September 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Christine Miles on how listening can help society
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's been a while since we started a show talking
about things we regret. I love the topic of regret,
you know, in all of its forbes. But but here's
one that I can really relate to, and maybe you
can too. Have you ever bought something, I mean, something
really kind of expensive and then you just didn't either
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ever got around to using it or rarely have ever
used it, and it took you maybe a few years
to figure out that you'd MAKEE made a mistake, but
you kind of went, wow, that was kind of a
waste of money. I didn't really use that very much.
I think we've all done that in a variety of
different things. We could come up with a whole bunch
of examples, but I have the best example of all
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because I bought a beach house, and I've spent the
night at beach house maybe a grand total of two
times in the last five years that that is not
using a rather large investment very much. Now, to my defense,
first of all, I had the best of intentions of
going down there more often. That's number one. Number two
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is I really thought, well, this will be a good
investment because we can rent this thing out and maybe
make some money or at least pay the mortgage on
it and let it appreciate and the eventually will sell
it and pocket the money. But even that part of
it's not working well. The running out parts working out fine.
It's not running out enough to pay the mortgage every month,
but it is certainly helping to defray the cost.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think of it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That has actually gone down a little bit in the
current real estate market. There's a lot of property for
sale down on the Gulf Coast, and it cost a
fortune to ensure it, which is one of the reasons
why things aren't selling down there very much. So overall, yeah,
it's a regret. It was. It was not a good
investment on my part, and it was a lot of
money to spend as something that rarely, if ever gets used.
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That's nobody's going to beat that example. But I asked
our listeners this morning on KTRH if they could get
some examples of some of the things that they bought
that were kind of expensive that they rarely if ever used.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
The most expensive thing I ever bought that really didn't
use a freggin boat and you have to pay for
storage and insurance to use it maybe twice a year.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Big mistake.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Hey, Jimmy, it's Andrew for spring. I think the most
expensive thing I ever bought was I spent two thousand
dollars on a very nice drone. I decided I wanted
to get into aerial photography, so I bought one, and
then all was fear mongoring around drone started, so I
never flown it. I think I've flown it like maybe
a one time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Y'all have a good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
This is Shade and coln Or Mangleton. We ran all
the plumbing, sports and concrete, had Brandy electricity, did everything
to prepare our house with the biggest fist restanding hot
tub like and purchase, and we never use it. Back
to the matter is, more often than not it doesn't
have any water in it. Nobody ever uses.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
If the kids used to use it as a swimming pool.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You're not alone with a whole hot tub thing.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I thought many times about getting a hot tub, and
for whatever reason, I just didn't get it. And I'm
glad I didn't, because I mean, think of think of
our weather here in Houston. How often would you The
only time you could ever go out and sit in
a hot tub and be comfortable would be in the
winter months. It's just too hot the rest of the year.
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The last thing you need is a hot tub when
you're already hot. You know, it's like taking a bath,
going outside and taking a bath. So I can see
why the hot tub didn't get used. I listen, if
this will make you feel better. I've got neighbors right
next to me. We've lived next to them for the
last eight years. I've seen them in their swimming pool
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once maybe twice in the entire eight years. By their
own a mission. They never use their swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
They they moved here to Houston, they thought, well, we
should have a swimming pool. They put in a swimming pool.
Kids didn't care about going in the swimming pool, which
is kind of shocking because most kids care about that
kind of stuff. But they they never go in the pool.
So that's that's a rather large investment for something you
rarely have ever used. We've all done it, you know,
bought jewelry, for example, by a big honk and ring
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that you're afraid to take on a trip because somebody's
gonna steal it, or you're afraid to to wear it
outside when you're when you're just outside hanging out because
you think he might be a target for crime.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Sometimes that's if you never wear it. I think jewelry
is one of those things that a lot of people
buy and then they just you know, they rarely have
ever wear it, and therefore was it really worth the
money that you spent. A boat's a boat that was
already given his example, but a boat is a great
example of that. They say the two best days of
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a boat is the day you buy the boat and
the day you sell the boat, and if you're not
using the boat in between, then that was kind of
a waste of money. All right, Do we have any
other comments to make.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Hey Jimmy, expensive thing that you bought but never use,
pickup trucks that never get the bed used, never tow
anything that a good one.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Hey Jimmy, heavy, hard working eastside. The guy with the drone, Hey,
I bought from from a grandkid. We've got a boat.
We'd love to go night fishing all the time. My
husband's in the airplane. Did he like to fly? We
had a motorcycle that he hadn't been able to ride
much because he had stomach surgery. But as soon as
that's over, we're going riding with them. Married forty six
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years and left and get into that how.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
You work it.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
I have a good day, all right, So she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's on to me like she has any regrets. There's
no regret there. She's she's glad she bought some of
that stuff, you know, even if they haven't hasn't been
used all that much. She's still glad that you had it. Uh,
camp or an RV if you never go camping, Yep,
that would be kind of an expensive thing that you know,
you rarely, if ever use. Trying to think of what
else comes to mind. Everybody's got examples, though it's amazing,
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we've all done it. It's called I think it's called
an impulse purchase, where it seemed like a great idea
at the time and then it turned out to be
far from a great idea. I mean exercise equipment. How
many of us have bought a thousand dollars treadmill and
then never got on it? Raise your hand? Or bought
a gym membership that you never used. It may not
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be super expensive, but you know, it's still money that
didn't get spent very well. All Right, listen, quick little break.
We are back with more in a moment Jimmy Parent
Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC. All Right, you've
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probably heard this story out of North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's a sad story, it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
But it's one of those stories that is worth exploring
a little bit further because, after all, you know, at
some point in time we need to learn a lesson
from these types of things. And the story I'm referring
to is this this Ukrainian I mean this what makes
it so sad. Here's a young woman fleeing the violence
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in Ukraine, wanted to come to the United States, buying
into the whole United States for a better life, kind
of thing. Working late night, shifted a pizza parlor, you know,
to provide for her elf. She can't afford a car,
so she's taking public transportation home from work and some
nut with a long ass criminal record pulls out a knife,
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stands up, pulls sitting behind her. She's not doing a thing,
She's on her phone. She hasn't talked to him, she
hasn't looked at him. She's just sitting there in front
of him. He stands up, pulls out a knife and
stabs her to death, repeatedly stabs her to death. Thank
you for coming to the United States. It's too bad
it had your life had to end here the way
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it did just incredible. And of course it's created quite
a bit of outrage with especially amongst the liberals, the
ones who don't like these stories about violent crime, don't
like these stories that suggest that maybe we need to
do a better job of locking these people up and
keeping them locked up. For the people who want to
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make excuses for crime and why the crime happens. I
don't know why this guy till us a job or
why they brought him back, but seeing ends. Brian Steltzer
wanted to turn it into a racial thing because he's
horrified by some of the posts that he's seen people
put on social media about this incident. Here's what he
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had to say yesterday they picked.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Up on this video from local news and ran with it.
