Memorial Day Weekend

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Memorial Day weekend
• Runoff election day

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, everybody survived Memorial Day weekend.
That's that's good. We did have But this is a
horrible segue to do it. But we did have our
first drowning of the year in the Galveston area, actually
surf side. And we also had what else happened in

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in Galveston? What was it? What was the other thing?
Dog Gonet? My memory is gone. No, we had we
had a couple of things going on in Galveston. We
had riptides, we had oh, a shark bite. That's it.
Shark But that's the weird story. That story really got
by tension because ebit deadly well. When I first read

(01:16):
the story, the way the story was written, it is
kind of hard to understand the way the story was written.
It sounded like the seventeen year old with the shark
bite was in a boat. I'm thinking Okay, how did
the shark bite him when he's in a boat? Did
the shark jump into the boat? Was he sitting like
on the back of the boat with his feet in
the water. How did that happen? Well, it turns out

(01:37):
he was in the water somewhere and got bit by
the shark. So they haul him back into the fishing
boat that they were in. I'm not sure how far
off they were. So he's bleeding right, and they're trying
to they're trying to get back to shore, and then
the fishing boat breaks down. The engine dies. So can

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you imagine you're in a fishing boat, you're out on
the golf. First of all, I don't want to be
floating around by myself or even with somebody else in
a fishing boat in the golf without an engine this working.
That doesn't seem like, I mean, where you going to
end up. So anyway, they called the coast guard. The
coast guard finally came and got them and then took

(02:21):
him to the shore. Took a couple of hours. I
haven't heard anything about the condition of him. Hopefully he's okay.
The drowning is a sadder story. The drowning is just
you know, the the rip tides. There's a lot of
places where it's just not safe to swim. We have
a place in just outside of Galveston, just actually just

(02:43):
technically just west of Galveston. We have a place that
Freeport technically where we have a house that's like second row,
so it's very close to the ocean. We have great
views of the ocean. You can hear the ocean. It's great.
But you can't go in swim where the house is
because the riptides are just they're just you know, they'll

(03:04):
they'll suck you right out. I don't know if you've
ever gotten caught in a riptide before. That's scary. I
had that happen once with my uh brother in law Chuck,
in Cancun, Mexico, where we were swimming. We went there
and we're taking doing like a long weekend kind of thing,
and he and I decide we're going to go in
the water, and all of a sudden we start getting

(03:24):
pulled out. Well, you know, the key with the with
the rip current is to when you start getting pulled out,
you start swimming. You don't try to swim in and
fight it. You can't, so you swim in the opposite direction.
You can swim alongside it until you can swim your
way out of the riptide. And that's what we did luckily.
But I'll tell you what it was carrying us out quickly.

(03:47):
That that I can I can see, especially if you panic,
I can see where that would cause a lot of problems.
But here we are worse. Summertime now is that time
of the year. Love, folks go down to the gulf.
Pay attention that we had breadth line flying evidently all
weekend and people are still out there swimming. It's dangerous
when the the red flags are out for a reason,
you know, do not go swimming when the red flags

(04:08):
are out there. All right, Uh, enough of that. Let's
let's do this because I find this story well, it's
very nostalgic, and I'm into I'm into, you know. The
older you get, it always turns out to be the case.
The older you get, the more inclined you are to
remember back fondly to your youth and the things used

(04:31):
to do, and the people used to hang with, and
the even the restaurants used to eat a do. Y'all
remember the Pizza hut dine in when pizza Hut was
actually that was kind of their specialty. They had a
pizza restaurant and you would sit down at tables, and
they had a salad bar, and they had those red cups,

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and they had those Tiffany style lamps that had Pizza
Hut on them, and they had the red and white
checkerboard tablecloths, jukebox, remember all that stuff. Well, evidently there's
at least one of the franchise owners, which is doll
In Corporation. They're based out of Kansas. They're going to
convert their Pizza Hut restaurants into Pizza Hut Classic and

(05:17):
they're gonna bring all that stuff back. They have over
thirty sites that have already been remodeled, and they've spent
all kinds of money doing it, and they have a
bunch of others they're gonna do it. I guess they
own over ninety all together. So they're slowly but surely
converting all of their pizza Huts back into a sit
down restaurant. And the idea I guess behind it. It's

