country
that's in civil war or having some of these other issues,
then it's pretty tough to make the claim that that
government's out to get you, isn't it? Great point?

Speaker 18 (27:34):
And here's the thing to remember. If you want to
know where the hot beds are for persecution, all you
have to do is look at the State Departments country reports.
Country reports are declassified CIA assessments of each country in
the world. And if you've seen what or if you

(27:56):
read what is termed as committing violations of human rights
with impunity, in other words, without fear of punishment or prosecution,
you can almost see that these are the countries to
be sensitive to in terms of a valid asylum claim.

(28:16):
And what the illegals do uh whether they entered illegally
or remained illegally, is they'll piggyback on those types of
claims and fabricated claim that looks credible, and that's what
that's what the law says, a credible claim of persecution.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I'm guessing long term what happens. I'm guessing long term
they don't succeed at it. But maybe that's not the
goal long term, right, is the goal just to kind
of get the clock rolling here and to kind of
delay as long as you can and draw out the
process because you know the process is going to take
a long time. Great point.

Speaker 18 (28:53):
Uh, that's exactly what happens. The Uh, the objective is
to get into the United States, either illegally and hopefully
never get noticed, never get cited to court, or in
the alternative, inter legally and remain illegally. In other words,
when your visa expires, you remain in the United States.

(29:15):
Great point. And the whole idea is to extend things
out until finally the government gives up and dismisses your case.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
So what does the DOJ plenty to do. Are they
going to go after specific attorneys, specific law firms they're
engaged in this type of activity, Well, they've.

Speaker 18 (29:31):
Already dieded twelve and you can, I believe you can
read between the lines and see that they're looking to
find other evidence of or probable cause to believe that
others are doing the same thing. And you know they're
looking at the Justice Department. ICE are all looking at

(29:52):
these social media sites and seeing what's being advertised by
these groups, law firms, in visual lawyers, and what promises
they're making. In other words, are they guaranteeing asylum results
and outcomes. It's a red flag anytime you start promoting

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that kind of result.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, that's probably a good area to put the pressure.
Put the pressure on those attorneys who are representing those illegals,
if especially if they are making any sort of asylum claims.
All right, quick little break, final segment coming up, Jimmy
Barrett show here an AM nine fifty KPRC.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Already a couple of I guess medical stories.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
They kind of they don't really, they aren't really related
to each other, but they're both kind of interesting. So
let me see if I can get them both in
here and what's left of us on our program today
on this Monday. Let's start with this one. I found
this fascinating evident. The MAHA movement, the Make America Healthy
Again movement, is zeroing in now not just on food,
but on clothing. And I never really had thought about

(31:10):
this before. RFK Junior is concerned about microplastics in our
clothing and whether or not those microplastics are being absorbed
into your bloodstream, you know, kind of just leeching its
way through your skin and lodging itself in your brain,
and what other kind of health impacts might it have.

(31:32):
And there's a Maha movement if you will, to go
back to cotton to get rid of these polyester synthetic
fiber kind of stuff that they can have a potentially
negative impact on your health. I saw over the weekend
on Fox they had the egg secretary of Brooke Rowlinds
on to talk about it. Here's that conversation.

Speaker 13 (31:51):
Between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four, the increase of
the presence of microplastics in brain tissue has gone significantly,
something like fifty percent.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's really stunning.

Speaker 13 (32:05):
The research is now showing that the disruption in young girls,
especially in their puberty years, of their hormonal indricrin levels,
et cetera, that could be directly related to some of
the fertility issues that are happening with our younger generation today.
That this is all now coming full circle. And I
know I've been on your show quite a bit talking
about Maha eating real food and getting real food back

(32:27):
into school lunches. But I think this is the next
step in the Maha movement with Secretary Kennedy, is what
we're wearing, what we're putting on our skin, and of
course ultimately this goes back to the great American farmer,
the great American cotton farmer, and making cotton great again
in our country.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
I love it.