It's a little bit like the times when civil rights
groups have raised attention about police involved shootings. In this case,
it is Trump aligned influencers who are posting up a
storm about this case on social media. Really over the weekend,
Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump aligned figures succeeded in
making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.
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We heard President Trump asked about it yesterday when he
was heading home from New York City. He didn't see
even know much about it. He said he would get briefed,
and then today Trump did.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Know all about it. That's exactly what has happened here.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
This story has trickled up from local news to social
media and now to the President's attention, and it's being used,
as you said, Brian, as a political symbol, with MAGA
media calling for more force punishments and more incarceration. I
have to say some of the replies to Musks, some
of the comments around the story are baldly racist, stoking
fear of African Americans because this man.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Attacked a white woman.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The open racism on sites like x Today, it's eye popping,
But there are also legitimate questions about this so called
career criminal, someone who had been a repeat offender, and
those questions I hope they're not lost amid all of
the cesspool kind of comments on social media.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, it's all about racism.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, where this happened, thank
the local media for not showing the video. Yeah, they
didn't want the video to be shown. Now, they showed
the George Floyd video. How many times did that get
seen by people? Thousands of times on TV? But the
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Democrat run media, the progressive liberal media, no, they're not
showing it because they don't want you to see how
horrifying it is even person and Trump, by the way,
commented on that and then oh, by the way, and
speaking of crime prison, Trump in this clip also got
asked by a progressive member of the media about declaring
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war on Chicago, and his response to her is perfect.
And then Greg Gotfeld at the unwraps it all up.
Let's listen, lunatics just got up and started.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
It's straight on the tape, not really watchable because it's
so horrible, but just viciously stamp. She's just sitting there.
So they're evil people. We have to be able to
handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have
a country.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You don't want to take news when you say that job,
let's take news.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
I don't listen, be quiet, listen.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second. Great.
We're not going to war.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
We're going to.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
They don't kill five people every weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's not war.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
That's common sense.
Speaker 11 (11:59):
Is it's not insanity. It's an evil mind. And it's
an evil mind that is somehow excused in a culture
that weaponizes victim's status in this case mental illness, mental illness,
And what is it about a society that contributes to this?
And I say this based on my own personal evidence
of being on city streets every single day, every single
day in New York, that when a homeless person is
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shouting at people, he's not shouting. I really made a
mess of my life, boy, I really screwed up. No,
his aggression is purely blaming other things and other people.
He blames the world, he blames people, he blames you.
So we're living in a progressive ideological nightmare where the
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worst in society is empowered by a sense of victimhood.
So when this happens, they will still get people like
Brian Stelter that says, oh, be careful of the racism,
or other people saying, you know what, we really need
to be concerned about our services to the mentally ill,
which may or may not be true. But he's not
mentally ill, he needs to be executed.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Lastly, I asked Rock for.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
A conservative count of the number of times the George
Floyd video was played. Looking at tweets and social media Instagram,
news networks, it came to a conservative number of nine
hundred and seventy five million times. That is not counting retweets.
So that is a snapshot of this liberal disease. The
hierarchy of problems. The media and politicians, people like Stelter
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implore you not to cover one problem but to amplify
another one.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
To a destructive degree.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
That leads to riots, leads to dozens of deaths, But
do not cover this other thing because that is racist
and that is not as important in the hierarchy of problems.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
We decide what you cover. Representative Jasmine Crockett is a
great example of that. By the way, she did a
podcast I think it was last Wednesday. Maybe she has
a podcast. Anybody can get a podcast, and on the
podcast she was excusing crime, at least some forms of
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crime and blaming it on poverty. You know, as this
somehow we can justify crime because well, that's a poor
person and they're just trying to provide for themselves. So
if they go in with a group of other people
and they loose a store, a rich store run by
rich people, so that they can get items to sell
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so they can feed themselves, then you know that there's
a reason why we have crime. It's poverty. If you
want to fix crime, you got to fix poverty. And
of course they fix for that is all kinds of
free money. Right, Socialism is the fix for that. Do
get socialism and we won't have to worry about crime.
That's kind of the bottom line here, That's kind of
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where that conversation always goes.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
No, Now, crime is done by people that don't have
a moral compass. Crime is done by people who know
that there's somebody who will make an excuse for them,
that there won't be any punishment or if there is
any punishment, it'll be you know, here's the thing. Just
you know, we're going to put you under house arrest,
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and you'd be good to keep that ankle monitor on though. Okay,
keep that ankle monitor on so we know where you are.
But that's okay. We don't have room in jail for you.
We don't punish people for crime the way we used to.
And it doesn't take long, unfortunately, for society that is lacking,
at least in some corners of moral compass, to figure
out that, well, you know, nobody's going to stop me
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from doing this. You know, the justice system evidently doesn't
think I'm doing anything that wrong. Okay, there's some laws
on the book, but there's stupid laws, and that's how
you end up in this situation, and that's how we'll
end up in Chicago probably who continues to resist any
effort to try to help them with crime. But ICE
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is getting ready to do a big, big thing in Chicago.
They've been training at the Great Lakes Center. They have
basically said here we go that they have a name
for it. What was it called Midway Blitz something like that.
So they're gonna be going in looking for illegal aliens
and criminal illegal aliens in particular, and we'll see how
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it goes from there. All right, we're gonna take a
quick little break. We'll be back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Barrett show A nine fifty. Hey, do we live
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in a completely uncivil time? I think we've been working
our way there for quite some time. And our next
guest is in a better position than I am to
comment on it. You know, we had the Philly they'll
call her Karen, the Philly Karen who snatched the ball
away from a young boy after she read the riot
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actor her dad. I mean, that's just another example. We
had a police CEO who did the same thing at
the US UP and snatched the hat away from a child.
It just seems to happen over and over again, luckily
not necessarily violent, but very uncivil behavior. Joining us to
talk about that is somebody who probably meets a lot
of uncivil people. Her name is Christine Miles. She's a
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leading psychologist and the author of What It's Costing You
Not to Listen, the founder of the Listening Path. I'm
going to listen very carefully, Christine, Are we becoming a
completely uncivil society.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I think it's the result, yes, of we're losing perspective
and the ability to have perspective taking.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But it's concerning, well, very disconcerting. But here's the question,
what can we do about it?
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Well, I think there's a few things we need to
understand where it comes from. And the first place is
that think about how much the world's changed. We're sitting
in our offices, which are in our homes, our bedrooms,
our kitchens. We're not out in the world as much.