(05:39):
not only about nostalgic, because we all have very nostalgic
memories of those type of things. But the other thing
about it is that, you know it it it just
it's it's more of a family friendly. You know, pizza
has become such a takeout thing. It's become such a
we don't have time to eat together, so we're just
gonna go to a pizza kind of thing. Well, here's

(06:02):
a chance we can sit down, you know, have a pizza,
which we all love, have a pizza at a pizza
Hut restaurant. But you got the salad bar again. You know,
you can sit there and need to have a conversation.
You got somebody waiting on you. I think it's a
great idea. I hope it makes a comeback. Tim Sparks
is the president of the Dollin Corporation. Here he is

(06:24):
on Fox Business talking about this venture about bringing back
the classic pizza.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
This brand is kind of iconic to the country. We've
been around a very long time, and I think it's
a good time for us to start going and.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Having dinner together.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
I believe it's a good opportunity for us to jump
on that bandwagon, have people start coming into our classic
assets and back into our dining assets and enjoy time together.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Tim, I love this. This is bringing me back to
the nineteen nineties. I was in elementary school. I think
I was dealing Pokemon cards at recess back then, but
I remember going to these when they were retro like this.
Talk about the reception you've got in the locations where
you're rolling this out.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
The customers have to love it.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, the reception has been very big, especially when you
go on to Google look at our comments, and it's
really gone viral online with a lot of bloggers. We
get a lot of them coming in and filming and
talking about it, and everybody has those stories. Everybody gets
super excited. It's no differently how you feel right now.
I've been doing this forty three years. I still get excited.
I've got goosebumps every time I walk into one of
our classics. So that takes me way back, and it
takes a lot of people back. A lot of feel

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good to it for sure.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
How about the food.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Will the food taste the same as it.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
Did back then?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, I think a lot of people don't understand is
when you the best pizza you'll ever eat is a
pizza that came out of the oven and goes right
to your table.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's always going to be the best.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Peacha you'll ever have so in our dining assets, that's
what happens. You know, we put a pizza in a box,
it's still going to be great. But yeah, I would.
Obviously I'm biased, but yeah, I think we have the
best pizza in America when we make it right. I
don't think anybody makes any better pizza enough.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
I think he's right. I think Pizza Hut is still
one of the most if the most popular brand of pizza.
Can you combine that with the sit down experience? Again,
I Hey, if there were one close to me, i'd
do it. I've looked at the list. I don't see
anything close. I think there's one that's going to be
in Hempstead, Texas. But I think that's it that in

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the entire state. Most of them are in the Midwest.
Some of them are like they have a bunch of
Indiana and Wisconsin, and some in Michigan. They all seem
to be in small towns. So I'm guessing these are
places where the actual Pizza Hut, you know, footprint, the
original Pizza Hut buildings still exists and they can convert
it back into what it once was. I'm guessing that's

(08:37):
what they're doing anyway, hopefully there'll be more. Maybe this
is the idea, a little catch on, quick, little break
back with bona moment Jimmy Bart choke here. I think
of nine fifty KPRC is primary election day I voted.

(09:07):
There wasn't any big line, you know, there's it's gonna
be what maybe a four or five six percent voter
turnout if that, it's just it's just that's something people
take time out of the day to do. A whole
lot of people, some of the people are really into
party politics, will But we had a couple of guests
on today it's it's worth talking about because the entire

(09:30):
country is watching what's going on in Texas, especially for
the Senate race, where John Cornyn may very well be
done as of tonight, when we'll see how long it
takes for the vote count to come in. But just
about everywhere you look, he had either a very high
single digit or in some cases a low double digit
lead over John Cornyn. And I don't know that Corny

(09:55):
can get enough voter turnout in order to make up
for that. I doubt if he could. But we had
a couple of guests on the talk about so let's
do that. For this segment, Let's bring on first from
our morning show today and kat Ir h here is
the chair of the Texas GOP Party, Abraham George by
conversation with him about today's worl l off election. Marian, sir,
what have a voter turno do you expecting today? Pretty light?