Speaker 19 (32:44):
Can you kind of explain break it down a little
bit for us about how this was. So you're wearing
your spandex to yoga or whatever, and obviously if you're boy,
when these materials get heated up you're working out in
them and stuff like that, it trades the skin and
I guess gets into the bloodstream.

Speaker 13 (33:04):
Well, yes, I think that's right. I mean, we're really just,
as you know, we're really just starting to understand what
this looks like in the dangers of it. But Rachel's
mom my mom, probably all of our moms instinctively knew
these things.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
But that's right.

Speaker 13 (33:18):
You think about the sheets that we sleep in, right,
the clothes that we wear, the fancy spandex that all
of our preteens and teenagers and Rachel, even you and
I tend to wear on some odd days. I mean,
this has become a staple of America. And I'll tell
you this. You know, cotton was the first plant planted
in the first garden in Virginia in sixteen oh seven,

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so this goes way before the founding of America. Cotton
has been basically one of the foundational of farming, sort
of what wins for our country. And over the last
couple of decades, we've now gone to almost all synthetic
fibers and what we're putting on our bodies, and a
lot of this is from China or foreign adversaries. So
we have completely haullowed out our cotton farmers. Brazil has

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taken sixty percent of our cotton exports just over the
last few years.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Our cotton farmers are.

Speaker 13 (34:11):
Expected to lose about two billion this year. There's less
and less of them every single year. This is the
trend that we have to reverse, amongst many trends that
we're working on. But once we do, it's plant. It's
not plastics, right, It's America, not Brazil.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, but the problem with cotton, is cotton shrinks and
what else is well, you can pre shrink it, I guess,
get rid of some of that, but also it wrinkles.
I mean, you can get things that are like fifty
to fifty cotton poly or they're Caughton with something else.
They won't wrinkle like that or shrink like that. But
then you're back into the microfibers. I guess I'm thinking.

(34:48):
I'm trying to think of my wardrobe, and I'm being
honest with myself. Here in my wardrobe, I think the
only thing that I have that's one hundred percent connor
is my underwear. That I bet that's true of most Americans.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Today I'm wearing a you know, a golf shirt that's
made of some sort of polyester fiber, golf shorts, same thing.
They don't wrinkle, they don't shrink, they look great. I
have no idea. I've been wearing this stuff for like,
who knows, thirty plus years, So I'm guessing whatever damage
I may have done to myself, I've already done. So

(35:23):
I don't know at this point by switching would make
a whole heck of a lot of difference. The other
story I don't think we've really got time to get
to it because we're almost out of time for the show,
but I will mention it because I can always do
it tomorrow. And that is tick season less of a
problem here in Texas than it is in some of
the northeastern parts of the country and places like Michigan,

(35:45):
for example, where they have a lot of deer, not
that we don't have deer, obviously they do have deer,
but TIX season seems to have a particularly more difficult
impact up there for things like lime disease. Lime disease
I heard, by the way, And you know, I hesitate
to mention vaccines because I think we're all a little

(36:05):
leary of vaccines right now after COVID. But evidently there's
some sort of a vaccine for lime disease. And if
that's the case, and if you live in an area
where there's a lot of ticks and a lot of
lime disease, then that might make some sense because the
health ramifications of lime disease are pretty serious. I mean,
that's a long term, debilitating type of illness. It's kind

(36:29):
of like having a bad case, not necessarily a bad
case of the flu, but it's kind of like having
the flu, And I'm trying to think of what else
because it's marked by being so tired all the time
and draining your energy. Kind of like what was that
kissing disease? Mononucleosis, kind of like a combination of mononucleosis

(36:50):
and in something else. I don't know, but you know,
it's all marked by a rash that you get from
the bite and it's very very very very difficult to
get rid of it once you've got it. But we'll
worry about that one tomorrow, and we'll worry about hurricanes
when we see one. Listen, you all have a great day,
Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow morning, bright and early
five am over our news radio seven forty k t

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