Adults spends six hours and forty minutes online daily, so
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we're living in these bubbles. Then we go out and
we're not really in exchanges, we're not in interactions, we're
not talking with each other, and we have a very
selfish mindset. It's all about me. So we need to
change that. We need to learn to get back to
perspective taking, understand where people are coming from. Which is
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why I loved why the father responded to the boy
or to the woman who took the ball, because he
took the perspective of her more important to you than
is important to me. Here you go, And what a
whin he got for that?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well he did, he did, and he didn't. I mean
some ways.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean there are those at the other end of
the scale go to say, what kind of is that
the right example you want to set for your son
that when some woman comes up and starts yelling at you,
you just give into whatever it is she wants.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Well, you know, I guess the perspective of are we
giving into it right? Are we letting the bully win?
I think that's the question, right. And so the point
is what's going on in her world that's so important
that the ball matters so much? So I think that's
what the example is here. Clearly, this is more important
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to you than even it is to my ten year
old son who has a birthday. So rather than fight,
here you go and then it's de escalated and we're
back to a human level. So it's a baseball. If
they're fighting over somebody making fun of somebody or something different,
then we're talking about a different kind of challenge. But
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this perspective of I'm not kind a fight about something
that that isn't that important and understand differently, I think
it's the way we need to go.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, you know, I completely get that. However, is part
of your job also to teach your fellow human beings
a little lesson in all this. In other words, if
this hadn't been on camera, if this hadn't blown up,
if the kid, if the whole ballpark hadn't seen what
was going on, what would ultimately happened is nothing. The
kid would have left without a baseball, the man would
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have been upseted himself. The woman would have had no
recrimination for what she did. It's just that we live
in this world where everything is recorded and everybody can
see it. And that's that's the only reason why things
turned out as well as they did.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Well, and or the life isn't fair and you don't
always get what you want. And this is part of
the perspective too, that you know, the right thing doesn't
always work out, but doing the right thing is the
best thing to do.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Well, let's hang on, let's let's let's cover that for
a second, because I think you just struck upon the
basic problem here, which is very few people are teaching
what the right thing to do is.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's the that's the And I want to
approach this from an empathetic perspective though, because we are
living in a different world in a bubble. That is
making us more reactive, it's making us more short view's,
less empathetics, less aware of other people. So we need
to learn how to moderate that in the way we're
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living in the world differently. So that's that's why we
need to teach this skill so early and why I
want a mission to do that, because it's why bullying happens.
It's why we may we we do things that we
should do as when we were little because we don't
have the perspective of other people. We need to learn
that in order to be good adults.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Okay, where where does that perspective normally come from? Does
that normally come from parents? This? Does it normally come
from social interaction from childhood on? That we're messing out
on you kind of already alluded to that. But at
the end of the day, I think most people's moral
compass comes from their parents, who teach them a little
bit about right and wrong and how you're supposed to
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treat people. And evidently that's not happening at the same
extent it used to.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
Well, I think that parents are doing a lot of
things these days and the best they can. The reality
is their messaging is crowded by a lot of other messages.
Because the way kids are spending a lot of their time,
they're more isolated, they're passively on phones, they're not interacting
and socializing as much, so they don't have these skills
as much. So it might be some example in some cases,
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but I think it's practice and I think it's how
we're socialized. It's very different, and that's part of why
this is a skill that needs to be learned, because
it's hard to emphathize with something you don't understand.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Well, here's a very small example. I think that plays
into what you're talking about. But again, kind of puts
it in the hands of the parents. I realized that
their parents are very busy. Many many of them work.
Both both parents work. They have very little free time.
What little free time they have, they want to relax.
They don't want to have to deal with whatever's bothering
their three or four, their five year old. So they
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pick up the phone, they put on a favorite video
at the restaurant, they put on the favorite video here
you go. So rather than rather than having a teaching
opportunity or dealing with the problems so their kids learn,
they give them a video to watch so they won't
be bothered.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Well, for two year olds have their own iPad in
the United States, So amen to what you're saying. This
is a big part of the problem. It's a quick fix,
it's a passive fire. But we've also been until recently,
fairly recently, we've been very uninformed about this is going
to do to the way we're raising kids. So again,
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I'm going to go back to praising a father because
this was his teaching moments, whether it got of us
or not, was I'm gonna not fight about something insignificant.
We're going to do the right thing, and I'm going
to show you that doing the right thing is enough
and the rewards followed. Right, karma happened. This is the
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perspective taking me. You know, I'm going to go crazy here.
Maybe this woman had a terrible day, she lost her
husband three months ago. She's still angry, she's grieving, and
the balls all she could think about. Not the right attitude.
But maybe there's a story below the surface we don't
know about.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Or maybe she's just angry, you know what. Maybe all possible.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
All possible. We don't know the two ways.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
We know, we know that she's a Philadelphia Phillies fan,
and we know that the Philadelphia the Philadelphia fans have
their own set of issues. After all, they have a
jail at where they where the football team plays.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Speaking to a Philadelphian, I'm not from Philly originally, but
I can't disagree with this argument.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Both yeah, that that it's kind of a sort of
as signs into itself. How it is that you know
sports fans in particular in certain cities behave this way.
You know absolutely the fans in Philadelphia through snowballs is
Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, come on, it's not right.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
This is what we do. Move the line a lot.
I've talked with with kids and parents and people in
organizations for a long time about something I called the
basketball seriy of the life.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
So well.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
I used to play. I was an athlete, but basketball
isn't my best sport all. What I did learn about
basketball is that when you're in the key, when you're
where you're trying to score a foul shot or get
rebound the ball, the official always sees the second foul.
You could be inside getting pushed around by somebody, but
the fave gets called is the one that when you
push back, and it would have been so easy in
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this particular situation for that father to escalate with that
woman rather than perspective, take listen to his own judgment,
listen to the situation, go it's not worth it. Take it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, Oh, you're right, You're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I just hope that, you know, I hope everything in
life seems to be cyclical, Christine Miles, and I'm hoping
that that this is also cyclical, that we're going to
kind of get back to a kindler, gentler place in
this country. Do you think this is to kind of
wrap this up? Do you think this is all about frustration?
Are we just a more frustrated society than we used
to be?
Speaker 9 (26:33):
I believe so. And I think over indulgence is that
if we took this in childhood terms, but as a
family therapist my first career, you an over indulgent child,
they will act out more. And with our speed and
what's at our access, we're you expectings quickly, and we
expect a lot. So our over indulgence is leading into
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how we act towards one another. There's an expectation we should.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Just get it.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think the lesson that
parents used to teach their kids that probably isn't being
taught as much as they should anymore. And for whatever reason,
maybe it's guilty on their part because they don't feel
like they're spending enough time with their child or whatever
it is is, is that that tough love parents being
parents to their children, not trying to be their friend.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
That's right. No one is a powerful word, and there
is a lot to delay gratification, and you described it
sitting at a restaurant. Be quiet, don't be bored. I
don't want the disruption. We want to take all that
pain away when that's what actually gets us ready. I'm
learning to again. This is part of having the time
to have that perspective taking and being able to listen
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for ourselves, listen to others, and see more of the
people around us.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
But guests on our morning show today, I think is
more sharing with you, especially if you did not hear
the interview towards the end of our show was represented
Brian Harrison. He's been a rather frequent guest on our
show lately, which is a good thing. He is one
of the few true conservative Republicans serving in the state House.