Speaker 8 (10:16):
Pretty recording to twenty four and twenty two. It's going
to be a lot more than that. We have pretty heavy,
two pajor heavy hitters on the ballot, John Cornan and
Ken Faxon for a US Senate So that will bring
in a lot of people from all over all over

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Texas into the UH into the spoiling locations today.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
So yeah, well, no doubt the entire country is keeping
an eye on that race. Do you have the prediction
for me on that one?

Speaker 8 (10:48):
We are seeing numbers that Ken Paxson is going to
be in today by about six or seven points minimum.
There there are polls that show us about ten points
in some some some parts of the Texas like rural
areas get packs and is leading by ten. In the
metro it's about six or seven points. So we'll see
how that all turns out by the end of the day.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I guess it's all about motivation, isn't it When you
talk about voter turnout, especially for a special election like this,
and the Paxton voters strike me as being very motivated
to turn out. They really wanted to feed Cornyn. That's correct.

Speaker 8 (11:24):
I know Center Cornan's been there for about twenty some years,
and there's a lot of people who are very unhappy
with what happens in the US Senate and especially with
the Save Act and things like that. So they're all
pushing for a change. And Ken's been a fighter for
Texas for a long time and they see him as
the new Senator that they need to get things done

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like Save Act.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
What other the state wide races get your attention?

Speaker 8 (11:52):
Well, Chip Roy, Mace Middleton's running for attorney General, you
have both friends and Jim Wright running for Radio Commissioner,
all of those hotly destined races.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, especially the mains Middleton ship Roy thing. Do you
recall a nastier primary season when it comes to the
radio and television commercials that we're airing. I I don't
not here in Texas anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (12:18):
Well, since we had, you know, three major races on
the ballot on our side and they they're all bringing
in millions of dollars, so which turns into mostly negative ads.
But yeah, well today's the last day.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
A little closer to home. What are you thinking as
far as the Harris County judges race? You have a
favorite there? I don't.

Speaker 8 (12:42):
We're just hoping for a for a Republican to come
out and beat the Democrats and need to. We need
to have some real change in Harris County. And so
Harris County is because problem is crime issues and we're
hoping to see that in a November ballot that people
will see that as the major problem there and get

(13:05):
a publicant elected.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Of course, once we get through all of this, then
we have to turn our attention to the bedterms. And
there's been a lot of stories, Abraham George about voter fatigue.
You know, people are tired of hearing the commercials, they're
tired of the constant elections. We've had a lot of
elections in the last couple of years here in Texas.
Do we need to find a way to consolidate them
so that we don't have so many?

Speaker 8 (13:26):
Well, this is one of our platform items, and this
is some of the one of the items that we're
going to be pushing for at the ninetieth legislative session.
I'll tell you in for an example, in some parts
of North Texas, we had nine elections in twenty twenty four,
you know, and that's just not something that people don't

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want to show out to a portun location every other
month or every five weeks.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's just crazy.

Speaker 8 (13:55):
So having an election and the primary, maybe a run off,
and November three elections. So we're pushing for all the
municipal elections and bond elections and special elections to show
up as part of our major generals so that way
people don't have to show up to the opporting location
more than a couple of times a year.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Well, you know, it's not just a fatigue, it's the expense.
You know, taxpayers have been on the hook for billions
of dollars for these elections, and in place like Harris
County where they're in the red, you don't need to
be spending extra billions of dollars on elections when you
can't figure out how you're going to fill the potholes.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
That's right. The bureaucrats and politicians benefits from having multiple elections.
In an election department you need to have more employees.
Politicians like it because lower turnout elections is good for
politicians who don't have to spend a lot of time
and in money and don't need a lot of exposure
because they're a small group of people elect them.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
And the same thing with.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
The decked instruments like bond, So there's a lot of
play that they like by having very low turnout elections
and having elections that are not you know, people don't
know it just about what's happening in their county, and
Harris County's prime example of that.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
You're right, hey, Ram George, Texas GOP chairman. And also
we had as always around the topic. We also had
on our program this morning Jackie Ballely who's at University
of Houston and she does a lot of work on
this kind of stuffs. She follows the elections rather closely.
So this is our conversation with her letter pick a

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few winners and losers, and how she thinks this whole
thing's going to turn out. Here's my conversation with Jackie.
You're not expecting a big turnout today, right, Yeah?