(28:22):
There are plenty of rhinos, still plenty of rhinos. Got
rid of a bunch of rhinos, but there's still plenty left.
And at the end of the day here, as you
listen to this interview, I think you'll see a great
demonstration of just how bad the problem is. Supposedly, we
were trying to prevent DEI and transgenderism from being taught
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in our schools, especially our state colleges and universities. But
as you'll find out during the course of this interview,
we haven't really done anything about that, and therefore we
still have a problem. Texas A and M A is
a prime example. A dean there has been fired. Also,
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department head has been relieved of their duties, supposedly because
a conservative student in a class that was treats it
started to teach about transgenderism. I didn't even find out
what the class was.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I should have.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I wonder if it was like an early education class
or something like that. I don't know if this this
student was working to become a teacher or what, but
transgenderism was the topic. How to teach, how to teach
tr transgenderism? Pardon me to a three to twelve year
old yew three year olds really need to learn about transgenderism, right,
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that's important for them to learn anyway. Represent Brian Harrison
on a program this morning to talk about what happened
to Texas A and M, what is going to happen
as a result of what happened at Texas A and M,
and whether or not the federal government needs to get
involved in this, which I suspect they probably do. At
least we know there's some conservative students at Texas A
and M. If there are any conservative instructors, right, Representative, good.
Speaker 12 (30:05):
Morning to you, Good morning, good morning. Yes, as a
as a proud member of the Fight in Texas Aggie
class of two thousand and four, I could not be
more furious at my university and quite frankly in many
universities in Texas who are using tax money to indoctrinate
the next generation. As an outrage, we should have defunded
this nonsense a long time again.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You know, if we learn, if we've learned nothing else,
laws don't mean anything unless you are willing or able
to enforce them.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 12 (30:29):
Well, so that's absolutely true, but people are going to
You're gonna be shocked.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Your viewers.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
Your listeners are going to be shocked right now. They're
not violating state law. The legislature in the state of
Texas has made it explicitly clear that public universities can engage,
for example, in d EI indoctrination. I filed fourteen pieces
of legislation to stop and make it illegal and to
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defund universities who indoctrinate in DEI and transgender in doctrination.
And you know what happened to Every one of those bills, legislations, amendments,
and budget writers killed not by Democrats but by so
called Republicans that run the Texas government. The Texas government
supports transgender indoctination. The Texas government supports THEEI, and therefore
their taxing taxpayers out of their homes to fund this nonsense.
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The Republican leadership in the state of Texas, who's ultimately responsible.
We're uncovering at.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Texas A and M.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
If this is not against the law, then why was
a dean dismissed? Why was another person at the head
of that department that this professor was teaching, and why
were they dismissed?
Speaker 12 (31:35):
There's only one reason you want me to tell you why? Yeah,
you're talking to him because I went public and I
shamed them and I pressured them into doing the right thing.
Because here's the reality. Even though the government of the
State of Texas has refused to defund this indoctrination, the
people of the great State of Texas, thirty million Texans,
do not want their hard earned money wasted on leftist
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Marxist propaganda like this.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
And the people are speaking out and that is.
Speaker 12 (32:05):
The only reason you're seeing anything come out of Texas
A and IN. And by the way, I don't believe
they fired a single person. I think everybody involved is
still getting their full taxpayer salary. The statement from President Welsh,
which is just an embarrassing and weak and dishonest on
so many levels. President Welsh, first of all, you should
know this. President Welsh is lying in that statement, and
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I can prove it. He did not find out anything
yesterday about this. He has known for a long time.
And what Texas A and N has been trying to
do for months. And that's why you hear me a
little worked up about this. They're pretending they just found
out when these videos came out. They have known for months,
at least a month and a half, and instead of
taking corrective action when they found out over the summer,
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they tried to punish and silence the student whose name
I am withholding at her request, but who I spoke
to last night and thanked her and committed her for
her courage, which they tried to silence her until I
went public and until the people of the state of
Texas tolled A and N. They better sort this out.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
There's no Texas law that prevents this from happening, even
though you've tried many times to get one passed. What
about at the federal level with the Trump administration, is
there a possibility.
Speaker 12 (33:20):
It's so awesome to see so President Trump, unlike the
Republican leadership in Texas, he wants to get rid of
taxpayer funder DEEI and LGBTQ in doctrination. And I was
very thrilled to see har Meat Dillan, the head of
the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. She shared my
x speed post yesterday and said that it is quote
highly concerning to her and that they are going to
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be investigating Texas A and this girl. I'm gonna tell you,
I think Texas A and M may have a real
constitutional civil rights violation on their hand. This student may
well have had her constitutional rights, particularly her right.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Of free speech, violated.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
By this professor.
Speaker 12 (34:01):
So Texas A and M has got a world of
problems on their hands, and they need to do the
right thing right now and fire this professor. Fire the professor,
fire the department head, and fire the president of Texas
A and M, who is being just honest about what
he knew and when he knew it. But the fact
is the president of Texas A and M is a
woke leftist progressive who was appointed.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
By Barack Obama.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
We should not have progressive leftists running any public university
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's kind of where we're at with Texas A and M.
And if it's bad at Texas A and M, and
evidently it still is, then imagine how it is it
U T Austin and plenty of other universities, Texas Tech,
and other universities here in the great state of Texas.
Until we actually have people, though, who are interested in
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enforcing laws, laws will continue to be ignored. Even federal
judges ignore laws. They even ignore the Supreme or try
to ignore the Supreme Court of the United States. I
don't know if it goes back to our last conversation
about what a self centered, selfish public we've become. But
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these judges think that they know better, they know better
than the US Supreme Court, and I think these lawmakers
feel the same way. Well, we know we have to fool,
you know, thinking we're conservatives, but we're not. And we
really need to be teaching this DEI and diversity stuff.
So hey, as long as nobody report you, it's all good.
So it's up to us as citizens to report the
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things that we see that we know are not right.
All right, listen, y'all have a great day. Thanks for listening.
I appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning bright nearly
five am over on news Radio seven forty KTRH. We're
back here at four on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's been a while since we started a show talking
about things we regret. I love the topic of regret,
you know, in all of its forbes. But but here's
one that I can really relate to, and maybe you
can too. Have you ever bought something, I mean, something
really kind of expensive and then you just didn't either
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ever got around to using it or rarely have ever
used it, and it took you maybe a few years
to figure out that you'd MAKEE made a mistake, but
you kind of went, wow, that was kind of a
waste of money. I didn't really use that very much.