Speaker 9 (15:42):
We only have four percent so far in early votings,
so most of the Republicans are coming out for the
Senate rice and that's really what's driving the charge right now.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Okay, well, and for good reason. I think that John
Corney has had to targetize back with a magna crowd
for quite some time now. So they're out to make
a stapment, aren't they.

Speaker 9 (16:02):
Yeah, you know, if we saw, we looked to analyze
what happened and who's going into the runoff. A lot
of the Mega Movement, a lot of the Trump associates,
Trump affiliates did really well going into this runoff. And
if you are more on the establishment side, which is
what John Cornyn is, you have an uphill battle.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Let me ask you this because I think for a
while there appeared that President Trump wasn't going to get
involved in the Texas Center race and making an endorsement.
Why do you think he finally did? I have my theory,
but I'd love to hear your theory first.

Speaker 9 (16:36):
Yeah, there's so many theories floating around. Actually, there were
one theory that I actually believe that he was going
to He was leaning towards Cornin at first because of
many polling and a lot of social scientists have said
that if Paxton wins. It'll be much tougher in November,
but polling continues to show that Paxton is leading. Not

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one single poll has shown that Cornyan is going to
beat Paxton.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's what polling and data is showing.

Speaker 9 (17:06):
And if you're a betting person, you're going to bet
on the winner. And that's what President did.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, but you know, he could stay out of it
and not worry about making anybody upset by staying out
of it, but he decided at the last minute, du
do Packson. I think it's because I think John Cornyn
and John Thune were given one last chance to get
the Save America Act through and I think that's that's
where President Trump's way of saying, you couldn't get the
job done, I'm going with somebody else.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Well.

Speaker 9 (17:33):
Paxon said that also, Patson said, I will not consider
even dropping out unless you actually do your job and
get this pushed through. And when that was not done
and he was not effective in doing so, it was
game on.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
So what do you make of the other races like
Chip roy A Maze Middleton for example.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
I think all of those Again, if you're affiliated with
President Trump, his base is coming out to vote this
run off. The low numbers usually mean grassroots activists, which
is the Trump base, are the ones who are going
to be driving most of those votes. May's Middleton has
from day one claimed he is mega May's, Mega May's

(18:15):
Middleton and it's very effective and it's been working, and
so going into it, May's had a very nice lead
and he will probably be victorious tonight.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
All right, what about some of the other races, what
are your thoughts.

Speaker 9 (18:28):
You know a lot of people aren't looking at the
on the Democrat side, but that CD eighteen race is
quite interesting because you haven't seen a fight like that
on the Democrat side, and they are going through the
same transitions. You have the newer generation, the progressives versus
the institutional and Al Green and Chris Menpie. So more

(18:49):
than likely Chris Menafie was going into it pretty strong
and it'll be interesting to see if he can hold
on to that.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay, And I know it's probably not of nearly his
greater interest because whoever wins the primaries not likely unless
a big upset occurs to get elected in the fall anyway,
But in the Harris County Judges race, your thoughts on
the Republican side on.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
That well, Harris County Judges race, you have Orlando who
is pretty well known with everyone he can pull in
some independence. Warren Howell has from day one surprised a
lot of people, and he's been very effective in getting
a couple of Conservatives to look at him in a
newer and fresher way. So Orlando should be victorious based

(19:33):
on polling, based on how much he's raised, but Warren
Howell continues to prove to us not to really count
him out. And another race that people aren't really paying
attention to is the Harris County Republican chair race. And
you have someone like Cindy Siegel who's been in office
for quite some time. She had a significant lead going

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into the runoff, and everyone's looking to see if she
can prevail. She recently got the endorsement of the governor
and lieutenant governor.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, the Cindy Siegal thing will be interesting. I've talked
to her many times, and there's just a feeling like,
you know, Harris County Republicans just really have not done
a good job of fielding candidates. I think that's the
biggest criticism you'd hear about her, is that there's just
too many judge ships, for example, that are running where
you've got a Democrat running on the post. All right,