I think we've all done that in a variety of
different things. We could come up with a whole bunch
of examples, but I have the best example of all
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because I bought a beach house, and I've spent the
night at beach house maybe a grand total of two
times in the last five years that that is not
using a rather large investment very much. Now, to my defense,
first of all, I had the best of intentions of
going down there more often. That's number one. Number two
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is I really thought, well, this will be a good
investment because we can rent this thing out and maybe
make some money or at least pay the mortgage on
it and let it appreciate and the eventually will sell
it and pocket the money. But even that part of
it's not working well. The running out parts working out fine.
It's not running out enough to pay the mortgage every month,
but it is certainly helping to defray the cost.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think of it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That has actually gone down a little bit in the
current real estate market. There's a lot of property for
sale down on the Gulf Coast, and it cost a
fortune to ensure it, which is one of the reasons
why things aren't selling down there very much. So overall, yeah,
it's a regret. It was. It was not a good
investment on my part, and it was a lot of
money to spend as something that rarely, if ever gets used.
(02:21):
That's nobody's going to beat that example. But I asked
our listeners this morning on KTRH if they could get
some examples of some of the things that they bought
that were kind of expensive that they rarely if ever used.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
The most expensive thing I ever bought that really didn't
use a freggin boat and you have to pay for
storage and insurance to use it maybe twice a year.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Big mistake.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Hey, Jimmy, it's Andrew for spring. I think the most
expensive thing I ever bought was I spent two thousand
dollars on a very nice drone. I decided I wanted
to get into aerial photography, so I bought one, and
then all was fear mongoring around drone started, so I
never flown it. I think I've flown it like maybe
a one time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Y'all have a good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
This is Shade and coln Or Mangleton. We ran all
the plumbing, sports and concrete, had Brandy electricity, did everything
to prepare our house with the biggest fist restanding hot
tub like and purchase, and we never use it. Back
to the matter is, more often than not it doesn't
have any water in it. Nobody ever uses.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
If the kids used to use it as a swimming pool.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You're not alone with a whole hot tub thing.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I thought many times about getting a hot tub, and
for whatever reason, I just didn't get it. And I'm
glad I didn't, because I mean, think of think of
our weather here in Houston. How often would you The
only time you could ever go out and sit in
a hot tub and be comfortable would be in the
winter months. It's just too hot the rest of the year.
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The last thing you need is a hot tub when
you're already hot. You know, it's like taking a bath,
going outside and taking a bath. So I can see
why the hot tub didn't get used. I listen, if
this will make you feel better. I've got neighbors right
next to me. We've lived next to them for the
last eight years. I've seen them in their swimming pool
(04:16):
once maybe twice in the entire eight years. By their
own a mission. They never use their swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
They they moved here to Houston, they thought, well, we
should have a swimming pool. They put in a swimming pool.
Kids didn't care about going in the swimming pool, which
is kind of shocking because most kids care about that
kind of stuff. But they they never go in the pool.
So that's that's a rather large investment for something you
rarely have ever used. We've all done it, you know,
bought jewelry, for example, by a big honk and ring
(04:45):
that you're afraid to take on a trip because somebody's
gonna steal it, or you're afraid to to wear it
outside when you're when you're just outside hanging out because
you think he might be a target for crime.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Sometimes that's if you never wear it. I think jewelry
is one of those things that a lot of people
buy and then they just you know, they rarely have
ever wear it, and therefore was it really worth the
money that you spent. A boat's a boat that was
already given his example, but a boat is a great
example of that. They say the two best days of
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a boat is the day you buy the boat and
the day you sell the boat, and if you're not
using the boat in between, then that was kind of
a waste of money. All right, Do we have any
other comments to make.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Hey Jimmy, expensive thing that you bought but never use,
pickup trucks that never get the bed used, never tow
anything that a good one.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Hey Jimmy, heavy, hard working eastside. The guy with the drone, Hey,
I bought from from a grandkid. We've got a boat.
We'd love to go night fishing all the time. My
husband's in the airplane. Did he like to fly? We
had a motorcycle that he hadn't been able to ride
much because he had stomach surgery. But as soon as
that's over, we're going riding with them. Married forty six
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years and left and get into that how.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
You work it.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
I have a good day, all right, So she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's on to me like she has any regrets. There's
no regret there. She's she's glad she bought some of
that stuff, you know, even if they haven't hasn't been
used all that much. She's still glad that you had it. Uh,
camp or an RV if you never go camping, Yep,
that would be kind of an expensive thing that you know,
you rarely, if ever use. Trying to think of what
else comes to mind. Everybody's got examples, though it's amazing,
(06:30):
we've all done it. It's called I think it's called
an impulse purchase, where it seemed like a great idea
at the time and then it turned out to be
far from a great idea. I mean exercise equipment. How
many of us have bought a thousand dollars treadmill and
then never got on it? Raise your hand? Or bought
a gym membership that you never used. It may not
(06:51):
be super expensive, but you know, it's still money that
didn't get spent very well. All Right, listen, quick little break.
We are back with more in a moment Jimmy Parent
Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC. All Right, you've
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probably heard this story out of North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's a sad story, it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
But it's one of those stories that is worth exploring
a little bit further because, after all, you know, at
some point in time we need to learn a lesson
from these types of things. And the story I'm referring
to is this this Ukrainian I mean this what makes
it so sad. Here's a young woman fleeing the violence
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in Ukraine, wanted to come to the United States, buying
into the whole United States for a better life, kind
of thing. Working late night, shifted a pizza parlor, you know,
to provide for her elf. She can't afford a car,
so she's taking public transportation home from work and some
nut with a long ass criminal record pulls out a knife,
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stands up, pulls sitting behind her. She's not doing a thing,
She's on her phone. She hasn't talked to him, she
hasn't looked at him. She's just sitting there in front
of him. He stands up, pulls out a knife and
stabs her to death, repeatedly stabs her to death. Thank
you for coming to the United States. It's too bad
it had your life had to end here the way
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it did just incredible. And of course it's created quite
a bit of outrage with especially amongst the liberals, the
ones who don't like these stories about violent crime, don't
like these stories that suggest that maybe we need to
do a better job of locking these people up and
keeping them locked up. For the people who want to
(08:52):
make excuses for crime and why the crime happens. I
don't know why this guy till us a job or
why they brought him back, but seeing ends. Brian Steltzer
wanted to turn it into a racial thing because he's
horrified by some of the posts that he's seen people
put on social media about this incident. Here's what he
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had to say yesterday they picked.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Up on this video from local news and ran with it.