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quick little break back with more in a moment, Jimmy
Bart Show, You're an AM nine fifty KPRC. Here's a
couple of stories I've been like you to buy into

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one geer for our third segment today. One is maybe
it's from last week. You may have heard it, you
may not have heard it. Even if you heard it,
you might want to hear it again because it's pretty good.
And I always find this interesting. I've had this argument
before with people who considered themselves to be enlightened and

(21:10):
are Democrats because they think the Republicans are racist. But
the reality is, at least based on history. I'm not
sure how this. I guess it was the nineteen sixties
that somehow, and Lyndon Johnson in the Great Society, that
somehow turned this around. When they started creating welfare programs
and all these other programs to help people in poverty.

(21:33):
The Democrats became the party the working person. They became
the Party of African Americans. Well, it didn't begin that way.
After slavery, most African Americans would have considered themselves Republicans.
It's the Republicans that were giving them election opportunities. In
the South, it's the Republicans who freed the slaves, not

(21:55):
the Democrats. And right into the nineteen sixties, especially in
the South, it was Democrats that were holding people down
when it came to voting in poll taxes and all
that kind of stuff. And Ted Cruz, who I would
not want to have to debate him, I'll put him
up against any of these Democrats who want to debate him,

(22:17):
got tired of hearing some of the Democrats in front
of his Senate committee make the claim that you know
that Republicans are racist, and you know, Republicans are the
ones that would bring back up polling tax and counting
jelly beans in the bowl to have to vote in
some sort of litmus intelligent test, and all these other

(22:37):
things that they are guilty of having done in the
past themselves. Is there a way of arguing against the
same America Act to argue against voter ID laws that
somehow asking for somebody's photo ID is a racist thing
to do. Well, you have a hard time making that argument,
especially when your own history has come alluded as it

(23:00):
is for the Democrats. Here are Senator Ted Cruz putting
on a clinic.

Speaker 10 (23:05):
Thank you, mister Chairman. Just a moment ago, our colleague,
Senator Herono said there's a lot more to say, and
indeed she's right, and in fact, I want to go
back to her comments. She began by saying, we have
a long history of racial discrimination in this country. That's
undoubtedly correct, and then she said, quote, we had poll taxes,

(23:25):
we had literacy tests, We even had tests of how
many jelly beans are in a jar. Mister Chamberlain, when
Senator Herono says we had poll taxes, I want to
ask you who we is and in particular, what party
was it that implemented taxes in the South.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
And I don't want to necessarily speak in every single case,
but I'm pretty confident it was mostly the Democrats.

Speaker 10 (23:48):
And what party was it that put literacy tests in
place in the South?

Speaker 3 (23:52):
The same answer, mostly the Democrats.

Speaker 10 (23:53):
And what party was it that had tests like how
many jelly beans are in a bottle?

Speaker 3 (23:57):
The Democrats?

Speaker 10 (23:58):
Tell me what party were the founders of the ku
Klux Klan.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
From I'm pretty sure that was the Democrats.

Speaker 10 (24:07):
Indeed, in fact, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Klan,
was a delegate to the eighteen sixty Democrat National Convention.
What party wrote the Jim Crow Laws?

Speaker 3 (24:16):
In the South, The Democrats.

Speaker 10 (24:20):
And so on this side of the aisle were members
of the Republican Party. Who was the first Republican President,
Abraham Lincoln. The Republican Party was literally founded to oppose slavery.
We came into existence because slavery was a grotesque evil.
And it was President Lincoln, the first Republican President, who

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signed the Emancipation Proclamation, who won the Civil War, and
that resulted in the freeing of the slaves and the
passage of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments. By the way,
fast forward to the civil rights era. Bull Connor one
of the most anxiously racist politicians.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
What party was he from? He was a Democrat.

Speaker 10 (25:05):
The Democrats, for the entire history of their party have
been a party based on racial discrimination.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
And it's true, it's true. It's a great argument to make,
which is not to call all Democrats racists, but they
have no problem calling all Republicans racists, even though the
history of the Republican Party would indicate quite a different answer.

(25:35):
All right, here's another one, as long as we're on
that sort of topic, the Southern Poverty Law Center. We've
talked a little bit about this, where it turns out
the Southern Poverty Law Center was, you know, not just
looking for extremist groups, following extremist groups. They are actually
contributing to some of them, as if to say, well,

(25:58):
in order for us to stay around, we have to
show just how many extremist groups there are in this
country and that we're the ones that are here fighting
against them. So turns out they're funding things like the Klan,
what little is left of the Klan, so that they
can continue to say that the Clan's a problem and
we're here to fight the Klan, even though they're spending

(26:20):
money to keep them in business, so to speak. So
they were talking about that in the House of Representatives.
Here is a Jim Jordan followed by Nancy Mace talking
about the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
The SPLC became part of the weaponized effort of the
Garland Biden Justice Department against the American people.

Speaker 10 (26:38):
In November of twenty ten, SPLC shifted its focus beyond
violent groups and began targeting Christian organizations.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
The Southern Poverty Law Center does not merely track hate.
It systematically inflates it, profits from it, and, according to
a federal indictment, may even have helped create it.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
Literally.

Speaker 11 (26:59):
The PLC, the left, it is one giant grift. We
now know that they were funding racism, paying for racism,
grifting off of racism. It was one giant grift, I believe,
in concert with the Democrats and the Biden administration, and
they were going after Christians, they were going after American patriots,
American citizens, making this country more divisive than it's ever

(27:23):
been because of their hatred, and they need to be
held account. They should probably all be sitting in prison.
And I look forward to Jim Jordan getting to the
bottom of this. And if the head of the SPLC
will not show up on his own, he needs to
be subpoenaed given a date and he should show up,
or he should be behind bars or both.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Ef free shows up, maybe you should be behind bars.
You know. There's one more grift. We'll get to that
in our last segment coming up here in just a moment,
and that would be climate change. And we talked about
this a little bit last week too, where the United
Nations seem to be backing down from all these apocalyptics
of proclamations about the planet coming to an end, although

(28:04):
I still see plenty of stories, you know, so Arbageddon
style stories about climate change. This is not something that
they're going to give up on easily. Even if the
United Nations is finally backing down, that doesn't mean that
certain people in the climate change business are going to
keep doing it because it's the same thing. It's a grift,
it is an opportunity. What it is about, really is

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it's about the redistribution of wealth. This is having an
excuse to take money away from countries and people and
things and giving them to others, mainly mainly in this
case democrats. It's a great way to move the money around.
And we'll lot more in that coming up in our
next segment, So stick around. Jimmy Bairt show here an
am nine fifty KPRC. All right, So I was mentioning

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climate change and climate change being a grip at the
redistribution of wealth. If you will, think about not just
the millions or billions, but trillions of dollars that have
been spent in the name of climate change. You know,
rules and regulations put into place, you know, industry shut

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down all all the different ways that we have spent
taxpayer dollars in the name of saving the planet when
the reality is that the planet really doesn't need to
be saved because the planet's pretty much just fine. Now,
you won't even get even in their new mode here.
You're not going to get the United Nations to admit
that the planet is just fine. But they are at

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least willing to back off of this whole you know,
the world is coming to an end thing by the
year twenty thirty unless we do this, this and that,
because they realize they realize that the majority of people
aren't buying this anymore. Uh So they're hoping they can
maybe sell a tone down version of that. That'd be
my guess. They're talking about this on The Big Money
Show on Fox Business. Here they are discussing whether, well,

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the whole idea of how much money's been it's been
and maybe we should be looking to get some of
our money back more misinformation.

Speaker 12 (30:16):
Yeah, you know, and in a world of AI, I
think the best job is going to be truth tellers.
People that can look at all the information around them
and say this is true and this isn't. That's what
I'm telling you know, people that are giving these commencement
speeches these days are getting booed telling people that go
into AI is a new career. But the fact is
it's a wonderful opportunity.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's just a tool.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
But there's going to be a lot of misinformation, and
I think people that can deem what's real are going
to be very valuable in society.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Why are we even in the UN Oh some.

Speaker 13 (30:49):
Big questions we have four minutes I was going to
talk about the misleading information. The Colvins point that what
always stood out to me is so obvious in those
net zero by twenty fifty plans baked into the calculations
was a technological improvement. Fifty percent of the reductions were
going to come from technologies that hadn't yet been invented yet.
Now think about that, we're going to get the net

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zero and they're saying we're going to do it with
fictitious technologies.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I mean, that showed you none of it was.