It's a little bit like the times when civil rights
groups have raised attention about police involved shootings. In this case,
it is Trump aligned influencers who are posting up a
storm about this case on social media. Really over the weekend,
Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump aligned figures succeeded in
making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.
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We heard President Trump asked about it yesterday when he
was heading home from New York City. He didn't see
even know much about it. He said he would get briefed,
and then today Trump did.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Know all about it. That's exactly what has happened here.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
This story has trickled up from local news to social
media and now to the President's attention, and it's being used,
as you said, Brian, as a political symbol, with MAGA
media calling for more force punishments and more incarceration. I
have to say some of the replies to Musks, some
of the comments around the story are baldly racist, stoking
fear of African Americans because this man.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Attacked a white woman.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The open racism on sites like x Today, it's eye popping,
But there are also legitimate questions about this so called
career criminal, someone who had been a repeat offender, and
those questions I hope they're not lost amid all of
the cesspool kind of comments on social media.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, it's all about racism.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, where this happened, thank
the local media for not showing the video. Yeah, they
didn't want the video to be shown. Now, they showed
the George Floyd video. How many times did that get
seen by people? Thousands of times on TV? But the
(10:52):
Democrat run media, the progressive liberal media, no, they're not
showing it because they don't want you to see how
horrifying it is even person and Trump, by the way,
commented on that and then oh, by the way, and
speaking of crime prison, Trump in this clip also got
asked by a progressive member of the media about declaring
(11:16):
war on Chicago, and his response to her is perfect.
And then Greg Gotfeld at the unwraps it all up.
Let's listen, lunatics just got up and started.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
It's straight on the tape, not really watchable because it's
so horrible, but just viciously stamp. She's just sitting there.
So they're evil people. We have to be able to
handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have
a country.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You don't want to take news when you say that job,
let's take news.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
I don't listen, be quiet, listen.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second. Great.
We're not going to war.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
We're going to.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
They don't kill five people every weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's not war.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
That's common sense.
Speaker 11 (11:59):
Is it's not insanity. It's an evil mind. And it's
an evil mind that is somehow excused in a culture
that weaponizes victim's status in this case mental illness, mental illness,
And what is it about a society that contributes to this?
And I say this based on my own personal evidence
of being on city streets every single day, every single
day in New York, that when a homeless person is
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shouting at people, he's not shouting. I really made a
mess of my life, boy, I really screwed up. No,
his aggression is purely blaming other things and other people.
He blames the world, he blames people, he blames you.
So we're living in a progressive ideological nightmare where the
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worst in society is empowered by a sense of victimhood.
So when this happens, they will still get people like
Brian Stelter that says, oh, be careful of the racism,
or other people saying, you know what, we really need
to be concerned about our services to the mentally ill,
which may or may not be true. But he's not
mentally ill, he needs to be executed.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Lastly, I asked Rock for.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
A conservative count of the number of times the George
Floyd video was played. Looking at tweets and social media Instagram,
news networks, it came to a conservative number of nine
hundred and seventy five million times. That is not counting retweets.
So that is a snapshot of this liberal disease. The
hierarchy of problems. The media and politicians, people like Stelter
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implore you not to cover one problem but to amplify
another one.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
To a destructive degree.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
That leads to riots, leads to dozens of deaths, But
do not cover this other thing because that is racist
and that is not as important in the hierarchy of problems.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
We decide what you cover. Representative Jasmine Crockett is a
great example of that. By the way, she did a
podcast I think it was last Wednesday. Maybe she has
a podcast. Anybody can get a podcast, and on the
podcast she was excusing crime, at least some forms of
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crime and blaming it on poverty. You know, as this
somehow we can justify crime because well, that's a poor
person and they're just trying to provide for themselves. So
if they go in with a group of other people
and they loose a store, a rich store run by
rich people, so that they can get items to sell
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so they can feed themselves, then you know that there's
a reason why we have crime. It's poverty. If you
want to fix crime, you got to fix poverty. And
of course they fix for that is all kinds of
free money. Right, Socialism is the fix for that. Do
get socialism and we won't have to worry about crime.
That's kind of the bottom line here, That's kind of
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where that conversation always goes.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
No, Now, crime is done by people that don't have
a moral compass. Crime is done by people who know
that there's somebody who will make an excuse for them,
that there won't be any punishment or if there is
any punishment, it'll be you know, here's the thing. Just
you know, we're going to put you under house arrest,
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and you'd be good to keep that ankle monitor on though. Okay,
keep that ankle monitor on so we know where you are.
But that's okay. We don't have room in jail for you.
We don't punish people for crime the way we used to.
And it doesn't take long, unfortunately, for society that is lacking,
at least in some corners of moral compass, to figure
out that, well, you know, nobody's going to stop me
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from doing this. You know, the justice system evidently doesn't
think I'm doing anything that wrong. Okay, there's some laws
on the book, but there's stupid laws, and that's how
you end up in this situation, and that's how we'll
end up in Chicago probably who continues to resist any
effort to try to help them with crime. But ICE
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is getting ready to do a big, big thing in Chicago.
They've been training at the Great Lakes Center. They have
basically said here we go that they have a name
for it. What was it called Midway Blitz something like that.
So they're gonna be going in looking for illegal aliens
and criminal illegal aliens in particular, and we'll see how
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it goes from there. All right, we're gonna take a
quick little break. We'll be back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Barrett show A nine fifty. Hey, do we live
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in a completely uncivil time? I think we've been working
our way there for quite some time. And our next
guest is in a better position than I am to
comment on it. You know, we had the Philly they'll
call her Karen, the Philly Karen who snatched the ball
away from a young boy after she read the riot
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actor her dad. I mean, that's just another example. We
had a police CEO who did the same thing at
the US UP and snatched the hat away from a child.
It just seems to happen over and over again, luckily
not necessarily violent, but very uncivil behavior. Joining us to
talk about that is somebody who probably meets a lot
of uncivil people. Her name is Christine Miles. She's a
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leading psychologist and the author of What It's Costing You
Not to Listen, the founder of the Listening Path. I'm
going to listen very carefully, Christine, Are we becoming a
completely uncivil society.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I think it's the result, yes, of we're losing perspective
and the ability to have perspective taking.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But it's concerning, well, very disconcerting. But here's the question,
what can we do about it?
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Well, I think there's a few things we need to
understand where it comes from. And the first place is
that think about how much the world's changed. We're sitting
in our offices, which are in our homes, our bedrooms,
our kitchens. We're not out in the world as much.