Speaker 13 (31:15):
Real in the first place, and now so it's not
surprising they're quietly backing off of it because they advocated
for spending trillions of dollars on things that weren't even
in existence.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
You know, we're quick to call out fraudulent activity on
Wall Street when it comes to institutions that are manipulating
or doing things, but when it comes to the government,
somehow it gets sort of clouded and it's okay because
it was a policy thing. I mean, this is one
of the most massive frauds of that I can remember,
with respect to the Biden administration spending six trillion dollars

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an inflation Reduction Act, which was not reducing inflation at all,
but actually a green climate energy bill that ended up
sending our prices up to five dollars a gallon higher,
by the way, than they are right now because we
weren't pumping oil in this country, also sending overall inflation
to nine percent. The taxpayers were consumers, Americans. We were

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leased here by this administration and now refund.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, I laugh at that. Everybody's just going to say, you've.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
Got to eat it and deal with it. Ooops, Yeah,
my mistake.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Yeah, Well, that's that's the other thing. You can't sue
government when government seems to me that when government does
these types of things, you should have the ability to
sue them, but we don't, so that's another way you
get away with that. All right, One moral story to
sneak in here, because this also goes along with drifting

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and scamming. I'm seeing more and more stories about skimmers,
not just a gas stations, but actually inside of things
like grocery stores. And there's a story I saw about
a little Southwest Houston grocery store where a lady figured
out that there was a skimmer on the checkout terminal.

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Here's the report from our television partner, KPRC two. Yeah, Keith, Yeah, Keith.
It seems like it was just a few days ago.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
We were talking about the US Secret Services operation where
they looked at thousands of different devices and hundreds of businesses.
It came up with more than a dozen of skimmers
here in the Houston area ahead of the World Cup.
But the shopper says that she was checking out here
at the Pie Burns off Fondren last night whenever something
just simply didn't feel right, and that's when she found
the skimmer. Savannah Dan's be telling me that she was

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just as shocked as you would be.

Speaker 14 (33:35):
So they had it on top of this one. So
when I got about halfway, that's when I noticed something
was off and I pulled it off.

Speaker 6 (33:42):
This isn't supposed to happen because what you're looking at
here isn't part of the machine. It's a skimmer.

Speaker 14 (33:48):
Yeah, I was shocked because I mean, I've been over
here a year, in for months, and I've never seen
anything like this, especially at a grocery store.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Now, look, you see, credit card skimmers are nothing new,
but we typically think that they're here at the gas pump,
but they can be found here at a grocery store.
And get this, the US Secret Service says just last
week they found fourteen skimmers that stores all across you.
So now, remember how Savannah said she felt something off
and gave it a little tug.

Speaker 14 (34:13):
It wasn't really that hard. I kind of like pooled
down and then it popped off.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
That's exactly what I said to do in my story
last week. There is no law that requires merchants to
regularly check their credit card terminals. So here's what I
want you to do before you pay tug away. And
here's what I mean by that. Come up here and
feel around where you put your card in. Make sure
that there's nothing loose. If you feel something wiggling around there,
that could be trouble. That means there could be a skimmer.

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Don't use it.

Speaker 8 (34:40):
It's an one one.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Be Savana also made the right decision by calling police
to report the skimmer inside. The manager told her the
device was already turned over to the company that handles
their machines. They also put these little yellow and white
security stickers on. It'll help make it more obvious if
the machine has been messed with.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
This is real.

Speaker 14 (34:57):
Like a lot of people come to this location and
the were especially really really busy yesterday, you know, people
trying to get their food.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
For the holidays.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, if you're in a hurry, it's pretty easy to
get stuckered on that, isn't it. Yeah, that's a good
advice though. Check. Yeah, pull, pull, pull up and down
on the on the place where your credit card's going
in to make sure nothing pops off. All right, listen,
God leave it at that for today. Thank you. Hope
you had a great Memorial Day weekend. I'll see you
tomorrow morning bright in nearly five am over on news
radio seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four am,

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