Adults spends six hours and forty minutes online daily, so
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we're living in these bubbles. Then we go out and
we're not really in exchanges, we're not in interactions, we're
not talking with each other, and we have a very
selfish mindset. It's all about me. So we need to
change that. We need to learn to get back to
perspective taking, understand where people are coming from. Which is
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why I loved why the father responded to the boy
or to the woman who took the ball, because he
took the perspective of her more important to you than
is important to me. Here you go, And what a
whin he got for that?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well he did, he did, and he didn't. I mean
some ways.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean there are those at the other end of
the scale go to say, what kind of is that
the right example you want to set for your son
that when some woman comes up and starts yelling at you,
you just give into whatever it is she wants.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Well, you know, I guess the perspective of are we
giving into it right? Are we letting the bully win?
I think that's the question, right. And so the point
is what's going on in her world that's so important
that the ball matters so much? So I think that's
what the example is here. Clearly, this is more important
(19:36):
to you than even it is to my ten year
old son who has a birthday. So rather than fight,
here you go and then it's de escalated and we're
back to a human level. So it's a baseball. If
they're fighting over somebody making fun of somebody or something different,
then we're talking about a different kind of challenge. But
(19:58):
this perspective of I'm not kind a fight about something
that that isn't that important and understand differently, I think
it's the way we need to go.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, you know, I completely get that. However, is part
of your job also to teach your fellow human beings
a little lesson in all this. In other words, if
this hadn't been on camera, if this hadn't blown up,
if the kid, if the whole ballpark hadn't seen what
was going on, what would ultimately happened is nothing. The
kid would have left without a baseball, the man would
(20:29):
have been upseted himself. The woman would have had no
recrimination for what she did. It's just that we live
in this world where everything is recorded and everybody can
see it. And that's that's the only reason why things
turned out as well as they did.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Well, and or the life isn't fair and you don't
always get what you want. And this is part of
the perspective too, that you know, the right thing doesn't
always work out, but doing the right thing is the
best thing to do.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Well, let's hang on, let's let's let's cover that for
a second, because I think you just struck upon the
basic problem here, which is very few people are teaching
what the right thing to do is.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's the that's the And I want to
approach this from an empathetic perspective though, because we are
living in a different world in a bubble. That is
making us more reactive, it's making us more short view's,
less empathetics, less aware of other people. So we need
to learn how to moderate that in the way we're
(21:31):
living in the world differently. So that's that's why we
need to teach this skill so early and why I
want a mission to do that, because it's why bullying happens.
It's why we may we we do things that we
should do as when we were little because we don't
have the perspective of other people. We need to learn
that in order to be good adults.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Okay, where where does that perspective normally come from? Does
that normally come from parents? This? Does it normally come
from social interaction from childhood on? That we're messing out
on you kind of already alluded to that. But at
the end of the day, I think most people's moral
compass comes from their parents, who teach them a little
bit about right and wrong and how you're supposed to
(22:14):
treat people. And evidently that's not happening at the same
extent it used to.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
Well, I think that parents are doing a lot of
things these days and the best they can. The reality
is their messaging is crowded by a lot of other messages.
Because the way kids are spending a lot of their time,
they're more isolated, they're passively on phones, they're not interacting
and socializing as much, so they don't have these skills
as much. So it might be some example in some cases,
(22:43):
but I think it's practice and I think it's how
we're socialized. It's very different, and that's part of why
this is a skill that needs to be learned, because
it's hard to emphathize with something you don't understand.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Well, here's a very small example. I think that plays
into what you're talking about. But again, kind of puts
it in the hands of the parents. I realized that
their parents are very busy. Many many of them work.
Both both parents work. They have very little free time.
What little free time they have, they want to relax.
They don't want to have to deal with whatever's bothering
their three or four, their five year old. So they
(23:16):
pick up the phone, they put on a favorite video
at the restaurant, they put on the favorite video here
you go. So rather than rather than having a teaching
opportunity or dealing with the problems so their kids learn,
they give them a video to watch so they won't
be bothered.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Well, for two year olds have their own iPad in
the United States, So amen to what you're saying. This
is a big part of the problem. It's a quick fix,
it's a passive fire. But we've also been until recently,
fairly recently, we've been very uninformed about this is going
to do to the way we're raising kids. So again,
(23:53):
I'm going to go back to praising a father because
this was his teaching moments, whether it got of us
or not, was I'm gonna not fight about something insignificant.
We're going to do the right thing, and I'm going
to show you that doing the right thing is enough
and the rewards followed. Right, karma happened. This is the
(24:14):
perspective taking me. You know, I'm going to go crazy here.
Maybe this woman had a terrible day, she lost her
husband three months ago. She's still angry, she's grieving, and
the balls all she could think about. Not the right attitude.
But maybe there's a story below the surface we don't
know about.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Or maybe she's just angry, you know what. Maybe all possible.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
All possible. We don't know the two ways.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
We know, we know that she's a Philadelphia Phillies fan,
and we know that the Philadelphia the Philadelphia fans have
their own set of issues. After all, they have a
jail at where they where the football team plays.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Speaking to a Philadelphian, I'm not from Philly originally, but
I can't disagree with this argument.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Both yeah, that that it's kind of a sort of
as signs into itself. How it is that you know
sports fans in particular in certain cities behave this way.
You know absolutely the fans in Philadelphia through snowballs is
Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, come on, it's not right.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
This is what we do. Move the line a lot.
I've talked with with kids and parents and people in
organizations for a long time about something I called the
basketball seriy of the life.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
So well.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
I used to play. I was an athlete, but basketball
isn't my best sport all. What I did learn about
basketball is that when you're in the key, when you're
where you're trying to score a foul shot or get
rebound the ball, the official always sees the second foul.
You could be inside getting pushed around by somebody, but
the fave gets called is the one that when you
push back, and it would have been so easy in
(25:57):
this particular situation for that father to escalate with that
woman rather than perspective, take listen to his own judgment,
listen to the situation, go it's not worth it. Take it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, Oh, you're right, You're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I just hope that, you know, I hope everything in
life seems to be cyclical, Christine Miles, and I'm hoping
that that this is also cyclical, that we're going to
kind of get back to a kindler, gentler place in
this country. Do you think this is to kind of
wrap this up? Do you think this is all about frustration?
Are we just a more frustrated society than we used
to be?
Speaker 9 (26:33):
I believe so. And I think over indulgence is that
if we took this in childhood terms, but as a
family therapist my first career, you an over indulgent child,
they will act out more. And with our speed and
what's at our access, we're you expectings quickly, and we
expect a lot. So our over indulgence is leading into
(26:54):
how we act towards one another. There's an expectation we should.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Just get it.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think the lesson that
parents used to teach their kids that probably isn't being
taught as much as they should anymore. And for whatever reason,
maybe it's guilty on their part because they don't feel
like they're spending enough time with their child or whatever
it is is, is that that tough love parents being
parents to their children, not trying to be their friend.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
That's right. No one is a powerful word, and there
is a lot to delay gratification, and you described it
sitting at a restaurant. Be quiet, don't be bored. I
don't want the disruption. We want to take all that
pain away when that's what actually gets us ready. I'm
learning to again. This is part of having the time
to have that perspective taking and being able to listen
(27:42):
for ourselves, listen to others, and see more of the
people around us.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
But guests on our morning show today, I think is
more sharing with you, especially if you did not hear
the interview towards the end of our show was represented
Brian Harrison. He's been a rather frequent guest on our
show lately, which is a good thing. He is one
of the few true conservative Republicans serving in the state House.
(28:22):
There are plenty of rhinos, still plenty of rhinos. Got
rid of a bunch of rhinos, but there's still plenty left.
And at the end of the day here, as you
listen to this interview, I think you'll see a great
demonstration of just how bad the problem is. Supposedly, we
were trying to prevent DEI and transgenderism from being taught
(28:43):
in our schools, especially our state colleges and universities. But
as you'll find out during the course of this interview,
we haven't really done anything about that, and therefore we
still have a problem. Texas A and M A is
a prime example. A dean there has been fired. Also,
(29:05):
department head has been relieved of their duties, supposedly because
a conservative student in a class that was treats it
started to teach about transgenderism. I didn't even find out
what the class was.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I should have.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I wonder if it was like an early education class
or something like that. I don't know if this this
student was working to become a teacher or what, but
transgenderism was the topic. How to teach, how to teach
tr transgenderism? Pardon me to a three to twelve year
old yew three year olds really need to learn about transgenderism, right,
(29:40):
that's important for them to learn anyway. Represent Brian Harrison
on a program this morning to talk about what happened
to Texas A and M, what is going to happen
as a result of what happened at Texas A and M,
and whether or not the federal government needs to get
involved in this, which I suspect they probably do. At
least we know there's some conservative students at Texas A
and M. If there are any conservative instructors, right, Representative, good.
Speaker 12 (30:05):
Morning to you, Good morning, good morning. Yes, as a
as a proud member of the Fight in Texas Aggie
class of two thousand and four, I could not be
more furious at my university and quite frankly in many
universities in Texas who are using tax money to indoctrinate
the next generation. As an outrage, we should have defunded
this nonsense a long time again.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You know, if we learn, if we've learned nothing else,
laws don't mean anything unless you are willing or able
to enforce them.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 12 (30:29):
Well, so that's absolutely true, but people are going to
You're gonna be shocked.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Your viewers.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
Your listeners are going to be shocked right now. They're
not violating state law. The legislature in the state of
Texas has made it explicitly clear that public universities can engage,
for example, in d EI indoctrination. I filed fourteen pieces
of legislation to stop and make it illegal and to
(30:54):
defund universities who indoctrinate in DEI and transgender in doctrination.
And you know what happened to Every one of those bills, legislations, amendments,
and budget writers killed not by Democrats but by so
called Republicans that run the Texas government. The Texas government
supports transgender indoctination. The Texas government supports THEEI, and therefore
their taxing taxpayers out of their homes to fund this nonsense.
(31:20):
The Republican leadership in the state of Texas, who's ultimately responsible.
We're uncovering at.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Texas A and M.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
If this is not against the law, then why was
a dean dismissed? Why was another person at the head
of that department that this professor was teaching, and why
were they dismissed?
Speaker 12 (31:35):
There's only one reason you want me to tell you why? Yeah,
you're talking to him because I went public and I
shamed them and I pressured them into doing the right thing.
Because here's the reality. Even though the government of the
State of Texas has refused to defund this indoctrination, the
people of the great State of Texas, thirty million Texans,
do not want their hard earned money wasted on leftist
(32:00):
Marxist propaganda like this.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
And the people are speaking out and that is.
Speaker 12 (32:05):
The only reason you're seeing anything come out of Texas
A and IN. And by the way, I don't believe
they fired a single person. I think everybody involved is
still getting their full taxpayer salary. The statement from President Welsh,
which is just an embarrassing and weak and dishonest on
so many levels. President Welsh, first of all, you should
know this. President Welsh is lying in that statement, and
(32:26):
I can prove it. He did not find out anything
yesterday about this. He has known for a long time.
And what Texas A and N has been trying to
do for months. And that's why you hear me a
little worked up about this. They're pretending they just found
out when these videos came out. They have known for months,
at least a month and a half, and instead of
taking corrective action when they found out over the summer,
(32:48):
they tried to punish and silence the student whose name
I am withholding at her request, but who I spoke
to last night and thanked her and committed her for
her courage, which they tried to silence her until I
went public and until the people of the state of
Texas tolled A and N. They better sort this out.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
There's no Texas law that prevents this from happening, even
though you've tried many times to get one passed. What
about at the federal level with the Trump administration, is
there a possibility.
Speaker 12 (33:20):
It's so awesome to see so President Trump, unlike the
Republican leadership in Texas, he wants to get rid of
taxpayer funder DEEI and LGBTQ in doctrination. And I was
very thrilled to see har Meat Dillan, the head of
the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. She shared my
x speed post yesterday and said that it is quote
highly concerning to her and that they are going to
(33:43):
be investigating Texas A and this girl. I'm gonna tell you,
I think Texas A and M may have a real
constitutional civil rights violation on their hand. This student may
well have had her constitutional rights, particularly her right.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Of free speech, violated.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
By this professor.
Speaker 12 (34:01):
So Texas A and M has got a world of
problems on their hands, and they need to do the
right thing right now and fire this professor. Fire the professor,
fire the department head, and fire the president of Texas
A and M, who is being just honest about what
he knew and when he knew it. But the fact
is the president of Texas A and M is a
woke leftist progressive who was appointed.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
By Barack Obama.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
We should not have progressive leftists running any public university
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's kind of where we're at with Texas A and M.
And if it's bad at Texas A and M, and
evidently it still is, then imagine how it is it
U T Austin and plenty of other universities, Texas Tech,
and other universities here in the great state of Texas.
Until we actually have people, though, who are interested in
(34:55):
enforcing laws, laws will continue to be ignored. Even federal
judges ignore laws. They even ignore the Supreme or try
to ignore the Supreme Court of the United States. I
don't know if it goes back to our last conversation
about what a self centered, selfish public we've become. But
(35:16):
these judges think that they know better, they know better
than the US Supreme Court, and I think these lawmakers
feel the same way. Well, we know we have to fool,
you know, thinking we're conservatives, but we're not. And we
really need to be teaching this DEI and diversity stuff.
So hey, as long as nobody report you, it's all good.
So it's up to us as citizens to report the
(35:39):
things that we see that we know are not right.
All right, listen, y'all have a great day. Thanks for listening.
I appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning bright nearly
five am over on news Radio seven forty KTRH. We're
back here at four on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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The band
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